Live English Listening & Chat - 18th November 2018 - Building Idioms + Phrases - SHEEP !!!!

so here we go again it's a Sunday afternoon and we are all together once

more as live as live can be and can you see what has returned behind me yes the

sheep are back behind my garden coming up today we also have mr. Steve talking

about words and idioms to do with buildings and of course you are more

than welcome to join in on the live chat after all it's a Sunday afternoon it's

just after 2 o'clock here in the UK and this is live English live from Much

Wenlock in England on a Sunday afternoon this is live English oh yes it sure is baby

yes here we go again it's another Sunday it's another fun day it's another time

for you to improve your English we are once again live on YouTube

hello oh yeah hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are

you ok I hope so are you happy

I hope so can you see what I'm doing today I have been very busy all week

preparing something can you guess what it is I'm getting in a bit of a tangle

here today sorting out a certain thing which we will see more of later on yes

I'm getting in a real mess here today find out later on why so here we are

once again it's live English I can't believe that it's Sunday once more do

you feel the same way as me do you feel that this year is going by so quickly it

is the end of November next week I can't believe it's actually the end of

November next week and then it's December December is a very busy month

do you know why well there are lots of reasons why look out the window today we

are having a glorious day by the way an absolute glorious day look at that so

that is a live view at the moment out of the window oh my goodness what a

beautiful day we are having right here now in the UK a live picture and we can

also have a look in the garden as well would you like to see the garden there

it is a live view outside I know for a fact that mr. Steve was out there

earlier on he was out there doing some gardening so I hope he has

prepared something for today's live English stream and there it is once

again a lovely live view looking across the countryside here in the UK as I

mentioned earlier at the start of today's live stream the sheep are back

they are would you like to have a look at the Sheep they have returned to the

back of the house and here they are right now oh yes they are back last week

they returned and so I couldn't resist showing them today because I love it

I love it when there are animals at the back of the house so there you can see

the sheep are back and there are quite a few of them this year we have a lot of

them there are 37 sheep at the back of the house now so that is the view

outside I filmed this yesterday just to let you see the sheep and there are

quite a few of them I'm not sure if they are pregnant I'm not sure if they are

already expecting little lambs I'm not sure about that but they have arrived

and they have been at the back of the house for about the past five days so

I'm very very excited to see the Sheep have returned Oh lovely I really love

the sheep so much let's have another view of the Sheep here we go here's

another one another shot of the Sheep walking by and as I mentioned there are

37 sheep at the back of the house and one of the things to mention especially

in this area the area in which I live there are many people who own dogs and

they like to take their dogs for a walk through this field but of course

dogs and sheep do not mix very well you will find that the dogs will will chase

the sheep and sometimes they will actually attack them and I know for a

fact that at the back of the house there have been some some attacks on on the

sheep in fact I think three years ago I think there were two sheep killed at the

back of the house by dogs so I think there were some dogs that were not on

their leads and they they they escaped and they attacked two of the sheep and

sadly they died so it is a very serious thing but if you don't put your donks on

a lead when you go for the through a field of sheep you can have some very

negative results so I'm feeling pretty happy today because the sheep are back

and I know that lots of people enjoy looking at the wildlife so I thought

that's what I would do at the start of today's livestream I would show you the

Sheep yes they are back baby was I on time today really was that was

that actually on time I can't believe that I started today's livestream at

exactly 2 o'clock I can't remember the last time that happened

talking of live English that is what we are here to do this afternoon it's

myself mr. Duncan and don't forget you can catch me every week every Sunday

from 2 p.m. UK time live English on YouTube and you can watch this every

single Sunday yes I will be here next week and the week after that and the

week after that as well so there is nothing to fear I will be here

throughout December and into 2019 I'm not joking

so autumn is definitely here would you like to see something beautiful

something that I filmed last week okay here it is

ah somewhere over the rainbow looking out of my window a beautiful rainbow

last week I recorded this during the week when we had some very strange

rainstorms so the sun was shining and the rain was falling at the same time

and of course quite often the result will be a beautiful rainbow so there you

can see the view from my window last week and a rather lovely rainbow above

the house isn't that nice and there you can see the little bird flying by I

think it's a pigeon so there you can see something nice filmed from the house can

I say once again a big thank you to those who appreciate and love to watch

my nature videos so I'm I'm pleased to to hear from you if you have anything

nice to add if you have anything nice to say about my video lessons feel free if

you have a problem with my video lessons maybe there is something you hate about

my video lessons also you can let me know but please be gentle with me

because I am a very sensitive flower I am let's have a look at the live chat

later on mr. Steve will be here of course and Steve at the moment is

suffering from something very strange mr. Steve has contracted autumn madness

we will have a look at that later on also we'll be talking about words and

expressions to do with buildings words and expressions to do with buildings

different types of buildings also the things used

to construct buildings so that's what we'll be doing later on also we have the

mystery idiom would you like to see the mystery idiom now okay then because I'm

feeling very generous today here is today's mystery idiom right now

there it is so there is the mystery idiom what do you think it is if you

think you know the answer you can write it down on the live chat talking of

which the live chat is now up and running let's see who is on the live

chat shall we right now oh it's a busy one so far I

can already see lots of people are on the live chat let's go back to the

beginning and see who was first ah I see that Pedro Belmont is first on

the live chat hi to you Pedro and of course you get a big round of applause

as well congratulations to you also Alamgir is here even though he

retracted his message I don't know what the message was I hope it was nice

matrix is also here Jimmy is here hello Jimmy nice to see you back Jimmy's here

Oh family also Martha in Poland Olga is here as well sweetness is here hello

sweetness nice to see you back as well Sheeran is here hello Sheeran blue

thunder also we have Julie G hello Judy gee Jimmy says the week has

passed the time is going very fast I know I agree with you I can't believe

how fast November has gone by it's it's really really flown by matilda is here

as well watching in columbia also we have Tana doin or 10-win watching in

vietnam i believe also we have Belarusian I wondered where you were

don't forget Belarusian and Pedro are both in charge of the live chat

they are the moderators on the live chat so they are in charge they will be

watching very closely what you are saying

Pal Meera also Francisco is here hello to you as well

nice to see you every single Sunday yes I will be here every Sunday until the

end of the year and of course I will be with you during 2019 as well Ali is here

hello to you Ali Alam is also here also sujin hello sujin nice to see you here

today also we have haole and race car or race

car hello sir this is race from Pakistan please can you do a livestream on

history and related words to history do you know what I think that is a great

idea thank you very much for your suggestion lovely very nice X n says how

how is it going how is it going it is going very well but I have had a very

busy week quite busy here preparing for December because lots of things are

happening during the month of December it is a very busy month Louie Mendez

says according to the Guardian newspaper the area in which you live voted 63

percent for brexit I think you are right there yes that's true I think you are

right ro sir said hello mr. Dan Cohen and all

of the moderators as well isn't that nice

oh hello Tomic I didn't see you there mr. Duncan how is your toe you will be

pleased to hear that my toe is feeling much better it's still slightly painful

it aches now and again but it's much better thank you that's very kind of you

Tomic thank you very much Blue Thunder your house is very cool oh

okay then I don't know what that's in response to

a friendly hello to everyone from mr. Bruno hello mr. Bruno I haven't seen you

here before is it your first time please let me know

Oh mr. Duncan I love the use says T ass of course you he w e is a female sheep

thank you very much for that the sheep look like clouds against the green sky

they do look like that don't Knight I love sheep I love watching them in the

field also we have Carrodus here and yes Carrodus says some of the sheep are

wobbling they are hobbling they are having difficulty walking and that's the

reason why they are doing it because they are on a slope so the sheep are

actually on the side of a hill and sometimes they fall over and injure

themselves so that's why some of the sheep are having difficulty walking

because they have injured themselves they are slightly lame the word is lame

that's a great word by the way so if something is lame it means it can't move

properly it has difficulty moving or walking the sheep in our region are very

different from those sheep Thank You Abdul farce of course there are many

different types of sheep many different breeds of sheep some of them have white

legs some of them have black legs some of them have black faces some of them

have white faces some of them are very large and some of them are very small

young sac is here as well also EMSA care is here wow so many people watching

today thank you very much for your lovely comment about the rainbow I love

to see a rainbow in the sky it always cheers me up every time I see one hello

mr. Duncan this is Olivia from Madagascar a big hello to magic

Madagascar it's nice to see you here today

thank you very much this is my first time mr. Duncan it is an honor to be

here Thank You sera sera jad so it is your

first time I will give you a round of applause

congratulations to Sarah jad for being here for the first time ever wow that's

nice in it I love it I love it a lot so that's the chat and now it's time to

take a look at something which will give you an idea of how busy I have been this

week I have been so busy do you want to know what I've been doing well this

video will give you a very big clue

this month is proving to be a busy one for me I have been doing all sorts of

things today I'm on the roof of my house fixing some festive lights to the

railings above my garage have you noticed how important lights

are during festivals and celebrations even the word light can have a

significant meaning we can see the light this means that we have had a revelation

if a person suddenly changes their mind about something or they have a great

idea we can say that they have seen the light something that was unclear before

can now be seen vividly and can be understood well that person has seen the

light

these are called fairy lights they are tiny lights that glow and twinkle fairy

lights are often hung on Christmas trees they create a magical atmosphere with

their gentle glow some fairy lights flash or blink

some are white while others are multicolored the name fairy lights dates

back to the late 18-hundreds and became popular after they were used

as a stage prop in the Opera aisle anthe written by the composer's Gilbert &

Sullivan for the Opera small electric lights were placed on the actors who

were playing fairies the named fairy light stuck and is still used to this

very day did you know that originally candles were used as decorations that

does not sound very safe to me

dip dip dip dip dip to do it is Sunday yes it's a fun day it's time to improve

your English live on YouTube with me mr. Duncan coming very soon of course we

also have my partner in crime we are talking mr. Steve did it get colder in

here is it just me I think it's you mr. Steve that's what I think anyway so mr.

Steve will be here in around about five minutes and today mr. Steve is suffering

from something we call autumn madness there he is

look Steve is really enjoying himself out in the autumn weather he's really

enjoying playing with the leaves we will see more of that later on as mr. Steve

experiences autumn Madness but what is it what actually is it here's another

big question for you and this is something a lot of people in this

country are asking at the moment the question is will it snow at the moment

the temperature is starting to drop here in the UK but we haven't had any snow

yet so don't get too excited we we don't have any snow so this snow you can see

at the moment is from last winter last year but the big question is will we get

any snow this year what do you think will happen do you think we will get

some snow or do you think we will get no snow here in the UK now last year if you

remember we had a lot of snow we had three Falls of snow so the snow fell

heavily three times so we had a lot of snow last winter more than we

expected in fact so a lot of people were quite surprised by the amount of snow we

have last year so that is the big question that many people here in the UK

are asking will it snow will we get any snow over the next few weeks

I don't know so far there is no forecast of any snow but if you remember last

year we were all very surprised by the sudden snowfall that occurred so we're

not sure we there might be some snow who knows so that is the big question what

about you have you ever experienced snow have you ever actually felt snow on your

hands or your face there is something so magical about the experience of being

out on a snowy day it really is a very special feeling so that remains to be

seen the live chat is very busy one more look and then we will take a little look

at something else so the live chat oh my goodness so many people here today thank

you very much for joining me on the live chat unfortunately I've never seen snow

in my life says Pedro also Alamgir says winter is coming again yes it is I don't

mind winter as long as I'm in the house but of course if it starts to snow I

love to go out and play in the snow but normally I like to stay indoors during

the winter months we never have any snow in Thailand imagine that can you imagine

what it would be like if you had snow in Thailand I think that would be very

surprising piers ardour says hello sir this is the first time I am watching you

hello piers order it's nice to see you here

piers ardour shall heed hello sir I am watching your

live program I am from Kashmir please suggest good

ways to improve my English speaking well one good suggestion is to watch my live

videos and of course my recorded videos as well underneath this video you will

see all of my video lessons and of course you must practice English every

day so if you want to improve your English you have to use it you have to

practice every day you do it whenever you have the chance so that is my

suggestion anyway so thank you very much peers that and I suppose I should say

congratulations for your first ever message on the live chat Thank You peers

order Wow thank you very much it's lovely to see you here on the live chat

and welcome also we have Rafael who says I remember last year we had lots of snow

and this year I think we'll have snow as well who knows it we might have a lot of

snow we might have no snow some people seem to think that winter will get

warmer and warmer as the time passes so who knows who knows what we will get

satoru know says hello mr. duncan also oh i think we have a donation as well

from analytic brain thank you very much to analytic brain who has sent a very

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donations as well to help my work continue because I do all of this for

free it doesn't cost you anything so everything you see everything you hear

is all done for free do you like eating food

I I don't know about you but I love eating in fact at the moment I am in the

process of losing weight I am trying to get a little slimmer because my stomach

keeps getting larger and larger but do you like food I really do like food very

much and I have actually made a lesson all about food and right now we are

going to take a look at an excerpt from my food lesson and then after that it's

mr. Steve

hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how can mr. Duncan this the dark

um oh hello mr. Lomax how are you what's the problem mr. Duncan I'm hungry can I

have something to eat please of course you can what would you like to eat I

would like a big juicy banana if that's okay

hmm banana eh let me see I've got to be known around here sighs there's one one

juicy banana there you go is that okay for you mm-hmm thank you

very much but not petit now then where was I

oh yes hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today

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

in today's lesson we will look at a common item which is for each of us an

important part of our daily life and our means of survival today we will talk

about food

there are many natural elements contained within food such as calcium

chromium cobalt copper iron sodium and zinc it is worth noting that these are

present in very tiny amounts which is lucky for us because the human body only

requires a very small daily amount to function properly keeping the balance of

these elements right is very important as too much of them is just as bad as

too little then there is protein which helps the body to function and stay well

maintained protein is made up of small organic chemicals called amino acids

these are absorbed from food during digestion and are used to create new

proteins and other useful substances that the body requires

finally let us not forget one of the most important intakes that the body

requires in order to function and survive water around 60% of your body is

made up of water the water in your body keeps you cool it helps to keep the

joints of your bones soft and supple it carries nutrients to your tiny skin

cells and it helps to carry away all of the waste and toxins which would

otherwise build up and cause you to become ill water is being constantly

used and lost by the body through sweating and going to the toilet

needless to say you must drink plenty of water everyday meals and food have

different names depending on their size when they are eaten and where they are

served hamburgers and other similar food is easy to make and serve so it is

called convenience food or fast food McDonald's KFC and Burger King are all

classed as fast-food restaurants a quick small meal is called a snack or a bite a

meal where you select and serve your own food is called a buffet a large meal

served to many people in a hall is called a banquet

here's a good question is milk a food or a drink I would let you find out the

answer to that one remember milk and cheese contains lots

of calcium and calcium is good for your bones delicious there are many ways of

expressing hunger I feel hungry I'm starving I'm famished

I'm ravenous I've got to eat soon or I will faint

my stomach is telling me to eat Wow I really have to eat something I'm so

hungry I could eat a horse

cooking food has become a very popular activity for many people and these days

there are lots of cookery programs on television

presented by celebrity chefs although some of them do tend to be quite rude

and impolite such as this guy

hello and welcome to go cook yourself I'm Dave nasty and I'm a chef and I'm

rude to people if you don't like that then you can go cook yourself this is

the potato I like chopping them up into little pieces and then boiling them in

water then I mash them with butter it's called mashed potatoes can you mash

up potatoes I guess you can't cuz you're not a chef like me I hate everyone I'm

Dave nasty saying go cook yourself goodbye

did you do here we go yes it's Sunday and we are live

very very live and just to show how live we are I am now saying that it is 20

minutes away from three o'clock here in the UK yes check your watch right now it

is definitely live talking which here is the man who isn't so much a fountain of

knowledge more like a dripping tap of knowledge it is mr. Steve hello hello

everybody I'm not sure I like that introduction mr. Jim put a dripping tap

of knowledge does that mean I don't know very much is that what you're trying to

say mr. dink did you like my I gave you some lovely

applause oh it didn't hear that because we can't really hear it here can we go

away I could hear it vaguely in the background I could have you listen to it

later I could hear it in my head well I've been watching the lap we're late

today I'm 10 minutes later than normal mr. Duncan we've got plenty of time we

are on until 4:00 4:00 o'clock trying to keep me away from the lovely viewers

aren't you trying to you're taking 10 minutes off next week it'll be 15

minutes then 20 and I'd be just down to five minutes I'll be just saying hello

goodbye mr. Steve is worried that I am cutting his time until he disappears

completely anyway I was looking at the live stream

okay before coming on in fact I was doing some gardening I would try to fit

in an hour's gardening now before coming live on stream because but this time of

the year we can't do it afterwards because it'll be dark by the time we

finish at the live stream so I'll try to get in the bit of garden beforehand but

I still had time to look at the live chat which JC Jordi's had an operation

okay an angioplasty well that's is that something to your heart yes she's had

some little stents put in in her heart so that's quite a you know it's not a in

substantial procedure it's not it so we hope you're well and recovering it's not

a simple procedure it's very complex so any operation that you have

your heart it I would imagine it's very very what would you say how would you

describe that essential essential yes it is also a very complicated operation so

Wow so how are you at the moment JC Geordi are you recovering recovering yes

so yes we wish JC Geordi well and you know if for what was quite a significant

operation yeah I'm sorry an essential its operation yeah so I should apologize

first of all for missing the message so it was on the live chat it's on the live

chat but of course at the beginning there's a lots of messages so you're

probably but you don't see them all they're going off the screen yes I

didn't see I'm to have so apologies for not seeing your message and I hope you

are feeling much better and geo angioplasty so that's where they repair

I think that's where they repair the the actual valves now I think they put

little they just open up your open heart vessels with little stents so it'll so

they put some they put something inside to make the the the tubes wide I think

so I think that's what it is yes I'm not a heart surgeon so I don't know but well

I hope you're feeling better and it sounds like you've had it done before

from what you were saying oh okay but you are in the right place because we

will always cheer you up we will gladden your heart literally

will will make you laugh Carrodus says he's noticed a sheep and that some of

them are hobbling yeah though is used a good phrase they're hobbling hobble it

means that they're they've got what one's got a poorly leg and can't walk

properly so they're sort of hobble in this sort of not walking properly though

they are and we always laugh about there's one hobbling there at the back

because sheep are always so afraid of everything they run away and they injure

them so they injure themselves there must be very prone to getting their legs

injured yes well because also as I mentioned earlier

the field is on a slope field is on a slope so they keep when they run away

they actually trip and hurt them that there is one now you can see it yes it's

limping that is lame gonna be meat much meat on that leg oh

okay thank you Steve and GF broom says that when they were growing up there

were sheep dogs that would herd the sheep and bring them in in the evening

we're out here they still use them they do still use sheep dogs here in fact the

the the farmer that brought those sheep has a couple of sheepdogs hmm and of

course they sometimes use quadbikes now don't they

what to round the Sheep oh yes they use quad bikes I thought you were going to

say that the sheep were on the quad bikes

haha the sheep were riding the quad I would love to see a sheep riding a quad

bike Maria says have we still got the spiders yes we have but hopefully

they'll be gone soon yes because my friend said that he got another friend

who wanted to to look after them for a while so hopefully we'll get rid of them

before Christmas so we've we've had these spiders for nearly ten months it

was only supposed to be for a few weeks but but they will be going soon and and

to be honest good riddance Jimmy asks are you back in Wikipedia yet

oh that's a good question I did check a couple of days ago and I'm not there

right so we're starting this campaign again some horrible person I think it's

a rival a rival English teacher actually removed me from the Much Wenlock page

you had a page a mention yeah an entry in the Wikipedia page and a much Wenlock

saying that you were a notable English teacher nobody a notable person just

reminding case anybody watching didn't hear what we said last week somebody has

removed mr. Duncan from the Much Wenlock page and we're going to appear we're

going to ask again if somebody can add mr. don't come back in you need to have

privileges or something don't you but yes you need to have editing priveleges

editing privileges on Wikipedia so if someone can put me on to Wikipedia onto

the not not my own page but on the Much Wenlock page and then i will be there

again you rightfully belong I belong there I

do a lot for Much Wenlock I I promote it all around the world and the main thing

is that you're a notable English teacher and you deserve to have a place on

Wikipedia and the fact that somebody put you in and then somebody removed you I

think that's disgraceful I think it's disgrace of jealousy it's

disgusting yes because it is a fact there's nobody else doing what you're

doing no in England let alone just much when

that's it on so anyway just blowing your trumpet for you mr. Duncan because

please will somebody add mr. Duncan back on to Wikipedia and if you do we'll make

a special mention tell us if you do and we'll make a special mention and hmm

well we could send a t-shirt couldn't we I will do my robot Iman I will do my

robot dance for you would send you a little present yes bribery and

corruption is that it Steve anything else to mention that's all I could there

were lots of comments lots of lovely comments from people quite a few new

people as well some I think these somebody from Madagascar can't remember

their name now okay we've seen lots of programs about Madagascar because that's

a very popular place for naturalists to go and film yes not late not naturists

naturalist like David Attenborough so natural ists

or people that are that are interested in wildlife

naturists are people who like to take their clothes off and walk around in in

the fresh air with no clothes so there is a difference

naturalist naturalist and naturist yes I'm not right the programs we've seen

about Madagascar which is an island just off Africa somewhere I believe they've

got these spiny forests seven days that Madagascar lemurs are leaping onto these

spiny plants okay and we've seen this program we don't know how they don't

kill themselves no well they like cacti something like that I don't know you're

in this program somebody who I can't remember what your name is now somebody

it's on from Madagascar tell us about these if I'm right about the spiny

forests and you've got these little they're not monkeys they're lemurs okay

I think and they've bleep around it anyway what what I do know about

Madagascar is there are lots of animals that are only found in Madagascar

exactly and also that's where Charles Darwin came up with the idea of the

theory of evolution so Charles Darwin got in it was you're thinking of the

Galapagos Islands always a Galapagos Islands well there's two very small

islands you seen they look very similar if you close your eyes and put your

hands on your head they do look very similar good job I'm here Galapagos

Islands and Madagascar he probably went there as well.did

Disney make a movie about the Galapagos Islands everyone's made a movie about

that or was it or was it Madagascar I think there are special tourist trips to

to the Galapagos Islands Galapagus yes we got into that subject but you took us

there I I've been very busy this week Steve putting putting up the Christmas

lights and mr. Steve gave me a surprise he's actually given me some lovely new

lights to put him on the house right and there we go can you see the new light so

these are some new lights that mr. Steve has given ie gave me a nice surprise

so there you can see some new lights that I put up this week and they are

called festoon lights festoon it's not a great word it says festoon what does it

mean do you know where it comes from no well it comes from a feast where Garland

and flowers were hung in lovely string arrangements so they were hung up and so

the feast of celebration so that's why we have festoon for lack of lack for

festival festival nation festivals or special feasts that were held so it is a

very very old word and there you can see some festoon lights which are now

outside the house I hope the neighbors I really hope the neighbors will enjoy

looking at those talking of Christmas so I said by those lights mr. day your

early Christmas present mr. Duncan thank you get up on the ladder and put them up

and that's what I know that's what I did but talking of Christmas do you think

that it's too early yes oh okay well that was quicker I want

to talk about Christmas mr. Duncan do you think it's too early to talk about

Christmas and there you can see last year so these video clips you can see

now they were actually filmed last year but do you think it is too early to talk

about Christmas and there you can see some lovely festive arrangements in the

local bookshop where I live in much Wenlock what else oh look there's the

square the famous square in Much Wenlock and you can see there are lots of

Christmas lights but even though we only have we only have about is it four weeks

or five weeks so about five weeks weeks five weeks till Christmas is it too

early to talk about Christmas so what do you think do you think it is too early

to mention Christmas Steve has already given his answer he thinks yes it is too

early I don't think you should talk about Christmas - at least the 1st of

December and really I think it should be two weeks before two weeks before and no

more than that that's my opinion but of course the shops want you to buy

lots of things and but I don't think you should start mentioning it talking about

it now maybe for children I mean when do advent calendars start on the 1st of

December done well I'm yes I must admit I always get very excited around this

time because I love to put the Christmas lights up I'm like a I'm like a big

child really is that's why I likes the lights everywhere I love the lights I

love the festivity and of course last week the temperature in the UK was very

high so I decided to do it last week whilst the weather was really really

good yes but what you wanted to do mr. Duncan with

the festoon lights as you wanted to put them on the highest part of the house

love you yes you wanted to hang those from the gutter right on the top of the

of the house so where the roof the lowest part of the roof I wanted to hang

the lights along there on the burbs but yes but so you said oh I'm going to hang

them up there and I thought there's no way mr. Duncan is gonna go that high at

the ladders but anyway I wasn't snow point of me saying you'll never do that

because that would have made mr. Duncan even more determined to do it so he put

the ladders up so you decided just to let me go ahead and decide to let you go

ahead and do it try not to talk over you today did it berate me last week for

talking over you so I shall try and look for clues

when as I can just interject with my sentences and my opinions I'll put my

map my hand over your mouth without without interrupting you or talking over

you I try my hardest this week okay we've got the message anyway

anyway tell us a story I Gress tell us the story that means I digress it means

I was talking about something else apart from the main subject so you put the

ladders up and I thought mr. Duncan if you go up those ladders and you fall off

you will fall to your death yes probably because it was very high and you've got

what happened you got about halfway up and then decided oh dear and I was quite

worried because I thought I don't want mr. Duncan going up there because

there's a last thing I want to do is have to do this show all on my own

so I got halfway up the ladder and then started screaming like a girl

you didn't really scream I was I was a little worried and afraid so I didn't go

to the top so instead I had to put the lights a little lower down yes it's a

slightly more agreeable height a height that if you fell you would survive so so

what do you think the height that you could fall from safely so is there a

height because uh sometimes you hear of people who are just walking

long and they fall over in the street and the end they die so so I suppose

there is no safe height so I suppose you could you could you could die if you

fell from any height well but of course the higher you are your body is

physically designed to be able to withstand I mean the way we've evolved

mm-hmm the human body the impact apparently that there's a sort of

maximum impact that we can we can survive is around 30 miles an hour oh

okay then if you start going I mean if you think of the speed you can run at

and you hit your head you can anything more that that's why

people die in cars obviously the human body isn't designed to withstand impacts

every certain species are supposed to be cheering JC Geordi up this is this is

not very cheerful yes if you I think I mean as you say if you fall on your head

can withstand an impact yeah I've got it yes I don't know what

the height is but I shouldn't think it's more than about you still carry so many

times your own Heights again okay stop I'm trying to that's my spot it depends

on whether you fall on soft ground hard ground what part of your body hits the

floor first I think I think rude you know what I should have done him when I

went up the other day to put the lights up on the side of the house I should

have had a little parachute that would open and then I could I could come down

to the ground very safely that wouldn't have worked mr. Duncan

why because you wouldn't have had time to deploy the parachute so I you have to

pull the cord deploy it so what you should have done is put got the bed from

upstairs and put the mattress on the ground and then if you fall you'd have

fallen onto the mattress and that would have broken your fall I could have

actually strapped the mattress to my back it's not the first time I've done

that in my life really yeah so we've got some words to lock and reform would you

like to have a look at the live chat I would have a look today yet not well not

since I was upstairs no okay then that's the strange thing to explain so there's

the live chat and there were lots of people on the

live chat oh dear let's have a look so thank you very much once again to

analytic brain for your your very generous donation thank you very much

there on the super checked we have oh yes he said something about Madagascar

then where no we are in the page to talk about Christmas as a bit further down

there Joe I'm going up first I'll just give me a chance sorry we're

not going anywhere Madagascar in my family that is a joke

they say that the capital of Madagascar is very confusing I think the name oh

yes I can't pronounce that can you pronounce that Steve and Tarara and -

rah rah rah rah Riva and and - rubber and - rah rah rah Riva yes apparently

that's the capital of Madagascar I didn't know that I didn't know that

either we want more information on Madagascar perhaps we will get that JC

Geordi says yes Charles Darwin has been to South America in the Galapagos

Islands and also the continental areas such as Rio de Janeiro and also are you

going to read that for me I tie a tie a tie a polka or palco eteri Palko I'm not

going to try and read that again I think YouTube will come around and push a

custard pie into my face no we are no it is too early to talk about Christmas oh

I think Pedro agrees with you Steve oh definitely yes so it's too early

Jordao says yes I think it's too early to talk about Christmas

I hate those stores for stores and the shops that hurry to make us all feel

that the year has ended yes I suppose so but I suppose that the thing is lots of

shops have to all try to make money I think that's the reason why Czech

Republic is suffering from temperatures of 30 degrees where is that just right

at the top oh okay let's have a look Julie G says

it is unpleasant this hot weather in the Czech Republic everyone is suffering 30

degrees at the moment I thought it would be winter in a Czech Republic if it

would be quite cool there now how surprising I'm surprised I'm shocked

very shocked it is already full of Christmas decorations in every store

says Rosa and also who else is here hello mr. Duncan so glad to join your

life lesson Yaroslav oh hello Yaroslava is it your first time here today is it

your first hello to you Wow lots of new people here and finally before we go to

our lovely words today we are talking about words to do with buildings and

things used to build houses and all sorts of other things buildings roofs

yes that was a very generous donation thank you very much to analytic brain

once again thanks a lot for that and also a big hello to Kara - what child

hasn't tried to launch themselves with an umbrella yes I must admit I've never

tried I've never tried to jump off a building whilst holding an umbrella it

doesn't turn inside out yes it wouldn't be very it wouldn't end well I don't

think so it wouldn't end well promised baepsae says hello mr. d'Ancona would

you mind doing a live lesson about the houses of parliament and hello and

greetings from Middleburg in zealand which is in the netherlands hello to you

too promised baepsae or Batsy it's a bit like Shirley bass I was going to say if

you were in are you related to Shirley Bassey the famous singer if you are then

yes I know we could do that something about the houses of parliament I tell

you something next week you know what I would love to do I would love to do I

would love to actually do something where we go to London and actually do a

live stream from London but because of the situation now in

Londyn if you walk around with the camera or if you are doing filming or

anything that looks out of the ordinary you will often be stopped by the police

so it's very hard to do that now filming around London is not as easy as it used

to be peer peers are de Charlotte says please visit Kashmir you'll love it oh I

bet we would because Kashmir e food is renowned for

being delicious and we love a good curry don't we mr. Duncan I do like curry even

though the aftereffect isn't very good I don't know the specifics of Kashmir food

I think it's probably vegetarian oh really

oh of course yes I suppose it would be yes if it's India definitely so lots of

vegetables yes Kashmir food it's got a particular blend

of spices that's different to other other parts of India I hope I'm right

about that anyway I want to learn English but it's too difficult I live in

Brazil well Philippe you have come to the right

place because it's English all the way on a Sunday afternoon with mr. Duncan

that's me and mr. Steve as well four minutes past three o'clock on a

Sunday afternoon he's an interesting question before we get into something

else do you ever sulk sulk

it's a great word if you sulk it means you go into a bad mood normally over a

specific thing or a reason so to sulk means you become very gloomy and moody

and upset over maybe one particular thing so behavioral thing so perhaps you

wanted something and then you couldn't have it

and so you sulk you get into a mood yes you become difficult to deal with hmm so

if you yes that's right if you your parents you asked your parents could I

have a new bike and they said no you

a new bike and they get upset about it and go into a sulk also they've become

very obnoxious and won't talk to you become difficult refused to do things

that you asked them to do because they're sulking because they didn't get

what they wanted hmm so that's a great word I don't think

adults sulk very but I think you kept people consult in relationships can't

they are you sure about I think adults sometimes are worse than children

especially in relationships so maybe the wife might might have one thought about

something and the husband has the opposite thought and maybe the wife says

no you can't do that or you can't go out tonight and so the husband will will

silk hmm okay I'll stay in then hmm so yes I think adults sometimes adults

can be worse than children the lad has asked something which is right up our

street right there let me just put it onto the screen before we say something

is right up our street it means that we're but we know a lot about it and

we're very keen to talk about it if you say something's right up your street

that means that you're very enthusiastic to talk about it

oh so yes Vlad has said we'd like to hear about eighties music in your

classes any chance some Sunday well we can't play the music carplay

unfortunately because of copyright rules you know YouTube is terrible now because

you can't do anything you can't sing a song or say anything or even you can't

even hum a tune anymore and you will get punished by YouTube but we can talk

about the artists and the singers oh I could talk all afternoon

exactly it's right up your street it's right at my street it is it is a subject

that I'm very fond of so yes because we are we are children of the eighties we

grew up during the 1970s and 1980s so mr. Steve and myself we bow

grew up during that time so we are very familiar with music that's two things

next week has a parliament and eighties music okay well maybe not next week

because I have something else planned next week what's that next week we are

going to have a fashion show a fashion show

yes mr. Steve and myself we are going to be beautiful sexy models but I'm used to

that of course on the catwalk in my younger years of course I was a model

missus really well III was as well he's sadly wrong

I I used to do modelling gravity a they all wanted me I'm not even joking

that's true I was I was a I was a sexy model in my teenage years and now Gary

listed oh not really I'm joking you have people looking you

up anyway yes anyway I've got some words mr. Steve

is no way mr. Steve has got some words and they are words and phrases go quick

go back go back to the live chat I saw the word Mustang wait there you've got

to calm down a bit Steve words to do with buildings we've done the live chat

now we can't we can't just kill you mentioned a Mustang okay Jeff I knew it

was Jeff I couldn't tell but I knew it was mr. Steve sulks about his Mustang oh

okay hmm well I'm not really so looking because that after sell cut myself but

but yes no I'm I'm I don't think you're sulk I think you pine pine yeah so if

you pine for something it means you want it to happen you you you really

distraught because you can't have so this is you not talking over yes that's

me yes okay then yes you don't seem to have

changed at all yes you're still talking over the top of me so if you pine for

something it means you want something you desire it you you really want it

with all your heart so yes so if you do that you pine although I don't think

you're sulking so mr. Steve might you

mr. Steve might sulk if someone says that you can't have a Ford Mustang Sam

Steve might sometimes sulk if he thinks that he can't have one if I asked you to

buy me one and you said no I'm not going to I might sulk well I'm not gonna buy

you just go up because okay they're telling us about kashmira food no it's

not and it contains many non veg food it's very different from Indian food

well Kashmir is a country on its own isn't it I believe Pierce dad says no it

is not it is called where's where's Juan was one and it contains many non

vegetable dishes all right okay well that sounds even then that sounds even

better cuz I love meat exactly I like to get some meat Pedro is asking to be like

Elton John Phil Collins and Pet Shop Boys know a little bit and yes

so Elton John I'm not a big fan of Elton John I'll be honest I'm not a huge fan I

like surfies songs not many Phil Collins yes okay he was very good with Genesis

had a few big hits do did you know that with Genesis Phil Collins wasn't the

original lead singer oh he was actually the drummer the lead singer was oh I'm

trying to think who it was now and it was Peter Gabriel was the lead singer

Lee yeah Peter Gabriel was the lead singer of Genesis and he left and so

they had no singer and Phil Collins wasn't supposed to sing on any of their

songs and so they said Phil you've got quite a good singing voice would you

like to have a go at singing and that's what happens so after their singer after

their vocalist left they had to find somebody else to do it so that's why

Phil Collins became the singer in Genesis somebody asked further down is

selling the same as angry not really no no so angry means you just get into a

temper but sulking is the opposite you normally don't do any

thing so you normally go very quiet or you do nothing so you don't really do

anything if you sulk you just do this yes and your your your you're not

accepting what somebody's said to you about some bad news yes

say somebody your parents asked you to you wanted a bike and they said no

instead of just accepting that perhaps they couldn't afford it or it wasn't

your birthday or something you you you won't accept it and then you'll try to

punish them by not talking to them not cooperating with them when meals are

ready not eating your food things like that yes vitalic fight Ali or vitally

vitally grabar says I was very excited when I saw the title of the stream I got

super excited I loved buildings and everything that has to do with DIY do

do-it-yourself I have I have made all my furniture by myself great to be here

antastic thank you very much for joining us today

could you make me some bedside cabinets I'll send you the sizes of I tally

because the bed where it's located it's very difficult to fit standard bedside

cabinets that you buy from a shop because they're too big so I want them

quite narrow with a couple of drawers I'll send you the dimensions and you can

make them for me thank you very much and and they would arrange transport ok that

sounds that sounds like a terrible idea ah not a separate country yet we've

we've got we've got to we've got to move on a bit Steve last week you were

complaining that we didn't have enough time yeah that's it yeah region occupied

by India Pakistan and China yes it's not on the street it's not on the screen by

the way rather there we go so what what's that

Kashmir isn't a separate country yet whether they want to be separate of them

going this yeah well done Steve yes I almost got it right yes you are you are

literally the dripping tap of knowledge all right so let's have a look at some

words if Steve will let me if I don't see I'm gonna close my eyes

so I don't see the words to do with buildings words to do with parts of

buildings and different types of buildings as well so mr. Steve is going

to show us right now the first one are you ready Steve the first ones yes I'm

ready okay let me just put you back on just so we can see your lovely lovely

face there it is right so the first set of words are connected with that have

the word house in them or something to do with a house which obviously is a

building okay yes so house a house is definitely a busy one it's first first

phrase is household name okay household name gooey cheese if you describe

something as a household name or a person as a household name it means

they're very popular they're known everywhere in households everywhere or

in one specific location or everywhere in a country it could be a person an

object thing anything television this phrase used to be used before in more

local area so you could say somebody was well-known performer there might be a

singer or some kind of artist in a town and everybody knew them and they were a

household name or have you seen John or Alice or did you see them last night in

the hall performing they were excellent everybody talking about them and then

when television came along people became household names all over the country

because they could see them on TV so a household name for an object would be

something like a Hoover which is a type of vacuum cleaner or it could be you

could say an iPhone is a household name because everybody knows about it a

person you could say mr. Duncan is a household name in many parts of the

world through his English teaching I'm not sure about that a household names i

means popular or something that's popular could be a pop groove a foot

football could be a house named David Beckham is a household name

everybody knows about him so that's household name

he's a phrase a house divided against itself cannot stand it's like a proverb

a house divided against itself cannot stand exactly well actually it was

Abraham Lincoln oh the first to use this phrase apparently in the US of A in 1885

when he was doing one of his famous speeches he made many famous speeches

and it means really things will work out when there is unity amongst all the

individuals in a task so if you want to get something - if you've got a group of

people and you want to get something done then you've got to have unity

within that group everybody's got to be seen from the same song sheet okay and

everyone must be agreed otherwise everything will fall down so if you want

to if you want to do something which at the time he wanted to abolish slavery

then you can't have a group of people saying one thing a group of people

saying another say you've got to bring everybody together yes

unity the workers is is another example of using the phrase the workers need to

form a union because a house divided against itself cannot stand

so if everybody is arguing arguing among themselves or amongst themselves then

you won't achieve what you want to achieve you've got to be united and

that's just a phrase that means everybody's got to agree and then you

can move forward with whatever it is you want to do a house divided against

itself cannot stand in other words you can't complete what you want to do I'd

say so so in in many situations you need everyone to be united all right it or to

follow the same way of thinking so you might talk about the political situation

in many countries now you can see that there are there is a lot of division

here in the UK for example and in the USA so a lot of people talk about there

are divisions sometimes if people do not join together

if there isn't unity quite often it will not stand or things will be disrupted so

yes I think that's a very good one sometimes you want to achieve something

quite important maybe socially maybe there's a

particular group of people that when he'd need support and standing up for

but women's rights is a popular one now but if women who wanted women's rights

to become more popular we're all arguing among themselves nothing will get

achieved so they have to be if you've got a cause that's important you've all

got to unite and move forward together otherwise you're evil just fall and

nothing worth a few people are saying that that's actually a biblical passage

it could well be could Rabi I looked at Abraham Lincoln first used it okay well

what Abraham Lincoln was around before the Bible I think if it was in the Bible

but he he sort of used it and made it popular yes maybe he paraphrased so

another one here we go how solve if you've got a house of something you're

looking puzzled mr. Duncan hmm the house of that is an important group of people

or a reigning group of people the house of or important people at the House of

Commons the House of Lords in the UK or House of Representatives it means a

group of people in that case they're all voting and passing laws that it just

means an important group of people and you call them a House of something so if

you've got for example a reigning the reigning monarch of we well obviously

we've got Queen Elizabeth here yes but this week a lot of people talking about

Prince Charles he will be the next king so yes once the Queen dies we will have

King chow we will but King Charles and the Queen and her mother and father are

all part of the House of Windsor the house of wit so it's a group that is the

current reigning family the family that are the king and queen

or king or queen of this country you call it that the House of Windsor hmm in

Saudi Arabia you've got the House of Saud which comes from particular King

and all his descendants who who were who are now reigning in that country today

no so it's the house of something and then in fashion and in shops you you'd

like had the House of Dior you know all the fashion house the House of Dior

it sounds very important if you put house of something because you've got

House of Commons House of wins are all those important groups have then if you

if you've got a company and you put house in front of it it makes it sound

very granular important House of Fraser is that is most of what House of Fraser

is is a shop yeah isn't it big department store in this country but

quite often fashion companies will call themselves houses house fashion houses

yes so places places where the designers are and so it's one company so quite

often they use it to describe a company that's right so or

a reigning monarch so when we say reign we don't mean rain that falls we mean

rain means to rule over something so with the spelling is different so I have

a go at the spelling No okay fact okay then do you have another one Steve right

so household we have 35 minutes left well I can't pick this one up mr. Duncan

house of cards so I came out of car house of cards oh oh how do you get

ready to get that from mr. Duncan you mean this house of cards a house of

cards where did you get that from anyway you must have guessed I was going to put

that one up well as you can see if you're trying to build something or

there's a TV show as well there is but they can't put that other one back up

there we go so you're trying to build something making made of cards

what's through what's the one thing that is not very good about it it's flimsy

it's a flimsy structure can easily fall down and when we use a phrase house of

cards remain a flimsy structure a flimsy arrangement that's in danger of

collapsing we don't normally refer to buildings we're using it metaphorically

we're not literally meaning a building made of cars or something where we

normally referring to a company or a political something like that server

except for example the company collapsed after only six months in business

because it was built on a house of cards or built of a house of cards so

something that's fragile or flimsy or not very well built or constructed yes

so the company they started a company perhaps they didn't employ the right

people or the idea wasn't very good in the first place or they sold it at the

wrong price they but they were disorganized in the way they set it all

up and the company failed and you can say it failed because it was it was

built on a house of cards it was just it was wasn't very well put together okay

the proposal you can have it like a proposal so you might want to make a

proposal in that in the house of parliament and the MP doesn't do it put

it construct the arguments very well and you can say the proposal collapsed as it

was just a house of cards it wasn't thought through properly so if you want

to form something and you want it to be solid based on a solid firm foundations

we're using building metaphors really here so that's it a flimsy structure or

a flimsy arrangement that can easily fall down so some girls on a house of

car that's it so not not the TV show no no I know there is a TV show called

house of cards so it's not this in fact it's not this at all it is actually this

house of cards so I'd say the the actor that was axed from the leading role in

the house of cards so you could say that his career was built on a house of car

yes ironically ironically because he was up to no good

with women no well he was up to no good with people

yes doing something he shouldn't have been doing it wasn't women okay then

well he was in it yes inappropriately what would you say

so Kevin Spacey allegedly built his we've got to say allegedly allegedly

well if it's allegedly why did he lose his job so if somebody alleges something

if they say something you can lose your job

so say yeah yeah that happened that that person did that and then they lose their

job that's not very fair is it okay Kevin Spacey's career fell like a house

of cards yes oh the structure upon his his career

was built you could say he had a fatal flaw in like the fatal flaw in the

construction of a building sooner or later he was going to be found out for

his bad behavior hmm and he got out in his career has fallen apart like like a

house of cards I don't think anyone ever said that I think at first I think they

have lost we don't know if anything's proved but there we go here's another

one public house public house public house is just a place a tavern a bar

where alcohol is licensed for sale so commonly in the UK they are this word

public house is abbreviated to just pub P you be just pub so we've only got that

bit of it I can't do it mr. Duncan because there we go it's all back to

front what people don't understand is I'm watching myself on the monitor but

everything's back to front pub that's what it's shortened to public house the

place where you see lots of people drinking and having a good time you look

to the window that all we look at we go there too much Wenlock and there's a pub

there and look through the window and they're all drinking away with their

beer singing songs but we're never going is it because they're all local people

and it's and they might beat us up but you can

also call it a tavern a tavern tavern in pub or public house a place where they

sell alcohol to people members of the public go in and pay lent

rink yeah you're my best friend yum-yum Steve Steve all I ever told you

that you're you're my best friends too we don't drink do we mr. Duncan he's God

oh he's got liver disease from all that abuse of alcohol over many years well

yes we doubt my mother always used to say she was afraid of purpose because

they used to have a reputation when she was growing up she's she used to tell me

she used to run past pubs because they were always full of rowdy people

drinking and you know you had a reputation for people going in there not

having particularly good reputations of course that's not really the case now

rowdy pubs are always rowdy I thought you said Randy rowdy rowdy lot of noise

going on because people are drinking and having a good time okay

talking of time penthouse penthouse and stop talking about a magazine mr. doom

isn't is that the magazine with the naked ladies is that still going I can't

I don't know a penthouse is an apartment situated on the roof of a building often

with a terrace and it so it's usually in a block of flats and on the top it's

flat on the top of the block of flats and you've normally gotta you can have

well either it's the the top the very top part the top impartment s' or that

could be a separate one built right on the top of the block of flats mm-hmm and

it's got a terrace and you can look at you've got a lovely view so the

penthouse suite or the penthouse apartments are regarded as the

best the most luxurious exclusive places to live normally their own apartment

block normally there on the top floor that's what I said

so they're on the top floor they're normally very big and sometimes they

have more than one level as well so the penthouse can have maybe two floors so

it's the luxury apartment or the luxury room a bigger you've got more space

you've got a nice view out you might have a terrace

I have never a lot more I have never stayed in a Payne penthouse suite ever

think I did once in a hotel oh very nice but apparently is coming it used to be

used to mean sloping roof because it apparently the penthouse on the top of a

big building used to be that like the place that covered up all the all the

machinery and the lift shaft top of the lift shafts and things like that but

nowadays it means a very exclusive place to live at the top of it big block of

flats or a nudie magazine or a nudie magazine well I don't know if that even

exists anymore does it so I go by nudie magazine so I've heard well you've got

the Internet there is the Internet Steve this is I mean do people still buy

magazines anymore I don't know I don't think Internet now my my my knowledge

how I believe my knowledge of nudie magazines with naked ladies inside it

trust me I I know very little about it how about

acid house mr. Duncan Oh acid house I see or just acid you don't

need to have the house on there you see you just say what acid house it's a type

of music from the late eighties and early nineties disco music with a

certain disco electronic dance music isn't it's dance music with an

electronic sort of mesmerizing beat to it hypnotic sound that is normally

associated with people taking the drug ecstasy you for accuse

the people will dance all night tears I'm just trying to label take and oh

yeah they will take ecstasy I'm just trying to do that's acid house acid have

it stirred around around acid how it was very big in the 1990s and this this

t-shirt this symbol was was the symbol of acid house music you're joking no I'm

not joking that's what I'm saying it so why are you wearing her are you

promoting drug use well well the smiley face was around for many years before

then so this first appeared in the 1960s and

it was invented by Forrest Gump Forrest Gump invented this I saw it in the

movies I don't think you should wear that that's not really appropriate now I

know that mr. Duncan all right all right you know I think that's very bad it's

very bad I'm gonna put you in the doghouse ha ha

you see what I did there I certainly heard what you did there doghouse if you

put somebody in a doghouse it means you're punishing them punishing them for

bad behavior where do you get out from have you been looking through my word

night you've been looking through my words these are actually ones that I

found on my own just in case you didn't use them see I'm too clever for you mr.

Duncan so know them all to be in the doghouse

be in the doghouse it means that you've it means you've done something to upset

somebody normally the the husband is in the doghouse with his wife because he's

done something to upset his wife and his wife's not talking to it doesn't mean

you're literally going into her into where the dog is it means that you're

being punished it means that no nobody somebody's not talking to you over there

or they're punishing you it's a it's a figure of speech the figure of speech

yes look my wife's I'm not going back home until later because I'm in the

doghouse at home or maybe maybe the husband came back the night before very

late yes and so the next morning the wife is very angry

where were you last night where were you last night you didn't go back home and

to

I'll shut up I'll do what I like don't tell me what to do and then you'll be

nagged at a bit yes so then the husband will be in the doghouse yes it just

means that you know if you if you if a dog's been naughty you go go into your

basket go into your basket you send the dog in there for punishment or into the

kennel or into the kennel yes so there we go in the tree in the doghouse you

could be in the doghouse with your boss at work okay

well because she didn't do that project yes exactly he didn't finish the project

on time and the boss has told me off who got to be careful I'm in the doghouse

with my boss at the moment it means that you're young you're not you're not being

looked upon particularly favorably yes you are you are you have a black mark

against you a black mark and you might have to do something so for example if

the husband is in the doghouse with his wife because he was laid back or had too

much to drink the night before or wasn't home in time to take her out to have a

hair done or to go back to the party then you might have to buy some flowers

or some chocolates too to get yourself back in favour and out of the dog home

you seem to have a lot of knowledge of marriages only yeah that's pretty good

for a person who isn't married that's pretty you can know about it

that's pretty amazing you you seem to have a lot of insight well that's all

the house ones okay then that I can think of anybody if you've got one that

you've thought of that I haven't I have one here to have a few loose tiles well

that's not a house I haven't come onto tiles yet yes oh okay then but lot of

tiles are on the roof tiles are on the roof yes go on then you see so so yes to

have a few loose tiles there aren't any loose tiles on that roof no well that's

just showing you what tiles are so there you can see tiles to have a few loose

tiles this is a great expression so this means to be a little bit odd or maybe a

little crazy or maybe your behavior is a little strange

or maybe you might not be very clever you might say that that person seems to

have a few loose tile how long it take you to come up with that one oh it's

another one go on okay then then there is two doorstep someone to do it house

again there's a doorstep on your house talking about building when you walk

into the house there is a doorstep it does that mean to deal with doors tips

um if you dog eat there badly no if you just let me actually say what it is to

doorstep someone means that you you actually Harris them at their door so

you won't leave them alone so for example if you are a famous actor and

maybe you've done something bad maybe the reporters will go to your

house and they will doorstep you that means they will go onto your doorstep

and they will Harris you at your front door are so Princess Diana famous people

being doorsteps have you been doorstep to mr. Duncan I have what your YouTube

fans around the world I have never been door stepped I've had my door kicked in

a few times but never I've never been door stepped well done for coming up

with a few words that I didn't I've got another one another one yeah I've still

got a pile down here okay then I'll do one more of mine and then you can do

yours here's another one put it on the slate they're all to do with tiles

Andrews no they're not what the doorstep isn't put it on the slate who puts their

doorstep on the roof that's not very easy way to get into your house so don't

put it on the slate of course slates are also on the roof it's another word for

tiles and they're quite often unlike those they're flat yes and you can write

on them yes and also the tablet another word for tile

in American English is do you know no shingle chingle chingle so if you if in

American English tiles roof tiles are known as shingles shingles so put it on

the shingles then put it on the slate is something that's used in British English

and that's the reason why we say slate if you put it on the slate it means you

ask someone to take credit so you don't pay for something straight away you say

can you put it on the slate normally used in bars or pubs so when you order a

drink they will say oh can I have a pint of beer oh and can you put it on the

slate it means I won't pay for it now at the end of the month I will give you all

of the money that I owe you so put it on the slate so we use that normally in

British English so like put it on the bill hmmm but put it on the slate

presumably referring to in ancient times where you would literally have a slate

like it like that like a thin piece of rock that you would write things on with

chalk yes a slates and write things so yes I can menu well in fact that's what

they used to do here so in the bar they would actually have something where they

would put people's names and how much they owed literally it was on the slate

probably probably a slate Welsh slate which is a gray dark gray material

useful for putting on roofs of houses so it's flat you don't use chalk and you

can write it like a black boy look at exact boards so put it on the slate

that's a welder well done well done taken so now it's your turn the live

chat oh you want to look at the live chat ok then we've only got 20 minutes

left have you got a video to show as well yes

I have I've got but we're going to have a look at Steve going crazy with his

autumn madness I think I thought you were going to to use a few loose tiles

as the wave into the the I've definitely got a few lose time is this a sentence

so here we go then right so Philippe says I am going to meet with my

english-speaking boyfriend will communicate by Google Translate probably

will have a nice time you do have a nice time Philippe with your English speaking

boyfriend and also Carragher Cara - that sounds like friend with benefits

Cara das says shingal is a rectangular wooden tile used on walls or roofs yes

so normally shingle is used in American English so I hope that is fine there I

hope we all agree on that so Steve do you have something else to show us

I do I hope so I have got words now talking about building bridges oh ok

Larry gene so all of these are to do with bridges all of these are to do with

bridges yes yes right so cross the bridge or cross that bridge huh we will

cross that bridge when we come to it I like phrase that we use a lot in the

UK it means resolve a problem when it

occurs focus on focus on the issues that need to be sorted now not things that

may or may not happen in the future wait until the problem comes up and then

solve it rather than anticipating a problem it's often use as advice softer

news a phrase for advice to somebody to stop them worrying about something that

hasn't yet happened or may not happen so for example what will I do if I fail the

English exam you might ask somebody and they might reply don't worry

cross that bridge when you come to it so you might not fail the English exam so

don't worry about that now cross that if you do fail it will sort something out

will solve it afterwards you might to take the exam again or something like

that yes so yes you could say I'm going for a job interview oh but what happens

if I fail the job interview ah I'm gonna I'm not going to be able to afford to

pay the mortgage on my house bubble that somebody might say well don't worry

cross that bridge when you come to it so don't worry about what might happen just

concentrate on what you can control and what you can do now it's a phrase that

people use to stop you worrying about things

mm-hmm cross that we'll cross that bridge when we come to it so don't worry

about it now we will worry about it when the time arrives that's it so for

example I might have said to mr. Duncan well I've got all these words about four

bridges and buildings what happens if I if I if I miss out too what will people

think you know what will happen and you might say well don't worry mr. Steve

we'll cross that bridge when we come to it

there we go build bridges oh okay I don't mean literally build bridges so

this is again figurative figurative yes metaphorically not literally that means

to build bridges with something or someone means to improve relationships

between people or groups of people who may not like each other or may not get

on very well you're bi you might you're trying to just like you're trying to

connect the two sides of a river by building a bridge you're trying to

connect two groups of people together who don't see eye-to-eye they don't get

on very well they've got a difference of opinion and you're trying to find a way

of finding common ground to could you you want to get on with these people

because if you don't you don't wanna be warring or fighting all the time

no let's find some common ground and build some bridges it means finding

common ground or something that you can you can communicate with it that in fact

shows that you've probably not that different after after their breakup John

is trying to build bridges again with his wife so they broke it up over

something and now he's trying to probably phoning her up sending her

letters or something like that trying to some common ground that they can

communicate again so I think at some point at some point John must have been

in the doghouse that's it well yes it's a bit worse than that the the the two

rival political parties will have to build bridges if they are going to solve

the country's problems so political parties don't get on but there's some

important things it needs like brexit from poor they've got to build bridges

and stop fighting each other because they need to solve some problems we can

say that we can say that you you heal the divide here the divide build bridges

means you're just finding some common ground yes that's good

here's another one a burn bridges or burn your bridges we all do this we all

do this or burn your bridge it means to destroy the possibility of ever going

back to something or someone by doing something and really unforgivable hmm so

if you burn your bridges it means you can never go back

hmm you might have a friend you fall out you punch them in the face break their

teeth and they go to a hospital and you know that's it you're never

going to be able to go back again after that so here's another I can never work

for that company again I burnt my bridges with the boss when I criticized

him openly on social media yes another way of doing that of course

is to just resign from your job so you say maybe you have a great career and

your job is successful in you earn a lot of money and you go oh what a great life

and then a new boss arrives and you hate him and one day you have a fight yeah

and you go okay I've had enough of you I resign and you walk out but the next day

you kind of regret it you regret saying those things but it's too late because

you have already burned that bridge can't go back that's often used as

advice isn't it sometimes people will say hmm yes I don't burn your bridges

with that job because you know make sure when you leave

doesn't have to be a job we're using job as an example you don't like the job you

hate the job you hate the boss and all the people working there so you get

another job but somebody says you know don't don't leave on bad terms don't

burn your bridges because something might change and you might want to go

back there in later years that's interesting

Jimmy says just like this live chat we all build bridges between us exactly

isn't that great I love it I love that thank you very much Jimmy for that the

live chat today by the way is very it's very busy very busy

can I show another one mr. Duncan you may mr. Steve because I will let you

water under the bridge oh yeah it's water under the bridge

something has passed and it's not important anymore something you can't

change it something's happened you can't change it but it's not important anymore

you can't change it I didn't mean to say what I do fall out with somebody fall

out with and have an argument and you're trying to get back together again and

you say oh I'm sorry for what I said please can you forgive me

can't we just say it's water under the bridge let's forget it a bit like saying

let's let bygones be bygones let sleeping dogs lie yes I didn't mean

what it's just water under the bridge you use that as an expression when

something's happened but you can't change it I but you're trying to you

know just let's get over it let's it's water under

the bridge forget it we had our disagreement let's forget it

it's all in the past it's all water under the bridge there we go I've got

some more but you want to have a little break before we do it we're gonna have a

break because Steve yesterday went crazy crazy crazy absolutely nuts and loose

tiles yeah I think Steve definitely has some loose tiles on his roof yesterday

Steve went crazy he was suffering from something called autumn madness

yes that looks like a very severe case of autumn madness

yes indeed we are here and it's a very misty afternoon look at the view at the

moment you can see it is very misty out there Steve it is yes so that is a live

view at the moment from my studio window and you can see the Sun is starting to

set the colors are turning orange the leaves look very or terminal

everything is very atmospheric I think that's a good way of describing it so

autumn is definitely here it is late afternoon early evening here in the UK

about another hour of sunlight and then the Sun will disappear and we will also

be disappearing in ten minutes ten minutes I've got a few more words to

get in before then mr. Duncan okay Steve I was going to roll naked in that I

dunno I actually wanted to do it oh I wanted to take all my clothes off and

just roll naked in the leaves there's something earthy there's

something I don't know what is that it's like that's a strange atmosphere at that

time of the year you just want to be close to nature and sort of roll around

in it so I think mr. Steve is not so much a naturalist he's more a naturist

show me bits right here we go bricks and mortar okay it's a mortar well a

building of course is constructed of bricks and the mortar like the cement in

between holding it all together so bricks and mortar is it's something

substantial what we're referring to here is something is actually a building

something visible substantial has an inherent value to it so for example it's

a phrase that you use for example he invested in bricks and mortar rather

than stocks and shares so it means that he put his money into something solid

into a building bricks and mortar we just literally mean it's a building

there's no metaphor there we are literally meaning a building yes

we use it quite often to just describe something it's solid or something that

has mass or has structure so we're talking about

the actual solid part of something the bricks and mortar so yes you're right

it's it's generally used when we are talking about buying a house building

zone owning a house you own the bricks and mortar

it means the house belongs to you yes I don't you you can say as well that the

you can just strike describe a company you can say that company is a bricks and

mortar company it means it has a head office a building and branches made of

mere buildings as opposed to for example an internet-based company which isn't

brick that's not a B wouldn't describe that as a bricks and mortar company like

Amazon like Amazon but they have buildings but no but yes they don't have

a shop that you go into that's it there's no physical shop so there isn't

a doorway although having said that in some places there are now Amazon shops

all right I suppose I should be careful what I'm saying there so when you when

you refer to some bricks and mortar in that way you just literally meter

building and you usually say well I'm I would rather invest in if you've got

lots of money to invest somebody somewhere you've got various choices you

can buy buildings with it or you can put it on the stock market or put it in the

bank but if you invest in bricks and mortar it means you're investing in

buildings have you got a roof over your head

aa roof farik roof over your head so obviously it's a home a shelter have you

a roof over your head mate literally means a house or somewhere where you

live you've got somewhere you covered up from the element so it's a basic need

like food and water having a roof over your head having shelter is a basic need

isn't it so I've lost my job and I've got no money to buy food but at least

I've got a roof over my head you often hear people say things like that I want

us to pay for the mortgage on the house as quickly as possible because then no

matter what happens if I lose my job we'll always have a

roof over our heads so you just you just mean it's just a phrase that you use to

mean you've got some way to live yes or maybe you offer a homeless person you

offer them a roof over their head yes you offer to take them in you offer some

accommodation for them you want to give them a roof over their head yes Karen

asked bricks-and-mortar not castles in the sky okay not something something

definite something that you can see do you want to put your money into

something people say you can't go wrong putting your money into bricks and

mortar because it will always be there that's it

whereas the Internet sorry if you invest in stocks and shares they might plummet

in value or your the the if you put your money in a bank the bank might go bust

you might lose all your money but if you've got your money invested in

property it'll always be safe yes in brick symbol and also you have a nice

place to stay at night you can sleep in a house with a roof over your head we've

only got time for baby maybe two more yes three more oh the last one I'm going

to save the last one for right here we go

okay then raise the roof oh okay raise the roof that means to create a

boisterous and disturbance and uproar a performance to raise the roof could be

reckless as well oh it's oh no it's equivalent to raise a ruckus in America

they say raise a ruckus ruckus they do learn to react or protest heartily to

something when Ronaldo scored the winning goal in the football match the

fans raised the roof that means they created so much noise

and uproar that the roof was literally lifted off its foundations you don't

mean that literally you mean they're created so much noise that the strength

and power of it could literally raise the roof off hmm

so it's again figurative its figurative that's right the opera singer

raise the roof with her performance so a seamer so powerful she raised the roof

but yes it normally referred to large crowds of people creating such a noise

building blocks building blocks okay now I'm not really a building blocks you

could say you're like bricks bricks are the building blocks of a building the

the most substantial part the basic elements the most important part of

something will reduce to its basic constituents obviously a building is

made of bricks mm-hmm that's that's the the building blocks of

a house unless it's made of wood yes the foundation of something but you can have

using it figuratively or not literally you can have the the building blocks of

life you can describe some things if you say the building blocks of life you mean

or there's various ways of describing that but if you say what are the

building blocks of life you can say they are sulfur phosphorus oxygen nitrogen

hydrogen and calcium carbon sorry carbon so those molecules sulfur phosphorus

oxygen they are the built they are the elements that form all the basic

building blocks that form all your molecules and everything in your body

they form the cells that form the organs that form everything so we say that the

building blocks of life building blocks of life but you can see you can say

cells are the building blocks of life as well oh you can say DNA is or the

nucleic acids are the building blocks of DNA but it means that them an important

constituent that makes up the whole of something so lots of one small thing

make up something larger that's it you can have the building blocks of success

so the building blocks of success are hard work and perseverance you could say

so it doesn't have to be actual things it can be used in that way as well

a company you can say the building blocks of this company are there are the

talents of the and the people that work for us mm-hmm

see what I'm saying man that's very good the important things are things that

make it important so in a minute mm-hmm mr. Duncan is going to leave and I'm

going to leave and we can use the expression then Elvis has left the

building mmm-hmm are you with me I'm with you

Elvis has left the building which is a phrase that means the show's over the

party's over everybody go home go and do what you were doing before no good

hanging around after mr. Duncan says what do you say at the end of your show

I normally I normally say off for now why did you ask me however I couldn't

remember and you might think well is he really gone I'll just hang but somebody

might come and I might like somebody could come along and say no Elvis has

left the building because that what that phrase comes from is because when people

used to go to Elvis Presley concerts apparently after he left and he's done

his encore they kept thinking he was coming back for more and somebody had to

go out and say go home Elvis has left the building in other words there's no

point in hanging around any longer it's all over show's over it's gone the end

sort we're staying anymore okay time to leave yes it is it is as you can see the

clock is saying four o'clock so Elvis has left the building and it's a phrase

you can use even a party or in it work if there's a meeting and people are

hanging around you know you can say you know that if there's an important person

and they leave it's all over you know the party there could be somebody who's

the life and soul of the party and they've gone and there's no point

hanging around somebody why so Elvis has left the building he died on the toilet

okay Elvis he died on the toilet so in a minute's time mr. Duncan and mr. Steve

will have left the building that says so we are about to leave the internet so

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yes ok anyway we're going now see you later Steve see you later bye bye bye

bye everybody Steve is leaving the building mr. Steve

is leaving the building let's have another look at mr. Steve going crazy

yesterday

yes it's almost time for us to go there was mr. Steve having fun in the leaves

and it's time for me to leave you thanks a lot for your company thank you very

much for joining me I hope you've enjoyed the past two hours of live

streaming this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of the English language of

course that is England saying thank you for joining me today see you next Sunday

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