Books and reading | HF Engelsk B | August 2013

Denne study guide er en vejledning til at besvare A-opgaven i eksamenssættet til skriftlig Engelsk B på HF fra 19. august 2013, hvor spørgsmålet lød:

The texts in section A focus on books and reading.

Write a summary of text 1 “Do you need to read books to be clever?” in about 150 words.
Give an outline of the various attitudes to books and reading presented in the three texts.
Comment on the following statement from text 2: “What we read and why we do so defines us in a profound way. You are what you read, …”
Write a text (150-200 words) for the student blog Know What I'm Sayin' in which you discuss the introduction of e-book readers and other electronic reading gadgets at your school.

Texts
Denise Winterman, “Do you need to read books to be clever? ”
Guillermo del Toro, “Learn the Question”
Lizzie Poulton and Jim Sells, “Boys and Reading”

Uddrag

Herunder giver vi et uddrag af vores study guide. Stykket er fra afsnittet, hvor vi giver et outline af teksten "Do you need to read books to be clever?":

While some people choose to get information from books, others insist that there are other means from which you can receive information that is up to date, i.e. that are actual and are relevant to the current time:

I didn't read a book last year and don't know when I will read one," says Jamie Sharp, 37. "That doesn't make me illiterate or stupid, I just get my information in other ways. I read a paper everyday and use the internet. That probably makes me better informed than a lot of book readers out there. (ll. 42-50)