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Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...Spanish Basketball team did not have learning disabilities, after they received a gold medal. The team were stripped of their awards and the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) banned all athletes with learning difficulties from competing in the Games until more rigorous eligibility tests were implemented. [...] In the four years since the London Games Professor...
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Video 5 mins
Getting started with Chinese 2
Languages

Getting started with Chinese 2

...Spanish’, etc. are used not only to designate language and a person’s nationality but can also function as adjectives in front of nouns (e.g. ‘English newspaper’, ‘French poet’, ‘Spanish city’). In Chinese, however, a distinction is made. As you have already seen, the character wén 文 is added to a country name to designate language and the character rén...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Seeing the light
Science, Maths & Technology

Seeing the light

...Spanish houses have relatively small south-facing windows and more shaded spaces, for example by using overhangs or loggia to block direct sunlight in the summer. They also use ‘cooler’ materials, for example terracotta roof and floor tiles, and lightweight bricks that don’t retain heat. [Described image] Figure 7 Whitewashed houses in southern Spain Changing the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Forensic science and fingerprints
Health, Sports & Psychology

Forensic science and fingerprints

...Spanish authorities, who finding 15 matching characteristics concluded that the print was 'a 100 per cent identification' with Mayfield (Figure 3). Even as the FBI homed in on Mayfield, Spanish authorities were disputing the FBI's fingerprint analysis on the Madrid bag and the identification was not accepted in Spain. An independent fingerprint expert brought in by the...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A modest liking for Liverpool
History & The Arts

A modest liking for Liverpool

...Spanish Main, and on the conjoint and congenial traffic in rum, sugar, and tobacco. It will be suspected from these reminiscences that I have been studying a page of fine print in Baedeker, and I will not deceive the reader. It is true; but it is also true that I had some wonder, altogether my own, that so great a city should make so small an appeal to the imagination. In...
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Article 10 mins
Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...Spanish ship by Raleigh and brought to me as a gift. Will They are beautiful, your Majesty. Whoever could guess that such a creature, deep in the ocean, could contain the most beautiful, precious treasure: a pearl?! Queen Elizabeth I Yessss... to Raleigh, the whole world is an oyster... full of treasure, ready for the taking. By force if need be... he is not afraid to use...
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Article 3 hrs
The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary
OpenLearn Ireland

The Good Friday Agreement - 20 Year Anniversary

...Spanish government and ETA, the Basque terrorist group, which ended the fifty year armed conflict with the Aiete declaration in San Sebastián in 2011. In 2011 Jonathan established the not-for-profit Inter Mediate to work on armed conflicts around the world. Inter Mediate has served as advisers to President Santos in Colombia on the negotiations with the FARC since 2011....
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Article 10 mins
Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary modern foreign languages

...Spanish teacher as well as my experience of initial teacher education. Assessment is challenging for MFL teachers in secondary schools because language learning is very complex involving the skills like listening, speaking, writing and reading and also communicative interaction cultural awareness and the willingness to participate and to take risks. So it’s important to...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs