#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

#23 Self-study: Young Italian Farmers

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about well-educated young Italians who choose to live and work in the countryside. Dig deeper (=think about sth more deeply), follow the script and use it for self-study!

❗️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 #documentary

#24 Self-study: Towards a robotic future?

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about so-called “futurism” – predicting the future through research of current trends. Listen to what the eccentric (=strange but interesting person) Faith Popcorn, head of a New York consulting company, has to say and pick up some English on the way!

❗️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 #future

#25 Self-study: Living in the past

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about an Englishman who leads a double life. He works for British Airways as a flight attendant but at home he lives like in the 1940s. Check out the house he lives in.

🔤 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 below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study

#26 Self-study: King of the Mountain

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a man who spends his summers in a lonely little hut that sits on a mountain, watching the surrounding areas for forest fires. Find out what it is that makes him happy.

🔤 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 below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study

#27 Self-study: Llama in a nursing home

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a nursing home (=old people’s home) in the United States where llamas (=horse-like animals from South America) are used cheer up the residents (=people who live somewhere).

🔤 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 below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study

#28 Self-study: From one world to another

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a group of refugees from 🇸🇸South Sudan who were resettled (=moved to live elsewhere) in the 🇺🇸United States. See how they cope with the huge cultural differences between Africa and America.

🔤 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 below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #documentary

#29 Self-study: A Chinese-African Couple

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a mixed couple in 🇨🇳China. Sandra is a lady from 🇨🇲Cameroon who married a local Chinese and now lives with him in his village. Watch how they earn a living (=enough money to live) by live-streaming their daily life.

🔤 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 below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #documentary

#30 Self-study: My problem is my accent

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a Polish lady living in Britain. She laments (=complains) that people discriminate against her because of her foreign accent. Check out how she tries to solve her problem.

🔤 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 below 👇.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #documentary

#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

▶️ Afandi English is over 4 years old now and there’s a ton of stuff you’ve missed. Here are some hashtags for posts about language learning:

#correct
Check if you can spot some common mistakes.

#grammar
Brush up your grammar.

#ielts
Get the DOs and DON’Ts of preparing for IELTS.

#learn2learn
Take advice on how to learn a foreign language.

#mistakes
The biggest collection of Uzbek learners’ typical mistakes in English – at your fingertips.

#oddmanout
See if you can find the mistake.

#pronunciation
Fix your pronunciation problems, one at a time.

#self_study
Sit down and help yourself. Interesting videos plus script plus activities.

#tongue_twisters
Work on your pronunciation and fluency in one go.

#uni_vocab
Understand university-related vocabulary.

#vocabulary
Learn about lexical problems and pick the right words next time.

#world_englishes
Realise that English is a world language and prepare for the worst. Or the best?

#writing
Say goodbye to your most common and unnecessary writing mistakes.