English

Cross-curricular topics: health and life skills In English, the cross-curricular topic of health and life skills is about developing pupils’ ability to express themselves in writing and speech in English. This lays the foundation for being able to give expression to one’s own feelings, thoughts, experiences and opinions. The teaching can offer new perspectives on different ways of thinking and patterns of communication, and on one’s own and others’ way of life and life situation. Handling situations that call for language and cultural competence can give pupils a sense of mastery and help them develop a positive self-image and a secure identity.

Democracy and citizenship In English, the cross-curricular topic of democracy and citizenship is about developing pupils’ understanding that their perception of the world is culturally dependent. By learning English, pupils can encounter different societies and cultures through communicating with others all over the world, regardless of linguistic and cultural background. This can help open up more ways of interpreting the world and contribute to creating curiosity and engagement, and help to prevent prejudice. VG1: - use suitable strategies in language learning, text creation and communication

• listen to, understand and use academic language in working with one’s own oral and written texts

• use knowledge of the connections between English and other languages the pupil knows in one’s own language learning

• write different types of formal and informal texts, including composite texts, with structure and coherence that describe, discuss, justify and reflect, adapted to purpose, recipient and situation

• assess and revise one’s own texts on the basis of subject-specific criteria and knowledge about language

• explore and reflect on diversity and social conditions in the English-speaking world on the basis of historical contexts

• discuss and reflect on form, content and devices in English-language cultural forms of expression from different media, including music, film and games

Next steps

• Teaching guide — the hub
• Cross-curricular collaboration — methodology
• Cross-curricular projects — tasks — concrete tasks
• Curriculum for friluftsliv — the framework for the subject

Learn more

• UDIR — the friluftsliv programme subject — curricula and competence aims
• NDLA — friluftsliv — digital learning resource
• Norsk Friluftsliv — professional organisation
• DNT — schools — courses and trips for school classes