In the News
This popstar can call herself an astronaut after 12 minutes in Space
Katy Perry
Aarhus Business College celebrated a jubilee this year. What year was "Aarhus Købmandsskole" established?
1865 (160 years jubilee)
The two sports your English teacher does on a weekly basis?
Football (US: soccer) and bouldering
This term describes the global use of English as a common language for communication.
Lingua Franca
Terrorist attack on the Twin Towers in New York
9/11 (September 11th), 2001
Department of Government Efficiency
HHX Risskov's address?
Vejlby Centervej 50, 8240 Risskov
The month and year you got me as your English teacher
December (2023)
A mob stormed the U.S. Capitol Hill
January 6th, 2021
An American pope has just been elected. What is his chosen papal name?
Pope Leo (XIV)
The number of 2g classes at Risskov HHX
12
What is my other subject besides English?
Danish (Dansk)
The figure of speech we see here:
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills…”
anaphora
The year of the Brexit referendum
2016
There was a general election in Australia on May 3rd. Which party won re-election to a second consecutive term in office in a landslide victory?
The Labour Party
How many study programmes (studieretninger) can the new first year students choose between?
9
How old is your English teacher?
29
a literary device used by the author to hint at events which will happen later in the story
Foreshadowing
The Declaration of Independence was issued
1776
The retailers Harrods, Co-op, and Marks and Spencer have all recently been victims of ...
Cyber attacks
The artist behind "Kundskabens og Kærlighedens Frugt" in the canteen?
Bjørn Nørgaard
At age 6 my big dream was to become a ...
ballerina
CRASH, BANG, WOOF, MEOW
The name for this rhetorical device.
Onomatopoeia
The civil war in the US between the North and the South took place between ...
1861-65