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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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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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Approaching poetry
History & The Arts

Approaching poetry

...English is known as the iamb, which is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one (x /). Many words in English are iambic: a simple example is the word ‘forgot’. When we say this, the stresses naturally fall in the sequence: Iambic rhythm is in fact the basic sound pattern in ordinary English speech. If you say the following line aloud you will hear what I...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
Pecyn cymorth gweithio hybrid a thrawsnewid digidol
Money & Business

Pecyn cymorth gweithio hybrid a thrawsnewid digidol

...English. Cyrsiau ar-lein am ddim Erthyglau a gweithgareddau Darllenwch fwy am y casgliad Mae'r casgliad yn clywed gan y rheini mewn sefydliadau addysg uwch (SAUau), sefydliadau a chyrff cyhoeddus sy'n rhannu eu taith tuag at ffyrdd newydd o weithio, yn ogystal ag arbenigwyr mewn cynaliadwyedd a chynllunio ar gyfer y dyfodol, ac unigolion sy'n rhannu eu profiadau o addasu...
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Are things changing in world rugby?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Are things changing in world rugby?

...English and the legacy of England’s dominance. Concerns with investment an revenue, or more specifically lack of revenue, seems more in line with the unremitting advance of sport as big business, although England’s early departure does upset the geographical axes of power of world rugby. The southern hemisphere, and especially the Commonwealth nations of Australia and...
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Why has Sweden tightened its borders?
Society, Politics & Law

Why has Sweden tightened its borders?

...English-language posters at Stockholm underground stations apologising for immigrant begging and distributed leaflets on the Mediterranean island of Lesbos discouraging refugees from going to Sweden. To an extent, the restrictive turn taken by the government (a minority coalition between the Social Democrats and the Green Party) is an attempt to stop the growth of the...
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Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance
Languages

Messaging apps – managing relationships at a distance

...English courses Phone messaging apps are first and foremost a means of relating to, or connecting with, other people. This means that many anxieties about messaging are really concerns about relationships. Importantly, relationships always involve a balance between, on the one hand, expressing solidarity and connecting with others; and, on the other, maintaining...
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The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983
OpenLearn Ireland

The dilemma of tourism and the Irish language, 1983

...English. So very gradually the Irish spoken residue that we have here is becoming eroded through the development of tourists. Now of course it’s a catch 22 question: are you going to leave this into a sort of an Indian reservation and have no development at all or are you going to risk the language or the culture by having development? I came down heavily on the side of...
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