University of Glasgow Life App

Ever wondered what it is like to be a veterinarian, who are alsoreferred to as veterinary surgeons in many countries? This appinitially guides you through the diversity of career opportunitiesthat are open to veterinarians, and includes short video clips fromleading veterinary surgeons. Being a veterinarian can be extremelyrewarding and exciting, but also challenging, and this app alsogives you an insight into whether you may have the specificqualities required to become a veterinarian. Once you have decidedthat being a veterinarian is the career path for you this app willthen guide you through the general principles of how to gain entryto Vet School, explaining the type of course you need to apply for(e.g. Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM), or its equivalentqualification in the United Kingdom, e.g. Bachelor of VeterinaryMedicine and Surgery (BVMS)), and what qualifications andexperience you require in order to be able to apply for admission.You can navigate through information and links to one of theworld’s premier Vet Schools, the School of Veterinary Medicine, TheUniversity of Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. This School isinternationally renowned for its veterinary teaching, clinicalexpertise, animal hospitals and veterinary research, and it is oneof the very few Schools globally that is fully accredited by all ofthe major relevant bodies, including the American VeterinaryMedical Association (AVMA), Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons(RCVS), European Association of Establishments for VeterinaryEducation (EAEVE) and Australian Veterinary Boards CouncilInc.(AVBC). Therefore, qualifying from a prestigious Vet School,such as Glasgow, would enable you to be a veterinarian pretty muchanywhere in the world. Finally, once you have been successful ingaining entry to Vet School, this app also provides very usefulgeneric information on preparing for Vet School, and whatUniversity life in general is like. Enjoy our app, and enjoy yourfuture career as a veterinarian.

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ARIES (Assisted Revision In English Style) is designed to assistyou in your academic writing, through strengthening your grammarand developing your academic style. It consists of a series ofunits, which build up from improving your sentence structure andpunctuation, to structuring your essays, producing effective andclear arguments, and properly referencing other material in yourown work. Each unit is composed of a mixture of explanation andinteractive exercises, allowing you to test, as well as improve,your knowledge. ARIES can help you with: Sentences - sentencestructure and avoiding grammatical mistakes. Clarity - maintainingclarity in your writing, through structural and stylistic choices.Essays - structuring your essays and strengthening your arguments.Referencing and plagiarism - referencing other authors in your workand avoiding plagiarism.

This app provides a short, structured linguistic account of OldEnglish and a series of interactive exercises to test yourknowledge. Content is split into two sections: ‘Basic’, whichprovides grammar reference pages and exercises for people who haveno previous knowledge of Old English; and ‘Plus’, which providesmore advanced reference pages and exercises. The grammar referencepages provide information on the orthography and pronunciation ofOld English, information about Old English syntax, such as case,agreement, number, gender and sentence structure; and an overviewof the Old English paradigms. The interactive exercises help you tointerpret the structure of Old English sentences, for example ‘Spotthe subject’; learn which form of the definite article should beused where; learn Old English vocabulary by translating words andphrases from Present Day English into Old English and from OldEnglish into Present Day English; and identify the form andfunction of Old English phrases. A glossary of Old English words isalso available as part of the app.

The aim of this app is to introduce you to the basic conceptsunderlying the grammar of Modern English. These are the grammaticalrules which you follow automatically when you speak or write, butmay not be able to explain or analyse. The app features a book andthe interactive exercises based on it. It will enable you to learnthe skills and terminology needed for grammatical analysis. It aimsto describe the structure of English, not to lay down the law about"good" grammar. However, as you use it, you should become moreaware of how effective communication is achieved. This teachingpackage has been developed by the University of Glasgow's STELLAproject.

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The ‘Metaphor in the Curriculum’ app provides interactive tools tohelp to increase your knowledge of metaphor in the Englishlanguage. There are two major components to the app: metaphorquizzes and a version of the Metaphor Map of English. The app canbe used alongside the Metaphor in the Curriculum website, whichcontains teaching materials for secondary schools and online accessto the features of the app. The metaphor quizzes are designed tohelp users to recognise and understand the mental connections thatare being made when we use metaphors. They ask the user to identifythe area of meaning that the metaphorical word has come from, andthe area of meaning to which that vocabulary has been transferred(e.g. ‘a bright child’ uses the word bright, which has beentransferred from the area of LIGHT into the area of INTELLIGENCE).The Metaphor Map of English shows the metaphorical links which havebeen identified between different areas of meaning. These links canbe accessed through three different tools: browse, search or theMetaphor Map visualisation. They can be viewed as tables, metaphorcards, visual links or timelines. The metaphorical links can befrom the Anglo-Saxon period right up to the present day so the mapcovers 1300 years of the English language. This allows us to trackmetaphorical ways of thinking and expressing ourselves over morethan a millennium.