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

...humain ; le clonage ; les tests génétiques L’homme et les gènes l’histoire de l’aviation à réaction et de la technologie des avions L’aéronautique les principes et le fonctionnement d’un ordinateur ; l’intelligence artificielle L’informatique la géométrie ; les nombres ; les images de synthèse ; la théorie du chaos Les mathématiques la respiration...
Crime fiction in French: le polar français
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Crime fiction in French: le polar français

...humaine de Balzac, est basé sur Vidocq, ancien criminel devenu chef de police au début du XIXe siècle. Et Les Misérables de Victor Hugo (1862) est l’histoire d’un malfaiteur repenti et transformé. Le roman de détection fait ses débuts Moitié roman d’aventures, moitié roman à sensation, les livres d’Émile Gaboriau sont les premiers romans centrés sur la...
Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
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Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...digestif. It has a strong flavour and a syrupy consistency not unlike cough medicine but may have an alcohol content as high as 40%. Amaro is commercially produced in every Italian region, for example Amaro Averna in Sicily and Amaro Montenegro in Emilia Romagna, just to name but two. Many of the recipes for it originated in monasteries. Amaro is typically drunk neat but...
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
Getting started with French 3
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Getting started with French 3

...humaine. Select the answer for Question 1c here C’est un musée national. True False a. True b. False The correct answer is b. Discussion C’est un musée régional. Select the answer for Question 1d here Le musée est près de l’église Saint-Jacques. True False a. True b. False The correct answer is a. Discussion True Part 2 Read the text again and identify all the...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding numbers
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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
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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
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