LIVE English Lesson - 3rd SEPT 2017 - Learn to Speak English - British & American English - BLOOPERS

Here we go again with another live show more English words and phrases to keep

you on the go listen carefully to my voice and soon you will see just how

simple and easy English can be it's 2 o'clock here in the UK and this is live English.

hmm are we still here? does the world still exist? is planet

Earth still in one piece? I hope so hi everybody and welcome it is Sunday how

are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy I hope so

so here we go again here we go oh my goodness we are here for two hours I

have now to talk to you for two hours I have to film two hours of time with chat

and other things for the next two hours but what am I going to do how am I going

to spend the next two hours talking to you well two hours from now we will all

know the answer to that question so here we go it's Sunday September is here

September has arrived hello September how are you and it's

been a good August by the way did you have a good August my August was very

busy of course I had my birthday in August I woke up especially early this

morning by the way I decided to do something very different I was feeling

very adventurous today so I decided to have a shave without using a mirror and

as you can see it didn't go very well so here we go it's live English for those

who don't know who I am my name is Duncan mr. Duncan and I have been on

YouTube teaching English for over 10 years in fact next month on the 31st of

October it will be 11 years since I started teaching on YouTube can you

believe it 11 years since I started teaching English and Here I am still

doing it to this very day oh my goodness and

here is a very sobering thought in four weeks time that is four weeks from now

Christmas cards will be on sale in the shops just four weeks from today there

will be Christmas cards in the shops can you believe it I certainly can't it's

been a very busy week on planet earth have you noticed

first of all YouTube the very site that you are watching now YouTube has changed

its design what do you think of the new look YouTube do you like it there are

some very strange choices some very strange decisions have been made by

YouTube for example if you go to your channel you can now have your channel in

the dark so the whole screen is black and of course you may have noticed that

YouTube has also changed its logo as well all I wish is that YouTube would

treat some of its long term publishers a little bit better of course I'm talking

about me because I've been on YouTube for nearly 11 years so YouTube has

changed it has made a few changes to its design what do you think now

I've been on YouTube since 2006 so I remember the old days of YouTube and

over the years there have been many changes being made on YouTube many

things have changed on this site so every time YouTube makes some changes

everyone normally complained they normally complain they start complaining

about everything so normally people complain when YouTube makes changes but

what do you think what do you think so today we have lots of other things

coming your way yesterday I went for a lovely walk and of course you

can't have a walk in England without seeing this taking place can you see

what's happening here it's a good old-fashioned English cricket match so

this was taking place yesterday on the field not very far away from where I

live and they are playing cricket it is a game that I don't particularly like

watching I don't particularly enjoy watching cricket to be honest well did

you see that Wow he really hit the ball very hard there did you notice that

so the cricket match was taking place I think it was the local cricket club here

in Much Wenlock they were playing yesterday and I don't

know about you but I think watching cricket is very boring well except for

when that happens I do like it when the ball goes very far but sometimes nothing

happens for a very long time so sometimes cricket can be very boring

let's see if something exciting happens now let's have a look here we go the

bowler is about to throw the ball here he goes and

Wow did you see that they all seemed very excited by what just happened then

what did just happen then I have no idea I must be honest with you I don't I

don't really enjoy watching cricket and also I don't really understand the game

of cricket you see so I have a slight problem with cricket a couple of weeks

ago we were talking about sport weren't we and I was talking about my my least

favourite sport and I mentioned golf but also cricket as well is a little a

little dull lots of things going on around where I live

including yes the harvest has started

there you can see a lovely cornfield waiting to be harvested and the harvest

has started this week so at the moment near to where I live there are many

fields full of wheat and barley and at the moment they are all being harvested

and there you can see in the distance there is a wheat field being harvested

so that actually happened this week near my house and this is a very busy time of

the year for farmers farmers very often at this time of the year start to

harvest they collect all of the things that they've been growing during the

summer and there they are there in the distance you can see a combine harvester

that's what that machine is called it's called a combine harvester and that

collects all of the grain it separates the grain from the rest of the wheat

it's very clever a very clever machine and there is a tractor so that

particular tractor is now gathering what's left

of the wheat so all of the things that are left on the ground the tractor will

go along and collect and then it would be turned into bales of hay so there you

can see some hay bales once again on a field near me and there I am trying to

push one of the big heavy bales of hay and I must admit they are very heavy

very heavy indeed you can see me straining look at the expression on my

face now that's also the expression that I have when I suffer from constipation

for those who are interested so there are some views from the week also in my

garden at the moment lots of lovely things growing in my garden right now as

well some lovely Japanese anemones are growing at the moment in my garden they

are the most beautiful flowers they have the most gorgeous pink color and as you

can see the Flies also enjoy landing on them you can see lots of small fruit

flies so the fly as you can see buzzing around there are fruit flies so there

they are in my garden my beautiful Japanese anemones are growing rather

nicely I must admit at this time of the year as

autumn approaches quite a lot of the color disappears from the garden but I'm

pleased to say that the Japanese anemones do bring a nice splash of color

to the garden so I hope you enjoyed that some views from my garden and also some

views from around the area I live in thank you very much for joining me today

it is so nice to see you here once again it's mr. Duncan

we are now in September also today have you heard on the news North Korea once

again are trying their best to bring planet Earth to an end what is going on

there I mean there he is there he is kim

jeong-hoon ER with his latest death weapon hang on a second that's not

that's not a nuclear weapon that's that's pee-wee Herman's breakfast

machine that's pee-wee Herman's breakfast machine from pee-wee's big

adventure what is the problem with that guy I mean come on my theory is that he

was bullied when he was at school that's what I think

oh come on kim jeong-hoon if you're listening if you're watching because i

do know that you have your own secret internet in North Korea cut it out okay

just cut it out just stop it okay whatever it is you're planning to do

don't do it please thank you very much there we go world peace has just been

restored thanks to mr. Duncan well lots of people

are joining me today on the live chat I haven't mentioned the live chat yet of

course you have a chance to get involved with this very program yes because it's

here for you to get involved we have lots of people wanting to say hello

Pedro is here hello Pedro nice to see you once again

Pedro Belmont is here agnaldo is here BOM dia BOM dia Franko Desroches Sal

Paulo in Brazil oh thank you very much that's very kind of you

coin of juin is here hello to you as well lots of people watching in Vietnam

of course quien Mak says hello YouTube hello Kiara

from YouTube Eleanor is here hello Eleanor thanks for joining me today lots

of lovely people on the live chat had there had a Asadi is here also saying

hello to everybody on YouTube and of course there are lots of people watching

Nadeem is here hello Nadine Nadine is watching in Pakistan hello to you as

well Jamelia is here Jamelia watching in North Africa hello to you Olga says good

afternoon mr. Duncan are you okay I am okay but this morning I decided to to

have a shave without using the mirror so I tried to have a shave without a mirror

and as you can see it didn't go very well

so I won't be doing that again Marwa is here hello everybody and hello tomorrow

ah thank you very much for joining me today is actually watching in Iraq thank

you very much for that Algeria is watching hi Algeria and that is milliner

millinery Milano who is watching Wow mr. Duncan 11 years says babe eh yes it's

true I've been making my English videos on YouTube for almost 11 years it's true

and if you want to watch my videos you can find all of my lessons on the

playlists under this video so all of my lesson playlists are available you can

watch my lessons under this video yes you can coming up later on today we have

lots of questions to ask we also have the mystery idioms very popular lots of

people like to get involved with the mystery idioms and there will be two

more mystery idioms coming today also some questions as well to ask

including do you ever gamble do you ever gamble

do you ever wager or place a bet on something now some people love gambling

they love to put some money or bet some money so if you gamble we can also say

that you bet bet so betting is gambling we can also say wager so if you make a

bet or you place a bet or if you gamble we can say that you wager so do you ever

gamble I know in some countries gambling is illegal here in the UK gambling is

not illegal it is actually legal you are able to do it although it is very

tightly controlled another subject today what was or what is your favourite

subject at school was there a particular subject that you are very good at so a

question to ask everyone today what was or what is just in case you're still at

school your favorite subject at school so if you have a favorite subject or if

you had a favorite subject at school please let me know on the live chat I

will be saying hello to all of you again a little bit later on of course I am

here to help you with your English today we are talking about the differences

between British and American English we will be watching a lesson all about

British and American English and of course the differences between them

also later on of course for his fourth week now mr. Steve has been joining us

over the past three weeks and this week he is here once again

he is here its mr. Steve on the live chat and he will be joining us a little

bit later on of course we have mr. Steve now joining us every week with his flash

phrases but also we have mr. Steve live at 3 o'clock and today I'm going to test

mr. Steve I'm going to find out how many American English words he knows so I'm

going to give him some American English words and he has to give me the British

English equivalent so that's what we'll be doing later on of course mr. Steve

very well know now so mr. Steve is coming up at 3 o'clock today live at 3

and there is mr. Steve can you see what he's doing there what he is doing he is

acting on stage and that is mr. Steve during one of his shows that he did he

was playing the part of Scrooge in A Christmas Carol so there is mr. Steve

doing some of his stage work also something else that I'm going to be

showing you very soon we're going to have a look at one of my ask mr. Duncan

lessons ask mr. Duncan was a series of lessons that I did over 2 or 3 years I

have made around about 45 ask mr. Duncan lessons and I thought it would be fun to

take a look at one of my ask mr. Duncan lessons and now we are going to watch

one of my ask mr. Duncan lessons from I think it was from 2010 or maybe 2013 I

think so I'm not quite sure now it's ask mr. Duncan number 23

hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you ok I

hope so are you happy I hope so as you can see I

am wearing my birthday suit today well it's not exactly my birthday suit

because then I would be naked that's what birthday suit means to be in

the nude yes my birthday is coming and I have yet another purple vein on my ankle

to prove it do you want to see my purple vein here it is look more purple veins

or mr. Duncan's ankles it's terrible oh dear um a-anyway Here I am once again

with another selection of your email questions and comments so without any

more daydreaming about cakes and presents let's have our first question

for today what is the difference between learn and study this question was sent

in by Mohammed Java who lives in Baghdad Iraq

generally speaking the main difference between these two words is that one is

active and the other passive the act of studying the act of learning you do both

to study is an action to learn is an action to learn is what happens when you

study you learn from doing your studies study can mean to observe all look

carefully at learn means to gain something from an experience for example

from reading a book or attending a class you learn from these actions if you

study English then you will learn how to speak it a nice email please don't eat

that Apple I need it for later thank you I have received a nice email from Rita

who lives in Taiwan Rita is about to take her TOEFL test so she can study in

the USA in her email Rita expresses confusion surrounding the

preparation process for this exam and the material that is available to help

you get through this test a common problem with some students is that they

over prepare and become pulled down by the exercise books they are reading from

and studying with it is possible to over prepare do not try to learn too many

things at the same time steady time should be spaced out with

breaks in between doing too much in a short time can be just as bad as not

doing enough another thing I would say to you is that from your written English

you seem to have a good grasp of the English language this is another common

problem with upper intermediate English students knowing your level of English

is very important many students tend to think that their English is poorer than

it really is try to be realistic when judging your performance being over

critical of yourself can be just as bad as being too confident your grammar is

clearly very good so I would suggest concentrating on your weak points make a

list of the things you feel that you do best and concentrate on the things you

are still unsure of after all that worrying and stress you may find that

your only real weakness is a lack of confidence which is completely normal

and can be improved with practice

some fruity idioms this is an apple and there are many phrases and idioms that

contain and use this particular fruits name the apple of your eye a person you

are deeply in love with you love this person very much he or she is the apple

of your eye as American as apple pie something which is unmistakeably a part

of us a culture a rotten apple a bad person or a person who cannot be trusted

he is a bad apple an apple a day keeps the doctor away this very old proverb

relates to keeping fit by eating well apples are good for you so an apple a

day keeps the doctor away how do we use either when choosing from more than two

things this very interesting question comes from andreas Quesada who lives in

Chile when making a choice or a selection from two items we may express

no particular liking we choose either either will do if the choice involves

more than two objects then we use the word any any will do we do not mind

which one we have do you want an orange or an apple or a banana an e will be

fine any will be okay we can also use all in

certain situations which fruit do you prefer all of them are okay I like them

all

a brand new feature now it is time for a new feature on ask mr. Duncan it's the

first ever never done before how long will it run for super-amazing quite good

really

no no no no no that's too much echo too much echo turn it down oh dear word of

the week exaggerated this week's word is exaggerated this means to add something

to a story that makes it sound more exciting to make something seem better

or worse than it really is for example the other day I went fishing

and caught a huge trout yes I'm exaggerating

in fact what really happened was that I went fishing the other day and caught

nothing I have exaggerated the story what are

the differences between this and these

this question was sent in by dad in Russia both of these words are used as

pronouns this is used as a singular pronoun while these is used as the

plural many students tend to confuse the two and often use the single this to

refer to many things for example as you all know I make many English teaching

videos I make these videos for you these relates to all of my work if I were to

talk about the video you are watching now then I would say that I have made

this video for you the word this shows that I'm talking about one thing this

box this man this time this moment if I want to talk about more than one thing

then I will use these instead I make these videos for you I could also say I

made these videos for you the word these clearly shows that I'm talking about

more than one thing it is also worth mentioning that

make in the sentence suggest that I will continue doing the activity I'm talking

about whereas maid relates to my past work up

until this point these boxes these men these times these moments it is worth

noting that this can also be used as an adverb I'm not used to doing this much

work before I leave you today to go off and choose my birthday cake for next

week I would like to say a special pre-birthday hello to some of my new

Facebook friends including Alisa moon abydos egg Cyril Veronica Leandro from

Brazil but now living in the Netherlands duong and in Vietnam and a warm welcome

to Marcus from Germany who is currently over here taking in the sights and

sounds of England a big hello to you all that is all for me for this week I will

see you all again soon for some more of your questions and comments keep sending

your emails in to me and next week who knows I could be saying hello to you

this is mr. duncan in england saying thanks for watching me answering you and

of course tada

I must say I've hardly changed in seven years what do you think Oh Deary me

I am so deluded so there it was it was a lesson that I made in 2010 it was one of

my ask mr. duncan lessons I used to do a very regular show now of course that was

before I started doing my live broadcasts so going way back in time I

hope some of the information in that video was useful to you I really really

do lots of things still to come in around about 25 or 26 minutes from now

we have mr. Steve in the studio he's coming in today we're going to give him

a little bit of a test we're going to see how many American words he knows and

how many he can convert into British English so we are going to do that a

little bit later also we are going to take a peek behind the scenes as well

from one of my October lessons that I made in 2013 where I gave you a tour of

my studio and talked about all of the equipment that I use I do get lots of

people writing to me asking ear mr. Duncan you seem to have lots of lights

and cameras and microphones in your studio can you please talk about them so

today we are going to take a look behind the scenes and of course a little bit

later on we have as I have already mentioned mr. Steve we're also going to

be talking about something that mr. Steve made a few years ago and something

that he started to make we are talking video lessons so mr.

Steve actually did start to make his own video lessons not about English about a

completely different subject so we will be taking a look at the pilot episode

the first episode of mr. Steve's internet show a little bit later on so

there is that to look forward to as well right now we are going to reveal today's

mystery idioms so here we go two well-known phrases in English and

all you have to do is guess what they are and of course you can give me the

meaning as well if you want to tell me what the idioms mean you are more than

welcome to do so here is today's first mystery idiom so there it is

today's first mystery idiom but what is it what does it mean just say what you

see say what you see so there is a well-known expression in English and

here is the second one can I just warn you that the second one might not be

very pleasant to look at especially if you are eating your supper or maybe

breakfast or perhaps lunch so if you are eating at the moment maybe this one is

not for you so here is the second mystery idiom Oh Deary me

I think I'm going to get complaints about this so there is the second

mystery idiom and there is the first one - mystery idioms for you to solve and as

always as usual I will give you the answers at the end of the broadcast I am

with you on YouTube as live as live can be

if you to get in touch with me of course you

can you can also follow me on Facebook

I hope you are having a good Sunday my Sunday isn't too bad it's going okay I

was in a bit of a rush today it takes a lot of preparation this program I can

tell you now it takes a long time to prepare this it takes about two days to

prepare this live English lesson did you know that so I don't just appear here by

magic there is a lot of preparation a lot of things that go in to preparing

this lesson so I I hope you appreciate it that's all I'm saying

live-chat TS Tia says in my country gambling is illegal but if it's without

money then people do it just for fun and I think it's okay thank you TS but where

are you where are you watching I know many countries around the world

sometimes for religious reasons they don't allow gambling sometimes because

the law says that gambling is not allowed some people of course connect

gambling with crime as well so there are many reasons why in some countries

gambling is not allowed tag gasps hello - - thanks for joining me today on the

live chat Helena Helena Blaire says hello mr. Duncan today you look very

nice very interesting thank you very much for that I hope it is interesting

sometimes I do worry sometimes at night I lie awake in my bed worrying that my

live English lessons are not interesting I do I really do I have nightmares about

it I'm asking you some questions one of

which is what was or is your favourite subject at school what was or is your

favorite subject at school Aurora or Aurora Aurora ruber says my

favorite subject at school was mathematics oh dear

can I tell you now I was terrible at maths really I was so bad at mathematics

so I think the worst subject or certainly the subject that I performed

the worst in mathematics definitely I was never very good at maths in fact

even now I'm not very good at it fabio says Caracas wow it's a beautiful

place but also very dangerous I don't know about that I think I think maybe

you are talking to someone else in the live chat Nikolai is here hello mr.

Duncan greetings from Bulgaria it's Marty's birthday party at the moment and

she is my all heat sorry he is my daughter's mate and he has just

become 3 years old so a big happy birthday to Marty Marty happy birthday

to you yes it's your birthday yes today it's

your birthday hip hooray Thank You Marty and also Nikolai Marty is celebrating

his third birthday isn't that lovely Olga says mr. Duncan my favorite subject

at school was maths as well it would appear that a lot of people like

mathematics Thank You Olga Janet is here hello Janet thanks for joining me today

Pedro says my favorite subject at school was geography

I must admit I think when I was at school my least favourite subject or at

least one of my least favorite subjects was geography and the reason why I

didn't like geography at school not not because the lesson that the subject is

boring I don't think geography is boring but the problem was when ever we had

geography class everyone in the class would just mess around and play and make

noise so I still remember our geography teacher getting very angry and shouting

at the class please be quiet please be quiet shut up so that's the reason why I

didn't like geography at school because the lessons were normally very chaotic

and the teacher was not very good at control in the class so that's the

reason why although having said that geography is a very interesting subject

I think so so Pedro thank you very much for that good evening from Thailand

Chael Swiss is here hello Jo thanks for joining me today on the live chat it's

live English shall we have today's first flash phrase with mr. Steve so here is

mr. Steve recorded in the garden under the apple tree and here he is with

today's first flash phrase

take it with a pinch of salt is an English phrase the phrase take it with a

pinch of salt is an English expression that means don't take something as truth

or fact if you take something with a pinch of salt it means that you don't

actually believe what you've been told for example I would take what he said

with a pinch of salt you take something with a pinch of salt when you feel

suspicious or doubtful of what someone said another example we have been

advised to take everything she promised with a pinch of salt to take something

with a pinch of salt means that you have doubts about the honesty of what was

said or done you take it with a pinch of salt and there he was mr. Steve under

the apple tree with some flash phrases we will join mr. Steve later on under

the apple tree and also he will be live here in the studio at 3 o'clock today we

are talking about the differences between American English and British

English we will be talking all about it and I am going to give mr. Steve a

little test I'm going to test his knowledge of English between British

English and American English so I'm going to give mr. Steve some American

English words and I want him to tell me what the British equivalent is the

equivalent so the thing that matches the other thing the thing that is equal or

the same as the other thing is equivalent equivalent that's a lovely

word isn't it flash phrases coming later on and also right now we'll have another

look at the mystery idioms the mystery idioms there they are there's the first

one I have had a few guesses already and most of them are wrong and also this one

as well I'm sorry if you are eating your supper or

your breakfast or your lunch at the moment I'm very sorry about that picture

so I hope you are not eating at the moment I hope you are not eating your

your meal and there is the first one can I say hello to someone very special can

I say hello to Xena hello Xena Xena is watching at the moment with her

ten-year-old son so a big hello to Xena and also your 10 year old son as well a

big hello to you also cheol's Lauri is watching in

Hungary Thank You Charles for joining in Julie G Oh Julie G does not like the new

YouTube design Julie - Julie G says I don't like the new YouTube design it is

not good John Travolta I'm pretty sure it isn't the real John Travolta pretty

sure Oh hey sandy let's go for a Bop let's go

for it dance hey sandy why did you hurt me sandy that might

that might be the worst ever John Travolta impression John Travolta is

watching in Italy although I don't think it's the real John Travolta somehow

Janet says Oh mr. Duncan I would love to travel to Hong Kong I think again that

is in response to her to one of the other chats that are taking place today

Live Chat is very busy today I've noticed over the past few weeks that

many many people are now talking in the live chat so thank you very much and

quite often people are talking to each other in the live chat isn't that nice

so many people are chatting to each other this is very unusual let's try to

get past the conversation hello son is here hello son

I believe that hello son is watching in Hong Kong so I think that is the

conversation that's taking place hello mr. Duncan good morning from sao paulo

sao paulo by the way if you are leaving numbers phone numbers or email addresses

i will have to remove them for various reasons

hello mr. Duncan what does Tatar mean when I say Tatar it means goodbye Tatar

so Tatar means goodbye we can also say Torah as well so it is a British

expression it means goodbye it is a firm and friendly way to say goodbye

Tatar and of course later on just before I finish you will hear me say Tatar for

now prasad Bacoor is here hello there thank you very much for joining me today

mr. Duncan what does patronize mean if you patronize someone it means you speak

or you insult a person's intelligence you speak in a way that makes the person

seem as if they are uneducated you pretend to come down to someone else's

level so if you patronize someone it means you talk down to them as if they

are inferior patronize sometimes patronizing occurs quite a lot

especially on television when presenters are talking to the public sometimes the

the public can be patronized and of course politician

when politicians talk to members of the public

sometimes they patronize them they talk down to them I hope that answered your

question Yousef thank you very much for that

run money through your nose says Fabian for today's mystery idiom so run money

through your nose you are very close very close so there is today's first

mystery idiom and there is the second one but what are the answers to the

questions so British English and American English there are differences

between the two certain words are different and sometimes the spelling of

certain words is different and of course there is another difference between

American and British English and that is the way in which grammar is used so

there are some differences between British and American English we will

take a look at that later on we have a very long lesson to show you it's 20

minutes 20 minutes long lesson today all about English in America and also in the

UK more of the live chat because it's very busy today on the live chat Nikolaj

says mr. Duncan my favourite subject at school was music and also painting and

literature other subjects that I found boring and very difficult were for

example mathematics yes as I mentioned earlier I was not very good at

mathematics at school I always did very badly in the exams however I always did

very well in English so I was always very good at English and also I was very

good at science as well I was very interested in science when I was at

school

Fabian thank you for your guess on the mystery idiom thank you very much one or

two people have got the answer right well done well done so do you ever

gamble do you ever gamble your money quite

often when we gamble we normally put money or we bet money it can be on

anything really in fact you can gamble or you can bet on anything here in the

UK we have the lottery the National Lottery and that is where you choose a

selection of numbers and then on Saturday evening if you get all of the

numbers if they match the ones that are revealed on the Saturday evening you can

win a lot of money so that also is gambling a lot of people don't realize

that the lottery is also gambling it is so most people think that betting on a

horse race or another type of sporting event is betting or maybe if you go to a

casino so you can gamble in achensee know a casino you can play lots of

different games like poker and roulette and blackjack and you can play on the

crap table there is such a thing as a crap table it's true but also the

lottery as well the lottery is also a form of gambling and over here in the UK

many people are now addicted to gambling there are many ways to gamble including

on your mobile phone on your smartphone you can gamble so gambling is something

that you can get addicted to so do you ever gamble is gambling allowed in your

country and another question what was or what is your favorite subject at school

I think later on we will ask mr. Steve this

question we will ask mr. Steve what subjects he enjoyed at school as I

mentioned just I loved science very much I loved science and I loved biology the

study of the human body and I had some very strange habits when I was at school

now just to give you an idea of the type of child that I was just to give you an

idea of the sort of boy that I was when I was young I I used to bring strange

things to school to show my teacher so what I would do I would go to the local

butcher shop and I would buy some some organs from maybe a cow or sheep

sometimes I would take a brain to school so I would go to school and I would go

to my biology lesson and inside a plastic bag I would actually have a

brain a real brain and I would take it to the teacher to show them and I felt

so pleased with myself I did Lucas is here hello Lucas hi from crazy Brazil

why is Brazil crazy I don't know why you say that I have started a new health fad

and tried to cut down on the amount of sugar that I eat so instead I'm putting

I'm putting honey in my food now so instead of sugar I just put a little bit

of honey a little drop of honey on my food for example on my breakfast cereal

in the morning when I have my breakfast I put some honey on my breakfast and of

course you can have it in certain types of tea as well so that is my my current

favorite food fad a fad is something that you do

a short time maybe something that is fashionable or something that you do as

a habit but quite often you do it for just a short time for example a few

weeks ago I I was eating lots of eggs but now I've stopped doing that

so this week I'm I'm having honey on my food so that is my latest health fad mr.

Steve will be here in a moment coming up in about four minutes time in fact he is

now coming into the studio would you like to see mr. Steve preparing so this

is mr. Steve he's he's preparing he's not going to say anything yet but he's

here here he is would you like to see mr. Steve he's

just preparing you're not on you're not on yet mr. Steve he's getting very he

can't wait we've still got two minutes mr. Steve don't worry you can calm down

III know what happened mr. Steve heard me mention his name and he came running

in because he thought it was already three o'clock but don't worry mr. Steve

you have another another minute to go

dear me some people are saying mr. Duncan why don't you read my message out

I can't read everyone's messages I'm very sorry because I only have a

certain amount of time and of course I can't read everyone's messages Luis

Mendez is here hello Luis thanks for joining me today

also Abdullah Omer is here hello Abdullah nice to see you back Lucas is

here as well Thank You Lucas Atilla

hello Attila thanks for joining me today I liked history a lot in middle school

or and also I'm not very good at maths don't forget in American English they

don't say maths they say math math so when when in America they talk

about mathematics they say math here we say maths maths

there is an S at the end so mister don't mr. Duncan is here and oh my goodness

it's three o'clock everyone and you know what happens now

Oh Deary me so it's live English it's live English

on a Sunday afternoon it is the 3rd of September we are now into September

don't forget you can find me every Sunday I am here on YouTube every Sunday

from 2 p.m. UK time every Sunday on YouTube YouTube looks different now

they've changed it it looks very different what do you think of the new

YouTube do you like it or do you think it's horrible so here he is everyone mr.

Steve is now in the building good afternoon mr. Steve there he is

there is what what are you doing oh I was hello

I'm in a bit of a rush today I'm not quite ready sorry what what what was

that in your hand that was nose hair clipper and nose hair

clip we're not going to review that this week is it what okay can you just show

me what you do with that I think what I caught then do you think anybody's

joining you you is definitely caught out there I call you there you weren't

prepared today I can see you you're already you're you're you're still

getting you ready you can stick it in your ear as well oh my goodness no we're

not we're not doing the automatic pump is well are we from last week no and I'm

definitely not going to read a long boring review of this nose hair clipper

thank goodness for that you know what happened last week some people tuned in

last week and they thought it was a shopping channel yes I'm not surprised

because I did ramble on a bit last week mr. Duncan I've got the word here oh

look at that it's almost as if we rehearsed this look

at that ramble so last week I think mr. Steve did talk quite a lot last week

about the the tire inflator the tire inflator yes but we won't be mentioning

that instead and I'm going to ask you how was your week did you have a good

week mr. Steve I did mr. Duncan thank you very much did you - yes I had a did

you have a good week shall I ask you my night was all right not too bad thank

you very much thanks for asking well I cause I've just been working

really earning a living the daily grind as they call it working I've been

exercising I've been trying to up my exercise routine by your going back to

doing running again but running up hills in fact I've been trying to get my harp

pumping away to get myself fit and healthy for the winter there's nothing

there's nothing better than a pumping heart it's always a good sign it's good

if you can feel it and hear your heart pumping you know you're alive as long as

it's not going too fast and there's and as long as it's not coming out the top

of your head you're okay or thumping out of your chest but it is now because I'm

I'm nervous I'm nervous my heart's beating hard in my chest because of the

pressure of being on your show mr. Duncan having to perform every week for

you now did I tell you what else I've been doing this week as well what else

have you been doing I've been I've been playing the piano ah yes I've been you

showed a couple of weeks ago an excerpt of me pretending to play the piano well

this week I thought well well I'll I used to play the piano years ago I shall

start again and have another go so I've been practicing playing the piano and

singing as well there is a fun expression there is a fun way of

describing playing the piano do you know what it is no if you're playing the

piano we can say that you are tickling the ivories tickling the ivories yes I

love that expression so if you are playing the piano we can say that you

are tickling the ivories but of course that that derivation would come from the

fact that the white keys on a piano used to be made from the ivory tusks of

elephants you take that away from here not any more plastic I think so I think

that's what they mean when you're tea Killingly Iver is its it's referring to

the the ivory tusks sometimes sometimes sometimes my dentist tickles my ivories

think he could get into trouble for that but the police we're talking of pianos

yes we have something to discuss here a few years ago you had the bright idea of

launching your own internet program ah how many episodes of this did you make

well I was inspired you see I was inspired by mr. Duncan doing his English

English shows and his producing his English teaching videos not on YouTube

and I thought oh I can do that I do bit of piano bit of singing maybe I

should launch my own channel so I had a go but it didn't get very far I think I

probably did a couple and then work took over life and I'm very busy you know I'm

in great demand for various things and so I stopped doing it and probably

should have carried on doing it might have been as successful as you are today

okay we're going to take a look now now this what we are about to look at is the

first episode the pilot episode of something called in tune with mr. Steve

oh dear I'm not sure I want to see so here it

comes this is the first-ever episode the pilot when we say pilot we mean that the

first episode made sometimes they make an episode of something to test it with

the audience so this is the pilot episode of mr. Steve's very short-lived

internet show called in tune with mr. Steve

welcome to in tune with Steve hi I'm Steve and welcome to this introduction

my series of lessons will be aimed at anyone who wants to learn about music

although I'll be directing my lessons mainly towards singers and what's useful

for them a lot of what I should be covering will be relevant to anyone

involved in music that's because whether you sing or play an instrument there are

certain basic rules that all musicians need to know mr. Steve can you just tell

me what's going on here you are you are looking very smart can I just say do you

know how old is that that is actually 2008 nine years nine years ago yes

that's a that's a long time ago I quote I haven't changed at all would you say

would you say look any different I think you some more so in future lessons I

will take you through notes time values key signatures how to read music and

other areas of music theory have we had enough I think we know why that didn't

continue I think that's brilliant what do you think of mr. Steve's internet

show what do you think of it did you like it so there is mr. mr. Steve with

his pilot episode now I have to say that I also had a part in this because I

produced it so if we are going to criticize it I suppose we are also going

to criticize me as well because I did produce that program so I suppose I

can't be too critical of it I was at the time I was thinking oh I want to be

success for as mr. Duncan I wanted to be a star

on I want to be a star on YouTube is that that didn't happen because I only

made two of them I think was it to make two or three yes we made two episodes to

stir we produced the pilot and then we produced that the first proper episode

which lasted for about 5 minutes and in that one you were talking about

breathing I must find it maybe next week we can show episode 2 because there are

only two episodes breathing how important is breathing yes very

important for singing yes we might talk about that another week if I'm not

mistaken they are still available on YouTube they are somewhere on YouTube

they are now lost in the midst of time covered covered with cobwebs and dust

for all I know I've got a million viewers and hundreds of thousands of

subscribers I don't even know you should check your channel out you never know

maybe I'm in a youtube millionaire and I don't even know it that's it

lots of unclaimed ad revenue so talking of things that we did during the week we

sat down last night and we decided to watch a movie last night didn't we we

searched around a lot and you know what it's like when you're searching around

looking for a fish I watched that one what's the ratings on that oh I'm not

sure about that one and then we settled on something which turned out to be a

big mistake a big mistake we watch I think it might be one of the worst films

ever made no I think it was a terrible movie there it is now on the screen you

can see it it is a film starring Matt Damon I I'm going to be honest with you

now I'm not a big fan of Matt Damon I don't think he's a very good actor now a

lot of people are going to disagree they're gonna say mr. Duncan you are

wrong you should be taken outside and tied to a tree so people can throw

Rotten Tomatoes at you well talking of Rotten Tomatoes Matt Damon's movies have

received more than their fair share of Rotten Tomatoes and can you see what I

did there so we watched a film called Elysium

helis iam Elysium it sounds like a Spanish resort where did you go for your

holidays when I went to Elysium it was very nice a bit too hot and the food

gave me diarrhea but Elysium is actually a film it also sounds like a skin

disease as well we got Elysium can you give me some

cream doctor for my Elysium so Elysium is a movie a science fiction

movie starring Matt Damon I'm not a fan of Matt Damon I don't think I've ever

sat through a whole movie starring Matt Damon so last night we watched this

movie I didn't like it and nor did Steve we thought let's give him a chance we've

never sat through a whole movie with Matt Damon in it it looked promising but

the plot fell apart very quickly it was it was laughable it was laughable

I don't like films about dystopian futures have you talked about that yet

dystopian futures dystopian yeah like that word iiiiii I should write that

down really shouldn't I yes if I've got that word written down somewhere I did

write that word down yes oh there it is it was right above my head all the time

this dope Ian there it is yeah so dystopian do you know what dystopian

means yes well it's it was the opposite of utopian isn't it so a utopian future

would be a wonderful future everything's going right but a dystopian future is

one where everything's gone wrong so it could be a period of time or a place or

a situation where everything is terrible terrible everything is awful yes there's

been nuclear war there's been all sorts of things they're sort of classic

dystopian future film sci-fi film I think is probably terminator you say the

Terminator films with an Arnold Schwarzenegger where there's been

nuclear war the robots have taken over that's a dystopian future I don't know I

think the stope you might be today I think I think

Sunday the third of September might be described as a dystopian day because of

course North Korea have have let off an N bomb I believe they have I was

watching the news that before we came in and yes well who knows what could happen

it's probably just more saber rattling and expect America or say something in

retaliation and they'll threaten each other with war probably and hopefully

nothing will happen and we will end up with a utopian future and not a

dystopian so your take on North Korea is that everything will be okay next week

definitely this will be optimistic nobody wants war although I will predict

one thing if you've got shares I think on Monday they may yeah they may drop a

bit I think the stock markets will react drop albeit only temporarily all right

fine okay so there is mr. Steve's take on the future of planet Earth they just

want nuclear weapons and we don't want them to have them but they'll probably

end up with them because the only alternative would be would be for us to

invade which I don't think America wants to do particularly so we'll just just

let them have their weapons as are what I say a happy nuclear weapons okay then

there is there is mr. Steve stance on nuclear arm and this is a conversation I

didn't think we'd be having today we didn't plan this one did we today we

didn't plan this part no definitely no so we're going to talk about American

English a lot of people ask me mr. Linton what is the difference between

American English and British English so what we're going to do today I've got

some words here some American English words and what you have to do is to tell

me what the British word the oval and I see what you're doing yes I understand

but the equivalent word is so I will give you an American word and you have

to tell me what the bridge ich werde is okay so here we go there

are 20 of them so we might be here until 4 o'clock do I get a prize if I get them

all right you get to come back next week ah oh how wonderful and if I don't get

them alright to come back every day okay so let's get rid of them hi anyway let's

get rid of Matt Damon first by Matt Damon I thought Elysium was a load of

crap it's gone now so here we go human life I can't get back I'm having the

same feeling now I'm sure many people are the first word the first word so at

some American words here the first word so I'm going to give you the American

word I want you to give me the British word okay so what is was that an

American accent it sure was I'm getting into the American accent so that I can

determine which word is the English equivalent accent that was but it

sounded like Welsh so here we go today's first word American words that you have

to give me the the equivalent in British English so first of all sidewalk

sidewalk pavement mr. Steve my says pavement

he says pavement yes you are right sidewalk is pavement I can hear the

applause already oh yes I think that's a distant echo in your head sidewalk or

pavement stop doing that please please stop doing that so number 2 our second

this is going to take a long time by the way I hope everyone has their cocoa and

and their sleeping bag because this might go on for some time I hope your

viewers are trying to trying to work it out for themselves as well oh good

here's the second one hood hood hood is this

to do with a car if that bonnet or boot what's hood well which one is it you

know on about a hood that covers your head the hood I think it's the bonnet am

i right oh yeah are you sticking with bonnets

I'm sticking with bonnet the front end of the car that covers the engine and

can be lifted up is called the hood the hood also it can mean a gangster yes who

is covered up presumably so that you don't know that he's a gangster hood

sorry sorry with what what gangster movies have you watched you've watched

gangster movies where the gangsters will walk around with with blankets over

their head I don't I was just guessing I don't know why they call them up food

that doesn't sound right to me hoodlums it's short for hoodlums and

that's it that's it that's what it is so a hood is a hoodlum hoed malayalam

hoodlum a criminal or third one is it is it only three weaver only on the third

one third one right let's let's get it going faster you need to speed up here

YouTube once it's band width back drapes drapes curtains it certainly is for you

curtains for you mr. Duke it's curtains for you I got it first I said it first

if I don't get but I don't get the next one right it's Kurt and I said it first

I got it in first so there now we going to explain what that means are we just

going to go right well you're not curtains I don't you know I mean it's

curtains when you said it's curtains for me oh if you say it's curtains for

someone it means that's the end for them they're their end is approaching yes

curtains for you curtains for you the next one so that's how about three right

I'm beginning to regret doing this mortician mortician mortician oh I

thought that was a British word it's not Undertaker Undertaker you are near

embalmer no Harry gravedigger no it is actually funeral director

you know director a person who directs the funeral they take they take care of

the person who is now now deceased they are now dead

they have shuffled off this mortal coil and gone to join the choir invisible the

next spot and number five okay so I sort of got that one half right you did

almost is it only number five oh my goodness this is gonna take all day

twenty might have to cut get it depth that but janitor janitor would be

somebody who sweeps floors and things like that in America so what we would

call them oh I can't forget the word for janitor over here somebody it sweeps

floors and cleans up in hospitals and schools and things like that they will

never fit that on the door that's a big sign on the door isn't it no actually

it's care take care take care take a janitor caretaker so if you have your

caretaker number six number see antsy but I know you're pulling your face can

you tell from the back of my head that I'm pulling your face the steam coming

from the where you are the next American word that I want the British equivalent

of is force it force it that's a toilet

toilets or is it year rhyme or choice whether force it is what you do on the

toilet you force it you faucets if you've got constipation I have to force

it force it so what is it in English force it is tap Oh tap water tap well I

was yes there's water it's like a yes that's it you said like a lever isn't it

or tap attack I'm starting to think I'm starting to think giving you a five-year

contract on the show was a bad idea Americans don't use

the word tap they use faucet do they say faucet so turn the faucet on turn the

faucet on the faucet Oh taps better but next one I think this

one is easy okay we are both going down elevator elevator so that would be a

lift in English a lift lift you are right so elevator you go from floor to

floor up or down you go up and down in an elevator or a lift lift

during the UK this one this one be careful what you say here period period

period I will give you a clue it's it's to do with in English grammar or grammar

in general period I wonder if anyone out there if any of you got that one anybody

want a message mr. Duncan very quickly period period it's the American version

English period other things it's not like a month is it no or the head of a

time no time period no but it's out of our misery

if anybody anybody got it right does anybody still watch look I might Choon

away in a minute I might actually switch off you being rude

you'll be on your own it'll be in the mr. Steve hour it is actually full stop

it's a full stop so at the end of a sentence you put a full stop so a period

is actually full stop hello son says full stop and also Jamelia says full

stop well done I didn't know that well Durning you are start an obscure one

that's not DARS the next one mr. Duncan mr. Steele mister I'm out I'm having an

out-of-body experience now I I'm actually floating above myself watching

me doing this

the next one is sweater sweater so that would be a jumper or a cardigan jumper

in in in UK parlance what's it's hot in here I'm gonna take off my sweater

so are you one of the original pilgrims that landed in America what did you say

that what was that word you just used parlance poor lungs it's just sort of a

French sort of way of saying well English people said it's I think it's

French just means talking oh I see okay then yes if you say so

yes sweater oh yes sweater and what I read was it a jumper in English and it

definitely isn't a fat lady at the gym

the answer please oh okay you don't know what sweater is a jumper jumper yes yeah

I was right okay I thought so why are we arguing I didn't know if I was right or

not it's like north career all over again

interstate interstate I think is Harry I'm gonna go over there in a minute and

literally smash that camera so you can never appear on this show again is that

moat the interstate so that's something that like a motorway no no no that's

interstate you don't seem sure it's something to do with traveling something

to do with traveling Tellez mr. duncan interstate or of course you could have

freeway freeway well that is of course motorway motorway the main road where

there are more than one lane on either side so if you have lots of lanes going

either way it is normally called a freeway or we can call it interstate

in American English and in British English we call it motorway motorway

more away murder way motorway m1 burn away a word but murderer it must be

nearly four o'clock I must admit my American accent is better than yours

a murderer leave that up to the viewers I think what what number of you up to

now we're even got to ten yet I have no idea what number we are on there what's

the next the next one is yard yard yard ah yes that is like in backyard is that

what you mean there like in backyard so that's your yard or the garden would

be close maybe backyard it's sort of your back garden isn't it yes you are

right garden so yard is garden in American English they tend to say yard

in the yard they play in the yard here we play in the garden very good next one

is apartment apartment that would be in the UK that would be a flat - yes it

would flat yes you arrived apartment in American English is flat we live in a

flat or a high-rise flat have you ever lived in a flat mr. Duncan I've never

lived in a flat I have have you when I was a student many years ago I lived in

a high-rise block of flats it was a very interesting experience I wouldn't do it

again but you can get very nice flats or apartments but we think we use the word

apartment a bit more in the UK these days don't we have heard people talking

about apartment so that is true yes in fact this is probably a good opportunity

to mention this a lot of American expressions have creeped or crept

into British English and of course vice versa the other way around a lot of

British expressions have made their way into American English so sometimes the

two things do cross over like that indeed next one let's have a look oh

this is an interesting one we're talking food now zucchini

what is zucchini no here zucchini I have no idea perhaps does anybody out out

there know what zucchini is zucchini is it some kind of source no it is a type

of vegetable vegetable carrots cabbages beetroot it is actually courgette

courgette courgette Oh zucchini zucchini I think I've even heard that word before

the next one the American English word stove stove stove would be in English

would be a cooker yes you're right cooker so a cooker is the the area

normally you cook things on normally there are flames that you cook over so

yes in American English they tend to say stove in British English we often say

cooker we say it how it is it cooks sucker next one here's one for Steve

trunk trunk trunk trunk that's to do with cars again trunk in America in

English that's the boot boot yes that those of course are very easy for mr.

Steve because he loves cars very much you store your suitcases when you're

going on holiday yes that's another way of using it but in this sense trunk is

the back of the car where you put stuff see I just when you say trunk I'm just

thinking of like an elephant's trunk

well you would you would oops right we must be up to about 16 now

I don't know I think I'm just I'm just making them up in my head now they're

just coming out of my brain it's like I'm possessed right Oh or for anymore

yes and another one check check check check please

sure what you mean check shoulders the spelling is very interesting check so

that would be the bill in the UK you are right yes

so in American English they will say hey guys can I have the check please can you

do it can you do it in American English can I have the check please

that's seven southern American whereas I would just ask for the bill or you can

just sort of you know do that in the air people know what you mean whether that's

like you're writing a check it's going to do that again Steve can I have that

you're holding your hand so far away just do it so it's on camera that's it

actually look that looks like you're doing something else there but there you

go and then if they don't see you feel embarrassed yes please you'd obviously

check please check please that is the International

sign for check please so if you're in a restaurant and you

want to have the cheque or the bill you'll go like that and then the waiter

will go and we'll bring you your bill or your cheque with a mint because you tend

to get mints with your bill a mint a nice refreshing mint session but in your

mouth that normally comes with the bill or the check the next one attorney

attorney right attorney in English would be a lawyer yes well done lawyer right

there or of course you could have had solicitor solicitor or lawyer the next

one we've only got three more please the 17th word eggplant eggplant eggplant is

it's a vegetable I feel as if I'm turning into one as I'm

standing here eggplant is oh I just can't remember it's it's it's something

that's not cause yet we've had that it's not cucumber eggplant I don't know your

is it sweet potato sweet potato no you near shall we shall we leave this I tell

you what shall we ask one of our viewers eggplant

what do you think what do you think the eggplant is better known as in British

English anyway no the first person to get it right wins this nose secondhand

nose clipper does give stuff away it didn't have to send that now you know

that you've got to post that to someone there and it's got all your nose hair

inside it and all of the debris from inside your face oh my goodness it first

Jamelia says well done oh yes well done Jamelia that's what I've got to say

using machine or machine of ecology lot of that you know if I if I was a

stripper in a nightclub if I was a beautiful sexy lady and I worked in a

nightclub and I had to sort of dance provocatively like this I think I would

call myself aubergine that would be my name that would be my stage name if I

had to dance you know in a go-go bar hi my name is aubergine a purple a purple

vegetable there's no answer to that so aubergine Thank You Tomic and also

and also hello son as well got aubergine right two more I'm very clever you'll

write your viewers this is this is going on for so long - more than X 14 pharmacy

pharmacy over here would be chemists ah yes a chemist we can say chemists came

in American English they say pharmacy also sometimes I don't think they use it

anymore but they sometimes say druggist yes or drugstore yes so they have quite

a few versions of that particular one so pharmacy pharmacy we use pharmacy a lot

now that's really crept into yet is British English that's a good example of

how how an American expression becomes a British expression so lots of people

down don't say the chemist they don't say I'm going to the chemist to get some

cream for my sore bottom they say I am going to the pharmacy to get some cream

for my sore ass number 20 oh yeah is there a drumroll for the

grand prize I meant arse sorry I meant ass cuz

there's a stat that that's British that's British English and sorry that

that it should be it should actually be sore ass is our American not sore ass so

s s is American ass British not sure people want to know about your sore ass

but never mind try give you a drumroll

faster-faster-faster okay the next one the final one and I think this is a

really good word hit me with it it's very tempting garbage garbage garbage in

English that would be rubbish yes it certainly would rubbish garbage in

America rubbish it's quite a good job I think that's quite a good one to end on

actually garbage yes as in this show is a load of garbage or maybe a load of

rubbish or of course in American English they sometimes say trash trailer trash

we can use trash here as well trash in British English often means to

destroy something if you break something up or destroy something you trash it

fracture you tear it to pieces yeah Thank You mr. Steve now we are going to

take a look now because we are running out of time we are going to take a look

at another one of your flash phrases and here is something that we recorded

yesterday so take take a look at this haven't seen it yet let your hair down

let your hair down is an English phrase the phrase let your hair down is an

expression that means to let yourself go and have a great time to have

uninhibited or outgoing fun is to let your hair down for example it's good to

let your hair down now and again I feel like letting my hair down tonight to

celebrate my 10th anniversary on YouTube to party and let your inhibitions go is

to let your hair down to rejoice party let yourself go

paint the town red you and let your hair down

that's brilliant Thank You mr. Steve oh we missed out the part with the apples

I'm sorry about that we cut the apples off so there we get there you were

yesterday in the garden now we recorded these yesterday afternoon now a lot of

people think that doing this is easy they think that appearing on the

internet and sitting in front of a camera is easy but it isn't is it no it

isn't and now we are going to prove just how difficult this can be sometimes you

let your hair go let your head of water let your hair down

oh hey Ron we get the tears away to be honest to be honest I could do without

any how it takes to be honest yes sir that was let your hair down as an

English phrase the phrase let your hair down is an expert Oh see I cut some

things you let your hair go that's okay some kind of disease let your hair down

let your head Oh try it again let your hair down let

your hair down is an English phrase the phrase let your hair down is an

expression just read just read the last just read the last to rejoice party let

yourself go okay then I'm sorry hair I'm just gonna

have to let you go to rejoice party oh

it's too bloody lines to rejoice party let yourself go

paint the town red you and let your hair down I love the thing at the end that

you do your hat dear dear dear to mr. Duncan you were I think you were

beginning to get a bit frustrated there you were you were losing your temper

with me a bit there do you think so because why would I get why would I get

so irate and bad-tempered and impatient with you why on earth why on earth would

I do that how many takes did we do yesterday of that we did about 15 takes

in fact in the clip that you just saw we didn't use all of the outtakes there

were many more in fact that we could have had about 15 minutes of outtakes

mr. Steve you are having a lot of problems there now the reason why you

you did that was because you said you you said instead of let your hair down

you said I said let your hair go let your hair go which of course is not an

English expression doesn't mean anything if you let your

hair go it means you are you are getting rid of it so maybe you could let your

hair go if you are making it wild and and free I suppose but we don't normally

use that expression it's very hard so that's the reason why mr. Steve got very

very flustered and he found it very difficult to say let your hair down

because cookie I was with sorry to interrupt you could

say that I let my hair go years ago because I haven't got it you certainly

did let your hair go well I've got no room to talk

I've got no room to talk because I also lost my a lot of my hair is also waved

perhaps we could start this is a new expression for people who are bald we

could say I just let my hair go a little etiquette I wanted to be bald yes every

night when I went to sleep I I I wished to myself I said I hope my hair

disappears and I I look like a big billiard ball I think he's gonna take he

quite that far why would you do that by the way that was the only time I laughed

yesterday was Barbara when we were doing that that that particular segment yeah

yeah would you you really you really had a bit of a sulk yesterday what was wrong

with you you woke up yesterday I think mr. Steve got out of bed on the wrong

side yes I don't like yes I don't like getting trouble the weekends is you get

out of bed you tend to lie in so you're going to work you get up sort of 7

o'clock in the morning maybe but then a weekend there I'm going to lie in so you

get to bed later but then you you you wake up at the normal time anyway and

then you get you keep falling off back to sleeping you get less sleep than you

otherwise would have done so I think you wake up feeding bit grumpy which is what

I did yesterday and that cheered me up after that I was fine for the rest of

the day well that's good then as I suppose really we can't complain then

can we and now of course I'm cheerful because I'm appearing with you on your

show so obviously that's cheered me up sadly we don't have

time to show the full version of my American and British English lessons so

we might do that during the week or of course I could upload it to YouTube

during the week I'd like to see that yes it's very interesting it's about 20

minutes long in fact it's a new version of the old lesson that I made a few

years ago but I've taken a lot of the music out because I thought that the

music was too loud and it interfered with the enjoyment of the lesson so it

is a rieta 'td version actually it's a rillette ative version of my British

American English lesson I might show it next week we will see how I feel it's

time for mr. Steve to say goodbye oh can you believe you've been here for 45

minutes 45 minutes it seems like 10 you know what I'm thinking I think we should

extend this lesson I think we should make it 3 hours what do you think do you

think this lesson should be 3 hours long it's up to you to say yes if you want 3

hours of mr. Steve and mr. Duncan please let me know perhaps they've got less

than 2 hours not more than 2 hours Oh dear me so we will see you next week

mr. Steve okay I hope you have a super-duper week I haven't got my prize

yet for getting a lot of those words right I think I'll sure I'm gonna take

I'm gonna take something with me it's box yes well tell me thank you nice I'm

taking this with me bye see you next week oh my goodness what on earth was

that thank you very much if you just joined us you are now watching a video

featuring mr. Steve he's just gone by the way and me mr. Duncan it's live

English all away and now we are going to take a look at a lesson shall we have a

look at something to do with I'm thinking prepositions shall we have a

look at a lesson all about prepositions and their uses hi everybody this is mr.

Duncan in England how are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy I hope

so in today's lesson I'm going to talk

about a group of words which for many students can cause quite a lot of

confusion yet they need not as they exist in almost all forms of written and

spoken language in fact and using them right now as I speak to you in today's

lesson we are going to take a look at prepositions

a preposition is a word that helps us to construct and define meaning in a

sentence prepositions are like the glue of a sentence they formulate the

relationship between certain words they articulate they help us define what we

want to say they help us to join words with meaning together they are purely

functional words sometimes having no apparent definition yet without them we

would find it very hard to make ourselves understood prepositions

usually come before nouns however they don't always follow or come after nouns

in English grammar a determiner such as verb can be placed between a preposition

and a noun let us not forget that adjectives may also come between a

preposition and a noun on white horses up dark alleys over

green hills no matter how it is used in a sentence a preposition never changes

its form prepositions are mostly used singularly on their own in a sentence

they normally consist of six letters or less there is also the two-word form of

a prepositional clause and a three word group as well

prepositions are usually placed among other words with the inner sentence

however sometimes they come at the very end of one which some people object to

the overall description of a preposition defines the way in which a sentence is

constructed the general term for this is at position this type of word defines

other formations such as a post-position which formulates the

sentence after the now post positions exist in other languages such as

Japanese and Turkish there is also the circum position where two defining parts

appear on both sides of the dependent now generally speaking prepositions are

the ones most commonly used especially in English having said that there are

post positions in English such as a NGO apart aside away hints on and through

ten years ago this apart such matters aside ten light years away five years

hence two weeks on the whole night through another variation of preposition

use is stranding this is when a preposition occurs where it normally

would not yet still expresses a meaning a good example is the sentence who did

you give it to this works because it is an interrogated sentence the word who

appears at the beginning of the sentence so too can end the sentence as it

clearly refers to who this form of sentence is most commonly found in

English the use of prepositions at the end of a sentence has for many years

been the subject of argument should a sentence be allowed to end with one

despite the fact that there is no rule preventing a preposition ending a

sentence there are those who are against it being done the earliest recorded

objection to the use of prepositions at the end of sentences came in the 17th

century by the poet John Dryden who mistakenly likened the english language

to latin which does not allow prepositions to end any sentence for

Hurst this rule was never followed so if you want to ask where do you come from

or where are you going to you still can

over the years words used in English have changed and altered and

prepositions are no exception a few of them have become obsolete

during the last century a couple of good examples being unto and twixt the

preposition clause allows sentences to be formed they allow nouns to be used in

an expressive way they color in the parts of a phrase which would otherwise

sound disjointed and confusing they define the placement of an object with

something else its position its appearance its movement and its

intention it would be fair to describe prepositions as the building blocks of

sentences without them we would not be able to express clearly what we want to

say they hold the context of the sentence in place they helped place

actions with nouns and nouns with other nouns the most commonly used

prepositions are of 2 in 4 with and on

I hope you have enjoyed today's lesson and that you have found it helpful I

will see you again very soon for another English class until then this is mr.

duncan in england saying thank you for watching me teaching you and of course

tutor for now mm-hm-hm and there it was gone so there was a lesson all about

prepositions a part of the english language that some people have

difficulty with thanks a lot for your lovely comments today I cannot stop

laughing when I see mr. Steve says Jang Tran Wong wish you have a good week mr.

Duncan and many thanks for your livestream Thank You Helena and also

Shirin asks what is the difference between especially and specially there

are both things that you are your favorite or the thing that you wish to

highlight so especially I like every day of the week but I especially like

Thursday so we normally say especially especially thank you very much for your

comments and questions I am almost out of time oh my goodness I

don't know about you but I think today's livestream has gone very quickly they

always seem to go by so fast so before we leave we will have a look at the

mystery idioms here they are I thought today's mystery idioms were

quite easy although maybe the expressions might be things that you're

unfamiliar with so let's have a look shall we

so the first mystery idiom the answer is

pay through the nose pay through the nose the meaning is to pay more than the

fare price if something cost you more than

the reasonable price you can say that you had to pay through the nose for it

and I do like this one this this picture is quite disgusting I do apologize to

all those who are eating their food or having a meal so what is this particular

idiom it is open a can of worms open a can of worms the meaning is to create a

situation that causes trouble and unpleasantness so something that you do

or something that you've done has created a bad situation your actions

have opened a can of worms

okay we will get rid of that that horrible image of all of those worms

squirming and squiggling it's time for me to go I hope you've enjoyed today's

livestream I'm going to say thank you to a few people now thank you very much to

Olga to also Jamal and also to Julie gee thanks for joining me today

also Bruno Bruno Moreno thank you very much for coming along and clicking on my

face thank you very much I will be back with you next Sunday from 2 p.m. and of

course mr. Steve will be here as well once again

Esther thank you very much for watching me today and finally before I leave you

thank you - sure in - who've an who van crystal toe shell and Maria Maria I'm

saying goodbye to Maria in fact I'm saying goodbye to

everyone because it's almost time to go Thank You mr. Duncan and mr. Steve Adele

trod adele trod Schmid says have a great

weekend you too have a super-duper rest of the

weekend because the weekend has not yet ended don't forget you can watch this

live stream again from at the beginning and of course there will be subtitles

underneath provided by YouTube thanks YouTube you're ever so kind Janet see

you next Sunday everyone thank you mr. Duncan you are welcome Janet and I will

see you very soon Nelson says thank you mr. Duncan thank

you very much for showing me the worms during my lunch thanks for showing me

the worms oh I'm very sorry about that there they are again waving goodbye I

will see you later Thank You Eleanor thank you a tiller and

one final goodbyes before we go Sergio says thanks a lot mr. Duncan I

will present my IELTS exam this Friday okay I will keep my fingers

crossed and also my thumb up for you good luck with that I will see you next

Sunday two o'clock UK time this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English

saying thank you very much for watching me and I will see you next Sunday from

2:00 p.m. UK time have a super-duper Sunday and have a great week won't you

this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of the English language saying on behalf of

mr. Steve and of course myself

ta ta for now 8-)