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Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...simple answer to this question. The attempt to answer it, however, can shed light on important features of both languages. It also leads directly to another central issue for any student of Greek and Latin. What can these languages offer us today and why do they continue to deserve further study? Activity 1 What does the term ‘classical’ suggest to you? What do you...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Engineering: environmental fluids
Science, Maths & Technology

Engineering: environmental fluids

...simple expressions as follows. For pressure: cap p divided by cap p sub zero equals left parenthesis one minus z divided by z sub cap c right parenthesis super 5.256 Equation label: (Equation 1) where cap p is the absolute pressure, cap p sub zero (= cap p sub atm ) is the standard sea-level value of 101.3kPa, z is the altitude under consideration and z sub cap c is a...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Financial methods in environmental decisions
Nature & Environment

Financial methods in environmental decisions

...simple example, if you invest £20 000 in a project for which you estimate that the positive net cash flow each year – that is, the excess of cash inflows over cash outflows – will be £5000, you expect to recover your initial investment in 20 000 divided by 5000 equals four years Even if the net cash flow varies year by year, it is just as simple to calculate the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...simple terms, they believe that it is possible to quantify and therefore measure, in a research context most aspects of life. For instance: Basic descriptive statistics can often be used to describe a population by comparing, for instance, different age ranges. For example, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) reported that around 15.1% of people aged 18 years and...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...simple timeline of the main stages in the history of the Universe...Unsolved problems in cosmology: 1.1 The expanding Universe - The first piece of evidence for the hot big bang was the discovery in 1927 by Edwin Hubble and (independently) by Georges Lemaître that the further away galaxies are, the faster they appear to be receding from us. The apparent speed of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Extending and developing your thinking skills
Education & Development

Extending and developing your thinking skills

...simple everyday text, it provides an opportunity to exercise analytical thinking skills. The process of looking at the structure and parts of something in the way we have done here is what we mean by analysis. The text also illustrates the ideas of having a point or a case you wish to prove, and providing evidence and reasons to support it - together these form what the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective
History & The Arts

Reception of music in cross-cultural perspective

...simple entertainment to esoteric ritual – it is received on a number of levels and that reception depends to a great extent on aesthetic values specific to this particular culture. This is aptly summarised by Kathy Foley, in her study of Sundanese wayang golék. The word the Sundanese commonly apply to wayang golék is hiburan, ‘entertainment’. When a performance...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...simple knowledge of vocabulary and grammar structures. Therefore, monitoring and assessment strategies need to support students as they become increasingly independent users of the target language. For Grenfell and Harris, this means an emphasis on ‘learning to learn’ and approaching language learning from a different direction that focuses on the learner – their...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs