#15 Self-study: The cup stacker

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about Trey, a boy from Texas who is one of the world’s fastest cup stackers. Check out how crazy and professional at the same time people can be about such a weird thing as cup stacking.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️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

#16 Self-study: Digital Nomads

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about people who can work from anywhere in the world, so-called “Digital Nomads”. Learn about their unique lifestyle and learn English without even realising it!

❗️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

#17 Self-study: Miss Japan

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a black woman who became “Miss Japan” – the country’s officially most beautiful woman. Find out why many Japanese people disagree!

❗️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

#18 Self-study: Minimalism vs Maximalism

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about how minimalists and maximalists decorate their houses. They couldn’t be more different!

❗️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

#19 Self-study: Nature Provides

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about an old dude in America whose hobby is foraging (=collecting wild plants to eat). Let him show you how much there is to eat out there!

❗️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

#20 Self-study: Steppes to the West

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a Mongolian young lady who went on a long journey from Mongolia to London with a bunch of camels. Find out why and pick up some English on the way!

You may say that this Mongolian lady’s English isn’t 100%, but no worries, you will find good English in the handout. And regardless, as a competent English speaker you can deal with any accent in this world. 😉

❗️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

#21 Self-study: The Worst Place in America

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about an American journalist who declared Red Lake County in Minnesota to be the worst place in America and ended up moving there. Check out what made him have a change of heart (=change one’s opinion or feeling about sth).

❗️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

#22 Self-study: Tourism? No thank you.

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about Providencia, a little island in the Caribbean (=the sea between North and South America). The island could easily attract more tourists but locals are against it. Find out why!

❗️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

#23 Self-study: Young Italian Farmers

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about well-educated young Italians who choose to live and work in the countryside. Dig deeper (=think about sth more deeply), follow the script and use it for self-study!

❗️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 #documentary

#24 Self-study: Towards a robotic future?

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about so-called “futurism” – predicting the future through research of current trends. Listen to what the eccentric (=strange but interesting person) Faith Popcorn, head of a New York consulting company, has to say and pick up some English on the way!

❗️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 #future

#25 Self-study: Living in the past

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about an Englishman who leads a double life. He works for British Airways as a flight attendant but at home he lives like in the 1940s. Check out the house he lives in.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️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

#26 Self-study: King of the Mountain

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a man who spends his summers in a lonely little hut that sits on a mountain, watching the surrounding areas for forest fires. Find out what it is that makes him happy.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️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

#27 Self-study: Llama in a nursing home

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a nursing home (=old people’s home) in the United States where llamas (=horse-like animals from South America) are used cheer up the residents (=people who live somewhere).

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️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

#28 Self-study: From one world to another

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a group of refugees from 🇸🇸South Sudan who were resettled (=moved to live elsewhere) in the 🇺🇸United States. See how they cope with the huge cultural differences between Africa and America.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️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 #documentary

#29 Self-study: A Chinese-African Couple

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a mixed couple in 🇨🇳China. Sandra is a lady from 🇨🇲Cameroon who married a local Chinese and now lives with him in his village. Watch how they earn a living (=enough money to live) by live-streaming their daily life.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️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 #documentary

#30 Self-study: My problem is my accent

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a Polish lady living in Britain. She laments (=complains) that people discriminate against her because of her foreign accent. Check out how she tries to solve her problem.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️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 #documentary

#31 Self-study: Prisoners learning cosmetology

▶️ Today’s video and handout are about a lady working with inmates (=prisoners, esp. to each other) at a California prison. She teaches them cosmetology – the profession of making customers’ face, hair and skin beautiful.

🔤 Subtitles provided.

❗️If you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 👆 and the instructions on the handout.

👉@afandi_english👈 #self_study #documentary

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