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Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...simple family men who have arrived in France must be transformed into a collective fighting machine, and he must achieve this end through oratory. In the first scene of the play the Archbishop of Canterbury has extolled the King's rhetorical skill; here we have a chance to witness it for ourselves. Activity 6 Using the annotations in our example to help you, pick out some...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Living without oil
Science, Maths & Technology

Living without oil

...simple jacket is an amalgam of different parts manufactured all over the world. It has a lining made from polyester and viscose - two different synthetic materials which are likely to have been manufactured at different sites. It has plastic buttons and is held together by cotton threads. The cloth has been dyed an attractive olive colour - the dye will have been...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Working with charts, graphs and tables
Science, Maths & Technology

Working with charts, graphs and tables

...simple problems wrong if numbers are involved. We were mixed-ability taught in all subjects in the first year, but after that we were rigidly grouped according to ability and, as expected, I ended up in one of the lower maths groups, where I remained for the rest of my time at secondary school. Any chance of improving my mathematical skills were also limited by the school...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth
Education & Development

Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth

...simple choice between adopting one of two alternative positions and that the debate about which paradigms should underpin research remain...Engaging with postgraduate research: education, childhood & youth: 3.6 So, is there a resolution to the paradigm wars? - Despite the paradigm wars, as Gage (2007) predicted, no one paradigm has ‘won’ and the influence of...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...simple-seeming expression of an extraordinarily complex combination of thought and emotion. The ‘dogs and wolves’ are the speaker's ‘unwritten poems’. Why ‘unwritten’? One infers that other matters take priority over love poems. But – ‘unwritten’ – their latent presence assumes nightmarish form, as if the frustration of being unwritten makes them...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Grammar matters
Languages

Grammar matters

...simple (e.g. made up of one pronoun) and there are two clauses linked by and. In the second, there is only one clause and one verb group was followed, which conveys information about the sequencing of events but not about what actually happened. Most information is instead conveyed through the noun groups A rapid rise in humidity and heavy precipitation. This can be shown...
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Level 3: Advanced 8 hrs
Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements
Society, Politics & Law

Wildfires: environmental and social entanglements

...simple causes and effects taken from either the environmental or human worlds alone. Though each individual wildfire had a distinctive and specific trigger, it was the web of wider processes, circumstances, and events that was key to making this a major environmental event. In addition, using the concept of entanglement highlights the nature of fire itself as highly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The oceans
Science, Maths & Technology

The oceans

...simple equation to calculate density in fresh water, the equivalent for saline water is very complicated. What is the density anomaly of seawater with a temperature of 15 °C and a salinity of 35.0? Using Figure 12 the density anomaly of seawater can be determined as σt = 26.0 kg m−3...The oceans: 3.5 The water properties along the Atlantic Ocean - So far, you have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs