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Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: food and drink

...work they have a mid-morning break and they can have a snack, which can vary from a savoury sandwich with a glass of wine to a cup of coffee or hot chocolate with pastries. An alternative to pastries is the traditional churros, a type of fritter traditionally dunked into hot chocolate. Coffee or hot chocolate also forms the basis for an afternoon snack, or merienda,...
Advanced German: Language, culture and history
Languages

Advanced German: Language, culture and history

...working knowledge of the German language, this course will help to improve your language skills, knowledge of German-speaking societies and intercultural competence. It will also develop your critical and analytical skills as you study the geography and dialects of the regions of Germany...If you already have a good working knowledge of the German language, this free...
Getting started with French 2
Languages

Getting started with French 2

...worked through the activities with ease, but how well will you remember the answers and vocabulary in two or three weeks time? Now is the time to get organised and start formalising the way you develop your language skills. Building a language notebook This is something you can develop week by week, which is entirely personal to you. You may find that you want to change...
Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Minerals and the crystalline state
Science, Maths & Technology

Minerals and the crystalline state

...work through any activities that make use of it. Video 1 Introduction to the Digital Geology Kit. Question 1 Select the specimen 'Variety amethyst' from the 'Quartz' list of minerals in the Digital Geology Kit. How long is the amethyst crystal on the far left? Measure it using the graticule. Answer It is about 16 mm. Note that there are large divisions on the graticule...
Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Life in the Palaeozoic
Nature & Environment

Life in the Palaeozoic

...work out which of these two groups has, on average, more species per family. Answer Figure 14 shows approximately 40 families of living reptiles. So the average number of species per family is 12 000 divided by 40 ≈300. There are about 150 families of living mammals and 6000 species, giving an average of 6000 divided by 150 ≈40. Thus living reptiles have far more...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Англійська у світі сьогодні
Languages

Англійська у світі сьогодні

...Work is such a mischievous dog which never does as it’s told no matter how loud you shout at it It won’t stay, it won’t fetch, and you end up herding the flock yourself. And love, well it’s a half wild cat you feed occasionally. It makes off with your ball of wool and tears your knitting in pieces so you chase the creature away. Nobody except an idiot or a saint...
Animals at the extremes: polar biology
Nature & Environment

Animals at the extremes: polar biology

...work of pumping. As well as being large (up to 1m long), icefish are active predators that swim in the surface waters and use oxygen at about the same rate as red-blooded antarctic fish such as Pleuragramma or Notothenia (see Figures 23a and b). Icefish blood contains solutes and a few white blood cells, so it is a yellowish, watery fluid similar to mammalian lymph. Large...
Careers education and guidance (Chinese)
Education & Development

Careers education and guidance (Chinese)

...Work-related Learning: A briefing for teachers in initial training (DfES,2005). Available to download at: http://dev.cegnet.co.uk/ resource/ content/ files/ 677.pdf [accessed 26 Janaury 2007] Informing Choices: A guide for those providing information and guidance to learners aged 13–19 in England (QCA,2005). Available to download at: http://www.qca.org.uk/ 14–19/...