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A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Education & Development

A tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu

...English which had evolved in the islands from several languages, called Pijin English, and told us a bit about life and the Anglican church there. The following morning while my father was at the airport helping receive and allocate Enthronement guests, a man arrived from England who explained that +Desmond had invited him to come (his son was +Desmond’s godson, from...
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The range of work with young people
Education & Development

The range of work with young people

...everyday words referring to familiar and straightforward processes – they are not specialist or technical terms. Neither is very precise, but they do not need to be. Their basic meanings are captured succinctly by ordinary dictionary definitions (in this case from The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary): describe: to set forth in words by reference to characteristics …...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...everyday meanings of law - Most people’s experience of law is with what might be called ‘the law in action’: you observe or encounter the application of law in practice through contact with, for example, solicitors, the courts or the police, and tend to associate their work with the law. However, social workers are also legal actors – professionals with legal...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Beginners’ French: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ French: food and drink

...English words against the French terms they correspond to. vegetables les légumes ice cream la glace cheese le fromage red meat la viande rouge pineapple l’ananas sea food les fruits de mer white wine le vin blanc fish le poisson raw vegetables les crudités Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...English Studies as a distinct academic discipline in the second half of the nineteenth century brought with it the construction of a canon of great writers and a history of English literature which accorded Marlowe the crucial groundbreaking role he plays in Shakespeare in Love. Changing views of the artist consolidated his integration into the literary canon. Viewed in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday
Society, Politics & Law

Pick a side and make a difference: Why you should vote this Thursday

...everyday life is worthwhile.” Voting is one way in which self-respecting citizens present themselves as equal to others in their community. A person who fails to use their vote is doing more than abstaining from the democratic process they are undermining the basis of their own self-respect. What is important in this sense is the way in which our self-respect is, in...
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Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity
History & The Arts

Who are we? A project about art, migration, politics and identity

...everyday cultures. [2018 installation Who are we?] Umut Erel is the lead author of this unit, and you can explore more articles in this unit: Who are we? Polyglots, poetry and language learning Who are we? Talking Transformations: Home on the Move. A project of translation, poetry and art. Who are we? Movement and Immobility: Catalan Political Prisoners and exiles Who are...
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Article 15 mins
Personality: A user guide
Health, Sports & Psychology

Personality: A user guide

...everyday speech! This is probably because variation in negative emotion systems is a deep biological characteristic of humans, and even of other mammals. Animal breeders have long known that it is very easy to produce more or less fearful horses or dogs by selective breeding, and they have exploited this for producing military and working animals. We know from laboratory...
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