It's FABuary 19th / 28 days of Learning English / LIVE chat from England - RELAX

we are back once more on a very mild but misty cloudy grey and pretty soon rainy england

hello everyone nice to see you here again we are back once more with another day of

FABuary yes i hope you are feeling great today and we are about to share an hour of existence

together how are you today?

oh lay as they say

here we are again yes i can't believe it already these days are literally flying by they really

are oh hi everybody this is mr duncan in england how are you today are you okay i hope so are

you happy i really really hope so here we are again i'm just doing what i do every day

i clean my glasses not many people realize i have more than one pair of spectacles so

i'm wearing my reading glasses but also i have other glasses as well that i wear at

different times but one of the things i always notice when you clean your glasses quite often

your your attempt at cleaning your glasses

creates an even worse situation so that's what i'm doing at the moment i am trying my

best to clean my spectacles so anyone who wears glasses do you wear glasses some people

don't want to wear glasses some people say i'm never going to wear glasses well i've

been wearing glasses since i was seven years old and of course as you get older quite often

your eyesight will get worse and worse so that is something you have to do if you own

glasses here it is you have to clean your glasses every day or else you get lots of

smudges lots of fingerprints and all sorts of things on your glasses oh yeah that's much

better i can definitely see well through my glasses now wonderful so we are here again

today yes my name is mr duncan i talk on youtube i'm here now i'm actually with you for 28

days during this month we are having 28 days of february and i hope you are feeling good

today yes we have made it all away finally all the way to the end of the week because

today it's friday

ah yes the weekend is just around the corner for those who are actually still working maybe

you are working in the office maybe you are working in a shop perhaps you are working

from home like many people at the moment can i say hello to you and it's nice to see you

here today and it's the last day of the working week of course i know some people work at

the weekends as well this weekend i will be working on saturday and sunday doing this

you see so i will be working as well if you are a person who works at the weekend can

i just say my thoughts are with you some people work maybe six days a week some people work

every day they go to work every day not because they want to but because they have to they

have no choice hello to the live chat nice to see you here as well oh so many people

already joining in isn't that nice thank you very much nice to see so many people here

can i say hello to donna hello donna and also vitas v tess once again your finger was not

quite quick enough donna hello donna nice to see you i will be talking to you in a few

moments from now actually about something else but congratulations because you are first

on today's live chat very good nice to see you here we also have

vitas as i mentioned also alessandra taki valor is here as well mohsen we have oh we

have louis mendes he's here again also stack kunic oh today i became a grandfather the

name of my granddaughter is milenka congratulations to stack kunic on the birth of your granddaughter

her name is milenka welcome to the world milenka and i hope you have a wonderful time in this

thing called life it's pretty good in fact hello to marshmallow nice to see you here

as well yes it is the 19th of february or as i like to call it fabuary because we are

going to have some fabulous days we only have nine days before the end of this month and

then that's it

no more february hello also to oh kate gan hello kate nice to see you here yes you are

right your eyes do not deceive you because i have shaved my beard it would appear that

there are still people who haven't realized so they are turning on their computer screens

today and tuning in and they are thinking what is going on there have i gone back in

time why is there a very young mr duncan staring at me why has mr duncan got younger yes you

you look like you have a baby face thank you very much that's very kind of you to say needless

to say mr steve has been very pleased he is cock-a-hoop have you ever heard of that expression

cock-a-hoop if you are cock-a-hoop it means you are so happy you are ecstatic about something

you feel cock-a-hoop hello pierre hello also oh we have sanja here as well we also have

rock water hello rock water nice to see you here as well

jetano vareli says i need my glasses me too yes i started wearing glasses when i was around

seven years old and one of the reasons why i had to start wearing glasses was because

i couldn't see the blackboard in the classroom and it believe it or not i was actually afraid

to tell anyone i was very afraid to tell anyone that i couldn't see properly and one of the

things that happened because of that is my my education started to slip and i started

to fall behind in the class and the reason for that was simply because i couldn't see

the blackboard but i was so scared i didn't want to tell anyone i don't know why please

don't ask me why but i was young i was very shy very anxious you might describe me as

highly strung as a child so yeah i i was afraid and i didn't tell anyone but then one day

my teacher realized that something was wrong and i i had to say i couldn't see the blackboard

and that was it then my parents became involved and everyone agreed that i needed glasses

so that's what happened one moment i was not wearing glasses and then the next i was and

that's what i've been doing for all of these years but of course

a couple of years ago i had to get some reading glasses so these particular glasses are my

reading glasses these are what i wear when i read things or when i look thing look at

things close up

oh deary dear me deary deary me hello mohsen again hello will hello will oh will was here

but now he's gone oh thank you will that's very kind of you i'm getting some lovely compliments

today isn't that nice

we also have orisa and also gia roy and andrew cow or hello mr duncan thanks for your live

stream hello andrew i believe tomorrow it is your birthday oh so you love this month

because during this month you have your birthday february is a busy time of month as people

start thinking about certain issues and certain things as well quite often during this month

do you wear glasses does it bother you do you care that you wear glasses steve steve

has vowed never to wear glasses steve has said i will never wear glasses ever in my

life he's determined to never have glasses i don't know why but he seems he seems very

determined let's just say not to wear glasses in his life so good luck with that mr steve

as you are now over a certain age yes

hello reza reza hadi i am back again after a long time i have been busy with university

work hello reza reza hadi nice to see you back as well it is it is lovely to see people

return and i do realize that many of you have busy lives lots of things going on in your

lives so i do realize that sometimes you have to go and do other things

christina says i should wear glasses for reading but i prefer to wait for a while i think some

people see wearing glasses as a sign of getting older you see so maybe that's the reason why

some people see that or think or their perception is if you wear glasses it means you are getting

older i suppose i suppose it is true but but i've been wearing glasses since i was seven

unless of course i aged very early and very quickly

i i wear sunglasses sometimes yes i have a pair of glasses that have been made into sunglasses

the only thing is i hardly ever wear them because well we don't get much sunshine or

we certainly don't get much long or many long periods of sunshine to be honest so i don't

really wear my sunglasses very often hello tuwang new in watching in vietnam happy tet

to you i know a lot of people have been celebrating the lunar new year over the past few days

jethano says i was born in february as well oh we have a lot of february babies including

mr steve he was a february baby hello hello jia some people call me battery whenever i

wear spectacles i don't know why mr duncan why would they call you battery i don't know

why very strange

tacky tacky valor says your channel is my little oasis isn't that nice thank you very

much where i can retreat and be calm mr duncan thanks that's very nice of you to say we are

actually talking about relaxing today a little bit later on we are looking at some words

and phrases connected to relaxing we are also going to take a look at a video where i talk

about relaxation having a relaxing moment and taking it easy yes sometimes you have

to do that congratulations once again to donna donna s watching in jordan can i also say

thank you very much for your lovely photographs that you sent here is one of them now is that

a real cloud or did you add that cloud to the photograph so these are photographs and

it would be fair to say that around the world at the moment many countries are getting snow

i was looking at some photographs yesterday in in greece many parts of greece athens is

under snow it looks very strange and slightly unusual but many places have been getting

quite heavy snowfall including the middle east and also south america as well including

texas in the usa they have been experiencing a lot of snowfall here's another one thank

you very much donna for for sending these lovely photographs so you can see there is

some snowfall there are some cars covered with snow jordan i would imagine jordan is

a place that doesn't get much snow normally so this must seem very unusual here's another

one from donna in jordan thank you very much and lovely a lovely snowscape an area where

the snow has fallen thick and fast now this looks like someone's garden and you can see

that the snow has fallen onto all of the trees and some of the shrubs in the garden yes amazing

so i hope you are enjoying all of the snowfall at the moment in jordan and we have one more

photograph now this is brilliant look at that you can see that the snow has covered the

whole area and i can see that there is some sort of amphitheater as well which looks rather

large and dare i say quite old and ancient thank you very much donna for your lovely

photographs of the snowfall in jordan now i i whenever i think of jordan i always think

of one particular building a very famous building that was used in a very well-known movie and

there it is now on the screen the al canair it is like a like a mausoleum it is a place

where well i think two thousand years ago someone was actually buried in that place

the al khazet kazner in petra a place that is in jordan and i always remember this particular

place because it was featured in a big hollywood movie indiana jones and the last crusade

this particular place was seen in i think it was in the the final scenes of the movie

when they were escaping and this particular place is amazing for two reasons first of

all it's 2 000 years old so that's pretty amazing but the other thing it looks as if

it's been built from from stone but in fact this particular building has been carved by

hand from from the rock it's incredible so i think it is not just amazing to look at

but also this particular building is amazing to just to think about because it was carved

from the i think it's i want to say sandstone i think that particular type of rock it looks

like sandstone but it was all carved by hand two thousand years ago incredible so thank

you very much once again and if you want to send some photographs to me you are more than

welcome to do so i don't mind it's all right you can here is the address my email address

you can stay in touch with me through my email address and there it is now on the screen

if you have anything interesting to show me that i can show you on the live stream then

please get in touch it is not a problem i like to think of this as one big family i

like to think we are all here together enjoying our time on the live stream

ma noor says oh i wish i could see snowfall in real life because i live in a hot city

and i never find time to visit any other place there is something quite magical there is

something almost dream-like

about being in an area or a place where snow is falling or a place where it has fallen

so yes i think you are right it would be lovely to experience that in real life a couple of

weeks ago we had a lot of snow here i even made a video lesson as well walking around

in the snow

hello umberto umberto i used to have a friend called umberto umberto real was his name and

he was at my school as i think he was staying with some some friends or relatives because

he didn't actually stay at the school for very long but i knew him for a short time

umberto was his name umberto real maybe you know him hello also oh we have fernando who

says i am fine but where is mr lomax ah yes i remember mr lomax

i do i remember mr lomax he was quite often very mean to me do you remember the time that

he electrocuted me

not very nice when you think about it not very nice at all we are going to have a look

at one of my english lessons this is actually an unusual thing because we will be watching

some lovely sights but also we'll be listening to some lovely music so prepare for that some

lovely sights some lovely sounds coming up in the moment and then we are going to look

at words and phrases connected to relaxing but i suppose it would not be a live stream

without taking a look out of the window and i'm going to see if we can spot the white

van here we go so that is the view outside right now as we stand here 28 minutes past

2 o'clock on a friday afternoon and we are looking for a white van can you see the white

fan any moment now hopefully there will be a white van driving along the road but sometimes

you have to be very patient you see because at this time of the day many people are resting

they are having their lunch so perhaps there won't be many white vans on the road well

there is a white car lots of cars but no vans oh was that a van was that did you see that

i think that might have been a white van was it

there's one thing i've noticed that the traffic is moving very fast today people seem to be

speeding and there is another white van oh i think we have two two white vans there yes

definitely we have spotted two white vans today i wonder if we will get a third one

come on maybe we will get three white vans oh dear can you feel the tension can you feel

the excitement in the air as we wait for another white van come on just one more no that's

not a white van i don't know what that was that's not a white van either oh come on all

we need is one more white van and then i will be a happy man for the rest of the day

all we need is one more is it too much to ask for

there are a lot of cars today i've noticed today there are a lot of cars on the road

ah yes there we go definitely that was definitely a white van so we can safely say that the

white van has been spotted i saw at least three three white vans driving along pretty

good so that's it we can do something else now would you like to take a moment to relax

would you like to unwind would you like to take it easy for a few moments okay because

today we are looking at words and phrases connected to relaxation being relaxed and

staying calm and to help us get in the mood here is an excerpt from one of my lessons

where i look at the subject

of being relaxed

okay that's it i need a break i've been working all morning and i do deserve a little rest

so i'm going to sit back in my chair close my eyes and think of a place think of somewhere

i would love to be right now

the daily grind of life can sometimes get too much to bear it is very important to make

sure that you regularly take a break from your everyday routine and the stresses and

strains that daily life can throw at you

sometimes you just need to get away from it all and find a place in which to relax of

course this is not always possible so if you can't get there in person why not use your

imagination think of a place you have been to before somewhere that gave you pleasure

or remember a happy time from your past that you treasure deeply

while relaxing we can say that you are taking a break you are unwinding you are chilling

out you are calming your thoughts you are putting your feet up to unwind to chill to

relax to rest to put your feet up one of my favourite places to relax and unwind in is

here at lake vyrnwy in wales

this particular area was the subject of one of my earlier lessons and it is a place that

i'm very fond of besides sites there are various sounds that can help you to relax a gentle

stream flowing or the calming sound of waves slapping on the shore or the sound of water

streaming over a dam

many people consider sleeping to be the most effective way to unwind some people like to

have a short sleep during the day this is called a nap

it is common for people to take a short power nap during the afternoon

do you like to take a nap during the day i know i do

some people use mind exercises to relax themselves with this practice is called meditation these

days meditation is a very popular form of relaxation

certain types of music are also good for relaxing to we can describe these sounds as ambient

they help to create the mood and atmosphere around you

oh that was nice okay

i've had my rest it's now time to get back to work

hmm and there it was oh my goodness nine years ago that was filmed i hope you enjoyed that

and i hope it made you feel as relaxed as i feel right now

yes we are here today and we are live on youtube right now live from the birthplace of the

english language which just happens to be england hello i hope your friday is going

very well my my friday is all right very busy as usual lots of things going on thank you

very much for your lovely messages today yes the weekend is coming and i think it's a good

opportunity to talk about relaxation we just saw the video where i was talking all about

relaxing yourself and yes to relax something that a lot of people don't find time to do

there are some people who can not stop doing things they like to rush around they like

to do things all the time they can never stop doing things they are always on the go they

never stop for a moment they never stop to rest or relax and there are many words many

phrases that can be used when we are talking about relaxation to relax we can say that

you let go to let go is to drift away not go to sleep and this is one of the important

things when we talk about relaxation so when you relax it doesn't always mean that you

fall asleep it can mean just being still however you are still awake you let go of all of the

stress and strain you decide to relax you sit down maybe you make a drink quite often

a lovely cup of tea or sometimes maybe a cup of coffee you have a little snack perhaps

you relax you rest if you rest it means you are sitting still it means you are giving

your body a chance to revive itself so rest is something we all need we talked about sleep

yesterday but to be honest with you we can also rest so rest just means a period of inactivity

you are inactive you are not doing anything perhaps if you are if you are a person who

works for a company or maybe you you are working in a job that is very stressful quite often

you have to take time off time off more and more people these days are taking time off

from work because they can't cope it's too hectic it's too much there is too much pressure

in their job so a person quite often will have to take some time off to rest to recover

from the stress and strain of their job oh i like this one now this is my favourite word

one of my favourite words when we are talking about relaxation is unwind you unwind yourself

so imagine something that has been wound up like a clock or maybe a spring and it's wound

up very tightly well sometimes you need to unwind you need to let go you need to relax

so when you unwind it means you are getting rid of all of the stress you are saying goodbye

to the strain you are revitalizing your body and of course your mind at the same time as

well

you unwind so some people do have very hectic lives i would say that when mr steve was going

out he was doing his amateur dramatics he was also doing his singing and also his job

as well he was busy all the time he was always out doing something but of course during this

strange period of time where everyone has been at home well i suppose there are more

people who are relaxing but maybe they have too much spare time maybe they have too much

time to sit around and maybe think about things

so yes it is possible to to feel stressed even if you have nothing to do

sometimes it is all about your your own way of thinking or your own way of thinking about

the things around you or maybe your perception of yourself the way you view yourself oh here's

another good word chill you might decide to chill if you chill it means you take it easy

you relax you chill

perhaps after a hard day's at work maybe you have a hard day in the office or maybe you've

been upstairs in your office in the house because you're working from home you might

decide that you want to chill you want to chill out maybe in front of the television

perhaps you are going to watch a good movie something interesting on the tv or maybe you

want to just relax with your partner so there are many ways of chilling you relax you take

it easy we can also say that you kick back you kick back you take it easy by relaxing

you perhaps you sit on the sofa maybe you lie down on the sofa you take it easy you

kick back you raise your feet you lie back and you relax you kick back oh you can be

calm now here is another interesting word calm i like this word calm if you are calm

it means you are a person who is not only relaxed but maybe you are a person who never

becomes stressed so some people are very good at staying relaxed even when things are going

wrong however some people i'm not going to say who but some people i know get get stressed

very quickly i think so

hello to umberto again amberto oliveira watching in brazil her shed is here nice to see you

as well wow so even though it's friday a lot of people are already joining me because the

weekend is just around the corner it is the time to relax and be calm ah i like this word

here's another nice word serenity serenity it's it describes the feeling and also the

atmosphere of relaxation peace everything around you is calm and relaxed you have serenity

we can also describe this as your state of mind you have serenity you are feeling calm

and at peace i like it i like that one there are some really nice words today here's another

one oh now you may not have heard of this word before but it is a real word quietude

quietude quietude means relaxation you are in a state of being relaxed quietude the atmosphere

or the the area around you is peaceful it is a relaxing place you have quietude very

unusual word that one here's another one

calmness i like this word because it has that wonderful silent letter right there i will

show you calm a person who is calm is a person who always manages to stay cool composed even

when things are going wrong you have calmness so the state of being relaxed the state of

being calm you are enjoying calmness the calmness around you when things are quiet and peaceful

you have calmness i like that word another nice one you're at peace now this is a phrase

that can be used in more than one way and i'm sure you know what i'm going to say you

are at peace well a person who is at peace is a person who is happy with themselves you

can be at peace with yourself which means that your mind is calm you have no conflict

you have nothing on your mind you are at peace however we can also say that someone is at

peace if they are no longer alive a person who is deceased we often say that they are

at peace maybe a person who was suffering is now at peace we we often say that their

suffering has ended they are at peace alessandra says oh yes this is true serenity can be very

hard to find i think you are right yes mr duncan can you pronounce serene i will get

very close to the microphone for this serene a serene place a place that is peaceful is

serene still peaceful tranquil serene very nice

some lovely messages coming through now francesca says i always like to relax with walking or

i like to relax by walking or through walking so the thing you are doing creates your own

feeling of relaxation and yes exercise has been proved it has been proved to to help

you with your health especially mental health and that is something more and more people

are talking about these days we all feel stress and strain it is a normal thing however the

difference is how you cope with it so some people can handle stress quite easily they

can cope very well whilst others do not

thank you beatrice thank you very much for your lovely comment

to be in harmony here is a word that i like harmony you have a feeling of peace but also

you have a warm feeling of friendliness as well we often think of society we like to

think that people live in harmony and quite often this is true this is what is happening

you don't hear about it very much because most people think that good news is a little

bit boring so quite often we will hear the bad news we will hear about all of the fighting

in the arguments and the disputes but harmony does exist it does sound like something that

people from the 1960s were were getting very excited about all of the hippies with their

strange substances but harmony is something that happens now there are people living in

harmony there are harmonious societies harmonious groups people who live in harmony they have

a happy life

hello ma ma noor says oh i like your cap mr duncan do you like this this is my beret that

i bought in france and i'm wearing it this month because well as you can see i have my

my special days of february and i will be with you till the end of the month doing this

every day

yes marcia hello marcia thank you very much the feeling of being in harmony with the world

i think that is true yes i think a lot of people are happy with their lives i think

there are people who are calm relaxed and maybe they get on with other people maybe

they feel as if they they are in a good place in their life so i think it is possible but

as i said earlier quite often happiness and relaxation is really what you make it quite

often a lot of our stress and our strain and our anxiety comes from ourselves maybe the

perception that we have of other people around us maybe we think that other people are against

us so there are many ways of not relaxing and there are many ways of relaxing

umberto says to be a zen person zen yes you see i believe that is a type of meditation

quite often used by buddhists

another one i will be going soon by the way it's gone very quickly today don't you think

it's it's gone very fast to find solitude some people do like to be on their own they

like to be by themselves they choose to be alone some people prefer their own company

i must be honest with you sometimes and it doesn't mean anything so please don't say

oh mr duncan oh oh is there something wrong at home no there's nothing wrong at home everything's

fine but sometimes i love to be by myself i do i love to sometimes sit in the garden

or go for a walk by myself so there is no one with me no mr steve no no chatting no

voices just myself and the birds so sometimes it is nice to be on your own it is nice to

be alone to find solitude like superman superman had his fortress of solitude you see we all

need our solitude it is quite healthy to to want a little bit of time to yourself i think

so to lit to be or to live away from the hustle the hustle when we say hustle we mean noise

chaos maybe if you live in a busy city or town you need to get away sometimes sometimes

it is good to get away from it all away from the hustle we sometimes say hustle and bustle

as well so the hustle and bustle is the noise and chaos

we have to be in harmony with ourselves to feel good with other people yes i think so

i think you are right there

karine dupont hello to you nice to see you back i haven't seen you for a long time we

like your your red beret or your beret rouge very nice but where is your baguette well

let me just say a couple of days ago i did have some french bread here in the studio

i did have it here did you see it you missed it well it is still available on my youtube

channel but yes i did have some i did have some french bread a couple of days ago to

go with my my french berry you see

to be away from the hustle is to be away from noise and chaos and here we have two words

that are opposites so you can have calm there it is calm and chaos peace and noise calm

chaos so we think of peace we think of things where you are taking it easy you are taking

it easy in a relaxed way you are calm maybe your body is calm perhaps your mind is calm

or perhaps both are calm and relaxed and then of course we have chaos so chaos is when everything

is happening around you it doesn't necessarily mean things are going wrong it doesn't mean

things are bad but chaos can just be everything happening around you i remember a few years

ago when i went to london and i went on a very busy day because everyone was out buying

stuff because it was coming up to christmas and i remember the the main shopping areas

along oxford street regent street around that area packed full of people it was incredible

there was absolute chaos as people were pushing and shoving

it was chaotic chaos chaotic yes so that describes the state of chaos if something is chaotic

it means you have chaos all around you a lot of people these days have decided to try and

make their minds work better they want to be more calm in their everyday life they want

to avoid having stress and anxiety so a lot of people these days have taken up meditation

they choose to meditate mr steve is one of those people he likes to meditate so meditation

has become a very popular thing indeed certainly over the past five maybe even six years a

lot of people have taken up meditation as they become more aware of their mental health

not only your physical health but also your your mental health as well

to relax is to clear your mind sometimes you need to turn off your brain sometimes you

need to stop all of that chaos that quite often goes around in your head maybe something

that a person said maybe something that is on your mind maybe something that is worrying

you sometimes it is good to clear your mind for a while and try to relax and that's it

for today so relaxation is something that is very important very good to do and i think

for everyone certainly during this crazy period of time even if you are at home i think you

still need time to relax you you really do but of course most people try to relax in

some way some people find one thing works for them whilst the other thing doesn't so

everyone has their own way of relaxing

edit goulet says unfortunately nowadays in the news it is only bad or sensational news

that is interesting or appears to be interesting yes as i mentioned yesterday i did mention

this yesterday many people now on youtube are looking for sensational things to do to

get attention yes it can be a little bit annoying to be honest well that looks as if oh i'm

out of time i can't believe it time has beaten me already i hope you've enjoyed today's live

stream and i will be back tomorrow yes i'm back on saturday can you believe it i'm here

tomorrow as well it's saturday tomorrow and i will be here from 2pm uk time and we will

see what will happen then and on sunday yes he is back on sunday mr steve will be with

us then joining us and also telling us what my extra surprise was that i gave him for

his birthday i did i gave him another surprise the next day for his birthday i hope you enjoyed

this thank you very much for your company don't forget i'm back tomorrow 2 p.m uk time

is when i'm here with you next and of course until the next time we meet here stay relaxed

stay calm i hope you find your solitude at some point today and of course until the next

time we meet here together

you know what's coming next yes you do

ta ta for now