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Teaching assistants: support in action
Education & Development

Teaching assistants: support in action

...English primary, special and independent schools (LGNTO, 2000) found that each school had an average of 8.5 (includes part-time) volunteer staff. Volunteers are clearly an important, if somewhat under-acknowledged, resource in many schools, and indeed, across a wider workforce...Teaching assistants: support in action: 1.3 Professional and personal skills - Jean Ionta...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Getting started with Spanish 3
Languages

Getting started with Spanish 3

...English descriptions. Sí, un momento, le paso putting someone through ¿Puedo hablar con el señor Gonzalo Reina? asking to speak to a person ¿De parte de quién? asking who is calling Two lists follow, match one item from the first with one item from the second. Each item can only be matched once. There are 3 items in each list. Sí, un momento, le paso ¿Puedo hablar...
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Level 1: Introductory 8 hrs
Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts
History & The Arts

Exploring Virginia Woolf’s Between the Acts

...English village, on a day in June in 1939...This free course introduces Virginia Woolf’s last novel, Between the Acts (1941), with the aim of understanding how she writes about time, memory, and ideas about identity. It also considers why Woolf’s fiction is often considered difficult. Selected extracts from her essays on writing help to clarify some of these perceived...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?
Health, Sports & Psychology

Exploring health: is your lifestyle really to blame?

...English Dictionary it is defined as: A style or way of living (associated with an individual person, a society, etc.); esp. the characteristic manner in which a person lives (or chooses to live) his or her life. (OED Online, 2009a) Now, without giving it too much thought, take a moment to respond to the question in the activity below. Activity 1 Is being overweight...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?
Education & Development

Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?

...English language and number skills. You may need to study Functional Skills as part of your apprenticeship. The following free short courses on Open Learn might be helpful for you to explore. English: Skills for Learning Essay and report writing skills Numbers, units, and arithmetic...Am I ready to be an apprentice distance learner?: 5 Do I understand how assessment will...
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Level 1: Introductory 3 hrs
Becoming an ethical researcher Badge icon
Education & Development

Becoming an ethical researcher

...English and literacy and primary-secondary schools are more likely to have taken English literature as an A level or degree in English literature than any kind of program which addresses creative writing. And there's also quite strong research that have been suggested teachers see themselves more as readers than they do as writers. So as a consequence, in our classrooms,...
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Level 3: Advanced 18 hrs
Introducing the Classical world
History & The Arts

Introducing the Classical world

...English equivalent. For instance, you will find Achilles as well as Akhilleus, Thucydides as well as Thoukydides. The reason is that there are different conventions for transliterating words from Greek into the English alphabet. This course tends to use what is often called ‘Latinised’ spelling, for example, ‘c’ rather than ‘k’, and ‘ae’ rather than...
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Level 2: Intermediate 20 hrs
What is heritage?
History & The Arts

What is heritage?

...English Dictionary (OED) is ‘characterized by or pertaining to the preservation or exploitation of local and national features of historical, cultural, or scenic interest, esp. as tourist attractions’, but there are several other meanings of the word, including ‘inheritance’ and ‘lineage’...What is heritage?: 2 Explaining heritage - This course begins with two...
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Level 1: Introductory 10 hrs