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Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...research on the topic as preparation for the discussion. This research can be done on a computer or even your phone and you will need to make notes on the topic so that you can contribute with relevant information, ideas and opinions. The other discussion will be on a familiar topic, so you will not have to research it. You still need to prepare and make notes on what you...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...research that Hadrian and Sabina were childless, and this could have created anxieties about who would succeed the emperor. Nevertheless, the women of the imperial household provided connections to Hadrian’s predecessors and it was important for an emperor to promote an image of familial contentment (even if rumours suggested the contrary). Sabina appeared on the...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...research company under contract to the Office for National Statistics.) The results of their data collection and subsequent calculations are summarised in two measures called the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) and the Retail Prices Index (RPI). These indices do not measure prices. (‘Indices’ is the plural of ‘index’.) Each is an index of price changes over time, and...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...researching film reviews on an online film database in French and make a note of all the positive and negative adjectives that you can find. Activité 20 Comparez les extraits de critiques ci-dessus aux synopsis suivants que vous avez déjà lus dans l’activité 15. Quelles sont les différences de style entre un synopsis et une critique ? Quelles sont les...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing
Money & Business

Rent or buy? The challenge of access to housing

...Research found that only 20 per cent of the two-bedroom flats required to satisfy demand between 2011 and 2015 had actually been built. …Making up the shortfall in this bracket will be no easy task. Building codes — especially those enforcing energy efficiency — are getting stricter every year, says Fisher. Along with rising land prices, this is making it harder for...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?
Science, Maths & Technology

What chemical compounds might be present in drinking water?

...Research Establishment; Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked, the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity. Except for third party materials and otherwise stated in the acknowledgements section, this content is made available under a Creative Commons
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...research has been undertaken on the material evidence for ancient tourism. Whichever of these factors come into play, we hope you, too, saw this imbalance. Finally, some sources are referred to very specifically (‘Hdt 1.30’), while others are quite vague (‘colossi of Memnon and other pharaonic monuments’; ‘Pausanias’). Why is that? The precise references are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
The Byzantine icon
History & The Arts

The Byzantine icon

...research field. So today, to make you feel part of this privilege, Venetian Crete artistic production, I have chosen a wonderful icon from that period to discuss with you and analyse. The object I will be discussing is an icon. For orthodoxy, icons are the ultimate way of communicating with divinity and heaven above. Icons function as a window that transports the faithful...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs