Integreret grammatik

Teksten i denne opgave er et uddrag af Poul Husteds artikel Ups, der blev Kronborg snydt: Hamlet foregår på Mors offentliggjort i Politiken d. 19. april 2017.

a. Oversæt teksten til engelsk.
b. Vær særlig opmærksom på proprier.

Sammensæt ordene fra Shakespeares tid med deres moderne udgave. Der er hjælp at hente på ShakespeareWords.com, som er en online ordbog over Shakespeares ord, samt i din egen ordbog.

Videoen i denne opgave er fra mockumentary-programmet Cunk on Britain med den fiktive produceret af BBC. Ti forskellige adjektiver og adverbier er understreget i teksten. Skriv ordklassen på hver af de understregede ord.

Videoen i denne opgave er en comedy sketch produceret af BBC.

a. Find og skriv i alt tre forskellige verber i simpel tid, og tre forskellige verber i udvidet tid.
b. Forklar forskellene på simpel tid og udvidet tid med udgangspunkt i eksemplerne. Brug relevant grammatisk terminologi. Skriv dit svar på dansk.

Videoen i denne opgave er produceret af det britiske nyhedsmedie The Telegraph og oplæst af skuespilleren og komikeren Rob Brydon.

a. Find og skriv i alt fem forskellige idiomer og forklar deres betydning.
b. Overvej om vi på dansk har lignende idiomer.

Teksten i denne opgave er fra The Royal Shakespeare Companys hjemmeside og er udgivet under titlen The Curse of the Scottish Play.

a. Find og skriv i alt tre aktive sætninger og tre passive sætninger.
b. Forklar hvordan aktiv og passiv dannes på engelsk.

Teksten:
According to folklore, Macbeth was cursed from the beginning. A coven of witches objected to Shakespeare using real incantations, so they put a curse on the play. Legend has it the play’s first performance (around 1606) was riddled with disaster. The actor playing Lady Macbeth died suddenly, so Shakespeare himself had to take on the part. Other rumoured mishaps include real daggers being used in place of stage props for the murder of King Duncan (resulting in the actor’s death). The play hasn’t had much luck since. The famous Astor Place Riot in New York in 1849, caused by rivalry between American actor Edwin Forrest and English actor William Charles Macready, resulted in at least 20 deaths and over 100 injuries. Both Forrest and Macready were playing Macbeth in opposing productions at the time. The actor Diana Wynyard fell off the stage in Stratford’s 1948 production during the sleep walking scene as she decided to do it with her eyes closed. Apparently, the night before she had told a reporter that she thought the curse was ridiculous. Other productions have been plagued with accidents, including actors falling off the stage, mysterious deaths, and even narrow misses by falling stage weights, as happened to Laurence Olivier at the Old Vic in 1937. Macbeth was also seen as unlucky by theatre companies as it usually meant that the theatre was in financial trouble. Macbeth was (and still is) a popular play that was guaranteed an income so if it was suddenly announced it could mean that the theatre was struggling. Equally, the high production costs to stage the play could also bankrupt a theatre - referenced in Martin Harrison’s 1998 book, The Language of Theatre. So how can you avoid catastrophe if you utter the play that shall not be named? Exit the theatre, spin around three times, spit, curse and then knock on the theatre door to be allowed back in…

Teksten i denne opgave er et essay fra The Tropolitan, Troy Universitys studenteravis, udgivet den 25.08.2025.

a. Læs teksten, og beskriv kort den sproglige stil, der anvendes i essayet. Husk at inddrage konkrete eksempler og faglige begreber.
b. Overvej efterfølgende, hvad det vil sige at være en antihero, samt hvilke moderne karakterer Macbeth har inspireret.