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Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece
History & The Arts

Learning about sex, a shilling a time: Aristotle's Masterpiece

...English on sex and making babies. First published in London in 1684, it went through hundreds of editions in England and America. It was still for sale, largely unchanged, into the 1930s and beyond. References to the work pop up in the historical record like some kind of Zelig figure, often on the margins of unexpected moments. The huge numbers of editions and the...
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Article 10 mins
Perspectives on social work: individual stories
Health, Sports & Psychology

Perspectives on social work: individual stories

...English with somebody you'll always speak to them in English. There's no reason why we shouldn't all be able to speak a little bit of Welsh. After all, we're Welsh, aren't we? Mr Howell Mudd - Carer My life has been very interesting. I was born in Neuaddlwyd, near Aberaeron. I moved to and that's where I was brought up. I attended school and The Grange School, Carmarthen...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...English word immediately suggests something big and grand. For example, if someone describes a Hollywood film as being an ‘epic’, I’d assume that the film deals with important and world-changing events, perhaps over a prolonged time period, and probably that it goes on for a long time. The idea of theme and scope is also relevant to ancient epic. Epic poems are...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course
Languages

Beginners’ Chinese: a taster course

...English, but once you click on that-- that has been installed now, so I can just close that window. And at the bottom of my screen, I have a Word document open. I see English, if I click on that, it will give me the simplified Chinese that has been already downloaded. So I want to type in Chinese, I click on that and I go to my Word document, OK, and I would start typing....
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Italian 1
Languages

Getting started with Italian 1

...English with IELTS, which will be available for registration in due course. The Open Centre for Languages and Cultures is an international leader in online language learning and intercultural communications, built on our pioneering pedagogy and research. What makes the Open Centre different? The OU is the leader in online learning and teaching with a heritage of more than...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes
History & The Arts

Census stories: bringing statistics to life in Milton Keynes

...English people don't know their own history. They didn't know that the English, I mean the British were in India for so many years. They don't know. INTERVIEWER: So that that was in the 1980s. Now, how do you find the atmosphere now, in 2000? PUSHPA: Actually, my son has married a white girl. He was seeing this girl behind my back. So, when I said, ‘you have to get...
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Level 1: Introductory 2 hrs
The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK
Health, Sports & Psychology

The global pursuit of equitable football coaching legacies from Africa and The Caribbean to the UK

...English Football League (EFL) club in London. Originally focused on player identification for the Caribbean diaspora, IFHA now explicitly extends opportunities to coaches, facilitating pathways previously blocked by geography or resource limitations. This aligns with former Chelsea FC and Ivorian player Didier Drogba’s long-standing advocacy: ‘African and Caribbean...
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Англійська у світі сьогодні
Languages

Англійська у світі сьогодні

...English...Англійська у світі сьогодні: Результати навчання - Після вивчення цього курсу ви зможете: зрозуміти різноманітність англійської мови в історії та в усьому світі зрозуміти вплив соціальних і...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs