Delprøve 1 | STX Engelsk A | 2. december 2016

Dette er Studienets vejledning til Delprøve 1 fra den skriftlige eksamen i Engelsk A på STX fra 2. december 2016. Her gennemgår vi alle de fire underopgaver, så du bliver i stand til at løse opgaverne selv. Vi giver dig hints og tips og hjælper dig med at forstå, hvad du bliver testet i, hvordan du griber opgaven an. Vi forklarer selvfølgelig også grammatikken for dig samt guider dig til videre læsning i vores Engelsk grammatik og generelle hjælp til fejlsætninger.

Denne vejledning er også udstyret med en eksempelbesvarelse af hele sættet, som du kan bruge som en tjekliste, når du selv har prøvet kræfter med opgaverne.

Her er et overblik over de opgaver, der stilles i dette sæt:

Opgave A - Fejlsætninger

Ret fejlene i følgende sætninger, og forklar dine rettelser på dansk. Brug relevant grammatisk/faglig terminologi. Der er kun én fejl i hver sætning. Skriv den korrekte sætning på linjerne nedenunder.

Although his explanation sounds incredibly, people still believe everything he says.
Everybody witnessing criminal behaviour have a duty to inform the police.
Where does it gets us if we are not open to the other possibilities?
“The most important in the world is that you and I have each other!” he said.
In spite of that he was very brave, he dared not go into the abandoned house.
The bestsellers that year were the books which main theme was charity.
In today’s society, more and more people know less about important events in the history.

Opgave B - Grammatisk tid

Besvar begge opgaver.

1. Skriv over hvert verballed (udsagnsled), hvilken gramatisk tid det står i. Anvend grammatisk/faglig terminologi. Skriv dit svar på dansk.

His name was Husman. He came from The Gambia, or Gambia as most people call it. The Gambia is really just a river, the country is just the scrub that stretches out a 3 hundred miles or so on either side of the great river’s banks. Husman had come to England to make money. He’d come just for a few months. He planned to return to his home and build his own compound and be a big player in Bakau.

_{Richard Tromans, “The River Underground”, 2003}

2. Forklar kort, hvorfor der er brugt forskellige gramatiske tider i nedenstående eksempler. Skriv dit svar på dansk.

Opgave C - Stilistik

Beskriv kort den sproglige stil i nedenstående uddrag fra tabloidavisen Daily Mail, fx med hensyn til sætningsopbygning og ordvalg. Underbyg dit svar med eksempler fra teksten. Skriv dit svar på dansk.

All that remained of Jihadi John was “a greasy spot on the ground” after he was killed in a drone strike, U.S. Colonel says

Drone strike so powerful that it left little of Jihadi John’s2 body
His corpse was like a “greasy spot on the ground”, according to US official
Colonel Warren described it as “the most precise air campaign in the history of warfare”

Jihadi John was killed in a drone strike so powerful that it left his remains like a “greasy spot on the ground”, according to US Colonel Steve Warren.
     Col. Warren is the first military or intelligence chief to reveal details about the death 12 last November of the Londoner, whom he described as a “terrorist celebrity”.
     The executioner became one of the world’s most wanted men after beheading Western hostages including Britons Alan Henning, 47, and David Haines, 44.
     He was killed near the famous clock tower in the main square of Raqqa, the city that has become the de facto capital of IS in Syria.

^{www.dailymail.co.uk}

Opgave D - Oversættelse

Oversæt følgende tekst til engelsk.

Nick Hornbys fjerde roman, A Long Way Down, udkom i 2005. Fire personer mødes tilfældigt nytårsaften på toppen af en høj bygning i London med det ene formål at begå selvmord. Tre briter og en amerikaner bindes sammen af følelsen af håbløshed og desperation. I deres samtaler om valg, uheld og deres egen dødelighed ender de med at finde en fælles forståelse.
Bogen beskrives af anmelderne som både hylende morsom, provokerende og rørende. På trods af at den handler om døden, viser den sig overraskende levende.