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Teaching and learning tricky topics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching and learning tricky topics

...world around them. Sometimes these beliefs are mistaken, yet they are so engrained that students may not even realise they are making them. These intuitive beliefs may therefore persist until they clash with new knowledge. At this point, students need to identify and ‘unlearn’ these intuitive beliefs in order to assimilate the new knowledge. Intuitive beliefs lie at...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Brighton Pavilion
History & The Arts

Brighton Pavilion

...World (1762), took as its central figure a Chinese philosophic gentleman residing in London writing home in some bewilderment at the habits of the natives, and why Voltaire took the view that China was a sophisticated land of admirable stability peopled by philosophes. The connotations of China in the prince's day were, in short, those of luxury, gaiety and the trappings...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
Eutrophication
Nature & Environment

Eutrophication

...world’s largest lakes and used to support diverse communities of species endemic to the lake (i.e. species that are found only there), but it now suffers from frequent fish kills caused by episodes of deoxygenation. In the 1960s deoxygenation was limited to certain areas of the lake, but it is now widespread. It is usually associated with at least a tenfold increase in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
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
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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
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
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