Brexit: Tekstanalyse af 'The story of an island apart'

Assignment for the text “Brexit: The story of an island apart” from BBC News

When reading a difficult text which you are required to understand and be able to use information from, you must always follow these three steps:

You must do something before you read

You must do something while you are reading

You must do something after you have read

This assignment will take you through all of these steps – one by one.

Before you read

What do you know about the EU and Brexit already? Note down anything you can think of on a piece of paper or in a document on your computer. This will make your understanding of the text better as you have already prepared yourself for what you are about to read.

Brainstorm on “Brexit”

EU

Britain

UK leaving EU

Brexit = Britain + exit

Theresa May, prime minister of the UK

Scotland and Northern ireland leave the UK ??

No brexit (UK staying in the UK), hard brexit (No deals, not good for anyone, but may be, if no one has come up with a solution), soft brexit(if )

Other nations leaving the EU?

Referendum (folkeafstemning) very close leave 51,9% / remain 48,1