5: The United Kingdom - Today and Tomorrow
Competence aims in focus:
The aims of the studies are to enable students to:
- elaborate on and discuss questions related to social and economic conditions in the United Kingdom
- analyse a regional or international conflict in which the United Kingdom is involved
- elaborate on and discuss current debates in the United Kingdom
- elaborate on and discuss linguistically demanding texts with a social perspective
- summarize, comment on and discuss differing viewpoints on social issues
- use information based on figures and statistics as a basis for communicating on social issues
- present a major in-depth project with a topic from Social Studies English and assess the process
(Translation: udir.no)
Textbook Tasks
Listening
Going Further
Web resources
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Philip Larkin reading "Going Going"
(youtube.com)