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Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
History & The Arts

Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)

...Le Corbusier criticised the Americans' lack of urban planning). The response of European architects to the Americans' technological advances (including bridges and other building forms as well as skyscrapers) would lead to the development of Modernism. And in the early twentieth century, technological advances were rapidly changing western society. Road and rail networks...
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Intermediate Italian: describing people
Languages

Intermediate Italian: describing people

...le parole alla parte del viso a cui si riferiscono. [Described image] Figure 2 i capelli (a) la fronte (b) il sopracciglio (c) gli occhi (d) gli occhiali (e) il naso (f) la bocca (g) la barba (h) Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 8 items in each list. i capelli la fronte il...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America
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Intermediate Spanish: A trip across Latin America

...de los derechos de la naturaleza. Pero además del derecho a existir, en la nueva Constitución se le reconoce al medio natural el derecho a la restauración: "el Estado aplicará medidas de precaución y restricción para las actividades que puedan conducir a la extinción de especies, la destrucción de ecosistemas o la alteración permanente ......
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...le paso ¿Puedo hablar con el señor Gonzalo Reina? ¿De parte de quién? Match each of the previous list items with an item from the following list: a.putting someone through b.asking who is calling c.asking to speak to a person The correct answers are: 1 = a, 2 = c, 3 = b...Week 2: Making phone calls: 2 Telephone expressions - Listen to the beginning of this telephone...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015
OpenLearn Ireland

A new layer: Culture, the Irish language and identity in 2015

...de thríocha bliain i ndiaidh sin, sa dóigh gur bheartaigh mé féin agus an Dr Seosamh Watson tionscnamh a bhunú le hiarracht a dhéanamh moill a chur ar an chreimeadh teanga. I 1984, nuair a thosaigh Oideas Gael, thiocfadh linn siúl trasna an bhealaigh go Tigh Bhiddy agus gan ach Gaeilge a chluinstin ón fhoireann agus ón chuideachta ann. Sa lá inniu (2015) tá an...
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Advanced Spanish: Protest song
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Advanced Spanish: Protest song

...de estudio. Fue ella quien le compró su primera guitarra. Años más tarde, el cantante se lo agradecería de modo público, en la dedicatoria de su primer disco: A mi madre, que me obligó a cantar. Con apenas trece años se enroló en su primer grupo, quizás dándose cuenta de que él solo con su guitarra no era capaz de dar al público todo lo que sentía ......
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Level 3: Advanced 4 hrs
May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages
Languages

May the Forza be with you: Star Wars in other languages

...des étoiles in French, Krieg der Sterne in German, for example), the Italian translation refers to the wars (in plural) of the stars (Guerre stellari) and the Spanish translation to the war of the galaxies (La guerra de las galaxias). This only applies to the original trilogy, however, the subsequent prequels were named Star Wars (in English), followed by the translation...
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Article 10 mins
Oxygen, blood and the body
Science, Maths & Technology

Oxygen, blood and the body

...respiration? Dr Simon Collinson explains...We all know that air is essential for human life; more precisely, the oxygen in air is essential for life. A human breathes in approximately 11 000 litres of air every day. But how is that oxygen transported into and around our blood systems and stored in the parts of our body that need it to function? And are humans different to...
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