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Start writing fiction
History & The Arts

Start writing fiction

...English Literature and Creative Writing MA Creative Writing Part 1 MA Creative Writing Part 2 If you identify as being from a Black background, you could be eligible to study our MA in Creative Writing for free: Open Futures – Creative Writing Scholarship. Tell us what you think! We’d love to hear from you to help us improve our free learning offering through...
Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
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Education & Development

Teaching mathematics

...English language this is one, two, three, four, etc. When counting objects, children learn to refer to each object (perhaps by pointing) and to say the next number in the sequence. This is called one–to–one correspondence. The last number in the counting sequence gives the number of objects being counted (one, two, three, four, so there are four objects). This is...
Level 2: Intermediate 24 hrs
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Money & Business

Working in teams

...English language textbooks and she works closely with her co-author who lives in a different part of the UK. Together they are employed by an educational publishing company located in Germany. Activity 2 Vanessa’s virtual experience Timing: Allow about 15 minutes Watch this interview, and make notes on the issues that arise from this way of working and what Vanessa has...
Level 1: Introductory 24 hrs
Intermediate German: The world of work
Languages

Intermediate German: The world of work

...English are given at the start of each activity to make it easier to quickly complete the task. This OpenLearn course is an adapted extract from the Open University course L223 German studies 2: language and culture of the German-speaking world...Intermediate German: The world of work: Learning outcomes - After studying this course, you should be able to: understand...
Delacroix
History & The Arts

Delacroix

...English watercolourist. He later recalled how he and Bonington had met in around 1816, when Bonington was working on studies in the gallery of the Louvre. The two artists met again when Delacroix visited England in 1825 and later shared a studio in Paris. Delacroix admired and tried to emulate the lightness of touch and sparkle of Bonington’s technique (see Plate 13)...
Level 1: Introductory 16 hrs
EPQs: writing up your dissertation
Education & Development

EPQs: writing up your dissertation

...English, where one word can have a variety of meanings. She suggest perhaps using a thesaurus, but that could lead down the pathway of having too many words to choose from and not being able to decide which one to pick. Thinking about the dissertation, she introduces a word we all dread – waffling! No one wants to be a waffler, and giving too much information might make...
Philosophy: the nature of persons
History & The Arts

Philosophy: the nature of persons

...English. Technical or semi-technical terms should only be used when – as in this case – plain English provides no easy way around a potential confusion. Why is the question as to the nature of persons a question for philosophers not biologists? In ordinary language, ‘person’ is often used synonymously with ‘human being’. For example, we find out how many...