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- Former education in english. Students are motivated to learn english.
- Is teaching english at a private school for years
- In nineth grade we do teach social science in english (society, death penalty,...) Shared values, habits, traditions define a culture
- Learn new approaches to teaching culture and read literature
- Lene actually loves lime
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Motivation:
- Have studied foreign languages in high school both French and German. Also Spanish at the university.

- Taugh it before going here studying and found that the students were actually motivated and likes English.

Experience:
- None but other subjects.
- Almost 2 years.

Understanding of culture:
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Expectations:
- To be busy
- Less focus on grammar

Facts:
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Taken the Day Class
Have three kids - on maternity leave

Has a husband from NY - speaks English at home. Think and dream in English.

English opens up possibilities to bring in current subjects in the teaching.

Expect hands-on stuff to bring into the teaching.

No teaching experience.

Fun Fact:
husband from NY. Studies music as well.

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Motivation:
A language nerd. He has mostly worked with Danish but feels that languages are linked. A general interest in languages.

Experience:
As a substitute teacher and he interned in a class where he taught English. However, it was limited as it was more about observing another teacher rather than actually teaching.

Culture:
It is a gateway to teaching languages. Context is needed which is found in culture.

Expectations:
He has not given it much thought yet. Simply said, he wishes to enjoy himself.

Fun fact:
He plays poker.

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- Love the British accents.
- Speak a lot of English in her current job.
- Thinks it is sort of intermidating to be surrounded by all the others in the class (because of their beautiful accents).
- Would like more inspiration for the indskoling
- No experience
- Has a very practical way of teaching.

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Our thoughts - by Sai, Troels, and Dina.

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Our thoughts - by Sai, Troels, and Dina.

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My motivation:
- To help our students become global citizens
- communicate with other nationalities
- personal interest in English
- Like the language, both reading and speaking
- "Paying it forward"
- A necessity for our students.

Experience teaching English:
-  Have teached in a "efterskole"
- Have teached half a year for 4th-5th grader, and now teaching a 8th grade.
- Experienced a big different moving school district
- teached 3graders for half a year, now teaching a 8th+9th grader (got them in feb.'22)

Understanding of culture:
- big motivation for teaching english to my future students, fx the music culture
- culture is a way of expressience
- teaching vocabulary and info about other cultures and people.
- important for understanding different cultures, history, religion etc.

Expectations:
- Learn how to incorporate our understanding of culture
- learn how to teach about different cultures and how we teach our students about it in the best ways.
- getting a better understanding of english speaken cultures and our own.

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- loves English, has a degree,
- is doing volunteer work teaching a girl English, otherwise no experience teaching YET
- Expect to learn more about how culture affects teaching/learning
- Looks forward to finishing the module
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Mom is English - grew up in a home talking English
Have been teaching English in China in Kindergarden.
Have been teaching 5. graders in English.
Culture can be food, sports, music, films - and also ways of life.
Expectations - cultural exercises.

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Motivation: Always been her best subject. Doing something that your'e good at.
Teaching: No experience.
Culture: A dynamic thing. Something that we live in without being completely aware. Taking a step back and looking at it is interesting.
Expectations: Be able to grasp abstract categories. Be able to teach students skills to view themselves in light of other people and their cultures.
Interesting fact: It is impossible to lick your own elbow.

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Always loved the beautiful language
au pair in London
1 year of teaching
Knows something about culture, but most English culture

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- Remembers her own cool teachers
- Had 9 graders to the exam, was a censor, but wants to teach "indskoling" now
-  Culture is many things. It's part of learning a new language
- Wants to learn something you can use in "indskoling"

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- Languages in general, speaks French as well
- Languages are cool
- Started last year full time - 2 4th grades, this year 2 6th grades
- Dynamic view of culture. Often makes him think of ‘cultural products’
- Expects to find inspiration for which cultural products to use in a certain situation and how
- Being able to integrate popular English culture products
- No other interesting facts

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Motivation:
Loving the language
Usability
Experience to transfer from Danish
A tool for communication globally

Understanding of culture and reflecting it in theEnglish class:
Patchwork of values; language, social norms, food, arts, beliefs, ways of interacting, geography (western, eastern, middle-east cultures - traditions/values/etc)
Teaching the english language also includes the different english cultures e.g. indian, american, australiens, etc. for them navigate in the interaction with english speaking people.

Expectations:
How to incorporate culture understanding in teaching the english language.
Learning more about the different english cultures to be able to teach this ourselves.

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Motivation:
Always liked English
English is a big subject in school - if you have both Danish and English you can have a lot of lessons in the same class.

Experience:
Teach 5th grade

Understanding of culture:
Culture is within every person, also between people. I don't see Denmark as having one culture

Expectations:
A lot of hands-on stuff that I can use in my classroom

Other facts:
I think I met Carina in Tivoli today :-)

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- Teaching English opens up possibilities in terms of travelling and widening your personal horizon. Also the multilingual perspective, that is exploring how different languages are linked.
- She is a language nerd and speaks 5,5 languages which are all used in the classroom. Taught for 12 years.
- The intercultural aspect, that is using the stuff you learn this fall in all language classe.
- Fun fact: She sings the opera

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fascinated of english and american culture
just started the first job as an english teacher
important that the students know that not everything is like Denmark

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- Loves languages
- Wants to make young students interested in the English language and culture
- Has taught English in private lessons for students
- Thinks culture is a lot of things: a way of living and a view of the world (values, respect, thoughts)
- Has high expectations of this module = culture is fun to learn. "Hopefully I will learn something I can use in my own classroom"