English Addict Ep 349 -🔴LIVE stream / Wednesday 12th March 2025 / Join the LIVE Chat & Learn English

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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We have another lovely sunny day.
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But it is also quite cold as well.
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Only six Celsius today.
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It does feel as if winter has decided to hang around for a little bit longer.
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Welcome, everyone.
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We are back together once again and I am feeling rather excited today.
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Why though? Find out in a few moments for now.
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This is English Addict coming to you live and direct from the birthplace of the English language, which is of course,
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we all know where it is. Mr. Duncan.
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It's England.
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And? Yes, it is.
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It is, of course, England.
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That is where I am right now. Hi, everybody.
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This is Mr. Duncan in England.
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How are you today?
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Are you okay?
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I hope so. Are you feeling happy?
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Are you feeling excited, I wonder?
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I am feeling excited. I will tell you. I.
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I'm sure this will be of no interest to anyone,
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but I am excited today because I've noticed that.
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British Telecom are at the moment doing some work here in the village where I live.
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Which means perhaps, maybe we might finally be getting off superfast internet.
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Oh, now I know what you are thinking, Mr. Duncan.
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What does this mean for us as your viewers?
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Well, guess what it will mean that first of all, my internet will be more reliable and it will be very fast as well.
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Although at the moment we don't have it.
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We have been waiting for nearly two years to have our superfast internet.
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So at the moment I am using slow broadband.
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It's still okay.
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Don't get me wrong, the quality is still good, but but I would rather
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this just shows how fussy I am as a human being.
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I would rather be broadcasting in ten ATP
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rather than 720p,
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it just means the quality is better.
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It also means that YouTube will like my lovely, lovely live streams more because the quality will be better.
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So I'm hoping perhaps this year, maybe this year will be the year when we get, superfast internet.
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We will have to wait and see.
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But there is some work taking place
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not far from my house.
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They have been connecting things up, digging holes
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and lots of other technical things as well.
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I'm really looking forward to it.
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I will keep my fingers crossed that this year might be the year when we get super fast internet.
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What about you? Do you have fast internet? So at the moment I have to struggle.
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When I'm doing my live streams, I have to turn everything off in the house.
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So all the other things that use any type of connection to the internet, I have to switch them off.
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So then I can put all of the internet speed into this.
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It's true.
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You have no idea how much trouble I go to to make sure that this live stream works to be honest.
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Oh yes, we have a lovely day today. The sun is out.
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It is sunny, but also it is cold as well.
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But at least it feels as if spring is coming, even though it might not feel like it, to be honest.
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So for those who don't know who I am, my name is Duncan.
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I talk on the internet about English.
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Sometimes I am recorded, sometimes I am live like this.
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This at the moment is very, very live.
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Hello to the live chat. Hello to you.
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Thank you for joining me in first place.
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With the very first finger we have Beatriz. Hello, Beatriz.
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You very good to.
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Very good.
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Beatriz, you are first.
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In second place, we have Duc an vu li.
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Hello to you. You are second on today's live chat.
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Then we have. Oh, he is here.
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Yes. A big bonjour to the one.
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The only Luis Mendez.
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Some people ask Mr.
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Duncan, why do you give the special echo
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to Luis?
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I have my reasons.
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Maybe they are personal reasons.
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Maybe I just feel like it.
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So if you would like.
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I'm feeling generous today because I'm in a good mood.
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If you would like me to give you a wonderful
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greeting with my echo echo, echo, echo, echo.
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Ask me and I might do it.
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I make no promises.
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I might do it.
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Oma is here.
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I am a fairy also. Surrender.
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Hello. Surrender or surrender? What should I say?
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Hello to you.
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Thank you for joining me today. Countryside Life blog is here.
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I don't think I've ever seen your name on the live chat before.
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Is it your first time? Oma is here as well.
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Oma, Ferdy, who are you?
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Who am I?
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Maybe you mean how are you?
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I'm okay.
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And to answer the other question, my name is Mr. Duncan.
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I talk about English. I've been doing this for a very long time.
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Just up there.
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If you look, you will know exactly how long I've been doing this.
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For a very long time.
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Some people say too long, Christine.
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Hello, Christina. Nice to have you back as well.
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It is also nice to say hello to Claudia.
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Claudia.
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What's cooking? Claudia.
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Anything tasty in your pot today, I wonder? I'm.
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And we also have Kevin.
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Kevin.
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The, city's the lucky, Mr. Duncan.
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I hope so, I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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Sometimes we do this when we want to have good luck.
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Or maybe we are hoping that something will be successful. So I've.
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I've got my fingers crossed right now.
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Hopefully
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we will have high speed internet this year.
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And then I can broadcast in super high definition,
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not 4K.
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Unfortunately.
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I don't want my cables to melt.
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Let's just say my route SEO is here as well.
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Thank you very much for joining me.
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Beatrice says.
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Louis really does
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deserve the echo, I think.
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So hello, Alexander and Niemann of what's cracking.
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Mr. Duncan, what is cracking?
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Sometimes we will say what's cracking when we want to say what's going on, what's happening?
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What's going on?
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What is happening?
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What's cracking?
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There's always something going on around here. I will be honest with you.
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Never be fooled. Never be misled
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by the fact that I live in the countryside.
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There is always something going on around here.
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Dramatic things, exciting things, sad things.
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For example, one of my neighbours passed away a couple of weeks ago and it was his funeral today in Much Wenlock.
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Unfortunately, because I was doing this, I was preparing all of this.
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I was not able to attend his funeral.
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Unfortunately.
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But Roger, Roger,
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we are all thinking of you.
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Dan, hi is here as well.
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Hello to you.
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Also on the live chat.
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It's nice to have you here today.
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Have you ever heard of any English sayings?
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Things that people say to each other?
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Maybe something that a person believes, or maybe a piece of advice,
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or maybe something that people often say to each other as a way of making friendly conversation.
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Here's something people often say.
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They say that a change is as good as a rest.
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That's what they say. They say a change is as good
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as a rest.
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Which means, of course, doing something different can be quite refreshing if you do something in a different way.
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Maybe you change part of your life for a short period of time.
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It can be as good as having a lovely rest.
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Maybe you have a change of routine, perhaps you change your routine.
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Perhaps you do it for just a short period of time, just to have some sort of change in your life.
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So I think this is a this is actually a very good expression.
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I like this.
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So a lot of people say, yes,
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a change is as good as a rest.
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Sometimes
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you might make some changes
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to certain parts of your life, maybe a change of routine.
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The routine is the thing that you do every day.
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The things that you normally do on a normal average day, a change of routine.
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Maybe you get up earlier in the morning instead of late.
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Perhaps you have something different for breakfast.
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Maybe you change the time when you have your breakfast.
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You have a change of routine.
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Perhaps you have a change of scenery.
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A change of scenery can be going somewhere else, going on holiday, visiting a different place like I will be next week.
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Oh, Mr. Duncan, what is that all about?
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Yes, I will be away somewhere next week.
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I'm going off somewhere.
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Mr. Steve will also be joining me as well next week.
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We are having a change of scenery.
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Sometimes it is nice to go away.
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You don't have to go very far.
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You don't have to travel all the way around the world to have a change of scenery.
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Sometimes it is nice to just go somewhere local, or
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maybe just go to a different part of your own country, which is what we are doing next week.
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So we are not going abroad next week, but we are going to a nice part of
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the UK.
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In fact, you might not believe this,
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but the place we are going to.
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Has been in the news over the past 24 hours.
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I'm not kidding you. I'm not lying. It's true.
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So the place we are visiting next week is actually near to where those two ships collided.
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I can't believe it.
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We can't believe it.
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I said to Mr. Steve last night.
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Should we still go there?
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I'm sure you've heard the news.
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So the place we are going to next week is very close to where that collision took place between the
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fuel tanker and also the cargo ship, and they crashed into each other.
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But the place where it happened is near to where we are going next week.
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I can't believe that
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has actually occurred, to be honest.
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Anyway, a change of scenery, to go to a different place to visit somewhere
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or stay somewhere with different surroundings.
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And of course, maybe
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a very common change that people make.
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The change of habit.
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Maybe your habit can change.
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Maybe something that you feel that you should not do anymore.
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Maybe a bad habit.
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Maybe you bite your nails.
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Like Mr. Steve, I can tell you now.
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Mr. Steve often bites his nails.
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Sometimes we are sitting watching television at night and Steve is next to me.
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Biting his nails.
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It's true.
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The live chat is very busy.
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Very interesting, very interesting conversations taking place today.
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Giovani is not very well.
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I hope you are feeling better soon.
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Giovani, I'm sorry to hear that you are not feeling very well. So
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a change can be as good as a rest,
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a change of routine, a change of scenery and of course a change of habits.
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Things that you want to change that you do.
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Maybe you feel a little
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ashamed of them.
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I recently have tried to change some of my habits, my eating habits.
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I do like having snacks.
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I do like eating things between meals, which of course can be a bad thing.
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Indeed.
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So what about you?
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Do you think it is good to have a change?
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Sometimes we will be doing that next week.
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We are going away somewhere next week.
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I will tell you more about it next week when we are there.
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It seems like a reasonable thing when you think about it.
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Maybe Mr.
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Steve is feeling nervous and that is the reason why he is biting his nails.
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I can tell you now it is a little habit that he has that he can't stop doing.
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I don't know why.
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Maybe he is nervous.
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Maybe he's he's worried about something. Perhaps you might be right.
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But it is a habit that Steve has has had for a while now.
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And sometimes he likes biting his nails.
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I don't.
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I have the opposite problem.
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Sometimes I forget to cut my fingernails and they get very long.
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I know, because sometimes I am criticised by you out there.
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Sometimes I receive messages
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asking, Mr.
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Duncan, can you please cut your fingernails?
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They are getting long, but at the moment they are not too long.
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You see, my fingernails at the moment are nice and short.
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They are not long at all. So that is good.
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Don't ask
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me about my toenails because I hate my toenails very much.
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They are such a pain because I find it very difficult to bend and lift my foot up so I can cut my toenails.
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I find it very hard to do these days.
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But that, as they say, is a whole different story.
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Here is something that I'm going to mention.
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And if you ever get the chance to come to my house, if you ever come here, or perhaps you are maybe a delivery driver
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who has to deliver something to my house, I'm going to tell you something now, something that I suppose might be a type of warning.
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The outside of my house.
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There is something dangerous outside my house.
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My dangerous steps. We have some steps that go up
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to the front door of the house
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and they are incredibly steep.
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So if something is steep, it means it goes up at a very sharp angle.
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And they are made of concrete, just like these steps here.
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If you look there, you can see those steps are made of concrete.
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And the steps outside our house are also made of concrete.
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And over the years.
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Quite a few people have fallen down those steps.
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One of our neighbours, many years ago, before we moved here,
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she actually fell all the way down the steps and injured
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her ankle.
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And even to this very day, to this actual day, she still has problems with her ankle and she blames
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our steps, the steps outside our house.
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And of course, I have also seen the postman as well.
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A couple of times the postman has fallen over as he goes up the steps.
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My advice is not to rush.
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Don't rush up the steps and don't rush down the steps because you might trip.
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You might fall over and injure yourself.
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So if you ever get the chance to come here, this is my official warning.
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Please beware
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of the steps outside the house.
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I'm sure you have something or some place in your house that might also be a little dangerous.
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This is the most dangerous part of my house. By the way.
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The steps coming up outside,
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I think at least eight or maybe nine people over the years
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since we moved here have tripped up on these steps.
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Be careful, is my advice.
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Be very careful. We have lots of things to talk about.
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By the way, today we are talking about opposites, opposite things,
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things that are opposite to each other or different from each other.
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So you can have something that is opposite.
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It is the absolute opposite.
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It reflects the thing, it reverses it, if you will,
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something black and something white.
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They are opposites in colour because they are different shades, maybe something big and something small together.
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They are opposites because they are a different size.
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So there are many things, many ways in fact, of describing
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opposites, the things that are different, the things that are opposite from each other or to each other.
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They are different from each other.
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All of that coming up in a few moments from now.
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But first we'll have a quick break so I can drink some water, and then we will be back with today's big subject,
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we are talking all about opposites.
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I'm a big boy now.
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English addict is with you today.
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I hope you are having a good day. Where you are.
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Well, we have such a lovely day today here in England.
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I hope the sun is shining brightly where you are as well.
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I hope it is a nice, warm.
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And we are together again.
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As life as life can be.
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Hello to the live chat.
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Nice to see so many people here, Giovani or should I say Giovani?
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Did you enjoy that?
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Another exclusive echo on today's English addict.
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I am feeling in a very good mood indeed.
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By the way, don't forget to give me a like.
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I know a lot of people say this on the internet. They always say, oh Mr.
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Duncan, people are always asking for their viewers to give them a like,
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but please, please give me a lovely like and also subscribe as well.
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Please subscribe and give me a like and then maybe maybe YouTube Bob and myself
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can become good friends.
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Maybe. Who knows?
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So today we are looking at an interesting subject opposite.
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And the reason why I'm looking at this today is because quite often in life we do find
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opposite things that are opposite to each other, things that are different in
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maybe a certain way, or maybe they have a certain type of contrast.
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When we talk about contrast, we are talking about a very obvious difference.
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The two things that contrast with each other.
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A good example, of course. My hat.
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My hat is white. My shirt is black.
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There is a very clear contrast between those two things, between my hat and my shirt.
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You might say that they are opposites.
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If we are talking about the colour of those things, they are opposites.
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They have different
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colours or shades.
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Generally, the word opposite means to go against or reflect.
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So two things can be opposite.
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They are different in a certain way, or maybe they reflect in a different way.
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Quite often we talk about opposites when we are talking about the the difference in a certain type
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of aspect the colour, the shape, the size.
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Gender, all sorts of things.
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In fact, in action or meaning, or the way a thing is expressed or viewed.
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So we can look at opposites in various types of behaviour, in action or meaning.
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The way a thing is expressed or viewed.
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All of those things can be opposites within each action.
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You can have opposites.
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We can have the opposite meaning of a word.
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Of course we are learning English, and one of the things
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we often have to learn when we are learning a language is the opposite.
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The opposite. We often refer to it as
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antonym.
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An antonym is the opposite.
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It is the opposite of a thing.
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So one word defines the opposite of another.
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One thing you see, one thing you say, one thing you think may be an opinion, a belief.
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There is always an opposite to all those things.
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Some basic opposites.
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Now, I know that most of you will know these, but I always think it's interesting to have a look at opposite words,
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because sometimes, sometimes not always, but sometimes,
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yes, they are opposites.
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Sometimes always, sometimes always.
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You might say that they are opposites
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in a certain way.
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Up and down.
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Something goes up. Something comes down.
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Maybe two things are doing the same thing.
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But in different directions.
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So maybe a lift is going up
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and another lift is going down.
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They are going in opposite directions.
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The direction in which they are travelling is opposite, in and out.
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Something is in, something is out.
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Maybe a person is at home, they are in.
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Maybe they've gone somewhere and now they are out.
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So it's interesting to note that some particular words, even opposite words, can have many different uses
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to be in, to be at home, to be out, to be somewhere else.
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You have gone somewhere.
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So you are not in, you are out.
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Something that is on
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or off, a thing that is active or a thing that is not active.
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It is all it is off.
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Maybe something that is happening is on.
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That means it will take place.
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Something that is off
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has been cancelled.
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It is not happening.
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Black and white.
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Well, of course, as you can see from my lovely hat on my left t shirt,
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black and white are opposites.
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We often look at things, subjects, or if we are discussing a certain topic, we might look at things in black and white.
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You might look at the differences, the contrast between certain things.
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Give and take.
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Hard and soft.
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Something hard is firm.
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Something soft
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has no firmness.
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These are opposites.
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How do you like your egg?
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Some people like their boiled egg hard.
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Some people like their boiled egg soft and runny.
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Of course we have good and bad a person, their character, their behaviour.
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Are they a good person or a bad person?
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Maybe you have a type of habit because we were talking about habits earlier.
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A good habit.
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Clean your teeth three times a day,
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a bad habit eating chocolate three times a day.
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Sad and happy to be sad to be gloomy.
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Maybe your emotions are in a negative state.
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You are feeling sad.
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And of course you might be feeling happy because your internet
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might be getting faster towards the end of the year.
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So there are many ways of expressing these things.
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They are all opposites.
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They are all ways of expressing the opposite of the other thing,
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to say something that is the opposite of what a person thinks.
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You might have the opposite opinion.
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And I think these days we do find that lots of people do enjoy expressing
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their opinions.
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But of course
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everyone is different.
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Not everyone has the same opinion about something.
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Maybe your opinion
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is different to mine.
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If we talk about a person's opinion, it is what they believe.
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But perhaps one person might have different opinions.
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Their opinions might be the opposite.
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Perhaps there is an issue or a certain thing that you feel strongly about,
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maybe a certain thing that you have an opinion on,
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whilst another person might have the opposite opinion,
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their feeling is the opposite to yours.
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So to have an opposite opinion, to have a different point of view,
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it is the opposite view.
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The opposite way can be direction of travel,
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direction of travel, or the line of thinking.
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When making a choice or decision.
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So you might think in a certain way.
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We often think of maybe a decision that a person has to make.
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You have to make a decision. You have to decide something.
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You might have to say yes or no to something.
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That is a decision that has to be made.
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Some people might say that you have to agree, whilst other people might believe that you have to disagree.
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Those things are opposite views.
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Opposite.
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And now we can clearly see the difference
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opposite direction to go in the opposite direction.
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I might go that way and you might go this way.
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We go in opposite directions.
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As I mentioned a few moments ago, you can also have an opposite opinion.
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Maybe there is a certain thing that you agree with
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whilst another person might disagree, they have the opposite view.
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And then of course we have the opposite action, an action that can be seen as opposite.
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For example, here we have give,
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give and the other one take.
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They are opposites and in some cases not always.
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But sometimes these things can also be the divide between something good and something bad.
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Not always, I have to say, not always, but sometimes
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opposite actions can be seen also as good and bad.
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So a good action can be giving,
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a bad action taking.
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You are taking something away.
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So besides them being types of action, they can also be opposites as well.
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I always think it's very important to realise that
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many opposite things can also be good and bad.
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Opposite can describe the appearance of two things that contrast.
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For example, a tall girl
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and a short boy.
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The girl is tall and the boy is short.
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They are opposites.
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In fact, you might also say
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they are opposite in gender as well.
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So one is a girl, one is a boy, one is tall and the other one is short.
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So there is more than one opposite taking place. There.
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You might have a big dog and a small cat.
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They are both animals, but also they are opposites.
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Visually.
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One is big, the dog is big, a cat is small.
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And of course they are different from each other because they are different animals.
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They are animals, but they are different animals and they are opposite sizes.
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The sizes of the animals are opposite.
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So we can describe two things facing each other.
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They face each other.
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They are facing each other, and we can describe them as being opposite to things that face each other.
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Opposite houses.
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Perhaps you live
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in a house
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and opposite there is another house, so you are looking directly
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at another house opposite something that is facing towards you.
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So we often say facing something is facing towards you.
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It is the opposite.
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It is in the opposite direction.
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Two points in the same space might be at opposite ends.
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So you can see here we have a football pitch and
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the goalkeepers are at opposite ends.
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One is there and the other is over there.
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They are at opposite ends.
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Maybe if one person
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is at the opposite end of the road, maybe they are
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at the end of the road and you are at the beginning of the road.
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You can say that you are at opposite ends.
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Next we can have
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opposite opposite as an adjective or a noun.
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So the adjective shows that that person is the opposite.
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Visually you can see from its appearance.
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And of course the opposite can also be a noun.
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The person who is against you can be described as the opposite.
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And then we have opposition, which is another way of saying opponent.
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The opponent is the person who is against you.
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So maybe the opposition
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is a person who might have a different political point of view. Oh.
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They are described as the opposition.
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You might have two different political parties with opposite views.
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Maybe my party, the party that I support.
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As the opposite view to the one you do.
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So you might I might say that your party, the political party you support, is the opposition.
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Perhaps in a fight as well.
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The opposition is the person
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you are going to be fighting against.
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Two things that are opposing you might have an argument
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or a conversation that is taking place between two people who disagree with each other.
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They have opposing views.
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Their views are opposite.
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Maybe two political parties.
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Might have
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opposing views.
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Then, of course, we have the verb form of opposite.
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If you oppose something, it means you put forward your objection,
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you oppose something.
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You go against that thing, you oppose that thing.
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And then finally, we have a possible two things that can be joined together.
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They can meet, for example, your firm.
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Isn't that the most amazing thing, by the way?
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We often forget how amazing the firm actually is.
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Look at that look. It can go all the way over. There is.
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That is amazing. I love my firm.
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I think the sums are brilliant.
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And you might describe this as
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a poseable a poseable.
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So this can go the opposite way to everything else.
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Look at that.
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I love thumbs.
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Thumbs are amazing.
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Are they brilliant?
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We often forget about our thumbs.
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But you will miss your thumbs if you didn't have them really?
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How would you like me?
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How would you like my videos if you didn't have a thumb,
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it would be virtually impossible to do a duck.
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And woolly is going now.
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See you later, duck and woolly.
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Or should I say duck and woolly?
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I hope you enjoyed that.
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And moving on.
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The opposite of opposite.
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Oh, Mr. Duncan, what is the opposite of opposite?
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There is the opposite of opposite, which is similar.
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Something similar
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is the same.
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They appear in the same form.
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They look the same.
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They behave in the same way.
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They are similar.
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So the opposite of opposite is similar.
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Opposite?
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Similar.
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We have opposite opinions.
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Maybe you disagree with your friend on many, many different things.
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We have similar opinions.
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If you have similar opinions, it means your feelings are similar.
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They are alike.
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They are the same,
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almost identical.
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Then we have the phrase oh, here is an interesting phrase.
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Now I started today's live stream talking about phrases, and here is an interesting phrase.
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They often say that opposites attract.
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Sometimes
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people who meet,
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who are opposites in a certain way.
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You often find that they get along very well because they have opposite views, or maybe they have an opposite opinion.
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So there is always something for them to talk about.
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It doesn't always work, I have to say.
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It doesn't always work, but sometimes opposites can attract.
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The opposite.
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They say that the opposite thing can be attractive.
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So maybe a person who is young
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might be looking for an older partner.
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Now, not me.
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Definitely not me.
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Definitely.
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So quite often when we talk about opposites being attractive,
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sometimes with people in relationships, quite often if you talk to a couple who have been together for a long time, you might say that.
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Or you that.
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They might say that they have certain things that are not similar.
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They have certain opposites from each other.
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Opposite can show two things similar things, but with opposite attributes.
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So opposite can show two similar things with opposite attributes.
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So maybe two people who are together in a relationship that they're together.
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They've been together for a long time, but they might have certain differences.
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They have similarities
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and they have differences.
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But those differences are often described as being opposite.
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And finally, there is an interesting phrase that we sometimes use in English.
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You might describe two people
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who seem different from each other.
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They seem like opposites.
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You might describe something that is opposite as being similar to chalk and cheese.
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They are similar.
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They are the same as chalk and cheese because they are so different from each other.
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Sometimes you might meet another person and immediately
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you know that you are not going to like them because they are too much the opposite.
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They are two different from you.
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So it can happen.
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Sometimes it can happen.
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Sometimes opposites can be attractive and sometimes they can be completely the opposite.
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That is almost it for today.
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And we are coming up to five minutes to 3:00 here in England.
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Can I just say we are with you on Sunday?
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We are doing a live stream on Sunday. It is a strange one.
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So on Sunday,
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Sunday's live stream, I want to say this now while I have the chance.
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Sunday
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is a strange day next Sunday because it will be the anniversary
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of my mother passing away two years ago.
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So on Sunday it will be the anniversary.
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And if I seem a little down or a little unhappy on Sunday, then you will know why.
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All I ask is that you join me on Sunday to cheer me up, so maybe that will make me feel better.
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Thank you very much for your company.
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Thank you. Hello, Zion.
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Hello to you also, Kevin.
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Thank you Kevin,
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and thank you also to Christina.
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Beatriz, Giovanni, I hope
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you are feeling better soon.
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I really do and I will be back on Sunday from 2 p.m. UK time.
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The sun is out. Everything is looking so nice today. It's incredible.
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I am back on Sunday from 2 p.m. UK time.
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It is always the same time.
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2 p.m.
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UK time is when I'm back with you.
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And of course until the next time we meet, which will be on Sunday.
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Myself and Mr.
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Steve will be here in the studio.
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Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday and I will see you soon.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan in the birthplace of the English language, saying thanks for watching.
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Catch you later. And of course, until the next time we meet.
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Stay happy, stay safe.
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Ta ta For now.
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