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A linguistic toolkit for health and social care
Health, Sports & Psychology

A linguistic toolkit for health and social care

...English conversations from a wide variety of contexts – chats between family and friends, informal workplace exchanges, formal meetings, university settings – to understand all the different ways people give and respond to advice. They found over 1,200 instances of advice-giving, which were expressed in a range of ways from very strong and direct (Don’t do that...
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Activity 15 mins
Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs
History & The Arts

Edward Lear's Nonsense Songs

...English nonsense literature – including Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. But Lear also introduced a unique visual style to his books, pioneering a new kind of poetry that married brilliant wordplay with astonishing artwork. Lear’s poems represent a wonderfully childish, creative antidote to the relentless, and dehumanising, march of Victorian “progress” -...
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Exploring the classical world
History & The Arts

Exploring the classical world

...English. The material is drawn from The Open University course A219 Exploring the classical world... Exploring the classical world A brief introduction to this album. Interpreting Homer Reading' classical texts and the differing philosophies of translation, with a dramatised example from the Lattimore translation of Homer's Odyssey. Homer's people Metaphor, imagery,...
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Audio 2 hrs 54 mins
Shakespeare: A critical analysis
History & The Arts

Shakespeare: A critical analysis

...audience experience Audience interaction and expectation of Shakespeare's plays. Evaluating Shakespeare's work Concluding opinions assessing Shakespeare and his reputation. Shakespeare: Original pronunciation An introduction by David and Ben Crystal to the 'Original Pronunciation' production of Shakespeare and what they reveal about the history of the English language....
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Audio 56 mins
Supporting children’s learning in the early years
Education & Development

Supporting children’s learning in the early years

...English. Information and sharing Three mothers discuss the importance of sharing information with learning practitioners, and how this two-way process can invigorate the development of children and their individuality. ICT and learning Sinead Donnelly, a primary one teacher in Northern Ireland, talks about the fantastic possibilities available when using audio/visual...
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Audio 1 hr
Could volunteering be bad for our health?
Society, Politics & Law

Could volunteering be bad for our health?

...English communities, describing this as a form of citizen participation. In a lively blog piece one of the authors, Mark Gamsu, stated “I think that there is a strong relationship between the number and quality of volunteers and the effectiveness of work to increase participation.” He may be right (and we certainly need more evidence on the relationship between these...
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Should we read John Locke today?
Society, Politics & Law

Should we read John Locke today?

...English philosopher, educator and political writer. Over the course of an eventful life he lived through the English Civil Wars, the violent overthrows of two kings (Charles I and James II) and the rapid expansion of English colonialism and slave-trading across the Atlantic. As well as producing the foundations of a new philosophical approach to knowledge based on...
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Beginners’ Italian: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ Italian: food and drink

...English word ‘church’: cappuccino The letter c has a hard sound before a, o or u. It is pronounced /k/, as in the English word ‘cat’: caffè The letter combination ch always has a hard sound. It is pronounced /k/, as in the English word ‘cat’: bicchiere Note that the same rule applies regardless whether the word is spelled with a single or a double c. Activity...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs