Don't Say 'VERY' - English Addict - 170 - LIVE CHAT / Sun 10th OCT 2021 - Mr Duncan in England

did you see mr steve in the garden? he was  there just did you see him so that was mr steve  

actually at this very moment outside doing  some work in the garden and in around about  

25 minutes hopefully he will be with us here in  the studio live as live can be yes we are back  

together welcome everyone this is english  addict coming to you from the birthplace  

of the english language which just happens  to be oh my goodness i don't believe it

it's england

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

are you happy i hope you are feeling happy i've  just been drinking some water because i forgot to  

bring some water into the studio so i now have  a huge bottle of water to keep you refreshed  

during today's live stream yes we are  back together again oh i can't believe it

were you watching me last week i had a very  busy week i will be honest with you i'm sure you  

have had a busy week as well i've had a busy  week many of us have had busy weeks i'm sure  

and i'm very busy this week because during this  month i am doing live streams every single day  

well almost six days a week you have me and i  will be with you also from monday to friday so  

besides my sunday live stream i'm also with you  from monday to friday from 2 p.m uk time as well  

six days a week i will be with you during october  and of course i am celebrating my my anniversary  

here on youtube at the end of this month 15 years  

i would have been doing this basically well to be  honest with you i've been doing my live streams  

for five years but for 15 years i've been here  on youtube talking about english with my recorded  

lessons as well so i've been a very busy bee  over the past 15 years and that's the reason why  

i'm with you every day almost six days a week  live on youtube so i hope you will be able to  

join me then i had a busy day yesterday also  because i went to see my mother who is at the  

moment in care unfortunately she isn't doing  very well at the moment unfortunately so that's  

all i'm saying but sadly at the moment she's  not doing very well but i was very pleased to  

to go and see her yesterday and yes we we  were actually able to spend almost an hour  

and a half next to my mother so normally they only  allow you to have about 20 minutes or 30 minutes  

so yesterday we spent a very long time with my  mum and it was great yes and afterwards because  

mr steve was hungry and i suppose i was as well  my stomach was making some very unusual sounds  

and we went yesterday would you like to see a  photograph of us yesterday we went to a lovely  

place an italian chain of restaurants i'm not sure  do you have this particular restaurant in your  

country frankie and benny's so they do italian  food and we went there yesterday we went to a  

lovely place called tamworth which is not very far  away from where my mother is being taken care of  

we had a we had a nice meal there not too bad  thank you very much in fact the only thing i  

noticed and we did have a little laugh about  this now i'm not criticizing the restaurant but

we did notice outside there  were quite a few rat traps

traps right outside the restaurant  for catching rats and not only that  

just as we got in the car to drive away  i saw a rat running past the restaurant

fortunately we had already eaten the food i'm  not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing  

but all i can say is if i had seen  the rats running around before  

we might not have gone in now i'm not criticizing  the restaurant because of course many areas have  

rats even around here sometimes i have in the  past seen rats in the garden at the back of the  

house especially when sometimes the bird food  will fall to the ground and then the rats and  

all the other animals will come and have a little  sniff around but yes it was rather strange to see  

some rats running around well at least one but  there were lots of traps lots of things that  

we're trying to catch and also poison the rats  but i'm not sure if that's a good thing to see  

just as you're going in or coming out of  a restaurant in fact it might be worse  

if you just had a meal in a restaurant  and then you come out and you see a rat

it might make you feel a little sick even  anyway it was a lovely meal i had meatballs

and mr steve had a hamburger and it was  very nice very nice actually no they were  

they were rats it was a rat i can tell  the difference between a mouse and a rat

a mouse is this big

a rat well rats can be really big

they can be quite large and they have very long  tails so it was definitely a rat trust me but it  

was a nice time anyway it was a lovely time as  i said i got to see my mother yesterday as well  

and here we are back together yes we have  made it to the end of another weekend oh  

i hope your weekend has been fun and exciting and  guess what it hasn't even finished yet because

it is still

sunday

sunday is here oh and don't  forget of course i almost forgot

they are back yes we have live captions isn't  that great we have live captions everyone  

the return of the live captions the live subtitles  so right underneath me right now if you activate  

the captions you will have live  captions right underneath my lovely face  

shining at you and also also my lovely teeth  as well i went to the dentist last week  

i did my live stream on friday after returning  from the dentist and i didn't feel very well  

i don't normally do my live streams if i'm feeling  unwell but i did go to the dentist on friday  

and they gave me some very thorough very rough  treatment they even gave me some local anesthetic  

as well so so the whole of my mouth on this  side was completely numb i couldn't feel  

anything on this side of my mouth and then  i came back home i only had about 10 minutes  

before my live stream was supposed to start and  guess what happened i came on and i could barely  

speak and i felt awful i felt a little dizzy i had  quite a lot of pain in my mouth because of course  

as the anesthetic was wearing off suddenly i could  feel what had really happened in my mouth and it  

was very painful in fact it's still a little  bit sensitive now but my teeth are lovely and  

clean again can you see them look at those teeth  you might have to put some sunglasses on whilst  

watching today because my teeth are so lovely look  at that they are amazing in fact i think my teeth  

might be the cleanest and the whitest that they've  ever been ever in the history of my mouth i think  

so we also have the live chat we are talking  about words today words within words and yes  

it is possible to have words that are contained  within other words and sometimes you can put two  

words together and form another word we call  those compound words so we are looking at that  

also in everyday english when we are  speaking english every day we are using  

english quite often if we want to express  something we will often use the word  

very because we want to stress we want to show  that something is very bad very good something  

that's very loud or maybe something that's very  colourful very bright very pleasant but you  

don't always have to use the word very in front of  other words in fact quite often you can substitute  

or change that word without having to use very  and we will look at that in a few moments as well  

as i said we have mr steve here as well mr steve  as well is here today and as you can see behind me  

that is now a live view behind me looking out of  my studio window and yes i think you can tell you  

can guess from that that we are having a very  nice day the weather is lovely in fact i don't  

know why but we are having a very warm spell  if you say warm spell it means a warm period  

of time so we often use the word spell to mean  period of time something that happens during a  

certain period we can describe it as a spell so at  the moment we are having a very bright and sunny  

spell of weather and also it's very warm as  well i can't believe how nice and warm it is  

hello to the live chat i haven't said hello  to you yet don't worry i haven't forgotten you

i wonder who was first on today's live chat  let's have a look shall we who was first  

on today's live chat i wonder oh very  interesting a very interesting state  

of affairs when we talk about state of affairs we  mean the way things are a very interesting state  

of affairs an interesting situation an interesting  occurrence once again first on today's live chat  

well done congratulations and a  big thumbs up once more to vitus  

guess what you are first once  again on today's live chat

yes i'm feeling rather excited today i  was able to see my mother yesterday and  

i spent quite a long time with her so i  felt very lucky about that to be honest  

vitas what is your secret i see even i want to  know even i am interested to find out what your  

secret is vitas please tell me i feel as if i need  to know what it is please tell me what your secret  

is how do you manage to be first on the  live chat all the time what is your secret  

because i want to know i will be honest with you i  have received some lovely photographs from claudia  

hello claudia now i know that you couldn't  join us on friday claudia but you did send  

some lovely photographs to show me where you were  so claudia went to visit a very nice park i feel  

that maybe at this time of year the weather  is also very nice very pleasant where you  

are oh look at that so this is where claudia  was on a friday walking around a beautiful park  

i'm not sure if it's warm i can see that  quite a few people are wearing coats  

so maybe maybe it's not warm but it does look  very pleasant as you are all walking besides  

is that a lake is it a lake or a river  and there is a reason why i'm asking  

and i will explain in a moment why i'm  asking is it a river or is it a lake

varian oh yes lots of lovely places to walk  around yes this looks like a very nice park palmia  

i think you said the place is called the park  but it looks very nice very pleasant very nice  

very scenic sometimes it's nice to go somewhere  and find a place to walk around to relax yourself  

and also there were some oh very  interesting now they look like ducks  

are they ducks they look like ducks they might  be geese it's very hard to tell how big they are  

sometimes when you look at a photograph you can't  you can't actually see the scale but i think  

they might be geese although they also look like  ducks now i i am going to say that they are geese  

and the reason why i'm mentioning that is because  yesterday a few moments ago i mentioned yesterday  

we actually went somewhere as well somewhere nice  and scenic we actually visited a park yesterday  

can you believe it would you like to see some  of the sights that we saw yesterday well here  

is one of them anyway this is something very  nice very similar to what you saw claudia

can you see them lots of  geese and also a swan as well  

so we walked yesterday to a lovely place called  tamworth and there's a nice park in tamworth

and there you can see a swan pecking at the bread  because there were some people throwing bread to  

the birds and there are some geese and if you look  very closely you can see some ducks as well so the  

ducks with the green head they are called mallards  and then you have some large geese as well aren't  

they lovely i want to see more mr duncan we  want to see more okay then so these geese were  

on the river so so this particular park  that we visited yesterday has a river  

going through the middle and on this river there  were lots of different types of foul or birds

oh my goodness can i just say i was here yesterday  

actually filming this i was there in the park  and even i can't believe how nice that looks  

look at that there are so many geese  swimming around aren't they lovely  

isn't that amazing even even i am fascinated  by that and i was there i was actually there  

and even i can't take my eyes off those birds  aren't they lovely very nice yes they are geese  

i'm not sure what type of geese they are but  they are geese and quite often where we live  

we also have lots of geese flying over during  the day aren't they lovely i can't stop watching

isn't that nice oh my goodness  there are so many of them  

ducks and geese and also there  were a couple of swans as well

so that's what we saw yesterday we went  to see my mum then we went for a walk  

and then we had something to  eat as well we even saw a rat

as well

i love geese says beatriz me  too i think geese are great  

especially when they are flying  over your house because they fly  

in a certain formation have you ever noticed  that when you see geese flying they always  

fly in a certain formation as they go through  the sky and they make that lovely sound as well

i have to say uh do you know what  

i think i am quite good at making impressions  or sounds of different animals i do a very good  

dog by the way one day i will show you my dog  impression i do the most amazing sound of a dog i  

can't do it in here because it's too loud it's too  loud in here but one day i will show you my dog  

impression and it is amazing in fact whenever  i do it i normally get lots of dogs barking  

in the distance back at mine my bark isn't  that amazing i'm almost like doctor doolittle  

hello also to richard mayorie florence hello  matt lindell nice to see you here as well  

you might actually notice behind me can you see  behind me you might see the tractors behind me  

going by because in the distance the farmers are  actually very busy at the moment they are busy  

preparing their land for the next crop so some of  these farmers at the moment are preparing the land  

for their next crop so over the next  couple of weeks they will be planting  

they will be putting new seed on the ground and  they will be growing next year's harvest so during  

today's live stream you might notice some tractors  some farm vehicles or machinery going by behind me  

yes that is live by the way a lot of people ask  mr duncan the background behind you is it live  

yes it is 100 live just as we are as well don't  forget there are live captions you can have live  

captions today and i will tell you how to do it  you can activate the captions or you can simply  

press c on your keyboard so just go on your  keyboard press c and guess what you will have live  

captions i am very pleased to see that youtube has  allowed me once more to have live captions here

thank you very much for all of your message  already a lot of people already joining in  

very nice hello also to md ariefol hassan nice  to see you here where are you watching at the  

moment i'm always interested to find out mr  steve will be here in a few moments would  

you like to see a cute animal now we just had a  look at some some water animals would you like  

to see another animal that does not swim i have  a feeling this animal would not swim very well

isn't that lovely very close to where  i live in a small field there are some  

lovely cows now this particular type of cattle  is called a highland and as you can see it has  

very long hair and the reason why that is so  is because normally they are found in scotland  

where the weather especially during the winter  can become quite cold so this particular animal is  

called a highland bull or a highland cow and this  particular one is a baby believe it or not this  

is just a little baby and it's very curious it  wanted to have a close look at myself and mr steve  

very nice so that's something we saw last  weekend when we were walking around not yesterday  

unfortunately but it was last weekend and i love  that little animal i love i love it nose in fact

i wish i could go up to it and give it a big hug  but maybe not maybe not not a good idea bye-bye  

bye-bye mr hyland here we go then it's time to  take a look at one of my many lessons don't forget  

there are lots and lots of lessons on my youtube  channel including full english there are many  

different types of full english lessons looking  at different topics mr steve will be here right  

after this and we will be talking about my crazy  trip to the dentist we will also be looking at  

words within words and we can also talk about  avoiding the use of very right after this

hi everybody and welcome to what can only  be described as a video language lesson  

posted on the internet coming to you from the  birthplace of the author a.a milne who wrote the  

stories of winnie the pooh and his various animal  friends plus his human companion christopher robin  

did you know that christopher robin was a real  person in fact he was a.a milne's son england is  

also the birthplace of the english language which  is why we are all here today so without any more  

small talk or jibber jabbering let's get on with  today's full english lesson which will start right

now

your memory can play tricks on you you might be at  work doing something mundane when all of a sudden  

a memory pops into your head it might be a random  moment from your past something that has left an  

impression on you might simply pop up in your head  you might have a flashback a moment in the present  

can send you back in time a certain sound or smell  from your childhood that occurs in the present  

can transport you back to your younger years  sometimes the memories consist of unhappy events  

and moments we would rather forget looking back  on your life experiences is normal you reminisce  

you reflect you consider what occurred by  remembering the events that went before  

as we get older our distant memories become more  precious your memories make you the person you are  

they are your individual experiences  that are an irreplaceable part of you

here are two words that look similar but have  different meanings the words are frill and  

thrill firstly the word frill with an f means  an attractive addition or decoration you make  

something look more appealing by adding frills  you might see a frill on a woman's dress or skirt  

you might add frills to a pair of curtains so  as to make them stand out more so something  

that makes an item seem more appealing is a frill  in business you might see frills being added to a  

particular type of service this hotel is worth  staying at just for the frills the extravagant  

services added to something can be described as  frills of course the opposite can also be true  

if a business wants to cut costs or make something  more affordable then they might take away the  

frills a basic service without the unnecessary  comforts or luxury can be described as no frills  

the air ticket to france is very cheap but  it comes with no frills you are getting the  

basic flight with nothing added as a bonus a basic  service is a no-frills service then there is the  

word thrill which can be either a noun adjective  or verb something that makes you feel a sudden  

rush of excitement can be described as a thrill  it was a thrill to see bts in concert last night  

i was thrilled to be asked to speak at the  seminar the sudden rush of excitement is a thrill  

you feel the thrill your breathing becomes deeper  your heart might suddenly start racing you are  

feeling the thrill the thing that gives you the  thrill is thrilling such as a thrilling fairground  

ride a thrilling movie or a thrilling expedition  the thrilling thing is the thrill the thrill is  

what you get from the thing that is thrilling you  an excited looking person can appear thrilled the  

smile on his face told me that he was thrilled to  be there so as a noun thrill names the feeling as  

a verb you can cause a person to feel thrilled  and as an adjective a person can appear thrilled  

so there you have it frill and thrill two similar  looking words with very different meanings

it's true that the english language can be  quite confusing especially when it comes to  

pronunciation good examples of this occurrence  are the words lose and loose chose and choose  

firstly the word lose means to mislay something  it describes the sudden loss of an item or person  

the spelling of lose often causes confusion  for many when it comes to written english  

the word chose is used in the past tense as  something that has been chosen you chose it  

i chose this dress yesterday whilst out  shopping so despite the similar spelling  

the word lose and chose are pronounced very  differently then we have loose and choose  

firstly the word loose means the state of  slackness or free movement i have a loose tooth  

i should go to the dentist i guess then there  is choose which describes the action of making  

a selection you select something you choose an  item i will choose my wedding dress tomorrow  

it's worth remembering that while chose  and choose are related lose and loose  

are not thus proving that the english language  can sometimes be a very confusing thing indeed

there it was one of my many english lessons  that you can find on my youtube channel  

if you haven't subscribed then now is the chance  subscribe right now and then you will never miss  

another one of my recorded  lessons or any of my live streams

here he comes

hello oh hello mr duncan okay hello lovely loyal  viewers from across the world it's lovely to be  

here again good afternoon well it might be  good morning to some of you or good evening  

but it's good afternoon to us or christmas  it might be christmas where you are  

i don't think the time zones get that far ahead  mr duncan just in case merry christmas everyone  

talking of which christmas talking of which well  i'm going to mention christmas steve because  

tv has already started talking  about christmas there are television  

advertisements advertising christmas there is a  shopping channel that is already selling gifts  

cards and all sorts of things for christmas no no  no mr duncan we don't want it it's only the 10th  

of october we are a very long way from christmas  of course they're telling us they're going to be  

shortages of all sorts of things this christmas  in the uk so people are presumably buying ahead  

apparently they're selling out of frozen  turkeys here in the uk i'm not surprised  

because everyone has been told we haven't  got enough workers to pluck the turkeys  

to get them ready for christmas i'm glad  you said pluck i did starts with a p um  

because of course everyone's gone back to europe  haven't they and the pandemic and everything  

we won't get into the reasons but we haven't  got enough people to work in the abattoirs pig  

farming apparently there's another problem with  pig farms we're really going around we're there  

with us steve let's just address the first problem  what's that well the first promise yes christmas  

turkeys so so the turkey situation i think  there are turkeys but the only problem is  

you have to catch them and also you have to  deliver them as well so we are talking about  

fresh turkeys so many people now are buying frozen  turkeys and putting them in their deep freeze  

just in case just in case just in case then  there's a shortage of what pigs well there's  

a shortage of people to work in in in pig  farms apparently i thought i thought you  

meant a shortage of actual pigs no uh there's not  a shortage of pigs there's a shortage of and i'm  

not talking about the uh slang word for policemen  i mean actual pigs to eat that's good steve um  

assuming you eat pigs which a lot of people don't  i know but we've got a shortage of people to work  

in all sectors of the economy at the moment  because of combination of the pandemic and  

brexit uh apparently we talked about this last  week didn't we about the uh delivery issues  

regarding fuel to the to the petrol stations  well that's over now that's over now but uh  

in a panic move the government asked if foreign  workers that we had told to go back to your own  

home and your own country in brexit oh would  you like to come and deliver some fuel for us  

they asked a hundred thousand and apparently  only ten thousand applied well ten thousand  

that ten thousand was even that it might have  been six thousand but it wasn't many i'm getting  

the feeling you don't actually basically stuck two  fingers up to us and i'm not surprised okay steve  

uh this has nothing to do with learning english i  don't know where you're going people are admiring  

my uh my shirt mr duncan yes well you've only worn  it six times if anyone is watching from turkey  

then this shirt comes from turkey and i don't  know if you can see when you say it comes from  

when you say steve when you say it comes from  turkey do you mean it's made out of turkeys  

oh mr duncan he's always sharp isn't he  sharp his mind is sharp quick brained  

mr duncan one of one of us has to be sharp no  but i i bought this purchased it when we were  

on holiday in turkey many many years ago and i  don't know if this is a well-known brand in turkey  

nobody can see that it's tiny what does it say  then mr duncan it says blessed blessed is it a  

well-known or blast as i would pronounce it okay  steve um if anyone is watching from turkey is  

this a well-known brand in turkey or is it just a  cheapo thing that i picked up from somewhere that  

i shouldn't have been i don't even know what that  means i'm excited today mr duncan you're going to  

have to reign me in you're going to have to calm  me down today after yesterday i was in the dump  

down in the dumps yesterday yes well i did i did  mention yesterday we went to see my mum we spent a  

very long time with her more than we normally can  so that was nice and then we had something to eat  

we had something to eat i mentioned earlier steve  we went to a place that that would appear to have  

a slight rat problem oh yes which we  noticed after we came out of the restaurant  

uh yes you saw like a giant rat didn't you i  saw a rat and also there were lots of wrap traps  

around the outside and all i can say is had we  seen the rat traps before we went in we probably  

wouldn't have actually gone into the restaurant  well you had meatballs didn't you on spaghetti  

yes it was nice and i'm just wondering what those  meatballs were made of yes okay steve probably  

best not to say that because we were there you  see that's where we went well known sort of fake  

pseudo-american what 19 americans sort of 50s  it's not american it's it's italian is it it's  

italian food well it but it's sort of that is  sort of american sort of 1950s american italian  

type thing isn't it well it's it's american  chain isn't it of restaurants i don't know  

only say things if you know it it is it  is it's a chain of american restaurants  

yes i think i think there's an italian theme the  style inside is like an american diner in from  

1950s isn't it sort of thing that's that's it  but but most of the food is italian and if you're  

lucky you might see the occasional rat yes running  around outside you shouldn't be saying mr duncan  

you're slandering a well-known restaurant steve  slander is when you say something that isn't true

facts we did see rats that is true yes do  but then a lot of restaurants we must qualify  

this we're saying a lot of restaurants have  rat problems yes and have rat traps outside  

yes we ought to move on actually but not normally  by the entrance as you go in they were quite  

close it was great but anyway we had a lovely meal  didn't we yes it was it was nice it was very nice  

and uh consoling ourselves if you like if you like  italian food and rats it's a good place to go uh  

right yes interesting yes is it yes yes i want  to be very careful mr duncan um we have um

mori uh asks are you a fan of bts the bts  yes behind the scenes well-known k-pop  

band in fact i are you a fan though well yes  i just said that i just said yes that's that's  

affirmative never heard you listening to them  yes well you you don't know what i listen to  

most of the time what i'm watching  you know i could be i could be bopping  

and dancing around my studio to the latest  bts song yes i like a bit of k-pop are you  

a bit old for that mr duncan no k-pop well i  i once auditioned to join k-pop k-pop group

but but they turned me down they said  i was just too handsome they said no  

sorry duncan you would be too distracting  from all of those beautiful korean boys  

they would all be looking at you instead so i  they rejected me because i was just too handsome  

we've had a dreadful shock this week haven't we  

have we a dreadful shock i had a dreadful  shock concerning a certain local shop that  

has closed forever yes we mentioned it last week  how could we have done it only shut this week oh

oh i don't know i know when i mentioned it i  mentioned it during the week because i'm doing  

live streams every day from monday to friday  so i am i'm doing so many things at the moment  

my brain can't cope well yes so what's the  sad news well our bread shop our local bread  

shop catherine's bakery has closed for  good yes suddenly without any warning  

which is is interesting that you've mentioned  that because in my hand i have the last

tiger bread this is the last tiger bread  that we own from catherine's bakery  

i wonder where that had gone it's the  last ever one so so once we've eaten  

this that's it there will be no more no  more of this oh delicious white healthy

what high carbohydrate bread bread bread is  the word you were looking for we do like that  

particular style of bread so this is tiger this  is the last ever the final one this is this really  

should be in a museum there is a museum in much  where they're not i mean they have other shop  

they have other shops in shropshire yes but so  we can still get that bread if we travel to their  

other shops yes that are not closed why are you  talking like that well people say i don't speak  

clearly enough why are you i speak too quickly you  are talking like that so i'm going to pronounce  

every word extremely clearly unfortunately that  is very annoying okay so there it is the last one  

so so everyone take a look because this is this  is historic you might say they're not interested  

this is the final the last ever tiger bread from  our local bakers shop people will be wondering  

why it's cut in half because it's twice that size  yes we buy them on a saturday two loaves we cut  

them in half and freeze them and then um because  eating a whole loaf takes two or three days and  

anyway cut a long story short we cut them in half  and freeze them i wish you would say that we've  

got enough to last the week please cut your story  short so it's sliced supermarket bread for us from  

now on yes he does he doesn't seem very pleased  about that why has the bread shop shut down well  

saturino that's a very good question yes and it  all relates to the problems we've got in the uk  

with a lack of people prepared to do certain jobs  they cannot find enough people to deliver the  

bread from the factory they've got five shops  factory where they the the bakery they've got  

they've got a facility where they bake the bread  the bread factory then they've got several shops  

around shropshire that's it but they cannot have  find enough delivery drivers to deliver to all the  

shops because nobody wants to do the job delivery  drivers again also they cannot find enough bakers  

to bake the bread because if you're a baker  you have to get up at three in the morning and  

make the bread to be ready okay steve steve  uh so yes if anyone wants to deliver bread  

who was it we were trying to get to come over last  week to try serena was it saturino i think it's  

saturino who drives a truck that's it so uh you  can drive the bread you gotta get up early though  

because it has to be in the shops by  about five in the morning and i think  

truck drivers normally have very strange  hours because they drive during the night  

so they can deliver things the next morning anyway  we seem to have talked a lot about that today  

on friday by the way i went to the dentist and  i did my live stream straight away afterwards  

and i wasn't very well so if you want to see one  of the strangest live streams ever watch friday  

watch my live stream for friday tell me what would  have been good is if you'd done the live stream  

from the dentist well they wouldn't let me  do that i think we could see all the horrific  

gory details yes of your teeth being scraped  it wasn't pleasant it was not pleasant at all  

but one funny thing happened though because  the the dentist was showing me one of these  

these new toothbrushes that's electric  and you press a little button and it goes

like that and she said would you like to  try it so she gave it to me and immediately  

i pressed the button but what i didn't realize  because i wasn't wearing my glasses at the time  

there was a big piece of toothpaste on the  end of the brush so i pressed the button and  

the toothpaste on the brush went everywhere  it went and then the the toothpaste went all  

over the place and she says no no don't turn  it on you have to put it in your mouth first  

at times i've heard that but of course without  your glasses you're as blind as a bat blind as a  

bat there's a phrase we use as blind if you really  want to emphasize that someone can't see or that  

you can't see you say i'm as blind as a bat which  is a strange thing to say because obviously bats  

are they i don't know if they've got bad eyes or  not no clearly we presume they have because they  

use you know sonar i think their eyesight is poor  but they they use sonar they send out a signal and  

then they're they're huge ears that's why bats  have big ears you see their ears are very large  

so they can hear their their reflecting sonar that  they make the sounds of that's how they know where  

to fly without without smashing into a wall tom  rock says hello friends that's a lovely lovely  

thing to say thank you says pardon we have a big  announcement hello hello donna mr duncan can you  

please say congratulations to me because i got  engaged last month and in december i'm going  

to get married donna congratulations  wedding bells are are coming your way  

and you are getting married we can also say you  are getting hitched yes you are tying the knot  

strangely enough uh somebody at work in the same  team as me who is a lot younger than me half my  

age in fact she's getting married uh and she's  saying that she feels under pressure because a  

lot of her friends of the same age as her are all  having are all have all gotten married she's the  

last one in a group of five or six friends from  school or whatever and they're all having babies  

they're all having babies they're all having  babies she's feeding under pressure what did  

they say all her friends are having babies one  after the other not from the same man well let's  

hope not uh and as a result of that she's saying  well i'm feeling the pressure we've got to get  

married and have a baby because all my friends  are having a baby is this something that people  

get uh well do people have babies yes do people  feel do married couples feel under pressure i  

think people have babies because their friends are  having them do you feel pressurized to have a baby

i can't imagine anyone doing that saying yeah  yeah you've got to have a baby i've had a baby  

and now you've got to have a baby  okay come on tell your husband tonight  

put some soft music on and get him get your  husband drunk get him in the mood for love and  

and you've got to have a baby don't think the man  really is usually fairly willing oh i don't know  

about that i think it doesn't always happen not  always but yeah sometimes the man does not want to  

to well maybe after a few years he gets  bored maybe the husband does not want  

to climb aboard but generally speaking  particularly if you've just got married  

don't think there's any problem in that department  no okay mr duncan yes greetings from canada says  

mary congratulations i haven't finished my bit  congratulations congratulations donna but who  

who is the lucky man and how long have you been  seeing him were you going out together on dates  

were you were you having lots of dates lots of  meetings and then one day you both decided that  

you were in love we love each other let's get  married or is it a marriage of convenience  

no let's not say that a marriage of convenience  there's an interesting phrase we say a marriage  

is a marriage of convenience when two people  get married not necessarily because they love  

each other no maybe there is other reasons maybe  there is money involved could be money could be  

all sorts of reasons it's convenient for them  to get married because it pleases the families  

or there's a dowry involved or something okay  marriage of convenience or a shotgun marriage  

okay steve uh let's hope yours is not a shotgun  marriage this sounds like a whole different lesson  

that's a very quick marriage when somebody  discovers they're pregnant and they don't  

want to have that baby out of wedlock so  they get married very quickly we call it a  

shotgun marriage well we don't anymore i know we  don't say it anymore nobody nobody cares anymore  

but they might do in say you know catholics  or something yes okay steve you can literally  

have babies with five or six different men and  and have them all around you and no one cares  

no one even thinks anything about it anymore  in this country the older generations still do  

but yes uh well i'm you know we're not going to  comment whether you know one way or the other  

that's just the way things were i didn't uh  hmm yes so i went to the dentist i have a new  

toothbrush would you like to see my toothbrush so  this is what i bought on a very very special offer  

this was so i couldn't resist buying it so  this is my new toothbrush that i'm going to  

be using from now on to keep my teeth lovely  and clean i'm not advertising this by the way  

so i'm not being paid to advertise this i wish  i was maybe if i just do that i'll do that there  

you go so there is my new toothbrush  just pretend you didn't see the brand  

and i'm going to be using this from now on to  keep my teeth nice and shiny because i don't  

want to lose my teeth if there was there's  one thing i've realized as i've got older  

steve i don't want to lose my teeth i want to keep  them and what did they say to you you hadn't been  

for how many years uh about two and a half two and  a half but i had a good excuse because of covid  

coronavirus kept most of the dentists closed  so there must be a lot of people i can only  

assume that there must be a lot of people at  the moment going to the dentist who have bad  

teeth because during the coronavirus outbreak and  lots of people were in lockdown they also closed  

lots of businesses including dentists we we did  we did i wonder if belarus is on whether whether  

her business had to close during the pandemic  i haven't seen claudia are you here claudia i  

haven't seen her today she could give us all sorts  of tips on how to keep our teeth bright and clean  

uh but they had to really scrape away at your  teeth didn't they anyway have we got a theme  

for today mister i've mentioned earlier the  theme before steve came because i never know  

mr duncan just well i like sometimes i like to  surprise steve sometimes with this thing on my  

toes yes it keeps mr alert isn't he alert on my  toes mr steve should i say you say you're someone  

if you're kept on your toes it means you're  sort of kept in a heightened state of awareness

i think that's right isn't it just as i described  okay steve if you could just end that sentence  

when you're ready here we go with words within  words we are talking about later on but also  

we are going to let me just find what i was going  to do because i'm trying to find it now i've lost  

it mr duncan's doing all the technical stuff you  don't know what's happening it's chaos well one of  

the problems is is my computer is not working  properly so i used to have two screens but i  

don't know why my other screens no longer work my  computer is being very annoying talking of which  

here we go steve we've got to move on okay  i was going to say if anyone knows why  

well i've got a computer expert on steve yeah  using words instead of very so quite often in  

general speaking we will use very in front of  another word when we are trying to show or stress  

how big something is or small or the smell or how  bright it is or how light something is so we often  

use very so i thought it'd be interesting to have  a look at some alternatives so instead of saying  

very you could you just use one word to actually  express that i will give you an example for those  

who aren't sure what i mean for example something  that's very simple you can say it's very simple  

very simple a very simple thing but  instead you don't have to say very simple  

you can just say basic so basic is one word  that expresses very simple basic so when we say  

for example basic english we know we  are talking about very simple english  

and i thought it'd be interesting to have  a look at some and see if we can guess  

what the word is steve and also you as well so you  can join in with this it is a little bit of fun  

right i'm not sure if i get it just yet you  don't get it uh but yeah let's see another  

example yes to help us there's no examples no more  examples we're going to play it now straight in  

straight in no messing around well i think  most people will understand what i mean there  

so instead of saying something is very  simple you can replace it with basic  

if it's not going to be very simple for all the  examples is it well no very something yes that's  

it as you will as you you are about to see right  now right very smooth one word that describes very  

smooth so something that is very smooth we can  replace that phrase with one word right but what  

is the word something that is very smooth  and this is for you out there in youtube land  

you can join in with the live chat and give  us some answers so what if something is  

very smooth is there a word that we can use  to replace that actual word that phrase rather  

very smooth becomes one word but what is  the word think of something that's smooth  

think of something that has a nice shape so  maybe also you are referring to the shape  

of the thing as well so not just how it feels  but maybe also how it looks and how it moves very  

smooth like a baby's bottom yes that's what we  say in this country but not necessarily something  

to touch but also maybe something that looks very  smooth we've got uh mahwah says mohammed says soft  

you can say very soft but we don't want to use the  word very do we that's it flat would be very flat  

so those two words can actually be used with  very so we are replacing that with one single  

word well tomic suggests silk silk yes well yes  that's not actually too bad that's actually pretty  

good it's not the word i've got here but yeah  creamy creamy or silky is another word silky  

but in fact there is a better word than that  a much better word i will show you in a moment

palmyra says i remember michael jackson's song  smooth criminal well there's no answer to that  

really is there was there was another one by uh  sade smooth operator yes he's a smooth operator  

smooth operator and she was very  smooth so smooth she almost melted away  

that's nice uh flawless says tiksha flawless  yes if something is smooth it is flawless  

yes isn't it it hasn't got any bumps in it  or lumps that's it um you're getting the idea  

here we go sleep what about sleek says  helen person i thought it said prison then  

hell in person um yes but all  those words are what where would we  

think why would we use this word in a sentence  well you would use it to mean to mean very smooth  

so if you wanted to say that something is very  smooth you could also your skin is very smooth yes  

so think of something that moves quickly or has  a certain shape as well so we are talking also  

visual so not just touching something because  smooth can also have other meanings as well  

that have been used definitely fit well i  can say now that hell in person is right ah  

well what do you mean a person being smooth do  you no anything no not just a person something  

that that goes through the water easily is sleek  as well okay right i'm getting the feeling that  

but so sleek is something that's smooth  its appearance or maybe the way it feels  

so you can use it as feeling as well you see  so you touch something it's sleek oh very  

sleek very smooth so sleek can replace that  one word so how would we say that in a sentence  

well i just did i just said that thing feels  very sleek something that's sleek right so a  

sleek thing is something that feels smooth or it  looks smooth or maybe the shape of it will move  

very easily maybe through the air or through the  water so the boat the shape of the boat is sleek  

it has a sleek shape it means the shape of it will  move through the water very easily sleek i like  

that word actually it's a nice one to say sleek  but if you were if you were saying for example um

say you were talking about somebody's  skin yes then you would you could use  

the words that other people have used that's  silky um oh yes silky would be a good one  

sleek but oh sleek haven't your head in  prison's at the person said that flat soft yes  

sleek soft so it is a good way of replacing very  with one word here's another one steve let's see  

if we can get this one from russia says angulay  hello angulay from russia with love here he  

goes bond that's all the everyone's talking about  james bond at the moment aren't they well i'm not  

russia from love that was a james bond film yeah  who who was in it sean connery i think was it  

sean connery was it was it was it uh the other  guy you know the guy with the uh the eyebrows  

well mr bond my name is miss my name is bond  bond james bond i'm roger moore and this is all  

i can do with my acting do you know roger moore  started out modeling cardigans in catalogues  

shopping catalogs i'm sure he looked very fetching  yes he did someone is fetching it means they're  

very attractive something attractive something  nice to look at oh you look very fetching in that  

in that dress very fetching i have to say means  you want to you want to fetch them you want to  

catch them and get them oh okay well maybe let's  not get too carried away here we go then another  

one oh florence thank you florence for your  donation on the super chat thank you very much

oh yes there we go uh artful hassan says  mr duncan is wearing a sleek white shirt  

yes it's very smooth smooth and sleek  you want to touch me come on touch me oh  

very sleek yes my weekend has just become  much more exciting triple 07 here we go steve  

very sorry if you are very sorry  we can replace that with one word  

i'm very sorry i was late for the meeting  is that a good sentence that you can use  

your alternative word in well no because  you're using very sorry we're looking for  

i know but i'm just saying you know i'm very  sorry so to be very sorry is not just sorry but  

you you really feel it i'm very sorry you might  describe a person as what they are being what  

they are very sorry but they are also being what  give us an example of a sentence well i've just  

that that was a good one what you just came okay  that was good yes i'm very sorry he was very he  

was very sorry for being late he was very sorry  for his behaviour but we can use an alternative  

word yes just one word so you don't have to even  use very you can just say one word he was very  

sorry raphael suggests apologetic that's a  very good answer yes it's a very very good  

that's a very very very very very that's a  lot of fairies did you like my verys ashamed  

you could be ashamed yes if you felt shame for  the action yeah that you are very sorry about  

it doesn't really describe being very  sorry because ashamed means embarrassed  

so you can say that you were very embarrassed  but that doesn't really describe very sorry  

so there is a great word we will be using  using the the actual word in a moment  

richard suggests sorrowful sorrowful yes  if you are sorrowful that's a good one  

sorrowful but there is a much better word a  much more concise word i always says regret  

to show regret yeah well i suppose  to show regret is genuinely to show  

that you you wish you hadn't done something  so it isn't quite the same as sorry  

but it's not far off no belarusia is here yes  oh oh hello hello claudia i i was showing your  

pictures today i showed them earlier on your  lovely pictures taken in the park and we went to  

the park as well yesterday to have a nice walk  around we we watched the ducks and the geese  

and the swans which i believe you've shown a video  of judging by the live comments that i read before  

coming on i did i did that earlier how about  orien's suggestion of afraid afraid once again  

is not really sorry so afraid it can be fearful  to be scared so there is a much better word  

and it literally does mean very sorry you could  say oh i'm afraid uh i was late for work today  

and not necessarily mean that you are afraid  couldn't you you could say so yes i think that  

would fit you you will like this word by the  way this word is great is if you just say oh i'm  

afraid i was late for work this word is brilliant  then that just means very sorry so i think you i  

think that is a very good suggestion ori mori  if i said that we've had the answer already  

uh we've had the answer already right okay  you mean i think i know what you mean um

maybe we had i think tomic had it and also i  think there were there was someone else as well  

all right here it is you are very sorry you are

apologetic oh so that particular word really  does emphasize and show that you are not just  

sorry about something but you are saying i'm sorry  i'm very sorry i'm i'm really sorry you can say  

that that person was apologetic because they they  were stressing the fact that they are sorry i i'm  

the person is being sorry they were very sorry  they were apologetic so i think i think maybe  

two or three people got that right um yes tomic  was uh very apologetic to his boss for being  

late to work that's it that day yes you'd have  to say very though oh yes tommy was apologetic  

uh for being late to work and tuesday so  apologetic is a great way of just saying  

or expressing deep deep sorrow you are  really sorry about what happened here's  

another one what about what about what about  remorseful well remorseful is also regret  

regret so you might say that a person regrets  deeply but you don't say very regret fine  

so regret also already regret describes that  feeling so you you very rarely say very regret  

but you might be regretful about something which  can also i suppose be used as a synonym of sorry  

something oh i think this relates to us i think  whatever this is whatever the answer to this  

is steve i think it describes us perfectly  annoyed well bitter very special regretful  

no again hateful no no steve very special  something very special one word one word  

something is very special one word can replace  the two words very special that's it so instead  

of saying very special and this is a very good  way of increasing your your word power and your  

vocabulary as well it's a very good way of doing  it alexander sorry seems to be the hardest word  

yes to say people often say that that is uh that  is true um very special unique we've got younique

raphael anna maggie p who and harley quang  have suggested uh alessandra says awesome  

yes is that us are you just saying that we  are awesome i hope so oh that has made my day  

so nice exceptional says sandra very special  exceptional yeah those words all fit awesome

something that's very special  so here is the one that i have  

here's the word that i've got steve but oh yeah

yes exceptional something that  is very special is exceptional  

so maybe you went for some food yesterday maybe  you went to a lovely restaurant to have some food

and you might have had some lovely food from  the menu or maybe there was a very good choice  

or maybe a very special menu or maybe the  food that they served was very special  

well sandra gonzalez did get that right yes  but that's the word mr duncan was thinking of  

but there are other answers and as you know  people that said awesome unique yes uh those words  

all fit so well done well that one seemed to be  people are getting into the swing of it now yes uh  

outstanding yes yes something very something very  special can be outstanding remarkable says richard  

extraordinary unique says uh teacher extraordinary  yes um so i think i think we're starting to get  

the hang of it now but yes particular hmm  could be particular normally is something  

singular or something that you are  focusing on your a particular thing  

here is yes you are always awesome says  artful oh thank you very much isn't that kind  

thank you thank you very much using words instead  of very very tasty phenomenal there's a good one  

phenomenal phenomenal yes phenomenal we'll say it  again just so that people know how to pronounce  

the word phenomenal something is outstanding  amazing out of this world great phenomenal  

out of this world as well and says jimmy  eccentric says satorino not sure if eccentric  

i think she's just saying that we are eccentric  no i see such as we're not we're not talking about  

words to describe us because there are many  and and a lot of them we can't even broadcast  

to be honest delicious appetizing you are still  talking about us of course yes see you guys  

i think you could still you could still describe  us as tasty mouth-watering says tomic i've never  

been described as mouth-watering before there's  no answer to that there's no answer to being  

mouth-watering i've never yummy says a marietta  oh yummy well i've been called yummy a few times  

keep them coming keep them coming normally  followed by heavy breathing on the phone  

so something that is very tasty what  are we talking about beef burgers

not actual food so to replace  the two words very tasty

what could you replace that  with if you only used one word

one word stephen duncan are or mr steve is i do  like mouth-watering i think that's good but well  

we've got that uh artful hassan has suggested  that i like that one beatrice has suggested  

oh has that been up for a while am i using the  words how long has that been up ages oh i see  

i thought these were words for for the last one  right you know steve i am so glad that you are  

concentrating on what is happening i'm out i'm  out of it today there it is so we've got delicious  

something very tasty luscious yes so we're talking  about the the taste you see the taste of something  

yummy we've just we've just read all those  out delectable there's a good one delectable  

delectable you don't hear that word yes very often  delectable something that is very tempting you see  

is something that you see and you think yes the  appearance makes me want to have it are delectable  

very nice something into your design attractive  design yes desirable delectable here we go

palatable there's a good one

varagat says palatable yes if something  is palatable it's very tasty yes zafiragat  

the answer is and this there are other choices  of course so this is the one i have delicious  

ah you see maggie p said delicious  delicious so you are expressing very  

tasty so you wouldn't say that something is  delicious unless it tasted very good unless  

when you were eating it you were thinking oh  beatrice said delicious mmm see juicy juicy is um  

it could be something that's delicious but  uh doesn't necessarily describe what we want  

something if something is juicy it probably is  very tasty yes uh but that can also be used to  

describe something that's it's quite attractive  juicy something juicy really yes would you steak  

would yeah juicy steak yes for example or maybe  a big juicy reward yeah well yeah definitely  

something that you might want appetizing  so something very tasty can be described  

as delicious here's another one steve we'll  have a couple of more our vitas is going  

vitas is going see you later vitas  don't forget i'm back with you tomorrow  

i'm here tomorrow as well because i'm with you  from monday to friday during october thank you

for getting involved here's another one very  thirsty so imagine you're walking through the  

desert there's no water and you're very thirsty so  there's none of that i'm not very thirsty because  

i have a glass of water so what about quench  my thirst what what about something that's  

that they can replace very thirsty so we are  looking for a replacement of very thirsty  

there is one word we can use to  describe very very thirsty very  

you've been out for a a long walk on a hot  day you forgot to take water with you you feel

very thirsty i'm so imagine something that's dried  out imagine something that's very dry imagine  

a desert or maybe something that's been in the sun  all day and you can use the same word to describe  

the feeling of being or feeling very thirsty  one word so a few people have suggested starving  

now that that's um that's to do with food if  you if you are hungry if you're very hungry  

then we could say the word i'm hoping you  haven't got that one as an example but the  

starving could be used to  replace the two words very hungry  

uh which is to do with food this is we are  thirsty you want water or coca-cola or pepsi  

or something well we're being very specific about  the brands oh yes i think rose's rose has got it

so has cloudy yes we have we have some very  interesting dehydrated is a good one though i like  

i like that one i suppose actually you could use  dehydrated if you were very thirsty and maybe if  

you're if you were feeling unwell so if you are  dehydrated it means that you you don't have enough  

water in your body that can cause some sort of  serious illness if you if you are a little posh  

you might say um instead of saying i'm very  thirsty you might say well i feel dehydrated  

i'm dehydrated you wouldn't normally say that it  describes it but uh a doctor might say that the  

person is dehydrated it's quite often used as  a medical term a medical term not normally used  

in normal sentences to describe being very thirsty  you might say it people might think you were a bit

snooty no a bit uh intelligent maybe they would  think you were intelligent well like that that's a  

bad thing oh i don't know about my neighbour he's  so intelligent oh oh no i'm i'm going to avoid him  

i i only hang around stupid people quench means if  you quench that means to to relieve yes the thirst  

yes so you drink something to quench your thirst  you are adding something to relieve that feeling  

here we go the answer very thirsty is and yes  we did have some correct answers patched patched  

patched to be parched is to be dry or maybe  thirsty a person who feels very thirsty is  

parched and sandra suggested the word dry now you  could say that i know some cultures do say i'm dry  

meaning i'm thirsty very thirsty parched  so parched nothing wrong with that um

and uh somebody else suggested it whose name uh  is that cyrillic uh i can't actually i think it  

is yeah so well done to you earlier on as well  a lot of a lot of good suggestions evaporated  

evaporated does mean dry but you wouldn't normally  use that word to describe feeling very thirsty

evaporated you normally use that to  describe liquids where the water has  

evaporated has gone from it yes here  we go steve another one gotta move on

i don't you say anything very tight don't  don't you say anything now when we're saying  

very tight are we talking money are we  talking something that's restricted well  

that that that or thought that is a slang term  so we're talking about the the real use yes  

so if if you describe someone as very  tight with money it means that they're  

mean with money that's it that's not what  we want for this one no something that dress  

was very tight on me that's it my underpants are  very tight they are going right up my bum crack  

oh mr duncan that's rude well my trousers feel  very tight it's not rude on me it happens all the  

time a lot of people at the moment you might not  realize this but there are people out there at the  

moment suffering from tight underwear yes but they  don't have to have all the graphic details it's  

really really it's like marina thank you it's  like dental floss going up there thank you marina  

we know marina's name who got to got the word  correct thank you for telling us uh marina i must  

try and remember that what a lovely name marina  yes it's a place where you keep boats sounds like  

yes place where you keep boats but it also reminds  you that the name of maybe uh maybe um uh what do  

you call what you call uh humans have got sort  of uh they look like fishes down below mermaids  

mermaids what marine they look like people but  they're fishes we have a mermaid sitting on a rock  

what um i love it when i love it sometimes  when steve is trying to remember a word and  

he goes through all of the possibilities he he  paints a beautiful picture i always remember  

that time you were trying to say elvis presley and  instead you just said you know you know who i mean  

the king from represent yeah marina there's a  song with marina in it is it from the puppet show  

in the 1960s um under the sea under the  thunderbirds because you know stingray  

stingray is elvis stingray there's um  there's uh if you ever if you google stingray  

british puppet show would you say from  1960s uh there is a character in there  

uh called marina and at the end of the show  there's a song all about her marina aqua marina

it's a lovely song anyway look it up you have a  song dedicated to you um from saint petersburg i'd  

love to go to russia yeah you're always russian  spasiba i don't know what it means that's one  

russian word i know um right there we go so anyway  very tight we've got cramped we've got compact

foot we've got narrow hello samusama  who says stingy yes that's a person  

who does not like spending money we  can describe them as tight or stingy  

but we are talking about something that that fits  very tight maybe you put your clothes on in the  

morning and maybe instead of your your trousers  maybe you put your wife's tights on it instead  

you wouldn't be married for long if  you would not no tomic suggests stiff  

snug sandra snug snug is quite  a good one that's a good one yes

thank you marina it's a great pleasure  chattering chatting with you too  

if we're chattering yes that's all right isn't it  

chatter yes you chatter you don't normally you  we don't always say chatter ring [ __ ] just

unless your teeth are very like this you're cold

my teeth are shattering yes chatting  just chatting that's fine okay  

um anyway let's have the answer to this  steve because we are running out of time

right there we go yes taught says belarus yes  yes that's a good one taught yes yes something  

that's tight can also be taught did somebody say  tight especially if you were stretching something

it won't it won't stretch very far  

we can say that it is taut yes but we were using  very tight not to mean money hmm here we go

constricting ah yes something that is very tight  can be described as constricting constricting  

think of the snake there is a snake called a boa  constrictor so it makes it crushes the victim  

it crushes all of the bones so he can swallow  it easily so something tight something that fits  

very tightly is constricting  constricted about girded says beatrice  

yes something good yes yes you can you can  you can tell a person to gird their loins  

which means prepare for something you might have  to gird your loins you are clenching clenching i  

think snug is good very tight these these tries  to feel while snug is uh not yes snug is just  

slightly tight isn't it that's it yes that they're  snug constricting means they are very tight maybe  

if you wear something you would say you would  for the word snug you would say a little tight  

maybe if you're wearing something that cuts the  blood supply off to a certain part of your body

i was just watching the pigeons then flying  by behind me something that's very tight is  

constricting yes yes yes if you i mean it's a  very good word snug but snug isn't very tight  

snug is maybe a little tight you know just you  can feel your trousers a snug fit something that's  

it's almost comfortable but maybe not a  little uncomfortable but certainly not  

very tight anyway let's move on there we go  so thank you people are really very noisy  

very noisy like maybe our next door neighbour  with their dog in the morning yes it keeps  

barking well maybe somebody that has i don't know  a swimming pool in the back garden and there's a  

pump that's very noisy yes or maybe you have a  neighbour who keeps playing loud music all night  

or maybe someone who keeps going out  into their garden with their lawn mower  

on a sunday afternoon there's nothing worse than  that disturbing the piece very tight constricting  

not constructing that's a different thing all  together something very noisy constricting very  

noisy so imagine going into a room and the music  is so loud you might say it's very noisy the music  

is very noisy but there is another word we can  use besides that see we've got shirin says loud  

uh yes very noisy well loud can just mean above  a certain level not necessarily very noisy  

something is loud you could say too loud  yes you would say that music is too loud  

or very loud ah atomic says blasting yes  blasting yeah yes that's a good one deafening

like mr steve sneeze you see mr steve when  he sneezes it's very noisy thank you steve  

sheeran says deafening did i say deafening yes  just before you sneezed deafening rowdy yes  

rowdy is i would say rowdy is is probably not  quite very noisy but it's certainly getting there  

do you have to keep burping  in my face i'm not burping  

something happened then something came up from  your stomach i don't know you wouldn't you would  

i didn't mr duncan i don't remember that you did

something definitely came up  though i don't remember that um  

loud yes you would have to say very loud  because noisy and loud are similar words  

so you would have to say for loud you'd have  to say very loud so imagine something that's  

almost painful in your ears something that's so  loud annoying you know something stronger than  

annoying it's almost painful so we are referring  to i know i like blasting i like deafening  

cloudy that's a good one these are  all good words itchy nose mr duncan  

please don't sneeze again rowdy rowdy yes but  i would say rowdy is more equivalent to just  

noisy you haven't got covered have you no we had  a test yesterday so i know we haven't got that  

we have to to go to see your mum in there  so we had to have a test yesterday before  

we could see my mummy and we are both  free of code here's a password abstrapius

obstreperous uh which i think means um can't  remember what that means i think i think it  

is something that disturbs you disturbs  your peace boisterous says belarus here  

here we go then i'm going to show you this is not  very loud but loud i'm going to show the ancients  

there's a good one cacophonous cacophonous but the  these are not really words you would use every day  

so so that's still a good word where am i going  what a cacophony it's a posh word i like it what  

a cacophony of a noisy place a coffin i think that  works cacophonous um thank you i thought why are  

people saying bless you mr steve but there's with  the delay yes he needs he needs lots of blessings  

because he's such a is such a weak wicked  evil sinner booming so lurid no lurid means

yes rude yes buried something obscene so  we're going into a different area now i'll  

give you the answer quickly steve because we are  running rowdy yeah we've just said that's sort of  

not quite enough okay emphasis here it is in  fact we had about four correct answers oh right  

with this deafening there we go something that  is too too loud or very noisy it's deafening  

probably a hundred decibels plus deafening i  would say so anything anything that is too loud  

and maybe it is it is even maybe making your ears  hurt that music it is deafening it's very noisy  

yes yes what a racket yes very noisy i would say  racket what a racket but a racket is an unpleasant  

sound um something it's a noise it's very noisy  but it's also very unpleasant some some noise  

some something that's very noisy or deafening can  be pleasant uh it's very noisy in this nightclub  

i think deafening is even beyond the very  noise i don't think very noisy is pleasant  

thunderous yeah thunderous i like it thunderous

but but that might be in a positive way you see  so you could give a person thunderous applause  

well that means it's being used in a positive  way so deafening is never used in a positive way  

it's always used negatively very noisy is negative  deafening in here deafening is also negative  

so these are are actually virtually synonyms from  from very noisy to deafening they are both used  

in exactly the same way a couple of more steve i  like this one i know the answer is not mr steve

it's very i saw a man walking down  the road he he looked mr steve

i couldn't resist that

are you still there yes i'm still here  very old there is a word we can use  

to replace this is almost like the sentence  game it is very similar it's very similar to  

the sentence game which is why but not not is not  as boring atomic is is getting involved good uh  

ancient it says that's a good one very good i like  ancient ancient that's a very good one i think  

uh leanne dirk you were  looking for the word antique  

yes an antique an antique is a type of thing that  is is old something that that maybe is not made  

or manufactured anymore an antique something  from the past an item from the past classical  

yeah classical music very old music is often  referred to as classical music yes so you could  

use it in the context of maybe a painting  or art music a statue max says obsolete  

yes well that can be used to describe  something very old but maybe also the  

word obsolete also means no longer around  or no longer used or no longer made so  

old we are referring to age here the age of  something something is very old so how would  

we describe it so imagine mr steve comes into the  room and you say oh look over there that that man

classical would be a good word  to describe me so thank you

maybe obsolete maybe that i would agree with  maybe obsolete is a good one for you mr duncan's  

computer is obsolete it is now um i need to  get my computer fixed you know i might have  

to start another indiegogo campaign to  get this computer repair you might have  

to because there is something critically wrong  with it there is i am afraid i am very afraid  

i am scared very very i do  like i like ancient antique um

i just want an e on the end of that instead  of an r everyone's giving words now for you  

elderly elderly yes there's a good one richard  aged says tom rox yes somebody said dinosaur age

yes thank you tom yes updated so atomic thinks  that old people are outdated i'm only joking  

um but are they are they joking  prehistoric yes well i mean yes

a dinosaur is prehistoric yes yes that's another  word for a dinosaur that's it but also you can  

describe you can describe a person as a dinosaur  or something as a dinosaur maybe an old computer  

like mine you might say mr duncan's computer  it's it's it's a dinosaur now because it's  

nearly four years old olden  yes olden that's a good word  

i will give you the answer olden days  here comes the answer everyone one answer

so here old fart old fart yes an old fart now that  is not a very polite way of describing a person

you describe a person who's old usually a  man you would it's usually a man isn't it  

oh look at that you silly old fart  

that's somebody who is just has not kept up  with the times yes is old is physically old and  

also mentally they have not kept up to date with  modern things what's going on around them at all

antiquated says flower that's a good very good  one that's like antique antiquated here we go then  

that person is antiquated please steve  you don't describe people as antiquated  

you you would describe objects as antiquated  anyway yes we've got to move on steve  

ancient ancient something very old is ancient yes  my my raphael got it my parents my parents are  

getting older they're ancient that's often used as  an insult by the way but elderly is you know very  

good so whoever you know lots of people elderly  that uh that man is elderly so we can use this  

generally to describe anything that's very old  ancient ancient history ancient egypt ancient text  

ancient beliefs so ancient something that's very  old something that dates from the distant past

something is kaput well that means it stopped  working it's broken mr steve is cena what  

thank you saturday you could have  put like a smiley face after it  

or something to to make me think that you  weren't being serious and you were joking

normally we would use an emoji to indicate that  uh we're being humorous yes maybe you're not  

grey beard yes old-fashioned  worn out anyway steve um  

i'm beginning to feel you know yeah  we've got the answer let's move on steve  

we don't have time for our words within words  so i'm going to look at that tomorrow because  

i'm back tomorrow so we don't have time for that  but we have time for this if you are very scared

and of course this month halloween halloween  is coming if you heard that that was my stomach  

rumbling there's mr steve i can smell that  bread normally normally it's it's my stomach  

it's making a noise it's going to move off camera  a minute because i need to blow my nose oh lovely

oh yes that's nice we don't want any drips from  my nose that's what happens when you get elderly  

yeah you can't control your bodily fluids  so i'm just thinking now maybe all of your  

descriptions were actually right very scared  terrified that's a good one says max poe  

that's a very good one horrifying says  jimmy very good and anna says terrified  

petrified says tomic there's a good word i like  that one petrified petrified like as the tractor  

is you're trying to go by then oh yes live  if you're petrified that word derives from

something turning to stone yes isn't it  petrified it literally means so scared  

you you become rigid like stone if you look  at medusa the medusa it's the woman with the  

snakes in her hair and apparently  if you look at her he will turn

to stone you were petrified yes that's a good  one i like that one but to be mixed up with  

putrify which means rotting flesh if  something rots and goes all smelly and bad  

we can say it oh we're using a lot of big words  today mr duncan frightened terrified fearful uh

i yes addie aidy um i i know people are joking i  know i know people aren't being serious um afraid  

very scared afraid adi mr duncan and mr steve  are masters of teaching english they are  

not senile both are very worthwhile i but  i know i know everyone's joking we like to  

you know you've got to be able to make fun of  yourself yes um because because everyone else is  

we have to make we have to criticize ourselves  because everyone else is doing the same thing  

chilling yes very scared something is chilling  that film is chilling very i'm very scared as i  

said halloween it's terrified we've had that  halloween is coming at the end of the month  

and that also can be very you know  it can make you very scared petrified  

uh yes very scared we've had that one already yes  panicky do you remember panicking two minutes ago

i've got the attention span of a goldfish  yes you know what you know you know when a  

fish goes round inside its little bowl around  around and then it goes around and it forgets  

that it's already been around the bowl and  it always thinks that it's visiting somewhere  

new it goes round and round that's mr steve's head  

panicky yes panicky well panicky is is is um  you might get very scared and then get panicky

as a result i don't think necessarily panicky is  a replacement for the word very scared because  

panic is a specific condition that's it well  panic can be scared but it can also be used  

in many other ways yeah this particular word is  one specific actual word that means very scared  

which quite often means fearful yes uh  monica fearful very scared you're fearful  

yeah that's a good one so here here's the answer  we have one more and then we have to go we've  

almost come to the end chilling thank you yes  oh beautiful well done to those who got it right  

petrified i think tomic was the first  person to get that one so when you think of  

the action of being scared quite  often you will also be still like this

when you are shocked when you suddenly  feel very scared we might say that you are  

petrified because you can't move so quite  often fear or being scared by something  

might leave you unable to move because you  will be so scared and that is why we often  

use the word petrified but terrified which a  lot of people have used is equivalent that's  

it that's good no you can use terrified they're  on that day there are actually many choices  

many choices that you can have many choices  and a lot of people have got them uh but the  

two that would most closely relate to that would  be petrified and terrified i would say um spooked  

spook just means if you so you just sort of oh  more surprise spooked spooked uh yes frightened  

frightened yeah that's just that would be  equivalent to scared yes frightened is not  

very scary it's not you you have to say i'm very  frightened that's it because frightened and scared  

are sim are very similar so you'd have to say i'm  very frightened steve guess who has just arrived  

he's just arrived louis mendes right married  grandchildren married grandchildren blimey  

okay why is that shocking well it's not shocking  it's just um you know when your grandchildren get  

married that's quite an achievement um that  means have they got children are you a great  

great grandfather louis i have seen if your  grandchildren are married and have children  

are you a great great grandfather i want to ask  you i have seen louis and some of his family  

yes i have photographs and we can't wait to  visit france can we again i can't wait to  

visit anyway we will visit you i can't wait to  visit anywhere i will be happy if i can go down  

to the end of my garden path to be honest i can't  wait to be able to to be able to just go out and  

travel around although we did go to tamworth  yesterday and we had meatballs and burger  

in in a restaurant that obviously has some sort  of rat problem right yes i don't think we could  

keep disparaging uh you know this uh  i'm not disparaging you if i was saying  

that you you would say we can't we might  get we might get thrown off youtube it's  

slander zander no it's not slander it's  only slander if it's not true but then  

you know we've got to be careful there are  definitely rat traps uh and we can go to india  

of course and rats because i saw one with  my eyes taj mahal i'd love to see that um

have we got one more is that it mr  duncan uh we'll squeeze one more in and  

what about another word just a joke just a joke  it was just very serious steve yes just like  

us quite often we are very serious when  people watch us they know that we are  

is that sweden florence very serious even though  repeat even though at the moment we're having two  

separate conversations who are you talking to  steve i think that's the swedish flag there  

i should know the number of times we've shown  flags of the world and i should know them all  

is that florence yvonne is that sweden uh it's  very small on the screen here come to toulouse  

yeah to lose oi morim's in two moves have about  two people we can visit we've got so many places  

i don't think that's two loos i  think i think he's just saying that  

he has a toilet upstairs and downstairs he has  two loos a play on words no it's switzerland  

switzerland oh switzerland oh i've always  wanted do you know that's the one place that  

the world always wanted to go to switzerland  but it's very expensive when i was younger  

we had a school trip in our this would be back in  the 1970s and they they have school trips don't  

they to other parts of the world other countries  and we had one where they said oh um go back to  

your home to your parents and say we're going  to switzerland how many would like to go well of  

course being very switzerland's always been a very  expensive place to go and all i could think of was  

lint chocolate because all i know is that lint  chocolate is very expensive what it was still is  

lovely chocolate i wanted to go to switzerland i  wanted to go skiing i wanted to see the mountains  

but unfortunately because my parents hadn't got  enough money we i couldn't go i thought you were  

wealthy i thought your family was rolling in money  no no far from it uh i mean my father had a good  

job but he spent it all okay i to be honest  with you i'm more interested in this subject  

i bet you are then i bet you are that this subject  this subject suddenly seems a bit dull i want to  

find out more about steve's poor family well we  weren't poor but just dad was never very good at  

saving money no he spent every penny and borrowed  even more i shouldn't disparage my family  

that's fine it's fine it's fine it's fine  it's fine what's the worst that can happen um  

yes so solemn very serious solemn there's a  good word no right nora hello nora um solemn  

is a very good word very serious very solemn okay  um somebody that's always very serious you could  

say that the priest was very solemn yeah when  he was caught doing what he was doing mr duncan

i am i feel very serious  there's another word referent  

oh reverent yes has anyone got the word  reverend here we go steve the answers can

grave grave but we've got  sober we have that's very easy  

all right steve we had quite a few answers of  grave we did yes solemn grave severe um yes grave  

but um yes solemn but you got that what's that  what other word i used um i can't remember

wither no that one doesn't work deep yes if  someone is very serious that you can describe  

them as very being very deep thinking a lot  deep he's got he's got hidden hidden things  

that you want to discover a deep person you  know they don't say very much they're always  

very serious and and you want to find out  more about them what are their hidden depths

to go into a subject so instead  of just explaining the subject  

briefly you will go into all of the details  you'll go in deep but here we have very serious  

grave so maybe a situation that is  very serious can be described as  

grave or maybe if you are in very serious danger  we will say that you are in grave danger probably  

so serious in in in fear of your life if you're in  grave well grave danger grave you're buried in a  

grave so if it's grave danger it means you're in  danger of going into a grave i.e being killed yes  

or if you are in a grave then i would say that  you are already in a very difficult situation

maybe you used to say i'm deep deep you know yes  you are not deep stern yes there's a good one  

you are like an open book you are  saturino stern i'm deep steve is like a  

an open book i'm shallow i'm the opposite  of that i'm shallow i wouldn't say shallow  

very yes i just mean you you reveal  yourself what about stern stern  

yes very serious i wouldn't i wouldn't  say stern that just means sort of

very stern serious angry or unhappy  something stern you give someone a stern  

warning you might even say that that  could replace very strict yeah stern  

and strict are very similar anyways i'm  to have some of that last loaf of bread  

from our bakery which is shut down it's very sad  that this this is the last time that you will ever  

see bread yes tiger bread you will never see this  again well rosa says are we having tea cakes today  

no because the bread shop has closed no forever  yes so now you can see the seriousness this is how  

serious it is this is very serious this is grave  yes it's a grave situation it's a grave situation  

so we not only do we not have this anymore we also  won't have tea cakes or hot cross buns no oh my  

god i've just remembered oh that's our favourite  no more hot crust buns i mean we can get them but  

they won't be they'll be sort of you know factory  produced ones which are never as nice as the local  

i'll have to make them they won't be fresh so  there it is take one last look this is the last  

catherine's bakery gone for good tiger  bread is no more so we're going to eat this  

and this is the last one well i'll have it this  way mr duncan i'm going to tell you something  

into the kitchen's that way steve is taking it  into the kitchen so so but by the time i finish  

my livestream chomping on a piece of  that delicious bread for the last time  

steve will be eating the bread anyway thank you  steve i know anna there isn't another bakery in  

much where not there isn't a neat one no it's  only one that's it i i we did think of getting  

a bread maker but we'll go into that i don't  think we'll bother no lovely to be here as ever  

lovely to interact with all you wonderful people  around the world and all the many countries and  

i shall hopefully see you all next week  so steve will be back next sunday and i  

will be back tomorrow can you believe it  i'm doing another week of live streams  

from monday to friday and then next sunday we are  back together thank you mr steve thank you have  

a lovely week everybody and uh see you again  and there he goes mr steve has left the studio  

he's now going into the kitchen where he will  make himself i think he's going to have some toast  

some toasted bread i think so thanks  steve see you next week and i will see you  

tomorrow can you believe it i am back with you  tomorrow we will be looking at words within words  

tomorrow i don't have time today to do it but  we will do it tomorrow i hope you've enjoyed  

this live stream it's been nice being with  you again and i will see you all tomorrow

where are you mr duncan oh there i am i thought i  pressed the button then but i didn't i'm back now  

see you tomorrow 2 p.m uk time is when i'm with  you again and we will do this all over again  

from 2pm uk time tomorrow monday to friday i am  with you with my english addict quick fix see you  

tomorrow take care i hope you've enjoyed today's  live stream i hope you've had a good weekend and i  

hope you will have a good week with me from monday  to friday 2 p.m uk time is when i'm here with you  

and of course until tomorrow you  know what's coming next yes you do

ta ta for now

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