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[haakon94]

Hei. Vi skal skrive en tekst i Internasjonal engelsk vg2, og jeg sliter litt med å komme igang.

 

Her er oppgaven:

 

 

 

Use the extract below as a point of departure for a discussion on how English news reporting, films, TV series, commercials and advertisements can shape world opinions and values.

 

Extract:

The Closed Circle

[Doug Anderton] was standing by himself, leaning against a wall, composing in his head the first few sentences of an article for Sunday's paper. He had not been looking out for Paul, although he knew he was probably in the room. His gaze was fixed, instead, on a scene unfolding in the corner of the restaurant nearest to the entrance, where the young couple who had arrived just behind Paul in a white stretch limo were enjoying the attentions of a crowd of journalists and photographers. This couple, whom Paul had not recognized, had last year been two of the contestants on Britain's most popular primetime reality TV show. For weeks they had kept the public guessing as to whether or not they were going to have sex with each other on camera. The tabloid papers had devoted hundreds of column inches to the subject. Neither of them had talent, or wisdom, or education, or even much personality to speak of. But they were young and good-looking, and they dressed well, and they had been on television, and that was enough. And so the photographers kept taking pictures, and the journalists kept trying to make them say something quotable or amusing (which was difficult, because they had no wit, either). Meanwhile, Doug could not help noticing, right next to them, waiting for his wife to emerge from the ladies', the figure of Professor John Copland: Britain's leading geneticist, one of its betterselling science writers, and regularly mentioned as a potential Nobel prize-winner. But no one was taking his photograph, or asking him to say anything. He could have been a cab driver, waiting to drive one of the guests home, as far as anybody else was concerned. And for Doug, this situation encapsulated so perfectly everything he wanted to say about Britain in 2002 – the obscene weightlessness of its cultural life, the grotesque triumph of sheen over substance, all the clichés which were only clichés, as it happened, because they were true - that he was, perversely, pleased to be witnessing it. Doug watched the distinguished professor standing patiently with two coats over his arm, and watched the celebrity couple, basking in their tenuous fame, and he was as hypnotized, in his own way, as the tabloid journalists who were desperately trying to coax an interesting remark out of them.

Coe, J. 2004. The Closed Circle. Viking: London: 325-326.

 

 

 

 

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[haakon94]

Noen som har noen tips?

[Duudii]

Hei, jeg har i år fått samme oppgave og lurer på om du har din liggende ett sted? Sliter med å komme i gang her også..