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Everyday English 2
Languages

Everyday English 2

...become markers for them to follow. Other marker words include: on the one hand on the other hand whereas nevertheless even so however therefore. Activity 18 Identifying markers and signposts Timing: Allow about 10 minutes Listen carefully to the audio, which is a conversation between a doctor and a patient called Lorna. Pause it when you hear either of the speakers using...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Improving patient, family and colleague witnesses’ experiences of Fitness to Practise proceedings

...become irritated and lose interest if they are given difficult and jargonistic material. We identified that most of the online information linked to the Fitness to Practice of 13 regulators is inaccessible to those with limited literacy skills. If the public does not express concerns to regulators, changing poor practice in health and social care will be impossible. We...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Heritage case studies: Scotland
History & The Arts

Heritage case studies: Scotland

...become a signifier of an invented Scotland of mountain scenery, castles and tartan. It is closely tied to the evocative tale of Bonnie Prince Charlie, his epic defeat and the legends and stories surrounding his flight. Along with the Clearances, Culloden has done much to contribute to a lack of rootedness that has haunted the descendents of these Highlanders and has...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Children’s rights
Society, Politics & Law

Children’s rights

...become clear that within secondary schools the best approach to tackling bullying within a school is from the children up. But there is a lot of hesitation about extending that into primary schools because many people feel that children aren’t capable of having these kinds of discussions and of producing rules for themselves and it was really encouraging to see in this...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
Looking at, describing and identifying objects
History & The Arts

Looking at, describing and identifying objects

...become engaged with the artefact? Presumably the answer lies in its prestige value or aesthetic qualities. We could visit the British Museum to see it ourselves, or to observe other people encountering it and see what effect it has on them...Looking at, describing and identifying objects: Does the netsuke have a meaning? - This question takes us beyond just studying the...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Prices, location and spread
Science, Maths & Technology

Prices, location and spread

...students become familiar with the combination of interactive computer-marked assignment (iCMA) and tutor-marked assignment (TMA) scores to provide an overall continuous assessment score (OCAS) for a course. Suppose that a student obtains a score of 80 for their iCMAs and a score of 60 for their TMAs. Calculate what this student’s overall continuous assessment score will...
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Level 1: Introductory 18 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...become familiar with ways of talking about approximate distance to or from a place. LAS RAMBLAS The ramblais an urban feature virtually unique to Catalonia, and there is one in most Catalan towns. Originally, the Rambla of Barcelona was a seasonal river bed, the name deriving from an Arabic word for river bank, ramla. Different sections of the Rambla in Barcelona have...
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs
Introducing global development
Society, Politics & Law

Introducing global development

...become technologically advanced and modern. Such a view of development gives rise to an established perspective that sees a stark divide between the wealthy and powerful ‘developed’ countries of the global ‘North’ and the poorer, marginalised ‘developing’ countries of the global ‘South’. You will explore the arguments for questioning and potentially moving...
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Level 3: Advanced 6 hrs