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Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...out about customs to do with food and drink. Listening to Italian speakers in a variety of situations will enable you to practise initial listening skills. This OpenLearn course provides a taster for studying other Italian short courses at The Open University’s Open Centre for Languages and Cultures. Some activities in this course use an audio-recording tool. This may...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Vanessa Berlowitz - Earth in Vision

...out environmental issues There was a whole strand, our Natural World strand, which became quite formulaic but it absolutely did try that trick of, it’s all beautiful, this is paradise… there was a great orangutan show, and then you literally swing the camera and there was a very, quite trite summary at the end saying, actually it’s all being chopped down, and I...
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Video 30 mins
The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms
History & The Arts

The Roman Empire: introducing some key terms

...out some of the ways culture, identity and power interacted in the multicultural world of the Roman Empire. At the centre - the emperor - exercising his powers in Rome and across the provinces. But what about the rest of Italy? How did the emergence of Rome’s empire affect the life-style of places on the Italian peninsula? What other cultural influences impacted on...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs
Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision
Nature & Environment

Ade Thomas - Earth in Vision

...out to be, this is something we really need to take care of and pay attention to. At the same time I started going out with a girl who was very passionate about environmental issues, so it was a kind of combination of the political and the personal, and those two together were a pretty powerful driver. Television, natural history and me In terms of television and natural...
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Video 30 mins
Why study languages?
Languages

Why study languages?

...out about other countries can be fun, as well as useful, and this course is an introduction to the differences in culture and language about which we all need to be aware. There are 10 independent sections: any selection of them can be studied in any order. Some are about why knowledge of other languages and cultures can be important; others are about what it's like to...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"
Health, Sports & Psychology

Oliver Sacks: "You are in the hands of a master storyteller"

...out, conspicuous against the heterogenousness of the world, by their shining, gleaming quality, their silveriness, their smoothness and weight. They seemed cool to the touch, and they rang when they were struck. (Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood) Neurology’s favourite word is ‘deficit’, denoting an impairment or incapacity of neurological function:...
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Article 5 mins
Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Ads of our time – are teens susceptible to food ads in digital media?

...out teens’ susceptibility to food ads in digital media. ...[An illustration of an ipad with sweets and doughnuts on and a child'd hand pulling a sweet out of the screen. ] Smartphones and social media in the lives of young people are frequently discussed. One topic that gets less of an airing is teens’ exposure to extensive marketing and advertising in digital media....
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Article 5 mins
How can Theresa May escape from the Fixed Term Parliaments Act?
Society, Politics & Law

How can Theresa May escape from the Fixed Term Parliaments Act?

...out Labour and the Liberal Democrats, as well as the House of Lords: “In recent weeks Labour have threatened to vote against the final agreement we reach with the EU. The Liberal Democrats have said they want to grind the business of government to a standstill, the SNP say they vote against the legislation that formally repeal Britain’s membership of the EU. And...
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Article 5 mins