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Hadrian's Rome
History & The Arts

Hadrian's Rome

...Les jardins romains. Paris: E. De Boccard, 1943. Guarducci, M. “Documenti del primo secolo nella necropoli Vaticana.” RendPontAcc 29 (1956–57) [1958]: 111–37. Guarducci, M. The Tomb of St. Peter. New York: Hawthorne Books, 1960. Humphrey, J. Roman Circuses: Arenas for Chariot Racing. Berkeley-Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1986. La Rocca, E. La riva...
Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...verbs from the first two sentences? Activity 2 The first shocking appearance of the convict (well caught in David Lean's memorable film version of the novel, see Figure 1) brings into play another set of associations, which are critically important for our sense of the kind of novel we are dealing with here. How are we to respond to the convict's first appearance? By what...
Developing good academic practice
Education & Development

Developing good academic practice

...verbs spring up, so instead of ‘initiating’ it becomes ‘starting’ or vice versa. And then they’ve re-ordered the sentence. They’ve put the second half of the sentence at the front, and the first half of the sentence at the back. I could actually write a computer programme that could do that. It’s not difficult and it’s certainly not intelligent. The safest...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
A short introduction to the English language
Languages

A short introduction to the English language

...verb ‘create’. SPEAKER 2: To bring into being. Cause to exist. To produce where nothing was before. SPEAKER 1: 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-- SPEAKER 3: Intelligence, having fun. SPEAKER 2: The process of having original ideas that have...
Introducing Black leadership Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing Black leadership

...verb – a ‘doing’ word, like running, talking and walking. Unless there is action there can be no leadership, as nothing would be happening. Leadership practice is distinctive from running and walking, however, in the sense that it requires another person to be involved. Without someone else being present there can be no-one to follow, and no-one to lead...Week 1:...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Advanced German: Language, culture and history
Languages

Advanced German: Language, culture and history

...Verbs in der ersten Person Singular weg, wie z.B. in „möchte“ (,,möcht'’). (c) Man ersetzt „nicht“ durch „ned“ (d) Man ersetzt „ein“ oder „eine“ durch „a“. Sowohl im Bairischen als auch in der norddeutschen Umgangssprache fällt das „-e“ am Ende der ersten Person Singular des Verbs weg. „Nich“ sollte man auf jeden Fall vermeiden, weil...
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...Le Devin du village – The Village Soothsayer) he highlighted the virtues of simple people in communion with nature and their own hearts. If the interest in nature expressed by most Enlightenment thinkers was less intense than Rousseau's, it is nevertheless true that all of them used the word ‘nature’ in a polemical sense, to highlight by contrasting with nature...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...les regretz and Tous nobles cuers), set here by La Rue, were written to console the young Margaret following her dismissal from the French court in 1493 – she had been resident there since 1483 during her betrothal to Charles VIII of France, but he renounced the engagement and instead married Anne, Duchess of Brittany. The theme of regret reappears throughout the...
Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs