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Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...is that while Spanish vowels are fairly consistent across the Spanish-speaking world, there are considerable differences in the pronunciation of vowels among English varieties, even within the United Kingdom. Ideas for exercises Analyse the difference between the following quadruplet: pase – pasé – pasee – paseé. Depending on the level, you can ask your students to find word pairs that differ only in the identical ......
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role
Health, Sports & Psychology

Physical activity for health and wellbeing in the caring role

...World Health Organisation (WHO, 2020) posits that physical activity refers to all movement including during leisure time, for transport to get to and from places, or as part of a person’s work. To break this down further, Biddle et al. (2021, p.20) cite the seminal work of Caspersen et al. (1985) who define physical activity in terms of three elements: movement of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Internships and other work experiences Badge icon
Money & Business

Internships and other work experiences

...world, it’s no secret that an internship can provide valuable experience, enhance your career development and increase your chances of securing the job you really want. But what actually is an internship? If it isn’t called an ‘internship’ does it have less credibility? Are all internships or work experiences going to give you the knowledge and skills that you...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...world of multiple sounds. Participants wear a pair of headphones, and receive a different sound in each ear; in many studies the sounds are recorded speech, each ear receiving a different message. Broadbent and others (e.g. Treisman, 1960) showed that, after attending to the message in one ear, a participant could remember virtually nothing of the unattended message that...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...world...Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: make comparisons in French recognise the construction of verbs followed by a preposition and an infinitive appreciate the distinctive nature of French cinema recognise the vocabulary of French cinema write a film review in French...Upper...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Practising science: Reading the rocks and ecology

...world and the Universe in which our world is just a microscopic speck. The aim of scientists is to extend the frontiers of this knowledge so that we can understand more about the physical Universe and the life within it. Scientists acquire knowledge by engaging in four fundamentally important and connected tasks. The first is observation: they observe the natural world...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Understanding organisational value
Money & Business

Understanding organisational value

...world, awareness about the climate change increases, more and more customers will be looking for products and services which are beyond the transactional kind of gratification kind of category, but sustainable sources of value. So it will affect, and it will become rational just for people. It won't be any more emotional response to changing climate or care for...
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Level 1: Introductory 7 hrs
Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Communication and working relationships in sport and fitness

...world, we need to learn to collaborate and cooperate with one another. And that means we must learn how to understand the needs and desires of others. GIRL And we’re done. [LAUGHTER] MAN 1 One of the ways that we can read each other is through our facial expressions, which convey our emotions. MAN 2 And we are all really good at reading the facial expressions of other...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs