Conclusion This free course provided an introduction to studying Education, Childhood & Youth qualifications. It took you through a series of exercises designed to develop your approach to study and learning at a distance and helped to improve your confidence as an independent learner.
2 How active should young people be? Physical activity in childhood has a range of benefits, including healthy growth and development, maintenance of a healthy weight, mental well-being and learning social skills. It is particularly important for bone health, increasing bone mineral density and preventing osteoporosis in later life. Although there is only indirect evidence (compared with adults) linking physical inactivity in children with childhood health outc 4.2 Exercises from video Here are some questions that were explored in the video. You may want to provide your thoughts and considerations before looking at the comments. Acknowledgements Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce materia 3.1 The Extended Schools initiative The last few years have seen a plethora of initiatives for English schools: two significant initiatives are ‘Extended Schools’ and the ‘Every child Matters’. What are the implications for a business manager? Government thinking places schools at the centre of local provision for a wide range of options, from health centres to full community facilities. These ‘extended schools’, as the government terms them, offer an opportunity for schools to contribute to and work more clos 1.4 What is creativity? All people are capable of creative achievements in some areas of activity, provided the conditions are right, and they have acquired the relevant knowledge and skills … creative possibilities are pervasive in the concerns of everyday life, its purposes and problems … creative activity is also pervasive … creativity can be expressed in collaborative as well as individual activities, in teamwork, in 4 The student's view Activity 3 should have helped you to clarify your ideas about the aims and purposes of geography education. One of the advantages of doing this is that it encourages you to focus on what you think is important about teaching geography. In our experience, this is sometimes difficult given the hectic pace of life in schools! Missing so far in this discussion has been the voice of the students who are on the ‘receiving end’ of geography lessons. After all, they are the people who will Acknowledgements Professor David Lambert is Chief Executive of the Geographical but remains Research Associate of the Institute of Education (London). He is a former secondary geography teacher (for 12 years) and developed a scholarly interest in assessment issues following the introduction of the national curriculum. He also has a research interest in the way teachers select and use textbooks with pupils. He has a long-standing concern with moral and cultural aspects of geography education and is curr 1.2 The warm up The importance of an effective warm up to prepare the body for physical exertion cannot be emphasised enough. Warm-up activities for dance should: mobilise the joints; increase the internal temperature of the body; increase the heart rate and blood flow to the muscles; make the muscles warm and pliable; increase the range of movement around the joints; increase the speed o Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: understand ways that spoken language is used to create joint knowledge and understanding, and to pursue teaching and learning consider the educational implications of some recent research on teaching and learning in face-to-face interactions demonstrate some approaches to analysing the spoken language of teaching and learning. Worlds of English Business English: Making decisions 3.7 Features of speech: language in real life In our discussion of dysfluency, we specifically avoided the use of the word ‘error’. In the past, because written grammar was used to judge speech, common features of speech were judged as errors because they do not occur in the more planned environment of written text. Thus what type of data is analysed is crucial to what the grammatical findings are. We said earlier that grammar descriptions were increasingly being developed on the basis of examining how language is really used. 3.3 Features of speech: dialogue In Section 3.2, Texts 1 and 2 were both monologues, that is, one person speaking or writing. Speech is more often a dialogue, a communication between two or more speakers and this influences the grammar choices made. We can see this in the dialogue transcribed below. 1.2 The importance of grammar We want you to start thinking about what exactly we mean by a term like ‘grammar’ and how and why grammar differs in speech and writing. For some of you this will revise and build on your knowledge of previous study. Activity 1 is a way of raising questions in your mind and you will find some answers or explanations in the rest of the course. 1.1 La Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias In this session you are going to learn how to describe places, in terms of both appearance and function, starting with a new technology park in Valencia,
la Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias, a wonderful example of modern Spanish architecture. Key learning points Description of a famous public place Adjectives: gender and number 3.4.1 Describing characteristics The following expressions are useful when you are describing something. There is/are There is a large open-plan reception area. There are 55 parking spaces. Has/have [got] The site has 1,000 m2 of storage space. All the offices have outside windows. Form and uses of language Mapping your journey Learning outcomes After studying this course, you should be able to: understand spoken descriptions of holiday resorts understand people talking about where and when they take their holidays and why write an informal postcard or letter identifying the advantages and disadvantages of a holiday resort and/or describing personal holiday plans make a short oral presentation about personal holiday plans question other people about their plans
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How has the English language spread internationally - and is the worldwide influence of English a cause for celebration or concern? How is it changing in response to social, cultural, and technological developments? ‘Worlds of English’ investigates these notions by looking at the expansion of English in China since the 1970s, how it is now the dominant language used at the European Parliament and how a local vernacular in Singapore, known as 'Singlish' is causing controversy. It also examin
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In this free course, Form and uses of language, we will consider how language can be used in different ways for different purposes. To do this we will use the theme of memorial and commemoration. In the first section we briefly discuss the life of the poet Siegfried Sassoon before examining both his poetry and his prose. Through this we will see how Sassoon conveys meaning in different ways for different audiences using different forms. Following this we discuss more generally how different mean
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