It’s Friday the 13th and Mr Duncan is out and about with another live English lesson

hey there or should I say 'hay there' hi everybody

this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you okay I hope so are you

happy I hope you're happy I'm not too bad I'm a little exhausted because I'm

currently taking a walk in the countryside and I couldn't resist saying

hello to you so here I am live from England and as you can see it is harvest

time here in the UK and I'm in one of the many fields that have been recently

harvested you can see here what remains of this year's harvest so the harvest

has actually been collected and you can see now this looks this looks like wheat

so I think this particular field contained wheat it used to have wheat in

it but now the wheat has been taken away it has been harvested so there you go I

hope you can see that is it clear today is a very unusual day for two reasons

first of all I am here with you live and the other thing is that today is Friday

the 13th are you superstitious do you think that Friday the 13th is a time for

staying indoors do you think that particular day is unlucky for some well

maybe maybe not who knows so are you a superstitious person a lot of people

here in the UK are talking about Friday the 13th some people believe that you

should be very careful what you do on Friday the 13th you should be careful

where you go you should be careful what you actually do

so maybe if you are doing something dangerous or risky maybe Friday the 13th

isn't the day for doing it for example you might decide to go for a walk

through someone's field yes I am trespassing at the moment I must be

honest okay anyone watching sorry about that

if you are the owner of this land I do apologize but I am trespassing at the

moment but I am doing a very good deed you see I'm doing it for a good reason

I'm actually in the field because I'm here live teaching English so that is my

defense so if I ever have to go to court for trespassing in someone's field I

hope you will be my witness so if I have to go to court if I am found guilty of

trespassing on someone's land trespass by the way trespass means invade or to

go on to someone else's land maybe private property so if you trespass it

means you go into an area where you are not permitted or a place where you

shouldn't go maybe the place in question is privately owned like this field so

this field belongs to someone so at the moment I am trespassing but I'm doing it

for a good cause I'm here to help you with your English can't be bad so what

about you do you think that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day or do you just

not care really maybe you are not very superstitious Friday the 13th

now the reason for that of course is because 13 is considered unlucky for

many people so some people have a fear it's true I'm not joking some people

actually have a fear of Friday the 13th they feel very afraid there is a word in

fact for the fear of the number 13 triskaidekaphobia

Skai deca phobia is the word that you use to describe a person who is afraid

of the number 13 hello to the live chat I haven't said hello to the live chat so

let's have a look at the live chat Wow so many people already on the live

chat hello Connell Connell hi to you you are first on the live chat by the way I

have my lovely little rucksack do you like my rucksack would you like

me to show it to you okay here it is I

have my lovely rucksack with me today and this is the rucksack that mr. Steve

bought for me so this is one of mr. Steve's past presents that he gave to me

so yes hello to Colonel nice to see you here

I don't know how many people are watching at the moment I'm not sure

hello also to Kathy hello Kathy I couldn't resist coming out

to say hello because it's quite a nice day now over the past few days the

weather has been very unsettled because we had two storms two large storms they

have gone now so the storms have disappeared and as you can see it's

rather nice today the clouds are drifting by there is no rain just a

gentle breeze blowing by keeping me nice and cool on this lovely September day

September the 13th Friday the 13th so what about you are you a superstitious

person do you think that Friday the 13th is an unlucky day now personally if you

know me well you will know that I don't believe in superstitions I don't follow

any superstitions so I don't really worry too much and just to prove it here

I am on Friday the 13th coming out for a walk in someone else's field I just hope

I don't get shot by one of the farmers it might happen who knows but then think

of the views Wow I will be trending I will be trending

all around the world youtuber get shot by farmer hello to Anna hello Anna nice

to see you here today excuse my finger my finger might go near

the lens sometimes so please excuse my big fingers mr. Duncan Friday the 13th

is a fearful day in the Christian culture Thank You Louis for that and by

the way nice to see you here today I thought I would do a live stream I hope

you can see me all right now I've just checked and it looks as if the signal to

my mobile phone is actually quite good so I think we have a good signal which

is not surprising because the signal is actually coming from just over there so

on that hill the actual transmitter for my mobile phone is up there so it is

actually there on that hill so hopefully we should get a good signal today hello

Maria Maria I'm saying hello to Maria in the middle of a field so yes you can see

the view behind me looking out towards the Shropshire Hills you can see there

are many bales of hay or maybe straw some people say straw if it's very hard

and if it's soft they will say hey Tonya mr. Duncan why are you here today is

Friday well I'm having a lovely walk because it's a beautiful day and I

couldn't resist saying hello even though I am a little bit exhausted this morning

when I woke up this morning I've had a little bit of trouble with my asthma

over the past couple of days so my chest has been a little unwell

during the past couple of days so I have had a little bit of a problem with my

aspect but I hope today I won't collapse on the floor so I should be alright

Emery amaura amber awardee is here hello to you yes it is a lovely view shall we

have a closer look there it is so there is the whole Vista it's a great word by

the way the word Vista Vista means view so you can see the outlook the outlook

the Vista as we look out over the countryside and it's a beautiful day

it's incredibly warm today I can't believe how warm it is so yes it's very

warm today as you can see I'm just wearing my t-shirt so I'm not wearing

many clothes I'm wearing my t-shirt and that's about it

of course I'm wearing trousers as well I don't think the neighbors are ready to

see my my bare bottom just yet hello Amory the transcription the subtitles

the captions will not work because I'm on my mobile phone so I'm not in my

studio I'm not at my house I'm actually in the middle of the countryside so that

is the reason why there are no captions there will be captions later so captions

later on but at the moment because I'm broadcasting to you on my mobile phone

there are no there are no captions until later on and then there will be

Alexandra says I'm really sorry to hear that you have a problem with your chest

do you know if you are allergic well I do suffer from hay fever as well so over

the years I have suffered from hay fever and also asthma so my asthma is under

control but now and again it comes back so the last couple of days I've been

suffering a little bit with but I should be okay I think I'm on the

road to recovery it's nothing serious however having said that some famous

people have died from asthma including there is a Chinese singer called Teresa

Teng Teresa Teng and she actually died from an asthma attack so yes it can

affect many people of all ages but I have suffered from hay from hay fever

all my life but I've had asthma for about the last 12 years

so yes it's it's not much fun it isn't much fun but I am taking some

medication for it and today I don't feel too bad even though my voice it sounds

as if I'm losing my voice but I'm not hello mr. Duncan

hello Tong Tong mr. Duncan Chinese people are celebrating the mid-autumn

festival yes the families will get together and they will eat moon cake

well I used to live in China don't forget I used to live in China and I saw

many of the mid autumn festivals because the moon becomes large and everyone

celebrates with moon cake now some of the moon cake I liked but other types of

moon cake I didn't like so I did try moon cake when I was in China and of

course a lot of people celebrate mid-autumn festival because the moon is

a very important thing in the Chinese zodiac so in China they follow the lunar

new year they follow the lunar calendar hello also to Ana who says are you alone

or is mr. Steve with you no I'm on my own mr. Steve is is out there somewhere

working so Steve is working at the moment he is not here with me I am all

alone alone in a field on on the 13th Friday the 13th I really do like taking

risks sometimes have you noticed so if you've just joined me its mr. Duncan

that's me by the way in the middle of a field trespassing on someone's land

I was asked earlier what the word guilty means if you are guilty it means you are

responsible so you are responsible for something that you have done you are

responsible for your actions you are guilty you are responsible the thing in

question was done by the person who is found guilty so it's quite often quite

often you will hear in law that a person has committed a crime and then they go

to court and then there is a trial and then at the end of the trial a group of

people who have left listened to the evidence have to decide whether the

person is guilty or not guilty you can also say guilty or innocent a person who

is innocent is a person who is blameless they are not responsible for what

happened so guilty responsible innocent not responsible I thought I explained

that quite well it's almost as if it's my job mr. Duncan do you know the

Italian language I don't know Italian very much to be honest

I know Pavarotti used to like singing in Italian o solo mio do you have something

to help you with your asthma yes I do ana I take some medication not all the

time just now and again so I only take it when I need it

so that's quite good but I've had asthma for many years it's become a part of my

life and sometimes it makes me ill sometimes

I can go for very long periods of time with no problems nothing at all I've

been to hospital twice I've actually been to hospital twice with asthma so

it's not much fun anyway enough of my silly problems how are you today are you

having a good Friday the 13th Friday the 13th tonight I might watch a horror film

I might watch something scary on the television with missus mr. Steve as a

way of celebrating Friday the 13th but which film should i watch is there a

horror film that you can suggest for me to watch

is there a film that I could watch tonight with mr. Steve do you like scary

movies now I must admit I do like watching scary movies there are many of

them many horror films well sorry oh says hi mr. Duncan from Valencia in

Spain nice weather here it is raining heavily so you are having heavy rain so

if the rain is falling fast we can describe that as heavy rain so it is

raining heavily it is raining very heavily here take a

look for yourself

it's lovely today it's it's very nice here today

hello - Leila hello Leila I don't like to watch scary movies I always watch

romantic films or comedy films well I thought today because it is Friday the

13th I thought it would be a good idea to watch a scary movie something scary

something that makes you feel a little afraid whilst watching it so

that's what I thought I would do hello also too now I'm sure I've missed some

people out show ooh says hello Cho I like your name

there is a horror movie called inhumane kiss ah I've never heard of that film is

it is it a British film is it American or is it from somewhere else

Rosario I've said hello to you already it is raining heavily in Spain the rain

in Spain falls mainly on my head hello mr. Duncan are you okay have you ever

been to Brazil I've never been to Brazil ever never been there here we don't have

any superstition for Friday the 13th okay well that's pretty good because a

lot of people today are talking about Friday the 13th because they believe

that it can be an unlucky day you love dangerous situations Duncan says am

reward e do I really I suppose so when I was younger I think I think when

I was younger I was more willing to take risks I was more daring

a person who is daring they are willing to take risks they are willing to do

things that might be considered risky or dangerous so maybe when I was young in

my early years I may have been a little bit more risky yes I suppose so I used

to own a motorbike so when I was younger I used to I used to like driving and

riding and speeding around the streets on my motorbike but now I don't have a

motorbike because I feel a little afraid that I might get killed on the bike so I

don't ride that anymore so as I've got older I think I've become less and less

adventurous and I think that happens to people as they get

older I think as we get older we start to lose our sense of adventure I think

so it does happen hello mr. Duncan do

British people learn English vocabulary from Oxford Dictionary or Cambridge

dictionary well to be honest with you it's very interesting when we talk about

people who are in the UK learning English well normally we learn English

during our early lives in the schools so it is part of our education so as we are

as we are educated as we are taught we actually learn English at the same time

so I started learning English from around the age of three four maybe three

or four years old so simple words simple sentences but for me I learnt English

from from school from being taught English and of course you listen to

people around you you listen to what your parents say you listen to what

other people say you listen to your teachers so over the years the many many

years that I've been alive I have gained a lot of English but most of it has come

from just being here so just existing in this country I suppose it's very similar

for other languages as well so if you are born in a certain place you will

develop the language because that is the environment that you are in however back

