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Beginners’ French: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ French: food and drink

...Write a short message in French to tell her what kind of food you like and dislike. Answer Here is one possible answer. J’aime beaucoup les fruits de mer. J’aime aussi le poisson. J’adore la glace. Je n’aime pas du tout la viande rouge et je déteste les oignons. J’ai horreur des fast-foods ! Did you use a range of expressions from this section to express likes...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Social work law and UK regulation
Society, Politics & Law

Social work law and UK regulation

...Write down up to five words or phrases, or draw images, that you associate with ‘law’. Try to focus on what law means to you personally. (You may want to return to what you have written later on in the course and reflect on whether your thoughts have changed.) Once you have compiled a list, see if you can separate your observations into positive and negative...
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Level 2: Intermediate 5 hrs
Liquidity management
Money & Business

Liquidity management

...write-offs after it quit the rail maintenance business were compounded by problems at its accommodation services division. […] The company said it had suffered ‘a substantial outflow of cash’ as it paid debts accumulated from its exit of rail maintenance in 2003 and the lower construction volumes in accommodation services. […] Chief executive Kevin Hyde said,...
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Level 3: Advanced 7 hrs
Justice, fairness and mediation
Money & Business

Justice, fairness and mediation

...Writing in the fourth century BC, the Greek philosopher Aristotle was responsible for some of the earliest views on justice. Aristotle believed that a just law was one that both encouraged individual freedom and enabled people to live peacefully. From society’s perspective, key to this was allowing people to fulfil themselves in society. In considering perspectives on...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Icarus: entering the world of myth
History & The Arts

Icarus: entering the world of myth

...Writing: Miscellaneous Pieces 1955–1982, London, Faber. Melville, A.D. (trans.) (1986) Ovid: Metamorphoses, Oxford, Oxford University Press. Riffaterre, M. (1986) ‘Textuality: W.H. Auden’s ‘Musée des Beaux Arts’’ in Caws, M.A. (ed.) Textual Analysis: Some Readers Reading, New York, MLA. Spender, S. (1951) World within World, London, Hamish Hamilton....
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Level 2: Intermediate 3 hrs
The database development life cycle
Science, Maths & Technology

The database development life cycle

...write the appropriate SQL DDL statements into a file that can be executed by a DBMS so that there is an independent record, a text file, of the SQL statements defining the database. Another method is to work interactively using a database tool like Sybase Central (or Microsoft Access), where the forms provided for defining tables help avoid the need to remember the...
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...writing, cross-legged, the papyrus on their knees, the pen-box clutched in their arm. It's almost the everyday texture of life that comes out of these paintings so effectively. © The Open University and its licensor...Week 4 Nebamun the man and his tomb: 3.1 A hierarchical society - Egyptian society, like its most famous monuments (and like virtually all pre-modern...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Technology, innovation and management
Money & Business

Technology, innovation and management

...writing letters to each other, often without having met) both existed long before the advent of the internet. Both were made possible by innovations that were ground breaking in their day. Compare also the impact of the introduction of running water, electric lighting and indoor plumbing with some more recent ‘innovations’. As Chakrabortty (2012) comments, ‘You...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs