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Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid
History & The Arts

Introducing Virgil’s Aeneid

...attentively: he sways their passions with his words and soothes their hearts: so all the uproar of the ocean died, as soon as their father, gazing over the water, carried through the clear sky, wheeled his horses, and gave them their head, flying behind in his chariot. (Aeneid 1.148–56) The symbolism of this passage is made clear: we are told that the crowd is...
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Level 2: Intermediate 7 hrs
Teaching secondary modern foreign languages
Education & Development

Teaching secondary modern foreign languages

...attention on the language required. You may well have already begun to use some of these strategies in your own teaching. You may also have experienced that it is not always easy to remain in the target language to communicate with students throughout the whole lesson...Teaching secondary modern foreign languages: 2.3 Challenges to using the target language - Although...
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Level 3: Advanced 11 hrs
The secret history of teenage bedrooms
Education & Development

The secret history of teenage bedrooms

...attention, you’d want to say, to what was going on at home, to the bedroom. Sian Lincoln: Yeah absolutely, McRobbie and Garber’s account is really seminal inasmuch as it’s getting us to think about the why girls were not appearing in discourses about youth culture, about young people in public spaces and one of their arguments was that that was because young women...
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Article 10 mins
What is a virus?
Science, Maths & Technology

What is a virus?

...attention to SARS-CoV-2. A quick check of research publication databases, such as PubMed, shows that there were 695 published items on Coronavirus in the whole of 2019. Whereas, the count is already 1,818 publications for the first 3 months of 2020. With each new bit of information, we get closer to understanding the virus and developing solutions to defend against it....
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Article 20 mins
Support for you and your mental health
Health, Sports & Psychology

Support for you and your mental health

...attention call 999, or visit Accident and Emergency (A&E). If you need medical advice you can book an emergency GP appointment by contacting your local health board or call 111 NHS in England, Scotland and some parts of Wales (check if 111 is available in your area and for additional helpline numbers). You can also use NHS 111 British Sign Language service if you are deaf...
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Article 10 mins
How can you turn desert into farmland?
Nature & Environment

How can you turn desert into farmland?

...attention to people and their practices is necessary to enhance resilience in healthy soils. “One of the ways [to improve soils] is to go to a place and see what people are already doing and what system are they familiar with, and then simply enhance that particular system rather than introducing a new thing,” she says. A similar conclusion can be drawn from work in...
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Article 20 mins
Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery
Science, Maths & Technology

Multiple Moonlets Maketh Mystery

...attention of the public eye. Last year Rufu, Aharonson and Perets presented their results for simulations they ran into the feasibility of this hypothesis and generated an eloquent visual representation of the process. The hypothesis states that a sequence of bodies, between the Moon and Mars in size, impacted the early-Earth in several million-year intervals, generating...
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Video 15 mins
10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn
History & The Arts

10 incredible people whose stories you'll find on OpenLearn

...to meetings of black leaders and was to lecture on business and politics. She spoke out on the social conditions endured by African Americans and devoted particular attention and money to the campaign to make lynching a federal crime." To find out more about Madam C.J. Walker and other incredible women throughout history visit our interactive How Women Changed the World....
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Article 15 mins