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Listening for form in popular music
History & The Arts

Listening for form in popular music

...write down the track time at the beginning of each verse (use the format 00:00), as well as a few words from the beginning of each verse. Discussion There are at least two ways to perceive the verses. One is to hear five verses, as shown in Table 2. Table 2 Five-verse model of ‘Midnight Special’ TRACK TIME LYRICS 00:21 Yonder come Miss Rosie ... 01:01 When you get up...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Recording music and sound
History & The Arts

Recording music and sound

...creative industries and offers some guidance about making your own recordings. Many of the processes that have been developed and the issues that have been raised in the first 150 years of recording are still relevant today, and a solid grounding in them will help you understand the wide range of recording techniques currently in use...This free course, Recording music...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Social psychology and politics
Health, Sports & Psychology

Social psychology and politics

...creative, while those who identify with, and vote for, more right-wing political parties tend to describe themselves as more orderly, conventional and organised. What this suggests is that people who vote for different political parties are also different at the level of their individual psychologies, and this can explain differences in voting patterns...Social psychology...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury Badge icon
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring the psychological aspects of sport injury

...Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence. The material acknowledged below is Proprietary and used under licence (not subject to Creative Commons Licence). Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this free course: Course image: marino bocelli; Shutterstock Figure 1: lassedesignen;...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German
Languages

Intermediate German: Understanding spoken German

...Writing about yourself - Here you will use some of the things Henning Haarhaus said about himself, to talk and write about yourself. Activity 4 Here is a small section of the transcript, with gaps for you to write your own answers, describing yourself and your own life. You can adapt the style as you like, but this shows how listening to what someone else says, can offer...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Library of Alexandria
History & The Arts

Library of Alexandria

...writings as historical sources (for example, look at their dates of composition; you might need to do some background research to find out more about authors with whom you’re unfamiliar, but don’t spend more than half an hour on this), and note where the sources corroborate or contradict each other. Discussion Let’s take each of these sources in turn and try to...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Teaching Spanish pronunciation
Languages

Teaching Spanish pronunciation

...writing, when listening to an interlocutor and even when thinking. It is present in such simple tasks as remembering a phone number. Pronunciation improves listening. The mouth teaches the ear. Learning pronunciation “in the mouth” improves discrimination “in the ear”. According to a behaviourist view of language learning, the ear teaches the mouth so that...
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Level 1: Introductory 15 hrs
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...creative and destructive energies, was not what critics and public had come to expect of grand history painting. Its massive size (just under four by five metres) magnified its effect. In fact, the painting had only narrowly been voted into the exhibition by the Salon jury. The following critique, by Étienne-Jean Delécluze, a former pupil of David, was typical: M....
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Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs