1. The document summarizes Module One of the Delta syllabus, which focuses on theories of language acquisition and approaches to teaching English to speakers of other languages.
2. The module aims to develop candidates' knowledge of language acquisition theories and ELT methodologies. It also aims to increase understanding of language systems, learner difficulties, and assessment.
3. The content is divided into units that address theoretical perspectives on language learning, different teaching approaches and methods, language systems and learner problems, language skills and learner difficulties, and evaluating teaching materials and resources.
There are two main types of clauses: independent clauses and dependent clauses. Independent clauses can stand alone as a complete sentence while dependent clauses cannot. Dependent clauses provide more information about the independent clause and are introduced by subordinating words. Common types of dependent clauses include noun clauses, adverb clauses, adjective clauses, and relative clauses. Understanding clauses and how to connect them will help writers avoid errors and have more sentence variety.
Este documento presenta el calendario académico y de actividades extracurriculares de una escuela para el ciclo 2009-2010, incluyendo eventos como reuniones con padres, exámenes bimestrales, festividades, viajes culturales y graduación.
Este documento proporciona información sobre informática y computadoras. Explica que la informática es el estudio y aplicación del procesamiento automático de información usando sistemas computacionales. Describe las tres tareas básicas de los sistemas informáticos: entrada, proceso y salida de datos. También define un computador como un aparato electrónico capaz de recibir, almacenar, ordenar e interactuar con información a alta velocidad.
The document discusses entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. It defines entrepreneurship as self-employment and engaging in small and medium sized businesses. An entrepreneur is described as someone who takes risks to start a business and organize, manage and assume the risks of the business. Successful entrepreneurs have characteristics like creativity, confidence, determination and vision. The document also discusses common myths and excuses for not becoming an entrepreneur, such as perceived financial, career and social risks. Key advantages of becoming an entrepreneur include creating your own destiny, financial rewards, self-knowledge, and contributing to society.
"Friends in Service Helping" PR Presentationkaylainanc
Along with fellow classmates, I worked on creating a PR plan for a non-profit organization to increase awareness about their services and increase the number of volunteers, donations, and clients.
The document discusses mathematical constants like pi and explores their digit sequences when expressed in different bases like base 10 and base 2. Despite being defined by simple formulas, the digit sequences of constants like pi appear highly complex and random, with no observable patterns even after examining billions of digits. Other rational numbers with non-terminating repeating digit sequences are also discussed.
The document discusses various types of systems that generate patterns, including cellular automata, mobile automata, Turing machines, and substitution systems. It provides examples of rules for each type of system that yield simple repetitive patterns, nested patterns, and seemingly random patterns. It notes that complexity is common in these systems and can arise from rules with just a few components.
1. The document summarizes Module One of the Delta syllabus, which focuses on theories of language acquisition and approaches to teaching English to speakers of other languages.
2. The module aims to develop candidates' knowledge of language acquisition theories and ELT methodologies. It also aims to increase understanding of language systems, learner difficulties, and assessment.
3. The content is divided into units that address theoretical perspectives on language learning, different teaching approaches and methods, language systems and learner problems, language skills and learner difficulties, and evaluating teaching materials and resources.
There are two main types of clauses: independent clauses and dependent clauses. Independent clauses can stand alone as a complete sentence while dependent clauses cannot. Dependent clauses provide more information about the independent clause and are introduced by subordinating words. Common types of dependent clauses include noun clauses, adverb clauses, adjective clauses, and relative clauses. Understanding clauses and how to connect them will help writers avoid errors and have more sentence variety.
Este documento presenta el calendario académico y de actividades extracurriculares de una escuela para el ciclo 2009-2010, incluyendo eventos como reuniones con padres, exámenes bimestrales, festividades, viajes culturales y graduación.
Este documento proporciona información sobre informática y computadoras. Explica que la informática es el estudio y aplicación del procesamiento automático de información usando sistemas computacionales. Describe las tres tareas básicas de los sistemas informáticos: entrada, proceso y salida de datos. También define un computador como un aparato electrónico capaz de recibir, almacenar, ordenar e interactuar con información a alta velocidad.
The document discusses entrepreneurship and entrepreneurs. It defines entrepreneurship as self-employment and engaging in small and medium sized businesses. An entrepreneur is described as someone who takes risks to start a business and organize, manage and assume the risks of the business. Successful entrepreneurs have characteristics like creativity, confidence, determination and vision. The document also discusses common myths and excuses for not becoming an entrepreneur, such as perceived financial, career and social risks. Key advantages of becoming an entrepreneur include creating your own destiny, financial rewards, self-knowledge, and contributing to society.
"Friends in Service Helping" PR Presentationkaylainanc
Along with fellow classmates, I worked on creating a PR plan for a non-profit organization to increase awareness about their services and increase the number of volunteers, donations, and clients.
The document discusses mathematical constants like pi and explores their digit sequences when expressed in different bases like base 10 and base 2. Despite being defined by simple formulas, the digit sequences of constants like pi appear highly complex and random, with no observable patterns even after examining billions of digits. Other rational numbers with non-terminating repeating digit sequences are also discussed.
The document discusses various types of systems that generate patterns, including cellular automata, mobile automata, Turing machines, and substitution systems. It provides examples of rules for each type of system that yield simple repetitive patterns, nested patterns, and seemingly random patterns. It notes that complexity is common in these systems and can arise from rules with just a few components.
The document outlines the foundations of a new kind of science based on studying simple computer programs and their behavior. The author discovered that even very simple programs can exhibit complex behavior, unlike what traditional intuition suggests. This finding opens up new domains for exploration in theoretical science and provides resolutions to longstanding mysteries like how nature produces complexity. The author argues this new framework based on computational thinking can address fundamental issues across many fields that existing approaches have failed to tackle.
1) The document discusses Rene Descartes' philosophical ideas from the 17th century and how they influenced the development of science and philosophy. Descartes proposed separating mind and matter, establishing a division between res cogitans (thinking thing) and res extensa (extended thing).
2) While this division was extremely successful for classical physics, it oversimplified the relationship between God, world, and humanity. It also forced animals and plants entirely into the realm of matter.
3) Quantum theory has changed the situation in modern physics, calling for a reexamination of Descartes' philosophical system and the mind-matter division on which much of modern thought was based.
Werner Heisenberg provides a detailed history of the development of quantum theory from Planck's discovery of quantization of energy to the establishment of quantum mechanics. Key developments include Planck's quantum hypothesis, Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect and specific heat using light quanta, Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom combining quantum conditions with classical orbits, de Broglie's proposal of matter waves corresponding to particles, and the formulations of matrix mechanics by Heisenberg and wave mechanics by Schrodinger, which together constituted the first consistent mathematical framework of quantum mechanics. However, the dual wave-particle nature of quantum objects remained paradoxical and not fully explained.
Human cells may contain clues about the origin of life because:
1) While human cells are complex, they still retain molecular remnants from early life under layers of complexity.
2) Bacteria appear to have lost RNA and other molecular remnants of early life through simplification over time.
3) We know more about human cell biochemistry than simple bacteria, so human cells may harbor more insights into early life origins.
The document discusses how human cells, as eukaryotes, may provide insights into the origins of life despite their complexity. It notes that bacteria appear to have simplified over time, losing molecular remnants of early RNA-based life. However, as we understand human cell biochemistry extensively
The document summarizes images from the Hubble Space Telescope that offer clues about the evolution of galaxies in the universe. The images show galaxies from different eras after the Big Bang. Earlier images show galaxies with less defined spiral arms and more irregular shapes, suggesting spirals took a long time to form while elliptical galaxies emerged earlier. Even in the earliest images, one galaxy has the light profile of an elliptical galaxy, implying ellipticals formed remarkably early in the universe.
Tutorial ini menjelaskan tentang fraktal dan program FractalSharp untuk menggambar dan menjelajahi berbagai jenis fraktal seperti himpunan Mandelbrot dan Julia. Program ini dapat diunduh secara gratis dan dapat menampilkan sifat-sifat unik fraktal seperti kemiripan diri serta bentuk-bentuk yang indah dan kompleks.
The document introduces the topic of how little is known about consciousness and its relationship to the brain, despite advances in neuroscience. It discusses how modern science assumes a limited view of perception based on the 5 senses, but physics and psychic phenomena suggest this view is incomplete. The author, Gopi Krishna, underwent a transformation through yogic practices that radically altered his perceptions. He concluded this was due to changes in his brain and nervous system opening a new channel of perception. The book lays out evidence that an evolutionary process may be developing higher faculties of perception in the brain, which could revolutionize understanding of consciousness if verified through dedicated scientific research.
The Standard Model describes the fundamental forces and particles in physics. It includes theories of strong and electroweak interactions, though not gravity. Fundamental particles called fermions make up matter, interacting through force carrier bosons. Quarks combine to form hadrons like protons and neutrons, while the top quark was recently discovered. Particle masses are measured in GeV/c2 and interactions occur through virtual boson exchange.
George Ellis gives a lecture on the science and religion dialogue. He discusses three key aspects - practical issues where the dialogue makes a real-world difference; theoretical issues regarding how we understand and make theories; and philosophical issues about our understanding of how things are. On non-essential issues like the origins of the universe and life, Ellis argues the dialogue can clarify each domain without conflict. However, on foundational issues like the nature of existence, potential conflicts remain regarding design, creation and fine-tuning of the universe.
The problem with intelligent design william grassieSabiq Hafidz
William Grassie argues that the debate around intelligent design and evolution has become muddled. [1] He advocates separating discussions of known natural history from interpretations of origins and purposes. [2] Grassie believes intelligent design proponents should acknowledge established facts like the Cambrian explosion and long earth history rather than denying science. [3] This would allow meaningful discussion of how and why questions while respecting evidence from natural science.
This document provides an overview of the author's life experiences and perspectives on spirituality and consciousness. In 3 sentences:
The author describes living an adventurous life filled with unexpected events and experiences that shaped their humanitarian work and spiritual beliefs. They believe mystical experiences reflect an expanded consciousness rather than a direct encounter with God, and that future humans will have minds that roam the heavens in wonder while being less driven by earthly desires. The author expresses frustration that their ideas about the transformation of human consciousness were not more widely accepted despite being an important topic.
Galileo began writing a book called "On Motion" in 1589 where he began developing his ideas about motion, challenging Aristotelian views. Aristotelians believed motion required a force and speed was proportional to force and inversely proportional to resistance. Galileo performed early experiments dropping objects of different weights which found lighter objects sometimes fell faster, contradicting Aristotelian thinking. Over 20 years through further experiments and refining his ideas, Galileo arrived at his famous law of falling bodies - in a vacuum, all objects are uniformly accelerated downward regardless of weight.
The cyclic universe model proposes that the universe undergoes endless cycles of evolution in infinite space and time, with each cycle beginning with a big bang and ending in a big crunch. This challenges the conventional view that the big bang was the beginning of time. The model incorporates concepts from string theory, which suggests the big crunch and big bang transitions are caused by the collapse and expansion of extra dimensions rather than an actual singularity. Each cycle is consistent with observations like the cosmic microwave background and galaxy formation. The model may help explain open questions about what occurred before the big bang and the role of dark energy.
The document discusses our limited understanding of consciousness and the brain. It argues that mystical experiences provide insight into a wider dimension of consciousness beyond what is normally perceived. Our brains cast a spell that transforms the basic reality of the world into the complex reality we perceive, and mystical experiences break this spell to reveal a deeper truth about the nature of reality that has yet to be fully understood.
This document summarizes Joseph A. Bracken's essay on self-organizing systems and final causality. It discusses how 17th century thinkers like Galileo shifted away from teleological views of the natural world towards mechanistic views. It then discusses how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was interpreted mechanistically. Some scientists like Polanyi and Sheldrake have challenged this view by proposing theories of "morphogenetic fields" and "formative causation" that reintroduce notions of teleology. Bracken seeks to provide a metaphysical framework from Whiteheadian philosophy to support these alternative conceptions.
This document discusses the relationship between science and the creation story in Genesis. It argues that Genesis and modern scientific theories like the Big Bang are not necessarily contradictory and that Genesis contains subtle structures and symbolism not apparent at first glance. While science and religion address different domains, the document notes similarities between the order of events in Genesis and scientific understanding, such as light appearing before stars and plants preceding land animals. It concludes that Genesis chapter 1 can be interpreted in a non-literal way and does not clearly contradict mainstream science.
Teks tersebut membahas perbedaan pandangan antara Kisah Lama dan Kisah Baru terkait ilmu pengetahuan. Kisah Lama memandang alam semesta terdiri dari materi, ruang, dan waktu serta menekankan materialisme. Sedangkan Kisah Baru hadir pada abad ke-20 dengan penemuan teori quantum dan relativitas, yang menganggap peneliti berperan aktif dan mengakui adanya kesadaran dan pikiran manusia sebagai realitas.
This document provides an outline on the origin and evolution of the Earth. It discusses the Earth's place in the solar system and how the Earth formed from a rotating cloud of dust after the formation of the solar system. It describes how the Earth grew and differentiated over time through bombardment, insulation, gravitational compression, and radioactive decay. The document outlines the current structure of the Earth, describing its chemical and mechanical layering into a crust, mantle, and core. It introduces the concept of plate tectonics, how the lithosphere is broken into plates that move at divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries.
The document discusses the difference between true mystics/sadhus and false ones in India. It notes that for thousands of years, sincere ascetics have lived alongside clever imposters who use the guise of spirituality for selfish gains. While most holy men practice asceticism out of faith or desire for enlightenment, some study scriptures and techniques only to convincingly fake supernatural abilities and attract followers for money and fame. It is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the genuine from the fraudulent mystic.
The document outlines the foundations of a new kind of science based on studying simple computer programs and their behavior. The author discovered that even very simple programs can exhibit complex behavior, unlike what traditional intuition suggests. This finding opens up new domains for exploration in theoretical science and provides resolutions to longstanding mysteries like how nature produces complexity. The author argues this new framework based on computational thinking can address fundamental issues across many fields that existing approaches have failed to tackle.
1) The document discusses Rene Descartes' philosophical ideas from the 17th century and how they influenced the development of science and philosophy. Descartes proposed separating mind and matter, establishing a division between res cogitans (thinking thing) and res extensa (extended thing).
2) While this division was extremely successful for classical physics, it oversimplified the relationship between God, world, and humanity. It also forced animals and plants entirely into the realm of matter.
3) Quantum theory has changed the situation in modern physics, calling for a reexamination of Descartes' philosophical system and the mind-matter division on which much of modern thought was based.
Werner Heisenberg provides a detailed history of the development of quantum theory from Planck's discovery of quantization of energy to the establishment of quantum mechanics. Key developments include Planck's quantum hypothesis, Einstein's explanation of the photoelectric effect and specific heat using light quanta, Bohr's model of the hydrogen atom combining quantum conditions with classical orbits, de Broglie's proposal of matter waves corresponding to particles, and the formulations of matrix mechanics by Heisenberg and wave mechanics by Schrodinger, which together constituted the first consistent mathematical framework of quantum mechanics. However, the dual wave-particle nature of quantum objects remained paradoxical and not fully explained.
Human cells may contain clues about the origin of life because:
1) While human cells are complex, they still retain molecular remnants from early life under layers of complexity.
2) Bacteria appear to have lost RNA and other molecular remnants of early life through simplification over time.
3) We know more about human cell biochemistry than simple bacteria, so human cells may harbor more insights into early life origins.
The document discusses how human cells, as eukaryotes, may provide insights into the origins of life despite their complexity. It notes that bacteria appear to have simplified over time, losing molecular remnants of early RNA-based life. However, as we understand human cell biochemistry extensively
The document summarizes images from the Hubble Space Telescope that offer clues about the evolution of galaxies in the universe. The images show galaxies from different eras after the Big Bang. Earlier images show galaxies with less defined spiral arms and more irregular shapes, suggesting spirals took a long time to form while elliptical galaxies emerged earlier. Even in the earliest images, one galaxy has the light profile of an elliptical galaxy, implying ellipticals formed remarkably early in the universe.
Tutorial ini menjelaskan tentang fraktal dan program FractalSharp untuk menggambar dan menjelajahi berbagai jenis fraktal seperti himpunan Mandelbrot dan Julia. Program ini dapat diunduh secara gratis dan dapat menampilkan sifat-sifat unik fraktal seperti kemiripan diri serta bentuk-bentuk yang indah dan kompleks.
The document introduces the topic of how little is known about consciousness and its relationship to the brain, despite advances in neuroscience. It discusses how modern science assumes a limited view of perception based on the 5 senses, but physics and psychic phenomena suggest this view is incomplete. The author, Gopi Krishna, underwent a transformation through yogic practices that radically altered his perceptions. He concluded this was due to changes in his brain and nervous system opening a new channel of perception. The book lays out evidence that an evolutionary process may be developing higher faculties of perception in the brain, which could revolutionize understanding of consciousness if verified through dedicated scientific research.
The Standard Model describes the fundamental forces and particles in physics. It includes theories of strong and electroweak interactions, though not gravity. Fundamental particles called fermions make up matter, interacting through force carrier bosons. Quarks combine to form hadrons like protons and neutrons, while the top quark was recently discovered. Particle masses are measured in GeV/c2 and interactions occur through virtual boson exchange.
George Ellis gives a lecture on the science and religion dialogue. He discusses three key aspects - practical issues where the dialogue makes a real-world difference; theoretical issues regarding how we understand and make theories; and philosophical issues about our understanding of how things are. On non-essential issues like the origins of the universe and life, Ellis argues the dialogue can clarify each domain without conflict. However, on foundational issues like the nature of existence, potential conflicts remain regarding design, creation and fine-tuning of the universe.
The problem with intelligent design william grassieSabiq Hafidz
William Grassie argues that the debate around intelligent design and evolution has become muddled. [1] He advocates separating discussions of known natural history from interpretations of origins and purposes. [2] Grassie believes intelligent design proponents should acknowledge established facts like the Cambrian explosion and long earth history rather than denying science. [3] This would allow meaningful discussion of how and why questions while respecting evidence from natural science.
This document provides an overview of the author's life experiences and perspectives on spirituality and consciousness. In 3 sentences:
The author describes living an adventurous life filled with unexpected events and experiences that shaped their humanitarian work and spiritual beliefs. They believe mystical experiences reflect an expanded consciousness rather than a direct encounter with God, and that future humans will have minds that roam the heavens in wonder while being less driven by earthly desires. The author expresses frustration that their ideas about the transformation of human consciousness were not more widely accepted despite being an important topic.
Galileo began writing a book called "On Motion" in 1589 where he began developing his ideas about motion, challenging Aristotelian views. Aristotelians believed motion required a force and speed was proportional to force and inversely proportional to resistance. Galileo performed early experiments dropping objects of different weights which found lighter objects sometimes fell faster, contradicting Aristotelian thinking. Over 20 years through further experiments and refining his ideas, Galileo arrived at his famous law of falling bodies - in a vacuum, all objects are uniformly accelerated downward regardless of weight.
The cyclic universe model proposes that the universe undergoes endless cycles of evolution in infinite space and time, with each cycle beginning with a big bang and ending in a big crunch. This challenges the conventional view that the big bang was the beginning of time. The model incorporates concepts from string theory, which suggests the big crunch and big bang transitions are caused by the collapse and expansion of extra dimensions rather than an actual singularity. Each cycle is consistent with observations like the cosmic microwave background and galaxy formation. The model may help explain open questions about what occurred before the big bang and the role of dark energy.
The document discusses our limited understanding of consciousness and the brain. It argues that mystical experiences provide insight into a wider dimension of consciousness beyond what is normally perceived. Our brains cast a spell that transforms the basic reality of the world into the complex reality we perceive, and mystical experiences break this spell to reveal a deeper truth about the nature of reality that has yet to be fully understood.
This document summarizes Joseph A. Bracken's essay on self-organizing systems and final causality. It discusses how 17th century thinkers like Galileo shifted away from teleological views of the natural world towards mechanistic views. It then discusses how Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection was interpreted mechanistically. Some scientists like Polanyi and Sheldrake have challenged this view by proposing theories of "morphogenetic fields" and "formative causation" that reintroduce notions of teleology. Bracken seeks to provide a metaphysical framework from Whiteheadian philosophy to support these alternative conceptions.
This document discusses the relationship between science and the creation story in Genesis. It argues that Genesis and modern scientific theories like the Big Bang are not necessarily contradictory and that Genesis contains subtle structures and symbolism not apparent at first glance. While science and religion address different domains, the document notes similarities between the order of events in Genesis and scientific understanding, such as light appearing before stars and plants preceding land animals. It concludes that Genesis chapter 1 can be interpreted in a non-literal way and does not clearly contradict mainstream science.
Teks tersebut membahas perbedaan pandangan antara Kisah Lama dan Kisah Baru terkait ilmu pengetahuan. Kisah Lama memandang alam semesta terdiri dari materi, ruang, dan waktu serta menekankan materialisme. Sedangkan Kisah Baru hadir pada abad ke-20 dengan penemuan teori quantum dan relativitas, yang menganggap peneliti berperan aktif dan mengakui adanya kesadaran dan pikiran manusia sebagai realitas.
This document provides an outline on the origin and evolution of the Earth. It discusses the Earth's place in the solar system and how the Earth formed from a rotating cloud of dust after the formation of the solar system. It describes how the Earth grew and differentiated over time through bombardment, insulation, gravitational compression, and radioactive decay. The document outlines the current structure of the Earth, describing its chemical and mechanical layering into a crust, mantle, and core. It introduces the concept of plate tectonics, how the lithosphere is broken into plates that move at divergent, convergent, and transform plate boundaries.
The document discusses the difference between true mystics/sadhus and false ones in India. It notes that for thousands of years, sincere ascetics have lived alongside clever imposters who use the guise of spirituality for selfish gains. While most holy men practice asceticism out of faith or desire for enlightenment, some study scriptures and techniques only to convincingly fake supernatural abilities and attract followers for money and fame. It is difficult for ordinary people to distinguish the genuine from the fraudulent mystic.