EKSAMENSSEKRETARIATET
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A Engelsk
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E VG 1200
N Elever og privatister/Elevar og privatistar
 6. juni 1997
Bokmål/
Nynorsk Felles allment fagGrunnkurs 5 timer/Grunnkurs 5 timarAlle studieretninger/Alle studieretningar
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Les opplysningene på neste side./Les opplysningane på neste side.
 
 
 
Eksamenstid: 5 timer/5 timar
 
 
 
Hjelpemidler:/Hjelpemiddel: Ett- og tospråklige ordbøker/Eitt- og tospråklege ordbøker
 
 
Andre opplysninger: Oppgavesettet har 5 tekstsider medregnet forsiden.Oppgavesettet har fire hoveddeler. Du skal svare på alle.I OPPGAVE 1 skal du besvare alle deloppgavene.Du skal svare på både OPPGAVE 2 og 3, men her er det ingen deloppgaver.I OPPGAVE 4 skal du besvare én av oppgavene (a, b, c eller d).Det er helheten av svaret ditt som teller.
Andre opplysningar: Oppgåvesettet har 5 tekstsider medrekna framsida.Oppgåvesettet har fire hovuddelar. Du skal svare på alle.I OPPGÅVE 1 skal du svare på alle deloppgåvene.Du skal svare på både OPPGÅVE 2 og 3, men her er det ingen deloppgåver.I OPPGÅVE 4 skal du svare på éi av oppgåvene (a, b, c eller d).Det er heilskapen av svaret ditt som tel.
 
 
 OPPGAVE  1/OPPGÅVE  1

Below you will find a fairy tale and some statements from young people in Britain.
 

  Text 1: The Little Girl and the Wolf

  One afternoon a big wolf waited in a dark forest for a little girl to come along carrying
  a basket of  food to her grandmother. Finally a little girl came along and she was
  carrying a basket of food. “Are you carrying that basket to your grandmother?” asked
  the wolf. The little girl  said yes, she was. So the wolf asked her where her grandmother
  lived  and the little girl told him and he disappeared into the wood.
     When the little girl opened the door of her grandmother’s house she saw that there
  was somebody in bed with a nightcap and a nightgown on. She had approached no nearer
  than twenty-five feet from the bed when she saw that it was not her grandmother but
  the wolf, for even in a nightcap a wolf does not look any more like your grandmother than
  the Metro-Goldwyn lion looks like Calvin  Coolidge*. So the little girl took an automatic
  out of  her basket and shot the wolf  dead.
     Moral: It is not so easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be.

      From James Thurber (1968): Fables For Our Time

  (* Calvin Coolidge - a former US President)
 

  Text 2: Young Brits on sex roles

  Jenny Baker (17), trainee carpenter in North London:
  Lots of things have changed over the past years, except for the ways boys think. In
  the workshop it’s not so bad; the boys can see that I’m doing my job well. In the breaks,
  however, I get questions like, “Don’t you think it’s unladylike being a carpenter and
  wearing overalls?” I can talk until I’m blue in the face, but I can’t seem to get through
  the wall of prejudice. Boys need liberating.

  John Barr (16), Upper Secondary School, Halifax:
  I think everything is fine as it is - I mean, the world is run by men. I don’t know why girls
  get those funny ideas, especially as their physical strength is so limited. That for one
  thing makes equality a joke. I think most girls like their traditional role as mother and
  housewife. After all, inequality wouldn’t exist if women didn’t take part in it themselves.

  Barbara Watson (19), apprentice service technician, Bristol:
  I’m currently taking a course in Women’s Rights. It has not turned me into a man-hater.
  On  the contrary, I pity the boys, life’s not a holiday for them, is it? They have always
  been expected to make money, to be aggressive and heroic. They don’t have to be like
  that any more.

  Dave Wright (15), apprentice footballer, Glasgow:
  My sister, Lizzie, always gets landed with the washing up and cleaning at home. I feel
  sorry for her, but of course it’s in my interest not to say anything. She should stand up
  for herself. That’s the one thing girls aren’t good at. They accept everything passively.

 

Your English class is going to discuss sex roles, using Text 1 and Text 2 as a starting point. In order to take part in the discussion you take down brief notes on the following items:

a) Characterize the little girl in Thurber’s fairy tale (Text 1).

b) Either:  Sum up the attitudes of the girls in Text 2.
 Or:  Sum up the attitudes of the boys in Text 2.

c) What, in your opinion, do Texts 1 and 2 have in common?
 
 

OPPGAVE  2/OPPGÅVE  2

In your English class you have read a literary work (either a play, a novel or a collection of short stories). Every year, pupils write a brief review of the work they have read. These texts are collected in a catalogue and used as guidelines for other pupils who are about to read a literary work.

Write a text in which you explain why you would or would not recommend the literary work you have read to another class.
 
 

OPPGAVE  3/OPPGÅVE  3

You have been asked to inform next year’s pupils about the subjects they will meet.

Give a short presentation of a vocational or academic subject you are taking, and say whether you find this particular subject interesting and useful or not.
 
 

OPPGAVE  4/OPPGÅVE  4

Choose one of the following topics. Instead of giving your text a title just use 4a, 4b, etc.

a) More and more jobs today are in the service sector, in traditional women’s jobs  such as nursing, teaching, and working in shops and the travel and tourism  industry. At the same time, traditional men’s jobs in industry are fast  disappearing. Nevertheless, boys often refuse to prepare themselves for what  they call “women’s jobs” and end up unemployed.

 Discuss what kind of jobs boys and girls should educate themselves for.

 
b) Information technology (IT) is part of everyday life. People write letters using  a word  processor and cruise the Internet for information or entertainment. In  industry IT is used in automation and manufacturing.

 How has IT influenced our lives? How do you think IT will change the way we  will learn, live and work in the future?
 

c) What makes things “click” when two people fall in love?

 What are the ingredients of falling in love? What qualities would you look for  in a boyfriend or girlfriend?
 

d) An English boy, Christopher Blume (17), complains in an interview:

“You never know where you are with girls. Some like you to treat them as a lady, to open doors for them and to pay for them. Other girls are furious if you do. One thing I wish is that girls would ask me out instead of it always having to be the boy who asks. It’s not easy to face rejection all the time. They should find out what it’s like.”

 Write a story about Christopher. Start with the words, One day, Christopher  Blume...