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Managing my money
Money & Business

Managing my money

...community sports clubs. The last Government's answer to Britain's economic problems was to propose a tax on jobs. We stopped that and today this Government is taking tax off jobs. A new employment allowance that helps small firms, a 20% rate of corporation tax and a £10,000 personal allowance - major achievements delivered by this Government in difficult times. We...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Teaching mathematics Badge icon
Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...communicating about it. How would you as a teacher build on the learner’s talk, and rephrase each explanation to make a more precise mathematical sentence? Think about using words such as ‘difference’ and ‘less than’. (We say more precise here since it is not always easy to express mathematical relationships concisely and precisely in words – that is why...
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Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
Art and life in ancient Egypt
History & The Arts

Art and life in ancient Egypt

...communicating, remembering, interacting with the dead, and keeping them alive. And they're not meant to be gloomy spaces. The tomb-chapel chamber is probably no wider than this bay where the paintings are at the moment. You'd walk into it, you'd be surrounded by colour, by life. You'd hear the music, almost, on the walls. You'd see the words that the musicians are...
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Level 1: Introductory 30 hrs
Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations
History & The Arts

Approaching literature: reading Great Expectations

...communicated by word of mouth ‘in those tender years when fact and fiction merge, and thus belong to the memories and myths of life, and not to its aesthetic experience’ (‘David Copperfield’, 1925, quoted in Wall, Charles Dickens, 1970, p.273). This may seem to reflect something many of us feel about Dickens, but it also reveals a certain condescending assumption...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...commun avec les réalisatrices françaises mentionnées ci-dessus ? Do you know any female film directors working in your country? Do they have anything in common with the French directors mentioned above? Discussion J’ai récemment vu un film intitulé « American Honey », réalisé par Andrea Arnold, une artiste britannique. Ce film parle d’une adolescente qui vit...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
The moral equality of combatants
History & The Arts

The moral equality of combatants

...community against invasion, violation or extermination. And you cannot lose your right to life from doing what you are morally obliged to do. Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto did everything they could to present a lethal threat to the German army, which was seeking to destroy the Ghetto and kill its inhabitants. As they did pose a lethal threat they were materially...
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Level 3: Advanced 16 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...communicate with their tutor or with other students. Both students have been provided with assignment booklets, which provide advice on completing their assignments. They also refer to Study Skills series of books, which are published by the Open University. The series includes books providing study skills advice in particular subject disciplines, as well as general study...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Basic science: understanding experiments
Science, Maths & Technology

Basic science: understanding experiments

...communicate with other learners. There are forum threads for activities in each week. Please join in! Before you start, The Open University would really appreciate a few minutes of your time to tell us about yourself and your expectations of the course. Your input will help to further improve the online learning experience. If you’d like to help, and if you haven't done...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs