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TASKS Climate emergency language
Every year, the Oxford University Press (OUP) publishes its Word of the Year, selected because the term is representative of the year in question, and has "lasting potential as a term of cultural significance"....
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TASKS Covid conspiracy
A side effect of the Covid pandemic has been a parallel pandemic of conspiracy theories, fake news and downright misinformation. It seems important to draw students' attention to all of this, and encourage...
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TASKS Imagined communities
The organisation of communities ... social groups don't actually exist, in any absolute sense - they exist and achieve importance to the extent that all the individuals involved agree that they exist....
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TASKS How money works
The ingenuity of money ... the whole point of this text is that money is a very clever and ingenious trick - we use cowrie shells or bits of printed paper to express the value of ... well, practically...
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TASKS Globalisation & history
The ingenuity of history ... we humans are pretty ingenious when it comes to telling ourselves stories about who we are and how we got here - 'history', in a word. Here at the beginning of the 21st Century,...
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TASKS Skim reading...new normal Free
The evolution of ingenuity ... The use of language is ingenuity in action. The selection of words, the organisation of ideas, the adjustment to audience and context - all of these require the constantly...
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TASKS Burka Avenger
How fiction may create and debate identity ... this page features a Pakistani animated series, 'Burka Avenger', about a heroine who fights for women's rights while disguised with a burka. This raises...
Building a programme
May 2021, reviewed
. The Covid pandemic continued to have a significant impact on how the session's assessment was carried out. While more students managed to sit the full assessment procedure (both oral and written exams),...
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Inclusive language Free
In a working party gathered to explore and discuss ideas for inclusion in the next Group 2 Subject Guides (due for introduction around 2026), the issue of ‘inclusive' and/or ‘non-binary’ language was...
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Articles 1b Mixed
Instructions 1. The exercise below contains sentences which have gaps into which you have to insert one of the options a / an / the / no article 2. For each gap, choose the option which fits correctly...