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History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe
History & The Arts

History of reading tutorial 2: The reading and reception of literary texts – a case study of Robinson Crusoe

...changed their lives. So, for example, in UK RED: 2357 we learn that Joseph Greenwood, a weaver’s son, read a cheap edition of Robinson Crusoe as a child in the late 1830s: ‘To me Daniel Defoe’s book was a wonderful thing, it opened up a world of adventure, new countries and peoples, full of brightness and change; an unlimited expanse’. Similarly, John Ward, a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Form and uses of language
History & The Arts

Form and uses of language

...change from ‘refused’ to ‘failed to attend’ on the second page. (Sassoon Papers, Department of Documents, Imperial War Museum) At the end of the war he published his diaries and a semi-autobiographical novel The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston in which the details of his protest, and his disillusionment with the conduct of the war, were made public. Much of...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...change a nappy of sort of a 10-year-old child. And I’ve got no experience with that. But you actually just had to get on with it. Ask all the questions that you needed to. Get support from the staff. I think that’s one thing I learned quite quickly was to ask, when I wasn’t sure, just to ask for support, or ask for someone to come and show me what I needed to do....
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
What is a metal?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a metal?

...change, i.e. equation sequence 0.034 divided by 100 equals 0.34 divided by 1000 equals 3.4 divided by 10 000 equals 34 divided by 100 000 equals 340 divided by 1000 000 And as 1000 000 is a million, we can see that 0.034 parts per hundred can also be written as 340 parts per million, or 340 ppm. Table 1 shows that the percentage of chromium in the Earth’s crust is...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture
History & The Arts

Exploring the boundaries between religion and culture

...changes the people, not only the performance. Because the people that sees it and that leaves it-- we as public will also live it. [APPLAUSE] ALICK TIPOTI: I actually feel proud when I make people realise that, wow, they just did something that is ceremonial, that is spiritual, cultural. That is them. That is their identity. And then they start looking within. Then they...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Teachers sharing resources online
Education & Development

Teachers sharing resources online

...change it, etc. but the impact it’s had on time for me, it’s amazing. Teaching – it’s taken me to outstanding which I never thought I would get to, considering I’m from a school that had a 15% pass rate at school. Impact on the students they love it because some of the resources and the sound effects and some of the fun things that have come up, are absolutely...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Vaccination
Science, Maths & Technology

Vaccination

...changing the course of history. Variolation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries used material from ‘mild’ smallpox cases to infect healthy people, most of whom developed protective immunity, but there was a 2–3 per cent death rate. In 1796 Edward Jenner began experiments that led to widespread vaccination with cowpox virus (vaccinia), which elicits...
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Level 2: Intermediate 14 hrs
Assessing risk in engineering, work and life
Science, Maths & Technology

Assessing risk in engineering, work and life

...changing, e.g. permanent injury such as blindness or loss of mobility 5 – Imminent (will occur regularly) You may see the same idea expressed as a matrix, using a ‘traffic light’ system to indicate the acceptability of different risks. An example is shown in Figure 2, but note that different industries will use different criteria for what is acceptable. [Described...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs