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#58 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song
Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.
👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz
Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Can you guess where it’s from? Pay attention to the language and style.
👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #song_quiz
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#5 Short Film: The English Teacher
▶️ Here’s a short drama about a very unfortunate English teacher. Watch and find out why!
👉@afandi_english👈 #short_film
▶️ Here’s a short drama about a very unfortunate English teacher. Watch and find out why!
👉@afandi_english👈 #short_film
Afandi English
This song is from ...
Good job on this one!
👍 The Philippines was correct. The style was quite unspecific (=general, not special) and could have been from anywhere. Not so the language. It was Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines.
👎 Serbia was wrong – the language should have been Slavic and somehow similar to Russian. Botswana in Southern Africa speaks English and Venezuela is a Spanish-speaking country in South America.
👍 The Philippines was correct. The style was quite unspecific (=general, not special) and could have been from anywhere. Not so the language. It was Tagalog, the national language of the Philippines.
👎 Serbia was wrong – the language should have been Slavic and somehow similar to Russian. Botswana in Southern Africa speaks English and Venezuela is a Spanish-speaking country in South America.
#95 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Uy vazifasini qilmadim.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
I didn’t do my home task.
✅ Well, it should be:
I didn’t do my homework.
❓Why?
❗️ The word home task is a translation from Uzbek and/or Russian.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Uy vazifasini qilmadim.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
I didn’t do my home task.
✅ Well, it should be:
❓Why?
❗️ The word home task is a translation from Uzbek and/or Russian.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
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#2 Afandi Karaoke: I Won’t Let You Down (by OK Go)
🆕 Songs are a great way to learn a foreign language – who would disagree? Afandi English is bringing you great songs with great lyrics that bring your English to life. Important: Repetition is the mother of learning!
▶️ Today’s video is I Won’t Let You Down by the American rock band OK Go. The video was shot in Japan and has a rather interesting and complex (=complicated) choreography (=arrangement of dancers in a performance). If you want to know how they made it, check it out here.
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
🆕 Songs are a great way to learn a foreign language – who would disagree? Afandi English is bringing you great songs with great lyrics that bring your English to life. Important: Repetition is the mother of learning!
▶️ Today’s video is I Won’t Let You Down by the American rock band OK Go. The video was shot in Japan and has a rather interesting and complex (=complicated) choreography (=arrangement of dancers in a performance). If you want to know how they made it, check it out here.
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
#61 Travelogue Germany: The covid controversy
Germans seem to have different opinions about how to deal with covid:
1. Local governments
No matter which political party, all local governments remind people of the need to wear masks and get vaccinated.
2. Shops
Businesses want to show how much they care. Cash is now unhygienic and paper slips can help you avoid touching the surface of a trolley.
3. Public transport
Catching corona on a crowded train is a horror scenario that must be avoided with strict mask mandates and ritual hand sanitising.
4. Vaccines for all
Some activists demand that vaccines be available to all people in the world, free from commercial interests.
5. Freedom fighters
Some see in the covid thing a road into a dystopian future where everyone is controlled all the time.
Where people stand doesn’t depend on covid but on who they trusted in the first place – the government, companies or themselves.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #germany
Germans seem to have different opinions about how to deal with covid:
1. Local governments
No matter which political party, all local governments remind people of the need to wear masks and get vaccinated.
2. Shops
Businesses want to show how much they care. Cash is now unhygienic and paper slips can help you avoid touching the surface of a trolley.
3. Public transport
Catching corona on a crowded train is a horror scenario that must be avoided with strict mask mandates and ritual hand sanitising.
4. Vaccines for all
Some activists demand that vaccines be available to all people in the world, free from commercial interests.
5. Freedom fighters
Some see in the covid thing a road into a dystopian future where everyone is controlled all the time.
Where people stand doesn’t depend on covid but on who they trusted in the first place – the government, companies or themselves.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #germany
---Vocab---
📍controversy = disagreement in society 📍urge sb = strongly suggest 📍unhygienic = dirty, unclean 📍trolley (British English) / cart (American English) = big basket on wheels that you push around the supermarket 📍horror scenario = very bad situation in the future 📍commercial = related to business 📍dystopian = of a bad future society 📍in the first place = from the start, in the beginning
📍controversy = disagreement in society 📍urge sb = strongly suggest 📍unhygienic = dirty, unclean 📍trolley (British English) / cart (American English) = big basket on wheels that you push around the supermarket 📍horror scenario = very bad situation in the future 📍commercial = related to business 📍dystopian = of a bad future society 📍in the first place = from the start, in the beginning
Who is to blame for the covid mess? (You can choose more than one answer)
Anonymous Poll
61%
People. They don't follow the rules.
45%
Companies. They want to make money with people’s health.
42%
Governments. They want to control people.
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#19 Movie Time: Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
▶️ Today’s movie is a thriller (=exciting crime story) about a murder on the Orient Express – an old luxurious train from 🇹🇷Istanbul to 🇫🇷Paris. Enjoy a bit of excitement with famous actors in a stylish set (=background in a theatre play or movie).
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #international_films #drama
▶️ Today’s movie is a thriller (=exciting crime story) about a murder on the Orient Express – an old luxurious train from 🇹🇷Istanbul to 🇫🇷Paris. Enjoy a bit of excitement with famous actors in a stylish set (=background in a theatre play or movie).
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #international_films #drama
#72 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi at Picadilly Circus in London
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums! Mark the picture and send it to @jochenho. You have half an hour.
❓ If you can, mark Afandi and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️If you can you might win 5,000 Paynet-soums! Mark the picture and send it to @jochenho. You have half an hour.
❓ If you can, mark Afandi and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi
Gulbodomoy did it! Congrats!!! 👻🥳👏
And cheers for the designs, Ne'matullo and Yulduz! ✌️👍👌
And cheers for the designs, Ne'matullo and Yulduz! ✌️👍👌
#20 Featured article: Are native speakers bad communicators?
📍 Imagine that: The meeting room is full of businesspeople from different countries. They all somehow understand each other in English – until a native speaker stands up and starts speaking in their native English. The others are lost! Whose fault is it? The native speaker’s, as this article argues.
⛓ https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161028-native-english-speakers-are-the-worlds-worst-communicators
👉@afandi_english👈 #featured_article
📍 Imagine that: The meeting room is full of businesspeople from different countries. They all somehow understand each other in English – until a native speaker stands up and starts speaking in their native English. The others are lost! Whose fault is it? The native speaker’s, as this article argues.
⛓ https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20161028-native-english-speakers-are-the-worlds-worst-communicators
👉@afandi_english👈 #featured_article
Bbc
Native English speakers are the world’s worst communicators
In a room full of non-native speakers, ‘there isn’t any chance of understanding’. It might be their language, but the message is often lost
#59 Afandi Quiz: Which country?
▶️ Here is a mysterious picture.
👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #picture_quiz
▶️ Here is a mysterious picture.
👉@afandi_english👈 #quiz #picture_quiz