31 Days of Learning English - 4th October - Road, Street, Using 'would' - improve your English

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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everybody take a deep breath because it's Friday welcome to another day
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another day of October day four of 31 days of English
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hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you ok
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I hope so are you happy I hope you are happy because today is world smile day
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did you know that so I want to see you all giving me your best smiles I want to
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see your smiles go for miles so today is world smile day so there is no excuse
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for being sad or unhappy because we are all here today sharing our smiles
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together so here we go then oh my goodness it's day 4 already we've made
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it all the way to day 4 of 31 days of English in October can you believe it I
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have another 27 days to go the big question is will I make it all the way
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to the end of October I don't know I have no idea so here we go Friday is
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here of course I'm sure many of you are feeling very excited because the weekend
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is just around the corner but for some people there is no weekend because I
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have to appear here again tomorrow because I'm here every day during
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October and there you can see now on the screen all of the day's 31 days of live
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English during October 2019 Monday to Friday 2 p.m. UK time and tomorrow I
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will be with you at 12 p.m. so it is always a different time on Saturday
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because mr. Steve and myself we always like to go into town to have our lunch
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so Saturday tomorrow 12 p.m. midday UK time and then on Sunday 2 p.m.
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UK time and then back into the week Monday
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to Friday 2 p.m. UK time I am with you every single day
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during October and the reason why I'm doing this is something quite simple
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really I am celebrating my 13th year on YouTube
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making English lessons yes it only seems like yesterday when I was first on
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YouTube teaching English and did you know did you know this do you know that
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I was the first English English man to teach English on YouTube in fact there
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was only me and there was a lady who had very large hmm that's all I'm saying
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and she used to teach English as well who remembers hotforwords so there was
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me and there was a lady who was very sexy called hotforwords and we were the
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first people on YouTube to teach English so you had a choice between me and the
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semi naked lady some things haven't changed here on YouTube have you noticed
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so here we go again it is Friday what is it it's the fourth
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of October day 4 of 31 days of English in October so let's have a look I wonder
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who is on the live chat are you on the live chat at the moment if it is your
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first time here don't forget to say hello say mr. Duncan it is my first time
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on the live chat and I might give you something special
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talking of special things who is first on the live chat today oh hello - Andrew
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and drew Malloy chick off who says hello again on this sunny Friday well
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unfortunately outside at the moment look there is a live view outside it isn't
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sunny here unfortunately it is overcast it is gloomy it has been
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raining all morning so it isn't a very cheerful day even though it is world
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smile day so I'm still smiling even though the weather outside is a little
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bit grim but here in the studio everything is fun and exciting so
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congratulations to Andrew you are first on today's live chat
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congratulations to Andrew you are first also to Alamgir hello Alamgir nice to
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see you back here today Alamgir says hi Yoga is here as well hello Yoga welcome
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to Friday's live English stream at 8 minutes past two o'clock I am with you
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for one hour between Monday and Friday also I am with you on Saturday and
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Sunday as well incredible Connell is here
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hello Connell nice to see you back here again Alamgir says hello
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also pappi watching in Honduras Louie Louie
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mr. Duncan I like the melody do you mean the piece of music that I play at the
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start of the live stream a lot of people seem to like this piece of music
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the name of the music is elevator that's what it's called and it is actually
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available on YouTube so that piece of music is the music I play at the start
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of all of my live streams and I'm glad to hear that you like listening to it
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very nice hello from Egypt as well hello Tamika
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hello Mika watching in Japan of course Mika is one of the moderators on the
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live chat so behave yourself if you are saying something if you are writing on
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the live chat keep it nice we try to be friendly on this channel Alexandra is
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here amra Wadi also kim hee-jung hello Kim I
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don't recognize your name is it your first time here on the live chat is it
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your first time if so please tell me can I say a big thank you to a couple of
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people right now I received a couple of nice donations hello to Petros and also
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to Francoise as well so thank you very much for your lovely kind donations that
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were sent to me through PayPal thank you very much and if you want to send a
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donation you are more than welcome to do so here is the address on the screen
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right now if you want to make a donation to my PayPal account to help my work
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continue forever and ever because well first of all I don't charge anything so
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you don't have to pay for my lessons I give my time completely free of charge
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it doesn't cost you anything but of course I give a lot of my time for free
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so if you would like to make a donation to help my work continue there it is on
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the screen and thank you once again to Petros and also Francois for your lovely
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donations through paypal now the other day if you
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remember the other day I was in the kitchen and by the way I will be in the
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kitchen next Wednesday again I did talk about words relating to
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food and also the feeling of needing food for example being hungry and there
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is one word that I forgot to show you so I'm going to show the word to you now
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the word is parched parched the word parched is very interesting we often use
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the word parched when we want to express feeling thirsty parched so if you feel
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thirsty if you feel is if you need to drink some water for example we can say
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that you feel parched parched so there is an interesting word used quite often
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in English to feel parched to feel thirsty
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also we can use this to describe land or the ground when it is very dry we can
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say that the land or the ground is parched but a person can also say they
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feel parched when they are thirsty so if you have thirst you can say that you
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feel parched I am so thirsty I am parched I hope that helps you
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hello to mate mathroom Mathurin hello Mathurin watching but where where are
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you watching Alamgir says hello to everyone else Silvio
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hello Silvio is it your first time please let me know Mika is also saying
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hello to everyone what a friendly group of people have you noticed a lot of the
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people here on my channel when you are all talking together you want
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so friendly just proving that not everyone in the world is mean and
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horrible some people are quite nice in fact I would go as far as to say that
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most people are nice but unfortunately nice things don't sell newspapers
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Alexandra says where is mr. Duncan I'm here I'm on the screen right now can you
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see me Patrick hello mr. Duncan how are you today I am French but I am now
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living in Thailand hello to Patrick Patrick originally from France but now
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living in Thailand Louis is here hello Luis thank you once again for your
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lovely photographs that I showed yesterday nasiha
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hello mr. Duncan how are you I'm okay today I had a nice sleep
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even though can I share something with you you know I love sharing these little
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moments of my life with you last night I had a terrible nightmare I might tell
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you about it later but I woke up feeling very upset very emotional that's the
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word I'm looking for emotional I felt very emotional after waking up from my
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nightmare last night I might tell you about it later but it really did upset
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me hello Rosa who says hello mr. Duncan and everyone else Sylvio is here I think
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I've already said hello to you Belarus see ya hello Belarusian can i
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first of all say something about yesterday now yesterday I was talking
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about dentist day because Belarusian was actually celebrating dentist day
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yesterday because that's her job now I don't want to seem as if I was was being
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unkind to dentists you see because I was quite surprised that there was a dentist
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day but I wasn't being fair or cruel but I was surprised that
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there is a dentist day because a lot of people don't like going to the dentist
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including me so I really I don't like going to the dentist in fact for the
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past two years I have been going to the dentist on a regular basis so I've been
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going to the dentist around every four or five months however this year I've
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only been to the dentist one time so I don't know why but for some strange
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reason suddenly I have become very nervous about going to the dentist very
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nervous indeed I don't know why so a lot of people don't really like they don't
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really like going to the dentist now I don't hate dentists
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I think dentists are fantastic they save so many smiles every day Zeus Zeus
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escazu seeker I might get your name right one day hi
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mr. Duncan how do you do I'm doing okay thanks a lot I'm not too bad
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it's a pleasure to be here learning English every day with such a good
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teacher thank you very much it's kind of you to say
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Alan Gere says if we have a smile we might have to have mr. Duncan day as
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well I don't think that's ever going to happen to be honest I don't think there
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will ever be a mr. Duncan day I mean why why would you have it why indeed palmira
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says mr. Duncan as always you look very stylish oh thank you very much that's
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very kind of you it's just something I threw on just some clothing lying in my
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wardrobe it's nothing special Svetlana is here
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nice to see you again on smiling day yes it is world smile day today so I want to
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see everyone on the live chat smiling with your best biggest smile
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go on show us your teeth it is my first time to be live with you says Mungo
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hello Mungo I remember many years ago there was a TV show in fact it was made
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a long time ago originally it was shown in the movies in the cinemas but it was
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a TV show called Flash Gordon and it was made I think in the 1930s or 1940s a
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long time ago and there was a planet that they would always go to called
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Mongo and that's what happened then you see what my brain was started working
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then you made me think of something else so hello to Mongo 9 2 3 it is my first
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time to be live with you well guess what I am now going to give you a round of
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applause to say welcome
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welcome Mongo where are you watching I'm curious to
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find out where you are in the world here in Rome it is an amazing sunny day hi my
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best teacher says far doh far Doh so nice to see you here as well hello to
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you an O UN Zhao hello you ang ow watching in China a big knee how to you
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now of course my youtube channel started almost 13 years ago in China I was
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actually living in China when I started my youtube channel in 2006 so yes I you
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still live I used to work and live in China ts hello TS it is fascinating it
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is a fascinating 8 p.m. for me because of you oh thank you very much that's
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very kind of you thanks a lot I read something in the
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news papers the other day that really did shock me in fact it was not in the
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newspaper because I don't buy newspapers anymore it was actually on the internet
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and this is a story that I saw on the internet and on television but not in
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the newspaper because I don't buy newspapers anymore
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I refuse to read the newspapers so apparently the latest scare and there
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are always new scares when we say scare we mean something that causes people to
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become afraid or worried and the latest scare concerns this particular thing it
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looks very innocent it looks very harmless so simple and yet
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apparently this is the latest thing that is causing a
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big scare apparently some tea bags contain particles of plastic so
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apparently that's the latest thing during the manufacturing process
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apparently lots of tiny tiny particles of plastic are actually making their way
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into the tea bags so I don't know how it's happening
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I haven't discovered that but apparently the latest thing that is contaminated
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with plastic apparently is tea bags is anything safe nowadays is anything safe
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to eat or drink maybe everything is bad for you maybe everything in the world is
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now bad for you who knows mr. Duncan you are really good at
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hip-hop dancing Thank You Alan here I'm not sure about that even though during
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my teenage years I used to enjoy having a little dance to the music princess
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says hello from London oh hello princess nice to see you here watching in the
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capital of the UK from London in London voilá says hello to mr. Duncan that's me
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by the way hello - Vladislav hello mr. Duncan what do you mean
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plastic what do you mean for the plastic thank you well when I say plastic it's
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things that are made from well most plastic is actually derived from oil and
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nowadays people are becoming more and more concerned about the use of plastic
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because many things now use plastic as as a means of being contained bottles
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containers so plastic has become a big issue in the world and apparently they
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are finding very small particles very small
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fragments of plastic all over the place
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hello to Anna hello Anna also to cooker sauce
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hello curse us watching in Brazil we are now up to date with the live chat oh my
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goodness I drink tea because it's supposed to be healthy now can I first
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of all say that it isn't all tea so it is only some tea
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apparently some tea bags contain tiny pieces of plastic now I'm not actually
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sure even if if they are harmful because if they are in the tea bag then that
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means they stay inside the tea bag but apparently some people are worried about
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plastic being in all sorts of things so organic tea bags and that's actually
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what this is so this particular tea bag is actually organic and even on the box
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it says guaranteed no plastic so you can actually buy safety bags but we live in
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very strange times where many things apparently are considered dangerous or
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unsafe call us hello mr. Duncan from Chile in South
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America I started to speak English with you thank you very much you are welcome
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it's very kind of you to say apparently today also it is World Animal
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Day and if you are a regular viewer you will know that I love animals very much
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so I thought it would be nice to have a little clip a video clip just to show
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how much I love animals so this is a short video filmed in my garden and what
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you will see you will actually see a lot of young
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hungry animals as a way of celebrating World Animal Day
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yes I know what you're going to say you are going to say mr. Duncan they're so
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cute and I would agree with you I hope you enjoyed that something that I filmed
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in my garden last year some animals feeding in one particular area and there
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were all sorts of animals did you see the mouse there was also a Robin one of
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my favorite birds there was also a vole vole which looks very similar to a mouse
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except it has a very long nose and a short tail hello to the live chat thank
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you for joining me today on this Friday as we we is it really four days wow I
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can't believe it so four days into 31 days of learning English
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Aleksandra mr. Duncan you really work very hard to have such a nice garden
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congratulations you deserve your own applause thank you very much
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it would appear that I've really stirred up a discussion about plastic I have
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heard about plastic rice and also eggs but I have not seen it yet so are you
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saying that there is plastic inside eggs I haven't I haven't heard of that one I
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must be honest Louie Mendez says well mr. Duncan I have
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to tell my wife about the tea bags fortunately I don't drink tea so Louis
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doesn't drink tea however his wife does so I will have to tell my wife not say
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my wife I will have to tell my wife so if you tell something it means you pass
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information on to someone else so you tell them about it you tell them
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something you give them some information or something that you
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feel that they need to know hello to Palmyra I do not know how to call
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someone in my native I don't know what that means I'm not sure what you mean
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there do you mean your native language nice video mr. Duncan did you film it
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yes I did I do all of the filming so everything you see on my youtube channel
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was created by myself I don't have any help from anyone else
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I do everything 100% by myself some people think that there are lots of
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people behind the scenes helping me there isn't there's there's no one just
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me I love to learn in this cute way excellent teacher
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thank you quite a loop it's very kind of you to say the magpie is very greedy
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well they are I must be honest one of my least favourite birds is the magpie for
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many reasons they are quite greedy and also Magpies have a horrible habit they
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will often raid the nest of some small chicks so there might be some chicks or
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some eggs in a nest and the magpie will often raid the nest so they will take
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the eggs or they will eat the chicks so yes one of my least favourite birds is
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the magpie hello also to Cesar hello Cesar
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where is mr. Lomax I miss him very much well mr. Lomax is still alive and well
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he's not here though at the moment I would love to have him here maybe next
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week he might make a surprise appearance who knows oh don't forget I'm back
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tomorrow and also on Sunday as well 12 p.m. tomorrow and Sunday 2 p.m. how
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- Korey I think the music is very poetic so the animals eating and also the
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beautiful music is very poetic thank you very much that's very kind of you to say
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here are two words that I'm going to show you now on the screen and they are
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spilt and split you will notice that they look very similar in appearance
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however they are completely different when it comes to their definition so you
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have first of all spilt split I will say it again
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spilt split so first of all the word spilt is actually the past tense of
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spill so if you spill something maybe you spill some water or maybe you spill
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some milk you spill the past tense is spilt so you spilt your milk you spilt
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your water and then we have split you can see that there is a slight
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difference only a slight difference between these two words
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so the word split means to cut in half to divide something exactly so you split
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something you might have fifty pounds and you want to share it with your
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friend so you will split the money you split you divide it 50/50 so each person
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will get 25 pounds so spilt is the past tense of spill and split is the action
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of dividing something you divide something you split
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something you open up something you split it split hello to Palmyra split is
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a very ancient and stunning city in Croatia oh yes I have heard of it yes
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you're right split it's a very unusual name for a place hello Anna don't cry
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over spilt milk ah I like that one that is a very good
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proverb in fact the proverb itself means don't regret something or don't get
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upset over something that has already happened so if something has occurred if
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something has happened and maybe there is nothing you can do about it maybe you
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can't change it maybe the thing that has happened can not be altered we might say
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there is no use crying over spilled milk
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very good I like that one quite a loop when people have deep
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meditation they will feed themselves from the universe well some people do go
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into meditation quite quite deeply so they have a lot of beliefs that surround
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the action of meditating Silvio hello I'm Silvio from Argentina nice to
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see you here today you can actually see at the moment that winter is on the way
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it is autumn now by the way but I think it really does feel as if what winter is
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on the way now I looked at my window this morning and this is what I saw look
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at that already you can see condensation on the window so the glass is covered
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with condensation and that means that the temperature
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side is starting to drop so inside the house it is nice and warm however
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outside the house it is not so warm so we might say that
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the signs of winter approaching are very evident so you can see there that there
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is a lot of steam on the window there is a lot of condensation on the window
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mm-hmm so I think now it is safe to say that winter is definitely on the way in
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fact last night it was freezing I was freezing cold in bed not only that
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I also had a bad dream as well mica says I think it is possible to have plastic
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inside the body so we often eat plastic without noticing it or without realizing
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that we're doing it I think this is the thing that many people are worried about
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now so people are actually concerned by the fact that a lot of the plastic is
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very small so it is a big problem and I don't think my personal opinion I don't
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think that the problem is going to go away I think it's going to take many
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years to solve that problem Jolla Hal Jolla from Corey hello Corey nice to see
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you here mica is very lucky you are lucky because apparently in Japan it is
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still 30 degrees 30 that's it I've just decided I'm going to get a
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plane ticket to Japan I think so I'm going to stay there because apparently
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it's nice and warm still here in the UK it is becoming very cold shall we have a
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look outside because we haven't had a look in the garden let's see what the
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birds are doing shall we oh yes there are some birds so this is a
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live view outside you can see there are lots of birds flying around oh I can see
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a goldfinch so in the middle you can see a goldfinch with a red face also blue
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tits and maybe great tips as well but there you can see in the middle there is
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a goldfinch I think gold finches are lovely and they
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make the most gorgeous sound it's like a little sweet whistle so there is a live
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view yes that is actually live some people think that it isn't but all of my
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shots are live and happening right now we will have another look in a little
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while outside what's up mr. Duncan it's nice to see you and your lessons thank
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you very much and a big greeting to Vietnam hello to you
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Alexandra asks mr. Duncan do you like winter now I like the
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appearance of winter however I don't like cold weather I'm not a big fan of
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cold weather so with me my emotions are very mixed when it comes to winter so
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because of winter being quite nice to look at I love watching the snow fall I
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love being out in the snow however I don't like the cold weather hello
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Cristina oh hello Cristina nice to see you here
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and welcome back it's nice to see you here today
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don't forget I am with you every day during October so everything everything
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that happens during October you will see because I will be here every day and I'm
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back tomorrow as well Connell says I have been teaching since 2001 and today
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is teachers day don't I deserve a round of applause mr. Duncan okay Connell to
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celebrate Connells special day because it's
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teachers day where Connell is how about a round of applause
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well-deserved well-deserved RHS says if I were a bird your house would be a
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paradise well I always welcome the animals
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however big they are or however small they are
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except flies I don't like flies unfortunately I find flies very annoying
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because they they do you know what flies do when they land on your food they
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actually take some of the food and then they spit the food out again
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they actually vomit on your food so that's the reason why I don't like flies
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I find flies very annoying in fact out of all the animals that exist on the
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planet I think flies are my least favorite to
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be honest Colonel says thank you for your applause you are welcome no problem
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it's time now to take a look at a couple of English words well in fact we're
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going to look at a word and also some descriptions of things that you will see
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around you every day so first of all we are going to take a look at the word
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wood wood and you will notice straightaway there is some information
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on the screen so the word wood is a modal verb what is a modal verb mr.
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Duncan a mobile Vord verb expresses necessity so a modal verb expresses
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necessity or possibility and there are many modal verbs for example must shall
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will should can could may might and of course would
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we can also say the pest of will is would he would it would not so the past
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tense of will used as a modal verb is would and don't forget will is also a
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modal verb conditional mood something that is imagined or something that might
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be imagined as a consequence so the outcome of something when we talk about
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consequence we actually refer to the outcome how something ends he would lose
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his job if they found out so you can see there we are imagining the consequence
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of something happening he would lose his job if they found out to give advice I
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would I would not so we might say I would or I would not and of course as a
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contraction we can say wouldn't I wouldn't go in there if I were you
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to express desire or inclination something you would like to do I would
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love to work in England I would love to work in England in that sentence you are
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expressing desire or for need to do something you feel like doing something
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you have inclination inclination I like that word to express a polite request
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would you pour the tea please would you pour the tea please to express
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willingness so something you want to do something that you would like to do who
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would live here who would live here you are asking that as a question so in
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that question you are asking who would be willing to live here who would live
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here so we can use it to express willingness to express conjecture oh so
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if you consider something if you think about something maybe you come to some
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sort of conclusion through thinking conjecture opinion or hope we can use
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the word would I would imagine that they are home now I would imagine that they
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are home now so I am thinking that that thing has happened I guess some people
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would consider it mean so again would means to think or to have
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an opinion or to express an opinion
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finally on this list I would have to agree so again if you have to agree you
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are making a conjecture you are concluding that you would have to agree
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so I hope they are useful and finally to use would ironically as a way of making
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a comment about behavior that is typical or expected they would say that wouldn't
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they hmm they would say that wouldn't they so it is something that is expected
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however you are using the actual sentence in an ironic way in literature
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to express a wish or regret now this is an old-fashioned way of expressing the
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word wood wood that he had lived to finish it so in that sense we are using
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it in a way that might appear in a story or in any type of literature so I hope
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that helps you there I have been asked to explain the uses of the word wood and
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there are some of them so I hope that has helped you the live chat is very
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busy today Wow so many people are here thank you
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for joining me Palmyra I am from Lithuania and it is a
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Baltic state my granddaughter is a musician and she plays the oboe
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now the oboe is very similar it is something you blow is that right
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the oboe isn't it like a big thing you blow or is it that big thing that looks
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like a cello the oboe it's a very strange word by the way
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oboe I'm only joking Kristina do you use wood when you look
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back on the past remembering things that often happen yes I suppose if you are
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talking about things you used to do when I was a child I would walk for miles and
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miles so yes you are reflecting on the past
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you are talking about something that you participated in or Soren activity from
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your past you would do it so I would walk for miles and miles when I was a
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child arts be can I answer you I'm not sure what that means so I will move on
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Palmyra and Rahul is here thank you very much also I would like to speak like you
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says michurin well you've come to the right place because my English is very
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clear I hope you can understand me and of
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course don't forget if you want to see the captions you can actually see them
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live so if you want to watch the captions press that button on your
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keyboard and you will get captions as if by magic so when I say captions
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I mean subtitles Alamgir is now talking to Connell your job is great what if my
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favorite habits is to learn new languages I would say that these lessons
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help you a lot you are right Alamgir yes one of the
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things about teaching and this is something I used to talk about to
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parents when I was in China they used to send me to visit schools and quite often
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I would give speeches to the parents and also to teachers as well so not only
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students but also people who were teaching English and the parents of
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those who were learning English but I would often tell the parents that one of
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the greatest things about teaching is that you learn as you do the job so as
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you do it you also learn things as well so one of the great joys of teaching as
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far as I'm concerned is the fact that I can learn things as well a teacher
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doesn't know everything so quite often teaching is a good way of expanding your
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own knowledge and I'm sure many teachers would agree with that
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hello to F Fred ox hello to you where are you watching at the moment I
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will be going soon but first of all I have something else to show you before I
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leave you and this is something I wanted to quickly show you before I go I've
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been asked to explain the different is between Street Road and Avenue so
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very quickly before I leave you here are the exclamations right now the
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explanations are as follows first of all Street the word Street can refer to a
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public road in a town city or village typically with houses or buildings on
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one or both sides a street will often have access for people both on foot and
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in vehicles so normally you can walk up the street or down the street and you
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can drive up the street and down the street there are phrases as well
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connected to this word streets ahead if you are streets ahead it means you have
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an advantage over someone you are ahead of everyone else you are streets ahead
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so that is a phrase that you can use and also on the streets when we talk about
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being on the streets normally we refer to a person being
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homeless a person who has nowhere to live
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Road a wide way leading from one place to another especially one with a
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specially prepared surface which vehicles can use so Road there is a
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difference between streets and Road so Road is more specific there are some
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phrases connected to Road you can have one for the road
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which means the final thing that you do maybe you are in the bar and you are
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having a drink and you have one final drink you can say this is one for the
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road one for the road so the thing that you do before
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or leaving or departing hit the road if you hit the road
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it means you start your journey you start to leave you hit the road you
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depart you leave you hit the road and if you come to a crossroads now here is a
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very interesting phrase come to a crossroads means that you have come to a
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point in your life where you have to make a decision you have to decide on
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which choice you are going to make which direction you are going to go in your
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life so if you come to a crossroads it means you come to a place where you
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have more than one choice you have to make a choice then there is Avenue
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Avenue I will pronounce that again Avenue a broad Road in a town or city
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typically having trees at regular intervals along its sides a tree-lined
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approach to a large property can also be an avenue in North America the name
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given to a thoroughfare that intersects with a street that is laid out in a grid
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pattern and I can show you what an Avenue looks like using this map and
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there you can see two avenues so the streets are all going off from the Main
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Avenue so the avenues are the main roads and all of the smaller streets will
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divide off in their own direction so the word Avenue has a lot of lot of uses you
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can say 7th Avenue or 6th Avenue or 3rd Avenue quite often you will hear these
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used in North America especially the United
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States we can also use Avenue to say explore explore so maybe if you pursue
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something or follow something you might pursue an avenue it is the thing that
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you are going to look at you are exploring something you are going into
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deeper detail about something and finally here is one especially for those
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living in France this is a real word that we use in English cul de sac cul de
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sac a street or passage that is closed at one end a road that cannot be passed
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through a road or street with a dead end so it means you can't drive through it
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so when we say cul-de-sac it means a road that you can't pass through and the
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word itself comes from French and originally was used in anatomy which is
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the study of the body the translation literally means bottom of the sack so
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for those watching in France yes we do use a lot we use a lot of your phrases
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I'm not joking we do oh no it's almost time to go I can't believe it already
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bottom of the sack yes it's very unusual that isn't it and also the phrase or the
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word itself originally was used in anatomy so Anatomy is the study of the
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workings of the human body thank you very much for your company I will be
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going in a moment because now we are coming up to three o'clock I will be
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back tomorrow here are the live times you can catch me
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Monday to Friday 2 p.m. Saturday 12 p.m. tomorrow I'm with you from 12 p.m.
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midday UK time and on Sunday I am back with you at 2 p.m. and then next week
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yes Monday to Friday we will do it all over
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again can you believe it but it is true and for those who want to make a
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donation I will put that on the screen now thank you very much to those who
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have made donations that's lovely it will allow my work to continue
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forever and ever thank you to pachu thank you - yes organs the things in
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your body the study of the human body all of the parts all of the organs and
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the things that you use to live and survive for example your heart your
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lungs your stomach and other things
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maybe a brain maybe thank you Christina Thank You
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grace see you tomorrow yes I am back tomorrow
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am I crazy am I crazy I don't know but I'm doing
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this every day during October I will see you tomorrow
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Thank You Mika Thank You Louis for being today's moderators very kind of you and
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also Belarusian as well thank you for keeping order on my live chat Frederika
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also arts be see you tomorrow don't forget I'm on tomorrow earlier so
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tomorrow is Saturday I'm with you from 12 p.m. so earlier tomorrow and then on
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Sunday it's 2 p.m. so I will see you tomorrow on Saturday no rest for me not
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at all this is mr. Duncan saying thanks for watching today I hope this has been
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useful and of course until tomorrow 12:00 p.m. that
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is just after lunchtime UK time this is mr. Duncan in England saying
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thanks a lot for watching me today I really do appreciate it
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and of course you know what's coming next yes you do where's the music
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where's the music where is it?
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ta ta for now 8-)
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