Our favourite mistakes #152: Punctuation
▶️ Look at these sentences:
1) Life-the gift of God.
2) She’s a middle–aged lady.
3) It’s a long -term plan.
❓What’s wrong?
❗️1) Should be a dash, not a hyphen. Dashes are like commas but stronger, for extra emphasis.
2) Should be a hyphen, not a dash. Hyphens turn two or more words into one.
3) Wrong space before the hyphen. Hyphens don't have spaces around them, dashes do.
Remember:
Hyphen = short, no spaces
Dash = long, with spaces
More about spacing in a previous post.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #punctuation #writing
▶️ Look at these sentences:
1) Life-the gift of God.
2) She’s a middle–aged lady.
3) It’s a long -term plan.
❓What’s wrong?
❗️
2) Should be a hyphen, not a dash. Hyphens turn two or more words into one.
3) Wrong space before the hyphen. Hyphens don't have spaces around them, dashes do.
Remember:
Hyphen = short, no spaces
Dash = long, with spaces
More about spacing in a previous post.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #punctuation #writing
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Movie Time #74: The Hunt (2012)
▶️ Today’s film is a psychological drama from 🇩🇰Denmark about a man who works in childcare and is wrongly accused of paedophelia (=sexual attraction to children). Watch how he becomes an outcast (=sb who is kicked out from society) and how hard it is to get rehabilitated (=be regarded as good again after being regarded as bad).
🔤 English subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #european_films
▶️ Today’s film is a psychological drama from 🇩🇰Denmark about a man who works in childcare and is wrongly accused of paedophelia (=sexual attraction to children). Watch how he becomes an outcast (=sb who is kicked out from society) and how hard it is to get rehabilitated (=be regarded as good again after being regarded as bad).
🔤 English subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #drama #european_films
Odd Man Out #6
▶️ Pay attention to the vowel sound [aɪ].
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #oddmanout #pronunciation
▶️ Pay attention to the vowel sound [aɪ].
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #oddmanout #pronunciation
The odd man out is:
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11%
crisis
28%
windy
11%
blind
4%
micro
7%
virus
9%
style
23%
migrant
7%
height
🏮 Special Day: Welcome the Year of the Dragon!
▶️ Tune in to the world’s biggest televised event – the Chinese Spring Festival Gala. It’s a potpourri (=mix) of bombastic (=big, shocking) musical performances, spectacular kongfu (=Chinese martial art) shows, not that funny standup comedy and lots of propaganda (=advertising for the government). And it’s going on RIGHT NOW! 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTEG19BHt1U
🐉 By the way, the year of the dragon is considered the luckiest one!
👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #know_your_world
▶️ Tune in to the world’s biggest televised event – the Chinese Spring Festival Gala. It’s a potpourri (=mix) of bombastic (=big, shocking) musical performances, spectacular kongfu (=Chinese martial art) shows, not that funny standup comedy and lots of propaganda (=advertising for the government). And it’s going on RIGHT NOW! 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTEG19BHt1U
🐉 By the way, the year of the dragon is considered the luckiest one!
👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #know_your_world
Spot Afandi and his donkey #153: Afandi celebrating 🇨🇳Chinese New Year in 🇮🇳Little India of former 🇬🇧British colony George Town, 🇲🇾Malaysia
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 🔥10,000🔥 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it by private message 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_afandi
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 🔥10,000🔥 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it by private message 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_afandi
Congrats to Sarvinoz!!! 👏👏👏
And lovely designs today from Abdulloh A., Muhammadyahyo and Abdulloh S. Thanks!!! 🏮🎉🐉
And lovely designs today from Abdulloh A., Muhammadyahyo and Abdulloh S. Thanks!!! 🏮🎉🐉
This picture was taken in …
Anonymous Quiz
20%
🇵🇰Pakistan
4%
🇦🇪United Arab Emirates
50%
🇧🇩Bangladesh
27%
🇱🇰Sri Lanka
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Talking Point #6: Snippets
▶️ Cats are amazing creatures. They manage to teach complex history lessons in just 20 seconds. But it doesn’t stop there. People form their opinions about society and politics on TikTok, and even one minute is a long time there. And damn me if I write too much on my channel – people will unsubscribe.
We live in a world of “snippets” – super short pieces of written information with more and more visuals (=using pictures or videos). What’s your take (=your opinion)?
👉@afandi_english👈 #talking_point #know_your_world
▶️ Cats are amazing creatures. They manage to teach complex history lessons in just 20 seconds. But it doesn’t stop there. People form their opinions about society and politics on TikTok, and even one minute is a long time there. And damn me if I write too much on my channel – people will unsubscribe.
We live in a world of “snippets” – super short pieces of written information with more and more visuals (=using pictures or videos). What’s your take (=your opinion)?
👉@afandi_english👈 #talking_point #know_your_world
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Movie Time #75: Ghosted (2023)
▶️ Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy this fast-paced romantic action comedy about a farmer who falls in love with a spy.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #action #comedy #american_films
▶️ Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy this fast-paced romantic action comedy about a farmer who falls in love with a spy.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #action #comedy #american_films
Forwarded from Hoffmann's Old Travelogue
Travelogue 🇯🇵 Japan #15: Owl Cafe
▶️ Japan is so full of artificial anything that people have lost sight of nature. But they do like to keep nature in a small, controlled space, just like a bonsai tree (=Japanese miniature tree).
There's a variety of animal cafes, and cat cafes are just for beginners. You may find a puppy (=baby dog) cafe, a bird cafe, a hedgehog (=animal with spikes) cafe, a snake cafe, a penguin cafe and also cafes that house (=keep, are home to) different animals together. And then there are the owl cafes.
Behind each owl there is some information, most importantly if you can cuddle (=touch sb to show you like them) them or not. Visitors are given small pieces of raw fish that they can feed the owls with.
📍Tokyo, Japan
#japan #culture
▶️ Japan is so full of artificial anything that people have lost sight of nature. But they do like to keep nature in a small, controlled space, just like a bonsai tree (=Japanese miniature tree).
There's a variety of animal cafes, and cat cafes are just for beginners. You may find a puppy (=baby dog) cafe, a bird cafe, a hedgehog (=animal with spikes) cafe, a snake cafe, a penguin cafe and also cafes that house (=keep, are home to) different animals together. And then there are the owl cafes.
Behind each owl there is some information, most importantly if you can cuddle (=touch sb to show you like them) them or not. Visitors are given small pieces of raw fish that they can feed the owls with.
📍Tokyo, Japan
#japan #culture