#5 Correct me if you can
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
I want to study abroad if I will get a scholarship.
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #correct
▶️ Please find the mistake in the following sentence:
#13 World Food: 🇹🇷Turkish Breakfast
▶️ A good breakfast is the start of a good day. Turkish breakfast is exactly that. It is rich and usually salty and is …
... made with:
Fresh white bread, feta cheese (=a type of white cheese), sucuk (=Turkish sausage with garlic), fried or boiled eggs, sliced fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and black olives.
... eaten with:
Fresh ingredients sprinkled (=put small amounts of sth on top) with olive oil, salt and dried herbs. People drink black tea with sugar in small glasses.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
▶️ A good breakfast is the start of a good day. Turkish breakfast is exactly that. It is rich and usually salty and is …
... made with:
Fresh white bread, feta cheese (=a type of white cheese), sucuk (=Turkish sausage with garlic), fried or boiled eggs, sliced fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, and black olives.
... eaten with:
Fresh ingredients sprinkled (=put small amounts of sth on top) with olive oil, salt and dried herbs. People drink black tea with sugar in small glasses.
Healthy or not? 🟢
Easy to make? 🟢
Cheap enough? 🟡
👉@afandi_english👈 #world_food
#44 YouTube Channel Recommendation: WION
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Automatic
💬 Topics: World news, popular science
💡 Content: Follow the news with an 🇮🇳Indian spin (=present sth in a particular way) and familiarise yourself with Indian-accented high-level English – a variety that you are very likely to come face to face with at some point in your life.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/WION
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
📊 English Level: Upper
🔤 Subtitles: Automatic
💬 Topics: World news, popular science
💡 Content: Follow the news with an 🇮🇳Indian spin (=present sth in a particular way) and familiarise yourself with Indian-accented high-level English – a variety that you are very likely to come face to face with at some point in your life.
⛓ Link: https://www.youtube.com/c/WION
👉@afandi_english👈 #youtube
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
#27 Know Your World: Culture classes for immigrants
▶️ Ever since the refugee (=sb escaping from a bad situation, esp. wars) crisis of 2015 Europe hasn’t been the same. Should refugees understand the locals or locals understand the refugees? Watch this documentary about Muslim immigrants in 🇳🇴Norway.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
▶️ Ever since the refugee (=sb escaping from a bad situation, esp. wars) crisis of 2015 Europe hasn’t been the same. Should refugees understand the locals or locals understand the refugees? Watch this documentary about Muslim immigrants in 🇳🇴Norway.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #documentary
#97 Afandi Quiz: Cultural Misunderstanding
Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Omar is a low-budget (=spending little money) travel blogger from 🇲🇾Malaysia. It is his first trip to Europe. In 🇪🇸Spain he visits a so-called “feria” – a big festival celebrated in a small town. He is really excited about it but also disturbed by one thing.
👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz
Today’s quiz is about a cultural misunderstanding in the following situation:
▶️ Omar is a low-budget (=spending little money) travel blogger from 🇲🇾Malaysia. It is his first trip to Europe. In 🇪🇸Spain he visits a so-called “feria” – a big festival celebrated in a small town. He is really excited about it but also disturbed by one thing.
👉@afandi_english👈 #culture_quiz
What’s the problem with the Spanish festival?
Final Results
29%
All shops are closed and there’s nowhere to buy anything.
26%
Spanish festivals can be dangerous, with angry bulls, etc.
32%
Local people often make fun of religion during festivals.
12%
Police are off-duty and foreigners often get robbed.
Afandi English
What’s the problem with the Spanish festival?
Hm!
💡 Our Malaysian traveller is irritated (=annoyed, disturbed) by the fact that all shops are closed, forcing him to eat expensive food in restaurants. Go anywhere in Asia, celebrations are rarely so holy that people don’t go about (=do sth as usual) their business. In most parts of Europe, however, shops also close on Sundays.
💡 Our Malaysian traveller is irritated (=annoyed, disturbed) by the fact that all shops are closed, forcing him to eat expensive food in restaurants. Go anywhere in Asia, celebrations are rarely so holy that people don’t go about (=do sth as usual) their business. In most parts of Europe, however, shops also close on Sundays.
#130 Our favourite mistakes: Writing
▶️ Please translate the following items:
Andijon davlat universiteti
Oksford universiteti nashriyoti
Jahon savdo tashkiloti
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Andijan state university
Oxford university press
World trade organisation
✅ Well, it should be:
Andijan State University
Oxford University Press
World Trade Organisation
❓Why?
❗️ Proper nouns in English are capitalised. If they consist of several words then all of the words are capitalised, not just the first word (unlike in Uzbek).
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
▶️ Please translate the following items:
Andijon davlat universiteti
Oksford universiteti nashriyoti
Jahon savdo tashkiloti
❌ Perhaps you think it is:
Andijan state university
Oxford university press
World trade organisation
✅ Well, it should be:
Oxford University Press
World Trade Organisation
❗️ Proper nouns in English are capitalised. If they consist of several words then all of the words are capitalised, not just the first word (unlike in Uzbek).
👉@afandi_english👈 #mistakes #writing
#5 Travel Notes: Christian Armenia
▶️ Think what you want about religion but I find it fascinating to observe people at their most spiritual moments. 🇦🇲Armenia is situated in the mountains. Mountain dwellers (=people who live in the mountains) around the world have always been more likely to preserve (=keep) ancient traditions and not follow current changes around them. Visiting an Armenian church or monastery (=religious building where monks or nuns live) therefore feels a little bit like travelling through time as well. It is quite unlike anything you find in the hustle and bustle (=noise and activity of a crowded place) of Europe or America.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
▶️ Think what you want about religion but I find it fascinating to observe people at their most spiritual moments. 🇦🇲Armenia is situated in the mountains. Mountain dwellers (=people who live in the mountains) around the world have always been more likely to preserve (=keep) ancient traditions and not follow current changes around them. Visiting an Armenian church or monastery (=religious building where monks or nuns live) therefore feels a little bit like travelling through time as well. It is quite unlike anything you find in the hustle and bustle (=noise and activity of a crowded place) of Europe or America.
👉@afandi_english👈 #travel #armenia
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
#13 Must Watch: Hong Kong by Night
▶️ Switch off all the lights around you and embark (=start a journey, esp. on a ship or plane) on a nocturnal (=in the night) drone flight through sleepless Hong Kong. Impressive and humbling (=making you feel small) at once.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch
▶️ Switch off all the lights around you and embark (=start a journey, esp. on a ship or plane) on a nocturnal (=in the night) drone flight through sleepless Hong Kong. Impressive and humbling (=making you feel small) at once.
👉@afandi_english👈 #must_watch
Media is too big
VIEW IN TELEGRAM
#43 Movie Time: Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)
▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British drama based on George Orwell’s dystopian (=having a bad vision of the future) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote it in 1948, imagining what the world might be like in 1984 if things go very wrong. In this bad future people are kept in poverty and ignorance. They are brainwashed and under government surveillance (=watching and checking people) at all times. Even their language is changed to prevent them from thinking. Nineteen Eighty-Four serves as a warning for people to defend their freedom. In our age of technology, crises and mass hysteria (=many people getting crazy about sth) Orwell’s novel is ever more relevant.
Beware of (=warning sb to be careful) some strong scenes.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama #future
▶️ Today’s film is a 🇬🇧British drama based on George Orwell’s dystopian (=having a bad vision of the future) novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell wrote it in 1948, imagining what the world might be like in 1984 if things go very wrong. In this bad future people are kept in poverty and ignorance. They are brainwashed and under government surveillance (=watching and checking people) at all times. Even their language is changed to prevent them from thinking. Nineteen Eighty-Four serves as a warning for people to defend their freedom. In our age of technology, crises and mass hysteria (=many people getting crazy about sth) Orwell’s novel is ever more relevant.
Beware of (=warning sb to be careful) some strong scenes.
🔤 Subtitles provided.
👉@afandi_english👈 #movie #british_films #drama #future
#107 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in Kadiköy, 🇹🇷Istanbul
❓ 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