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🎉Special Day: Don’t say this to children
▶️ Children are pure and innocent (=not guilty), and yet we often blame them for being clumsy (=not careful, dropping things or falling), ignorant (=not knowing sth) or wicked (=evil). It hurts them and makes everything worse. Let a bunch of German kids teach you a lesson today. Happy Children’s Day! 👧👦
👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day
▶️ Children are pure and innocent (=not guilty), and yet we often blame them for being clumsy (=not careful, dropping things or falling), ignorant (=not knowing sth) or wicked (=evil). It hurts them and makes everything worse. Let a bunch of German kids teach you a lesson today. Happy Children’s Day! 👧👦
👉@afandi_english👈 #special_day
#2 Talking Point: Is education like cutting wings?
▶️ What an image – parents are cutting their child’s wings. The wings here stand for imagination and creativity, and also for independence. Parents, and teachers as well, cut them and thereby limit the child’s natural abilities. Now is that cruel or not?
👉@afandi_english👈 #talking_point
▶️ What an image – parents are cutting their child’s wings. The wings here stand for imagination and creativity, and also for independence. Parents, and teachers as well, cut them and thereby limit the child’s natural abilities. Now is that cruel or not?
👉@afandi_english👈 #talking_point
#120 Afandi Quiz: Which country?
▶️ Here is a mysterious picture from a mysterious country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz
▶️ Here is a mysterious picture from a mysterious country.
👉@afandi_english👈 #picture_quiz
This picture was taken in ...
Anonymous Quiz
8%
🇳🇱 the Netherlands
9%
🇬🇧 the United Kingdom
63%
🇦🇪 the United Arab Emirates
20%
🇷🇺 Russia
#38 Tongue twister: Wishful witches
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️Three witches wished three wishes but which witch knows which witch wished which wish?
Translation:
Uchta jodugar uchta tilak tiladi, ammo qaysi jodugar qaysi jodugar qaysi tilakni tilaganini biladi?
🔘 Fluency and accuracy: Tongue twisters force you to pay more attention to correct pronunciation, while at the same time you’re trying to speak fast. Keep practicing them until your both fluent and accurate, it’ll benefit your speaking skill!
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
❗️Challenge yourself with this tongue twister:
▶️
Uchta jodugar uchta tilak tiladi, ammo qaysi jodugar qaysi jodugar qaysi tilakni tilaganini biladi?
🔘 Fluency and accuracy: Tongue twisters force you to pay more attention to correct pronunciation, while at the same time you’re trying to speak fast. Keep practicing them until your both fluent and accurate, it’ll benefit your speaking skill!
👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters
#20 Correct me if you can
▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
Most of people were born before 2000.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct
▶️ Find the mistake in the following sentence:
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#18 Must Watch: The Alphabet of Nations
▶️ Here’s a wonderfully weird song made up entirely of country names. Let your mind travel as you sing along!
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch #karaoke
▶️ Here’s a wonderfully weird song made up entirely of country names. Let your mind travel as you sing along!
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch #karaoke
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#60 Movie Time: The Imitation Game (2014)
▶️ Today’s film is an Oscar-winning drama about Britain’s war-time effort to decipher (=make secret or incomprehensible messages understandable) Nazi Germany’s communications. Alan Turing, the man designing the machine to do this, is quite possibly the father of the modern computer. Based on a true story.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama
▶️ Today’s film is an Oscar-winning drama about Britain’s war-time effort to decipher (=make secret or incomprehensible messages understandable) Nazi Germany’s communications. Alan Turing, the man designing the machine to do this, is quite possibly the father of the modern computer. Based on a true story.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama
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#52 Know Your World: Mapping poverty in America
▶️ Paradoxically (=seemingly contradictory, not fitting together), the richest nation on Earth has always struggled with poverty. Watch this video by The Economist for some basic facts.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
▶️ Paradoxically (=seemingly contradictory, not fitting together), the richest nation on Earth has always struggled with poverty. Watch this video by The Economist for some basic facts.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
#146 Our favourite mistakes: Writing
▶️ Look at the following sentences:
I think, this is a good idea.
Because, there are many problems.
But, I disagree with this statement.
So, I this is the best solution.
❓What’s wrong here?
❗️There should not be any commas.
❓Why?
❗️ The problem is overgeneralisation. You have seen sentence starters like these:
- However, …
- Firstly, …
- On the other hand, …
- Moreover, ...
These all have commas, but that doesn’t mean everything must have commas.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ Look at the following sentences:
I think, this is a good idea.
Because, there are many problems.
But, I disagree with this statement.
So, I this is the best solution.
❓What’s wrong here?
❗️
❓Why?
❗️ The problem is overgeneralisation. You have seen sentence starters like these:
- However, …
- Firstly, …
- On the other hand, …
- Moreover, ...
These all have commas, but that doesn’t mean everything must have commas.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
Forwarded from Hoffmann's Old Travelogue
#1 Travelogue 🇧🇪Belgium: The heart of Brussels
▶️ Welcome to Brussels, the capital of not just Belgium but the whole 🇪🇺EU.
Check out Grand-Place (French) or Grote Markt (Flemish) in the middle of the city. Belgium is bilingual, the northern half speaks Flemish, which is almost the same as Dutch, and the southern half speaks French. Brussels is mostly French-speaking despite being surrounded by Flemish-speaking areas.
Interestingly, no one speaks of an "Old Town" in Brussels. That's probably because the old part of town is too big and not separated enough from the rest of the city.
#travel #belgium
▶️ Welcome to Brussels, the capital of not just Belgium but the whole 🇪🇺EU.
Check out Grand-Place (French) or Grote Markt (Flemish) in the middle of the city. Belgium is bilingual, the northern half speaks Flemish, which is almost the same as Dutch, and the southern half speaks French. Brussels is mostly French-speaking despite being surrounded by Flemish-speaking areas.
Interestingly, no one speaks of an "Old Town" in Brussels. That's probably because the old part of town is too big and not separated enough from the rest of the city.
#travel #belgium
#138 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi making friends with seagulls at a beach near Den Haag, 🇳🇱Holland
❓ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
❗️ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
🆕 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 5,000 Paynet-soums!
❓ How? Spot Afandi, mark him in the picture and send it to @jochenho. The time limit is 30 minutes. Not sure what Afandi looks like? Check the pinned message above!
🆕 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 first-time winner Noila!!! 👏👏👏
And good job on the designs, Babyface, Avazxon and Saidislom! 👍👍👍
And good job on the designs, Babyface, Avazxon and Saidislom! 👍👍👍