Viewpoints

1)
No, these values are not uniquely American, because they apply to other countries as well because it is not just American that has justice, freedom or democracy. Norway does also have these values in the country.

3)
I view America as a large country with a lot of people everywhere, many different people and cultures everywhere in the country.
The Norwegian media present Americans as a large country with many differences in the society, where many immigrants travels to America with a hope on a new start in their life.
5)
The values I find important are justice, freedom and democracy. Justice is important because everyone should be treated equally, so all people are treated the same for example in a court of law. Freedom is also very important because if you are not getting freedom you are going to get less motivated at work, you gets tired and maybe mad. Democracy is important because it is the people who lives in the society and they have to rule together, and not only a few people who decides what to do.

Checkpoint questions:

He hopes it could be ''anything'' because he thinks it's bad news, and want anything else. 

The thing Alicia is saying that is not quite right is, that it's her baby when it is inside her body. But when it comes out its theirs baby. He doesn't want her to say ''we'', because he doesn't want to be part of it. He wants to run away and go to his mom, but he doesn't want her mom to find out that they were going to have a baby.

Sam felt bad and he wanted to go to the toilet. I can't remember that I have felt like this, maybe only when I have been taking some candy from my parents, when they didn't allow me. Then I was scared they should caught me taking candy, but I was not old at that time. I was around eight or nine years old at that time.  

Research and discover
1)
It is many immigrants in Norway. 15,6% of the population or people in Norway are immigrants. So there are around 805 thousands people with another culture then the Norwegian. Immigrants have always happened in Norway. We can say it's three different types of immigrants. Professionals that comes to Norway to do business, immigrants who comes to get work. And the last group is refugees who need helps.
2)
It is many more immigrants in Britain compared to Norway. It is many more groups represented in Britain. We find immigrants mostly in London and the big northern cities.The immigrants are from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa. The immigrant groups is very big in Britain, it came around 117 thousands  immigrants in 2014, and in Norway came around 47 thousands. It is coming many people from Asia, the Caribbean and Africa to Britain, and in Norway it comes mostly people from south-Europe like people from Turkey, Pakistan, Syria and Yugoslavia. The groups that immigrate today to Norway and Britain is many from Syria, because the country is in war, and people want to move to a land with peace.

A day on the lake.
It was a beautiful day, the sun was shining and I and a friend went out for fishing. We had a little brown boat. Our goal for the day was to catch around 3 pikes. We had been fishing in the hole summer, and the biggest pike we had caught during the season was a giant on 7,8 kilo and 1,05 meter long. We caught 4 pikes that day, and the biggest at 5 kilo. When we was heading to land in the evening it started to blow up. We had no engine on the boat, so we had to row harder to come to land. But even how hard we tried to row it felt like we didn't move at all.

We started to get nervous if we at all would survive. It started to get cold to. My friend tried to call someone with the telephone, but it was no connection in the middle of the lake. Suddenly a large wave came and rolled the boat over, so it was up side down. I got at once panic of the cold water and of the situation we was in. I couldn't see much, the sky had turned grey and it started to thunder.

Suddenly out of nowhere a huge fish or something came under our feet and started to drag us to land, I was not sure what it was, because it all happened so fast. But suddenly I was on land again, and then I realized that it maybe was the Loch Ness monster that could have helped us.

Tasks ans Activities

Discussion

1. Yes, I do think the fact that the British are islanders has had an effect on the people and their values, because they are more lonely on an Island then in a country. They have their government in Edinburgh instead of London. 
2. I would preferred to live in England because it is not on an island like Ireland. England is a big country with many different stores, modern technology and the capital is London which is a world famous city.

english haCheckpoints 

1) 

A lingua franca is when a language is used for communication by two people who are not native speakers. 

2) 

We say that English is the world's most important lingua franca because the British established colonies and the English language was spread in all corners of the world. 

3) 

Queen Elizabeth the first started to build the British empire.

4)

The reasons for its decline is because Britain lost two world wars and lost control over Indian and Africa. So they lost their position as the strongest country. 

5)

Today is the language getting more and more important and popular for many people. There is hardly a job you can do if you can't speak some English, because we uses it so much. 

Viewpoints

1)

I do think English threatens the position of national languages in Norway, because more people are coming to Norway now then before. We uses English much more daily then for 100 years ago.  So I think maybe English will take over in the future, but it will take some 100 years.

2)

No i don't think any other languages can threaten English as a world language, because it's no languages which is so big like English today. And English is just getting more popular. We are using English much more daily then before, and i just think English will get bigger.

Comprehension questions

1. 1500 years have passed since the Romans left Britain. They could start speak English again, after the Romans left. The Romans had forced Britain to speak Latin while they had control.

2. The capabilities the English language had was that Britain had invaded many countries so people was learning English, and it was no so hard to learn.

3. English have adopted over 350 words from different languages.

4. The total number of English speakers is around 1,5 billion.

5. Around a quarter of 1,5 billion speaks it as their mother tongue.

6. Around a quarter speaks it also as a second language. 

7. The problems English present for a learner is that it has so little to do with England these days, that it's maybe time to stop calling it English.

8. Singlish, Hinglish and Chinglish are mentioned when they speaks about change the name of English to something else. We find these accents in Singapore, and China. And Hinglish comes from Hindi English. It is necessary to give these accents individual names because they are so different from each other.
9. I think the lecturer suggests that if somebody should think up a new word for English it should be i Chinese, is because the Chinese language is going to be the next global language. Because China is just getting bigger and stronger.
Why So Much Variety in English?-Tasks

1.      There is a difference between the varieties of English spoken in the north and the south of England because the Vikings invaded North-East England and the Midlands. They brought with them their language to the North, so they started to speak more like them.

2.      The term ‘’substrate language’’ is that another language was there before another took over. Like when the Viking invaded North-East England and brought with them their language and that language took over.

3.      A local accent is important for the inhabitants in a particular area because they are included in our overview of varieties of English.

4.      Peoples which contributed to the language in the British Isles is the Vikings, the French people, the Caribbean people, the Indian people, the Africa people and the Australian people.

5.      The difference between the accents in New England, Southern USA and General American is that New England has no post-vocalic ‘’r’’, so they said words like car without a final ‘’r’’. In General American they do pronounce ‘’r’’, and in the Southern USA the vocalic ‘’r’’ was in the process of disappearing or had disappeared. Where people were settled in different areas was determined their peculiarities.

6.      The difference between the African English used in Jamaica and that used in Nigeria is the creation of pidgins and creoles.

7.      The dialect, which is the basis for Australian English, is from London. Because many prisoners were sent to the penal colonies in Australia, who mostly came from London.

English as a World Language - British vs American

Checkpoints page 41.

1)

Some words that are pronounced differently in General American and Received Pronunciation are:

Car, star, pillar, bar, far

In RP they don’t pronounce  ‘’r’’.

2)

The five main spelling differences between AE and BE are:

   1. Words like theater and theatre, ends in –ter in AE and –tre in BE

   2. Words like like monolog, monologue, catalog and catalogue, ends in –og      in AE and –ogue in BE.

   3. Words like color and colour, ends in –or in AE and –our in BE.

   4. Verbs like analyse and analyse, ends with –ize/yze in AE and –ise/yse in BE.

   5. When a new ending is added in BE, the –l at the end of a word is doubled. In AE the –l is only doubled if the stress is originally on the second syllable. Rebel-rebelled (AE), rebel-rebelled (BE), travel-traveler (AE), travel-traveller (BE).

Language work page 41.

Translated the following sentences from BE to AE.

I am knackered and I must go to the bathroom. 

Are there any bathrooms close by?

Must I stand in line up behind that bloke?

Is there a chemist anywhere close?

I am peckish.

At the zebra crossing the lollipop lady directed us to take a diversion, but my truck was out of petrol and it was impossible.