Afandi English
#1 Spot Afandi and his donkey: May I introduce myself? 🆕 Assalomu alaykum! I am Afandi and I sit on my donkey all day and all night. I love going here and there but it’s hard to spot me as I love to hide! Every Sunday at 9pm Tashkent time you will have a…
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#47 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Fergana
❓ 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
❓ 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
Congrats to Omadbek!!! 🥳🥳🥳 And cheers to Raxmatulloh, Oisha and Boburshox for the designs!!! 👏👏👏
#18 It’s a strange world: Nudging
❓Why is it that every time we go to a supermarket we end up (=finally doing sth) buying more than we planned?
❗️The truth is we are gently pushed, or “nudged”, to buy things that we don’t actually need. So gently, in fact, that we don’t even realise it. And not only in supermarkets – there are countless examples of psychological tricks used in other businesses and public life, too.
⛓ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
▶️ Here’s a video about nudging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lha5tQO0H-8
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #psychology
❓Why is it that every time we go to a supermarket we end up (=finally doing sth) buying more than we planned?
❗️The truth is we are gently pushed, or “nudged”, to buy things that we don’t actually need. So gently, in fact, that we don’t even realise it. And not only in supermarkets – there are countless examples of psychological tricks used in other businesses and public life, too.
⛓ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nudge_theory
▶️ Here’s a video about nudging:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lha5tQO0H-8
👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #psychology
#2 Corona: Corona childhood
Children in corona-crazy countries are not to be envied (=wishing that you had someone else’s things or talents). Social distancing on the playground? That seems difficult for children to understand, so playgrounds just get shut. And when the children ask why someone explains it to them like this: “You don’t want to kill your grandmother, do you? So keep away from other children!” A lost generation of corona kids or an unclear number of preventable deaths among old people – what’s worse?
👉@afandi_english👈
Children in corona-crazy countries are not to be envied (=wishing that you had someone else’s things or talents). Social distancing on the playground? That seems difficult for children to understand, so playgrounds just get shut. And when the children ask why someone explains it to them like this: “You don’t want to kill your grandmother, do you? So keep away from other children!” A lost generation of corona kids or an unclear number of preventable deaths among old people – what’s worse?
👉@afandi_english👈
Afandi English
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👍 Kazakhstan is the right answer. Yes the guy looks East Asian and is eating with chopsticks, but the trained Afandi eye must have spotted some Cyrillic writing in the background. Just for your information, I took this picture in Almaty and the guy is an ethnic Dungan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_people).
👎 Taiwan, Vietnam and North Korea are all chopsticks countries but don’t use Cyrillic. Simple as that!
👍 Kazakhstan is the right answer. Yes the guy looks East Asian and is eating with chopsticks, but the trained Afandi eye must have spotted some Cyrillic writing in the background. Just for your information, I took this picture in Almaty and the guy is an ethnic Dungan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dungan_people).
👎 Taiwan, Vietnam and North Korea are all chopsticks countries but don’t use Cyrillic. Simple as that!
IELTS DOs & DON’Ts: Review time
I often get asked advice that I’ve given before, so let’s look again at the past 10 posts in this series before moving on:
1️⃣ Exam culture
2️⃣ Speaking: Self-introduction
3️⃣ Academic topics
4️⃣ Reading
5️⃣ Last minute preparation
6️⃣ Preparation for Speaking
7️⃣ General English
8️⃣ Listening
9️⃣ Notes for essays
🔟 Career advice
❗️ Recent test takers – your suggestions for future posts are welcomed!
👉@afandi_english👈 #ielts
I often get asked advice that I’ve given before, so let’s look again at the past 10 posts in this series before moving on:
1️⃣ Exam culture
2️⃣ Speaking: Self-introduction
3️⃣ Academic topics
4️⃣ Reading
5️⃣ Last minute preparation
6️⃣ Preparation for Speaking
7️⃣ General English
8️⃣ Listening
9️⃣ Notes for essays
🔟 Career advice
❗️ Recent test takers – your suggestions for future posts are welcomed!
👉@afandi_english👈 #ielts
#67 Our favourite mistakes: Vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Biz bir maktabda o’qiymiz.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
We study at one school.
✅ Well, it should be:
We study at the same school. / We go to the same school.
❓Why?
❗️Saying that we study at one school means that we don’t study at two schools but only one – which is a strange thing to say.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
▶️ Please translate the following sentence:
Biz bir maktabda o’qiymiz.
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
We study at one school.
✅ Well, it should be:
❗️Saying that we study at one school means that we don’t study at two schools but only one – which is a strange thing to say.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #vocabulary
Afandi English
#1 Self-study: Tom & Savannah 🆕 Brand new on the channel: Materials for self-study! Learn English with interesting videos. You won’t believe how much English you can extract from a video if you go to the bottom of it. IELTS students – here is your source…
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#11 Self-study: Dog Retirement Home
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a retirement home for old dogs. Find out about pet craze (=craziness) in the United States and pick up lots of vocab and structures at the same time!
❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout below 👇.
👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study
▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a retirement home for old dogs. Find out about pet craze (=craziness) in the United States and pick up lots of vocab and structures at the same time!
❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout below 👇.
👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study
Afandi English
#11 Self-study: Dog Retirement Home ▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a retirement home for old dogs. Find out about pet craze (=craziness) in the United States and pick up lots of vocab and structures at the same time! ❗️If you think this is good material…
National Geographic Dog retirement home (self-study version).pdf
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