#2 Travel Notes: Amu Darya
🆕 Travelling is not just an activity, it’s a way of looking at the world around you. Here are some brief travel notes where I’m sharing one impression at a time, letting you travel with me!
▶️ Much can be said about the ecology of this river and how it’s carrying less water than it should and is too weak to fill the Aral Sea and all. However, you can still appreciate the beauty of the river and the landscapes that surround it.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
🆕 Travelling is not just an activity, it’s a way of looking at the world around you. Here are some brief travel notes where I’m sharing one impression at a time, letting you travel with me!
▶️ Much can be said about the ecology of this river and how it’s carrying less water than it should and is too weak to fill the Aral Sea and all. However, you can still appreciate the beauty of the river and the landscapes that surround it.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan
#128 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar & Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
O’qituvchi o’quvchilarni gapirishiga yo’l qo’yib berishi kerak.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Teacher should let the students to speak.
✅ Well, it should be:
The teacher should let the students speak.
❓Why?
❗️ A definite article is needed before teacher. Although we don’t know which teacher exactly the teacher is, he/she is representative of any one teacher in the same situation, i.e. the teacher of any class.
❗️ The verb phrase let somebody do something does not need to. Same is true for make somebody do something.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
O’qituvchi o’quvchilarni gapirishiga yo’l qo’yib berishi kerak.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Teacher should let the students to speak.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️ A definite article is needed before teacher. Although we don’t know which teacher exactly the teacher is, he/she is representative of any one teacher in the same situation, i.e. the teacher of any class.
❗️ The verb phrase let somebody do something does not need to. Same is true for make somebody do something.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar #vocabulary
#14 A Good Laugh: Punography
▶️ A pun is a joke based on words. Here are some fantastic examples – check how many of them you understand!
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
▶️ A pun is a joke based on words. Here are some fantastic examples – check how many of them you understand!
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
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#41 Movie Time: Home (2009)
▶️ Today’s film is a 🇫🇷French documentary about planet Earth and how humans are threatening (=posing a danger to) it. The film shows you lots of different impressive places on Earth from an aerial (=from the air) perspective. The narrator is Hollywood actress Glenn Close.
Students often lack deeper understanding of environmental topics. Watch this documentary to be in the know (=have more information than most people)!
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #documentary
▶️ Today’s film is a 🇫🇷French documentary about planet Earth and how humans are threatening (=posing a danger to) it. The film shows you lots of different impressive places on Earth from an aerial (=from the air) perspective. The narrator is Hollywood actress Glenn Close.
Students often lack deeper understanding of environmental topics. Watch this documentary to be in the know (=have more information than most people)!
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #documentary
#80 Travelogue Armenia: Soviet Yerevan
▶️ Welcome to 🇦🇲Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region. Landlocked countries and societies of mountain dwellers are usually more conservative and slower to develop. Armenia’s capital Yerevan is a vibrant city that offers all the modern comforts but doesn’t hide its Soviet past:
Architecture and ornaments
To honour the state and society, socialist architecture is all about extravagant buildings in city centres and boring standard greyish buildings everywhere else. Ornaments celebrate the big themes in small details.
A familiar metro
Like other Soviet-built metro systems, Yerevan’s metro is deep, dark, beautiful and has heavy machinery. It is so noisy that having a conversation during the ride is sheer impossible and the distance between stations is quite big.
Abandonment
Old iron stuff lying around? Like in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan people feel no hurry to get rid of it. Maybe they’re at peace with the past.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
▶️ Welcome to 🇦🇲Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region. Landlocked countries and societies of mountain dwellers are usually more conservative and slower to develop. Armenia’s capital Yerevan is a vibrant city that offers all the modern comforts but doesn’t hide its Soviet past:
Architecture and ornaments
To honour the state and society, socialist architecture is all about extravagant buildings in city centres and boring standard greyish buildings everywhere else. Ornaments celebrate the big themes in small details.
A familiar metro
Like other Soviet-built metro systems, Yerevan’s metro is deep, dark, beautiful and has heavy machinery. It is so noisy that having a conversation during the ride is sheer impossible and the distance between stations is quite big.
Abandonment
Old iron stuff lying around? Like in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan people feel no hurry to get rid of it. Maybe they’re at peace with the past.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
Afandi English
#80 Travelogue Armenia: Soviet Yerevan ▶️ Welcome to 🇦🇲Armenia, a landlocked country in the South Caucasus region. Landlocked countries and societies of mountain dwellers are usually more conservative and slower to develop. Armenia’s capital Yerevan is a…
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📍landlocked (country) = a country that doesn’t have a sea coast 📍Caucasus = the mountain range between Russia and Iran/Turkey 📍mountain dweller = sb who lives in the mountains 📍vibrant = full of activity 📍ornament = decoration added to a building or room 📍extravagant = more beautiful and expensive than necessary 📍greyish = somehow grey 📍machinery = large machines 📍sheer = virtually, pretty much 📍abandonment = leaving something without caring for it 📍be at peace with sth = not angry about sth, okay with sth
📍landlocked (country) = a country that doesn’t have a sea coast 📍Caucasus = the mountain range between Russia and Iran/Turkey 📍mountain dweller = sb who lives in the mountains 📍vibrant = full of activity 📍ornament = decoration added to a building or room 📍extravagant = more beautiful and expensive than necessary 📍greyish = somehow grey 📍machinery = large machines 📍sheer = virtually, pretty much 📍abandonment = leaving something without caring for it 📍be at peace with sth = not angry about sth, okay with sth
How should cities treat their Soviet past?
Anonymous Poll
20%
They should respect and restore old buildings.
61%
Some old buildings can be modernised but not all.
19%
Soviet anything is ugly and cities should get rid of it.
#94 Afandi Quiz: What’s the word?
Baby birds go from naked to something to feathers.
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Baby birds go from naked to something to feathers.
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