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Work and mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Work and mental health

...troubling aspects of employment. Activity 1 ‘… an endless significance lies in Work’ Timing: Allow about 30 minutes Think about the work that you do. This might be paid employment, volunteer work or as a homemaker or a carer. In the text boxes below, make notes of: some benefits of employment some difficulties of employment. Benefits Difficulties Comment Employment...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Language in the real world
Languages

Language in the real world

...trouble understanding in a way. So, when I’m looking at Spanish speaking Latinos and I say there’s a problem I don’t mean to put the onus on the Spanish speaking Latinos as they are the problem. What I mean to say is maybe their, their lives in London is, is problematic for me, because maybe I don’t understand it or I, I think I don’t understand it and I want to...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...have been done for you. 1. Hampstead (Heath) = teeth 2. apples (and pears) = stairs 3. trouble (____ ____) = wife Answer trouble (and strife) = wife 4. loaf (____ ____) = head Answer loaf (of bread) = head 5. rabbit (____ ____) = talk Answer rabbit (and pork) = talk 6. porky (____) = lie Answer porky (pie) = lie 7. plates (____ ____) = feet Answer plates (of meat) = feet 8. dog (____ ____) = phone Answer dog......
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis
Health, Sports & Psychology

Introducing Climate Psychology: facing the climate crisis

...Trouble with the COPs - You’ll now focus on the other end of the spectrum from individual behaviour change to look at the actions of the international organisations that should be guiding the world’s responses to the climate and ecological crisis. There are two international United Nations conferences that run annually in parallel. These are called ‘COPs’...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Enlightenment
History & The Arts

The Enlightenment

...trouble from the French authorities. Voltaire was known throughout Europe for his active intervention in humanitarian causes and his incessant attacks on abuses of every kind, particularly abuse of power by the Catholic Church and associated miscarriages of justice. All this was given sensational coverage by his flair for publicity, his Europe-wide contacts among...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
IT: Information
Science, Maths & Technology

IT: Information

...trouble. When, another year later, you were able to get access from home, life changed. We had internet and we were able to browse without the minders at the internet centres watching over our shoulder asking you what that site you are browsing is. Of course things were not that easy, there was a firewall. A black page with big orange letters: access denied. They made you...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Understanding and managing risk
Money & Business

Understanding and managing risk

...troubled European economies including Portugal, Spain and Italy. In the midst of this crisis one European bank – the United Bank of Switzerland (UBS) – announced that it had uncovered a huge and unexpected financial loss amounting to $2.3 billion as a result of the alleged activities of a rogue trader, Kweku Adoboli, based at the London offices of UBS. Adoboli had...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Attention
Society, Politics & Law

Attention

...trouble of analysing incoming information, only to remain ignorant of the results? To attempt an answer it is necessary to consider a range of issues, stretching from registration of information by the sense organs, through the processes of perception, to the nature of awareness and consciousness. Attention is a broad and intriguing topic. That breadth makes it very...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs