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Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
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Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...de la Vierge Marie Activité 31 Écoutez Isabelle. Répondez aux questions en français. Framboise Extrait 61 Framboise Bonjour, je suis Isabelle Lejeune. Ça s’écrit I-s-a-b-e 2 l – e L-e-j-e-u-n-e. Je suis française. J’habite à Avignon en France. Ma maison est au centre ville, à côté de l’hôtel de ville, rue de la république au numéro 25. Il y a...
Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching
Education & Development

Including diversity in race, ethnicity and culture in your teaching

...educators De Montes, L. E. S., Oran, S. M. and Willis, E. M. (2002) ‘Power, language, and identity: Voices from an online course’, Computers and Composition, 19(3), pp. 251–271. Freire, P. (2006 [1970]) Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 30th Anniversary ed. New York: Continuum. hooks, b. (1994) Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. New York and...
Getting started with French 3
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Getting started with French 3

...de tourisme, s’il vous plaît? The tourist office, please? Pour aller aux grands magasins, s’il vous plait? The department stores, please? à + le is always shortened to au (au musée) in front of singular masculine nouns à + la is used in front of feminine singular nouns (à la gare) à + l’ is used in front of nouns which start with ‘h’ or a vowel (à...
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How Spanish sounded across its history
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How Spanish sounded across its history

...de la Historia] Glosa emilianense, Codice 60, folio 72r, manuscript kept at the Real Academia de la Historia. Transcript Libro de buen amor Listen to a passage from El libro de buen amor (The Book of Good Love), written in 1330 by Juan Ruiz, Arcipreste de Hita (c. 1283–c. 1350), considered one of the masterpieces of Spanish poetry. It is a pseudo-autobiographical...
Where a ban has been replaced by a bee
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Where a ban has been replaced by a bee

...de Deletreo en Español] Fifth-grader Mariana Moya-Rubiano from Thomas Harrison Middle School, Harrisburg, Virginia, correctly spells her first word in the competition. 27 students competed %u2014 accents, tildes and all %u2014 in the bee this year. It is sixth grader Jybr Reynoso Hidrogos’ second time competing. He made the top five last year, but fell short of a...
Solving the care crisis with public investment
Society, Politics & Law

Solving the care crisis with public investment

...De Henau, Senior Lecturer in Economics at The Open University, presents research showing that greater public investment in care can complement other urgent policy objectives...This content is associated with The Open University's Economics courses and qualifications. Care needs to keep growing, for early years and for middle and later life. Users, providers and...
Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust
Education & Development

Deregistering from school: understanding experiences and rebuilding trust

...educating families whose children had previously been enrolled in schools...Why is this increasing, and what should be done? The number of children and young people deregistering from UK schools to begin home education has risen significantly in recent years. As Anna Chinazzi suggests, schools can learn from home educators, as education departments across the world...
Universities, empires and refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Universities, empires and refugees

...education based on merit, rather than income or citizenship. Organisations like University of Sanctuary and Council for At-Risk Academics (CARA) seek to promote universities as a place of refuge for displaced and threatened scholars and students, in a world distorted by violence and insecurity. However, as well as having the capacity to act as a place of safety for...