1.What is the history of the English language after WWII?  
After the second wotld war, the USA had a lot of economic and cultural influence and has, along with worldwide broadcasting in English from numerous broadcasters , caused the language to spread quickly. As of today, English is the most widely spoken and written language in the world.

2.What is meant by ESL, EFL, ESP? 
ESL means pople who speak English as their second language, by EFL we mean the people that has English as a foreign language and the last phrase is ESP wich means English for special purposes, as well as the native speakers communicate with.

3.Do you think that international English enriches the cultures of the world, or  does it drain them of their uniqueness? 
I think that international English helps cultures around the world, even though it also "takes over" some things. The reason I say English can be helpful, is because it makes people that are not from the same county able to communicate with one another. Also if we did not have an international language, like English, I could imagine there not being as many tourists maybe. However, if we take Norway as an example, we use a lot of English words in our daily conversations, which means that Norwegian gets less uniqe. Worst case scenario is that English takes over our language, but I do not think that is going to happen (at least not in the nearest future.)

4.Explain the terms inner - outer - expanding circle.
The inner circle refers to the native English speakers, the outer circle refers to the second language speakers, and the expanding circle refers to contries where English does not have a special status, but is recognized as a lingua franca.

5.Why is it necessary to have standard forms of English? 
It is important to have standard forms of English because if not, we would not have any thing to teach the non-native about the language. For example, the expression "She look very sad" is wrong to native speakers, who will insist on "She looks very sad". As we know the non-native speakers are a majaoity of the English speaking people and the outer circle is expanding, do you think we could lose the standard forms of English? It is necessary to have standard forms of English so we can have a common language with grammar and anything else that is needed for a language.

6.Which forms of English does David Crystal believe we will have in the future?
Professor David Crystal belives that in the future, the English language will develope into three forms/ categories. One form that is used locally as their dialect, one for education and buisness, and then a standard international English for communicating with foreigners.

            
           7.English has become important in six different fields - which?

•   English has become the language of international education,
•   international buisness and trade.
•   It has become the dominant language of international diplomacy. 
•   English has also become a powerful international player in the fields of art and  entertainment.  
•   Science and technology has also adopted English as a international language. 
• And at last English is the most important language in the world of digital communications.

          
            

Spanglish

This videoclip is from a tv-show called "Modern Family". The clip shows different sceens were the spanish woman is either misunderstood or just using her accent very clearly.

Weird/funny sayings in spanglish

•  Janguear - to hang out 
•  El parking– parking lot
•  Jamberger – Hamburger
•  A full -  to be done with great intensity. (working really hard) 

 http://www.speakinglatino.com/funny-spanglish-words/

Bill Gates

William Bill Henry Gates was born October the 28th in 1955, in Seattle. Now he lives in Medina, Washington, in his gigantic house with his family. He got married to Melinda French in 1994 and they now have three children together; two girls and a boy.

Bill Gates is most famous for being one of the co-founders of Microsoft and he now works as a technology advisor at the company. In the middle of the 70's Gates and his friend Paul Allen developed Altair Basic for Altair 8800.  Bill Gates is also the richest man in America with 75.6 billion dollars as his fortune. He started to program computer programs already when he was thirteen years old and went to Harvard later on, but he dropped out in 1973.

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I would say that both vocabulary and pronuncation is importaint, but i think that vocabulary is rather more to communicate with non-norwegians.  If you do not have a good vocabulary people most likely can not understand everything you say, if you can not remember one word and you do not have the vocabulary to find another, it is going to be hard to communicate. However if you can not pronounce the words, people could probably not understand as well.

2)

Vocabulary
 The parapraph is about the "inner" and "outer" circle, that tells us about native and second-language speakers.

Standards
The second paragraph tells us that non-native speakers are not that concerned about grammar, and therefore thinks that sentences that are written wrong (grammatical) seems right. (something a native speaker would notice right away)

Other Englishes
This paragraph is about different varities of English, for instance spanglish, that is a mix between Spanish and English.

The future of English
The last paragraph is about how the use of  English will develope into three forms in the future; one they speak locally as their dialect, a national variety for ecucation and buisness, and one form to communicate with foreigners.

The flood in Utah

Summary 

Earlier in September there was a flood in the U.S. state of Utah. The flood killed at least 16 people and one person is still missing. Most in the community are members of the Warren Jeffs polygamist sect, known as the FLDS.

BBC  uses a lot of pictures and such in their article. Also, they are detailed about the religious sect and who they are.

CNN has some pictures, but there is a lot of information. They also focus more on the real happenings; they are more specific of how things happened and they base themselves on interviews with the police and major and such.   

The reason that CNN writes more detailed about the news, can be that CNN is an American medium, unlike BBC that is an English medium and is therefore far away from where it happened.

CNN -  http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/15/us/utah-arizona-flooding/ 

BBC -  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-34256022

Ann Michalsen's lesson

Is there a lack of diversity?
If you think about it, how many women, people of color or openly gays og lesbians do you see at the news outlet. FAIR's 40 month survey of Nightline found its U.S guest to be 92 percent white people and 89 percent male, a simular survey og PBS's NewsHour found its U.S. guestlist is 90 percent white and 87 percent male. So i would  say that there is a lack of diversity.

From whose point of view is the news reported?
Media often focuses on how issues affect other people than who it is appropriate to do, other than those who are directly hit by the issue. E.g. the stories on parental notification and abortion, that can be very accurate for those under 18, instead media confronts and encourage male politicians.

Are there double standards?
The should be at least. As a  jouralist you shoud not protect or attack anybody. A jorurnalist is not supposed to take sides, but write about both positive and negative sides.

Do stereotypes skew coverage?
Is it right to think that if there is a drug crisis, that there are African Americans involved, even though the fact that the vast majority of drug users are white? No, it is not. You should not judge people by their looks or anything else. Even if lesbians like women, it does not mean that they are man-hating and if boys like boys, it does not mean that they can't stand girls or that they are sexual preditors.

What are the unchallenged assumptions?
Often the most important message of the story gets excluded or not told directly. E.g. if a person gets caught stealing a car, is it right to get into things like skipping classes in high school and other (I would say irrelevant) things from his past when you write about it. The focus should be on the stolen car and how it happend, not the background of the criminal. 

Is the language loaded?
It showes that how media present news and which words that use, has an enormous difference/impact on how the issue/news is percived. When media uses loaded language, they help shape puplic opinion.

Is there a lack of context?
If you are going to write a text, give a speech or anything else, it is important that your information is relevant to the issue or ponit you are trying to make.

Do the headlines and stories match? 
Since so many people just skim the headlines when reading news, it is important that the headline match the story. If the reporter that wrote the acticle does not give it a headline, it is important for the person that is naming it reads through the text, and finds an appropriate and matching headline. It is not good to mislead the reader, every journalist or reporter should be aware of that.

Are stories on important issues featured prominently?
The most widely read papers' and lead stories will have the greatest influence on puplic opinion. It is important to put the most important or ineresting news on the front page, so people would be interested in bying the newspaper or continue to read the news for that media.