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Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...world is generally becoming more informal. Spoken language is generally more flexible and informal than written language. However, texts, tweets and other posts often do not follow the old rules and therefore written language is becoming less formal. For example, it is getting more and more common to hear people say ’OMG’ or ’LOL’ rather than the actual words....
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Migration
Science, Maths & Technology

Migration

...world's greatest animal migrations. She will continue south, using the Sun as a compass to cross America, a journey of 2000 miles. Her destination is Mexico, and one small and special group of trees. No one knows how she finds them in these great mountain forests. She joins other monarch butterflies that have travelled here from all over North America. Countless...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...world are fire-prone and fire, or more specifically, the fire regime, controls their composition and structure. Factors such as climate, vegetation type and the source of ignition differ among ecosystems and affect aspects of the fire regime such as its extent (size), frequency and intensity. Because plants and fire share a long evolutionary history, many plants have...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Music and its media
History & The Arts

Music and its media

...worlds. This chronological outline should not give the impression that each form of musical media was supplanted by the next – all of the above forms of communication are still in use today. In the UK, we can transmit and experience musical works orally/aurally, through forms of notation (handwritten or printed) or through recordings. Nor is the above chronology...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Beginners’ German: Places and people
Languages

Beginners’ German: Places and people

...world and meet some of the people who live there. You learn to recognise more names for countries, understand some information about the German language as well as basic personal information. You also learn to use regular verbs and pronouns such as ‘I’, ‘you’, ‘he’ and ‘she’...Beginners' German: Places and people: 2.1 Where is German spoken? - So far, this...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Social media and networks in health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social media and networks in health and social care

...world. Information can be lost easily – Disadvantage Hackers, computer viruses and problems with hardware can often cause information to be lost or stolen very easily. Information lost this way is often irretrievable. The internet is global – Both The ability to network with people from around the world is a wonderful opportunity, especially if you have friends or...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Applying social work law with children and families
Society, Politics & Law

Applying social work law with children and families

...world in specific ways, and who are entitled to respect and choice. In this course, you will look at the ways in which different perspectives on childhood may influence how children’s views are heard, and how far they can participate in making decisions about matters that affect them. First, however, you will look at how trends in society have influenced the way the law...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Egyptian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Egyptian mathematics

...world objects. So there is some recognisable mathematical activity ‘for its own sake’, which was Chace's claim. However, this does not quite resolve the matter. If the Rhind Papyrus were primarily a teaching document, and if it were the calculation methods that one wanted to teach, then the fact that Problem 40 is quite unrealistic may be a tribute to the scribe's...
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Level 2: Intermediate 9 hrs