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Young people and religion: creative learning with history
History & The Arts

Young people and religion: creative learning with history

...public library might offer the workshop as part of a school holiday programme. A youth group might include the workshop over a weekend or as part of a residential week away, provided necessary equipment and possibilities for filming are available at the chosen location. An alternative model, which has also proved successful, is to run the workshop as a course of several...
Getting started on ancient Greek
History & The Arts

Getting started on ancient Greek

...public space inside a city where Greeks met and interacted, socially as well as commercially. It would, we can assume, have been crowded and noisy...Session 4: Words: 3 Prefixes - Greek words can also appear at the start of English words, as prefixes. You have already encountered bio- from βίος (‘life’). Here are three more examples, each of which can still be...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’
History & The Arts

Helen Langdon's ‘Caravaggio’

...publications.’ Readers beware! When Hibbard wrote his biographical monograph about Caravaggio in 1983 there were relatively few modern books already written about the artist. Recent years have seen a large number of books, including Langdon's, dedicated to the artist and his art. Writing about Caravaggio began during his own lifetime, in 1604, when Carel van Mander...
Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon
Languages

Beginners’ French: A trip to Avignon

...public holidays Activité 33 Look at the extract on the musée Calvet taken from a guide book and answer the questions in English. Répondez aux questions. What can you see at the musée Calvet? Which days is the museum open? Which days is it closed? How much is an entry ticket? Answer Fine art (beaux-arts), paintings (peinture), sculpture and a collection of wrought...
Getting started with French 3
Languages

Getting started with French 3

...public buildings and spaces. Activity 1 Le commissariat, l’office de tourisme, l’hôtel de ville will all normally be found in large towns or cities. You will usually see la gendarmerie, le syndicat d’initiative and la mairie in smaller towns or villages, although this distinction is becoming less pronounced. La police nationale and la gendarmerie are both police...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Aquatic mammals
Nature & Environment

Aquatic mammals

...publication but it shows the difficulty of representing changes in three dimensions using only two dimensions! Figure 16 shows a dive by an adult female Weddell seal. The dive lasted for 10 minutes 30 seconds, and the animal travelled a total of 760 m. About midway through the dive, at point C, the video footage revealed that the seal attacked a large Antarctic cod,...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting
Money & Business

Introduction to bookkeeping and accounting

...public Financial statements often include information relevant to the public interest, such as environmental information or policies on employment of disabled people, etc. The biggest businesses have the most stakeholders. Whatever the size of the business, active and responsible stakeholders will always be interested in how a business, in which they have an informed...
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...health-care industry will be underestimated if all that is counted is patient throughput or treatment episodes, without accounting for the extent to which consumers enjoy better treatment. Quality improvements in health care include better diagnosis, new medical equipment and less invasive treatments. Another example is provided in a study cited by The Economist (2000)....
Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs