🎉 Special Day: Navruz in Afghanistan

🆕 Special days help us pay more attention to the things and people that matter. Celebrate with Afandi English!

▶️ Get to know your least known neighbour – Afghanistan. Navruz is even more important there than in ex-Soviet Central Asia. Check it out!

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day

Bravo!

👍 🇮🇹Italy was the correct answer. Earthquakes occur in all of these countries and the classical architecture is a little more typical for Italy and Greece but not entirely foreign to Turkey and Argentina. Most revealing (=showing sth secret or hidden) was the language – Turkey and Argentina would have different words for “university” and Greece would have a different alphabet.

#22 Self-study: Tourism? No thank you.

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about Providencia, a little island in the Caribbean (=the sea between North and South America). The island could easily attract more tourists but locals are against it. Find out why!

❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study

#115 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
O’qituvchi, bugungi mavzu nima?

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Teacher, what is today’s theme?

✅ Well, it should be:
Sir/Madam, what is today’s topic?

❓Why?

❗️ Teacher is not a form of address in English. Students call their teacher either by Sir or Madam/Ma’am or Mr/Mrs/Miss plus family name. This varies between different cultures, however.

❗️ Theme is a mistranslation from Russian тема. The word theme exists in English but means something different: a) the main subject or idea in a piece of writing, speech or film, b) a music tune that keeps coming up, or c) a particular style. This is different from a topic which can be discussed in class.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary

#7 Afandi Karaoke: Supermarket Flowers (by Ed Sheeran)

▶️ Here’s a beautifully sad song by Ed Sheeran that he wrote after his grandmother died.

👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke

#31 Movie Time: Who Am I (2014)

▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇩🇪German thriller (=exciting crime story) about a group of hackers that find ways to hack even the German secret service and Europol (=central police of the EU). Take a spine-chilling (=very frightening) glimpse (=quick look) into the world of hacking and cybercrime!

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #european_films #drama #future

❗️Dear students,

🆕 I’m excited to announce the start of the new Project Hub.

⏰ When? Every Monday 13:00-15:00, from 27 March.

🏢 Where? Yoshlar Markazi in Andijan Eski Shahar

💰 How much? Participation is free of charge.

🔎 What? We will work on various projects in various fields – tourism, business, environment, IT, education, basically anything you are interested in.

💭 Why? It’s best to learn English in real communicative situations, not with random topics or role plays. Projects give us something to talk about and have a real value at the same time.

🤵‍♂️Who? The Project Hub is conducted by Mr Hoffmann, foreign teacher from Germany at Inyaz Andijan.

📬 Interested? Contact @jochenho for more information. Or just drop in and join us!

#92 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi catching some late Navruz vibes in Yangi Andijon

❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?

❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!

❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture 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

#14 Know Your World: Central Asia and Ukraine

▶️ What are the so-called “stan countries” saying about the war in Ukraine? Read this article to find out.

🔈 Articles in The Economist have a play button – you can have the text read out to you. Use the audio and read along for maximum language learning benefit!

⛓ https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/03/26/the-stans-want-nothing-to-do-with-vladimir-putins-invasion-of-ukraine

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article

#78 Afandi Quiz: Who said it?

▶️ “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.”

👉@afandi_english👈 #quote_quiz