#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.
Media is too big
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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
Afandi English
This picture was taken in ...
Well done!
👍 Germany was obviously right. There’s some German language to be spotted on the guy’s T-shirt and in the background you can see the Brandenburg Gate, a famous landmark of Berlin. The 9th of November is an important day in Germany – it’s the day that the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
👍 Germany was obviously right. There’s some German language to be spotted on the guy’s T-shirt and in the background you can see the Brandenburg Gate, a famous landmark of Berlin. The 9th of November is an important day in Germany – it’s the day that the Berlin Wall came down in 1989.
#7 A Good Laugh: Hilarious Headlines
▶️ Take a look at these poorly written newspaper headlines and find the jokes!
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
▶️ Take a look at these poorly written newspaper headlines and find the jokes!
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh