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Working with our environment: an introduction
Nature & Environment

Working with our environment: an introduction

...business-as-usual scenario, UK, 1970–2020. So far, so promising. There is considerable scope, however, for further energy savings if consumers were simply to buy the most efficient appliance available. The cold appliance group, together with lighting, has been identified as having the greatest potential for household energy saving of all electrical appliances. The...
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...business as usual’ scenario). Carbon dioxide emissions need to fall rapidly to limit warming to 1.5 °C by 2100 (Figure 12(a)), and even to keep below 2 °C warming (Figure 12(b)). For 1.5 °C, this means reaching net zero by around 2050 and then falling further below net zero (meaning that more carbon dioxide would need to be absorbed or captured from the atmosphere...
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...Business Images; Shutterstock Audio & video Video 1: British Heart Foundation; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=wWGulLAa0O0&t=3s Video 3: Mind; https://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=M4p6TddpHSg&t=60s Video 4: With permission of Dr Sabina Brennan. For more free resources visit www.superbrain.ie Audio 6: BBC Radio 5live; 14 January 2021 Every effort has been made to contact...
Global perspectives on primary education
Education & Development

Global perspectives on primary education

...businesses, etc. It’s still early days. But I think that’s got a really interesting example of how a school can also be a community basis as well as an educational establishment. LIZ CHAMBERLAIN You mentioned the SDGs there. So to what extent does sustainable development goal four, drive the way the different projects are designed and delivered? SALLY GEAR I’m just...
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...busy schedule. Read the following e-mail message with his diary, as sent to his secretary. Put the different places listed into the order he is visiting them. Ordene. el banco 1 el aeropuerto 2 el restaurante 3 el Ayuntamiento 4 el hospital 5 la oficina 6 Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once....
Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...business. You may also have been influenced by the generally positive tone of Lionel’s voice and the absence of any words related to crises or difficulties. Activity 14 Listen again to Lionel and answer the questions below in English: Je m’appelle Lionel Truet, je suis vigneron à Saint-Ouen-les-Vignes, qui est un petit village dans la Touraine, depuis maintenant 25...
Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture
Languages

Introduction to Ukrainian language and culture

...kompiuterni tekhnolohii, fotohrafiia. (‘So, history, geography, economics, business, sociology, drama, music, art, computer science and photography’). Viktoriia replies: Yakyi velykyi vybir!(‘What a big choice!’ Danylo continues: Treba vybraty try predmety, which means ‘One has to choose three subjects’. Viktoriia asks her son: Yaki predmety ty khochesh uchyty? (‘Which subjects do you want to study?’) Danylo ......
Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing the psychology of our relationships with fictional villains

...busy to tidy her garden, I know she is working hard, something I don’t need to worry about anymore. God, I’m glad those days are behind me. I’d prayed for redundancy for months and just four weeks ago it had finally come. I knock and the dogs start barking. When she opens the door, she looks older than I remembered. She isn’t wearing any make up. She might be thin...