Meeting my English students at the Colosseum in Rome on a very hot day 🦁

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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hi everybody this is Mr Duncan in Italy I  am now standing in a very special part of  
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the capital of Italy of course I am in Rome and  I am roaming around one of the oldest monuments  
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that exists here in Rome in fact you might  say it is one of the oldest monuments in the  
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world this is the Coliseum a very well-known  place it has changed a lot over the years it  
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used to have lots of seats lots of places for  Romans to sit and in the middle of the Coliseum  
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lots of activities used to take place lots  of entertainment before the days of Tik Tok  
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and YouTube people used to like to sit around  in large groups and watch slaves being fed to  
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the Lions of course all of that has changed now  because of the internet and all of that but I'm  
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not here on my own I have some special guests  as well of course you might recognize one of  
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them straight away Mr Steve in the yellow just  I'm very sorry about that we were just cut off  
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do you know why we were cut off because my poor  mobile phone was getting hot in the Rome sunshine  
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so now I've come underneath the safe cool arches  of the Coliseum and as I was saying or trying to  
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say also joining me today look look who it is it  is Mr Steve it is also Christina and Francesca as  
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well joining us right here at the Coliseum we  are having the most wonderful time looking at  
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all of the old [Music] ruins and also we are  looking at the Coliseum as well Mr Steve is  
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very excited I have to say he looks really excited  to be here I'm very excited although I am slightly  
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disappointed as well because no one has recognized  me I'm walking around and no one is saying oh are  
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you Mr Duncan from the internet no one is saying  that so I might have a little cry later on we have  
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a very busy day ahead head here so we are going  to sightsee around the Coliseum for a while and  
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then we are going to have a walk around the  streets hopefully I will not pass out due to  
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heat exhaustion I will try to stay conscious  through all of this and tonight we are having  
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a special celebration with some other English  addicts as well we have a large group of people  
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coming together and we will be having a lovely  dinner and then tomorrow of course which is Sunday  
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we are doing the live stream as well hopefully we  will be out in the sunshine tomorrow and we will  
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be enjoying our super duper live stream and that  is what we are doing on Sunday so I hope you will  
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join us at around about 2:00 p.m. Rome time when I  say Rome time I mean the time in Rome so it isn't  
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UK time it is Rome time can you see Franchesca she  is hovering over my shoulder she is filming me Mr  
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Steve is filming me as well see now I feel famous  now I feel as if I have my public back anyway we  
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are going to have a look around the Coliseum  hopefully we won't see any lions and hopefully  
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I won't be made to wrestle any glad ators to the  ground and force him on his back I'm rather hoping  
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it's the other way around to be honest see you  later and don't forget to join us for the live  
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stream 2: p.m. Italy time Rome time and there  will be lots of people joining us as well besides  
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Mr Steve where his where his Mr Steve where is  he there he is he's having a little bit of fun  
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behind behind me thank you very much for joining  me see you tomorrow take care of yourselves we  
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will be live from somewhere in Rome take care and  of course until the next time we meet here which  
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hopefully will be on Sunday you know what's  coming next yes you do tar for now see you on
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Sunday bless
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you oh hello there this is Mr Duncan again saying  how do you do I am now standing at the back of  
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the Coliseum and I'm waiting to say hello to  some special friends who have come a long way  
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H everybody hello hello Tanya hello Mr Donan it's  a pleasure to meet you it's a a big pleasure can  
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I say first of all you have gone to a lot of  trouble to come here I don't understand very  
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well you have gone through a lot of trouble lot  of problems to come here today we have a lot of  
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problem because we have a problem with with the  train but we go way way way way way to meet you  
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Mr dkan so you're only staying here in Rome  for a short time and then you will be going  
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back but I do appreciate I'm very happy that  you've decided to come and see us on such a  
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beautiful day as well it's it was for me a  big pleasure to meet Mr Donan and I hope to  
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can be next time yes next time we are coming  back to Rome because as I said a few moments ago  
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to everyone here I have fallen in love with Rome  so I think it is safe to say that I will be back  
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here in Rome very soon also joining us hello hello  Franco hi everybody how are you today are you okay  
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yes I'm I'm good thank you I'm very glad to hear  you are okay so I do appreciate you coming here I  
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know you're only here for a short time because  you had some problems unfortunately yes uh but  
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yes I'm very excited really to be here with you  and uh meeting you in person at least uh we could  
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get to know each other better we could spend some  time together even though it is a very short time  
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of course you can see also where is he Mr Steve is  there as well Franchesca is there also Christina  
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so the group is getting larger and larger so  I will let you go before my phone overheats or  
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bursts into flames and I will see you soon this  is Mr Duncan in Rome saying tar for now Tatar
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everyone see you later [Music]
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