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Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...phrases, and the play Ti ho sposato per allegria (1965). Ginzburg wrote about her personal experiences in a fictionalised form and many of her works are based on memories of her childhood and youth in Turin. She died on 7 October 1991. First of all, you can do some vocabulary work to prepare you for the reading activity coming up next. Attività 16 Read the following...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840
History & The Arts

National identity in Britain and Ireland, 1780–1840

...phrase ‘Britain’s sons shall aye be free’ appears above the ship and ‘Free Trade to all the world’ below it. [Described image] Figure 8 Ceramic jug commemorating the Reform Act of 1832, c.1832. Stockport Museums. Photo: copyright and courtesy of Stockport Museums Activity 5 Timing: Spend no more than 30 minutes on this. In this activity you will analyse two...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Drug development process: combating pain
Science, Maths & Technology

Drug development process: combating pain

...type of drug taken or the illness being treated, all anti-inflammatory drugs have a molecular mechanism of action that interferes with one or more steps in the diverse range of biochemical processes that constitute the inflammatory response...Drug development process: combating pain: Conclusion - In this course you have had a brief introduction to how the drug-discovery...
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Level 3: Advanced 2 hrs
Sure, I know how to talk to people!
Money & Business

Sure, I know how to talk to people!

...type of behaviour. Activity 4 Plotting someone’s position on the interpersonal circle Timing: Allow approximately 10 minutes Watch the following video and pay attention to the behaviour of the male neighbour in this neighbourhood interaction. After you’ve watched the video, you will be asked to diagnose his behaviour on both the adaptive and maladaptive wheels. WOMAN:...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...types of activities you will participate in can be found in the Activities and tools page of the ‘Help with using this course’ document. The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations for the course before you begin, in our optional start-of-course survey. Participation will be completely...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings
Health, Sports & Psychology

Mindfulness in mental health and prison settings

...phrases that describe what the experience was like for you and enter them in the text box below. There are no right or wrong answers; just write what it was like for you. Discussion When mindfulness researchers Nugent, Moss, Barnes and Wilks (2011) encouraged a group of health professionals to do an activity similar to the one you just did, the kinds of things they said...
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Level 2: Intermediate 10 hrs
Remaking the relations of work and welfare
Society, Politics & Law

Remaking the relations of work and welfare

...phrase welfare to work; the dependency is more explicit, as in ‘working for welfare’; in some versions, it is clear that welfare is not offered without work, as is suggested by collapsing the two words: ‘workfare’. All these mixes of the concepts of ‘welfare’ and ‘work’ are captured in the word ‘contingent’: it refers to a set of relations in which...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Approaching language, literature and childhood
Education & Development

Approaching language, literature and childhood

...type of story or literature that is set in a magical world, often involving traditional myths and magical creatures and sometimes ideas or events from the real world, especially from the medieval period of history: Characters in children’s fantasy fiction often cross between worlds by magic. (CED definition of ‘Fantasy fiction’, 2022) The fantastic can intrude upon...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs