English Love Words - Shakespeare - Improve Your Listening - Sunday 17th February 2019 - Dunc & Steve

shall I compare thee to a Sunday afternoon thou art really really brilliant rough winds

do blow from my underwear yes here we go again it's Sunday afternoon live from Much Wenlock

in England on a Sunday afternoon this is live English [Music] it sure is baby [Music] I'm

not the type of person who complains about things well maybe from time to time but today

I have a very good reason to complain because I'm not feeling very well and I have a feeling

I have a strange suspicion that it's all mr. Steve's fault that's what I think anyway hi

everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you okay I hope so are you

happy well are you happy I really really hope so here we go once again it's a Sunday yes

it's a fun day it's time to improve your English listening it is such a lovely day today now

I was going to go outside to do some little bits in the garden live but unfortunately

this morning it was raining so I decided not to but can you imagine my surprise and disappointment

when the Sun came out just a few moments ago would you like to have a look outside this

is the view at the moment outside the window look at that an absolute glorious Sunday afternoon

here in England and I hope where you are you are having a lovely day as well that is a

live view right now looking across the Shropshire countryside and it's a beautiful day also

it's very warm as well quite mild about 13 degrees I kid you not so it's quite a warm

day today quite sunny I was going to go outside but I changed my mind because I thought maybe

it would start raining later but as you can see the Sun is now out and it looks amazing

outside I must say so my name is mr. Duncan and I'm here every single Sunday afternoon

from 2 p.m. UK time with my live English stream last night I was not very well now I'm not

sure why there are there are several possibilities as to why I was feeling unwell last night

now first of all I think I may have overindulged that's a great word there it is over indulged

so that's the past tense of overindulge which means to have too much of something so if

you overindulge it means you have too much of something too much of one thing or maybe

too much of something that normally if you have too much of it it will make you ill such

as food or alcohol so yesterday i i over indulged with sweet things also i have a feeling that

mr. steve may be responsible for my my rather unwell stomach last night one o'clock this

morning in fact it was 1:00 a.m. this morning i was sitting on the toilet not feeling very

well and you know what I think it's mr. Steve's fault we will investigate that a little bit

later on I think mr. Steve tried to poison me that's what I think anyway so that's my

suspicion we will get to the bottom of that later on also of course we have you on the

live chat hello to you thanks for joining me on this Sunday of course I teach English

here on YouTube on my youtube channel there are lots and lots of video lessons as well

we will be taking a look at some excerpts from my video lessons a little bit later on

don't forget also coming later mr. Steve is here as well [Music] dip dip dip do you it's

a Sunday afternoon and this is live English if you want to get in touch you can there

is no reason for not knowing what the email address is and of course you can follow me

on Facebook as well talking of which yes it was mr. Steve's birthday yesterday can I say

a big thank you to all those of you who sent messages kind messages and thanks for all

your good wishes yesterday it was mr. Steve's birthday maybe if I twist his arm a little

bit he might tell us how old he is now so mr. Steve yesterday celebrated his birthday

can I also say a big thank you to Eric Olga and Petros for your lovely donations especially

Olga and also Eric who said could you please give this money to mr. Steve for his birthday

so thank you very much for your lovely donations and yesterday we had a lovely meal mr. Steve

and myself we went for a meal and we had a lovely dinner and this is what we ate there

it is so that's what we had yesterday thank you very much once again to Olga for your

lovely gift and because of your gift we were able to have a lovely birthday meal so that's

what we had yesterday can you see what we are eating we are actually eating something

called cottage pie it's cottage pie a traditional dish made with potatoes and also I think it's

beef and you can see there on the plate there are also some carrots and cabbage and lots

of gravy in fact there was so much gravy on my plate it actually spilt over the edge you

can see there that the gravy has gone over the edge of my plate so there it is yesterday's

meal that we had in Much Wenlock thank you very much to Olga it was it was your donation

that we used yesterday to have the meal so thank you very much for your lovely birthday

gift it was for mr. Steve's birthday so thank you very much for that isn't that lovely so

I must admit I was I was rather touched I was rather overwhelmed by the kindness that

you always show every week not only by tuning in and sitting with me but also for your lovely

donations as well so thank you very much for that I do appreciate it and mr. Steve was

very grateful as well thank you for your treat we will be talking about Steve's birthday

there there are some gifts here that I gave to him yesterday I always like to give things

that are useful I don't know about you but if I give a present to someone I always like

to give something that is useful something that someone can use so it might be something

that you use everyday in your life maybe an item of clothing baby something useful that

you will use every day so that's normally what I do if I give a present to someone I

always think hmmm I think I would like to give something that's useful so that's what

I did yesterday I gave mr. Steve some useful gifts also don't forget to days ago or is

it three days now three days ago it was Valentine's Day did you get anything nice for Valentine's

Day we are talking all about love love is in the air everywhere I look around we are

talking about love did you get any Valentine's Day cards did you get something nice for Valentine's

Day now traditionally people would send Valentine's cards to through those who don't know that

they are loved by that particular person so quite often you will give a Valentine's card

to someone who you admire or maybe even someone you love but they don't realize it so that's

one of the reasons why we have Valentine's Day it gives you the chance to let someone

you like to let them know that they are liked or even loved from a distance of course I

did get some Valentine's Day cards yesterday in fact I got loads on the 14th of February

every year we celebrate Valentine's Day and I do believe in many other parts of the world

you have your own special day as well I believe in China they are they have a day called lovers

day and that's where all of the lovers get together and they go for romantic walks together

and they share something special together maybe a meal or perhaps they will give each

other little gifts so yes we had Valentine's Day on the 14th and on the 16th it was mr.

Steve's birthday so lots of things going on over the past few days we have the live chat

would you like to have a look at the live chat ok let's go to the live chat right now

because I know that you are very eager to take a look who was first o matrix congratulations

to matrix you are first on the live chat well done to matrix you are first on the live

chat you have a very fast finger your finger is very quick at clicking also Tomic is here

Emma Martha franceska Julia Sarah hello Sarah also blue thunder hello to blue thunder by

the way blue thunder thank you very much for your message that I received during the week

asking if you could become a moderator now unfortunately I already have two moderators

here so I have Belarusian and also Pedro but maybe in the future maybe who knows you never

know you never know you know what life is like it is full of surprises who else is on

the live chat let's have a look also we have Francisco let's go back a little bit on the

live chat of course it has jumped ahead slightly so let's go back slightly and have a look

Martha is here also kneecapped yes kneecapped if you overindulge it means to have too much

of something and I think yesterday because of Valentine's Day and also mr. Steve's birthday

we did have a lot of chocolates to eat so maybe I overindulged but I also have a feeling

that mr. Steve may be responsible for my bad stomach I was really ill this morning I was

sitting on the toilet at one o'clock this morning feeling really unwell I can't believe

I'm here now I'm sure you really wanted to know that Philly feels sunny is here hello

to you also lali lali oh hello lolly lolly isn't that nice also Vanille doh and Sandman

is here Louie is here it was mr. Steve's birth yesterday that's why you ate so many sweet

things you might be right there I think so because well we had Valentine's Day and of

course we gave each other lots of chocolates and then of course it was mr. Steve's birthday

and I bought mr. Steve some chocolates for that as well also our neighbor gave us something

nice yesterday as well my next-door neighbor gave us a lovely cake we will have a look

at that later on also we have Emma hello Emma Emma it is still cold in the morning and at

night here but it was very mild and a bit warm in the daytime I have a feeling that

spring is just around the corner Thank You Emma yes it really does feel like spring is

in the air today in fact let's have a look outside shall we because this is the view

now outside the window it looks so amazing it looks so green it looks so bright it looks

so spring-like it really just feel as if spring is on the way and yes I do like spring already

in the garden the daffodils are starting to come out of the ground they are slowly but

surely growing so yes they are coming along quite nicely we also have on the live chat

Sarah hello Sarah I don't like Valentine's Day because it reminds me of green dogs I'm

very intrigued to find out what that means what do you mean green dogs ooh okay I'm I'm

rather intrigued now by that Pedro is here hi Pedro of course he is one of our moderators

on the live chat Lena is here when is your birthday mr. Duncan my birthday is a long

way off my birthday is in August so yes my birthday is a long way off so I have to wait

for about another six months before my birthday arrives Palmyra in Klaipeda the port of Lithuania

there was a festival of lights created by the Masters from Italy it was stunning and

it was a gift for Valentine's and also Independence Day as well so that's in Lithuania Thank You

pal Mira for that and as you know I love lights every Christmas I always put lots of lights

on the front of the house hello mr. Duncan from Tenerife Roberto is here hello Roberto

nice to see you as well Lou sweet is here watching from Thailand hello Thailand nice

to see you here as well I know I have a lot of people watching in Thailand yes mean says

hello mr. Duncan I really want some dark chocolate do you like it I like milk chocolate and dark

chocolate so I don't I don't really mind in fact I like most flavors of chocolate I like

strawberry flavored chocolate mint flavored chocolate strawberry orange so many the only

chocolate I don't like is coffee chocolate so you know when you get a box of chocolates

and inside there well there are always chocolates that you don't like and then the ones I always

avoid are the coffee chocolates I'm not a big fan I don't like coffee flavored chocolates

so no I'm not a big fan of those to be honest ts is here yes it looks like winter has gone

I can't believe how warm it is today it is actually really hot here in the studio it's

so hot in here today I'm baking vert outside it's lovely as well 13 degrees today it really

does feel as if spring is on the way garden feed the birds is here hello to you let me

just try and get that back it seems to have disappeared this is the problem you see with

YouTube sometimes it jumps ahead on the live chat mr. Duncan gluttony is one of the seven

deadly sins well maybe maybe that is the problem maybe that's the reason why I had a bad stomach

during the night maybe I over indulged maybe I had too much Valentine's Day chocolate perhaps

Thank You Gardens feed the soul also emma is here I hope your stomach will completely

get well soon Thank You Emma yes I have a feeling it wasn't the chocolates I don't think

it was the chocolates to be honest I think it was mr. Steve I will explain more about

that later on don't forget Steve is here today and we are talking about a few things today

on the live chat of course we are talking about love love is in the air everywhere I

look around when do you have your special Valentine's Day now I know in some countries

that you you have Valentine's Day or lovers day on a different day also today we are talking

about Shakespeare because a lot of people are discussing Shakespeare at the moment because

there is a movie out right now in the cinemas called all is true and it is about the work

and also the life of William Shakespeare so that is a movie that is out at the moment

and lots of people are talking about William Shakespeare so today we are going to discuss

words and expressions created or made popular by Williams Shakespeare that's one of the

things we're doing today also as I mentioned love is in the air it sure is and as a way

of celebrating that I thought it would be nice just to show it an excerpt from one of

my English lessons there are lots of English lessons on my You Tube channel and you can

find them all over the place they are all over YouTube so now we are going to take a

look at one of my youtube video lessons and this is all about the subject that we will

be talking about as well as Shakespeare as well as brexit as well as the weather and

also as well as mr. Steeves keep fit routine we'll be talking about that later on as well

but right now here is an excerpt from my love lesson shall I compare thee to a summers day

thou art more lovely and more temperate rough winds do shake the Darling Buds of May and

summers lease hath all too short a date so long as men can breathe or eyes can see so

long lives this and this gives life to thee hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England

how are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy I hope so in this lesson we will

talk about something we all feel we all need we wish to give but also something that can

be hard to find or receive a word that can bring both happiness and sorrow into our lives

in today's lesson we will take a look at that she could fall at a word l.o.v.e loss [Music]

[Music] the word love means a strong feeling of affection the emotional bond between two

people who are very close to each other the physical or sexual attraction felt by one

person towards another to have an interest in something which gives you great pleasure

such as a hobby or an interest it is a question that has been asked by mankind again and again

and will continue to be so what is love we know that it is not tangible it cannot be

held in our hands yet to most people love is a real thing it reaches both from us and

into us it exists in our mind but lives in our heart I'll be still my beating heart the

heart is the symbol of love there are many possible reasons for this the heart keeps

us alive and in theory so does the need for love to be loved is probably everyone's goal

in life even for those who appear not to need it to give your love is to offer something

valuable and precious your heart is a precious thing without it you cannot live many people

would say the same thing about love [Music] sweet as a kiss on a summer's day how does

love occur how does it develop well normally at first two people will spend time together

they get to know each other they go out on dates maybe they will go and see a movie together

or go out with their circle of friends over time they become closer and more intimate

as their relationship grows so does their love if a couple's stay together for a long

time they may wish to get engaged this makes the relationship official and usually leads

to the next step marriage there are various types of love which have different paths and

emotions connected to them familial love the love of a person through a family tie such

as the love of a mother towards her son platonic love a close love shared by two people but

without the sexual relationship although the earlier definition of this phrase meant something

quite different unrequited love a love that has been given but not returned he loves her

but she does not love him puppy love the innocent or naive love experienced by a young person

of all the subjects ever written about in literature love must surely be the most common

one used. many poets and authors have strived over the years to capture the essence of what

love is many have tried and many have failed famous authors such as Emily Bronte Catherine

Cookson Charles Dickens and the playwright William Shakespeare have all used the theme

of love in their works just like any language there are many uses of the word love to be

found in English love struck to be so deeply in love you cannot think of anything else

love child a child born to parents who are not married love affair a romantic or sexual

relationship between two people who are not married a strong enthusiasm or liking for

something love bite a temporary mark left on the skin caused by being bitten or sucked

love handles the Bulge made by having too much fat around the waist love nest a place

such as a house where two lovers spend their time together sometimes in secret love birds

to people showing their love and affection for each other publicly for everyone to see

[Music] possibly the most famous love story ever written tells the tale of two young lovers

whose relationship causes happiness heartache conflict and death it is Romeo and Juliet

written by the English playwright William Shakespeare the famous scene where Juliet

calls out to her sweetheart contains one of the most well known lines of any story or

play ever put the paper there are many words connected to love affection the feeling or

action of showing that you care for another person romance any subject or action that

expresses love a romantic inner smitten to be strongly attracted to someone she is smitten

with the young man fancy used informally to express an attraction to someone I really

fancy you enamoured to fall in love with someone crash a feeling of love or an innocent traction

to someone normally associated with teenagers the girl has a crush on her teacher lovely

something that is appealing or attractive in a special way passion the need to be close

to another person in mind and body the strong desire to do something [Music] there are many

expressions for showing love fall in love begin to love someone head-over-heels in love

deeply in love for for someone feel love for one person make love the act of sex between

lovers worship the ground he or she walks on to be completely devoted and in love he

will do anything to make that person happy fall out of love to stop loving someone [Music]

how does it feel to be in love when you are in love life feels so great nothing else in

the world matters there is only you and your sweetheart the days are always bright and

your heart sings with joy because you have someone to hold someone to trust and someone

to love who loves you [Music] how does it feel to lose love [Music] when you fall out

of love it feels like the end of the world you feel like you will die your heart is broken

into a million pieces your friends will say kind words they will tell you that everything

will be ok they say that there are plenty of other fish in the sea but I wanted that

fish and it swam away [Music] [Music] every year all around the world those in love get

the chance to show their affection to a husband wife boyfriend girlfriend or maybe to someone

who does not even know that they are look for example here in the UK we have Valentine's

Day this happens each year on February 14th cards and chocolates are given as tokens of

love and some couples will become engaged on this date the words used between levers

tend to be special and are spoken as a way of showing that the other person is dear to

them words such as angel you are my angel darling I miss you darling sweetheart I love

you sweetheart treasure you are my treasure honey kiss me honey baby call me later baby

precious you are my precious honey bunny hold me honey bunny we call these terms of endearment

[Music] have you ever fallen in love have you ever been in love did you receive a Valentine's

card recently [Music] dip dip dip to do it's a Sunday it's a fun day it's time to improve

your English yes we are here once again on a Sunday afternoon and here he is the birthday

boy himself here he comes looking very colorful today and he is officially another year older

yes it's mr. Steve hello hello world of English everybody out there are fans and happy birthday

for yesterday thank you it's all over one day and then it's like it never happened it

is birthdays come just once a year that's what I said to you yesterday can we once again

say thank you very much to Olga who sent us a lovely donation and she said she said please

let Steve have that treat yourself to a nice meal or something and that's exactly what

we did yesterday we went for a meal yesterday in town and there you can see the meal we

had we had some lovely cottage pie now cottage pie that's made with beef know that that chef

yes cottage pies made with beef you're right you're right mr. Duncan yes shepherd's pie

looks very similar yes that is made from lamb so there is cottage pie and shepherd's pie

so the one we are eating there is cottage pie made with beef and that's what we had

thank you very much once again to Olga who made a lovely donation and said go on have

a meal for mr. Steve's birthday so that's exactly what we did we did yeah so pretty

good oh thank you very much and I get the feeling you enjoyed it Steve I did you can't

beat a nice pie that's a very traditional sort of British or English pie minced minced

meat beef in this case speed onions gravy and mashed potato on top yes and your absolute

favorite I would imagine it's one of my favourites but yeah they put so much gravy on my meal

it was actually flooding over the side of the plate today it was going everywhere anyway

Steve is your it was your birthday yesterday and you did have some gifts you had some cards

and also have another thing I've noticed s-- have noticed as well because you're another

year older I've noticed that you've started doing some some more exercise in fact you've

discovered a new exercise haven't you let's take a look at mr. Steve's new exercise there

it is look oh that looks very gay mr. Duncan it looks a bit gay you do skip in a very gay

way but it looks very good though it looks I get the feeling that skipping is a very

good exercise well it is when I first I've been doing it a week just over a week now

yeah and I'll tell you the first few days I was exhausted it's very exhausting a form

of exercise because I used to like running but I can't do so much of that because I've

got a bad ankle now so skipping I'll tell you it very uses we discussed this last week

but you get very out of breath so there it is proof that mr. Steve is now doing some

very strenuous exercise I really have to have a look at that again there is Steve skipping

in the garden just before we came on air and I must say you're pretty good at it look at

like I couldn't have done that last week I've got a lot fitter that's amazing I want to

be able to just sort of twiddle it twiddle it you can sort of twiddle it you can sort

of cross your arms over and do all sorts of things I don't think you're ready for anything

technical at the moment I think that's true I think just getting the Rope over over the

top of your head I'm trying to get fit you see fitter because we go for a lot of walks

but I never feel as though that's enough for me I want to get my heart rate much higher

because I used to do lots of running so I want to get fit again really fit well that

is the whole purpose of exercise isn't it to get your body moving but also to get your

heart sort of going quicker or faster than it normally would you've got to be careful

it's gotta be careful you start getting into you you know our age you don't over overdo

it what's that on my neck did you see that though giant Adam's apple there's something

very strange going on on Adam's apple on my neck see the the the voice box that you can

see so have you got a man okay then very fascinating yep that's how you can always tell if if a

man is dressed as a woman look for the Adam's apple that's always the giveaway do you meet

many men dressed as women no but that that was you know people used to say oh I think

that's a man dressed as a woman because they've got a very large Adam's apple yeah there's

women don't have a have a large Adam's apple do that there's another way of checking as

well well yes but you know being polite mr. Duncan okay you've got a very large Adam's

apple there's no way you could ever dress up as a woman and get away with it that is

true I although I have no no feeling I have no urge to dress up as a woman let's make

that very clear yes but neither of us do my Adam's apple is so large it's very large whereas

mine of course is quite slender yes I think I could get away with dressing up as a woman

yes and you have let's face it for fun so you've got some all right not for employment

okay then Steve we don't need the so some words and expressions to do with skip well

just what just a word skip itself so skip means does it a hop on one foot and then the

other or what I'm doing they're skipping you can skip down a street can't you yes without

a rope and you're sort of hopping from one foot to the other it's not something a man

would normally do otherwise you might have tracked all the wrong attention well you see

but you see men skipping what you do boxers do yes I meant by the minute Jim we're just

down the scope out walking down the street yes well you know skip down the street as

a man but who does I've never seen anyone ski seen girls skipping down while perhaps

not so much these days but yeah do you skip in your country I'm sure it's probably not

cool anymore in this country another one it skip means to bounce over a surface so if

for example like like like a stone if you throw a stone over water that's good fun the

scone the stone skips over the water you can also throw scones into the water but they

will just sink stones so I like skipping I like throwing standing skip on the water they

also call it skimming skimming as well that's right yes yes I used to do that as a kid I

used to throw a stone across the water and you you would try to get the stone to skip

on the water instead it's not easy to do it's not easy to do actually it's similar to a

person skipping you can see you're sort of bouncing anything else yes it also means to

to miss miss something to miss something or miss out something if you skip something like

if you skip school okay for example it means that you're missing school if you skip a grade

yes it means that instead of going from grade 1 to 2 to 3 you might go from 1 to 3 okay

and skip a grade 2 because you're good enough and you don't need to do great so maybe you

might skip the grade if you are very intelligent exactly maybe they think you are so super

intelligent and that your brain is so large that you can go ahead of everyone else is

you can skip a grade if you see somebody we were just talking about love mr. Duncan if

you see somebody and you think oh they're so attractive your heart might skip a beat

hmm so if you are in love might skip a beat so if your heart isn't beating regularly and

you think it misses a beat you say that you're my heart skipped a beat hmm if you are very

if you are excited or overjoyed or maybe something excites you physically yes your heart will

go fast Oh if you want to do something quickly say you want to read a book quickly oh you

might skip some pages you might miss some of some of the pages out you might skip quickly

through the book that would be similar to the skimming through the book as well but

yeah to miss something out to sort of dance down the street on one foot or two or to skip

a skirt stone you know they said to skip a scone skip a stone over the water and I just

say no never skip a scone on water even though if you sink it will just sink and get free

it's much better to eat a scone in the UK as well we use the word skip to describe Allah

a waste container a large container that you throw waste into in America they call it a

dumpster yes so dumpster is American English here we call a dumpster skip skip it's just

a large container that you might throw what your old washing machine into building materials

I don't think anyone's throwing their washing machine it's a it's a it's a funny thing in

in the UK if you have a skip outside your house it's delivered on the lorry yes and

you're having some building work done you can guarantee that the next day the neighbors

will put something in like an old kitchen sink or something that they've got they've

had in their shed for a long time so you can either say skip which is in this country in

British English or in American English they will say dumpster dumpster it's basically

the same thing so love is in the air mr. Steve and would you like to see some animals in

love go on here are some animals first of all we have some some love doves so there

they are some live doves can you see them there they are in love and they will start

kissing in a minute did you film that mr. Duncan yes yes I filmed this I did in our

garden oh look they're having a little kiss how lovely they're having a peck yes a little

Zuma beware the expression comes from if you pick somebody you know there's like a couple

of doves pecking away at each other yes oh isn't that lovely so so there you can see

a couple of love devs and here are a couple of love pigeons ah look at that so they're

a Syrah look isn't that lovely look at one of the left yes he looks really yes they're

in love how lovely so that was also filmed by me in in the garden so they are in love

so just to show that love is in the air even the animals are starting to fall in love it's

not we've noticed haven't we love Duncan yes that we've had a bit of warm weather it feels

like spring is in the air what you can certainly hear is all the birds are out singing away

for the first time the last few days we've heard all the birds singing in the garden

perching themselves on the top of branch is calling for a mate there it is there's the

view outside now I know it's gorgeous outside really feels like spring is on the way it's

very spring-like in fact I was going to go outside to do some live streaming but there

were some showers nearby and because of that we decided not to anyway I have a bone to

pick with you what I think you've waited till the day after my birthday have you yes I let

me mr. Duncan if you better bone to pick with some it means I have something important that

I have to discuss with you something important I have a bone to pick something that I might

have done yeah something we're down to preserve a thing a thing I want to talk about that

concerns you last night I was on the toilet and I was really unwell at one o'clock this

morning and I think it's mr. Steve's fault now of course we did eat a lot of chocolates

didn't we so I've eaten a lot of choc on Valentine's Day I bought these for mr. Steve but can you

see the box is empty all the chocolates have gone we have eaten the mall so all the chocolates

for Valentine's Day have gone but on Friday night mr. Steve made one of his curries I

always make Hickory on Friday night now I think mr. Steve poisoned me no because yesterday

I was feeling unwell in the afternoon and then last night well in fact I went to bed

then I had to get up because I was so ill and I thought I was going to die I was sitting

on the toilet I was JT I was fainting and I think I know the reason why I think mr.

Steve poisoned me I didn't poison you mr. dunk and I had the same thing and I had no

reaction at all yes and what was a wonderful curry it was it was a nice curry but I have

a feeling that you poisoned me because you were getting very excited about the ingredients

now here's something that Steve put in the curry something called what's it called turmeric

turmeric turmeric it's a it's a kind of spice is that right it's this I think it's from

the root of a plant mmm now it is it's a root when Steve made the curry on Friday night

he decided to do something that you're not supposed to do instead instead of putting

a little bit of turmeric into the curry you decided to put a whole spoon of turmeric into

the curry now I think that's what happened I think Steve put so much of this in the curry

it actually upset my stomach so the next day my stomach was really bad and last night in

fact the early hours of this morning I was really unwell and I blame you so my fault

give me my lovely eye look I like turmeric because it gives a nice color to food it goes

sort of a yellow yellow orange color I don't know how much you're supposed to put it says

here a pinch a pinch pinch it's just a little bit does anybody know how much turmeric you

are supposed to put in a curry well the inventer look it out you can buy it says on the box

a pinch yes but mr. Duncan you can buy term capsules for health purposes okay I'm a health

food shop yes because it is anti-inflammatory it's very good if you have arthritis well

it didn't it didn't make me less inflamed if anything it inflamed a certain part of

my body it's quite traditional to put in curries I was sitting on the toilet this morning very

early this morning in the night maybe I put a bit too much and I was so unwell I I was

I was actually fainting on the toilet have you ever fainted on the toilet he's exaggerating

viewers I'm not exact anything upset your stomach though the fact that you'd had probably

a kilogram of chocolate on top of the curry we did we did have an effect as well we did

have a lot of chocolate so we had some chocolate on Valentine's Day and also we our neighbor

gave us a special cake as well for Valentine's Day shall we have no that was for my birthday

well I think it was both I think it was for Valentine's Day and the birthday that's what

I think anyway and there it is there is the chocolate cake that our neighbors gave to

us so isn't that lovely I went around yesterday to say hello not and I gave them some jam

and then they gave me a cake and I said we've just baked this cake for mr. Steve's birthday

so I think it was for your birthday but also because it's heart you see its heart shaped

I think it's also for Valentine I think the neighbors that are in love with me mr. Duncan

and who can blame them I know Oh up well that's interesting have you ever tried to milk the

fact that it's your birthday when you milk something have you have you ever tried to

get something for free or get some extra attention out of a situation if you look something it

means you get some attention out of something yeah well well - milk something means you

tried to get as much as you can out of a one situation or well that's it one thing so maybe

if you're ill you might milk the illness oh I'm sorry I trying to get lots and lots of

sympathy you mean like you were milking the fact that my curry made you ill you're milking

that mr. Duncan I'm not milking it you I you're after lots of attention. I was critically

ill last night so mister don't get critically so mr. Duncan said all everywhere we go yesterday

we'll tell people it's your birthday and we'll see if we get any free food but that's the

reason for ek yes but that's the reason coffee I'm trying to talk here I know I'm finished

but I'm interrupting because it's my exactly it's my show it was my birthday it was your

birthday so but yesterday I mentioned your birthday to so many people but no one gave

us anything we didn't get anything even at the copper kettle we went into the copper

kettle we go there every week and I kept saying oh it's Steve's birthday Oh Steve Steve might

have something nice to eat for his birthday and I thought oh maybe they will give a that

and they maybe they'll give us a free cake well I would I would have been happy with

that happy birthday we didn't even get that oh they were miserable in there so I was going

around everywhere everywhere we went yesterday I kept mentioning it was your birthday just

in case we got something nothing nothing we can expect something free on your birthday

I want you to something for free extra attention yes well what we got was you said to the neighbor

it was my birthday and we got a cake yes this make magnificent cake it's magnificent cake

which it's very rich mr. Duncan very rich I have never ever in my entire life I don't

think eaten such a rich intense chocolate cake I wasn't sure if another word was coming

out then I thought it would be sponge in the middle like a light sponge oh it wasn't there

was any you couldn't eat very much of that without being very ill there was a lot of

chocolate in that chocolate cake it was like eating chocolate lard it was lovely it was

like I'm not criticizing it well although it sounds like it sounds like you are oh I

was delicious but in fact if you've heard of the phrase death by chocolate a few yeah

well death by chocolate I haven't something that is so rich in chocolate so much I'll

kill you if tomber there is so much chocolate in fact he has sugar inside the cake that

if you take one mouthful you will have a heart attack yes straight away but it's delicious

thank you for that if you're watching neighbors I can't believe it's three o'clock already

it's three o'clock and you are watching live English if you want to get in touch with us

by the way you can do at the following email address [Music] it's a Sunday it's a fun day

it's live English and now if you want to get in touch you know how to do it mr. Duncan

hello can I have a look at the live chat please yes we haven't had a look look at the live

chat yet so here is the live chat I'm sure a lot of people want to say happy birthday

to mr. Steve so let's have a look shall we well I did now a lot of people according to

mr. Duncan sent messages to my Facebook page now the thing is I have got a face but book

a Facebook page ago but I don't really ever look at it so I haven't replied to any messages

on there I don't don't know if we've ever really advertised my Facebook page halfway

well well we don't because you told me not to I know because I never I never look at

it if you tell me not to do something I will often do it so so or not do it but we've we've

had a lovely message from Leanne Leonard Leonard soap ash who says mr. Duncan you are a person

when people don't know where to go or if they are alone like me right now they watch your

live stream and you make us feel happy thank you very much and happy that you exist isn't

that lovely what a lovely message that is so nice do we have any messages for mr. Steve's

birthday oh I see we have a donation on the super chat Oh Irene said her birthday was

on Valentine's Day oh okay then that's interesting so so what do you get on your birthday because

you have Valentine's Day and your birthday at the same time I'm just trying to see who

has left the oh here we go but that looks like Helena Helena Blair has sent Helen 50

euros wow that is a lot thank you via a lot of chocolate thank you very much we won't

be buying chocolate with that that will go towards the the maintenance and the production

of this live stream so thank you very much Helena for that very kind of you in Helena

Oh do you think so Ellen yes oh okay then Helen Helen Blair I hope I pronounced your

surname right yes to Steve looks younger than before says Anna thank you thank you very

much really are you sure about that yes people commenting about the skipping Oh Alamgir likes

skipping everyday guys do that so you skip using a rope rope skipping or rope jumping

but yeah I think it's a very manly thing to do because it's it's it's so as you found

out it's very hard to do and quite often in in gyms where they they practice boxing they

will often skip as well so tell you certainly builds up your stamina yeah if you can skip

you can practically do anything so you've only been doing it for a week and already

you feel more healthy I do I feel I feel invigorated is the word I would say invigorated Pedro

says comments about Adam's apple yes it's what we call it here in your throat that little

protuberance what for tubulin something that sticks out something that puts you / - okay

I get but wait out today mr. Duncan you want to go back and try again protrudes protrude

yes if something protrudes it sticks out it sticks out or it's very noticeable this is

actually your larynx yes so voice box so there is the larynx but normally with in men or

with men the larynx or Adam's apple is much larger but mine is huge it's really as big

so it's a big one well that's why you talk all the time because you've got such a big

Adam's apple you can't keep your mouth shut I think maybe it's the talking that's made

my Adam's apple so large Lou Thunder does it every day as well singing I presume skipping

yes thank you very much amongst other things Sarah is a professional stone skipper Wow

oh I see so you're very good throwing stones across a lake and they will bounce for a long

way accent says that you should take my example of skipping it mr. Duncan to go fit well I

did try a couple of weeks ago but I wasn't very good at it I almost broke my neck to

be honest yeah Farris says I used to skip when I was a child it's one of the most popular

children's games here in Morocco but yes you are right mr. Duncan it's so healthy to do

yes and the other thing about it is its if you want to get fit it takes time doesn't

it out of your day mmm some people go to the gym some people go running or swimming or

cycling but they take quite a lot of your tie takes quite a lot of your time but if

you want to get fit or get your exercise in in a very time efficient way mm-hmm I think

skipping is probably the best form to do it because you can just go into your backyard

and you don't have to put on any particular clothes no one's going to see you and 15 20

minutes you've got some vigorous activity yes whereas if you want to go swimming for

example you've got to get into your car drive to a swimming baths get changed all that pallava

you've got yeah that's an hour gone out of your day if you go to the gym you've got to

drive to the gym you've got to get changed showered arterwards that's probably an hour

out of your day running is very time efficient because you can just go out of your house

but if you live in the city that's bad for your lungs for example so skipping very time

efficient way to get fit so so that the exercise is short but vigorous short intense figura

snow preparation just out of your door you can probably do it inside as well but don't

man don't forget by the way if you are planning to do some exercise make sure you warm up

first make sure you don't you don't do anything too vigorous straightaway also if you are

going to start doing X sighs always going see your doctor to find out whether you are

well enough to do it so that's something worth mentioning as well commenting about the lovebirds

oh they're so cute aren't they they're so lovely hey Joe ask an interesting question

who is the male and female well with who with the birds oh okay I got worried then the thing

is you can't it's very difficult to tell with pigeons and doves because they don't the male

and female look virtually identical they do I wonder if I wonder if ever met if a male

pigeon or a male dove ever tries to actually say oh hello hello to another male by accident

or maybe on purpose who knows I'm sure they know yes it's not like a Robin you know or

a black bird where there are distinct differences between the sexes with some birds like pigeons

and doves you cannot really tell the difference I think sometimes the female bird is slightly

smaller sometimes you can maybe tell but yes very difficult well these days it's very hard

sometimes to tell the difference between male and female human beings let's just go back

down again mr. Duncan thank you everybody for the the best wishes somebody says there

the nursery rhyme called skip to my Lou my darling oh it's a nursery rhyme there was

a isn't it a song as well yes I think it is skip skip skip to my Lou skip skip skip to

my Lou skip skip skip to my Lou skip to my Lou my what it means I don't know I think

there are other verses so so isn't it isn't it something with the buttermilk or the cows

in the field two by two cows in the field too but I can't remember I think it's a whole

song but how is that what you were doing last night skipping to the loo mister dinner I

was I wasn't skipping hello I wasn't skipping to the loo I was I was dying on the loo I'm

sure people don't want to hear about my my buds demanded says that he's back from Kosovo

right okay one day before the Kosovo independence okay is mr. Steve's birthday whoa well so

your birthday is is the day after this day before yes exactly this is yours by the way

did we do any sports at school oh my did you do sports at school mr. Duncan I could tell

you some terrible terrible stories terrible stories Kunal there right yes go on you go

first mr. day would you like my story yes let's have your story than I I never I never

played sport at school one main reason for that is because well the teachers thought

that I was too fragile they said that I'm too fragile they did well I that's what you

told me yes well you weren't there I wasn't there but the teachers wouldn't let me play

any sports because they said I was too fragile they were worried that I would get hurt so

they wouldn't let me play football they wouldn't let me play rugby they wouldn't let me do

it because they thought I was so fragile I was so delicate they were worried that I might

injure myself I might get hurt so so that's because you were very let's say slight I was

very slightly built when you were younger I was skinny skinny and weedy fragile weedy

I was skinny I was a wimp that was weedy yes I didn't like team sports I didn't like football

or rugby I used to just I prefer things like tennis and cross-country running things like

that more sort of solo sports I've never been much of a team player so I I heard I heard

sometimes you play for the other team oh really mr. ding ha ha ha Vishal is here hello Vishal

where are you watching at the moment on the live chat your garden looks very nice as it

was in the summer time Thank You Simona oh hello Simona nice to see you here as well

new char is here also Sergio is here you were just a true gentleman oh do you mean me thank

you very much for that you are the best teacher in my career says toe on the juin watching

in I believe you are in Vietnam now it was mr. Steeves birthday yesterday and i think

it's only right that we have a look at some of mr. steve gifts first of all shall we have

a look at some of your cards go on so now bigger because you are so popular so incredibly

popular mr. Steve you had lots of messages on Facebook yesterday lots of greetings but

also you had lots of cards as well well I didn't have lots well quite a few 5 that's

that's a lot is it I don't know whether that's a lot that's five more than I get for more

because I give you one yes so I did receive some lovely cards yes so would you like to

show us some of the cards that you received on your personal camera my personal camera

here we go nose up yes here's the first one now of course people no friends relatives

that I like gardening might have to tell that slight ring is on the way to that that's it

a bit that way man handing mr. Duncan yes no the more you do that the more you can't

actually see it oh I see because it's got a sheen on it yes especially for you and you're

in the shop mr. Duncan I've told you about this before so what we give it to the other

camera god he's so annoying at times yes I think I think it's just because let's use

the other camera mr. Duncan it's very blind everyone can see it clearly then let me go

you see if I if I put it across your face it's pretty annoying isn't he he's nice all

the time there was another one take over quickly gardening that was for my mother thank you

very much mother for that quality card now people know also that I like can you see that

mr. Duncan there we go there's the cameras there well enemy people can't see because

there's a shine there it is yes we can see that still see it yes cows that was from my

sister she knows that I like cows they're my favorite animals isn't that I think that's

nice when you have a birthday that people buy you a card if they know you well they

buy you something that they know is of interest to you yes or tugs at your heartstrings or

makes you feel nice so cows my favorite animals and my sister knows that and so here we go

here's one from next door this is a handmade car I didn't see this one ah ah why do you

have now this is from the next-door neighbor's and it's been handmade handmade and it says

inside the Wenlock wren so that is a wren which is a very small bird much smaller than

that picture would suggest one of the smallest birds in the UK and she's drawn that and sent

me a nice card so thank you very much for that I think I think maybe that that is something

they call screen printing I think it's done on a screen printer it's not great lever very

lovely now here's here's one from nobody particularly special I can't see it because it's too bright

so go on the big camera go on then there we go this is going very well can we actually

that yes there we go there it is so there is a card that mr. Steve you show it mr. Steve

bought for us or for me anyway no I thought this was the Valentine's card sorry no this

is the card that I I got for mr. Steve yes his birthday there you go flowers I've never

had flowers no ever had flowers on my birthday I've never received flowers the only time

I've received flowers is when I was in China but but I haven't received flowers ever in

this country so there we go so thank you for that mr. Duncan you're welcome now he is one

from a friend who has known me for a very very very long time and well it's a bit it's

a card for my birthday but you wouldn't describe it as a birthday card so I don't know whether

that can be seen we might need the other camera mr. Duncan I don't think that's going to show

up can you read what's on there I'll tell you something let me just try some more let's

try something Steve so put it on your camera and I'm going to try something so hold it

up keep it there keep it held up I'm gonna try something oh it's worked it's work mr.

Duncan it's worked so there's the card that my friend sent to me the problem is it's the

same colour it says there's a word across the front and it says hypochondriac hypochondriac

and so she's suggesting that I am a hypochondriac so that is somebody who thinks they're ill

all the time or thinks that there is something wrong with them that's definitely constantly

worried about their health that's definitely you yes and that is me I do constantly think

that there is something seriously wrong with you well the strange thing is I also think

now that there is something seriously wrong with you so if you are a hyper cut somebody

describes you as a hypochondriac it means that you're overly worried about your the

state of your health and it's quite a common affliction I go through phases but anyway

it's very funny she's like that as well so she knows she knows that I am one yes you

see what it's I mean it's actually a medical condition but I don't think I might actually

on the spectrum to say that I would actually be you know mentally ill as a result of it

I think it's a mental condition isn't it well I think some people that well they become

so it's a joke she said it is a joke I'm not sure though but some people become up so obsessed

with their health that they do become a hypochondriac they just they just constantly worry all the

time they see they see a funny spot what's that oh it must be cancer you know they're

constantly worried they catastrophize everything so they every small thing turns into well

into something much worse catastrophes catastrophize? yes it means that you've you you always seem

that the worst possible outcome to a situation and I'm a bit like that yes I think you are

definitely I would remember the time that I remember the time mr. Steve had to go to

hospital from the gym he was doing some exercises at the gym he he went to hospital because

he thought he was having a brain hemorrhage well well mr. Duncan well I because I did

I did join a gym once yes and I was exercising and I suddenly developed this very very severe

headache now I never get headache I get those as well I never get headaches and I suddenly

develop this very severe headache and it got worse and worse and worse and I went to somebody

bond of the gym instructors hmm and I said I've got this severe headache and he looked

very worried and said I think you should go straight to the hospital you could be having

a stroke that's what he said to me well and I found out ah and I did go to the hospital

and this headache just got worse and worse I had a scan there was nothing there no but

I was there was nothing there I don't mean nothing inside my head it was empty ah mr.

Duncan I just walked straight into that one that was so easy but apparently there are

lots of people drop dead in gyms because they aren't well they should have had a check it

with the doctor and they because there's other people watching you you tend to overdo it

have too much exercise at the gym but could you think other people are watching you I

want to look like I'm fit and strong what exercise is that student but there's all sorts

of things to push and pull on at a gym there certainly are and you do tend to overdo it

because people are watching and you don't want to seem as though you're weak or unfit

so I think you can go too far at a gym and make yourself ill and people have heart attacks

and just drop down and dead so you've got any way back to catastrophizing I I get I

guess they keep that a secret well you see this is how my mind works last night I forgot

to phone my mom no here's a brilliant story there's a good example here here now is a

good example of how Steve's brain works now I will start explaining it because last night

we sat down to watch a TV show that we quite like called the expense very good and we got

so involved in watching it that Steve forgot to phone his mum I'd said earlier when my

mother phoned me to wish me happy birthday I said well I'll call you later but then it

was too late but then you forgot because we got so distracted by the expense and then

afterwards you said oh no I haven't phoned my mum I think it's too late and then you

got so worried you were biting your fingernails you were thinking I've got I've got to phone

my momma I wish I should have phoned her yes because I knew that she would be waiting for

my call and she lives on her own and I didn't want her upset oh okay and I didn't want to

you know I didn't want her to think that I'd forgotten about her I didn't say that by the

way so it was 20 to 11 my mother normally goes to bed around 10:00 half 10 yeah just

give all of these personal details away let most people go to bed at that time so I decided

to phone up and of course she didn't answer so I died then thought what she must be in

bed but then I started worrying because I thought well if she was in bed and she heard

the phone would she have rushed out of bed tried to go down the stairs to answer the

phone trip up fall down and be at the bottom of the stairs that's all I could see that

as a result of me phoning my mother would have got out of bed so I worried about it

all night bye Bella Rusia bye I worried about it all night until I phoned up in the morning

and of course my mother said I heard the phone go but she said I wasn't going to rush out

of bed because it's dangerous to do that but but I was worried but the bottom line of this

story is first of all you were worried about not phoning in mum and then you phoned your

mum and then afterwards you were worried that you had phoned your mum as a result of it

and I had caused my mother too for anybody it was fast so this is a good insight and

the tests refine into into the way this works turning everything into inside here there

is a brain apparently I've got a headache right enough about me now I bought you some

useful things for your birthday I always like to buy useful things for mr. steve-o go back

yes sorry mr. Duncan somebody says that there's something wrong with your paypal so yes there

we go go up slightly there we go Leonard oh I don't think I can sort this out now I wanted

to donate right now for your link but when I wrote the email and password it says security

entries well I think that's that might be because of because you haven't got a PayPal

account maybe or a way of paying I'm not sure at the moment I can't sort of give an answer

to that straight away unfortunately I thought but thanks for bringing it up Steve you were

going to say about other presents I was from my but it's all about me today yes apparently

what were you saying mr. Duncan what's going on I'm not sure you've broken the live chat

oh it's your it's your fault it's your fault what what I try to do sometimes when we're

producing this show I I like to move things forward but what Steve likes to do sometimes

is take a giant step back so I'm trying to move forward and Steve keeps taking a step

back so that's that's what's happening basically so my thought if you can't control your own

equipment it was your birthday yesterday it was your birthday yesterday that's it I bought

you some useful things because I always like to buy useful things when it's someone's birthday

I always like to buy something nice and useful so what did I get you yesterday Steve well

I didn't know what it was if I do you know in the box and I thought here we go mr. Duncan's

brought me a plug socket is that the sort of thing you would expect for a birthday present

but it's useful an extension lead yes but I bought this for a specific reasons I know

and then I saw this that came with it hmm I thought where does that go and where does

that go and then I had a clue because before Christmas mr. Duncan bought me a nice new

set of drawers in for my office room so I can store all my things in some drawers yes

so some lovely little office trophies drawers yes but I had no way to put my printer because

my printer used to go where the drawers were okay so at the moment the printer is sitting

very uh Negin and elegantly on top of these drawers it's the printer is far too big for

the drawers and it just it looks horrible for yeah it looks a little precarious Carius

that's the word you're probably sharing us precarious so anyway anyway let's rush along

so this is for an extension so that I can move the printer somewhere else and it doesn't

have to be on top of the new drawers that mr. Duncan brought me because I can't use

the printer remotely I can't use it using blue tooth because it won't work and this

is this isn't the extension that will allow the printer to be moved further away from

the desk so that's what I bought for mr. Steve hmm quite a high quality switch I would say

these are very high quality either so so I always like to get something high quality

and also useful so this is something useful for mr. Steve's office yes so what do you

think to that as a as a birthday gift it's something useful but something else you brought

for me mr. Duncan mm-hmm was edible made of chocolate there they are one of our favorite

chocolates and we make we could eat one live never heard but these are orange flavor I

think you bought them for me because you wanted to try them because I brought you these mint

flavored ones for you didn't know I was going to buy you these I bought these for Valentine's

Day because I know you like mint chocolates and I think you bought these for me but you

wanted to try them because they were a different flavor so I'm not sure it was entirely for

me mr. Duncan so thank you very much for those you're not going this isn't going to help

your diet very much at all I'm going to have to do a lot of skipping in order to use that

the calories contained within those chocolates I think so so thank you for those mr. Duncan

I'm just putting I'm just putting a message on the screen for those who are trying to

donate or give donations through PayPal that is definitely the address there that is definitely

the site address so I've put it on the screen in the live chat so I hope that is okay I

hope that answers or solves the problem so we've had a lot of chocolate haven't we we

had sought me those yes we we ate these I brought you those we bought me these so as

you can see we have a lot of chocolates these are these are actually delicious these are

orange flavored chocolates and actually awesome for yourself more than for me I think they're

gorgeous absolutely gorgeous so I think maybe we did over indulge over in dose so I think

yes yes if you over indulge there it is if you over indulge it means you do something

too much now something else we want to talk about today mr. Steve yes well first of all

Easter is coming can you believe it we've only just got rid of Christmas and already

there's Easter around the corner and of course Hot Cross Buns are back there they are Hot

Cross Buns these are things that are available around this time of year as Easter approaches

so hot cross buns basically a bit like tea cakes which we have every week spicy spicy

in lemony they've got mixed spice inside they're delicious and they give us both indigestion

mmm and they've got a cross on the front obviously signifying religious elements there yes so

the cross is is a symbol of a Christian cross is Christian cross face it we don't tend to

think of that when we're eating them we just like them I just like to stuff it straight

into my mouth they are very nice but they do give you indigestion because they're they're

full of dried orange peel hmm currants raisins and mixed spice which you can often put in

and they're sweet yes yes very sweet so now we have something else to talk about because

a lot of people what what's now Stan Jimmie has said made it put a little phrase there

one a penny two a penny hot cross buns that's it another nerves all right there's arrived

another nursery rice well done one a penny two a penny hot cross buns so probably not

the exact chin but it's close I don't know what that was so uh mr. Duncan have you forgotten

your diet says Lewis no I haven't my diet is still going on but yes well I haven't put

any more weight on so that's good you haven't lost any either well I've lost a little bit

stop making it I don't think you have mister don't can you stop walking you were walking

twice a day and you've stopped it I'm walking now during this whole lesson I've been walking

I have EDD is on a diet see I'm walking now sorry David is still on his diet okay that's

good anything else no I'm just commenting on the on the the live chat mister doing good

I like to comment so you were trying to move things along I'm trying to move things along

because we only have 25 in five minutes 25 minutes yes that's what I'm trying to do a

lot of people talking about Shakespeare at the moment because there is a film out called

all is true all about the work and life of William Shakespeare I thought today it would

be interesting to take a look at some words and expressions created or made popular by

William Shakespeare and I believe mr. Steve you have a list you have a list to show so

I didn't know William Shakespeare his head was so big in proportion to his body yes he's

well that they always said they always said William Shakespeare was a big head that is

a caricature of course now I've noticed that lots of the words that you put up there you're

already showing the people already know I'm going to use words and phrases we've got about

15 here 15 we've often used words and expressions that have been derived from Shakespeare but

these are ones that we haven't used before but the you know the interesting thing to

also mention is not not all of these were created by Shakespeare now some of these were

in existence but they had faded away or they weren't very popular so what Shakespeare did

because he put these phrases and words into his writing then they did become popular so

not all of these were invented or created or coined by William Shakespeare but he certainly

did make them popular exactly some of them he did some of them as you say well well well

mentioned mr. Duncan I would say yes right I've got a few here okay off you go I've got

my own camera am i doing it for me I don't from here here we go a foregone conclusion

a foregone conclusion that is actually an original Shakespearean expression from Othello

it just means an inevitable conclusion or something where you've got an inevitable result

you know what's going to happen beforehand foregone something that's happening you already

know what's going to happen for example after the team's poor performance this season it's

a foregone conclusion that they will drop out of the first division so they've been

performing badly it's obvious everyone knows you know ahead of time it's a foregone conclusion

they are not going to stay in the top league they're going to drop out the victory was

a foregone conclusion so there's a battle maybe one side got a lot of advantages over

the other they might have better weapons or more soldiers it's a foregone conclusion you

might all sorry I'm just whatever add there you might also say that something is is it's

as if it has already ended or it's as if it has already occurred a foregone conclusion

their marriage breakup was a foregone conclusion because they never got on right from the start

it's a foregone conclusion that this live English lesson will be a tremendous success

for mr. Duncan ah there we go good riddance good riddance mr. Duncan now if you use the

phrase good riddance it means you're glad to see something or someone gone it means

really you can say good riddance to bad rubbish as well but most people just use the phrase

good riddance obviously it's written if we use the word rid today to read to rid yourself

of something means to get rid of something so riddance is like it's like a longer version

of that word Jane broke up with her boyfriend good riddance hmm so it's an expression that

you use when you're pleased to say usually behind somebody's back you want to get rid

of them you're glad that they're gone good riddance I never liked her anyway it's not

a nice thing to say you could say to somebody's face they might say I'm going now and you

might say good riddance mmm it means I'm glad you're gone get out we sometimes say good

riddance to bad rubbish good riddance to bad rubbish yes you might say that if you've got

an old sofa for example or an old car that keeps breaking down you might sell it you

might so good riddance to bad rubbish yes or a person thank you versa you've rejected

from your life yes like a good riddance goodbye and you're pleased to see the back of them

a sea change a sea change that's from the tempest and it just means a radical change

something's happened and there's a certain radical change in in in the Shakespeare expression

it's it's then what they're indicating is that the sea is causing a massive change to

some because of course the sea can suddenly record or something like that so the the sea

can cause a sudden radical change in something but you don't use it just for things pertaining

to the sea so there's been a sea change for example there has been a sea change in attitudes

towards drink driving so before people used to think that drink driving was okay but now

we know it's not okay because people get killed and there's been a change in attitude because

people's attitude towards drink driving was oh it's okay to have a few pints and drive

home that's not going to cause any problems and so but the attitude of people has changed

because of Education and new and laws there has been a sea change in the attitudes towards

drink driving is one example that you can use can you think of another example well

as a sea change just refers to anything that suddenly changes direction so maybe an opinion

or maybe a mass opinion we might also say something like the people's opinion of brexit

you see there might be a sea change with the way people feel about brexit don't forget

only 40 days to go Steve forty days before we leave Europe can you believe it so we're

gonna get the handkerchief out so some people are saying that there there must be another

vote and if there is you might see that there is a sea change she's some people in this

country is saying good riddance to Europe riddance and some people are had to be gone

but some people like ourselves are quite sad I wanted to stay in Europe I love you all

I love we did we did a selfish please dude please don't get the wrong idea we love you

don't go away just because we're leaving Europe it doesn't mean that mr. Duncan and mr. Steve

want to leave you as well we love you so much please don't go please don't go we think it's

very very it's very selfish attitude to take you know we want to do what is better at the

expense of everybody else but you know long-term what damage is that going to cause anybody

that's not going to that like you know Experian - I can already feel the the viewing figures

dropping as soon as I mentioned bricks it well that's the sort of talking about yes

exactly right yes oh no mrs. Eaton out of house and home yes is it shakes is an expression

that Shakespeare didn't invent but it was popularized popularized by him so if you eat

somebody out of house and home it's quite easy to understand what that means you literally

are just eating all the food in the house it didn't just refer to food in Shakespeare

in time it meant you might be spending all their money as well and using all their supplies

but these days we use that expression if a lot of people come to visit or your family

or come to visit and they eat a lot of food you might say oh you're eating me out of house

and home so you're in the fridge you're eating everything you're eating all the fruit they're

having to cook lots of food oh you're eating me out of house and home is an expression

that is quite popular hmm in this country yes usually said not in a serious way if someone

comes to stay with you and all they do is eat your food and then suddenly you have almost

no food left you can say to them look you've eaten me out of house and home and it's usually

said not in an aggressive way it's normally not said it's usually said really just - not

in a sort of friendly way immediately so we were talking about brexit and you could say

that we're waiting with bated breath for the twenty what at March is it 29th 29th of March

was waiting with bated breath nurse so that means that you're sort of breathing shallowly

in anticipation of something happening something that could go badly could go wrong or it might

not your waiting with bated breath I've been waiting with bated breath to see if you won

that competition you could say we're all waiting with bated breath to see what happens after

the 29th of March you're sort of almost nervous in anticipation your breathing's become shallow

because you're sort of waiting on tender hooks for something to happen I think well baited

in that sense means almost you can't breathe or you almost stop breathing I think it's

short for a baited Jessie so if you abate something it means you prevent or stop something

so guess if bated breath means almost he's you can't breathe almost shallow lots of shallow

yoni you're waiting they waited with bated breath for the outcome of the election everyone

you know at a certain time something's gonna happen you're waiting you're all sort of nervous

your breathing is becoming shallow it's just a way of expressing how you're feeling the

anticipation of waiting for something to happen that it's going to happen it at a certain

time okay another one at one fell swoop at one fell swoop something suddenly happening

in a single action when the economy crashed millions lost their possessions and homes

and pensions in one fell swoop so something happens and then a lot of other things can

happen as a result of that all at the same time with one fell swoop the new president

introduced a whole suite of new laws and locked up all the corrupt politicians in one fell

swoop so it's it's something suddenly happening yes this might this Minds action this might

quite well describe what happened describe what's happening in some parts of the world

politically so so maybe if someone comes into power and quite often they will make lots

of changes they might make the changes all at once so you can say they do it with one

fell swoop at it they just due to a lot of things suddenly all at once fight fire with

fire good one fight fire with fire not exactly a Shakespearean expression but there were

there was a similar one used by Shakespeare which has sort of been adapted since that

means to respond to an attack by using a similar method that the attacker has used on you hmm

so it doesn't literally mean if somebody burned your house down you go and burn their house

down fight fighting fire with fire can mean anything that whatever they've used to attack

you you use the same method to attack them back so for example the opposition parties

were using smear tactics so it's time to fight fire with fire so in politics they're often

smearing the can candidates saying bad things about them hmm so if they do that that's a

bit of an underhand thing to do so to fight back you do the same thing to them mmm sometimes

you could say it's not always a good idea to fight fire with fire because you might

get the wrong outcome hmm yes to fight fire with fire you do the same thing back to somebody

that they've done to you yes I think a good example of that would be using violence to

quell to quell violence so if you use violence against people who are being violent quite

often you will make the situation worse so sometimes it is not a good thing to fight

fire with fire I have not slept one wink if you wake up in the morning and you've been

tossing and turning all night you haven't slept very much at all you felt as a be wide

awake all all night then expression you could use to somebody is oh I haven't slept one

wink all night it just means you haven't slept very well or you haven't slept very much at

all because when you when you're asleep you tend to sort of your eyes are sort of and

winking so it's just you used to denote that you have had a bad night's sleep oh I didn't

sleep a wink last night I think it's yeah I think it's the minimum amount that your

