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Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French
Languages

Intermediate French: Understanding spoken French

...family name Your age Where you live Where you were born or brought up Who you live with Your family Your professional activity Your previous professional activities Your studies Your leisure activities Your character (as seen by others and yourself) What makes you happy in life Activity 2 Now think of between two and five French expressions or words that you might hear...
Start writing fiction: characters and stories
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction: characters and stories

...family member who would like to read your work and give you their thoughts. Perhaps you already know some other writers you can exchange ideas with. There might be a local writing group in your area, or otherwise an online group set up for this purpose. Finding some fellow writers and sharing work can be an invaluable exercise, both for obtaining some feedback on your...
Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing
Money & Business

Midlife MOT: wealth, work and wellbeing

...families are having to care for both their children and their parents at a time when their free time is limited (ONS, 2019). That’s why the Open University, in collaboration with Legal & General, has created your Midlife MOT to help you. We have a wealth check-up. It’ll help you take a look at your finances, see what’s working perfectly and what needs attention....
Changing cities
Society, Politics & Law

Changing cities

...family resemblance’ to one another, overlapping in places, but as also drawing out and making visible distinctive ‘aspects’ of urban life...Changing cities: 3.3 Three types of questions about agency - [Described image] Figure 5 Urban processes present multiple challenges for analysis Thinking about ‘theory’ as comprising distinctive problematisations of urban...
Level 3: Advanced 15 hrs
Two concepts of freedom
History & The Arts

Two concepts of freedom

...family, perhaps even to study for an Open University degree, and so on. However, this may be a sentimental view of what prison life is actually like for most prisoners. Several of the activities I have described, particularly studying, require a certain amount of concentration. For most of us concentration requires relative quiet. Here is one prisoner's account of trying...
Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...family, community, and the world around us. However, other experiences of religion and Religious Education might be less than positive. One influential proposal on orienting RE to the needs of twenty-first-century pupils is known as ‘Religion and Worldviews’. This proposal is gaining traction by many of the leading providers of high-quality teaching resources. The...
Continuity and learning
Education & Development

Continuity and learning

...family, or a workplace culture – and created the term ‘socio-constructionism’. He believed that an individual’s learning and development depend on interaction with others, and that a culture provides individuals with ‘tools of the mind’ – ways of thinking – to help them form a view of the world. The research of Hodkinson and Hodkinson (2004) focuses on...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Infection and immunity
Health, Sports & Psychology

Infection and immunity

...family members whether to treat an illness at home with simple remedies, or seek advice from a trained health worker...Session 1: Introducing human infectious diseases: 1.3 Acute or chronic conditions - Two useful terms that are equally relevant to infectious and non-communicable diseases (NCDs) refer to the time course of the illness. Knowing how long the symptoms of a...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs