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How to learn a language

...Writing is a creative process and because you don’t have the pressure of time to reply as you do with oral communication, you can easily reflect on what you’ve written and expand it without taking too many risks. Watch this video about expanding your writing. FERNANDO Let's look at this short sentence. I live in a house. Now if you had written this, you may want to...
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Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited
OpenLearn Ireland

Hardboiled Blues: Rory Gallagher’s Blues Lyrics Revisited

...writing set in an urban environment full of corruption and deceit. Hardboiled fiction was typically narrated by an imperfect hero – often an emotionally resilient, hard-drinking private detective – who lived by his wits rather than seeking rational solutions. Standing in direct contrast to traditional detectives like Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot, hardboiled...
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Assessment in secondary mathematics
Education & Development

Assessment in secondary mathematics

...write these numbers in order, smallest first: 0.7, 0.3 and 0.36 on mini-whiteboards. You will find that the three most common responses are: 0.3, 0.36, 0.7 (correct) 0.3, 0.7, 0.36 (student ignores decimal point) 0.36, 0.7, 0.3 (student may think that the largest number after the decimal point gives the smallest decimal). Students could well offer other answers, for a...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
Getting started with German 2
Languages

Getting started with German 2

...write your own answers to the following questions. You will need to decide which of the variations of gern that were introduced in the previous secton you wish to use. You can see a model answer for each question in the feedback. This should help you check that the general structure of your sentences is correct, but your response to the questions might look quite...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
How did music influence Virgina Woolf?
History & The Arts

How did music influence Virgina Woolf?

...writing about these occasions. She records with glee the various mishaps that befall musicians and audiences – a prima donna throwing down her music in a rage; a button popping off the plump Clive Bell’s waistcoat during the slow movement of a piano sonata; an elderly man crashing loudly but astonishingly unhurt down the stairs at Covent Garden. The social...
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Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus
History & The Arts

Plato, opinions and the statues of Daedalus

...write long essays or treatises. Most of his philosophical works are written as dialogues, in which a small group of characters discuss a philosophical question. The dialogues are usually set in the recent past, and the other characters are often real people – prominent public figures, whom his readers might well have known. It is as if a modern-day philosopher gave up...
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Article 10 mins
Spray diagrams
Science, Maths & Technology

Spray diagrams

...Write words along the lines or ends of lines. The lines do not show directional links, just an association. Use different colours to highlight particular fans. Guidelines Write down the central idea leaving space all around it. Identify branches from that idea that you want to explore further. Write them down around the central idea and link each to it with a straight...
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Irish Women’s Poetry
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Irish Women’s Poetry

...writing voices. Salmon Poetry, established by American poet Jessie Lendennie in 1981, published the first collections of a number of women writers who would gain prominence in later years, for example Rita Ann Higgins, Mary O'Malley, Moya Cannon and Mary O'Donnell. In the 1990s, activists such as Denis Collins and Anne Heffernan continued to promote women’s writing...
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Article 5 mins