Unmissable Websites #6: Optical Toys

▶️ Explore the world of optical illusions (=strange pictures to trick the brain), all with explanations.

🔗 https://optical.toys/

👉@afandi_english👈 #website

Afandi Quiz #150: What’s this map about?

▶️ Here’s a physical map of the world showing some light green areas.

👉@afandi_english👈 #maps #map_quiz

#17 Outlook: Changing Paradigms

▶️ Watch this animated talk by British education specialist Sir Ken Robinson. He argues that we need to change our fundamental beliefs, our paradigm, about education.

👉@learn_2_teach👈 #outlook

https://t.me/terrysterrificenglish

I just came across this channel which is kinda like Afandi English with an IELTS spin, brought to you by someone a lot more charming than myself (i.e. terrific Terry).

Highly recommended for those sitting in the IELTS waiting room! 😉

YouTube Channel Recommendation #55: Tom Scott

📊 English Level: Upper & advanced

🔤 Subtitles: Provided

💬 Topics: Technology, science, nature

💡 Content: Tom takes you to interesting places and tries out cool stuff while telling you all about it.

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

👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube

Know Your World #76: The History of English as a Global Language

▶️ How did English become the world’s first language? Watch this animated video to understand the basics.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary

Tongue twister #39: Happy Hector

❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:

▶️ Hector the happy hedgehog hugged heaps of hibiscus while humming a harmonious hymn.

Translation:
Baxtli tipratikan Gektor gibiskusni quchoqlab, uyg‘un madhiya kuylamoqda.

Why practice?
🔘 Pronunciation – The [h] sound is always soft in English, not like the Russian [x]. Unfortunately for Uzbeks, the two are not clearly distinguished in the Uzbek language.

Check out a previous post about this problem.

👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters

🎉 Special Day: Happy Children’s Day!

▶️ Here’s a beautiful short film from 🇮🇳India about boy who works as a chaiwala (=person selling spiced milk tea in India or Pakistan).

👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day #short_film

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Afandi Quiz #151: Which country?

▶️ Here is a mysterious picture from a mysterious country.

👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz

Our favourite mistakes #155: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• church
• Turkey
• word
• work
• worm
• world
•  worse
•  worst

❓What do these words have in common? They have the long vowel [ɜ:] as in “girl” or “bird”.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation