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2024-11-21 ・ English Addict with Mr Duncan


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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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I woke up this morning to see World War three trending on the internet.
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I thought about going back to bed.
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I thought, shall I just go back to bed and forget about everything?
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But then I changed my mind because I realised we have a beautiful live stream on a rather nice snowy day.
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As you can see right now outside my studio window we have snow.
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We have had a lot of snow right here in the birthplace of the English language, which is of course, you know where it is.
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I know where it is.
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It is England. And.
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We are back.
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We are here.
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It is so super duper wonderful to be back with you once more.
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Hi, everybody. This is Mr. Duncan in England. How are you today?
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Are you okay? I hope so. Are you happy?
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Do you have one of these on your face right now?
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I hope you do, because it is fun.
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That is what we like to do here at English Addict.
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We like to have lots of fun.
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If you like doing this,
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then you are in the right place.
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We are going to have some fun with the English language.
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Now it's time for us to get together and enjoy the lovely words and phrases of the English language.
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My name is Mr. Duncan.
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If you haven't already guessed, I like English very much.
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I teach English, I've been here on YouTube doing this for a very, very long time.
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Around eight years.
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To be honest with you.
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And I like to come on and do my live streams twice a week.
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Wednesday and also Sunday is when you can catch me right here on YouTube live.
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Also, don't forget there are lots of new English lesson videos as well,
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so lots of things for you to watch to help you learn English.
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That is why we are here today and I hope you are having a good one.
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It is Wednesday the 20th of November.
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Suddenly it feels as if November is going by very fast.
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And of course we are just a few weeks away.
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I don't know how many days it is.
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How many days before Christmas does anyone know?
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Please let me know on the live chat.
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Oh yes.
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Did you know we also have the live chat as well?
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If you want to get in touch on the live chat.
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If you want to share your love of the English language with other people as well, please feel free to write a message.
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You can type it.
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Or of course, if you want to send a pigeon, you can tie your message to the pigeon and
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send it to me.
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It might take a little longer to reach the live chat, but it does work.
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Trust me.
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Apparently there are
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3636 days till Christmas.
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It sounds like a long time, but believe you me, it is not very long at all.
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So just 36 days apparently on the live chat.
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Yes, we have the live chat.
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Can I say congratulations? We have two people.
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First, on today's live chat.
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Very quickly together they came on Vytas and Beatriz, congratulations.
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I am having difficulty with my throat today.
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I'm having a few problems because yesterday I was out filming.
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Did you see my rather crazy lesson that I made yesterday out in the snow?
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As I mentioned just a few moments ago, we do have snow around,
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although a lot of it has has gone now, but I thought it would be nice to give you an impression,
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a sense
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or a taste of what the snow was like yesterday morning.
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So prepare yourself.
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We are about to take a look at some lovely snowy landscapes.
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This is what I woke up to yesterday morning.
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So there it was.
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Yesterday morning.
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I woke up, and that is what I saw when I opened my curtains.
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Quite amazing, actually.
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When you have snow at the moment, some lovely November snow.
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Although most of it has almost gone now because we have sunshine
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outside the window right now here in Much Wenlock, I will so too.
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Who else is on the live chat today?
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I don't want to miss anyone out or else I will get in trouble.
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Hello also to
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Beatrice.
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Hello, Beatrice. Of course you were first, weren't you?
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And also we have.
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Oh, he is here.
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Everyone.
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Lewis Mendez is here today.
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I think walking around yesterday in the snow.
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I think it's actually damaged my throat a little bit.
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Palmira is here today.
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It's nice to see you, Alexander. Also, we have Zika.
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We have Christina. Welcome back.
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Christina. It's nice to see you here as well.
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Of course, I always like to say hello to new viewers.
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If you are a new viewer, if you've never done this before, please let me know.
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Hello. Telling. And hello to you.
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Nice to see you here on the live chat. Where are you at the moment?
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I know over the past couple of weeks we've had many people watching in India,
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people joining me from India, and I was starting to think maybe
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because I've been doing this for a long time
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and this is a serious thing I want to mention because I have been doing this for such a long time.
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And I started out way back in 2006,
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and over the first 2 or 3 years of doing this, I did get a lot of viewers.
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But of course, as time goes by, things do change.
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Other things come along.
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Many, many people, hundreds of thousands of people on YouTube are now teaching English
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as a second language, and I am just one of those people, a tiny small dot
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on the landscape of YouTube.
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However, over the past 3 or 4 weeks, I've noticed that I've got a lot of new viewers,
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and many parts of the world are now joining my live streams.
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And I was thinking to myself, maybe, perhaps, maybe I am having a little bit of a renaissance.
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Is there a mr.
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Duncan renaissance taking place, rebirth
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to come around again, something that faded away
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like me
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in a roundabout?
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2011 is when I started to disappear
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on YouTube.
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So perhaps this could be.
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This could be my renaissance.
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I haven't stopped doing this for all of the 18 years.
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However, there are many people who think that I have stopped, but I haven't.
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At no point have I ever stopped making my English lessons.
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And of course, my regular live streams as well.
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So it led me to think and maybe even dream of a renaissance.
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Of course, the word Renaissance is an interesting word.
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It literally means reborn to be reborn, you fade away or you disappear, and then slowly you return.
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Like the phoenix rise from the flames.
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So the word Renaissance is a noun.
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It refers to
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the period of rebirth or a return of spirit or popularity.
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So the popularity of something, also the spirit of something as well, the feeling, the excitement, maybe
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if you are in a relationship
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that you've been in for many years, you might feel as if there needs to be some sort of renaissance.
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Maybe some sort of reconnection.
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So I like to think that I am at the moment, having a slight revival or renaissance.
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It would be very, very nice.
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Of course, the word Renaissance is normally used in reference to the revival of European art and literature
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under the influence of classical models between the 14th and 17th century,
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so between the 14th and up until probably at the end of the 16th century, there was a big revival with art.
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The style of art, and also the way many things were done.
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Many things were created buildings, paintings, styles
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that had faded away suddenly became popular again.
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There was a renaissance.
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So perhaps, maybe, who knows, I could be having
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a renaissance at the moment.
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It would be very, very nice if I was honest with you.
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Yesterday I was out in the freezing cold filming just for you.
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And would you like to see what I was wearing?
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Would you like to have a look at the clothes I was wearing yesterday, because it was so cold?
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Whilst I was outside and I was out there for a very long time, and all I can say is I was absolutely freezing.
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Of course, if you go out on a cold day, there are things you will need.
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For example, you will need your scarf.
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Scarf.
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I love that word.
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You put your scarf around your neck to keep you warm as you walk along so it protects your neck.
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It stops your neck and your throat from becoming too cold.
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Scarf.
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So yesterday, if you watch my video that is available on my YouTube channel, you will notice I was wearing my scarf here.
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Or what else?
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I was also wearing my lovely gloves.
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These are the special gloves that Mr.
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Steve bought about three years ago.
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And these are good.
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You see, these are very good because you can wear them, but also you can operate
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your touch screen at the same time.
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So the problem with wearing gloves outside on a cold day if you want to do filming,
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of course you can't use the touch screen.
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However, with these you can.
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So Mr. Steve bought these for me.
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I think it was a Christmas present actually.
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And these are amazing.
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They keep you warm, but also they allow you to use the touch screen on your mobile device.
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So that is what I was wearing yesterday as well.
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Also I have my gloves, my scarf.
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What else?
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Oh yes, of course you can't go out on a cold day without wearing your nice thermal hat.
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So this is a very special hat.
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It has a beautiful warm lining, as you can see around the edge.
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Also, it is very thick.
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So if you wear this on your head as you go out, as you walk around, you will find you will stay quite warm.
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Because this is made of
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special material that keeps the heat in.
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And of course, as you probably know, if you go outside without a hat,
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you will lose a lot of the heat through your hat.
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So we do.
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You lose quite a lot of heat from our heads, so
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a nice woolly hat,
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a scarf, and also some gloves for your hands as well.
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What else did I have on yesterday?
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Would you like to see something else I was wearing? But you couldn't see
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something else I was wearing underneath?
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Oh, Mr. Duncan, are we going to see your underpants?
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No. Don't worry, nothing like that. However,
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you're not very far off.
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I was also wearing these yesterday.
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My lovely thermal underwear.
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So I had these on.
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And of course, these. Keep your legs warm.
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They also keep everything
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around the waist warm as well.
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So these are things you will often see.
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Or you will certainly see them for sale in shops.
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If you go abroad, maybe if you go to a country like Switzerland perhaps, or I got these actually from China.
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So when I lived in China, everyone would wear these during the winter months.
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They would wear them under their clothes.
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Sometimes people would wear maybe 2 or 3 of these under their clothes to keep them warm.
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It seems
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a little excessive, but it is important, of course, to stay warm in the winter.
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So this is what I was wearing yesterday as well during my walk, and I bought these when I was in China.
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And to be honest with you, they are still very useful.
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So that is what I was wearing yesterday.
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We also call these long johns, so I don't know if you've heard of that phrase before, but we do call these long johns.
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You wear them under your trousers.
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So that is the reason why I was feeling not too cold.
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However, the problem yesterday was the cold air was going into my throat and into my lungs.
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So today my throat does feel a little bit sore to say the least.
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English addict is here with you.
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It is Wednesday and I am getting hot.
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I don't think I need my scarf today, I really don't.
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That's better.
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I'm getting a little too hot, which of course can be just as bad as being too cold.
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You can also be too hot as well.
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At the end of this week it is Black Friday.
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The big Black Friday sales begin and I know it.
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This time of year, a lot of people become excited because they are waiting to buy their Christmas gifts,
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or maybe their Thanksgiving gifts at this time of year.
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So normally around this time there is something called Black
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Friday popular mainly, and this is where it started.
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It actually started in the United States.
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And the reason why they have Black Friday, it is all to do with
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making a profit at the end of the year.
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So for many retailers, for many shop owners, it is their final chance of the year to actually make some money.
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So when we talk about Black Friday, we are talking about the sale of current stock.
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Maybe things that you are trying to sell off quickly, maybe something that is seasonal that won't be needed
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next year.
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So quite often we will have some sort of sale to remove or sell off the old stock,
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the sale of of current stock normally at the end of the financial year.
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So towards the end of the year, many shops will try to sell all of the things
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that they don't need or they are trying to.
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Sell off a final sale before the Christmas season.
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A lot of people view Black Friday as a good opportunity.
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It is a good opportunity, a good chance for those to get a bargain.
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Maybe the final pay day before Christmas is when Black Friday normally occurs.
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So quite often in the United States, for example, they have Thanksgiving.
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So Thanksgiving is always towards the end of November.
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I think sometimes it can be the beginning of December.
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So normally Black Friday occurs
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at the same time, around the same time.
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It gives everyone an opportunity to rush out
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and buy things for Christmas or for Thanksgiving.
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And of course, there is the other seasonal festival.
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Is it Hanukkah as well?
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Hanukkah, which also is around this time of year, depending on which religion you observe.
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So when we talk about Black Friday, we are talking about the sales at the end of the year.
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And quite often even here now in England, we also have Black Friday sales as well.
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Black Friday day sales occur everywhere now, including here in England and of course on the internet as well.
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There are many places where you can get those bargains, especially at this time of year when people are thinking about
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Christmas.
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Not long to go now.
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Before that arrives, I'm going to have a quick break and then we are back with lots of things.
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We are looking at snow and ice. Also.
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We are looking at words and phrases connected to find ING clues.
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It is a very interesting subject that I've never covered ever before.
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So we will be looking at that as well a little bit later on, and hopefully
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my throat will calm down a little bit.
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It's Wednesday, and this is
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English addict with you today.
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Wednesday.
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It is the middle of the week for many people.
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They are very excited.
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They are excited because they know there are only a couple of more days to go before the weekend.
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It does make a lot of people very excited.
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Wednesday.
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It can feel as if the week is already coming to an end.
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A lot of people asking about Mr. Steve, how is Mr. Steve?
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He is much better.
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I would say he is over the worst of his stinky, horrible cold that he's had.
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So Steve is feeling much better. Thank you very much.
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Hopefully
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now please.
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Don't take my word for it, but hopefully
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fingers crossed
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Mr. Steve will be with us on Sunday.
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I'm hoping he will be back with us even though he has recovered his throat and his voice is still very bad.
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There are so many illnesses going around at the moment here in England.
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Everyone seems to be falling ill with colds and coughs and fever, all sorts of things.
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So there is the view outside at the moment. Look at that.
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That is what we have outside the window right now on this Wednesday afternoon, everything looking rather nice.
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And, I suppose you could say festive because we often think about that.
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You see, when we think about Christmas, we often think of snow and ice and cold things.
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It is not unusual to do that. Talking of which,
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I thought it would be interesting
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to have a look at some snow and ice words.
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Words connected to snow and ice.
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If you live in a country where you get snow or ice, or maybe you live in a place
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where you never see it, ever, because the place you live is lovely and warm.
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How nice
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the words connected to snow and ice.
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Here we have snowfall.
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Snowfall where we think of snowfall we often think of, I suppose, snow falling like this.
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The snow will fall and everything will become white and beautiful.
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As the snow falls.
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We can also have the word freeze, freeze,
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frozen.
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A great word also, I believe a very popular Disney movie.
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I think there were two of them when they
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there was frozen. One,
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which was very popular.
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And then there was the second movie, frozen two, which was not quite as popular as the first one.
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Also, we have Frost as well.
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Chill, chill.
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Now there is an interesting word.
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The word chill can actually be used in more than one way.
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Also, we have the word thaw,
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so you can see there my tongue is making a little sound thaw.
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When we talk about soul, we are talking about
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snow or ice.
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Slowly melting away.
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And then of course we have the word melt as well.
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So there are some words that we often use in connection to snow and ice.
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Snowfall. The occurrence.
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The occurrence or the event of snow.
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Falling snow fall.
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We often talk about snowfall if it's happening, or maybe if there has been snowfall.
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So perhaps the landscape
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is covered with snow.
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We can say there has been snowfall.
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The snow has fallen.
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There is no snow on the ground.
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It is lying on the ground.
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The snow has fallen,
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snowfall has occurred.
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So we can use the word snowfall as a general term to name the event of snow falling.
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Freeze.
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Another good word because this can be used in many different ways as well.
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Freeze the extreme lowering of temperature.
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But when the temperature begins to drop, when it starts to go down, everything will freeze.
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It will become cold.
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It might be surprising to some of you to find out there are many countries that appear to be hot all the time,
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but even in those countries it can be very cold, especially at night.
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I'm not sure if it actually freezes, but it certainly gets very cold.
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The extreme lowering of temperature, the action of freezing
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to freeze something you are freezing
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something so we can use it as an action as well.
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Also, to become.
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Motionless to
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freeze.
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The reason why we use this particular term.
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Because of course, if you are still,
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it looks as if you have frozen, you have frozen solid.
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So that is the reason why we can use the word freeze to mean motionless to be still.
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Something appears to have
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frozen.
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Maybe your internet connection isn't very good, so sometimes the picture
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will freeze.
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The picture will stop moving because your internet speed is very slow to freeze.
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Also, we have frozen frozen,
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an interesting word past participle of freeze, used as a verb.
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So the past participle of freeze is frozen.
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Something has frozen, it has frozen solid.
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Maybe the action or the process of becoming cold to the point where you freeze
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is frozen to have become solid or congealed.
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Now there is a good word congeal.
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To congeal is to go solid, to stiffen and go solid
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blurred when you cut yourself,
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or if you have a wound on your skin, quite often the blood will come out and then it will congeal.
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It will slowly go solid, it will dry out and become solid
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to have become solid or congealed by cold, to have frozen.
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Something looks frozen.
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A person might look cold.
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A lot of people said yesterday, Mr.
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Duncan, in your video, you looked frozen and I was my face and my throat was very cold.
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Something is rigid or stiff.
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Something must remain unchanged.
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We can say that it is frozen.
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Maybe a certain thing, maybe the price of things.
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All of the prices are frozen.
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So if you have frozen the prices, if you have frozen the cost of something, something is frozen.
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It means it can't rise anymore.
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The prices will not go up.
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They are frozen.
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Moving on.
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Frost in the morning.
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Quite often on a chilly morning you will wake up and you will find frost on the ground covering the landscape.
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A degree of low temperature causing water to freeze.
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So quite often frost is the appearance
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of water, quite often on the surface, or maybe on the surface of plants or trees or the grass.
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It will freeze and it will form into tiny spikes.
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So if you look closely at frost, it has a very interesting shape.
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It is like lots of little needles.
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Frost because of the way it forms as it freezes.
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You might have frozen due.
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Frozen dew is often described as frost
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the freezing process.
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You can frost something, so if you frost something it means you are freezing. It.
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You frost something.
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Also, if you look inside your freezer, if you open the door of your freezer, you will see inside fine white coating.
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There is a fine white coating inside the freezer that is also described as frost as well.
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Frost
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to freeze something as a verb.
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To freeze something, you frost that particular thing to lower the temperature, to cause freezing.
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So quite often these days, if you go to the supermarket, a lot of people will buy their fruit for their food,
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their vegetables. They will buy it frozen.
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It has been frosted to frost.
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Something is to freeze it.
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And then of course we have the opposite.
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So I thought I would include this.
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The opposite is defrost.
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You defrost something.
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To defrost is to allow something to warm up
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instead of being frozen.
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It will slowly warm up.
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It will defrost before cooking certain types of food that has been frozen.
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You have to allow it to defrost before you cook it, or else it might give you a rather unwell stomach.
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Then we have the word thaw.
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So this is the word I mentioned a few moments ago. Thaw.
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The word thaw is the process of unfreezing
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to unfreeze is to thaw, to become warm.
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After snow has fallen is thaw.
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We will often look outside as the snow begins to disappear.
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You can describe that view as the thaw.
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It is
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the landscape changing once again as the snow begins to melt.
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To unfreeze something is thaw.
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You saw something or you thaw out something.
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The snow and ice begins to melt away.
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It begins to thaw,
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thaw out.
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As I said a few moments ago, something that will thaw out.
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It will slowly
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become unfrozen.
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Melt an interesting word.
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Melt something that melts.
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Something that slowly begins to thaw out.
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Or maybe
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a block of
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ice or the snow as it begins to become warm,
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the snow and the ice will melt.
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The slow dissolving of ice and snow, the softening of something due to the addition of heat.
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You can melt anything really.
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I suppose you can melt butter.
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You can melt plastic,
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you can melt
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your hair.
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I don't like the sound of that.
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You can also melt your skin.
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Of course, if you get burned badly, your skin will melt.
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I don't like the sound of that at all.
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And of course, certain types of material as well material that you wear can also melt.
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Nylon.
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Who remembers nylon now?
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Growing up in the 1970s, everyone
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was wearing nylon nylon shirts
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on the on our beds, we would have nylon sheets.
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Everything was nylon.
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The only problem with nylon is if it catches fire, it will melt.
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So imagine if you are wearing your pyjamas made of nylon
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and something nearby catches fire.
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Not very pleasant.
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And the other problem with nylon, of course, is if you wear nylon pyjamas in bed with nylon sheets,
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as you move around in the bed, you will get lots of.
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Sparks.
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Electric static will fly around as you move in bed.
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So there are some words that we can use connected to snow and ice.
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The arrival of snow and of course, the slow departure of snow as it falls,
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as it lies or lays on the ground
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and as it slowly melts away, it slowly disappears.
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I hope that was helpful.
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If you are having some snow where you are, please let me know.
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Although it would appear that lots of people across Europe at the moment are not having any snow,
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it would appear that lots of people are just getting rain and more rain,
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in some cases with very unpleasant consequences.
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I will have a quick break so I can relieve my throat once more, and then we will be back with more English addict.
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Do not go away.
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I'm a big boy now.
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We are all hoping that Mr.
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Steve will be back with us on Sunday, so hopefully I'm keeping my fingers crossed
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that Mr.
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Steve will be back with us on Sunday from 2 p.m.
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UK time every Sunday.
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Every Wednesday.
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English addict is with you as live as live can be.
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Thank you to the live chat as well for joining us today.
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Very nice to see you here.
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Static electricity can be very annoying.
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Something I remember from my childhood wearing my nylon pyjamas inside
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my nylon sheets underneath and on top of nylon.
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So when you moved around you would get lots of sparks literally flying around.
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It was kind of fun, to be honest.
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It was a little bit fun.
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There is a place actually you can go to.
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I don't know if you've heard of it, but there is a place you can go to and if you stand in a certain area
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now, I can't remember where it is, but of course I'm sure you will find out with your googling.
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But there is a place that you can go to and there is a certain.
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I don't know why, but there is a certain field of static electricity and if you stand, then your hand, this will go up.
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It will stand up because of the static electricity.
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I can't remember the name of the place now, but it is something I've seen a few times on YouTube with people standing and
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being quite amazed because their hair is sticking upwards.
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Do you like watching detective shows now?
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I'm going to be honest with you.
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There are two TV shows that I absolutely love and I know
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that you already have probably guessed what one of them
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is, but my two favourite.
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Investigation
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detective police procedural programs.
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Columbo.
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You see, you were right, I love Columbo.
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If you've never seen Columbo, then
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you are really missing out.
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And I also like another show that is made here
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in the UK called Inspector Morse.
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It's not made anymore, but there are many, many series and many, many episodes of that particular show as well.
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I do like detective programs or any film or TV show where a certain crime has to be solved,
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and I suppose we are all interested in that type of thing, because all of us,
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from time to time, might find ourselves having to become a detective.
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Maybe something you are trying to find out, maybe something you are trying to discover,
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something that you want to follow.
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Something you want to find out you are trying to make connections or follow clues.
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So quite often, if you want to know more about a certain thing, maybe there is something happening.
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Or maybe you feel as if something is happening.
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You want to follow the clues.
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You want to make those connections.
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You want to find out what is going on.
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I think that's one of the reasons why
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detective movies or
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detective TV shows are so popular, because it is interesting seeing how
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a terrible act or horrible situation can be solved
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just by looking for clues.
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And I'm sure you've done it.
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I'm sure you've seen something and you've tried to find out more about it.
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We we can say that you are looking for clues,
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so here are some phrases you might use when we are talking about trying to make connections.
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Or maybe you are trying to find out what is really going on.
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We can say that you try to spot things.
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So this is an interesting
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I suppose you would say it was a verb to spot to go spotting.
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You are looking.
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You are searching.
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So if you spot something it means you see a certain thing to go looking.
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You go spotting.
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You try to see, you try to find,
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you try to spot something.
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The action of noticing something.
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If you are looking for clues, quite often you will search and you will try to find that thing.
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Of course, if you notice something, it means oh,
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you observe a certain thing occurring, something happens, something
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is happening.
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You notice something.
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If you are trying to find
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what is going on, if you are trying to search for clues, you might have to observe or watch.
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Not a very exciting thing to do.
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You might have to look for clues.
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Again, not an easy thing to do.
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Maybe you believe that your husband is cheating on you.
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Perhaps you think your wife
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is seeing another man.
