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Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
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Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...t-on le phénomène qui a bouleversé le cinéma au début des années soixante ? la Nouvelle Vague le film noir le néoréalisme a. la Nouvelle Vague b. le film noir c. le néoréalisme The correct answer is a. Select the answer for Question 1f here Qu’est-ce qu’une bande-annonce ? L’ensemble composé des dialogues et de la musique d’un film ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Colour fastness
Money & Business

Colour fastness

...t shirt have to put up with in daily life and how do colours survive the wash? Andrew Filarowski, Deputy Chief Executive of the Society of Dyers and Colourists, takes a look at colour fastness...[Girl in colourful t-shirt] Without the right dye and fabric, even the brightest colours fade Every t shirt will have been made to a specification to determine how it responds to...
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“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta
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“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta

...le leathchéad bliain anuas, nó mar sin. Ach is cur chuige é sin a ghlanann na céadtaí bliain den stair agus den scrios a rinneadh ar an teanga, idir polasaithe agus dlithe coilíneacha fríth-Ghaeilge, den insint reatha oifigiúil. Níor chríochnaigh an Ghaeilge ina teanga ‘mionlaithe’ anseo de thaisme. Dhírigh forsaí leatromacha coimhthíocha ar an Ghaeilge...
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9/11: Attack on the Wires
Science, Maths & Technology

9/11: Attack on the Wires

...T struggled to cope with the flood of calls that followed the tragic events of September 11th. Over the course of the day they handled in excess of 400 million calls as people in America, and all over the world tried to contact friends and family in New York. This collection gives a snapshot of how the communications company dealt with the unprecedented technological...
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Intermediate French: 14 July
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Intermediate French: 14 July

...Le quatorze juillet - The French national holiday on 14 July commemorates the storming of the Bastille prison (la prise de la Bastille) in 1789. The rioters’ victory, at the end of a day-long siege, marked the beginning of the Revolution. The day is celebrated with a variety of events, large and small, across the country: défilés militaires (military parades),...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Introduction to complex analysis
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Introduction to complex analysis

...le Rond d’Alembert (1717–1783), who is perhaps best remembered for his work in classical mechanics. Indeed, the Cauchy–Riemann equations were written down by d’Alembert in an essay on fluid dynamics in 1752 to describe the velocity components of a two-dimensional irrotational fluid flow. [Described image] Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717–1783) The...
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Level 3: Advanced 12 hrs
Getting started with French 3
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Getting started with French 3

...t’ were the only letter present. le thé tea la bibliothèque library When words beginning with the letter ‘h’ are preceded by the indefinite article, un or une, the two words run together and it sounds like the second word starts with ‘n’. Here are some examples: un␣ hôtel hotel (Sounds like ‘un_nôtel’) une␣habitation residence (Sounds like...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
The immune system
Science, Maths & Technology

The immune system

...T cells and B cells. (If you are interested, the letters denote ‘thymus’ and ‘bone marrow’, the tissues where each of these leukocytes mature.) T cells and B cells have recognition methods that distinguish between different pathogens (e.g. different species of bacteria), and they adapt during their first encounter with a particular pathogen so that the second time...
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