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Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema
Languages

Upper intermediate French: discovering French cinema

...write film reviews in French. [Described image] Figure 1 Lumière poster The language level of this course for learners of French is upper intermediate, CEFR B2 or similar. Entrée en matière C’est en 1895 sur les grands boulevards parisiens qu’a eu lieu la première projection publique du cinématographe, l’invention des frères Lumière qui allait révolutionner...
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Level 2: Intermediate 6 hrs
Children’s experiences with digital technologies
Education & Development

Children’s experiences with digital technologies

...Write your answer below...Children’s experiences with digital technologies: 5 Effects on health and wellbeing - [This is a photograph of a man and two children using a tablet and laptop.] Figure 5 In this section, you will learn about the effects of digital technologies on children’s health and wellbeing. A core question often raised is whether screen time is good or...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Babylonian mathematics
Science, Maths & Technology

Babylonian mathematics

...writing, some 1500–2000 years earlier still (see Figure 1). [Figure 1] Figure 1 By the middle of the third millennium BC, the writing style had evolved into the highly abstract and unrepresentational cuneiform (‘wedge-shaped’) script. This script, which was used initially for writing down words in the Sumerian language, was later also adopted by neighbouring...
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Level 2: Intermediate 8 hrs
Everyday maths 2 (Wales)
Science, Maths & Technology

Everyday maths 2 (Wales)

...Write down your conversion rate with the single unit on the left-hand side: £1 = €1.15 Next, you write down the figure you are converting under the correct side. In this case it is the £300 cash you are changing, so this figure needs to go under the pounds (£) side: £1 = €1.15 £300 = €? This will help you to work out whether you need to go forwards (in which...
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Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?
History & The Arts

Was Alcibiades the Athenian Donald Trump?

...writings of Athenian historian Thucydides. In the course of narrating the history of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides incorporated many pairs of speeches arguing opposing points of view that reveal how politicians sought to put down, outmaneuver and even humiliate their rivals. Any student of Greek history, like me, cannot but admire the historian’s unparalleled...
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Article 5 mins
The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End
History & The Arts

The Armistice in Fiction: Ford Madox Ford’s Parade’s End

...write about them creatively. The armistice of November, 1918 has been represented many times in the post-war drama, poetry and fiction produced in ex-combatant countries and elsewhere too. [Ford Madox Ford] Ford Madox Ford Using one of its most well-known novelistic representations, A Man Could Stand Up-, volume 3 of Parade’s End by Ford Madox Ford, I’m going to...
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Article 15 mins
Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!
History & The Arts

Election days: 1779 - Save Britain from crisis!

...Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776] As Americans shape their own destiny; can Britain survive such a blow? To the independent Gentlemen, Clergy, and Freeholders of Hampshire Inertia et mollita animi alius expectantes cucnctarnini: My virtuous Countrymen, Now is the time for spirited and manly exertion. Our all is at stake. The activity and zeal of every...
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Article 5 mins
Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list
Money & Business

Chlorine-washed chicken: An OpenLearn reading list

...Writing at the Institute For Government, Oliver Ilott suggests the main barrier to cross is the tariff barrier: A trade deal between the US and UK may attempt to remove tariffs in areas where they are high. These are almost all in agriculture. On the US side, there are 22 import duty rates above 100%, all on agricultural products. This makes some agricultural goods...
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Article 10 mins