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Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...article la / las is always used with times. It is feminine because it refers to the noun hora / horas. Note that the answer is in the singular (Es la una) for one o’clock and in the plural for all other times (Son las dos / tres / cuatro…). More precise time is given in the following way. [Described image]...Week 1: How to tell the time: 3 Practising times - Match the...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...article below and then complete the activity underneath it. Box 1: Debt worries hammer Jarvis shares [Described image] Figure 1 Engineering work carried out on a rail track Shares in the engineering group Jarvis lost over half of their value on 2 July 2004 after the group warned that it was facing debts around a total of £230m. Charges and write-offs after it quit the...
Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Ratio, proportion and percentages
Science, Maths & Technology

Ratio, proportion and percentages

...articles, to indicate fractions (as in ‘64% of the population voted’) or to indicate changes (as in ‘an increase of 4%’). Percentages often indicate proportions. For example, labels in clothes indicate the various proportions of different yarns in the fabric. ‘Per cent’ means ‘per hundred’ and is denoted by the symbol %. 100% is the same as the whole, or...
Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Exploring family health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring family health

...article/ en/ expid/ Fruit-vegetable-consumption-Europe/ (Accessed 19 March 2013). Howard, D. (2010) ‘Cameron warns on child carer cuts’, BBC News [Online]. Available at http://www.bbc.co.uk/ news/ education-11757907 (Accessed 21 March 2012). NHS Information Centre (2012) Statistics on Obesity, Physical Activity and Diet: England, 2012, The Health and Social Care...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...article) in which you may have encountered Icarus. It might be the briefest of allusions or simply the use of his name to conjure up the miracle of ‘man’ or a man in flight. In what way is his myth used? The painting by Matisse reproduced on this webpage is one striking example. You could also look up ‘Icarus’ using an online search engine. Discussion [Described...
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...article which are used in telling the time. La barca parte all’una in punto. – The boat leaves at one o’clock on the dot. La nave per Olbia parte alle quattordici. – The ship for Olbia leaves at 14:00. For regular departures, you may hear ogni (‘every’) being used. La barca fa il giro dell’isola ogni mattina. – The boat does a tour around the island every...
Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...articles, reports and other sources Braye, S. and Preston-Shoot, M. (2016) Practising social work law, Basingstoke, Macmillan. Stevenson, O. (1988) ‘Law and Social work education: a commentary on the law report’, Issues in Social Work Education, vol. 8, no. 1, pp. 37–45...Social work law and UK regulation: Acknowledgements - This free course was written by Justin...
Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
An introduction to computers and computer systems
Digital & Computing

An introduction to computers and computer systems

...articles such as ‘Microsoft, Google, Slack, Zoom et al struggling to deal with a spike in remote tools thanks to coronavirus’ and ‘We analysed electricity demand and found coronavirus has turned weekdays into weekends’. Until we are able to revise the course to include this future research, you may want to search for more articles on ‘green computing’ to bring...