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Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...writing, if a learner is already familiar with the sounds to which the letters can correspond: for instance, that the phoneme ‘k’ can correspond to the letters ‘c’ as in ‘curtain’, ‘k’ as in ‘kilo’ and ‘q’ as in ‘queen’. Once this code has been ‘cracked’ for one language, it is easier to apply those principles of matching to another...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Intermediate French: 14 July
Languages

Intermediate French: 14 July

...Write out phrases or sentences it appears in as you come across them (perhaps with one page for each of the four past participle endings). You could also invent short dialogues using past participles that have the same ending: the rhyme may help you to memorise them. There is an example of this technique in the next activity, where we have used only monosyllabic past...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Physical and mental health for young children
Education & Development

Physical and mental health for young children

...write down a few of the reasons that you can think of. The next sections unpack some of the factors that you may have written down...Session 1: Promoting the health of all children: 2.1 Factors that influence babies and children’s health - There are many factors that can influence children’s health, either in a positive or negative way. Some of the factors are within...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
In the night sky: Orion
Science, Maths & Technology

In the night sky: Orion

...Write a short paragraph about what you found most interesting. Next, you’ll look at the reactions going on inside a star, and see how they affect how the star evolves...Week 2: Travelling from star birth to star death: 2.2.2 Mass, luminosity and temperature - [An image showing an eruption on a star.] Figure 11 An eruption on April 16, 2012 captured by NASA’s Solar...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...writing, when listening to an interlocutor and even when thinking. It is present in such simple tasks as remembering a phone number. Pronunciation improves listening. The mouth teaches the ear. Learning pronunciation “in the mouth” improves discrimination “in the ear”. According to a behaviourist view of language learning, the ear teaches the mouth so that...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...Write your notes in the answer box below. Student Hub Brexit Debate Feedback George Callaghan argues that it is important to reflect back on a longer history, suggesting that Scotland’s relationship with Europe stretches back beyond the formation of the UK in 1707. More recently (since the first devolution vote in 1979, and in an accelerated form since the formation of...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Climate change and renewable energy
Nature & Environment

Climate change and renewable energy

...writing large and small numbers, including fractions, decimals and powers of ten, which are shown here for reference (see Table 1). Table 1 Examples of different ways of writing large and small numbers Prefix Prefix name Meaning Number or fraction Decimal Power of ten G giga billion or thousand million 1 000 000 000 1 000 000 000 109 M mega million 1 000 000 1 000 000 106...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Physical activity: a family affair
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity: a family affair

...writing this article? What were the key findings from reviewing the existing research in this section of the article? What do you notice about the proportions of different research designs that feature in this review? Discussion The aim of this article is to collate the existing research on parental influences on children’s physical activity behaviours in order to...
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Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs