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Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...write a blog to make myself speak to people. I put it online. And the amount of support I got from people that I didn't know. The hockey family was incredible. But also another thing that I was hoping I would get from it was the support of my teammates. Which I knew they would anyway, but for them to support you, I knew I needed to give something. And with me opening up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language
Health, Sports & Psychology

From sound to meaning: hearing, speech and language

...Write down the main ways in which you think human language and the call system of the vervet monkey might differ. Keep this list with you and compare it with the differences mentioned in the text as you go through the first half of this course. This course is in two parts. In the first half (Section 2), we will investigate the nature and structure of human language,...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Organisations and the financial system
Money & Business

Organisations and the financial system

...Write down your answer in the box below. Part 2 A safe bet in answering this kind of question is to ask well-renowned experts on the topic, for example the research team of the Bank of England. Watch the following video on money creation in the modern economy. Once you have finished watching the video, use the box below to write notes on how money is created in the...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Veiling
History & The Arts

Veiling

...write a book about Hijab, the word in the Arabic calligraphic art on the cover. ‘Veil’ has no single Arabic linguistic referent, whereas Hijab has cultural and linguistic roots that are integral to Islamic (and Arab) culture as a whole. But the publisher preferred Veil to Hijab for reader accessibility and familiarity. From a marketing angle, the publisher rightly...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period
History & The Arts

Roaring Twenties? Europe in the interwar period

...writing since the rise of women’s history in the 1960s, debate has focused on whether or not the New Woman actually existed. In their discussions, the First World War has acquired a central place. Discussions have referred to the range of occupations that women entered during the war, as well as the challenges that war presented to traditional conceptions of both...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 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
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
Building relationships with donors
Money & Business

Building relationships with donors

...write out a cheque for £50,000 without wincing or consulting anyone. These general points have two important implications for your work. The first is that seeking major contributions has a very different feel from many other resource-winning and support-winning processes. The second is that you must always have a big gift focus in your work. It is not just an orientation...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs