#12 Featured article: Working From Bed (WFB)
📍 Apart from resting, do you like to do your daily life tasks, working on your laptop or checking your phone in the comfy (=comfortable) environment of your bed? It could be bad for you. Read this BBC article to check out why.
⛓ https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210217-is-it-bad-to-you-work-from-your-bed-for-a-year
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #psychology
📍 Apart from resting, do you like to do your daily life tasks, working on your laptop or checking your phone in the comfy (=comfortable) environment of your bed? It could be bad for you. Read this BBC article to check out why.
⛓ https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210217-is-it-bad-to-you-work-from-your-bed-for-a-year
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #psychology
Bbc
What happens when you work from bed for a year
The allure of working from bed is strong – but turning your mattress into your office can trigger a slew of health problems, both psychological and physical.
#13 Featured article: China and Central Asia
📍 As China is expanding its global reach, the Central Asian countries along the old and new Silk Road are of great importance. Read today’s not one, not two, but three articles about the tricky role that China now plays in Central Asia.
⛓ https://eurasianet.org/poll-shows-uzbeks-like-neighbors-growing-leery-of-chinese-investments
⛓ https://eurasianet.org/china-taking-big-brother-to-central-asia
⛓ https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-chinas-central-asia-strategy-in-the-age-of-extreme-competition
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 As China is expanding its global reach, the Central Asian countries along the old and new Silk Road are of great importance. Read today’s not one, not two, but three articles about the tricky role that China now plays in Central Asia.
⛓ https://eurasianet.org/poll-shows-uzbeks-like-neighbors-growing-leery-of-chinese-investments
⛓ https://eurasianet.org/china-taking-big-brother-to-central-asia
⛓ https://eurasianet.org/perspectives-chinas-central-asia-strategy-in-the-age-of-extreme-competition
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
Eurasianet
Poll shows Uzbeks, like neighbors, growing leery of Chinese investments
The longer Central Asians host Chinese investors, the less they seem to like them.
#14 Featured article: O’zbekiston kelajagi buyuk Xitoymi?
📍 Today’s article is about face recognition systems being installed at schools across Uzbekistan.
⛓ https://kun.uz/en/85752493
▶️ Read the article and debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
🗣 The debate question is: Can cameras and Face ID systems improve the quality of education?
🙂 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say YES.
☹️If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say NO.
❗️Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 Today’s article is about face recognition systems being installed at schools across Uzbekistan.
⛓ https://kun.uz/en/85752493
▶️ Read the article and debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
🗣 The debate question is: Can cameras and Face ID systems improve the quality of education?
🙂 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say YES.
☹️If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say NO.
❗️Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
Kun.uz
Schools to introduce Face ID system to monitor students
Schools of Uzbekistan will introduce a Face ID system to monitor students. This was reported at a board meeting of the Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Public Education.
#15 Featured article: Is Uzbek cuisine to die for?
📍 Today’s article is about Uzbek cuisine (=a country’s or region’s range of dishes and cooking style). It is controversial (=making many people disagree) as it says that Uzbek food is really heavy and causes diet-related diseases.
⛓ http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20191117-is-uzbek-cuisine-actually-to-die-for
▶️ Take a look at the article and then debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
❓The debate question is: Should Uzbek cuisine change?
📅 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say NO.
📅 If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say YES.
💁♂️ Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 Today’s article is about Uzbek cuisine (=a country’s or region’s range of dishes and cooking style). It is controversial (=making many people disagree) as it says that Uzbek food is really heavy and causes diet-related diseases.
⛓ http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20191117-is-uzbek-cuisine-actually-to-die-for
▶️ Take a look at the article and then debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
❓The debate question is: Should Uzbek cuisine change?
📅 If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say NO.
📅 If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say YES.
💁♂️ Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
Bbc
Is Uzbek cuisine actually to die for?
While food is certainly a draw for Uzbekistan, an emerging destination on the historical Silk Road, a recent study gave its cuisine a new superlative: the world’s deadliest food.
#16 Featured article: A second human nature
📍 Today’s article is from a book by Mike Spencer Bown, the world’s most travelled man (according to himself). He describes his experience of complete solitude (=being alone) in the wilderness (=nature). He argues that we all have a second nature but we never know about it unless we go out into the wild.
⛓ https://www.likevillepodcast.com/articles/2019/12/30/being-alone-for-a-long-time-by-mike-spencer-bown
Take a look at the article and then debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
The debate question is: The best thing to experience when travelling is CULTURE / NATURE.
If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say CULTURE.
If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say NATURE.
Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 Today’s article is from a book by Mike Spencer Bown, the world’s most travelled man (according to himself). He describes his experience of complete solitude (=being alone) in the wilderness (=nature). He argues that we all have a second nature but we never know about it unless we go out into the wild.
⛓ https://www.likevillepodcast.com/articles/2019/12/30/being-alone-for-a-long-time-by-mike-spencer-bown
Take a look at the article and then debate with your fellow subscribers in the Afandi English Chat.
The debate question is: The best thing to experience when travelling is CULTURE / NATURE.
If your birthday is between 1 January and 30 June you say CULTURE.
If your birthday is between 1 July and 31 December you say NATURE.
Do not debate with your real opinion and don’t get personal, this is just an exercise!
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
Likeville
Eighty-Six Days of Solitude: A Selection from Mike Spencer Bown’s The World’s Most Travelled Man (2018) — Likeville
“ Castaway (2000) is an interesting movie but it gets the wilderness isolation part all wrong.”
#17 Featured article: Taking it slow
📍 Bulgaria is the EU’s least vaccinated country. Read today’s featured article to find out why. The article is also available in audio format.
⛓ https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/08/12/with-just-15-fully-jabbed-bulgaria-is-giving-away-vaccine-shots
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #economist
📍 Bulgaria is the EU’s least vaccinated country. Read today’s featured article to find out why. The article is also available in audio format.
⛓ https://www.economist.com/europe/2021/08/12/with-just-15-fully-jabbed-bulgaria-is-giving-away-vaccine-shots
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #economist
The Economist
With just 15% fully jabbed, Bulgaria is giving away vaccine shots
Demand is so low that many doses are about to expire | Europe
#18 Featured article: Languages and Climate
📍 Why do languages sound so different? Some of it apparently has to do with the natural environment where languages develop. Read this IELTS-like passage to find out how some scientists come to surprising conclusions.
⛓ https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/06/454853229/did-the-language-you-speak-evolve-because-of-the-heat
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 Why do languages sound so different? Some of it apparently has to do with the natural environment where languages develop. Read this IELTS-like passage to find out how some scientists come to surprising conclusions.
⛓ https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/11/06/454853229/did-the-language-you-speak-evolve-because-of-the-heat
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
#19 Featured article: The world’s most travelled person?
📍 Are you feeling stuck in your country and you don’t know where to go? Why not do it like this old gentleman from Cuba who has been writing poems about many places in the world – without actually having left his country even once!
⛓ https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210114-the-bus-porter-who-travelled-the-world
❗️ This is a very short article with a video.
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
📍 Are you feeling stuck in your country and you don’t know where to go? Why not do it like this old gentleman from Cuba who has been writing poems about many places in the world – without actually having left his country even once!
⛓ https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210114-the-bus-porter-who-travelled-the-world
❗️ This is a very short article with a video.
👉@afandi_english👈 #article
Bbc
The world 'traveller' who never left home
Luis Martinez has written thousands of vivid poems about cities around the world, yet the Cuban bus porter has never left his homeland.
#8 Know Your World: Western views on Muslims
▶️ Europeans and Americans are often accused of Islamophobia (=fearing or hating Islam). Is it really that bad? What are the numbers? And what differences are there between countries?
⛓ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/08/in-the-u-s-and-western-europe-people-say-they-accept-muslims-but-opinions-are-divided-on-islam/
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #statistic
▶️ Europeans and Americans are often accused of Islamophobia (=fearing or hating Islam). Is it really that bad? What are the numbers? And what differences are there between countries?
⛓ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/10/08/in-the-u-s-and-western-europe-people-say-they-accept-muslims-but-opinions-are-divided-on-islam/
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #statistic
Pew Research Center
In the U.S. and Western Europe, people say they accept Muslims, but opinions are divided on Islam
Many across Western Europe and the U.S. would be willing to accept Muslims as family or as neighbors. Yet there is no consensus on whether Islam fits into these societies.
#14 Know Your World: Central Asia and Ukraine
▶️ What are the so-called “stan countries” saying about the war in Ukraine? Read this article to find out.
🔈 Articles in The Economist have a play button – you can have the text read out to you. Use the audio and read along for maximum language learning benefit!
⛓ https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/03/26/the-stans-want-nothing-to-do-with-vladimir-putins-invasion-of-ukraine
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article
▶️ What are the so-called “stan countries” saying about the war in Ukraine? Read this article to find out.
🔈 Articles in The Economist have a play button – you can have the text read out to you. Use the audio and read along for maximum language learning benefit!
⛓ https://www.economist.com/asia/2022/03/26/the-stans-want-nothing-to-do-with-vladimir-putins-invasion-of-ukraine
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article
The Economist
The Stans want nothing to do with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine
Central Asia’s post-Soviet republics have maintained a studied silence on the war
How to worry wisely about AI.pdf
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#50 Know Your World: How to worry wisely about AI
▶️ Humanity is facing the decision of how to deal with ever smarter artificial intelligence. Read this recent article from the Economist to find out what’s happening.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #future
▶️ Humanity is facing the decision of how to deal with ever smarter artificial intelligence. Read this recent article from the Economist to find out what’s happening.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #future
Economist - What if China and India became friends.pdf
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The Economist #1: What if China and India became friends?
🆕 So you think your English is great? Read The Economist then, I bet there are some words you don’t know. The Economist helps you achieve real Academic English. And not only that, you can learn a great deal about what’s happening in the world.
▶️ Today’s article is about the relationship between the world’s most populous (=having a large population) two nations – 🇨🇳China and 🇮🇳India, or 40% of humanity. Their political and economic weight can make all the difference.
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #economist
🆕 So you think your English is great? Read The Economist then, I bet there are some words you don’t know. The Economist helps you achieve real Academic English. And not only that, you can learn a great deal about what’s happening in the world.
▶️ Today’s article is about the relationship between the world’s most populous (=having a large population) two nations – 🇨🇳China and 🇮🇳India, or 40% of humanity. Their political and economic weight can make all the difference.
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #economist
▶️ Afandi English is over 3 years old now and there’s a ton of stuff you’ve missed. Here are some hashtags for posts about knowledge:
#article
Stay informed about the world.
#economist
Grab information and vocab from the mother of news magazines.
#future
Feel the world of tomorrow even today.
#infographic
Let your eye travel across important topics.
#inspiration
See the world in a new light.
#know_your_world
Understand today’s world.
#know_yourself
Know thyself and live well.
#maps
Realise reality with maps.
#psychology
See the human nature so no one can fool you.
#talk
Hear what experts have to say in TED Talks, etc.
#talking_point
Sharpen your mind with controversies.
#travel
Travel the world while staring at your phone.
#uni_vocab
Get to grips with key concepts in higher education.
#wikipedia
Feel the weirdness of this world.
#world_englishes
Be sure you know really know the world’s first language.
#world_food
Check out some lovely meals that you may prepare at home, too.
#article
Stay informed about the world.
#economist
Grab information and vocab from the mother of news magazines.
#future
Feel the world of tomorrow even today.
#infographic
Let your eye travel across important topics.
#inspiration
See the world in a new light.
#know_your_world
Understand today’s world.
#know_yourself
Know thyself and live well.
#maps
Realise reality with maps.
#psychology
See the human nature so no one can fool you.
#talk
Hear what experts have to say in TED Talks, etc.
#talking_point
Sharpen your mind with controversies.
#travel
Travel the world while staring at your phone.
#uni_vocab
Get to grips with key concepts in higher education.
#wikipedia
Feel the weirdness of this world.
#world_englishes
Be sure you know really know the world’s first language.
#world_food
Check out some lovely meals that you may prepare at home, too.
Economist_Western_values_are_steadily_diverging_from_the_rest_of.pdf
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The Economist #2: Western values in the rest of the world
▶️ Back in the days it was assumed that undemocratic nations would become democratic once they got richer. That’s obviously false. But there’s a glimpse of truth (=a little bit of truth) in it all the same (=anyway). Read this article to find out.
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #economist
▶️ Back in the days it was assumed that undemocratic nations would become democratic once they got richer. That’s obviously false. But there’s a glimpse of truth (=a little bit of truth) in it all the same (=anyway). Read this article to find out.
👉@afandi_english👈 #article #economist
Central Asian Foreign Ties.pdf
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Know Your World #65: Central Asia’s new alliances
▶️ Read this recent article from the Economist about the Stan countries’ foreign policy outlook for the coming years.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #economist
▶️ Read this recent article from the Economist about the Stan countries’ foreign policy outlook for the coming years.
👉@afandi_english👈 #know_your_world #article #economist