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An education in Religion and Worldviews
History & The Arts

An education in Religion and Worldviews

...English children learn to be: open-minded, critical participants of public discourse, who make academically informed judgements about important matters of religion and belief which shape the global landscape. (NATRE, CoRE, RE: Today, n.d.) How can we ensure the ‘best case scenario’ for Religious Education in schools is likely to be experienced?...An education in...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Getting started with Italian 2
Languages

Getting started with Italian 2

...English, we do not use the expressions un quarto, mezza/mezzo and tre quarti when telling the time with the 24-hour clock. Instead, we use numbers: quindici, trenta and quarantacinque...Week 2: Talking about the time (continued): 3 Telling the time using the 24-hour clock - Next, you’ll test your learning of telling the time. Activity 2...Week 2: Talking about the time...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?
Society, Politics & Law

From Brexit to the break-up of Britain?

...English regions (59.9%) and the South-East the smallest pro-Brexit majority (51.8%). Every other English region, plus Wales, recorded solid pro-Brexit majorities. Only Scotland (62%), Northern Ireland (55.8%), and a few English and Welsh sub-regions (including South Cambridgeshire and St Albans) and several big cities (including Bristol, Cardiff, Manchester, Liverpool and...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice
Education & Development

Literacy, social justice and inclusive practice

...English literature (or ‘western canon’) rather than a person who could effectively read print (see, for example, Mathieson, 1975; Williams, 1965). By the middle of the 20th century, however, the influence of psychometrics and psycholinguistics on literacy education had led to a change of emphasis from ‘becoming literate’ to a focus on teaching the technical skills...
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Level 3: Advanced 10 hrs
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...English, like ‘to speak’. To conjugate a verb in Spanish, that is to form the right form, the adequate form in the sentence, you need to remove the - ar, - er or - ir ending from the infinitive. What is left is called the stem, which does not change in the vast majority of Spanish verbs. The stem serves as the base to which we add endings. There is a different ending...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Some merits of Manchester
History & The Arts

Some merits of Manchester

...English cathedral is without. The morning was fitly dim and chill, and one could move about in the vague all the more comfortably for the absence of that appeal of thronging monuments which harasses and bewilders the visitor in other cathedrals; one could really give one's self up to serious emotion, and not be sordidly and rapaciously concerned with objects of interest....
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Article 10 mins
10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn
Miscellaneous

10 flabbergasting facts you'll find on OpenLearn

...English language. For example, in England we will say 'to cross the thin blue line' as a law enforcement symbol while in France they say 'franchir la ligne jaune' (to cross the yellow line). Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde explains how language idioms are useful for language learners: "There is an expression in French to denote how an individual may have tastes and ways of...
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Article 5 mins
Happy birthday Shakespeare!
History & The Arts

Happy birthday Shakespeare!

...English history. In a sequence of eight plays, he charted the turbulent years leading up to the arrival of the Tudor dynasty, introducing audiences to a dazzling variety of characters—from the impetuous Hotspur and the villainous hunchback Richard III to the subversive man-mountain Sir John Falstaff, one of world literature’s most memorable comic creations. In the...
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Article 3 hrs