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Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...work on your speaking skills and pronunciation. First, you will revise some vocabulary to get you talking. Guten Appetit! Enjoy your meal!...Week 2: Ich esse gern…: 1 The adverb gern - If you want to say what you like to do in German, you can do so by just adding the word gern after the verb (you may also hear people say gerne). The verb itself (for example ich esse,...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...work, entertainment and at home. At least one-third of internet users around the world are found to be children younger than 18 years old. Increasingly, more children have their own mobile phone or mobile device (for example a tablet), watch television on their own devices, play games for at least a few hours per week, and use websites such as YouTube extensively more as...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Tamsin Edwards - Stories of Change

...working out the numbers for himself that he thinks are right for how sensitive the earth’s climate is to CO2, how much warming would we get say if we doubled CO2? So he comes to conferences and he defends his ideas, and there are a lot of people who’ve in some senses gathered around him and people like Matt Ridley, to hold that position of a lukewarm future. RH: Do...
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Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change
Nature & Environment

Michael Jacobs - Stories of Change

...work much better because they’re not congested, so this is no longer a burden that countries feel that they have to bear and ideally somebody else should bear it; it’s a development path which looks like it’s beneficial for many reasons and that makes it much easier to act and it creates lobbies for action, political lobbies, economic lobbies, businesses who benefit...
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Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...working capital’. This is where the outstanding amounts due to creditors, or accounts payable, exceed those due to be received from debtors, the accounts receivable, plus the financial value of inventory. In these circumstances, the organisation’s creditors are, in effect, providing free finance for the business! This ideal situation is unfortunately difficult to...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...work for an organization called Mediate NI, based in Derry, Londonderry. Well, alternative dispute resolution takes many forms, but I think what we really means is an alternative to the court process, where people do not have to go to court if they can find another way of settling the dispute. So mediation is a third-party intervention in a dispute to help parties reach...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Social construction and social constructionism
Society, Politics & Law

Social construction and social constructionism

...works, that that's quite sharp and clear. So, for everybody's sake I'm just going to repeat it very quickly which is, you know, layer one is the question of the labelling or naming or defining of things. Layer two is that the world is then categorised into different groups so that distinction between bogus and genuine, the deserving and undeserving. Then I thought that...
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Level 2: Intermediate 1 hr
My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'
Languages

My teaching experience on 'Are our kids tough enough? Chinese school'

...working. I was surprised that he left his seat without permission, but I did not take any action. He left his seat for more tissues a second time and other pupils started to giggle. “Something is going on” I thought to myself. As I walked towards him, I realized that he had spilled his tea on the floor and he was using lots of tissues to absorb the liquid. “Are you...
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