to your original question there was an original question

I prefer oxford dictionaries so I've always used oxford dictionaries in my

teaching in my work and even when I was very young I had a little Oxford

Dictionary so I suppose from my point of view and this is only my point of view

I always use oxford dictionaries but Cambridge ones are okay you could use

those as well there are many types of dictionary there's Collins also Collins

make a very good dictionary Webster Webster's dictionary when people become

older they become more fearful yes I suppose so yes I know I think that's it

I think as I've grown older I think I've become a lot less adventurous having

said that Here I am today look I'm standing in a field and it

belongs to someone else so I am technically I am now breaking the law

very adventurous Beatrice is here hello mr. Duncan I don't know where you

are I have just received your notification I will tell you that I am

in bath ah you are in the UK in the moat oh my you know what I always get a bit

excited I get very excited when I find that someone's actually here in the UK

yes mr. Duncan I am studying for something in England Bath and Bristol I

have come here from Argentina welcome to the UK I hope you are enjoying bath now

bath is a beautiful place it's a very historic place there are lots of

beautiful buildings today for you to go and explore so I would imagine that the

weather at the moment in Bath is very nice so have you have you had a look

around back it is a beautiful town actually it's a city I think I think

Bath is a city what am I talking about hello - Luis you'll never know before in

language well if you don't know your own language well I think that's quite good

yes that's a good point Louis I think underst

standing the way you use your own language and the way you have learnt

your own language can actually help you to to study a second language so yes I

think I think understanding your own language is very important before you

move on to learning another language however it is worth mentioning that

certain languages have very different grammar rules a good example being

Chinese so Chinese has some very strange grammar rules so it is sometimes very

difficult to translate from English into Chinese and also the other way round

because there are some differences with the grammar rules especially when it

comes to tense so tense clauses tend to be very different bath is a beautiful

city and the weather is so good yes beet trees welcome to the UK welcome

to England I hope you are having a super time don't forget to find a lovely Tea

Room go to a little tea room have a cup of tea have maybe a scone or a tea cake

maybe a cream tea very nice PAP papal chulo asks how long have you been doing

this live stream do you mean the one today so the one I'm doing now I've been

on for about 28 minutes I think 28 minutes but I've been doing

my live streams on YouTube for around 3 years I can't believe it 3 years I've

been doing my live streams and I've been doing my recorded lessons can you

believe it 13 years so I started teaching English on YouTube in 2006 and

I'm still here now doing it despite what YouTube

likes to think I don't know why YouTube doesn't seem to like me very much the

algorithms don't like me maybe I'm too old perhaps I'm too old to be on YouTube

do you think that's the reason Lee says I know some words but I find sometimes

it is hard to put them into practice well again this is another thing about

listening to English so sometimes it's a good idea just to listen to English and

it will help you to understand the way sentences are formed or maybe even how

certain words are spoken so by that I mean intonation so when I say that I

mean intonation intonation Connell says I always follow your lips to catch every

single word and I don't look at the subtitles anymore well again that is a

very good practice that is a very good way of getting used to listening but

also understanding so as I'm speaking you can always look at my beautiful lips

so yes you are more than welcome to do that and I agree it is a very good idea

a very good idea quotes of a boss hello quotes of boss hi to you nice to see you

here are you there am i here yes I am here definitely I've just checked

I am definitely here al says there you are standing what used to be a field of

wheat I did not know England has mountains could you please explain about

this mountain well first of all I am in a wheat field so at the start of today's

dream I showed you

you can see here you can see there is some wheat so this is what is growing in

the field wheat here comes a helicopter I think they're coming to take me away

so this is wheat just to prove that I am actually in a wheat field so there it is

can you see the wheat can you hear the helicopter disturbing me so yes I'm in a

wheat field the mountain over there there is a small hill so actually it's

not a mountain so this particular Hill is called the rican rican w r e k i n so

that's how you spell it rican so that is freakin hill rican now

I'm sure later the subtitles will show the wrong spelling but there is a very

famous landmark where I live and at the top of rican hill there is a television

transmitter so that is where we get all of our television pictures so all of the

TV in this area is actually transmitted from the top of that hill so I hope that

was helpful I always try to be helpful if I know something I will tell you if I

don't know something maybe you will tell me Lewis says all of your recorded

lessons are great but the sixth reality and the others between 70 and 80 and

also the 17th Louie's gone where's it gone I've lost it

about time yes I I have made many youtube videos a lot of people seem to

forget that I've made a lot of videos on YouTube and some of them are very deep

and very meaningful there is a lesson that I did lesson 6 which is all about

being happy and sad a very deep and meaningful lesson also it is a lesson

that I enjoyed making and to be honest with you I think it's one of my

favourite lessons as well so my favorite lessons that I've made are happy and sad

I quite enjoyed doing that one also I enjoyed memories so there is a lesson

all about memories and also the lesson I made about reality so those are my

favourite lessons also the one I made about Samuel Johnson lesson 50 is also

one of my favorite lessons because I enjoyed making that particular one

because I went along to the actual birthplace hello to and Ray again I

totally agree with Anna you are the best mr. Duncan thank you very much

Lena says you need to take care about yourself mr. Duncan before because a UFO

is watching you I wouldn't be surprised maybe it's my mothership

maybe my mothership has come back to take me back to my own planet some

people think I don't come from Earth I don't know why my favourite lesson that

you made is about food that is my favorite one Thank You Carl that's very

kind of you to say yes I have made many lessons in fact at the moment I think

that there are how many lessons are on my youtube channel now I think about 750

the last time I looked there were 750 lessons

on my YouTube channel and all of the playlists are underneath this video so

the video you are watching now you can actually look underneath if you go

underneath you will see all of the playlists as well there are many

playlists munis says hello mr. Duncan I hope you will recover well I'm okay

I'm alright I am a hundred percent well so I'm not sick or unwell but I do

sometimes suffer from a little thing that has been bothering me for many

years called asthma so I do get asthma sometimes Beatriz says I watched your

lesson about Samuel Johnson it is wonderful

thank you very much I actually put a lot of work into that lesson I I spent many

many days writing lots and lots of scripts and then I went along to

litchfield where Samuel Johnson's birthplace is and I was very lucky

because I was able to film actually at the place where he was born thank you

very much hello Hamid yes over 750 lessons are on my youtube channel there

are lots of lessons about general subjects as I mentioned earlier I have

mentioned lots and lots of subjects in my lessons so I have made lessons about

emotions about parts of the body about also types of grammar

I made a lesson all about grammar where I explain every individual point of

grammar so there are lots and lots of videos underneath this video you are

watching now so check out below this video and you will see lots and lots of

playlists and all of my videos are on there alexandra says mr. duncan every

one of your lessons is interesting and from every lesson we can learn something

new you are my first teacher on YouTube

thank you very much that's very kind of you did you know that I was actually the

first English English teacher on YouTube I'm the first one ever not a lot of

people know that I wonder why who is looking for a PayPal

a PayPal oh sorry pen pal who is looking for a pen pal I don't know are you

looking for a pen pal hello mr. Duncan

mr. Duncan do you speak Arabic well no I don't I don't speak Arabic I don't

really know much Arabic either mr. Duncan I have a grammar related question

I found in a textbook oh I see so you found it in a textbook so are you asking

me if the textbook is correct or incorrect I have a grammar related

question I found in a textbook I am no good at tennis I am no good at tennis

shouldn't it be I am not good at tennis no both of those are okay you can say

that I'm not good at it or you can say I'm no good at it

in fact more commonly you will hear people say I am no good I am no good at

so I am no good at football I am no good at chess I am no good at teaching so yes

that is correct that is perfectly super duper nice acceptable English mr. Duncan

wheat yes wheat wheat so wheat I am in a wheat field of course some people might

also pronounce the H so they might go they might

a tweet tweet so they might blow as they pronounce the word wheat I hope that was

clear are you wearing a safari hat I'm not sure if this is a safari hat but

this is a Sun Hat so this should protect me from the Sun because at the moment

I'm standing in the Sun and as you can see the Sun is blasting blasting on my

face I am getting lots of sunlight on my face mr. Duncan what is your favorite

book regarding science fiction or fantasy philip k dick I used to like

reading his short stories when I was a child I used to read short stories Ray

Bradbury is another one I love Ray Bradbury and also philip k dick which a

lot of people don't know oh they've never heard of him

but he used to write some wonderful stories and I remember reading a story

many years ago when I was still young and it was called Do Androids Dream of

Electric Sheep and it's a very interesting story about people who live

in the future and they all have robots to take care of their needs but the

strange thing is a lot of the people in that time are lonely so what they what

they actually do is they keep sheep they look after them it is a way of passing

the time it makes them feel happy and wanted but the sheep are actually

electric they are actually robot sheep many years later this particular story

was rewritten as a screenplay but can you name the movie so the movie based on

the book by philip k dick called Do Androids Dream

of electric sheep so what was the movie does anyone know i'm sure someone knows

out there if you are a fan of science fiction so i read the story many years

ago and the story is very different from the film so the story has a very

different tone to the film but what is the film I'm sure a lot of people now

are searching on Google woogle to try and find the answer you are really good

at teaching I can assure you thank you very much Anna I am Arabic and I can

understand you because you explained very well thank you very much well that

is my job so one of the things about teaching is

you have to teach clearly so there's no point there is no point doing it there

is no point being a teacher if people can't understand what you're saying

so that's one of the reasons why I like to think that my voice is clear and my

pronunciation is clear so people can understand me

you have to be able to convey the message you have to be able to put your

message across so I think it's very important for a teacher to be understood

so that's the reason why this is something I remember from my time in

China my pronunciation became very famous in

China I ended up doing lots of things on television also on the radio and even

for one of the local authorities their education board I did some work for them

as well I did a lot of voices for their examinations so yes I've done a lot of

work using my voice in the past because people seem to like it I don't know why

I think I could be a TV announcer or maybe a radio announcer would you like

that oh I see Aleksandra says is it Blade Runner yes you are

right well done yes the screen play the screenplay for Blade Runner is

actually based on a story by philip k dick one of his many short stories all

about people who live in the future not the distant future just slightly into

the future but they all rely on robots and machines and even for company even

for company they have machines nearby hence the replicants so the replicants

part in the story is part of the story but there are other parts other elements

of the story as well so the film only only shows part of the story or only

explains part of the story Lee says your voice is magnetic thank you very much

that's very kind of you Lewis says I love Jane Austen and

Charlotte brontë very romantic books but also they can be quite violent as well

so Charlotte brontë would write some beautiful books about love but also

about hate as well and the way love can can twist people they can twist people

they can turn people into unpleasant individuals

I have watched other teachers on YouTube from England but your pronunciation is

the best thank you very much Caudill that's very

kind of you to say thanks a lot one of the things I always believe in is

well I always like the sound to be good quality so today you might notice that

you can hear me very clearly that's because I've I've brought a lot of

equipment with me so even though I'm using my mobile phone I have a lot of

other equipment here and that will help the sound to be much better so I hope

you can hear me clearly because I'm using a lot of equipment here today some

lovely professional sound quality hopefully

what is the etymology behind raining cats and dogs come on man you skipped my

messages many times I don't skip people's messages this is something that

people always say mr. Duncan you are ignoring me

why are you ignoring me I don't ignore people trust me sometimes I don't see

your message because I'm watching on a very tiny screen so my iPhone has a very

small screen and because of that I can't see all of the messages so the message

is moved very quickly on the screen so that's why that is the reason why all

the storms still there no the storms have gone so now we have beautiful

weather we have a lovely day there is a gentle breeze the Sun is out

everything is really nice so I feel as if I want to run I want to run across

the field into the distance like Julie Andrews in the sound of music have you

ever seen that film The Sound of Music another very dark film it seems very

lovely in Pleasant there are some lovely songs in The Sound of Music but in fact

the film itself is rather sinister it's it's not a very nice film isn't it

strange how some movies they have they have things like lovely lovely scenery

or maybe happy songs but the film itself the tone of the story is a little dog

the hills are alive with the sound of mr. Duncan

let's tide me out now ah one thing for sure I will sleep very well tonight I

think so we think that there is a brexit storm on the way

oh yes maybe you may have heard the news from the UK yes I think so things are

happening all around us here at the moment in the UK concerning brexit we

are supposed to be leaving the European Union on the 31st of October so that's

around five weeks from now six weeks from now we are supposed to be leaving

Europe some people want us to leave other people don't want us to leave mr.

Duncan could you please explain what a hack means if a person is a hack it is a

person who does not put work or maybe they use other people's work or maybe

other people's ideas for their own creativity so a hack is a person who

creates or does things but really they have no real talent they normally borrow

their talent from other people in other words they steal ideas from other people

but they pretend to be the person who is producing the quality product so a hack

if someone is a hack it means they are pretending to do the thing that they

seem to be doing they are a hack we often use the word hack to describe a

person who is a newspaper reporter as well so maybe a person who reports for

the news they are a journalist so if they are a journalist we can say that

they are a hack so I hope that explains that for you mr.

Duncan your beard has grown yes I haven't had a shave today I must be

honest my my beard does grow very quickly by the way it isn't too late you

can still vote on whether or not I should have a beard during October so

next month there is a big special event taking place I can't tell you what it is

at the moment but there is something happening next month something very

special for October because next month it is my 13th anniversary on YouTube so

on October the 31st the same day as the UK leaves Europe the same day can you

believe it so yes my anniversary is on October the 31st how do you see the

brexit deal oh I see oh I think I think you want my personal opinion oh dear I

think you want my personal opinion no I'm not going to give my personal

opinion but if you know me well you will know what I think I think so

that's what I think Claudia does not want me to grow a beard in October but

the thing is my beard grows very quickly I don't know why maybe it's because I

have so many so many male hormones going around my body because I'm so match and

manly

hasna says I have studied some work of Shakespeare to be or not to be that is

the question what a piece of work is man

and they are amazing his works are universal I would like to visit his

birthplace yes stratford-upon-avon is where Shakespeare was born and his

house is now a museum so you can actually visit Shakespeare's house and

walk around the garden oh my goodness mr. Duncan you should make a big party

on the 31st not 21st 31st 31 so the last day of October is the anniversary of my

YouTube channel 13 years I've been doing this for 13 years on YouTube

the storms have gone have the storms gone or are gone well I suppose the

storms plural have gone so they have gone not they are gone they have gone

they have gone now so they have moved away

it has singular they have plural I'm thinking why all the holy people like

this is interesting I am thinking why all the holy people like the prophets in

religion always have beards I'm not sure either I've never really thought about

that why do religious people have beards I've

never I've never really worked that out so during October I am going to join the

many people who have a beard so at the moment I'm not sure if it's going to

happen because there is a little survey taking place on my youtube channel you

can you can still vote should I have a beard

in October so at the moment I am planning to have a beard in October but

some people are saying no and some people are saying yes and because my

YouTube channel is a democracy you will have a chance to vote whether or not how

do you see the English language different from Shakespeare's time

well Shakespeare's English was moving too into Middle English so when

Shakespeare was around writing his sonnets and his plays it was I suppose

it was the early stages of middle English so a lot of people notice that

that Shakespeare uses what would probably refer be referred to as middle

English so it still is very old-fashioned however a lot of what

Shakespeare wrote is so expressive so even though the English used by

Shakespeare is is archaic it is still very understandable isn't it strange so

even though a lot of Shakespeare's work is written in Old English or Middle

English early Middle English it is very expressive and that's the reason why he

is still popular today it's still very popular I don't know why I am growing a

beard I have no no idea the livestreams have started every day what about

Saturday yes I'm glad you mentioned that because

I am here tomorrow

I'm here tomorrow as well on the livestream I will be at home tomorrow

I'm at home tomorrow and also on Sunday as well I am with you on Saturday and

Sunday so I am here tomorrow from 12 o'clock just after lunchtime and also on

Sunday as well I can't believe it so I'm here today and tomorrow and

Sunday Wow I am really spoiling you that's all I

can say I'm really spoiling you Sergio between between you and me Sergio

can be very cheeky I think so sometimes Sergio expresses himself very clearly on

my live stream Sergio Sergio says nobody cares about your beard everybody's

interested in English we don't want to hear about your beard

okay Sergio I I will make a note of that

note taken hello also to a lire as a know mr. Duncan you are a great teacher

thank you very much for that beards two or three hundred years ago

we're a sign of respect I think so yes now this is one of the things being a

person of a certain age and by that I mean me I have seen many trends many

fashions come and go so one of the things that you will notice about

fashion and trends is that they only stay around for a short time so I

remember growing up in the 70s a lot of men would wear beards so beards were pop

in the 1970s a lot of men like to have beards in the 1970s and then the 1980s

came along and then people stopped having beards people liked to they

preferred being clean having a clean face so no beard and some of the men

were wearing makeup and lipstick and singing karma karma karma karma karma

chameleon you come and go that sort of thing so and then during the 1990s we

went all rough and grubby and dirty and heavy with the loud music in the Britpop

and then during the 2000s we changed once again we started to think a lot

about different styles different types of music so all sorts of music became

very popular during the early 2000s and even now to this date there are many

influences from different cultures and different types of music and the strange

thing is certain trends from the past will become popular again such as having

a beard so I think men having beards come and then they go and then they come

back and then they go again just like all of the trends there are

lots of trends today having a beard looks intellectual I like the sound of

that oh yes oh okay then yeah if if having a beard will make you look

intellectual no I think I think I will have one definitely thank you for the

advice there where are you mr. Duncan I am in the countryside

at the moment I'm in the countryside I'm having a lovely walk and I thought I

would share some of my time with you so I hope you don't mind I have been here

for one hour talking to you it is now quarter past three in the UK

and it's Friday it feels very strange being here on a Friday because I don't

normally do a livestream on Friday when I first started doing live streams I

used to do it on Friday mr. Duncan the sound on the video is too soft or maybe

my speaker has gone bad really so are you saying that you can't

hear me because I can put that right if you can't hear me I can make that right

so if you want me to make the sound louder I can or if you can hear me

clearly please say mr. Duncan we can hear you clearly we can hear every word

you are saying

hello to India hello Marino Marini I'll sing hi to you nice to see you here yeah

we can hear you says Omar thank you very much for that I hope you can hear me

okay very clearly careful mr. Duncan maybe there is some farmer behind you in

hid in the trees I think so as I said at the start of today's lesson

I'm actually trespassing so I shouldn't be here so I'm actually trespassing on

someone's land I'm breaking the law right now Alexandra says we can hear you

very clearly thank you very much so tonight as a way of celebrating the fact

that today is Friday the 13th I thought tonight I would watch a horror movie but

there are lots of scary movies so do you have a favorite scary movie is there a

scary film that you would like me to see on the on your behalf so maybe you could

suggest a scary movie

Olek Alexandra asks can the owner of the land shoot someone with a gun yes is the

answer to that question so if I was walking my dog in this field and then

the dog escaped the farmer has the right to shoot the dog I'm not joking

especially if there are cows or sheep nearby so yes the farmer is allowed to

actually use a gun hmm

hello - I want to try and say hello to someone for the first time if it is your

first time here please tell me oh hello TS hi TS I can see that the

farmers have cut all crops why don't you shape your beard

maybe I should trim my beard or maybe cut my beard but at the moment it isn't

long enough so in October I might grow a beard so not this month but next month

and don't forget you have to chance the vote you can vote on whether or not mr.

Duncan has a beard on my youtube-channel Ali says it would be great if you could

tell me about the flora and the mountain there I've already explained I explained

earlier Ali I talked about it I talked about the field I am in a place called

Shropshire in the centre of England in the middle of England and over there you

can see a hill called the Rican it is a hill in fact 200 million years ago this

was under water so 200 million years ago can you imagine that all of this was

under water this was actually the bottom of the ocean and it wasn't even here it

was where Australia is so yes all of this this particular area has a lot of

interesting archaeological sites there are some very unusual stones very

unusual fossils in this area because many many years ago 200 million years

ago this was all underwater and the reason why

no that is because in the rocks here there are actual sea creatures buried

deep beneath the ground so there are actual sea creatures so creatures that

would live in the sea here and of course there is no sea here but at some point

in time there was and this was all underwater oh my goodness

incredible so this particular area has lots of interesting rock formations and

lots of very interesting fossils things that are embedded in the rock so yes a

very interesting area if you are fascinated by archaeology or fossils

that is probably why you're watching me because I am a bit of an old fossil

thank you very much for watching today I will be going soon I'm sorry to say I

will be going soon bit trees is going as well mister don't can I have to leave

you sorry but I am studying and also traveling at the same time thank you for

everything thank you and have a super time in back enjoy your time in England

have a super time has now says mr. Duncan there was a theatrical

performance in my college of Macbeth there is a superstition connected to

Macbeth you are never supposed to say the name of the play if you are about to

perform it so if you are appearing in the play you you must never say the name

of the play you must never say the name apparently it is supposed to be bad luck

so people never mention the name of the play they always say the play or the

play with no name or that play instead of actually saying

Macbeth because some people believe it is bad luck if you say it before a

performance wow I am Telling You so many things today so many are there fossils

there in the area yes there are thousands and thousands and thousands of

fossils here there are some lovely areas where you can go and visit some of the

rock formations and if you look at the rocks you can see lots and lots of tiny

animals embedded in the rocks small creatures 200 million years ago they

were swimming around the ocean and this this was the ocean this was all

underwater it's incredible but I love it thank you very much for your apparently

I'm just trying to read I can't read the sub I can't read the writing at the

moment because the sun is shining on the screen excuse me I need an umbrella I

can't see the screen the Sun has moved Sally hello Sally I couldn't catch your

lesson today but I will repeat watching it later yes you can watch this later

this will be available with captions later on so later not now but maybe in

three hours from now there will be some captions on here

is this channel about helmets well you are not far you are very close but

actually this channel is about hats but I suppose a helmet is a type of hat

isn't it yes it is mr. Duncan are you doing live streams out of your timetable

well today I'm doing a special live stream however I will be back tomorrow

tomorrow so I am back here tomorrow from 12 p.m. midday so just after lunchtime I

will be here tomorrow and Sunday so not only today also tomorrow and Sunday so

don't worry I will be here tomorrow nothing has changed I will be talking to

you tomorrow and also I will be talking to you on Sunday as well with my

SuperDuper live streams I am about to go for two reasons one I can feel my face

burning in the Sun and to I never so thirsty I'm really thirsty as well how

can I just how can I subscribe to your lessons you can subscribe to my channel

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I keep thinking that someone is coming behind me I don't know why I will stop

trespassing now I have to leave soon we can't wait for your next lesson well I

will be with you tomorrow don't worry I will be back tomorrow thank you very

much for your company I hope you've enjoyed this something different I will

continue with my walk I'm going to walk over there across the hills and into the

distance and maybe if I walk further enough if I walk many many miles I might

end up at the seaside that would be nice bye mr. Duncan see you tomorrow Thank

You Luis Thank You Ali thank you am Rey thank you very much for

your lovely messages today so many people have been here saying hello

thanks a lot thank you also to Palmyra Kathy Ali satury know says some insects

are embedded in amber that is true yes especially when rock becomes very hot

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12:00 p.m. just after lunchtime UK time this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of

English saying thanks for watching me I'm going home now to have a drink of

water and to take some aspirin so I don't collapse on the floor and of

course you know what's coming next you know what's coming next from the

beautiful sunny landscape of England

ta ta for now 8-)