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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...artificial and heightened about the woman's speech in particular: ‘Doesn't one always think of the past, in a garden with men and women lying under the trees? Aren't they one's past, all that remains of it, those men and women, those ghosts lying under the trees … one's happiness, one's reality?’ We might think that no-one would really speak like this, or relate a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
David Hume
History & The Arts

David Hume

...intelligent, benign and all-powerful being – God, in other words – created the universe. Notice that this argument does not depend on accepting the Gospels as true. This is what makes it useable by a deist. Someone who used it enthusiastically was Voltaire. In the following passage from a book introducing Newton's empirical discoveries to the French world (Elements de...
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Level 2: Intermediate 16 hrs
The search for water on Mars
Science, Maths & Technology

The search for water on Mars

...artificial light sources and relatively flat. Remember that Mars’ location in the night sky is dependent on where you are on Earth, the time of year and the time of night. All planets are near the ecliptic, which is the imaginary line marking the Sun’s path across the sky, so keep an eye on where the Sun rises and sets and its path during the day and try to project...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Empowering communities
Money & Business

Empowering communities

...intelligence, being able to put words on your emotions and your lived-through experiences as helpful to deescalate different type of strong emotions but also managing conflicts or strained relations in constructive ways. So how do we communicate with people that we think differently with? How do we manage conflict? How do we manage stress? How do we manage different type...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Approaching leadership with care
Health, Sports & Psychology

Approaching leadership with care

...intelligence, resilience and self-esteem. With the renewed insight you’ve gained, it can help you develop a broader, proactive approach to changes in your professional and personal life. Remember to always aim to maintain an appropriate balance, as being an effective and caring leader starts with caring for yourself...Approaching leadership with care: 6 Continuing your...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
English in the world today
Languages

English in the world today

...intelligible, although there are one or two dialect words (some of them related specifically to their profession) which might be a little obscure. ‘Dally’, for example, refers to a method of winding a rope around the saddle; while ‘ornery’ is originally a colloquial pronunciation of ‘ordinary’, and means ‘cantankerous’ or ‘mean’. There are also a few...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Understanding language and learning
Languages

Understanding language and learning

...intelligible entities such as Swedish, Norwegian and Danish are considered languages but the mutually incomprehensible Hokkien and Hakka are considered dialects of Chinese has more to do with politics and nation building than with empirical and linguistic facts. More specifically, there has been a conceptual shift which prompts us to move our gaze from languages as...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Language and creativity
Languages

Language and creativity

...Intelligence, having fun.’ WOMAN ‘The process of having original ideas that have value.’ MAN ‘Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.’ WOMAN ‘Creativity is not a capacity of special people, but a special capacity of all people.’ NARRATOR But perhaps it’s easiest to start by looking at the different contexts in which linguistic...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs