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Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...Le Mans 24-hour race to compete. Watch the video of Chris Hoy’s motor racing pit-stop but please be warned that there is some swearing in this clip so carefully choose where you watch it so as not to cause offence to others. In addition to Chris Hoy who is driving, there are two other main people interacting: the race engineer (coordinating radio communications) and the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Systems diagramming
Digital & Computing

Systems diagramming

...verbs to highlight its dynamism and purpose and so make it more specific and identifiable. The assembly has been identified by someone as being of interest. This is important because it brings out the fact that a system is essentially a private, personal idea: a construct. A system can be (and often is) simply a personal ordering of reality, the result of seeing some...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...verb-object word order), but in terms of the communities who use it and – importantly – who identify with it. That’s to say, the language doesn’t exist as an abstract entity out there in the ether. It’s something people actually use; something they both speak and write/read (although these definitions mostly privilege the notion of speaking). And it’s...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...verb (as in ‘they are languaging’) to prioritise the ‘doing’ and emergent nature of languages over their a priori existence (García and Wei, 2015). This conceptual shift also has implications for L2 proficiency. When the gaze moves from languages as systems to languages as practices, there is a recognition that some people can have greater proficiency in their L2...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...verb ‘create’. WOMAN ‘To bring into being, cause to exist. To produce where nothing was before.’ NARRATOR A dictionary definition only gets us so far. We can also look at how other people have defined it and the key features they’ve identified for it. Creativity is: MAN ‘Intelligence, having fun.’ WOMAN ‘The process of having original ideas that have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Napoleonic paintings
History & The Arts

Napoleonic paintings

...Le Fevre. She's wearing a Court dress of white satin embroidered in gold with classical cameos at her waist, and in her tiara. The portrait includes a bust of Napoleon towards which Pauline looks and gestures. She was apparently his favourite sister, even though her scandalous behaviour was completely at odds with his expectations of proper feminine conduct. In 1803 he...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Nationalism, self-determination and secession
Society, Politics & Law

Nationalism, self-determination and secession

...Le Pen in becoming one of the final two candidates in the run-off for the French presidency in 2002, and the rise in votes for the far right in Switzerland, Austria, Denmark, Belgium and The Netherlands – do hint at or openly articulate such claims. More progressive forms of nationalism, which were more common throughout the process of decolonisation in the twentieth...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...Le Bardo, Tunisia. Photo: Musee National du Bardo/Bridgeman Images...Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid: 1.2 Virgil and his predecessors - Unlike Livy (a contemporary of Virgil, and author of a multi-volume history of Rome) or Ennius, who tell a series of stories that occur over a long period of time, Virgil chooses to focus on one individual, the Trojan hero Aeneas. The...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs