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Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris
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Advanced French: At the science museum in Paris

...système solaire et l’univers ; la vie et la mort des étoiles ; la théorie du big bang ; les outils de l’astronome. Exposition 10 L’aéronautique La science-fiction Le grand récit de l’univers a. L’aéronautique b. La science-fiction c. Le grand récit de l’univers La bonne réponse est c. « La vie n’est bonne qu’à étudier et à enseigner les...
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
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Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...système de financement des films grand public 4. thèmes abordés dans les films d’art et d’essai 5. les réalisateurs marseillais 6. l’université d’Aix-Marseille 7. l’université populaire d’Aubagne 8. exemples de sujets de société et d’actualité 9. le coût de production d’un film d’art et d’essai a. 1. caractéristiques des cinémas d’art et...
Galaxies, stars and planets
Science, Maths & Technology

Galaxies, stars and planets

...Système International. This is based on seven carefully defined units that include the metre (for length), the second (for time) and the kilogram (for mass). The other four base units relate to luminous intensity (i.e. brightness), quantity of matter, electric current and temperature. The SI unit of temperature is called the kelvin (signified by the abbreviation K and...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding numbers

...Système International d’Unités. Beam of light in vacuum. 1/299,792,458 of a second. Metal rod. 1 metre.’] Figure 5 How does a metre relate to the speed of light? SI units (from the French, Système International d’Unités) are the internationally agreed units of measurement used in most countries, and in the different branches of science. The system arose during...
An introduction to electronics
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to electronics

...Système international d'unités (SI units), that are commonly used for electrical quantities include coulombs, amperes, volts, ohms, watts and joules. The fundamental unit of electricity is the negative charge of the electron or the positive charge of an ionised atom that has lost a single electron (resulting from the positive charge on the protons in the nucleus...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...Système International d'Unités (International System of Units). Examples of SI units are the kilogram or tonne for mass and the litre for volume. This course uses SI units wherever possible, but on occasions it will be necessary (or just more convenient) to go along with the oil industry and quote values in barrels. In order to translate the units used in oil industry...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation
History & The Arts

Introduction to music theory 2: pitch and notation

...1976) Les Mendzaŋ des Chanteurs de Yaoundé: Histoire--Organologie--Fabrication--Système de transcription. Acta Ethnologica et Linguistica 34, Series Musicologica 2. Vienna: Elisabeth Stiglmayr. Ngumu, P-C. (1980) ‘Modèle standard de rangées de carreaux pour transcrire les traditions musicales africaines du Cameroun’, Journal of the International Library of African Music, 6(1), pp. 52–58. Palisca, C. V. and Pesce, D. ......
Introducing engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Introducing engineering

...Système International (SI) of units recognises factors going up or down in steps of one thousand, although below a thousand factors of ten are also recognised. Thus all the factors shown in Tables 1 and 2 are recognised by the Système International. Although in the UK we still tend to use the mile when discussing large distances, the standard measure in most other...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
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