Internasjonal engelsk eksamen | Høst 2012 | Study Guide

Task 1
Short answer
Read the three texts below, which all refer to the "Professional Football against Hunger" campaign.
Write two or three paragraphs in which you compare the three texts in terms of language devices and their effects. Use examples from the texts.

Task 2
Long answer
Choose one of the alternatives a), b), c) or d).

2a
Margaret Atwood’s short story "Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet" in Appendix 1 comments on man-made climate change and ecological disaster.
Using examples from the short story, write a text in which you discuss the reasons for the development Margaret Atwood describes.

2b
Based on the ideas presented in Margaret Atwood’s short story "Time Capsule Found on the Dead Planet" in Appendix 1, write a text to future generations in which you explain what the world used to be like and what has happened to it, asking forgiveness for what
we have left them.

2c
English is the dominant language of international communication. International Englishlanguage media therefore play a unique role in reporting news across borders and between cultures. In many countries these media are distributed openly, while other countries do what they can to stop them.
Using the statistics in Appendix 2, and considering the role English-language media play internationally, write a text in which you discuss why some countries try to ban or censor these media, and why journalists and photographers are attacked or killed.

2d
Most countries in the English-speaking world are multicultural, and are trying to find a balance between cultural diversity and integration.
Using ideas from the letters to the editors below as your point of departure, write a text in which you discuss and compare the benefits and challenges of multicultural societies in two English-speaking countries.