#121 Afandi Quiz: Who said it?
▶️ “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
👉@afandi_english👈 #quote_quiz
▶️ “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.”
👉@afandi_english👈 #quote_quiz
Which religious leader said it?
Anonymous Quiz
30%
☪️ Ayatollah Khomeini (Shia Muslim)
41%
☯️ The Dalai Lama (Buddhist)
11%
✡️ Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef (Jew)
18%
✝️ Pope Francis (Catholic Christian)
Afandi English
#1 Self-study: Tom & Savannah 🆕 Brand new on the channel: Materials for self-study! Learn English with interesting videos. You won’t believe how much English you can extract from a video if you go to the bottom of it. IELTS students – here is your source…
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#31 Self-study: Prisoners learning cosmetology
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a lady working with inmates (=prisoners, esp. to each other) at a California prison. She teaches them cosmetology – the profession of making customers’ face, hair and skin beautiful.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout.
👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #documentary
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a lady working with inmates (=prisoners, esp. to each other) at a California prison. She teaches them cosmetology – the profession of making customers’ face, hair and skin beautiful.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout.
👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #documentary
Afandi English
#31 Self-study: Prisoners learning cosmetology ▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a lady working with inmates (=prisoners, esp. to each other) at a California prison. She teaches them cosmetology – the profession of making customers’ face, hair and skin…
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#18 World Food: Chili con carne from 🇲🇽Mexico
▶️ Here’s a spicy stew (=thick liquid dish that is boiled slowly) that is popular in Mexico and the US. It translates as “Chili with meat” and is …
... made with:
Meat – usually minced (=meat turned into a paste) beef, chili peppers or chili powder, beans, tomatoes, onion and garlic, sometimes sweetcorn as well.
... eaten with:
Tortillas, tacos, nacho chips (=chips made from corn), or any other kind of staple (=basic food like rice or wheat-based food).
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ Here’s a spicy stew (=thick liquid dish that is boiled slowly) that is popular in Mexico and the US. It translates as “Chili with meat” and is …
... made with:
Meat – usually minced (=meat turned into a paste) beef, chili peppers or chili powder, beans, tomatoes, onion and garlic, sometimes sweetcorn as well.
... eaten with:
Tortillas, tacos, nacho chips (=chips made from corn), or any other kind of staple (=basic food like rice or wheat-based food).
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
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#61 Movie Time: Children of Heaven (1997)
▶️ Today’s film is a heart-melting drama from 🇮🇷Iran about a boy who struggles to put things right after losing his sister’s shoes. Watch how one problem leads to another until he finally breaks free.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #international_films #drama
▶️ Today’s film is a heart-melting drama from 🇮🇷Iran about a boy who struggles to put things right after losing his sister’s shoes. Watch how one problem leads to another until he finally breaks free.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #international_films #drama
#139 Spot Someone: Zikrillo at Qasr al Watan in Abu Dhabi, 🇦🇪UAE
❓ Can you spot Zikrillo in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot him, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes.
❗️ If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_someone
❓ Can you spot Zikrillo in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot him, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes.
❗️ If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you don’t we’ll find another winner!
👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_someone
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#53 Know Your World: India’s YouTube farmer
▶️ Follow Darshan Singh, a Punjabi (=from the northern Indian state of Punjab) YouTuber, on his path around fields and farms of 🇮🇳India where he shoots his videos to give farmers much-needed advice.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
▶️ Follow Darshan Singh, a Punjabi (=from the northern Indian state of Punjab) YouTuber, on his path around fields and farms of 🇮🇳India where he shoots his videos to give farmers much-needed advice.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
Mysterious Song
#121 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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#14 Future: Getting chipped
▶️ Here’s a young lady in 🇦🇺Australia who is really happy to have a microchip under her skin that helps her open doors, make payments and be identified in an emergency.
Check out an earlier post about microchipping in 🇸🇪Sweden.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future #know_your_world
▶️ Here’s a young lady in 🇦🇺Australia who is really happy to have a microchip under her skin that helps her open doors, make payments and be identified in an emergency.
Check out an earlier post about microchipping in 🇸🇪Sweden.
👉@afandi_english👈 #future #know_your_world
Do you share this young lady’s excitement?
Anonymous Poll
13%
She's right, it’s cool and I’d love one too.
17%
Somehow excited but not like her.
33%
Good for her but I don’t need that now.
38%
No, either she’s crazy or it’s propaganda.
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#62 Movie Time: The Intern (2015)
▶️ Today’s film is a comedy-drama with Robert de Niro as a 70-year-old widower (=a man whose wife has died) who starts a new career at an online fashion company in New York. Watch how his life experience and charming style save his boss from the malice (=evilness) of the corporate world (=the private sector of the economy; private companies).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #drama #comedy
▶️ Today’s film is a comedy-drama with Robert de Niro as a 70-year-old widower (=a man whose wife has died) who starts a new career at an online fashion company in New York. Watch how his life experience and charming style save his boss from the malice (=evilness) of the corporate world (=the private sector of the economy; private companies).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #drama #comedy
#123 Afandi Quiz: What’s the word?
The same word can mean very different things in different languages. “Loy” in German is just the name of a village somewhere in the North whereas in Uzbek it means “mud”.
👉@afandi_english👈 #word_quiz
The same word can mean very different things in different languages. “Loy” in German is just the name of a village somewhere in the North whereas in Uzbek it means “mud”.
👉@afandi_english👈 #word_quiz
Same word but unrelated, what can we call that?
Anonymous Quiz
12%
convolution
10%
cohabitation
18%
conspiracy
30%
coincidence
20%
connotation
10%
collocation
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#54 Know Your World: Unconctacted tribes
▶️ The 🇧🇷Brazilian rainforest is home to most of the world’s roughly (=approximately) 100 uncontacted tribes (=small societies living in the nature). Watch this video for some impressive footage (=video material) and cautioning (=warning) words from Brazil’s official (=sb representing the government) in charge (=responsible).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
▶️ The 🇧🇷Brazilian rainforest is home to most of the world’s roughly (=approximately) 100 uncontacted tribes (=small societies living in the nature). Watch this video for some impressive footage (=video material) and cautioning (=warning) words from Brazil’s official (=sb representing the government) in charge (=responsible).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
#1 Odd Man Out
🆕 Here’s your chance to check whether you’ve learned your lessons from our favourite #mistakes – find the odd man out, that is the one item that doesn’t fit in.
▶️ Pay attention to your pronunciation when reading the following sentence:
She looked into the mirror, changed her dress again, called her fiancé and waited for him impatiently.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #oddmanout #pronunciation
🆕 Here’s your chance to check whether you’ve learned your lessons from our favourite #mistakes – find the odd man out, that is the one item that doesn’t fit in.
▶️ Pay attention to your pronunciation when reading the following sentence: