#4 Know Your World: Ugly but true
▶️ Did you know that maps always lie to us? Since the Earth is a globe we simply cannot have a map that shows us both true sizes and true shapes. It is often argued that the poor countries in the tropics look too small on maps and the Europe, Russia, Greenland and North America too big.
❗️Here’s an alternative projection of the world map – the so-called Gall-Peters Projection. It is true to size, not shape, and looks strangely squeezed (=made small) and stretched (=made long).
❓Why should we care?
❗️Maps shape the way we see the world. Look how big Africa is on this map. And that’s the true size of it.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #maps
▶️ Did you know that maps always lie to us? Since the Earth is a globe we simply cannot have a map that shows us both true sizes and true shapes. It is often argued that the poor countries in the tropics look too small on maps and the Europe, Russia, Greenland and North America too big.
❗️Here’s an alternative projection of the world map – the so-called Gall-Peters Projection. It is true to size, not shape, and looks strangely squeezed (=made small) and stretched (=made long).
❓Why should we care?
❗️Maps shape the way we see the world. Look how big Africa is on this map. And that’s the true size of it.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #maps
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Final Results
50%
Malaysia
21%
United Arab Emirates
6%
Mexico
24%
Bangladesh
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Well done!
👍 Malaysia was indeed the correct answer. You can tell by the colonial architecture, the modern skyscrapers (=very tall buildings), the tropical vegetation (=all the plants in one area) and the Islamic star, or octagram (=having 8 corners), on the pavement (=place for pedestrians to walk).
👎 Bangladesh is Islamic and tropical but not developed enough to have so many skyscrapers in one place. The United Arab Emirates are more modern with hardly any (=almost none) colonial buildings left. Meanwhile, Mexico is not a Muslim country.
👍 Malaysia was indeed the correct answer. You can tell by the colonial architecture, the modern skyscrapers (=very tall buildings), the tropical vegetation (=all the plants in one area) and the Islamic star, or octagram (=having 8 corners), on the pavement (=place for pedestrians to walk).
👎 Bangladesh is Islamic and tropical but not developed enough to have so many skyscrapers in one place. The United Arab Emirates are more modern with hardly any (=almost none) colonial buildings left. Meanwhile, Mexico is not a Muslim country.
#8 A Good Laugh: Not That Smart
▶️ Check out these 🇸🇪Swedish commercials about a confident young man who believes in technology a little bit too much!
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
▶️ Check out these 🇸🇪Swedish commercials about a confident young man who believes in technology a little bit too much!
👉@afandi_english👈 #good_laugh
#102 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• bowl
• dough
• focus
• ghost
• goal
• hotel
• joke
• lonely
• most
• notice
• own
• Seoul
• sew
• soap
• won’t
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They contain the double vowel [əʊ], or in American English [ou]. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• bowl – ❌ баул, ✅ боул
• dough – ❌ дау, ✅ доу
• focus – ❌ фокус, ✅ фоукус
• ghost – ❌ гост, ✅ гоуст
• goal – ❌ гол, ✅ гоул
• hotel – ❌ хотел, ✅ хоутел
• joke – ❌ джок, ✅ джоук
• lonely – ❌ лонли, ✅ лоунли
• most – ❌ мост, ✅ моуст
• notice – ❌ нотис, ✅ ноутис
• own – ❌ аун, ✅ оун
• Seoul – ❌ Сеул, ✅ Соул
• sew – ❌ сю, ✅ соу
• soap – ❌ суп, ✅ соуп
• won’t – ❌ вонт, ✅ воунт
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
▶️ Try pronouncing the following words:
• bowl
• dough
• focus
• ghost
• goal
• hotel
• joke
• lonely
• most
• notice
• own
• Seoul
• sew
• soap
• won’t
❓What do these words have in common?
❗️ They contain the double vowel [əʊ], or in American English [ou]. For clarity in Cyrillic (not Russian pronunciation):
• bowl – ❌ баул, ✅ боул
• dough – ❌ дау, ✅ доу
• focus – ❌ фокус, ✅ фоукус
• ghost – ❌ гост, ✅ гоуст
• goal – ❌ гол, ✅ гоул
• hotel – ❌ хотел, ✅ хоутел
• joke – ❌ джок, ✅ джоук
• lonely – ❌ лонли, ✅ лоунли
• most – ❌ мост, ✅ моуст
• notice – ❌ нотис, ✅ ноутис
• own – ❌ аун, ✅ оун
• Seoul – ❌ Сеул, ✅ Соул
• sew – ❌ сю, ✅ соу
• soap – ❌ суп, ✅ соуп
• won’t – ❌ вонт, ✅ воунт
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation
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#3 Afandi Karaoke: Last Christmas (by Wham!)
