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Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...religion, age, family situation) or subjective features, such as life experiences. Equally, it may be that the reader recognises features in characters that they desire or aspire to, such as bravery, achievements or popularity. Such texts enable children to see that people like them can be the heroine or hero, and these texts can help children to come to terms with...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
The science of alcohol Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

The science of alcohol

...religion needed. Another historical use of alcohol was as a water purifier or other, let's call it, a water substitute. Pre-modern times did not have very safe drinking water, meaning dysentery and other nasty diseases, fatal diseases. People would drink diluted alcohol in place of water. Even children would. In ancient Greece and Rome, wine was always drunk diluted....
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Exploring sport coaching and psychology Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring sport coaching and psychology

...Laing, S. and Warr, C. (2016) ‘The Great British medalists project: a review of current knowledge on the development of the world’s best sporting talent’, Sports Medicine, vol. 46, no. 8, pp. 1041−58 [Online]. Available at http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40279-016-0476-2 (Accessed 28 March 2017)...Session 1: Exploring sporting success: Acknowledgements -...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin
History & The Arts

Discovering Ancient Greek and Latin

...la’ in Spanish). However, the ‘missing’ words of most interest here are those which reveal something about the way Latin works. Look again at the translations. The words in bold have no direct equivalents in Latin but are instead represented by the endings of words. We will see how this works in detail in the following pages. Pliny the Younger, Letters, 6.16.1....
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
How to learn a language Badge icon
Languages

How to learn a language

...La cena, dinner, can easily begin at 11pm. One can easily imagine the amount of comical misunderstandings that can happen as a result of arranging schedules around meal times. This is a cultural issue, rather than a linguistic one. While the Spanish example is a fun one, it is not always so light-hearted. Having lived for almost two years in Qatar, an ultra-conservative...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...La Silla telescope in Chile to observe Proxima Centauri (Figure 2) and measure any tiny shifts in the positions of absorption lines in its spectrum (Figure 3). [A view of the sky from La Silla observatory, with the location of Proxima Centauri shown.] Figure 2 Proxima Centauri rising above La Silla [A snapshot of the first spectrum of Proxima Centauri taken with the Pale...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
An introduction to school librarianship Badge icon
Education & Development

An introduction to school librarianship

...Religion 300 – Social sciences 400 – Language 500 – Science 600 – Technology 700 – Arts and recreation 800 – Literature 900 – History and geography These groups are then sub-divided into more specific categories which are, in turn, sometimes followed by the first three letters of the author’s surname. This group of numbers and letters is known as a ‘call...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
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Education & Development

Succeed with learning

...religion, gender, profession or town of origin), and for these preconceptions to make it difficult for you to fit in with a new group of people. Being aware of how groups work can help you feel prepared and decide how to address these kinds of barriers...Week 6: Wider perspectives: 4 Student approaches to learning - It is time now to move on to the second theory. This one...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs