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Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft
History & The Arts

Ralph Waldo Emerson on Shakespeare's craft

...writing, is entitled thenceforth to steal from the writings of others at discretion. Thought is the property of him who can entertain it; and of him who can adequately place it. A certain awkwardness marks the use of borrowed thoughts; but, as soon as we have learned what to do with them, they become our own. Thus, all originality is relative. Every thinker is...
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Article 15 mins
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
Continuing classical Latin
History & The Arts

Continuing classical Latin

...writing letters to newspapers about the use of “hopefully” and what have you. I think it’s because we are very attached to the idea of a standard written form of language, with fixed rules that we learned at school, and these somehow represent the correct form of the language. But lots of these rules we’ve learned, the kind of thing, you know, of don’t put a...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs
Exploring languages and cultures
Languages

Exploring languages and cultures

...write your answers to the questions in the boxes below. Shop assistant: Bonjour, Messieurs. Dave and Si: Bonjour, bonjour, Madame. Shop assistant: [laughs] Dave Myers: Madame, Je cherche la saucisson lyonnaise pour fabriquer une grande saucisson-brioche. Shop assistant: Yes. Alors, here. Dave Myers: Oui. Shop assistant: Ha ha ha. Si King: Now, fluent. See that? What he...
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Level 1: Introductory 14 hrs
Learning how to learn
Education & Development

Learning how to learn

...write a brief description of how you were learning it. Discussion This is what Tim wrote: There was a prep essay which was due before the course started. To be honest, I was really nervous. It took me ages - I kept changing the words round over and over again. I wasn't feeling very confident because I haven't written an essay for about 20 years. I started to panic a bit...
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Level 1: Introductory 6 hrs
Introduction to Spanish
Languages

Introduction to Spanish

...writing on the front of the fire engine? It is BOMBEROS. As well as saying what you do and where you work / who you work for, you might want to give some details about the activities that you carry out as part of your job. In this activity you will learn how to say a little about what a job entails. Paso A Write full sentences in the first person (yo) using ser and...
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Level 1: Introductory 4 hrs
Design
Science, Maths & Technology

Design

...creative business. A software engineer who writes a computer program uses creative design expertise (and other skills) in order to create an algorithm that can be performed by a machine. Thus I am suggesting all these models might be a rich repository of design relationships. Familiarity with them may enable designers to disassemble them into pieces, which work 'locally',...
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Level 1: Introductory 28 hrs
Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM Badge icon
Science, Maths & Technology

Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in STEM

...write your answers in the text boxes provided against each of the activities and refer back to them or edit your answers at any time. You also have the option of downloading your answers by clicking on the link (‘Download your answers for the documents on this course’) that appears on the left-hand side of each course page. The course has six quizzes to test your...
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Level 3: Advanced 24 hrs