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Getting started with Spanish 2
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 2

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: How to tell the time: Introduction - ¡Bienvenido/a a semana 1! Welcome to Week 1! In this first week, you will learn how to tell the time in Spanish, including asking other people and answering others' questions about the time. You will practise this through a...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Getting started with Italian 3
Languages

Getting started with Italian 3

...resources and qualifications by visiting The Open University – www.open.edu/ openlearn/ free-courses...Week 1: Talking about arrival and departure times: Introduction - [Described image] In Week 1 you are going to learn and practise how to make enquiries about travel times using the 12-hour and the 24-hour clock. This will involve using numbers as well as practising...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Supporting children and young people's wellbeing
Health, Sports & Psychology

Supporting children and young people's wellbeing

...resource to draw on. Here, though, you just need to read from pages 8–27. You’ll be asked to answer a series of questions in the next task, so you might want to bear them in mind as you read. Please note that a new version of this report is published annually. The 2019 version is being used for the tasks in this activity for consistency, but the report is a useful...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
An introduction to exoplanets Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

An introduction to exoplanets

...human eye) and a giant star (please note this video has no spoken audio)...Week 1: Planets and the Solar System: 2 Stars and galaxies - The Sun is just one of billions of stars in our Galaxy, the Milky Way. Like all stars, the Sun is a large ball of gas, mostly hydrogen, which is so massive that its centre has become a nuclear reactor. The weight of all the layers of the...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Yellow Fever: An OpenLearn reading list

...human being approached, whose office and commission were inscrutable. That we were strangers to each other was easily imagined; but how would my appearance, in this remote chamber, and loaded with another's property, be interpreted? Did he enter the house after me, or was he the tenant of some chamber hitherto unvisited; whom my entrance had awakened from his trance and...
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Article 5 mins
Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list
Society, Politics & Law

Terrorism in Europe and beyond: A reading list

...human beings are capable of violence. The strength of the West German state in producing economic and social security has allowed Germans to forget the safe conditions that made this development possible. Read: Germany faces one of its greatest political challenges since World War II What, then, is to be done? Dennis Shen, writing for the LSE's EUROPP blog, suggests that...
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Article 30 mins
Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list
Health, Sports & Psychology

Rio 2016: A short Paralympics reading list

...humans perform ... or is it time to put an end to 'inspiration porn'? Dr Frances Ryan explains why the suggestion that paralympians are "inspirational" is problematic: See more from Frances Ryan at The Guardian London 2012 did shift pereceptions of para sports The last Paralympics did, according to research by Bournemouth University, change how the wider public thought...
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Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation
History & The Arts

Humphry Davy, laughing gas and the era of self-experimentation

...human mind was the ultimate source of our reality, and the material world only an illusion projected by it. The dissociative effects of nitrous oxide, in which consciousness seemed to escape and transcend the physical body, made compelling sense of this insight; and Davy’s climactic revelation that ‘nothing exists but thoughts’ would echo it through the century to...
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Article 5 mins