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Approaching prose fiction
History & The Arts

Approaching prose fiction

...business of her life was to get her daughters married; its solace was visiting and news. (Austen, 1813, p. 3) Compare this with the opening of the final chapter of Pride and Prejudice: Happy for all her maternal feelings was the day on which Mrs. Bennet got rid of her two most deserving daughters. With what delighted pride she afterwards visited Mrs. Bingley and talked of...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers Badge icon
Education & Development

Developing Reading for Pleasure: engaging young readers

...busy flying. I think maybe he's flying back to his own home. What do you think? 'Tiptoe creep up the path. Up the path that is hiding. A path at once welcomed. A path that is winding. A path that's now covered in weeds.' Look at the young boy and girl, staring intently down the garden path. Look all the weeds, the bugs, the insects, all around them. Oh, there's that bird...
Gaelic in modern Scotland
Languages

Gaelic in modern Scotland

...busy. Tha mi trang. Can you say it again? An can thu rithist e? Please. Mas e do thoil e. * Note: Nouns in Gaelic, as in many languages, can be masculine or feminine: that is why it is ‘feasgar math’ (masculine) but ‘madainn mhath’ (feminine)...Gaelic in modern Scotland: 5.2.1 Gaelic grammar – a taster - Gaelic is part of the ‘Indo-European’ family of...
Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime Badge icon
Education & Development

Youth justice in the UK: children, young people and crime

...business for anyone, but especially a child. Nobody really enjoys being judged, and if you recall the image of justice in Figure 2 where the blindfolded woman holds a sword, you realise this feeling is intentional and part of the process. The court has power, and in some cases an awful lot of power. Many other European countries refrain from using the powers of a criminal...
Describing language Badge icon
Languages

Describing language

...business and global culture, but that does not automatically mean it is the biggest language in the world. According to the Ethnologue language website (Eberhard et al., 2020), the languages spoken by the largest number of people in the world are (in alphabetical order) English, Hindi, Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. The actual number of speakers of each language depends on...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...business of writing. A draft is just that, and can be revised up until the moment it is ready for publication. To start writing fiction also means to develop your faculty of self-criticism. A great part of writing fiction is knowing how, why and when you should edit your own work. This is just one of the points at which honesty enters the equation of writing. The more...
John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
History & The Arts

John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi

...business, but only two – Webster and Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) – are graced with roles in this enormously popular mainstream movie about the late sixteenth-century theatre scene. This course will look at Webster’s most well-known play, The Duchess of Malfi, and consider some possible reasons for the play’s continued prominence in the twenty-first-century...
Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...business. The American poet William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) wrote the following poem about Pieter Brueghel's Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, (1555): Landscape with the Fall of Icarus According to Brueghel when Icarus fell it was spring a farmer was ploughing his field the whole pageantry of the year was awake tingling near the edge of the sea concerned with...