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#10 It’s a strange world: Free Money

❓What would it be like if every month the government gave us enough money to live?

❗️The gap between rich and poor has grown bigger in most countries, even in the rich world. If you are poor in a rich country you can always get some money from the government but it’s often complicated and people may feel ashamed. Now more and more people say that the government should pay every citizen a basic income. They argue that it would be good for the economy and it would give poor people a better life. In the future it would also distribute the benefits generated by robots and artificial intelligence. What do you think? Is it a crazy idea?

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

▶️ Here’s a YouTube video about Basic Income: www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJYLSrjFUxk

👉@afandi_english👈 #strange_world #politics #economics

#1 Afandi Quiz: What's the word?

🆕 Brand new on the channel: a quiz! See if you are clever enough to find the right answers. If yes you properly Afandily clever and deserve to follow this channel, if not well then keep following until you reach that point! You have some time to complete the quiz before an explanation follows later tonight!

Today’s quiz involves a mysterious picture of a baby. What’s with the baby?

👉@afandi_english👈 #word_quiz

Good job, most of you got that right! 👍

📍The correct answer is taped because the baby is fixed to the wall with sticky tape. If you said tied or glued you’re not totally wrong though.
📍 If something is tied it more typically involves some kind of string, band or rope.
📍Glued is the right kind of sticky but it sounds a little bit more like some liquid glue is used.
📍 Sorry for you if you said locked – that was way off!

#6 Go out and teach! Teaching aids

❗️Imagine you’re just getting into the classroom with nothing but yourself. Can you teach? No worries, there are teaching aids to help you during class.

🔎 There’s classroom equipment like a blackboard, whiteboard, smartboard, a projector, a computer, loudspeakers, etc.

🔎 You’ll probably use some printed materials like coursebooks, textbooks or handouts. Perhaps also what hangs on the walls, like maps or posters, and also flashcards. Likewise you may also use electronic materials, like PowerPoint, pictures, videos, etc.

🔎 More special for the students, especially young learners, are real objects, also called realia. When you teach a lesson about vegetables, why not just bring some to the class?

❗️Think for a minute. Ideally you’d just be standing in front of your students and do a great job without anything more than your hands and your mouth. Use your teaching aids but make sure you’re a good teacher even without!

👉@afandi_english👈

#37 Our favourite mistakes: Pronunciation

▶️ Try pronouncing the following sentences:
• Visit the cinema if it is interesting.
• Rick is a little bit busy.
• The rich kid lives in a villa by the river.
• Give him a drink.
• Six women sit by the big window.
• His sister is sick.

❓What might be the problem here?

❗️Many students have problems with the short [ɪ] sound. It should sound different from the long [i:]. Russian doesn’t have the short [ɪ] at all while Uzbek has something very close but not completely the same. Try to pay attention to the short [ɪ] in the sentences above.

❗️There are a few word pairs of ɪ and i: that often cause misunderstandings:
• his – he’s
• fill – feel
• live – leave
• sit – seat

👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #pronunciation

#5 Education Video: Chinese teachers in the UK

❗️Today’s video is about a group of Chinese teachers who go to the UK in order to teach British teenagers in the “tough” Chinese style of education. This experiment produced a lot of funny situations and culture shock on both sides. We can see just how different teaching and studying can be in different countries. How should teachers and students treat each other? How much authority is good? Should students study for exams or more than that?

The original documentary has three parts but it was taken down from YouTube because too many people started arguing about it. Watch at least the third part to get the idea!

▶️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYGxAwRUpaI

👉@afandi_english👈

#18 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in a roadside wonderland

❓ 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

#13 Tongue twister: Is it corona?

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

▶️ The sixth sick sheikh's sixth sheep's sick.

Translation:
Oltinchi kasal shayxning oltinchi qoyi kasal.

❗️Pay attention to:

🔘 Pronunciation – there is a tricky mix of similar consonants (fricatives) here: [s] and [ʃ] as well as the ‘th’ sounds [θ] and [ð].

👉@afandi_english👈 #tongue_twisters

#13 University Vocab: Degrees

❓Academic degrees used to be quite different from country to country but in the age of globalisation they have become remarkably similar. What are they?

🔎 Your first academic degree is a Bachelor’s degree or short a Bachelor’s. In North America and most of Asia you can get it after 4 years while in most of Europe it only takes 3 years. For scientific subjects you get a Bachelor of Science (BSc), for other subjects a Bachelor of Arts (BA).

🔎 After your Bachelor’s you can do a Master’s which takes 1-3 years. There are Master of Science (MSc) and Master of Arts (MA) degrees.

🔎 If you still can’t get enough you can study fore a doctorate degree usually called PhD which literally means “doctor of philosophy” (and not of medicine).

❗️ When using these words, most importantly don’t pronounce the words your mother tongue in an English way (“Magister” – ouch!) and forget the ‘s after “Bachelor” and “Master”.

👉@afandi_english👈 #uni_vocab

#2 Afandi Quiz: Mysterious song

Today’s quiz is about a mysterious song from a mysterious country! Can you find the right country? Pay attention to the language and style.

👉@afandi_english👈 #song_quiz