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Getting started with Spanish 1
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 1

...writing in your language notebook the things you want to remember. We’ll give you some more tips for this such as adding examples to your notes. Enjoy the week!...Week 2: Names and introductions: 1 Saying your name - To start this week, you will learn how to say your name using the verb ser (‘to be’). Verbs: ser (‘to be’) Verbs in Spanish are conjugated; this...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...writing, music, painting that we are interested in, and why they produced it. But it may also mean understanding why one particular form was chosen rather than another: why, for example, did the poet choose to write a sonnet rather than an ode, a ballad, or a villanelle? To appreciate the appropriateness of one form, we need to be aware of a range of options available to...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
How to be a critical reader
Languages

How to be a critical reader

...writing...In this free course you will focus on how to be a critical reader. Reading critically is an essential skill at university. It means being aware of your own purposes and opinions as you read and being able to recognise the writer's purposes and opinions in their writing....How to be a critical reader: Introduction - In this course you will focus on how to be a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Squares, roots and powers
Science, Maths & Technology

Squares, roots and powers

...writing or displaying large numbers...From paving your patio to measuring the ingredients for your latest recipe, squares, roots and powers really are part of everyday life. This free course reviews the basics of all three and also describes scientific notation, which is a convenient way of writing or displaying large numbers....Squares, roots and powers: Introduction -...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
From old English to modern English
History & The Arts

From old English to modern English

...writing system. OE was mostly written using the Latin alphabet, supplemented by a few Germanic runic letters to represent sounds not found in Latin e.g. þ, which represented the th sounds in thin or this. (A relic of þ survives as y in modern signs like Ye Olde Tea Shoppe.) The later Viking settlements in many parts of the British Isles also resulted in substantial...
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Article 10 mins
Hallowain't III: Ghost moose
Nature & Environment

Hallowain't III: Ghost moose

...writing at TakePart, explains the size of the problem: Even more ticks pile onto the moose the following winter. In their efforts to dislodge these pests, the moose rub so aggressively at their dark-brown outer guard hairs that they break them off close to the root, leaving only the whitish stubs behind. Moose with especially bad infestations—as many as 50,000...
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Article 5 mins
Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth
Education & Development

Postgraduate study: Education, Childhood & Youth

...writing] Wherever you wish to take your learning next, there is a course here that can help with that next step. Looking Globally: the future of education and Becoming an Ethical Researcher are OpenLearn Courses both embedded in the OU's Masters in Childhood & Youth (F55) & Masters in Education (F70) qualifications. A full Masters qualification is studied in three Stages...
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Article 5 mins
Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool
Health, Sports & Psychology

Want to achieve your goal? Try our Personal Best tool

...write a novel, our Personal Best App will help you get there...Do you have goals and targets that you are struggling to reach? Personal Best is a Facebook App that helps you use the winning techniques from sports psychology to tackle your own everyday goals. This tool will allow you to set a simple measurable goal such as exercising 3 times a week, or saving £500 in 6...
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Activity 5 mins