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Using visualisation in maths teaching
Education & Development

Using visualisation in maths teaching

...style you use (within reason) so of course they would get more skilled at using this ‘tool’ in particular. Yes, but they find it very difficult. I believe that it is like a muscle in the brain that can improve like any other with exercise. So, yes. Yes. How do you think it improves concepts and skills? It facilitates communication of meaning. A good natural...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...style of questioning conveyed the speaker’s superior authority and so had an interpersonal element to it as well. This expanded view of meaning – as incorporating a range of functions, and involving more than just giving and receiving information – is a fundamental insight of functional linguistics, a field in which Michael Halliday was a major figure. Halliday...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish
Languages

Intermediate Spanish: Understanding spoken Spanish

...Styles SPEAKER 2 Harry Styles SPEAKER 1 Whitney Houston SPEAKER 2 Whitney Houston SPEAKER 1 Buckingham SPEAKER 2 Buckingham SPEAKER 1 Stonehenge SPEAKER 2 Stonehenge SPEAKER 1 Stratford SPEAKER 2 Stratford SPEAKER 1 Hollywood SPEAKER 2 Hollywood Discussion These are the names you heard: Steven Spielberg Scarlett Johansson Harry Styles Whitney Houston Buckingham Stonehenge...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Unsolved problems in cosmology
Science, Maths & Technology

Unsolved problems in cosmology

...et al. (2017), and answer the following questions. a.What do the authors suggest are the most likely candidate dark matter particles? What reasons do they give for this? b.How do direct detection experiments work, and why are they difficult to undertake? c.What methods might enable the detection of axions? Discussion a.The two currently favoured dark matter candidates are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Climate change
Nature & Environment

Climate change

...profile of the atmosphere. It shows that air temperature does indeed fall with increasing altitude throughout the lower atmosphere or troposphere, reaching a minimum value (of about −55 °C) at the tropopause. This lies 8-15 km above the ground, depending mainly on latitude: it is higher (and colder) at the Equator than at the poles. No mountains rise above the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 18 hrs
Assessment in secondary science
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary science

...et al., 2004, p. 10) that such assessment becomes assessment for learning. Assess the effectiveness of their teaching. As well as assessing students’ learning, teachers must also assess their own actions. Assessment provides evidence about the effectiveness of the decisions that teachers take, so that they can modify their actions accordingly. Assessing students’...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Matt Ridley - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Matt Ridley - Stories of Change

...et al. 1999, and I thought wow! I was wrong to be sceptical, this is really scary, because it’s clearly unprecedented, it bears no relation to what’s happened at the Medieval warm period and that kind of thing, and so when in the following years I’ve discovered – RH: So you wrote about it at that point? MR: No I didn’t, I wasn’t writing about climate change...
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Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...styles are preferred in particular contexts allows you to understand people and their ways of being better than by simply learning grammar...Week 1: Introduction to the Arabic alphabet: 6 This week’s quiz - Check what you’ve learned this week by taking the end-of-week quiz. Activity 6 Timing: 20 minutes Select the answer for Question 1a here 1. Listen to the audio and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs