LEARN ENGLISH - LIVE LESSON - 14th July 2019 - Chat with Misterduncan in England - Books (words)

Dib Dib Dib do do are we on? are we on? oh I think we are and if I'm

not mistaken I'm actually on time I can't believe that I'm not late today

hello everyone here we go again hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England

how are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy well are you

happy I really hope so I'm feeling okay today even though my

hay fever is causing me a little bit of discomfort let's just say discomfort if

you have discomfort you have something that is making you feel uneasy or maybe

unwell something that's painful you might have some discomfort somewhere in

your body maybe in your neck you might have some discomfort perhaps you have

some discomfort in your shoulder today I have a little bit of discomfort up my

nose because I'm suffering from hay fever I hope you are great today a fly

has just bitten me whilst I was doing my introduction then a large fly came down

and bit me on my arm so now I'm suffering even more discomfort there are

lots of flies around today welcome to England yes live from England it is a

Sunday afternoon just after two o'clock in the afternoon here in the UK I hope

you are having a good weekend did you see my livestream yesterday I was on

yesterday don't forget you can catch me live twice in the weekend on Saturday 12

p.m. that's midday lunch time UK time on Saturday and on Sunday you can catch me

right now from 2:00 p.m. a UK time as we are right

now broadcasting to you live also oh my goodness

yes there is more there is a new full English lesson every Wednesday to enjoy

as well so many I can't believe there are so many things for you to enjoy on

my youtube channel I really must admit as I mentioned yesterday I think that

I'm actually losing weight because of doing my live streams I'm actually

losing weight I can't believe it I'm suffering so much discomfort

I've just been bitten can you see it it's very small but a fly has just

bitten me on my arm I've been bitten by an insect what a pain in the neck don't

forget also there are some details I can share with you right now if you want to

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this forever and ever and ever then please send a donation to my paypal if

you can and if you can I will be very grateful because that means I can carry

on doing this so here we go it's not an ordinary day today by the way it's a

special day because today well not exactly today but tomorrow the 15th of

July it will be the anniversary of my first ever live stream so tomorrow will

be the anniversary but of course I'm not on tomorrow so instead we are going to

celebrate the anniversary of my first ever live stream would you like to see

the first few moments of my first ever live stream do you want to see

now okay I will repeat this later so here it is three years ago this is the

very first moment of my very first live stream and here it comes right now

oh hello there hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England it's now one minute

past one o'clock on Friday the 15th of July 2016

can you believe we are halfway through 2016 already I can't believe it welcome

to english live this is the first-ever one the first ever time that I've done

something live across the World Wide Web and there it was my first ever moments

the first ever moments from my first ever live stream that took place three

years ago tomorrow not today but I thought today we would mention it three

years I can't believe it and there is an interesting story

surrounding my live streams it all happened by accident

it all happened just by chance one day I was sitting in my studio a little bored

a little frustrated I wanted something to do so I decided to hook my camera up

to my computer and then I realized that I could actually send out a live stream

on my youtube channel so I tried it just as a test and one or two people actually

joined in on the live stream so I thought oh this is interesting

who I want to find out more about live streaming it would appear that a lot of

people are interested in watching YouTube personalities and me

broadcasting live on YouTube so that's where it all started just by chance on

an afternoon when I was feeling a little bored a little frustrated maybe a little

lonely perhaps so that's how it all started

that's how my live streams began three years ago I can't believe how fast the

time has gone it's gone by so quickly don't you think so well I think so

anyway many people are also joining in on the live chat thank you for joining

me we have who do we have we have Alamgir hello Alamgir nice to see you

here also Chris Olga Julie whoa hello vu or vu watching

in Vietnam I think I do wish the Flies would stop biting me I've been bitten

twice on my arm by a very angry fly I think it was a horse fly I hate flies I

really do I know I mentioned this last week but I really hate flies so much

especially flies that bite you I don't like them at all bee tree is is here

hello mr. Duncan happy Anniversary for your live stream yes three years ago I

started doing my live streams but it's still not as long as the amount of time

that I've been doing my English lessons on YouTube for do you know how long I've

been on YouTube twelve years this year I am celebrating my 13th here on YouTube

hello Chris I hope everyone is well I hope so too Waller is here

hello Jun Jun hello Jun Jun I've never seen you here before

if it is your first time please let me know also we have Heber

hello hello yes I like your music it is like bossa nova' bossa nova' bossa

nova is a style of music it has a very rhythmic beat I tuned it to do

so that's bossa nova is it raining mr. Duncan it isn't raining but I did bring

my umbrella to the garden just in case so just in

case it starts raining who knows I have my umbrella ready just in case it starts

to rain so far there is no rain in fact the forecast for today is no rain but it

is very cloudy very cloudy can I just point something out I know I didn't

mention this yesterday I'm going to mention it now you can watch my live

stream if you are watching on certain devices you can actually watch my live

stream with subtitles and there you can see there is the button that you have to

press so if you press that button there you will actually get subtitles on my

live stream Oh fancy pants so you can actually watch now as I'm broadcasting

live with subtitles and there is the button press that button and as if by

magic you will see the words on the screen that I'm saying to you live and

don't forget there are captions subtitles available on all of my video

lessons is it about to rain no franceska I can promise you now it looks as if we

are not going to get any rain today yesterday it was so sunny in fact it was

so sunny I had to get a special piece of equipment to fit to my camera and

someone asked mr. Duncan what is the thing that you put on your camera

yesterday what what actually was it can you tell us what it was it was one of

these and this is a very useful item this particular thing is called a

neutral density filter neutral density filter and this is a very special thing

that you put over the lens of your camera and what it actually does it even

out the light that the camera is receiving so the camera is receiving

light light is going into the camera but this special filter will even out the

light so you won't get any bright spots so it should all look even so there you

can see what will happen if I put that over the camera you will see straight

away it goes very dark but I also have an an ND filter a neutral density filter

on my camera right now so I'm actually using one on my camera at this very

moment just in case it gets too bright so thank you to those who asked mr.

Duncan can you tell me what it was you put on your camera yesterday so now you

know so many technical things to talk about today oh my goodness we are

talking about books today stories books I will show you some of my favorite

books that I've read over the past few years so books that I've read over the

past few years I'm going to talk about those also words and phrases that are

connected to reading books publishing and the different types of stories that

you can read so all of that coming up later on don't go away

it is a Sunday afternoon and this is live English in your ear it certainly is

there is a very serious storm a very serious storm taking place in south USA

the southern USA New Orleans is being battered by storm

berry it's a very interesting name I don't know why they chose berry but

storm berry is currently battering New Orleans in southern United States and I

noticed that they have sent a warship

they have actually sent a warship there and can you guess the name of the

warship can you I'm going to share it to you now here it is there it is on the

screen right now can you guess the name of that particular ship it has a special

name and it made me very excited yesterday when I heard it on the news so

there you can see a u.s. warship but it has a very special name and it has been

sent to the south coast of the USA to deal with the the terrible storm that's

taking place storm berry or some people are calling it hurricane berry back to

the live chat very quickly Alessandra oh hello mr. Duncan it's always nice to see

you again your lessons are very important thanks a lot for that it's

very kind of you to say so palmyra says hello mr. Duncan hello pal Mira nice to

see you again as well Mika hello Mika a big hello to Japan as well

I mentioned Japan yesterday because the Japanese space agency has sent a small

probe to an asteroid yes mr. Duncan as you said yesterday the Japanese space

agency has gone to the surface of an asteroid and the name of the asteroid is

ryu goo ryu goo I hope my Japanese is okay so the the

asteroid is called Ryu goo is that a Japanese word is that a word in Japanese

what does it mean I'm very interested to find out so yes congratulations once

once again I did mention it yesterday that Japan has sent a small probe to an

asteroid hello also to Mateen hello Metin nice to

you hear today here is an object that you are going to see a lot of on

Wednesday there is a new full english lesson being published on wednesday and

if you have missed any of my full english lessons they are my recorded

lessons you can watch them on my youtube channel they are available to view the

flies are eating me I am now being eaten alive by flies so you will see a lot

more of this particular item this is a can I showed you this yesterday on my

live stream so anything else to show you anything interesting oh here's something

I want to show you now this is something that in my life I have stepped on many

times have you ever stepped on one of these oh dear can you see so this is a

plug this is something you use to feed electricity from your electricity supply

into a device and there you can see there is a plug but sometimes these are

left on the floor and if you are very unlucky you might actually step on one

of these you might actually put your foot on one of these things and I can

say now I can tell you now quite confidently it's very painful

so have you ever stepped on one of these have you ever trod on one of these the

word trod that's an interesting word the word trod is the past participle

of tread so you tread on something you step on something you step onto

something we can also say trodden trodden so the

past participle of tread can be trod but it can also be trodden trodden so have

you ever Chardin on one of these

did you ever tread on one of these with your bare feet can I just say now it is

very very painful a lot of discomfort there's that word again

discomfort I've been using the word a lot today

hello mr. Duncan I really love you grill home hello girl home bellow nice to see

you today where are you watching and is it your

first time if it is your first time watching today please tell me please say

mr. Duncan it's my first time here today

Adele is here hello Adele nice to see you here I have a little bit of hay

fever today not too much it's not too bad but yes I am suffering slightly from

hay fever and also fly bites the flies keep biting me Abdul hello mr. Duncan

lots of respect and respect from me oh that's very kind of you Thank You Abdul

for that also we have Mary Zeus or Mary Mary Zeus I hope I pronounced your name

right happy Independence Day for friends oh hello Beatriz French Independence Day

I suppose I should play the French national anthem but I don't have it

unfortunately that I had that dirt dirt dirt abdill sir the World Cup is going

on between England and also New Zealand the World Cup I thought the football

finished I thought the football was over who Matt Omaima hello Omaima I love your

garden it is so lovely and you seem very relaxed it is a nice place to come out

into I do like being in the garden a lot of people have asked mr. Duncan

what happened to your studio you never show your studio anymore well to be

honest with you I have actually moved a lot of my studio equipment out here so

it's now out here in the garden Cathy cat

hello mr. Duncan yes please I would like to see it you would like to see what I

have checked yesterday's lesson mr. Duncan isn't it nice to be healthy doing

a live lesson yes it is I would describe myself as a very healthy person I do

exercise a lot I don't have any bad habits so I'm very lucky because I don't

have any really bad habits so I don't smoke I don't really drink a lot of

alcohol even though I like to have a little drink now and again not all the

time just sometimes but I don't smoke I suppose my one bad habit would be

chocolate sweet food so yes I think I think my weakness my real weakness is

sweet food I think so hello also from Francisco

hello Francisco nice to see you here today also to Belarusian I said hello to

Belarusian and I was very concerned to hear your news about your mother

nanda SH is here England is going to win the World Cup the World Cup are you

talking about football or cricket I didn't realize there was a football

World Cup taking place I know a few days ago that the

women's football tournament was taking place the Women's World Cup was taking

place the United States was the winner by the way of that congratulations

you're live lessons are very nice yes the first time you did it was July the

15th 2016 yes three years ago the first time I did a livestream

Chao mr. Duncan again you are against the mosquito sting you must put on long

pants or trousers so yes I am wearing my long trousers but I am wearing my

t-shirt today so the flies are landing on my arms and they are biting me they

are biting into my skin hello punks whoa that's a very

interesting name I'd like to see you there today on my

live stream punks are you a real punk are you a punk from the 1970s I hate

flies too says Aurora I really don't like flies at all mr. Duncan I am

watching the UK cricket at the moment says Nanda Sh

yes a lot of people are talking about cricket I don't follow many sports in my

life I'll be honest with you I don't follow many sports mr. Duncan if you are

having trouble with flies I am having a lot of trouble with flies today they

keep biting me mr. Duncan please be careful if a spider bites you you might

turn into spider-man well that sounds like a good thing that sounds like a

very good thing I might turn into a superhero although to be honest with you

I don't think I will look very good in lycra to be honest not now anyway with

my big fat belly hello to China hello I am Chinese box Liu box view is

here hello to China I used to live in China

did you know that I did I used to live in China Joe Louise says hi mr. Duncan

its London Calling I am a Brazilian living in Beckenham oh hello to you and

what is the weather like in London now I know today the final of Wimbledon is

taking place today so Wimbledon is taking place and I

thought it would be fun to show you the video that me and mr. Steve made last

year when we were playing tennis in the garden

so there it was now that is something we did last year mr. Steve and myself in

the garden and we were playing tennis did you like that

I think mr. Steve is much better at tennis than I am I'm not very good it's

sport to be honest even at school I know I've told the story before that but they

wouldn't let me play sport at school can you believe that they wouldn't actually

let me play sport at school they said I was too fragile ah isn't that lovely and

it scarred me for life it really did I like chocolate very much

says lowest hello lowest nice to see you there hello sue cat mr. Duncan why don't

you put some repellent on your skin to keep the flies away I think that's a

very good idea yes repellent so you might put something

on your skin to keep the flies away so repel means to push away so repellent is

something that will keep things away from you repellent that is a very good

idea I like that idea very much yes Wimbledon is taking place today

yesterday the women's final happened and today it's the men's I miss mr. Steve

says Julie gee well mr. Steve is now a very busy man he is doing all sorts of

things and that's the reason why he can't join in on the live streams

anymore because he's very busy I think that's what I want to say if you missed

yesterday's live stream I have some good news the spiders have gone they've gone

they've been taken away so we are no longer looking after the tarantulas that

we were looking after for the past one and a half years

so yesterday Steve's friend came and he took the spiders away

Satur Ino says I don't like tennis because it is a posh and a symmetric

sport some people think that yes some people think that people who play tennis

are very elitist I think so Jonathan Oh Jonathan is going

see you later Jonathan I suppose Jonathan has something busy to do he's

going to have a very busy Sunday afternoon I think so

hi hi cao lu lu hello hi cao lu lu lu how are you today

where are you watching is it your first time don't forget to let me know it is a

gray sunday afternoon here in the UK it is very I suppose the word is gloomy I

suppose so let's have a look at a part of English grammar that a lot of people

get wrong so I'm very quickly just very quickly going to explain the differences

between these two words and here they are now on the screen the words are 2 &

2 can you see them so these two words are often confused with each other

especially when writing so quite often when a person wants to write this

instead they write this and vice versa so I'm going to explain very quickly the

differences between these two words so first of all we have to as a way of

showing direction range and also it is used as a way of expressing location or

to mean before something occurs so there you can see the word - so you might say

I am going to mr. Duncan's house or if you are

going to do something in the future we can just say I am going to do it I am

going to do it so you are expressing the occurrence before it happens you are

expressing the occurrence before it happens I'm going to see you tomorrow

I will see you we are stating something that is happening before it occurs so

there is the one use and the other one that a lot of people get mixed up by is

this one and this is two but with two O's the letter O occurs twice so there

you can see two can mean as well also and also very and excessively so

something that is more than you want we can say that it is too much too much

also we can use as well I am going to the party my friend will come to my

friend will come as well so my friend is coming too

my friend is coming as well we can also use this to mean also also very very so

something is extreme maybe you are in a room and maybe the temperature is too

high you might say oh my goodness can you open the window it's too hot in here

too hot I can't come to your house you live too far away and excessively

something is too much something is excessive there

are too many people here there are too many flies in the garden so there you

can see very briefly the difference between this word and this word I hope

that was helpful to you hello also to Palmyra who says my

greetings to all the Brazilian people because the team when the kappa America

well done to Brazil winning a big prize there here in the south of Brazil it's

too cold today we don't like it it's too cold mr. Duncan in Brazil I suppose at

the moment it must be it must be autumn autumn or maybe early winter in Brazil

am I right or wrong I am very sad because my internet is bad I have a bad

connection on my internet since yesterday so I can't enjoy this

livestream well don't worry Helena because later when you get your

internet fixed you can watch my live streams all over again and again and

again for as many times as you want thank you also satury know says yes I am

I am a big fan of the greatest Brazilian football player

his name is Zico Falcao chicha reso I hope I pronounced that right I think I

will get into a lot of trouble there mr. Duncan you are a follower of sports when

England can win I saw you both you and mr. Steve play football during the World

Cup Thank You Louie yes you are right there

I am NOT a fan of sport I don't follow sport but sometimes I

must be honest I do become slightly interested in sport especially when the

England Football team is playing in the final or the semi-final like they were

last year mr. Duncan can you give me two teas or two I don't know what that means

mr. Duncan and what is the temperature at the moment here it is maybe 27 or 26

well here it is very humid today apparently we've got lots of warm air

coming up from the Azores apparently that's what the news said last night so

apparently we have a lot of very warm heat very strong heat coming up from the

Azores a very hot part of the world and that's why it's very humid today

although having said that there's no sunshine there is no sunshine today

that's not very nice so do you like reading books do you like reading books

do you have a favourite story that you like to read there are many words that

can be used to describe stories and books and here now on the screen you can

see a list of them can you see them we have literature literature so the

first word is pronounced literature so that means anything that's written so

anything that's written down so handwriting or a storybook or just a

piece of paper with writing on so a general term is literature literature

and then the second word there it is is text so text normally refers to the

letters the letters that are written now you can type the letters you can write

the letters you can write text and then the third word there it is publications

so when we talk about a publication we talk about something that has been

published a book a magazine a newspaper so anything that is published is a

publication of publication the thing that has been published is a publication

and finally I'm sure you know this one story book a story book a book that

tells the story quite often a story book will have words sometimes words and

pictures or sometimes a story book might might mostly have pictures and just a

few words so story book the words literature literature it's not an easy

word to say to be honest literature text publication or publications as the

plural there or story book so there are lots of words you can use to describe

anything that is printed anything that is written anything that is published

for people to read Beatriz says I like Jane Austen's stories yes

Jane Austen wrote lots of stories dramatic stories I want to learn English

without knowing where to start well you always start with the most simple words

the simplest form of any language is where you begin when you start learning

it hello to India hello India I believe now

I'm sure yesterday I also read in the news that India is planning to send a

spaceship to the moon am i right there is that true or did I just imagine it

was it just in my head I don't know but I do believe that India

is also about to send a probe or maybe even people to the moon

Julie gee did you say that mr. Steve isn't going to be here anymore in the

live lessons well at the moment he won't be here because he's very busy doing

other things like yesterday he was busy and today he's also busy that's all I

can say really to be honest mr. Duncan apparently you are an outdoor person

sitting in a dusty room is not what you are fond of yes Valentin I think that is

that is a very fair comment I do prefer being outside

to be honest you can enjoy the fresh air you can enjoy nature well sometimes you

can enjoy nature unless of course the nature starts biting you in which case

it stops being fun good afternoon mr. Duncan Jamelia or Jamila

oh hello Jamila I haven't seen you for a long time

good afternoon greetings from Malta you have a very nice colour behind you

lots of green things yes you can see behind me I am surrounded by green trees

green grass I think it is safe to say that the main colour on the screen today

is definitely green I think so franceska galore what does it mean mr.

Duncan galore galore means lots of so if you have words galore it means you have

many words galore is a way of expressing lots of you have a large quantity of

thing you have English words galore mr. Duncan I need some practice with my

spoken English well you are in the right place because to speak English well you

also have to listen to English being used

hello mr. Duncan from Marrakech dude I like Marrakech I would like to go

there one day Marrakech I want to sample some of the Moroccan food I really do

mr. Duncan literature comes from the Latin litter a you are right yes there

are many derivatives of the words that I'm going to show you today in fact here

are the words that I will talk about today and there you can see on the

screen right now we have story novel saga factual fictional protagonist

antagonist first person third person

biography autobiography so there are some interesting words that we are going

to talk about today on the live stream some of them you might know some of him

them you might not know so please stay with me lots of things still to come on

the live chat today did I see a super chat earlier I'm not sure did I see a

super chat on the screen I think I did or did I imagine it I'm trying to find

the super chat so I think there was a donation made here on the super chat

maybe not

have you read a poem by Edgar Allan Poe called the Raven well one thing to

mention about Edgar Allan Poe he had a very dark sense of storytelling

he was very fascinated by the McCobb all the things that are scary

all the things that horrify people or maybe the things that scare people Edgar

Allan Poe had a deep fascination with the dark side of humanity and also he

was obsessed obsessed by death as well he used death a lot in his work in fact

I I believe he winced did he did he describe once sleep as being the little

slice of death I believe he did Sarah hi mr. Duncan hello to you hello guys

Alric hello Iraq nice to see you here today

vlad says Oh mr. Duncan I wrote a novel in Spanish and I'm going to publish it

on Kindle in August Thank You Vlad for letting me know and this is one of the

great things about the internet nowadays anyone can publish their own work

without having to go to an agent so it is possible nowadays to publish your own

work on the Internet without having to go to an agent because having an agent

can be very expensive and having a person who publishes your work care can

also cost you a lot of money so these days it is possible to publish your own

stories or text books on the Internet so some people sell them on Amazon

Amazon Kindle my biggest dream is to meet you mr. Duncan why would you want

to meet me I can't imagine why but yes writing is

great way of expressing yourself it's also a very good way of improving your

grammar and your confidence with how you process English in your brain so writing

can be a very good way of improving your English and you don't have to write

something special it doesn't have to be great just write anything that's what I

used to do when I was at school I used to write lots of stories and I used to

always take them to school and show them to my English teacher and then she would

read them she would take them home and read them and then the next day when I

saw her in the classroom I would always ask did you like my story and she would

say yes very interesting so my English teacher always encouraged me to to write

Chris says I did a thesis on the work of Edgar Allen Poe as my university project

and it is archived in a special library in the university who it must have been

a very interesting thesis I think so jamelia yes mr. Duncan I cannot see you

live but I saw the repeat thank you always you are welcome Jamelia and I

hope you get your internet sorted out very soon hello mr. Danko I read some

technical papers but sometimes it's hard to understand what it is all about I did

mention this yesterday about general English so if you are using everyday

English so English that you use every day in your normal life then it can be

easier to learn however when you go into academic English or specialist subjects

sometimes the English can be very complicated even for people who speak

English as their first language so sometimes you need to know something

about the subject that the person is talking about mr.

Duncan you are the best English teacher I have ever seen your teaching method is

really superb please take my heartiest love and stay

happy greetings from Bangladesh you're welcome no problem I love doing this I

love teaching on YouTube and I love sharing my time with you

hello mr. Duncan do you think it's a good idea to listen to videos in English

without fully understanding them Thank You Taylor yes I think that is a good

idea that is how I learned Chinese when I was in China I wanted to pick up some

Chinese so I used to watch television programs and sometimes if I was watching

a TV show or maybe the news and I would try to memorise some of the words excuse

me my throat has gone very dry excuse me a moment

you

I'll be back that was my hay fever unfortunately my hay fever is affecting

my nose in my throat today but yes when I was in China I used to listen to

Chinese TV and I would try to pronounce some of the words that they were saying

I would repeat them and then later I would ask one of my friends my Chinese

friends what the word meant so yes I I think it is a good idea it is actually a

good idea and of course you can also read the subtitles as well what do you

suggest we should do to become a writer well first of all you have to have an

interest in writing so I think most people who become authors an author is a

person who writes that is their profession that is their occupation they

are an author author a person who writes is an author so yes I think that is a

good way to start you have to be interested in the subject so if you have

a favorite subject some people like certain types of

stories or maybe you have an interest in a certain subject so maybe you can put

your writing skills forward and use that subject so yes I think you have to be

interested in writing to become a writer so you have to have the passion it's a

little bit like doing this it's a little bit like being on camera doing the

livestreams if I wasn't interested in doing this then I wouldn't do it but the

reason why I do it is because I'm interested in doing it so sometimes

interest can be the best way to start doing anything so something you are

interested in can become your profession or your job

so we looked at some words earlier now we are going to look at themes so

stories can have many themes so the theme of the story is what the story is

about all the things that the story concerns so the things that are in the

story we can talk about the way the story makes you feel the things that are

discussed or maybe the actions that take place in the story so story themes and

there are different types of story theme we can have crime stories crime stories

stories to do with criminal activity crimes that take place maybe a bank

robbery or maybe the story of someone who was murdered romance oh I like

romance a lot I must admit I really do like romance

so romance a lot of ladies like the romantic novels and stories romance one

of my favorite types of book is fantasy fantasy so you might describe Harry

Potter so Harry Potter books can be described as fantasy also Lord of the

Rings the original books Lord of the Rings The Hobbit

we can describe those as fantasy novels or fantasy books and then we have

science fiction science fiction books or science fiction stories tend to occur or

tend to take place in the future or in space so quite often science fiction

will involve living in the future or living or having

adventures in space and then history ah so you can have historical stories so

something that is based on history maybe history that did happen or maybe

something that is created or maybe something that is based on an event that

occurred in the past so yes you can have history stories about things that

happened in the past and they can be true or real or they can be made up and

of course we have children's books and there are lots of children's books there

are many famous people now here in the UK who have appeared on television for

various reasons and now they've gone on to write children's books so there are

many famous people who now besides being famous for their main talent or their

main career they are also writing books for children Ricky Gervais is a very

good a very good example of people who do one thing but also they go on to

write books for children mr. Duncan your motivation never dies and it's good it

is a good thing for us Thank You Louis that's very kind of you to say

science fiction there is also there is one I missed out on here on my list

horror horror so things that are scary stories about ghosts

stories about evil spirits stories about people who go crazy and do horrible

things we can say horror stories horror stories a story that makes people feel

terrified or afraid I suppose yes Valentin says mr. Duncan can you please

mention comics it is a part of literature

well I did kind of mention that when I mentioned pictures and words so yes

comics quite often use illustrations or pictures but also they have some sort of

narrative that explains what is happening in the story so you can see

the comic you can see what is happening and also you can read on each page what

the characters are saying so I suppose a good example would be graphic novels or

graphic comics so a graphic comic is something that is very explicit it shows

very clearly what is happening graphic comics and when I was a kid

I used to read spider-man comics and also the x-men

so x-men spider-man Superman so I used to read all of these comics when I was a

kid but of course comic books have become very big business nowadays and

you don't need me to tell you that if you go to the cinema you will see lots

of superheroes in the movies and most of them are based on comic books or comic

book characters so yes there are quite a few it's very nice of you to join me

today in the garden it is very hot by the way it is so hot out here really hot

it's very humid Habib is here hello mr. Duncan my sweet teacher how are you how

can i improve my pronunciation in English two ways listen repeat that's it

early so listen to the English listen to the way people use English and if you

want to change the way you speak you can but it of course it just it does take

time it takes a lot of time and a lot of effort as well what is the most

important advice you could give to an English Learner

who doesn't live in an English environment I talked about this

yesterday and this is a very common question there

are two ways of learning English if you have no one around you to share your

interest with you can join a group of people or you can create your own group

so maybe you can create a group of people you can get in touch with people

who have a similar interest in English and you can share your love of English

together also you can learn English on your own

it's not easy you need lots of motivation to do it but it is possible

you can do it and a good way to do that is to listen

to your voice record your voice and listen to it

hello there my name is mr. Duncan hello my name is mr. Duncan so you can listen

to your voice you can listen to the way it sounds and if you don't like the way

you sound you can change it but it does take a lot of time and a lot of patience

and you really do need to be motivated mr. Duncan hello - engineer asthma

I like the British accent especially the cottony accent hello there hello it's

mr. jankle ear and i'd talk it's here from the owl smoke the old smoke we call

Landor the old smoke yeah it's a it's a bit smoky sometimes because of all the

busses it's a real pain in the eres that's right listen and repeat that is

the best way to improve your pronunciation sometimes the simplest

methods are the best ways to do something I I always teach people and I

remember in China I used to tell people sometimes learning something is not

difficult it isn't complicated sometimes the rules are actually very simple the

hardest part is following the rules the hardest part

is actually going along with the rules so tomorrow it is a special anniversary

tomorrow the 15th of July 2016 I did my first ever live stream and this is how

it started oh hello there hi everybody this is mr.

Duncan in England it's now one minute past one o'clock on Friday the 15th of

July 2016 can you believe we are halfway through 2016 already I can't believe it

welcome to english live this is the first-ever one the first ever time that

I've done something live across the worldwide web

so there it was the first time I ever did a live stream and that was the

opening moments of the first live stream that I ever did way back in 2016 of

course I have been on YouTube for nearly 13 years teaching English

hello to so so sane so sane Sarah hello to you Aurora says I hate hearing myself

I don't like to hear my own voice can I just say that your your problem is not

unusual a lot of people don't like to hear their own voice but can I just say

something the more you listen to yourself the more you begin to feel

relaxed about listening to yourself so sometimes doing something for the

first time can make you feel nervous or anxious or maybe you just don't like it

but can I just say the more you record your voice the more you listen to your

voice that they're more confident you will become using it trust me you have

to trust me on that one Aurora says I can hear a dog barking

there are many dogs living around here there are quite a few dogs personally I

don't have a dog myself although I do have mr. Steve he is very similar to a

dog especially one that hasn't been house trained he still sometimes leave

little poo poos on the carpet hello - we van Kwang I often watch your videos and

repeat what you say it helps me to improve my pronunciation so fast but

people around me said are you crazy well don't worry about what people say

don't worry about what people think maybe they feel threatened by you maybe

they are afraid that your English will become much better than theirs so don't

worry about what people say you carry on doing what you're doing if it works for

you do it that's what I say mr. Duncan I wish you have a million tomorrow a

million what a million subscribers a million flowers a million smiles maybe

maybe not let's also have a look now at some

particular words to do with books and stories and here we go again so now we

have the style of writing when we call something the style

it means the appearance or the impression that it gives so the style is

the particular way a person does something so certain writers certain

performers maybe certain singers will sing in a certain way they have their

own style they have their own way of doing it so their style of writing is

the way they do it the way they tell a story the way they explain

things or maybe the way they use dialogue well that's a good word I like

that word dialogue dialogue is basically the words that are used to say something

dialogue so styles of writing so in this sense we are talking about the way the

narration or the way the story is narrated the way the story appears on

the paper you can write in various ways you can write using the first person the

first person is the personal person the person who is actually speaking the

person who is telling the story so sometimes a story is told directly by

the person who is involved and there you can say the first person so some people

write in the first person tense so they write by using the person

who is describing exactly what happens so they are the person that tells the

story then we have the second person who is the person who is being spoken to

so maybe also once again the addressee is the person who is being spoken to the

speaker and the person who is being spoken to so maybe in a story you will

get a two-way conversation so the second person is the person responding to the

first person so that is another way of writing and a very common way of writing

is using the third person the third person so many people when they want to

express something to show action you will often use the third person or the

third party so the third person is the the other person who is involved in the

situation so the sound or the narration of the

story is the third person so that person is involved but also they are in the

story and they are telling the story at the same time hello sir why don't you

read my messages ice Warrior I swore iya hello sir you didn't read my

messages but I'm reading it now sometimes I don't see everyone's

messages so I do apologize if I miss you out so if I don't read your message

please don't shout at me but sometimes the chat does move very

quickly once again the third person the first person is the speaker the person

speaking in the story the second person is the addressee the person who is being

spoken to and the third person is the third party so they might be the person

being talked about or they might be the other person who is expressing what is

happening in the story or if you talk about a person who is not there you

might talk about them in the third person it is a style of writing in fact

they are all styles of writing Sara mr. Duncan can reading books improve my

English yes of course no doubt about it do it that's what I say and if you see

any words in the story that you don't understand you can always write them

down and check with a dictionary or maybe with me I can hear a helicopter

going over your house I think so yes sometimes we get helicopters sometimes

we get aeroplanes going over the house when I studied literature at school

there were many books that we read and we had to write essays about

one of them in particular was Lord of the Flies so Lord of the Flies which is

a brilliant book is one of the first books that I read whilst studying

literature it's school a rather dark and somber story Israel talking of story

here we go now with some words to do with stories so what exactly is a story

how do we describe a story well a story is an account of imaginary or real

people and events told for entertainment so the most basic way of expressing what

a story is is that we could also use story to describe the plot or storyline

I don't know what that is flying over my house but it's very noisy and rather

distracting a report of an item in the news or in a newspaper something that

you hear that you didn't know before can also be described as a story a news

story a piece of gossip Oh something that you hear from another person mm-hmm

can be described as gossip but also we can say story my neighbor told me a very

interesting story about the guy that lives up the road so gossip can also be

described as being a story one person's represent representation of

the facts of a matter so the facts about the present situation can also be a

story you are talking about something that is happening now or something that

has recently happened and the word story comes from the anglo-norman French a

story a story which except itself comes from the Latin historia now that is very

interesting because you can see there there is an interesting word historia

now historia is where we get the word history from so history basically is a

story that's been recorded so when we talk about history what we are actually

talking about are things that have been recorded things that have been written

down and then passed through the generations so that's where we get the

word history from and also the word story story what type of story do you

like reading do you like reading stories I will show you some of my favorite

books that I've read over the years in a few moments now we have a type of book

this is a type of book novel novel a novel is a fictitious prose or narrative

of book length so a long story a long story can be described as a novel a

fictitious prose or narrative of book length typically representing character

and action with some degree of realism so quite often if you read a novel some

of the story will be based on real things or real events or maybe just real

life the way things happen from day to day and for those who are wondering what

prose means prose is written or spoken language in its ordinary form

plain or dull writing discourse or expression can also be described

as pros so the word pros can be used in a negative way the word novel comes from

the Italian novella which simply means new and it comes from the Latin as

Novelis Novelis so it originates in Latin as Novelis and now we say novel

novel so basically the word means new it can also be adapted to mean new story as

well a new story in fact that's why we call anything new that we hear the news

so the news is basically all of the new stories that have occurred and that's

why we say news oh he's an interesting one saga saga saga is a long story of

heroic achievement especially a medieval prose narrative in the old dolls or old

Icelandic so there you can see saga so saga actually originated as describing

any story from the Old Norse or old Icelandic but nowadays you will often

see the word saga used to mean a very long story a very long story story is

for the present or the past history is for the past politics yes that's right

and also anything that's happened or occurred in the past that is notable

notable I wonder what the oldest book is I wonder what the oldest book is I'm

just thinking now I can think of a couple of suggestions hello mr. Duncan

could you recommend some easy and real English or American cereal to improve

our English understanding well her say anything you can watch anything a movie

or a TV show maybe something that has a very simple theme or maybe a very simple

story that you can follow but to be honest with you you can use anything

really that is my suggestion mr. Duncan you don't know how dear you are to me

hello MD Iqbal MD Iqbal Hussain hello mr. Duncan you don't know how dear

you are to me from Bangladesh thank you very much for that I hope my English

lessons are helpful I really do greetings from Mexico the home of the

Mayan ruins Thank You Hawaiian it's very nice to see you here on the livestream

do you sir we would like to know more about you and your family oh really

you are very inquisitive very inquisitive there is a TV show called

mind your language mind your language it is a comedy show and it is all about

people who are learning English as a second language it is actually a British

TV show that was around in the late 1970s the Flies are biting me it's very

distracting if I seem slightly distracted it's because the flies keep

biting into my body and I don't like it so yes there is a TV show called mind

your language it is very funny and there are some copies of it on YouTube and I

think some of them have subtitles as well which is nice how are you mr.

Duncan hello Lena I'm okay thank you not too bad thank you very much

so when we talk about a saga it is a long involved story account or series of

incidents and it comes from the old norse narrative so so

a long story long story sometimes a saga might be in many

different parts you might think of Star Wars as a saga so the story of Star Wars

is a continuing story there are many parts to it

so it goes on over a long period of time so yes so Star Wars is a type of saga

the word narrative for those who are wondering the word narrative relates to

the story and the expression of occurrence either in spoken or written

form so when we talk about narrative it is the way of describing something you

are saying what something looks like you are describing the way something appears

or maybe you are listening to two people talking about something and that is the

way in which they are talking the conversation the topic the things they

are talking about it is the narrative the narrative when you when you watch a

TV show sometimes you will see images on the screen but you won't see the person

who is talking and the person who talks is called the narrator so a narrator is

a person who describes something so you only hear their voice you don't see them

who are you who are you do you mean who are I well I'm a I don't know who you

are

yes mind your language is a very funny TV program and it was

made in the UK it was made in the UK many years ago here is another word now

that I want to show you I will be going in around about 10 minutes I am going

soon if you want to say something now is the time to do it some very interesting

words this word protagonist protagonist and

this word antagonist antagonist so a protagonist is the main character in a

story so when we talk about the protagonist we talk about the main

character the central character of a story is the protagonist I will use

another Star Wars reference Luke Skywalker so many people see Luke

Skywalker as the protagonist of Star Wars the whole story revolves around him

he is the main person in the story he is the protagonist protagonist the main

character you could also describe a person as an antagonist an antagonist is

the adversary so the adversary is the person who is against the main character

or the person who might be the evil one or the bad one or maybe the person who

wants to destroy the things that the main character is trying to do so the

antagonist is the baddie the bad person the protagonist quite often is the good

guy he is the hero he is the main character so in Star Wars terms we have

Luke Skywalker as the main character the protagonist and you might describe Darth

Vader as the antagonist he is the person who is against the hero antagonistic a

person who tries to disrupt or destroy another person's idea or work mr. Duncan

your lessons are great they are the best on the Internet thank

Demitri for that don't forget I will be here on Wednesday Wednesday coming up on

Wednesday I will show you for those who don't know

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eric says oh that's a very interesting point Eric well then there are a few

movies where the antagonist wins yes No Country for Old Men have you seen that

movie it is a very terrifying movie and the first time I watched it I had

nightmares afterwards because I kept thinking that someone was going to break

into my house so yes No Country for Old Man is a brilliant movie and I won't

tell you what happens at the end just in case you haven't seen it but yes

the antagonist kind of wins at the end mr. Duncan if you come to Guatemala

please don't hesitate to contact me Thank You Carlos that's very kind of you

to say Poisson says good night from Laos or Laius Poisson good night to you as

well are you going are you leaving me what a great live lesson mr. Duncan

thanks for spending your time with us you are welcome no problem hello - Oh

China hello China I think there is someone

watching in China hello everyone and hello to China a big new how to you I

hope you're watching in China you might be watching somewhere else of course not

necessarily China but the characters on the screen do look like Chinese that's

all I'm saying

Thank You mr. Duncan for your work mr. Duncan please don't miss my name as is

hello as is as is I'm not sure if I'm going to pronounce your second name as s

go off as is as go off I hope I pronounced that right hello Olga thank

you very much mr. Duncan I joined you today passively

and I didn't write anything but I still enjoyed it thank you very much for

making live lessons so the live lessons have been taking place for three years

three years I've been doing the live streams tomorrow is the third

anniversary I can't believe it how did you how did you nam do says hi hello to

you as well you are welcome you are welcome I really feel very happy very

moved and always pleased to see your messages Riccardo Thank You Ricardo

Ricardo Florencia

has sent 10 pounds on the super chat thank you very much that's very kind of

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on the screen so there you can see just there the paypal address right there if

you want to send a donation you can it's not a problem today we are talking about

books and novels stories and there are two types of story and we call these

factual and fictional factual and pictural so if something is factual it

is real or true so something that is true or real can be

described as factual it is a fact you are writing about something that is true

a true thing can be described as factual factual so any story that is describing

a real event or something true can be described as factual and then we have

the opposite the Antonine fictional so the opposite is fictional something that

is untrue or unreal something that has been made up from a person's imagination

is fictional it isn't real and it isn't true mr. Duncan doesn't YouTube give you

money you have a lot of viewers thank you Miller a lot of people seem to think

that if you are on YouTube you must be a millionaire but can I just tell you now

don't believe all the stories that you hear about YouTube personalities or

YouTube publishers being rich because it isn't true I can tell you

I've been doing this for nearly 13 years and it isn't always true so that's why I

ask for donations that's why also I sometimes have a little fundraisers as

well to help me pay for all of this equipment that you can't see at the

moment because it's hidden from view but I am surrounded by technology all sorts

of technology is surrounding me at the moment so being on YouTube is a very

complex thing it isn't easy to do and sometimes I can't believe that I've been

doing it for nearly 13 years I can't believe it

types of stories we have biography and also autobiography so a biography is a

type of book or story about a person's life it is written about a person so the

biography is a story or the story of a person's life the person has been

written about so a person will write the book they will write a biography about

someone they have no connection with and then we have autobiography and I'm very

interested in autobiographies it's one of my big passions and autobiography is

written by the person who the story is about so the person themselves writes

the story about their own life so a person who writes their own life story

we can describe it as an autobiography an autobiography a biography is written

about someone else and autobiography is written by the person who the story

concerns

Vlad asks what do I do to boost my mind when I'm going to write huh again not an

easy question to answer but writers quite often have their own special ways

of becoming inspired to write sometimes it isn't easy sometimes a writer can sit

for days weeks months or even years without writing anything their mind goes

completely blank completely empty so sometimes it is possible to to lose all

of the ideas your mind goes completely blank so it can it can happen sometimes

even for me sometimes I wake up in the morning and I have no idea what I'm

going to do on my live lesson sometimes we like your clothes your nice red hat

and your red watch well this is orange this orange watch do you like my watch

mr. Steve bought that for me last year for my birthday I've just realized it's

my birthday soon three weeks it will be my birthday oh no is it three weeks or

four weeks oh no I think it's four weeks there I feel better now

apparently it's four weeks until my birthday and I will be another year

older before you write something you must read a lot of classical books I

think so that's a very good idea a very good suggestion so you must have an idea

you must have an understanding of how a story is written how you express the

things that are happening in the story so yes I think that's a that's a very

good a very good idea so before you start writing it is probably a good idea

to read a the literature before you start yourself

Vlad says if you want to be a writer you need to write to please yourself and

then please your audience 5050 so a good writer will often please themselves

while at the same time pleasing their audience as well I think so again a very

good suggestion Meeker asks why don't you write your own autobiography I'm not

sure if my life story would be interesting to anyone it might even be a

little bit depressing in places

autobiographies often tend to be hiding some details yes well if you write your

own life story quite often you will leave out all of the horrible bits you

will make your life appear more glamorous or more fun having said that

I'm now going to show you some books that I love reading and and some of them

have a very similar theme so some of them have a very similar theme so here

it is here is a short autobiography of a famous comedy actor so that there you

can see an autobiography so this is actually written by the person

themselves and it is actually written in a in a humorous way so this particular

person his name was Kenneth Williams and I happen to be a very big fan of his

work he is a comedy actor or he was sadly he died in 1988 so there is one of

my favourite books I have read this book many times another one concerning the

same person the Kenneth William his diary and letters so these are the

letters that he wrote to his friends he used to keep a diary and he would write

quite often he would correspond with his friends and people who he worked with

and once again it is my favorite actor and comedian Kenneth Williams and these

are all of his letters all of his most interesting letters that have been

published and this was published after his death

here is another but this time this is about a different person and this time

it is a biography so this was written by another person so another person wrote

the story of this man's life his name was Frankie Howard a very funny man a

very funny comedian and also a person that I have a lot of interest in his

life story and also his work as well and here it is here is the book that I have

read so many times I I actually had to buy a new copy of the book because the

original one fell to pieces because I read it so many times I actually took it

to China with me and I read it every night and I think I read it again and

again and again so many times and here it is this is the Kenneth Williams

Diaries an amazing book these are actual excerpts from his diaries that he kept

for over 50 years over 50 years of diary writing and all of this book contains

excerpts from his diary and quite often his diary is very honest very blunt

quite vivid he expresses his feelings about other people in show business so

this is a brilliant book and this is the book that I've read more time

than any other book that I've ever owned in my life

the Kenneth Williams Diaries I root I do recommend that you read this it is

sometimes funny it is sometimes heartbreaking but you

won't want to put it down as I didn't this is my second copy the first copy

fell to pieces because I read it so many times so for those who are wondering

about my taste in books now you know can we find this book in France yes I think

so I think you should be able to find all of those books in France mr. Duncan

I am Egyptian and I benefit from your lessons I am very grateful for your help

I want to be a professional in English and I like this language very much

sometimes I practice English by myself there's no problem with that

you do it if it works for you do it that's what I say it is almost

time for me to go can you believe it in fact I have gone slightly over it is now

18 minutes away from 4 o'clock here in the UK it is time for me to say goodbye

yes I think you you might be able to buy those books on Amazon or maybe even on

Kindle I'm not sure if there is a Kindle version of this book I'm not sure if

there is a Kindle version of this I don't know but but I prefer reading

the proper book I'm an old fashioned man so so I love reading books I like to

turn the pages and read which is my favorite pastime I like flicking through

a book I like reading I like to turn the pages there is something very special

about reading from a book that is it it's time to go

Thank You mr. Duncan for this interesting class enjoy your afternoon

tea yes I am going to have a cup of tea and a

tea cake I'm hoping that mr. Steve is now in the kitchen preparing my little

snack and tonight we are having salmon it's Sunday it's salmon night thanks for

your lovely messages today it's been a very busy one I will see you next

Saturday from midday live I will show you the details again live lessons

Saturday 12:00 midday Sunday 2:00 p.m. and a new full English lesson will be

here every Wednesday so on Wednesday there will be a new full English lesson

as well and I am up high in the sky I wonder where I'll be find out on

Wednesday and you can contact me through Facebook email and also you can make a

donation as well that is it it's time to go

this is mr. duncan in the birthplace of english saying thanks for watching me

today on this lovely Sunday afternoon here in England and of course until the

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