#118 Afandi Quiz: What is this thing?

Now what on Earth is this? Write your ideas in the comments!

👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz

Good job guys, mostly. This thing is a potato with someone's face printed on it. Ask me why? The northwestern 🇺🇸US state of Idaho hasn't got much else to be proud of than potatoes. Idaho is also known as the “Potato State”. So what they ended up doing (=finally did) is selling all kinds of merchandise (=products that promote sth or souvenirs), all potato-themed. Besides keychains, fridge magnets and mugs (=cups with handles for hot drinks) you can find:
🥔 potato museum
🥔 potato perfume
🥔 potato football tournament
🥔 potato dog food
🥔 potato baby clothes
🥔 potato hotel
🥔 potato board game

Have they forgotten anything? Let your imagination go wild (=get crazy) in the comments!

#59 Movie Time: Johnny English Strikes Again (2018)

▶️ Today’s film is the third in the Johnny English trilogy (=a series of 3). Rowan Atkinson, better known as Mr Bean, saves the world yet again with a mixture of catastrophic mishaps (=sth goes wrong), impossibly lucky coincidences (=sth comes together unplanned), and sheer (=plain, pure) 🇬🇧Britishness.

Watch Johnny English 2.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #comedy

🎉Special Day: Where Have All The Flowers Gone?

▶️ As the world remembers then end of World War II today let's sing an anti-war song that has a truly remarkable (=special) history. American singer Pete Seeger combined an old Irish folk song melody with verses (=parts of a poem or song) from a Ukrainian/Russian folk song and turned it into a protest song that now stands for (=represents, is associated with) pacifism (=belief in or activism for peace) in general and the peace movement of the 1960s and 70s against the Vietnam War.

This version is sung by Joan Baez, a contemporary (=modern) American folk singer famous for her social justice activism.

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #karaoke

#145 Our favourite mistakes: Writing

▶️ Look at the writing above. 👆

❓What’s wrong here?
❗️ The student is using brackets (=these things 👉(...)👈) for correction.

❓Why?
❗️ The purpose of using brackets for correction is to maintain an orderly look of the text (“chiroylism”). Crossing out wrong words would look messy. Unfortunately, brackets do not have this function in English. They are used for giving extra information, not marking wrong words.

❓What to do instead?
❗️ Simple. Just cross it out! 😏

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing

#13 Future: Meat from the lab

▶️ Is this meat real or fake? Yes it’s meat but no, it’s no it’s not from a slaughtered (=killed for meat) animal. Lab (=laboratory) meat solves a lot of problems but at the same time raises a lot of questions. Watch this report from 🇮🇱Israel.

👉@afandi_english👈 #future #know_your_world

#50 YouTube Channel Recommendation: Invisible People

📊 English Level: Various

🔤 Subtitles: Mostly provided

💬 Topics: Social problems, biographies

💡 Content: This channel is a bit of a shocker if you thought that there was no poverty in rich countries. It’s all about homeless people and their stories of drugs, crime, violence, disability and every other problem you can imagine. The channel gives them a voice and aims to restore (=bring back) their dignity (=respect sb or oneself as a human). Meanwhile it teaches us a whole lot about society.

⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/@InvisiblePeople

👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube #know_your_world

#136 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi on a 🇹🇿Tanzanian 🍍pineapple plantation

❓ 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!

🆕 If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!

👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi

#7 Know Yourself: The power of repetition

▶️ Why is it that we go through the education system just once, finish our education and live the rest of our lives? This video by The School of Life rightfully argues that modern education needs to learn from religious education. Why? The power of repetition.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_yourself #documentary #psychology

#20 A Good Laugh: How money changes situations

▶️ Are you worried about your pronunciation? Well one solution to all your problems might just be money! This 🇬🇧British sketch (=funny short video or theatre performance) from the 1970s is not only funny, it also points to (=mention sth important) a deeper truth.

👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh