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Aeroplane Design and Engineering
Science, Maths & Technology

Aeroplane Design and Engineering

...Las Vegas and got stuck on a runway you will know what that feels like!). The insulation also ensures that passengers don’t come into contact with any cold metal structures and helps to reduce external noise from the wind and engines. You may sometimes have noted that your luggage is quite cold and this because some of the luggage holds are not as highly insulated as...
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Activity 20 mins
Machine translation in language learning and teaching
Languages

Machine translation in language learning and teaching

...La recuerdo bien. Estaba en la Plaza, embarazoda de mi primer Hiba de 6 messe, Juan Pablo...Session 1: Reflecting on machine translation and language learning: 3 The benefits and limitations of OMT for language learning and teaching - Using OMT for language learning and teaching has both benefits and limitations. In the next activity you will look at some of these, which...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...la machine analytique de Charles Babbage’ from the original French. At first she was content to perform only the translation, but at Babbage’s instigation, she began to add extensive annotations to the original text. These ‘algebraic working’s are what we would now call a computer program – they were the commands that would be punched into Jacquard cards and fed...
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Article 15 mins
Key historic LGBTQI+ figures
Education & Development

Key historic LGBTQI+ figures

...LA where she mainly worked in gay clubs over the next decade. The restrictive climate of the 1950s made it very difficult to be a masc-presenting lesbian and in 1952 she published an essay saying that she had been made ‘cured’ of her lesbianism and was now married to a man and started wearing dresses. The validity of this could not be provided and many people believed...
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Article 20 mins
Mental health in society
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mental health in society

...Laing, who wrote The Divided Self, who really suggests that some of the things we were characterising as mental illness were better framed as seeing responses to an insane world. He wrote a lot about this, sort of, the interactions within families and the impact on people’s mental health. Thomas Szasz, also another psychiatrist, wrote a book called The Myth of Mental...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta
Languages

“Beagán ar bheagán: Pobal Teanga Faoi Bhláth” - Athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh i ré Chomhaontú Aoine an Chéasta

...las tinte na hathbheochana reatha sna sé chontae. Spreag an réabhlóid theanga seo bunú Scoil Ghaeilge Bhéal Feirste (nó Bunscoil Phobal Feirste mar is fearr aithne uirthi anois) in 1971, an chéad bhunscoil lán-Ghaeilge ó thuaidh, agus chláraigh 9 ndalta sa chéad bhliain sin. De thairbhe gur chuig ceannairí na scoile rogha oideachais ar fáil ina dteanga féin,...
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Article 5 mins
Getting started with French 1
Languages

Getting started with French 1

...la porte) A Entrez ! Bonjour monsieur B Bonjour madame A Allez-y, asseyez-vous B Je vous remercie A Bonjour B Bonjour (On frappe à la porte) A Oui entrez ! B Bonjour, madame la Principale A Bonjour, monsieur le Principal adjoint It is unlikely that you’ll understand, or even hear, every word, but listen out for the use of vous and tu and how these words are pronounced....
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga
History & The Arts

Exploring a Romano-African city: Thugga

...La Chebba’. [Figure 4] Figure 4 Excavation of a mosaic floor, Chott Meriem near Sousse, Tunisia. DAI neg. no.55.1314. (Photo: Sichtermann/German Archaeological Institute, Rome) Please click to view Colour Plate 1: Mosaic from the 'Baths of Trajan', Acholla, AD 120–30. In the centre Dionysus is in a chariot pulled by two centaurs; in roundels to either side are...
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Level 3: Advanced 14 hrs