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Beginners’ French: food and drink
Languages

Beginners’ French: food and drink

...English words against the French terms they correspond to. vegetables les légumes ice cream la glace cheese le fromage red meat la viande rouge pineapple l’ananas sea food les fruits de mer white wine le vin blanc fish le poisson raw vegetables les crudités Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched...
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Level 1: Introductory 5 hrs
Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus
History & The Arts

Christopher Marlowe, Doctor Faustus

...English Studies as a distinct academic discipline in the second half of the nineteenth century brought with it the construction of a canon of great writers and a history of English literature which accorded Marlowe the crucial groundbreaking role he plays in Shakespeare in Love. Changing views of the artist consolidated his integration into the literary canon. Viewed in...
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Level 2: Intermediate 15 hrs
Reading visual images
Society, Politics & Law

Reading visual images

...English person will recognise it immediately as a cow. A picture of five cows means the same thing in both languages. Now, does all this mean that a photograph is a different sort of mental thing from a word or figure? Or does it mean that pictures are like words and figures but that they operate in terms of a different language, one that may be more likely to be...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Queen Victoria on the Chartists
History & The Arts

Queen Victoria on the Chartists

...English, perfectly well; her German is very Prussian or Berlin German. Talked to Lord Melbourne of our journey to Scotland, and he said that it would never do, not to go - it would have such a very had effect, and that the late King's not going to the City, had had a deplorable effect. Unless anything very alarming or urgent, were to present us, we ought to carry out our...
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Article 5 mins
Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars
Society, Politics & Law

Why challenging sexual violence takes more than just a starring role at The Oscars

...English Collective of Prostitutes has demonstrated how sex workers are being failed by the police. The scholarship and activism of Beth E Richie, a professor at the University of Illinois and founding member of INCITE!, has highlighted how domestic violence is a key pathway to prison for black working-class women. Likewise, in the UK the Prison Reform Trust has found that...
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Article 5 mins
Sea level rise in London, UK
Nature & Environment

Sea level rise in London, UK

...English Channel, and then up the Thames Estuary (Carbon Brief, 2014). From the evidence of the London Bridge high water mark, we know that the level has risen since 1780 by over 1.5 metres (Carbon Brief, 2014). Alongside ice melt increasing seawater volume other factors have important impacts on the changing sea level in London. Around 11,500 years ago ice sheets covering...
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Article 5 mins
Selling Empire: Posters
History & The Arts

Selling Empire: Posters

...English landscapes for railway posters were commissioned, and depicted both British and Dominion pastoral landscapes in soft shades. Even when portraying Britain, though, many different artists and styles were employed. Clive Gardiner’s set of posters for Empire Buying Makes Busy Factories (many EMB posters were produced and displayed in sets of five) were starkly...
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Article 5 mins
Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

Southwest Donegal: uniqueness and interdependence in 2015

...English and Irish Gaelic] Signpost linking Glencolmcille to the Wild Atlantic Way (blue wave symbol) In 2015, the Slieve League Peninsula, like Killala in Northeast Mayo, is part of the Wild Atlantic Way, the tourist route along the South and West coast of Ireland. For this part of the route, tourists are encouraged to explore the area’s uniqueness in terms of the...
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Article 5 mins