31 Days of Learning English - MONDAY 14th October - improve your English - CRUNCH TIME! - DAY 14

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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so here we go again it is a new week welcome
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yes this is day 14 of 31 days of English in October 2019
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oh hello there you caught me eating a biscuit I am feeling a little bit hungry
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at the moment and I thought to myself perhaps I will have time to eat a
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biscuit unfortunately I will have to wait until later
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I'm sorry biscuit I will have to wait for you for another hour go over there
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see you later biscuit hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you
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today are you okay I hope so are you happy it's a new week I hope so
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so here we go yes it is the start of a new week it's
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Monday
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yes it is it is Monday and it is once again live English all the way right
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through October for those who are wondering yes I am here every day during
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October Monday to Friday 2 p.m. Saturday 12 p.m. and on Sunday 2 p.m. as well 31
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days of live English I must be honest with you I have been a little bit
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distracted today because there is a lot going on here in the UK you may have
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heard on the news or read on the internet that there are one or two
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things taking place here in the UK at the moment dare I say this particular
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thing is dominating the headlines here and in many parts of the world people
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seem very curious about what is happening with brexit between you and me
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even here in the UK we don't really know what is going on and we definitely don't
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know what's going to happen next so this week is quite a busy week here in the UK
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all of the leaders all of the people in Parliament down there in London will be
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meeting to try and sort this thing out and of course we are heading towards the
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deadline oh I like that word so when we say deadline what we are actually saying
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is the point at which a decision must be made or a time when something must be
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completed or must be finalised so we are talking about a particular time and in
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this case it is well I suppose it is the end of this week so we have to come up
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with some sort of decision or arrangement
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concerning this particular subject and can I just say something we have been
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talking about this here in the UK for the last three years
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in fact over three years this particular subject has been dominating conversation
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everywhere so the 31st of October which also
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happens to be the anniversary of my YouTube channel
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can you believe it what a coincidence so the reason why I'm here during
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October has nothing to do with brexit it has nothing to do with that whatsoever
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it is actually connected to the anniversary of my YouTube channel being
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created way back in 2006 but it would appear that my lovely anniversary has
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been hijacked by brexit today I was distracted as I mentioned and the reason
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why I was distracted is because today was the opening of Parliament the State
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Opening now this might sound very strange so I will briefly explain what
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this is all about so at the beginning of the parliamentary year we normally have
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a beautiful State Opening of parliament and the Queen of England will arrive and
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she will give a Queen's speech so the Queen will address the nation and also
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the houses of parliament which happened to be the seat of all of the power all
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of the decisions that made that are made across the nation so the Queen's Speech
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is where the Queen sits on her throne and she says this is what my government
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is going to do however the speech has not been written by her it's actually
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written by the leader of the government so the government that is in power in
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this case it is the Conservatives who have the power in the country
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however they don't have the controlling power which is very interesting so they
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don't actually have a majority which is needed to have a safe government so all
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of the decisions at the moment are being questioned and many of them in fact
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virtually all of them have been rejected so the Queen's Speech is where the Queen
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of England sits down and she tells everyone what the government is planning
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to do over the next period of time so normally over the year
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however there hasn't been a Queen's Speech for nearly two years maybe even
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nearly two and a half years because of brexit so this is really complex even
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I'm confusing myself as I explain it to you
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so the Queen of England was sitting this morning in the houses of parliament and
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she was telling everyone what will happen over the next few months and the
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first thing she talked about can you guess what the first thing she mentioned
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was yes brexit so don't forget the speech is not her speech even though it
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is the Queen's speech but that just means that the Queen is actually giving
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the speech however it has been written by the government that happens to be in
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power at that time in this case the Conservatives so bricks it is a big
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thing and the one thing I love about the State Opening of Parliament is there is
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a lot of pomp and ceremony so the Queen doesn't just get in a taxi she doesn't
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just get on the bus there is a lot of pomp and ceremony a lot of performance a
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lot of people waiting for the Queen to arrive and of course she will ride
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through the center of London in a beautiful golden carriage and then after
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she arrives she will be led into a place called the robe room where she will be
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dressed in all of her lovely beautiful regalia would you like to see the Queen
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here she is so there is the Queen in all of her lovely sparkly splendor wearing
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her crown and also preparing to read the Queen speech which is what she does when
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we have the State Opening of Parliament so that's what happened today and that
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is one of the reasons why I was very distracted because I was watching quite
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a lot of television this morning following the croup with the Queen's
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Speech how many more times today am I going to say the Queen's speech maybe
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quite a few of course everything that happens during the Queen's speech is
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symbolic so normally the Queen's speech will be given and then everyone will
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vote on it and then normally it is passed so most people will say yes it's
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great okay carry on however this year it is not symbolic because it would appear
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that a lot of people are going to object to the Queen's speech and maybe there
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will be a new election there will be another election so we had won a few
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months ago when Theresa May came into power in fact it was two years ago can
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you believe it I really can't believe how all of this has happened over the
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past three and a half years it's incredible so where we say that
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something is symbolic it means it has no real importance or effect it is
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something that is done for ceremonial reasons and it is just a matter of doing
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the thing but there is no consequence however it would appear that this year
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the Queen speech is not going to be approved which
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is very unusual in fact I think the last time it happened was 1924 that was the
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last time that the Queen's speech was actually objected to so yes a lot of
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things happening this week and by the end of the week we should know whether
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or not there is going to be an agreement because all of the heads all of the
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important people across Europe and also here will be meeting to discuss what
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will happen next they will be deciding whether or not we leave the European
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Union on the 31st of October or we extend to next year can you believe it
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so there is a possibility that we will have to go through this for another six
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months 12 months who knows there is a lot happening here in the UK a very
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historic a very historic time I think that's a pretty good way of describing
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what is happening at the moment here in the UK hello to the live chatters oh
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hello live chat nice to see you here today
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it's lovely outside it's very autumnal outside at the moment I went on a lovely
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walk yesterday after I finished the livestream yesterday I actually went for
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a lovely long walk because the weather was lovely the Sun came out just as the
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weather forecast predicted so well done to them so I will show you some of the
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views that I saw yesterday on my walk because I know a lot of people like to
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see the surrounding areas where I live hello - well Faye
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oh hello huafei guess what you are first on today's live chat
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very good very good you have a very fast finger that's all I can say also by an
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and yeah man Luis Mendez one of our moderators is here today Giovanni Eric
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also Andrew who says how is your Sunday afternoon well first of all it isn't
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Sunday it's Monday today it is Monday Sergio says hello everybody hello - no
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Amy hello also - Guadalupe hi Guadalupe nice
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to see you back with us again today also man Jalal says hello could you tell us
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the difference between hello and hi basically they're the same thing they
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are just different ways of saying hello so when you say hello to someone you can
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say hello or hi or hi there so that's it really they are basically the same thing
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hello hello is more formal I suppose so when you say hello it is a
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more formal way of saying or using a greeting Giovanni
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nice to see you here I'm already losing my voice by the way it's only Monday and
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I'm losing my voice already hello also - Patrick Oh Patrick has some
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bad news Patrick says hello I am very sad today
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because somebody hit my dog so it can't walk now well what happened was it a
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road accident was it a car I'm very sorry to you that I hope your dog feels
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better soon Tan Chang good afternoon mr. Duncan I am
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actually on time well done nice to see you here don't forget I am with you
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every day during October 2 p.m. UK time during the week
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sweetness hello sweetness hello there mr. Duncan and hi to everyone
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lots of love from Mitra and it is nice to see you here again my dear teacher
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yes I have been with you for the past 14 days without any break so this is my
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14th day and I will be with you for every day during October yeah man
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are you going to do live streams again when this month finishes yes
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so I normally do live streams anyway so this is not the end of my live streams I
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will carry on making them so during November there will be live streams
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December there will still be live streams so it isn't the end of the live
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streams so at the end of October my live streams will continue so don't worry
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about that I am NOT going anywhere acmad says oh my goodness brexit well
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I'm sorry for mentioning it but I really do have to get it off my chest because
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it's driving people crazy here in fact I was watching a news report last night
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and now they are saying that the stress and all of the anxiety and of course
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many people are also arguing and in some cases relationships are actually
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breaking up because of wrecks it so because you have a couple that disagree
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so maybe one person in the relationship wants to remain and the other one wants
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to leave they actually argue about it and quite often the argument will become
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so heated they will actually split up so there are people now suffering mental
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problems or psychological problems they are becoming stressed and anxious over
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one topic I think I am coping okay I'm not coping
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too badly I feel quite okay about everything I always try to see every day
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as a new adventure full of possibility and hope that was very deep beat tree is
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Oh in Argentina they have a very long weekend I am enjoying the weekend the
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long weekend with my family in Buenos Aires I hope you have a nice time Bayern
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I searched about the meaning of this word and I didn't find it in the
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dictionary well it's not going to be in a dictionary because this is a fairly
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new expression so it is a word that means the exit of the UK the British
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exit which is why we call it brexit so it is actually two words that have been
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combined by Anne yes you won't find brexit in the dictionary but it is a
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word that is a combination of two words British exit hence brexit hello Veronica
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hello Veronica mr. Duncan I understand almost everything that you say but
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actually it is difficult for me to speak grammatically how can I improve my
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speaking well as I always say and I will say it again it is something that you
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have to work on you might find and this is something that a lot of people do
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when they are learning something sometimes they will underestimate they
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will think that they are learning less than they really are so maybe you are
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doubting your level of English when in fact you might be better than you think
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so this is something that happens a lot especially when you were learning
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something over a long period of time you can start to lose calm
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evidence and maybe also you will think that your level of English isn't
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improving when in fact it is so everything you learn is always gradual
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as I said yesterday you can't learn things quickly you can't rush learning
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because the only thing that will happen then is you will become stressed and it
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will cause lots of other problems so don't worry too much about it if you are
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enjoying your learning process then that's what I suggest you do you
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continue as you are it happens slowly and don't rush your learning if France
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decides to leave will it be frecks it frecks it well it might actually be
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fracks it fracks it I don't think France is going to leave
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Europe somehow I don't think so although at the moment it is looking
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unlikely that the UK will leave I was listening this morning to some of the
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commentators and everything at the moment is leaning towards nothing
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happening so we will have to wait and see Rams a new earth says hello
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everybody hello Rams inure nice to see you here today so there are some great
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words that I want to show you great words and expressions when you were
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talking about something where a decision has to be made or something crucial
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something important is about to happen and we call that crunch time so when we
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say crunch time what we are actually saying is the moment where a decision or
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an outcome will be revealed so crunch time and this is something a
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lot of people are saying it moment about brexit they are saying that
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here in the UK and also over the English Channel it is approaching crunch time
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and when we say crunch time it means a moment where there must be a decision or
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maybe the pressure will be so much that something has to happen crunch time I
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love that expression we could also say moment of truth so the moment of truth
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is the moment or the point where something occurs it is when a decision
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is made or maybe a choice is made so we talk about the moment of truth so here
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in the UK we are approaching we are approaching crunch time we are coming
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towards the moment of truth where the decision concerning whether or not we
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leave the European Union at the end of the month occurs and after that it will
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be the point of no return so again a great phrase so when you reach the point
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of no-return it means you cannot go back you can't reverse you can't turn around
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you have reached the point of no return you cannot go back so that is what we
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are doing this week here in the UK we are reaching the point of no return in
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fact things are so serious the MPS in this country will be actually sitting in
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the houses of parliament this Saturday so Saturday coming there will actually
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be a sitting in the House of Commons and this hasn't happened for a very long
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time so that's how that's how things are going
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here talking of which there is no going back once you have made a decision once
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you have made a choice and if that choice is final if that choice is
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something you can't reverse we will say that there is no going back so no going
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back means you can't change your mind you can't reverse the situation you
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can't change what you have decided there is no going back so a lot of the talk
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has been about whether or not we leave the European Union and of course the
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other debate is what the effect will be so some people are seeing the exit from
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Europe is being a terrible thing and others are saying well it might be bad
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at first but then things will get better so it really depends hello to the live
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chat we are now up to date with the live chat hello to Achmed yes
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crunch time maybe if you are approaching an exam and you have been learning a
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certain subject you might approach the day of your exam and then you can say
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this is crunch time this is the point of no return so when you enter an exam when
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you start to do an exam as you begin the exam it is crunch time you have to now
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prove that all of the things that you learned over the previous year or two
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years have stayed up here it is crunch time Mohamed says hello mr. Duncan and
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everyone here welcome to October with mr. Duncan and all of the YouTube
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episodes yes there are lots of videos on my
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YouTube channel in fact there are over 700 can you believe it
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hello also to Noemi and also to Gian Luca hello to you as well nice to see
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you here today so yesterday I went out for a lovely walk I couldn't resist
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so let's now have a look at some of the lovely things I saw yesterday now if you
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were watching last week at the end of last week I gave you some good news and
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that good news was the sheep have arrived again the sheep are back
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everyone and there you can see yesterday afternoon so I went for a walk through
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the field behind my house and yes the sheep are back they have returned and
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they are looking very happy in fact they seem to have settled down quite well
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settled to be settled means to be calm or comfortable so you are happy to be
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where you are so you can see that the Sheep appear very settled very happy and
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as you can see autumn is definitely on the way the leaves are starting to fall
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yesterday was very windy by the way it was quite a windy afternoon as you will
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see in a moment so there if you look into the distance you can see some of
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the Welsh Hills so over in the distance in the very far distance those hills are
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actually in Wales talking of the wind look at this just to show how windy it
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was yesterday this is something that I filmed yesterday afternoon on my walk
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with my little iPhone and there you can see the wind is really blowing the trees
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around and also you might notice that some of the leaves are also changing
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colour talking of leaves I couldn't resist showing you some of
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the leaves that have already fallen to the ground and there as I walked into
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Much Wenlock you can see a lot of leaves have already fallen as we begin the
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autumn season and yes I spent quite a lot of time in town yesterday I had a
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lovely walk around and then by the time I came home the Sun was already setting
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so as you can see there it is so that is the final shocked that I filmed
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yesterday before returning back to my house you can see some of the sheep and
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also in the distance you can see the Sun is setting and of course now the Sun
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will set very early the curse we are now into autumn so the day's become much
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shorter they really do we are talking today on social media you are on social
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media I am on social media in fact we are all on social media which reminds me
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of something that I did on this day way back in 2013
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so during October 2013 I did a special series of lessons that I recorded every
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day and now you are going to see an excerpt from the lesson that I did on
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this day in 2013 is it just me or is the world of social media becoming a little
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bit overcrowded by that I mean the huge number of social media outlets that
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exists now I remember the days when the only way of keeping in touch with
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someone online was through email then Instant Messenger came along which gave
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us an immediate way of communicating with each other nowadays it would appear
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that we have distanced ourselves again social media has become a sort of
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elaborate message board but instead of just text being posted there is now the
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option to post music photographs and video of course if you want to chat to a
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friend live then you still can
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some people have blamed the internet for removing the skill of communication by
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diluting human interaction but perhaps that is a little unfair as communication
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itself can take on many forms a photograph can have as much to say as a
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line of text social media has as many ways to say things as there are people
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using it from a personal perspective I feel that there is still a lot to say
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that has not yet been said but my issue is that now there seems to be too many
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sites on which to say it there are at least 20 large social media sites now
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you can tweet you can pin you can Google+ you can poke you can ping and if
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you don't like someone you can block them which social media sites do you use
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do you use the Internet much what are your favorite sites do you think that
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electronic communication as made as less sociable you do not need me to tell you
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that I am a big believer in the educational power of the Internet
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YouTube has certainly been at the forefront of encouraging people to not
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only learn through the web but to teach through it as well I feel very proud to
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be one of the first people to do this having started my youtube video channel
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way back in 2006 there are so many things to discover and learn about this
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world of ours and if there is one thing more important than learning it's
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sharing knowledge for without that action
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would be nothing to learn for those who are wondering which social networks I
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use well you can find me on Facebook
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Twitter I have a blog as well and of course you can see me right here in
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glorious dunk vision on YouTube if you see me on Facebook please feel free to
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give me a poke no really okay then
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there is no answer to that really is there if you want to give me a poke on
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Facebook you are more than welcome to do so hello to everyone on the live chat I
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hope you enjoyed that now that was something that I made six years ago
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today during my special October lessons way back in 2013 so I thought this year
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I would do something different and why not do live streams everyday that's what
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I thought and that is what I am doing hello to Rolfie hello Rolfie technology
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has not only changed the way we communicate but also the way we behave
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and I think you are right there and I suppose it would be fair to say that
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some of the behavior is very negative however like everything when you invent
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something when you create something there is always an upside and a downside
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for example the motor car is an amazing invention invention it's an amazing
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invention that can get us everywhere we can go somewhere in a hurry we can get
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somewhere quickly it is very convenient you don't have to walk you don't have to
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take public transport so driving a car is very convenient however there is a
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very big negative to having a car first of all they are dangerous thousands and
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thousands of people die every year on the roads here in the UK alone and also
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I suppose we should mention the environmental impact as well so yes I
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think so so everything has a positive and a negative including this so the
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thing you are looking at now that little square device in front of you where my
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beautiful face is staring from is also responsible
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for a lot of bad things and good things just like everything else
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Julie gee Julie says something very funny Julie says Mr Duncan you don't
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poke any more on Facebook so what do you do now what what do you do now what what
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do we do when we want to ask someone why there they are not communicating with us
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is there a way of going hey hey but I thought you could still poke on Facebook
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I thought it was still possible to have a poke on Facebook okay that maybe not
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so you can no longer poke on Facebook apparently it has been a long time since
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anyone has poked me on Facebook I will admit Amit
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mr. Duncan would you mind telling me what is what is computer jargon computer
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jargon or should I say jargon well jargon is anything that's connected
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to a certain subject quite often technical so jargon is something that
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might only be understood by people who are experts in that area so if you are
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an expert in computers if you know everything about computers you also know
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the jargon so jargon is something that might be an fathomable that's the word
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if something is unfathomable it means you can't understand it so something you
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can't understand something that is hard to comprehend might be described as
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jargon quite often when you buy something maybe a brand new television
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or maybe a brand new computer and you read the instructions you might find
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that there is a lot of jargon in the instructions
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hello mr. Duncan I prefer to use the positive side of the social media like
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for example your interesting live streams Thank You Beatrice that is very
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kind of you I think I'm losing my voice today I really do think I'm losing my
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voice maybe it's because I was shouting at the television this morning do you
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think that might be the reason why here are some interesting words and it is
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something I want to show you right now when you make a decision when you make a
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decision that is going to have a lot of consequences it will affect a lot of
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people we quite often describe it as something crucial now I love this word
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and this is a word that I thought of this morning when I was watching the
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Queen give her speech even though technically it isn't her speech so
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that's what I thought of this morning the word crucial something that is
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important something that has to be done a very important decision or maybe an
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important vote so you might say that a decision is crucial we are about to make
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a crucial decision all you might say this is a crucial time for the country
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so here in the UK we are describing all of the events that are taking place in
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politics as crucial so there might be crucial negotiations where people talk
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and they try to come to some sort of agreement crucial another good word oh I
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like this one
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vital something that is vital again quite often vital means very important
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something vit you need to survive for example inside your
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body inside you bought your body you have a lot of vital organs so when we
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talk about something vital it is something that maybe is important but
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also it might be something that you can't live without it is vital so we
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talk about your vital organs your heart for example is a vital organ in your
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body oh I like this one because this one also relates to English grammar
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imperative so something that is imperative is important it is something
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serious it is something that must be dealt with or handled or talked about
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very quickly it is important it is imperative that I speak to you it is
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imperative that we come to some decision so imperative oh I like that and of
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course in English an imperative is something that creates or expresses
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stress here is one you may have heard of before Oh something is of the essence
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and this is part of a natural phrase so you might say that time time is of the
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essence if time is of the essence it means it is very important perhaps there
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is very little time left maybe time is running out so you will
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say we must come to some decision we must come to some arrangement because
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time is of the essence it is important perhaps time is running
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out and now something that is important of
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course we think of important things what is important in your life
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we all have different things that we see as important the things that mean
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something to us maybe your family or your friends maybe your security from a
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financial point of view maybe your future you see that as important so
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something that is important it can be anything that has meaning to you or
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maybe something that must be done quickly it is important I have to go to
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an important meeting or maybe a person who has a lot of authority and they can
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make lots of big decisions we will describe them as important so the word
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can be used in quite a few ways in fact and this week in the UK a lot of
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important decisions are going to be made I'm a Moroccan English teacher hello to
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musafir hello miss Aafia nice to see you here today can you share with us some
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strategies that you use in your classroom to make students more engaged
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and to make the process of learning English exciting well first of all I
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think teaching is one of the hardest things to do in the world it really is
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it takes a lot of courage it takes a lot of confidence to standing up stand up in
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front of people and teach it is a little bit like performing to be honest and
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that's the way I see it so my own view of teaching is a little bit like
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performing on stage so you have to do something that holds
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their attention and also maybe you can have a little bit of fun in class and
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also a little bit of learning as well so it doesn't always have to be serious and
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dull dare I say and this is something that many students used to say to me in
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China they used to say mr. Duncan we like your class because you always make
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it more fun you always talk about different things a little bit like my
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livestreams so what you see now happening is really what I do in the
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classroom it is no different it is absolutely no different whatsoever
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so try to change the subject when you are in a classroom don't just talk about
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one subject don't be afraid to engage with your students and as I always say
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never ignore the students at the back and that is something I became very well
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known for when I was teaching in China a lot of students in the back of the class
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they used to fall asleep they would become distracted but I always had my
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eyes on them so I think having control over the class but also making the class
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interesting and exciting don't stay on one subject for too long
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try to change the subject and never be afraid to have fun and it says sir is
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there any interesting game which we can play to improve our English and to make
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our friends speak there is a very good thing that I used to do with some of my
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adult students because they were quite often very shy when it came to speaking
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English so they would have some knowledge of English but they would be
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too afraid to actually speak so what I used to do is I used to give them
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objects now it wasn't an object that they could hold it
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was just written down on a piece of paper so I would take a piece of paper
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and I would write something down on the paper
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a very common object something common something that you will see everywhere
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and then they have to describe that object to another person and they the
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other person has to guess what it is they are describing however a person
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doing the describing has to talk for as long as they can so they have to talk
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for as long as they can about the thing without the other person guessing so it
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sounds easy but trust me it isn't and it is a great way of getting your students
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not only to use English not only to use it in a spoken way but also to get them
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thinking about what they're saying as well so that is something that I used to
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do with my students and I would often get them together and I would give them
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words and quite often they would be objects for example you might say oh
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this thing is long some people like this thing and other people don't like it so
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that's the sort of thing you would do you would describe something but you
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don't want to give away what the thing is so you are really having to think
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hard about how to express yourself so it's a very good way of improving the
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brain and also improving the confidence at the same time so I hope that helps
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Huang or should I say Justin Bieber fan hello mr. Duncan I read in the newspaper
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that to improve my speaking I must listen listen active and positive is it
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true I must listen active and positive I don't know what you mean by active
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positive but you must do it of course so maybe you are saying actively so if you
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are actively doing something it means you are actually carrying it out you are
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doing it so be active in your English learning and of course be positive that
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is really what I said earlier some people think that their English is
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terrible when in fact it is quite good so sometimes we don't have a very good
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way of looking at our own ability we sometimes think that our ability is
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worse than it really is that's one of the big problems with learning hello to
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Japan hello Japan Hui a big hi to you mr. Duncan it's been a long time I have
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not watched your channel your voice is part of my childhood thank you very much
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isn't that nice please welcome me for being back you are welcome back and
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everyone is welcome back I do like it when I receive messages from people who
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have actually benefited from my lessons over the years so I always feel very
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very happy about that it is nice to know that the thing I do
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is useful to you very grateful hello Khyber
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nice to see you Kaiba welcome I will be going soon of course I finish at 3
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o'clock however I will be back tomorrow I'm with you every day during October 31
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days to celebrate my 13th year on YouTube so I hope you will join me
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tomorrow if you are busy don't worry you can always watch me later on the replay
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hello also to negress hello Nargis or now Gris hello my name is Nargis hello
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to you where are you where are you watching
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could you please do some lessons about business English well I think that's a
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good idea Thank You salad no that's very kind of
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you to leave that message for me hello - yeah man now I know for a fact I
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know that yeah man is watching in Syria so can I say hello to you and everyone
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watching in Syria it is nice to see people return to my youtube channel when
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they have been away for a long time and there are two reasons for this first of
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all maybe their English level has reached a very high point and then they
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can move on to something else or they think that I've stopped doing it
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when I haven't so quite a few people over the past few days have said Oh mr.
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Duncan it's nice to see you back on YouTube I haven't been away from YouTube
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for the past 13 years I've been doing this without any break so I've been
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doing this since 2006 I haven't been anywhere I haven't been away I'd I
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haven't closed my channel I've been doing this all the time so I don't know
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why some people seem to think that I've stopped some people seem to think that
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I've disappeared but I'm still here honestly I haven't gone anywhere hello
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yeah man oh yeah man is actually in Indonesia I apologize for that I thought
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you said you were in Syria sorry about that
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hello Niagara's again hello Emmet we can say students can bring their own stuff
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from their home which they like a lot and then they can start talking about
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that and other students can ask questions this game is called bring your
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stuff so in this sense the word stuff means
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things items so yes I think they have a similar thing all
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so in the United States they call it show-and-tell
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so if you show-and-tell it means you bring something in and you have it maybe
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it's something that you enjoy using or looking at and you can talk about it and
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then afterwards you can actually get your students to ask questions to the
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person who is showing the object so I think so hello to Afghanistan thank you
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very much for joining me today also Guadalupe kneecapped hello Nik at
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watching in Azerbaijan wow I have a lot of people watching all around the world
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today this is the biggest classroom on YouTube it really is because the
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classroom is the whole world and as you know the world of English is a fun an
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exciting place to be I am so glad that you joined me today for my livestream
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the like button is working crazy oh good I'm glad to hear that
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and dad to hear a lot of people are liking my work I have a feeling that I'm
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losing my voice I don't know why we are approaching three o'clock it's almost
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time to go thank you for your company I hope it has been interesting I hope you
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enjoyed my little chat about brexit and also my little chat about important
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things and also my little video about social media and I will see you tomorrow
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thank you very much for joining me this is mr. Duncan saying thanks for
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watching today I will see you tomorrow at 2 p.m. UK time and guess what I'm
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going to do now here it is I have been waiting for a whole hour to
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eat this biscuit okay biscuit it is time for us to get together oh and of course
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you know what's coming next ...
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ta ta for now 8-)
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