#93 Afandi Quiz: What is this thing?
Hereโs a strange-looking thing. What could it be?
๐@afandi_english๐ #thing_quiz
Hereโs a strange-looking thing. What could it be?
๐@afandi_english๐ #thing_quiz
This thing is to lock up ...
Final Results
22%
small birds in a car
26%
cigars for special occasions
12%
photos of hated people
41%
addictive mobile phones
Afandi English
#1 Self-study: Tom & Savannah ๐ Brand new on the channel: Materials for self-study! Learn English with interesting videos. You wonโt believe how much English you can extract from a video if you go to the bottom of it. IELTS students โ here is your sourceโฆ
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#25 Self-study: Living in the past
โถ๏ธ Todayโs 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.
๐ค Subtitles provided.
โ๏ธIf you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 ๐ and the instructions on the handout below ๐.
๐@afandi_english๐ #self_study
โถ๏ธ Todayโs 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.
๐ค Subtitles provided.
โ๏ธIf you think this is good material for your self-study, please follow the instructions in #1 ๐ and the instructions on the handout below ๐.
๐@afandi_english๐ #self_study
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#40 Movie Time: The Other Son (2012)
โถ๏ธ Todayโs movie is a ๐ซ๐ทFrench drama set in ๐ฎ๐ฑIsrael. Itโs about an Israeli and an Arab family whose sons were accidentally swapped (=exchanged) at the time of their birth. They find out many years later when the sons have grown up. See how the story unfolds (=the story is told) and what โblood is thicker than waterโ really means.
๐ค Subtitles provided.
๐@afandi_english๐ #movie #international_films #drama
โถ๏ธ Todayโs movie is a ๐ซ๐ทFrench drama set in ๐ฎ๐ฑIsrael. Itโs about an Israeli and an Arab family whose sons were accidentally swapped (=exchanged) at the time of their birth. They find out many years later when the sons have grown up. See how the story unfolds (=the story is told) and what โblood is thicker than waterโ really means.
๐ค Subtitles provided.
๐@afandi_english๐ #movie #international_films #drama
#79 Travelogue Kazakhstan: The Kazakh Dubai?
๐ฐ๐ฟKazakhstan is a nation blessed (or cursed?) with natural resources, and nowhere is this more evident than in Aktau, the Kazakh boomtown by the Caspian Sea. I canโt help feeling reminded of Dubai:
Whatโs the same?
The city is surrounded by desert and has a coastline. Thereโs a huge construction boom going on. People drive ridiculously good cars. The roads are wide and without a car youโre nothing. The buildings are huge and without air-condition you cannot survive.
Whatโs different?
The city feels quite empty. Apart from a few โmini marketsโ you canโt find anywhere to shop and thereโs basically no gastronomy, not even by the rocky beach. The palm trees are made of plastic and the areas between freshly built apartment blocks are still pieces of untouched desert. There are also close to no foreign workers or tourists.
No matter the luxury dump that Aktau is now, Iโm sure we will hear more about it in the years to come.
๐@afandi_english๐ #travel #kazakhstan
๐ฐ๐ฟKazakhstan is a nation blessed (or cursed?) with natural resources, and nowhere is this more evident than in Aktau, the Kazakh boomtown by the Caspian Sea. I canโt help feeling reminded of Dubai:
Whatโs the same?
The city is surrounded by desert and has a coastline. Thereโs a huge construction boom going on. People drive ridiculously good cars. The roads are wide and without a car youโre nothing. The buildings are huge and without air-condition you cannot survive.
Whatโs different?
The city feels quite empty. Apart from a few โmini marketsโ you canโt find anywhere to shop and thereโs basically no gastronomy, not even by the rocky beach. The palm trees are made of plastic and the areas between freshly built apartment blocks are still pieces of untouched desert. There are also close to no foreign workers or tourists.
No matter the luxury dump that Aktau is now, Iโm sure we will hear more about it in the years to come.
๐@afandi_english๐ #travel #kazakhstan
Afandi English
#79 Travelogue Kazakhstan: The Kazakh Dubai? ๐ฐ๐ฟKazakhstan is a nation blessed (or cursed?) with natural resources, and nowhere is this more evident than in Aktau, the Kazakh boomtown by the Caspian Sea. I canโt help feeling reminded of Dubai: Whatโs theโฆ
---Vocab---
๐blessed = being given good things by God ๐cursed = punished by God ๐natural resources = usable things provided by nature, like minerals, coal, oil or gas ๐evident = obvious, easy to see ๐boomtown = a city in which the economy grows quickly ๐Caspian Sea = sea between Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan ๐sb canโt help doing sth = sb must do sth, sb is unable to stop doing sth ๐boom = rapid development ๐ridiculously good = so good that it makes you laugh ๐gastronomy = businesses that serve food and drink, like restaurants, cafes, bars, etc. ๐close to no = almost no ๐dump = place where people throw rubbish
๐blessed = being given good things by God ๐cursed = punished by God ๐natural resources = usable things provided by nature, like minerals, coal, oil or gas ๐evident = obvious, easy to see ๐boomtown = a city in which the economy grows quickly ๐Caspian Sea = sea between Kazakhstan, Russia, Azerbaijan, Iran and Turkmenistan ๐sb canโt help doing sth = sb must do sth, sb is unable to stop doing sth ๐boom = rapid development ๐ridiculously good = so good that it makes you laugh ๐gastronomy = businesses that serve food and drink, like restaurants, cafes, bars, etc. ๐close to no = almost no ๐dump = place where people throw rubbish
Can Aktau become another Dubai?
Anonymous Poll
34%
Yes, money can do just that.
50%
Maybe, but it still has a long way to go.
16%
No way, this is a far cry from Dubai.
#105 Spot Afandi and his donkey: Afandi in an old staircase of Tbilisi old town, ๐ฌ๐ชGeorgia
โ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
โ๏ธ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
โ 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!
๐ If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you donโt weโll find another winner!
๐@afandi_english๐ #spot_afandi
โ Can you spot Afandi in this picture?
โ๏ธ You might be the lucky winner of 5,000 Paynet-soums!
โ 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!
๐ If you win you have 30 minutes to claim your prize. If you donโt weโll find another winner!
๐@afandi_english๐ #spot_afandi
This was a tough one today!! Congrats to Bobur!!! ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ๐ฅณ
And only one design for today, from Akmalxon. Everyone else was busy spotting Afandi... ๐๐๐
And only one design for today, from Akmalxon. Everyone else was busy spotting Afandi... ๐๐๐
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#23 Know Your World: Youโre being watched! (New York Times)
โถ๏ธ Facial recognition, internet trackers, checking your location data โ surveillance (=watching people to control them) has become a part of our daily life. How worried are you? Where is your red line (=limit, maximum you can tolerate)? Watch this video to see the bigger picture of this issue.
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๐@afandi_english๐ #know_your_world #documentary
โถ๏ธ Facial recognition, internet trackers, checking your location data โ surveillance (=watching people to control them) has become a part of our daily life. How worried are you? Where is your red line (=limit, maximum you can tolerate)? Watch this video to see the bigger picture of this issue.
๐ค Subtitles provided.
๐@afandi_english๐ #know_your_world #documentary