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=Christian's teacher page for English B.=

Aim of the subject
English is the mother tongue or official language of a large number of countries, covering many different cultures, and is the dominant language of communication throughout the world. The ability to use English is necessary for studies, travel in other countries and for social and professional international contacts of different kinds. The subject of English thus plays a central role in the Swedish school. The subject aims at developing an all-round communicative ability and the language skills necessary for international contacts, and an increasingly internationalised labour market, in order to take advantage of the rapid developments taking place, as a result of information and communications technologies, as well as for further studies. The subject has, in addition, the aim of broadening perspectives on an expanding English-speaking world with its multiplicity of varying cultures. It should, in addition, lead to the language becoming a tool for learning in different areas of knowledge. All pupils also need the ability to further develop their knowledge on completion of schooling. In addition, the subject aims at pupils maintaining and developing their desire and ability to learn English.

Goals to aim for
The school in its teaching of English should aim to ensure that pupils: develop their ability to communicate and interact in English in a variety of contexts concerning different issues and in different situations, deepen their understanding of English as spoken in different parts of the world, and improve their ability to understand the contents communicated by different media, develop their ability to take part in conversations, discussions and negotiations and express with subtlety their own views and consider those of others, develop their ability to speak in a well structured way, adapted to the subject and situation, deepen their ability to read, understand and reflect critically over non-fiction and specialist texts within their area of interest and competence or studies, improve their ability to read with good understanding literature in English and reflect over texts from different perspectives, refine their ability to express themselves in writing in different contexts, as well as develop their awareness of language and creativity, develop their ability to analyse, work with and improve their language in the direction of greater clarity, variation and formal accuracy, reflect over ways of living, cultural traditions and social conditions in English-speaking countries, as well as develop greater understanding and tolerance of other people and cultures, take increasing responsibility for developing their language ability.

Structure and nature of the subject
The English language and other forms of culture from English-speaking countries are widely accessible in Swedish society. Pupils encounter today many variants of English outside school. They meet English in a variety of contexts: on TV, in films, in the world of music, via the Internet and computer games, through reading texts and via contacts with the English-speaking world. The subject of English provides both a background to and a wider perspective on the cultural and social expressions surrounding pupils in today's international society. The subject covers examining the meaning conveyed by the language and benefiting from the richness and variety of English, which children and young people meet outside the school. English should not be divided up into different parts to be learnt in a specific sequence. Both younger and older pupils relate, describe, discuss and reason, even though this takes place in different ways at different language levels and within different subject areas. The different competencies involved in all-round communicative skills have their counterparts in the structure of the subject. Related to these is the ability to master a language's form, i.e. its vocabulary, phraseology, pronunciation, spelling and grammar. Competence is also developed in forming linguistically coherent utterances, which in terms of their contents and form are progressively adapted to the situation and audience. When their own language ability is not sufficient, pupils need to compensate for this by using strategies, such as reformulating, or using synonyms, questions and body language. The ability to reflect over similarities and differences between their own cultural experiences and cultures in English-speaking countries is developed continuously, and leads eventually to an understanding of different cultures and inter-cultural competence. An additional competence is an awareness of the process involved in learning a language.

//(Skolverket, 2009)//
 * English B** builds on English A and corresponds to stage 6. The course has a more analytical focus. The perspective is further broadened to cover the use of language in varying and complicated situations. Familiarity with English-speaking cultures is developed. English B is a course common to the Arts, Natural Science, Social Science and Technology Programmes.