Do you know a lot about The Tour de France? Find out in our Tour de France trivia podcast.
The Tour de France, the Giro d’Italia and Vuelta a España make up cycling’s prestigious, three-week-long Grand Tours.
The Tour de France is the oldest and generally considered the most prestigious of the three.
Traditionally, the race is held primarily in the month of July.
While the route changes each year, the format of the race stays the same with the appearance of time trials, the passage through the mountain chains of the Pyrenees and the Alps, and the finish on the Champs-Élysées in Paris.
The modern editions of the Tour de France consist of 21 day-long segments (stages) over a 23-day period and cover around 3,500 kilometres (2,200 mi).
The race alternates between clockwise and counterclockwise circuits of France.
After listening, try to answer the following questions :
When did the first Tour de France take place?
What was the time difference between Greg Lemond and Laurent Fignon in the 1989 Tour?
How many teams are taking part in the 2016 Tour de France?
When did the Tour de France first start from Amsterdam?
Who won the Tour de France in 5 consecutive years?
Who does Chris think will win the last stage of The 2016 Tour de France in Paris?
We hear a lot about learning styles, with questionnaires and quizzes all
over the Internet, although some recent studies argue that there is no such
thing as a learning styles (Steven Pinker, Johnstone family professor of
psychology at Harvard University; Dorothy Bishop, professor of developmental
neuropsychology at the University of Oxford; and leading neuroscientist Prof
Uta Frith)...
However, we hear very little about teaching styles - which is surely not a
myth.
No two teachers are alike, and any teacher with classroom teaching
experience will agree that their style of teaching is uniquely their
own.
An effective teaching style engages learners in the learning process and
helps them develop critical thinking skills.
Traditional teaching styles have evolved, prompting teachers to adjust their
styles toward students’ learning needs.
Some styles are more adapted to certain subjects and less to other subjects
- see where your style is.
The best way to get a really clear idea is to answer the questions as
honestly as possible - not 'how I would like to be.'
Don’t worry. There are no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ answers.
Answer the questions based on what you think tends to be true about
yourself.
You may feel there is more than one answer that tends to be true about
yourself. That is possible.
Try to choose the one that is more frequent and/or evident about you.
By choosing one answer, it does not mean that you are totally excluding the
others or that the others are completely untrue.
Answers just indicate stronger tendencies about you.