▶️ Today’s video obviously has something to do with Christmas – that cheesy (=cheap art, of poor taste) old earworm (=a song that is stuck in your head) from the 1980s. Whether Christmas means anything to you or not, the video gives you a pretty good idea of what the fashion was like back in those days (=at that time).
As fate would have it, (=by destiny) the song’s singer George Michael passed away on Christmas Day five years ago. 🤭
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
▶️ Today’s video obviously has something to do with Christmas – that cheesy (=cheap art, of poor taste) old earworm (=a song that is stuck in your head) from the 1980s. Whether Christmas means anything to you or not, the video gives you a pretty good idea of what the fashion was like back in those days (=at that time).
As fate would have it, (=by destiny) the song’s singer George Michael passed away on Christmas Day five years ago. 🤭
👉@afandi_english👈 #karaoke
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#23 Movie Time: The Truman Show (1998)
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇺🇸Hollywood classic. It’s about a young man who has lived all his life in a small town that was actually built for him. His entire life is basically a TV show as his every movement is watched by a global audience. See what happens when he slowly starts realising what’s going on.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #drama #comedy
▶️ Today’s movie is a 🇺🇸Hollywood classic. It’s about a young man who has lived all his life in a small town that was actually built for him. His entire life is basically a TV show as his every movement is watched by a global audience. See what happens when he slowly starts realising what’s going on.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #american_films #drama #comedy
#67 Travelogue UK: Inside UK houses
Old nations have their own standards in everything, even about small things in the house. Let’s take a closer look at what makes a house really British inside:
Fire doors
Buildings often have fire doors in them – heavy wooden doors without handle that you push open and, heavy as they are, they shut themselves. This is to prevent fire from spreading.
Windows
In older houses you don’t open a window by pulling a handle but you slide it up actually.
Bathrooms
First of all they usually have a carpet, so you shouldn’t splash too much water around. The light is switched on and off by pulling a string.
Toilets
You flush a toilet by pushing down a handle. Little pressure releases little water, a hard push the whole tank.
Sinks
Hot and cold water are provided separately, from two different taps.
Plugs
The UK plug has 3 pins, not 2. The third pin is long and helps stabilise the plug in the socket.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
Old nations have their own standards in everything, even about small things in the house. Let’s take a closer look at what makes a house really British inside:
Fire doors
Buildings often have fire doors in them – heavy wooden doors without handle that you push open and, heavy as they are, they shut themselves. This is to prevent fire from spreading.
Windows
In older houses you don’t open a window by pulling a handle but you slide it up actually.
Bathrooms
First of all they usually have a carpet, so you shouldn’t splash too much water around. The light is switched on and off by pulling a string.
Toilets
You flush a toilet by pushing down a handle. Little pressure releases little water, a hard push the whole tank.
Sinks
Hot and cold water are provided separately, from two different taps.
Plugs
The UK plug has 3 pins, not 2. The third pin is long and helps stabilise the plug in the socket.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #uk
Afandi English
#67 Travelogue UK: Inside UK houses Old nations have their own standards in everything, even about small things in the house. Let’s take a closer look at what makes a house really British inside: Fire doors Buildings often have fire doors in them – heavy…
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📍(door) handle = piece of metal that you push and pull when opening or closing a door 📍slide sth up/down = move sth smoothly 📍string = strong thread, thinner than a rope 📍flush = pour water to clean sth 📍plug = piece of plastic connecting a cable with electricity 📍stabilise = make sth stable 📍socket = thing in the wall to connect electrical equipment
📍(door) handle = piece of metal that you push and pull when opening or closing a door 📍slide sth up/down = move sth smoothly 📍string = strong thread, thinner than a rope 📍flush = pour water to clean sth 📍plug = piece of plastic connecting a cable with electricity 📍stabilise = make sth stable 📍socket = thing in the wall to connect electrical equipment