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Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...par ses grands-parents. A Paris, les parents commencent par rembourser leur dette. Puis économise pour le faire venir. Le dépaysement est total. Souvent, l’enfant découvre alors qu’il a un petit frère ou deux. Que ses parents, qu’il ne connaît plus, travaillent tout le temps. Là encore, les Français critiquent cette manière de faire. Mais qu’est-ce qu’on...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Information technology: A new era?
Society, Politics & Law

Information technology: A new era?

...cent. In the first two quarters of 2000 the figure reached 5.2 per cent, putting it on a par with the productivity increase that occurred after the electrical revolution. In the past, new technologies such as electricity began to affect economy-wide productivity only once they had reached the 50 per cent penetration rate (i.e. when 50 per cent of households and/or businesses used the technology). For electricity, this ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Introduction to polymers
Science, Maths & Technology

Introduction to polymers

...PPO). The Tg is increased as is the toughness of the resulting physical mixture of different chains, and the polymer mixture is known by the trade name Noryl. It is used widely for enclosure of consumer products. [Figure 24] Figure 24 Block copolymers are formed by sequential addition of monomer in polymerization: (a) SBS block copolymer; (b) microstructure with...
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Level 3: Advanced 20 hrs
Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour
History & The Arts

Travelling for culture: the Grand Tour

...Par La Voie Du Mont, c.1920, advertising poster, 106 × 76 cm. The Roman Forum was another important site for Grand Tourists, and remains so today. In what follows, you’ll consider what writers actually do (their creative practices or processes, if you will), and observe one example of how a writer might engage with the ideas that lay behind the Grand Tour by connecting...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Advanced Spanish: Protest song
Languages

Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...par y cuál podría ser el contexto para cada una. Estoy buscando una falda que tiene bolsillos. Estoy buscando una falda que tenga bolsillos. Quiero comprar un álbum que es de un músico gallego. Quiero comprar un álbum que sea de un músico gallego. Answer Estoy buscando una falda que tiene bolsillos: Es una falda específica, por ejemplo, podría ser una falda que vi...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...par (pair) – bar (bar), tía (aunt) – día (day), corro (I run) –gorro (cap). In English, this is more systematic and also occurs in the fricative series and affricates, e.g. fan vs. van. Activity 4 Timing: Allow approximately 15 minutes. Place your fingers on your Adam´s apple and feel the vibration (or lack of it). Decide whether the following sounds are voiced...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Art and visual culture: medieval to modern
History & The Arts

Art and visual culture: medieval to modern

...par with educated activities to do with reading and writing, such as poetry. For this too there were antique antecedents. The ancient Roman poet Horace (65–8 BCE) had compared poetry and painting in his essay Ars poetica (‘The art of poetry’), while the Roman writer Plutarch (c.50 – after 120 CE) cited the maxim that painting is mute poetry and poetry a speaking...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around
Languages

Beginners’ Spanish: Getting around

...par cambiar dinero. La primera vantanilla Locations nearby Actividad 7.3 Part 1 Listen to the audio clip below and do the exercise. What are the next four phrases in the series? Escuche y participe. Raquel: Pista 48 William: Listen and repeat the following directions. Raquel: Escuche las indicaciones y repita Raquel: Ejemplo: Fernando: La primera Raquel: Ahora Ud....
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Level 1: Introductory 20 hrs