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Revision and examinations
Education & Development

Revision and examinations

...based exam questions - For the following activity, you can use questions from a specimen paper, past papers or even questions you have devised for yourself. Activity 9 Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes. Exam questions for essay-based courses often contain ‘process words’. These require you to organise what you know about a topic in a particular way. The mark you...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!
Money & Business

Understanding management: I'm managing thank you!

...based on the state of the equipment you used, or the materials you had to work with. Perhaps there were financial reasons based on the cost of the inputs or a lack of funding. Alternatively, it might be the way you are using the other inputs, in which case you may have some unintended outputs, such as a lot of waste. In addition to this, the activity was structured so...
Approaching plays
History & The Arts

Approaching plays

...base, Swilled with the wild and wasteful ocean. Activity 1 First we would like you to look at the examples above from three scripts for plays, which all look different on the page, and which offer different challenges in interpretation. As you read, ask yourself what the extracts have in common. Discussion The three extracts above may look very different on the page, but...
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Passports: identity and airports
Society, Politics & Law

Passports: identity and airports

...base of the escalator, warning people that taking trolleys beyond this point is forbidden. This might be effective, but it's hardly an efficient use of staff time as you'd have to stand there all day. And it could lead to confrontation with stressed travellers either not understanding him or refusing to accept his authority, the kind of thing airport managements want to...
Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Using a scientific calculator
Science, Maths & Technology

Using a scientific calculator

...base 10 of numbers can be found using the key. For example, can be calculated using the key sequence . Note that as with the trigonometric functions, the key automatically opens a bracket that must be closed if you are using the calculated logarithm as part of a longer calculation. The second function of the key , accessed using , can be used as an alternative to when...
Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s
History & The Arts

A spiritual revolution? Wicca and religious change in the 1960s

...based on the practice of intimate small groups of Christians listening to ‘God’s spirit’. A number of kinds of ‘seekership’ communities had also emerged before the Second World War; the Oxford Group was one example, and alternative communities in places like Glastonbury and Findhorn also appeared. Yet, despite these longer trends, it was in the Sixties that...
Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...based services emphasises the personal qualities of staff as much as their formal qualifications. It seeks to cultivate their capacity for hope, creativity, care, compassion, realism and resilience. Family and other supporters are often crucial to recovery and they should be included as partners wherever possible. However, peer support is central for many people in their...
Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introduction to Arabic
Education & Development

Introduction to Arabic

...based on this belief. You will find that the Qur'an is quoted in most Arabic grammar books not to primarily reinforce religious beliefs, but to teach the language. Those who is interested in learning Arabic will find it difficult in several stages of learning the language, regardless of their first language. The majority of these difficulties are due to the quite complex...
Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs