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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:
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#17 Afandi Karaoke: Sorry (by Justin Bieber)
▶️ You don’t have to be a fan of Justin Bieber to enjoy this video and practice your English with it. Something captivating (=sth catching you) about the tech (=technology) here!
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
▶️ You don’t have to be a fan of Justin Bieber to enjoy this video and practice your English with it. Something captivating (=sth catching you) about the tech (=technology) here!
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
#51 YouTube Channel Recommendation: JerryRigEverything
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Provided
💬 Topics: Technology, driving, experiments, DIY
💡 Content: This channel is slightly (=a little bit) nerdish (=crazy about technology and every detail of it) but a great source of English if you’re interested in technology and building stuff. Jerry loves to take stuff apart and see how things work, and he can make things work like a total DIY (=‘do it yourself’, not buying things but making them by oneself) guy. Very hands-on (=practical and simple, working with one’s hands).
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/@JerryRigEverything
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Provided
💬 Topics: Technology, driving, experiments, DIY
💡 Content: This channel is slightly (=a little bit) nerdish (=crazy about technology and every detail of it) but a great source of English if you’re interested in technology and building stuff. Jerry loves to take stuff apart and see how things work, and he can make things work like a total DIY (=‘do it yourself’, not buying things but making them by oneself) guy. Very hands-on (=practical and simple, working with one’s hands).
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/@JerryRigEverything
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
#140 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi with Comrade Lenin in Osh, 🇰🇬Kyrgyzstan
❓ 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
❓ 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
Congrats to Kamoliddin! 👏👏👏 Well done, not easy today but also not a lot of competition! 😉
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Know Your World #55: Homeless by choice
▶️ Check out how this 🇲🇽Mexican guy makes a living (=earn money to live) in 🇺🇸New York on a super slim (=very small) budget (=money you can use).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
▶️ Check out how this 🇲🇽Mexican guy makes a living (=earn money to live) in 🇺🇸New York on a super slim (=very small) budget (=money you can use).
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
Afandi Quiz #124: What is this thing?
Here's something that looks like some lavash bread or tortilla or chapati but isn't!
👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz
Here's something that looks like some lavash bread or tortilla or chapati but isn't!
👉@afandi_english👈 #thing_quiz
What is it then?
Final Results
22%
a colour-reversed image of the universe
17%
a map of the Sahara Desert
21%
a blanket
40%
skin cancer
Almost well done, I think we've found the right answer after all!
These are realistic-looking tortilla blankets. They don't just look funny, they're also super soft and very forgiving when it comes to stains (=dirty areas on clothes).
These are realistic-looking tortilla blankets. They don't just look funny, they're also super soft and very forgiving when it comes to stains (=dirty areas on clothes).
Our favourite mistakes #147: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• confidence
• distance
• development
• government
• helpless
• speechless
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ Words ending in -ence/-ance, -ment and -less are pronounced with schwa (ə), just like the last letter in борми.
• kɒnfɪdəns
• dɪstəns
• dɪveləpmənt
• gʌvənmənt
• helpləs
• spi:ʧləs
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• distance
• development
• government
• helpless
• speechless
❗️ Words ending in -ence/-ance, -ment and -less are pronounced with schwa (ə), just like the last letter in борми.
• kɒnfɪdəns
• dɪstəns
• dɪveləpmənt
• gʌvənmənt
• helpləs
• spi:ʧləs
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation