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Speeches and speech-making
History & The Arts

Speeches and speech-making

...become such familiar elements in our language. ‘Voice’ is often used in this everyday, metaphorical sense. We’ll pause on this point so that you can consider it for yourself. Activity 1 In each of the sentences below, decide whether the word ‘voice’ is used literally or metaphorically: (a) He spoke in a soft, soothing voice. (b) The members spoke with one voice...
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Level 1: Introductory 1 hr
Does prison work?
Society, Politics & Law

Does prison work?

...become more violent. So the, nature of their offending behaviour tends to get worse rather than better. LARRY VINER People appear again and again who have served custodial sentences for whom it has obviously not made any difference. People regularly commit offences on bail because they know they're going to go to prison and they want to get as much as they can before they...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
The poetry of Sorley MacLean
History & The Arts

The poetry of Sorley MacLean

...become functional ciphers merely, as they are in white papers and business letters, they lose their ‘ghosts’ – the rich aura that has grown about them from the start, and grows infinitesimally richer every time they are spoken. They lose more; they lose their ‘kernel’, the sheer sensuous relish of utterance… We are in danger of contenting ourselves with husks....
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Welsh history and its sources
History & The Arts

Welsh history and its sources

...become aware of a variety of approaches employed by historians in interpreting and constructing history generally and Welsh history specifically understand issues that contribute to the cultural identity of Wales...Welsh history and its sources: 1.1 How the course works and what it contains - This unit has been designed to help anyone with an interest in the history of...
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Level 1: Introductory 25 hrs
АНГЛІЙСЬКА НА КОЖЕН ДЕНЬ
Languages

АНГЛІЙСЬКА НА КОЖЕН ДЕНЬ

...Students on an Introduction to Psychology course [Book called Introduction to Psychology] Football fans [Newspaper report on a football match] Pop music fans [Magazine called Pop & Rock News] Vegetarians or those cooking for them [Book called 50 Vegetarian Favourites] Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
David Allen - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

David Allen - Earth in Vision

...becoming accepted across the planet now, so I want to go and look at how that change is happening in the natural world and how the natural world is adapting to it, and that includes an understanding of time within change. Everything in this is about speed of change, we’ve changed everywhere, we’ve done change before, it’s all about the speed of change, looking back...
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Video 30 mins
Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story
Society, Politics & Law

Challenging Workplace Gender Roles: One Woman’s Story

...become a thing of the past. Sources and Links: For more on the work of female Tracers in Scotland, and further images, see the following links: The Ballast Trust - http://ballastblog.blogspot.com/2018/05/women-working-in-industry-female-tracers.html National Galleries Scotland -
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Article 10 mins
What can Earth tell us about Mars?
Science, Maths & Technology

What can Earth tell us about Mars?

...becoming more concentrated. [Map of Axel Heiberg Island and Photographs of the CP springs and precipitates along a CP spring channel with annotated spring and channel systems] (A) Map of Axel Heiberg Island (brown), and icecaps (white) produced by modifying an image from Google Maps (Map Data @2020 Google) using Illustrator Creative Cloud version 21.0.2. (B) Photographs...
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Article 10 mins