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Everyday English 2
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Everyday English 2

...everyday work and life...Having good English skills are important for everyday life. In fact, being able to communicate effectively can improve your career prospects or if you decide to continue your studies. This free course serves as good preparation for studying the formal English Essential Skills Level 2, which is available in Wales. Whilst the course does not cover...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
Everyday English 1
Languages

Everyday English 1

...English. Due to the changes in the way people communicate in everyday life, the world is generally becoming more informal. Spoken language is generally more flexible and informal than written language. However, texts, tweets and other posts often do not follow the old rules and therefore written language is becoming less formal. For example, it is getting more and more...
Level 1: Introductory 48 hrs
How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English
Languages

How emoji are changing the shape of everyday English

...everyday life that they’re leaving their stamp on English beyond the realm of social media? The big difference between textspeak and emoji is that the former is verbal, while the latter are pictorial. For an emoji to influence spoken language it would have to cross modes. There are precedents for this happening however. A number of punctuation marks, for example, have...
Free online courses for refugees
Society, Politics & Law

Free online courses for refugees

...Everyday English courses Free English skills courses More English courses Other skills and subjects A selection of free courses and resources on other topics you can learn through the medium of English. Free mathematics and numeracy courses See more Free resources for life and work skills Free mental health and wellbeing resources Support and resources from other...
15 facts about number 15
Education & Development

15 facts about number 15

...English skills or perhaps remember areas you may have forgotten in our free course, Everyday English. 10: Our 15th most visited interactive on OpenLearn this year was… No sex please, we're British! There have been major changes in sexual attitudes over the years, but what are the views of the ‘average’ British person in terms of sex? This sexual attitudes...
The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn
Education & Development

The impact of supporting Ukrainians with free resources on OpenLearn

...Everyday English part 1 Course 48 hours Free certificate and digital badge How to write a CV Article 5 mins N/A Languages at work Course 6 hours Free certificate Making sense of mental health problems Course 10 hours Free certificate Understanding your sector Course 24 hours Free certificate and digital badge The resources were promoted through various OU communications...
АНГЛІЙСЬКА НА КОЖЕН ДЕНЬ
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АНГЛІЙСЬКА НА КОЖЕН ДЕНЬ

...Everyday English 1, є вступним курсом у рамках програм Level 1 Functional Skills English та Level 1 Essential Skills Wales Communication. Він розроблений для того, щоб надихнути вас покращити ваш поточний рівень знань англійської мови і допомогти...
The Scottish Parliament and law making Badge icon
Society, Politics & Law

The Scottish Parliament and law making

...everyday English. Somebody has to sit down and actually draft a law, write it out. And that’s quite a highly skilled job. And there’s not many of them in Scotland who can do it. And they do have their own rules about it. So sometimes when you look at a piece of legislation, it does look as if the language is kind of deliberately complicated or convoluted or old and...