eyes can close so rather than both eyes closing you didn't even get one wink so your eyes

didn't close at all not even one wink so I think that's what it actually refers to love

is blind Shakespearean expression love is blind it sure is say you usually say that

to express the fact that if you're in love with somebody somebody might say if you're

in love with somebody you often don't see the bad sides to them because you're so in

love with them you can't see that there are there are awful rotten person and they're

stealing from you although there are thief or something like that or they've got some

very bad character character traits yes love is blind oh I'm so in love with them all oh

you can't see all that only other people can see that so somebody might say you're blinded

by love you can't see what a bad person they are or how bad they are for you love is but

we all know that when you're in love with somebody you you know sometimes you overlook

or don't see their bad traits yes maybe the excitement of being in a new relationship

as well sometimes you don't see all of the floors you don't see the imperfections or

maybe that they might have some very bad characteristics and you will you'll be more likely to overlook

these things when you are in love when the relationship is new but of course over time

everything becomes boring you know the person so well you know everything about them everything

becomes so tedious every day it's the same thing every day they say the same things to

you and you say the same things to them and then maybe all of the the magic disappears

from the relationship and then you start nagging and complaining to each other all the time

and then things just become very dill and very tedious I know what you're trying to

say mr. Duncan Sarah Woods has said fight fire with fire is also a song from Metallica

and of course lots of lots of songs excuse me lots of songs use these expressions and

they probably don't realize that they're derived from Shakespeare so I'm just doing some Metallica

did you enjoy my heavy rock they're very good mr. Duncan that's another one

son of a bitch oh hello son of a / you son of a bitch hello it's an American expression

or it's used mainly in America and it's very embedded apparently into u.s. American culture

but it originates from William Shakespeare I don't know yes it does and it costs crossed

over the Atlantic hundreds of years ago and it's sort of embedded in u.s. culture it's

abuse really abuse for a man Buse directed to order man you son of a bitch it's somebody

that you don't like there they're a mean horrible person and you're suggesting the abuse is

that you're suggesting that their mother is is is you know nothing worthless just like

a dog really you're suggesting their mother is a worthless person so it's abuse often

if it said like that of course it's all depending on how you say it a lot of expressions can

mean different things if you say them a different word so if you say you son of a bitch that

really is abusive but if you just say son of a bitch then that that means that's a much

more lighter meaning it just means something that you're amazed to that yes an X it's an

of a bitch it's an exclamation it's an exclamation just something you know you're not being abusive

it's just something that you're maybe amazed about or or something you might be saying

it in disgust but not towards a particular person but yeah there we go so could you can

express frustration express frustration son of a bitch something doesn't work very well

you can doesn't have to be towards a person but it depended on the way you say it yeah

there is method in my madness there is method in my madness so that's something somebody

might be watching you doing something and they might say why are you doing it like that

you don't do that like that and you might say ah there's method in my madness so you

appear to be doing something in a strange way but in your head you've got a plan a logical

purpose to what you're doing and then eventually it will all be revealed so you're never somebody

might you somebody might say to you you're never gonna fix the washing machine like that

and you might say ah there's method in my madness so if you do something in an unconventional

way yes or in a way that other people don't recognize as the normal way of doing something

yes it's also a good way of saying I know what I'm doing it might look as if I don't

know what I'm doing but I do there is method in my madness yes it looks like what you're

doing is mad but in fact to other people but to you it's perfectly logical and it will

work out you might say you might be restructuring a business you might and everybody at work

can't understand why you're reducing the the workforce why you're employing all these different

people and you're trying to change the business in many ways and you might say oh wait you'll

see there is method to my madness yes okay then are we nearly there where I need you

know what do one more should we do one more I've got two more yes rhyme no rhyme no reason

there is no rhyme no reason is a Shakespearean expression it means there is no logical sense

to a situation or a person there's no there's no rhyme or reason to the to it I can't find

my keys I put them on this table I've looked everywhere there's no rhyme or reason for

it where they gone there's no logical explanation no logical explanation just something that's

happening can you think of another way of using that mr. Duncan well I think you've

expressed it very well there here's the last one and I've made it I've made a deliberate

mistake on here because we are going at for the Queen's English I know what the mistake

you've made there's no apostrophe you should have a posture if you there you are correct

mr. delicate so let's put that in ' you always use apostrophes when it is possessive a possessive

Clause possessive clause means you have to put an apostrophe quickly Steve I did that

deliberately and doesn't English shouldn't English have a capital e it should also have

a cup of quickly we really are running out of time the Queen's English so it just means

proper English so when somebody says Oh will you use the Queen's English we mean the proper

English British UK English so if you use sort of slang words or or you don't speak correctly

what is what is referred to as sort of the Oxford English Dictionary type English or

the Queen's English if we're referring to the way the Queen would speak in a very cultured

logical way yes proper English proper English it just means proper English yes so the Queen's

English so all of those expressions were invented or made popular by the man that lots of people

are talking about these days William Shakespeare there is a movie out at the moment talking

about in describing his life and also his work it's a kind of comedy I think but it

appears to be quite a good film well I know a few people that have been deceived and they

said it was a bit boring okay it took a long time to get going so it's it's not a sort

of yeah so after my wonderful praise a bit of a vanity project I think I've heard it

described as but obviously it's very fact is that is that the star then is it I don't

know the star do you think he's having a bit of a vanity maybe project who's doing it to

flatter his own ego yes what's his nose again what's what's the actor Kenneth Branagh Kenneth

Branagh I can't believe I remember that Shakespeare really remembering somebody's name Kenneth

Branagh and also Judi Dench she's in everything she's in everything she's in everything she's

in every single film ever made certainly during the past ten years anyway so it's almost time

to go it's time to go we'll have one last look at the love pigeons and the live chat

can we look at the live chat we will dunk don't worry Steve oh is that lovely that is

so beautiful so there you can see two pigeons just tell how happy they look yes they look

happy they look content they mean love they must be feeling something but they're certainly

feeling something yes they're definitely feeling something yes how would you shoot a pigeon

sorry how can people get a gun and shoot a pigeon and I just I don't know I suppose they

just hold it up and point it I'm not feeling and then pull the trigger I think that's how

they do it it's got its eyes closed it's so in ecstasy it's in love having its neck pecked

by another pigeon do you like having your neck pecked not by a pigeon no anyway one

last look at the Live Chat and then we are going the world of English yes was that a

Shakespearean expression even that the world of English is is is a Duncan Ian's expression

I'm not sure if I coined the phrase but I do or I used to use it a lot I used to say

the world of English is a fern an exciting place to be I'm so glad you could join us

for another live lesson in the world of English so there anything else you want to add before

we go yes hoping you're going to quit Europe but yes wishing you lots of glorious days

ahead says Valentin well I'm not sure that it will be but yes we have we have to cut

it short don't start talking about brexit now I can feel better says Jeff by the way

Jeff I didn't get a Ford Mustang for my birthday but you did get a car a car from Belarus eeeh

really oh well why haven't you shown me that before mr. Duncan that's a little surprise

today for you and Belarus is gone though now Belarusian has gone to a party Bert oh thank

you Belarusian a beautiful card from Belarusian and there you can see there's a little car

I'm going to I'm going to imagine that's a Ford Mustang yes I think you should because

that might be the nearest you ever get to one I'm going to get one no matter hello sue

Kat I was saying Babar because I know we're going I don't know what was going on there

you just sort of drifted you drifted I'm looking forward to eating my hot cross buns because

I'm so hungry my stomach is actually growling mine is too it's complaining well we are going

now so catch you later Steve are you back next week do you want me to come back next

week yeah I think so I think we will be back next week it's coming up to four o'clock it's

time to say goodbye I won't be the Sunday afterwards okay next Sunday yes but not the

Sunday after fine that's good we have a few seconds left catch you later bye bye and the

view outside today is absolutely lovely let's leave today's live stream with the view outside

and there it is right now a live view outside and that is where we will leave it today because

it's time to go this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying thank you very

much for watching thanks for following today and of course you can watch this again later

hopefully there will be subtitles added later on to the recorded version and of course you

know what's coming next on this bright and sunny spring-like day until next Sunday at

2:00 p.m. UK time this is mr. Duncan saying thanks for watching and of course ta ta for

now.