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Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport online: Athletes and efficient hearts

...De-hydration can lead to a very poor performance so keeping optimally hydrated throughout the day as well as during training and competition is very important. Often carrying a large bottle of water with you is the best way to ensure you drink throughout the day. Audio 1 Mick Curry The diet is very, very important. It’s no good doing what some people do and eating junk...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Influenza: A case study
Science, Maths & Technology

Influenza: A case study

...variable domains are clearly visible, and the three hypervariable loops which contribute to the binding site are picked out in colour. You can see how the epitope and the heavy chain are complementary in shape. To complete the picture, we will add the light chain to the model. In this case, it is clear that the light chain contributes very little to the antibody combining...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...class mode, which can make the pace monotonous often means that the teacher is giving the students information that they could find out for themselves, thus making them less active and autonomous if the teacher takes the dominant role in classroom discourse, the students’ role is only that of respondent – opportunities for developing speaking skills or spontaneous...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Innovation in policing
Society, Politics & Law

Innovation in policing

...de Geus that said once that the only sustainable competitive advantage is to learn quicker than your opposition. So certainly in that context, I think there’s a challenge to policing to make sure that we do that. I think innovation is also fundamentally about making sure that we get the best from our single biggest resource, and that’s our people. I would say still,...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...De Agostini Editore/L Pedicini Activity 3 I’d now like you to read the poem’s last lines, which you can find by going to the section on Virgil’s Aeneid on the ‘Poetry in Translation’ website. You can find the relevant passage in Book 12 of the poem by clicking on the link ‘Bk XII:887–952 The Death of Turnus’. Read this passage carefully and make some notes...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
English: skills for learning Badge icon
Education & Development

English: skills for learning

...classes...Week 7: Learning new specialised and academic vocabulary: 3.1 Countable and uncountable nouns - Knowing if a word is countable or uncountable helps to use it in the context of a sentence. Uncountable nouns are nouns that cannot be counted. These include names of substances such as rice and milk and abstract nouns such as music, fun and happiness. These words...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Religious diversity: rethinking religion
History & The Arts

Religious diversity: rethinking religion

...for reflecting on patriotic sacrifice. The role of Christian belief and worship is de-emphasised in comparison to St Paul’s own presentation of its purpose. The testimony of the veterans and their families emphasises the importance of these public acknowledgements of loss and sacrifice for the nation. Activity 6 Read the article ‘Occupy Protesters Chain Themselves to St Paul’s Pulpit’ which featured on the Guardian ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change
Education & Development

Inclusive Leadership: Effecting change

...class, gender, race, ethnicity, sexuality and socio-economic background. The values underpinning inclusive leadership also sit in contrast to the single, hero model of leadership. They are rooted in collaborative notions that seek to include those often left out of leadership-related activities. They seek to have greater influence than is associated with individual...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs