#4 Featured article: Globalisation on the head

📍 Nigerian women, not unlike other African women, love to experiment with different hair styles. Check out this article to find out in what weird ways this makes a great example of international trade.

⛓ https://www.economist.com/middle-east-and-africa/2020/08/15/nigerias-demand-for-fancy-wigs-fuels-a-global-trade?utm_campaign=the-economist-today&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=salesforce-marketing-cloud

👉@afandi_english👈 #article #economist

#33 Our favourite mistakes: Grammar

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Afandi har doim yaxshi maslahatlar beradi.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Afandi always gives good advices.

✅ Well, it should be:
Afandi always gives good advices advice.

❓Why?

❗️ “Advice” is one of the abstract nouns that are uncountable, just like the following other words:
• evidence
• feedback
• homework
• information
• knowledge
• music
• research
• slang
• vocabulary

❗️ If you really want to make these words countable you can sometimes add “a piece of …” before the uncountable word.

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #grammar

#12 World Englishes: Euro English

❗️ Europe with its 500+ million inhabitants (excluding Russia) is a multilingual continent. Most of its countries are in the European Union and the EU has 23 working languages. Many Europeans speak several languages but English is still usually the first foreign language. It is no surprise then that Europeans tend to use English wherever they go in Europe.

🔘 Pronunciation: The sound of Euro English varies a lot depending on a speaker’s mother tongue.

🔘 Grammar: European languages share a lot of similarities, so Euro English speakers are quite good with this.

🔘 Vocabulary: French, Italian and Spanish speakers often use high-level vocabulary as they share these words with English. A French speaker might say something like I’m fatigued rather than I’m tired because fatigue is a normal word in French but a high-level word in English.

▶️ Check out what it’s like:
⛓ About English in the EU

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#9 It’s a strange world: No meat, no milk, no eggs

❓Can you live without meat, milk, eggs and other animal products?

❗️You may think it’s impossible but actually many people do just that, not only in India but also in developed countries. Some even refuse to wear leather shoes! Find out what this movement is all about and why these people say no to eat animal products. Don’t call anyone crazy before hearing what they have to say!

⛓ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veganism

▶️ Here’s a YouTube video about Veganism: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwoL6hWd4l0

👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #culture

#5 Go out and teach! Error correction

❓Students make lots of mistakes. Should you correct them or not?

🔎 The question is not whether you should or shouldn’t correct mistakes in general. As teachers we should decide which mistakes need correction. Distinguish between errors and mistakes. Errors are more serious as they are repeated and show a lack of knowledge.

🔎 Too much correction makes your students shy or fearful and too little correction makes them careless or overconfident. Both extremes are bad. Your students are also different, some demand more correction and some feel embarrassed when you correct them.

🔎 You want to be polite, so you don’t like to interrupt your students. This is a good time for you to take notes for feedback. Later when you look at your notes you can decide which errors to correct, and your students will pay more attention.

❗️Don’t think that correcting students is traditional and that modern teachers don’t correct their students.

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#34 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following sentences:
• She uses brushes when she washes dishes.
• She teaches languages with messages and speeches.

❓What can go wrong here?

❗️When adding -es after [s], [z], [ʃ] and [ʒ] sounds the [ə] is actually pronounced. Many students pronounce it like She us’s brush’s when she wash’s dish’s and She teach’s languag’s with messag’s and speech’s, which is not correct. A few more words for you to watch out for:
• changes
• judges
• matches
• oranges

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation

#15 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi on a ghost market

❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?

❗️If you can, follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message) and win 5,000 Paynet-soums!

👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi

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#4 Education Video: What’s wrong with our education system?

❗️Education systems in every country have similar problems. What are they and why do we have these problems? A lot of that has to do with the development of education in previous centuries. Watch this video to find out what’s wrong, so you can do better as a student or a teacher!

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=okpg-lVWLbE

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#1 Travelogue Uzbekistan: Happy Birthday, Uzbekistan!

🆕 On today’s special occasion I’m bringing you new series of posts about travelling in Uzbekistan. Some Afandi fans followed senior travel expert Mr Hoffmann through the depths of Asia. Now you will have a chance to take a tour through the depths of Uzbekistan! Buckle up for some poorly taken photos, useful vocabulary and culture insights! All photos are original.

Foreign visitors to Uzbekistan would notice the slogan “O’zbekiston kelajagi buyuk davlat” (The future of Uzbekistan is that of a great country). But in recent years it has become less and less visible. I like to think that the future is finally here. Happy Birthday, Uzbekistan!

----------Vocab----------
📍occasion = special event📍depths = deep points📍buckle up for sth = put a seatbelt on (in a car) = get ready for sth📍insight = understanding sth from inside📍slogan = a phrase that’s short and easy to remember

👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan

#12 Tongue twister: Rural rearing

❗️Challenge yourself and practice your pronunciation with this tongue twister today.

▶️ Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

Translation:
Rory jangchi bilan Roger tashvishchi qishloqdagi pivo zavodida noto’g’ri tarbiyalangan.

❗️Pay attention to:

🔘 Pronunciation – Make sure you don’t trill the r’s as you would in Uzbek or Russian.

🔘 Pronunciation – Be consistent with rhotic r’s (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English). The r’s after vowels, at the end of a syllable, are only pronounced in rhotic varieties of English, most noticeably in American English. But there are also rhotic dialects in Britain and non-rhotic dialects in America. The rhotic r’s in this tongue twister are: Rory the warrior and Roger the worrier were reared wrongly in a rural brewery.

👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters

#12 University Vocab: Science, What Science?

❓Academic subjects, also called disciplines, can be divided in two kinds. What are they?

🔎 On the one hand there are natural sciences, sometimes also just called science. These include mathematics, physics, chemistry and biology. A scientist is always a person from the natural sciences.

🔎 On the other hand there are social sciences, also called humanities. They include disciplines like history, psychology, philosophy and sociology. People working in those disciplines are called scholars, not scientists.

❗️Natural sciences and humanities go hand in hand but natural sciences usually get more funding from governments and are more prestigious. To distinguish them from the humanities they are also called hard sciences or exact sciences, sometimes criticising the others as ‘soft’ or ‘non-exact’ sciences. Social sciences are usually stronger in countries that have academic freedom.

👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab

#35 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary

▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Bizni sessiyagacha har kuni uch paradan darsimiz bor.

❌ Perhaps you think it is:
We have three pairs every day until the session.

✅ Well, it should be:
We have three pairs classes / class periods every day until the session final exams / exam period.

❓Why?

❗️ A pair just means two of something. It’s true that university classes are twice the length of school classes but just pair is too unspecific in English. We can speak of class periods or just classes, or be more precise and say lectures or seminars.

❗️ The word session in English literally means ‘sitting’ and describes people sitting together for classes or workshops or training, etc. A teacher could start a class and ask the students “What did we talk about in our last session?”

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary

#11 YouTube Channel Recommendation: National Geographic

⛓ Link: www.youtube.com/user/NationalGeographic

📊 English Level: Upper

🔤 Subtitles: Available

💬 Topics: Science, nature, adventure, travel

💡 Content: National Geographic has a wide range of videos that are not just interesting but also educational and entertaining. Some of the videos were made for younger audiences, and these are especially good for language learning. But not only that, you may also find it exciting to explore the planet.

👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube

#16 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi protesting against pollution in a cotton field

❓ Can you spot Afandi and his donkey in this picture?

❗️If you can, follow the instructions in #1 (see pinned message) and win 5,000 Paynet-soums!

👉@afandi_english👈 #spot_afandi

#2 Travelogue Uzbekistan: Stop!

“Stop karantin!” written on a roadblock is pretty clear, right? Cars cannot pass because of the lockdown. But hey, the world is big and different people see different things in the same picture. Not long ago, thousands of people took to the streets in Berlin, protesting against the German government’s strict measures to contain the coronavirus. I remember seeing that all over the news. Looking at the roadblock a second time I thought: “Ah? Would anyone in Uzbekistan protest and write ‘stop the lockdown'?” – of course not, it’s just a missing comma! “Stop , karantin!”

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📍lockdown = “karantin” in Uzbek; the English “quarantine”, pronounced ['kwɒrənti:n], only means keeping infected people away from others📍take to the streets = protest on the streets📍protest = complain publicly about sth bad or unfair
📍measure = official action📍contain = stop sth from spreading📍all over = everywhere

👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uzbekistan