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Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...write’, and the ending for the first person (I = yo) of regular verbs in the present is always -o. Listen again to each person talking about what they do in the morning and repeat out loud their answers. NARRATOR: What does each person do? SPEAKER 1: Gerardo, ¿tú qué haces normalmente por la mañana? ¿Paseas, lees, trabajas? GERARDO: Trabajo, normalmente trabajo en...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Do music lessons help with children's other classes?
Education & Development

Do music lessons help with children's other classes?

...educational outcomes, it is still one of the main ways human beings express their feelings and creativity. It is a universal language everybody can understand and enjoy – so there are still plenty of good reasons to teach, perform, and listen to a variety of music.[The Conversation] This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article....
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Witnessing war through a smartphone lens
Society, Politics & Law

Witnessing war through a smartphone lens

...creative uses that Syrian refugee children make of the phone camera, for example, to capture their living conditions in Pikpa camp on the island of Lesvos. They may be victims of war, but they continue actively to imagine new lives through their photography – as we have found in our research with refugees at Pikpa and captured in our book Communities of Solidarity: The...
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Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments
Education & Development

Machine translation – how teachers can deal with online translation tools in language studies assessments

...creatively. These and similar assessment activities support and enforce the shift that can be observed in language teaching in times of online translation tools: the emphasis of language learning shifts from the acquisition of linguistic knowledge and the emphasis on accuracy to imparting cultural awareness, use of register, and idiomatic language. References, sources and...
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Article 5 mins
Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...creative approach to architecture and design, a reputation that lives on to this day. Gropius' aims, as refined in 1923, in his text Idee und Aufbau, included the idea that workers in all the crafts should design for a better world using the idea of machine production as a stimulus. New thinking on minimalist design and creating space was pioneered by Gropius' fellow...
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Reading and note taking – preparation for study
Society, Politics & Law

Reading and note taking – preparation for study

...write in your own words using references and quoting sources...Reading and note taking – preparation for study: Introduction - This course is about the very basic study skills of reading and taking notes. You will be asked to think about how you currently read and then be introduced to a some techniques that may help you to alter the way you read according to the...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage
Society, Politics & Law

Homo Economicus, the East India Company and industrial espionage

...creative space that elaborates on source and target and to critique power relations between them. At times this is done via ‘innocent’ strategies like pedagogical performance… Forse non ho risposto alla tua domanda… I do need to stress that language/s are important because they are political. My multilingualism has given me the vantage point of a fish out of water...
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EPQs: finding and using evidence
Education & Development

EPQs: finding and using evidence

...Write down similar words to your key phrases. Use a thesaurus! (4) Use ‘and’ and ‘or’ functions. (5) Use advanced search options. Ann’s summary Transcript But how do you come up with those all-important keywords? Devyani, who is a PhD student in AstrobiologyOU, gave me a few thoughts. As a PhD student, she’s just been through this process herself. She...
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