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You start to look
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for clues, things that might help you
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in your search for answers,
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to search for something that stands out,
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to find clues, something that stands out.
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Something that is clear or obvious.
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Something that stands out.
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Quite often when we watch these amazing detective shows, quite often there are things that the person investigating will notice.
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They will notice something.
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That is one of the reasons why I like watching Columbo.
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It is a very good TV show
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to investigate
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the action of making inquiries,
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to know who's around, if you are searching for clues,
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if you are looking for something we can say that you know is around.
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You are looking rather like a dog.
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So imagine a dog trying to find a bone.
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It will often use its nose.
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And of course we can do the same thing. Not literally.
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We are not literally sniffing or trying to find things using our nose,
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but you can use it as an interesting phrasal verb you nose around.
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You are searching for clues.
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Of course you can hunt for anything, to look, to search, to forage.
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You are trying to find something you hunt for, something to seek or seek out.
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Seek means search.
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You are seeking something you are looking for something you are trying to seek out a certain thing.
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Of course,
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if you are investigating something, maybe a serious crime,
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maybe you are trying to find out whether your partner is cheating on you.
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You look for clues, you look for connections.
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So when we are trying to find out what is happening,
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quite often we will try to find connections, things that seem to go together.
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Maybe a certain person was in a certain place at a certain time.
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Also, another person was in the same place at the same time.
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Were they together?
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Were they seeing each other?
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Is there a connection?
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Then?
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You can follow the trail.
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You follow the trail.
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You try to piece together all of the clues,
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the things you are trying to find, the clues, the things that you find or see.
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And then you have to put those things together to see if they fit.
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You can also
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join the dots if you are trying to see if something has a connection,
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or maybe more than one thing has a connection, you try to join the dots.
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That means that you are trying to see how those things occurred.
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Are those things connected to each other?
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Do they have some sort of connection?
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And if they do, you will try to follow the dots to see if something is happening.
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You might put two and two together
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to come to a conclusion about something.
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You make a conclusion, you come to a conclusion.
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You put two and two together and hopefully you have
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an answer.
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You might put the pieces of the puzzle together.
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So rather like putting the pieces together, you put the pieces of the puzzle together.
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I'm sure you've
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in the past tried doing a jigsaw puzzle, putting those pieces of the jigsaw together.
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It's a little bit like investigating a crime or trying to find out what is going on in a certain situation.
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You have to put
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the pieces of the puzzle together,
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and of course you can use your nose.
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As I mentioned a few moments ago, to use your nose is to
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look around to ask questions.
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You try and find out what is going on, but by using your nose, not literally.
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We use that figuratively
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to make connections between events.
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By looking at the clues you put the pieces together through questioning and making inquiries.
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Some people will hire an investigator to look for clues
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they use subterfuge and close observation.
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Now there is an interesting word subterfuge
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is an interesting word that means to do something undercover
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without other people seeing what you are doing, you do something secretly.
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Oh, oh,
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there is some subterfuge going on under my table.
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So they are looking for clues.
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They are trying to find out what is going on.
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And that is the reason why I love those types of detective show,
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when they are trying to put all of those clues together to try and work out what really happened.
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A journalist might investigate by going undercover, so quite often, and this has happened a lot over the years.
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A person who is investigating something, they are trying to find answers,
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they will go under cover, they will infiltrate, they will blend in.
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Maybe they will join a company and pretend to be one of their employees.
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Maybe they will join a criminal gang and work undercover.
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Of course a police officer can also work undercover as well.
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A person might be followed or take called to tail someone is to follow them.
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You are following someone.
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You are tailing that person.
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The word tail is often used in American English to mean follow.
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You are pursuing someone you are tailing that person.
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So there are many ways of describing the situation where you are looking for clues.
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You are trying to find out what is going on.
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What about you?
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Have you ever done that?
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Have you ever followed someone secretly?
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Have you ever been in a situation where you had to pursue a person to find out what they are doing?
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Maybe you are trying to find out whether your partner is cheating on you, or maybe you are trying to find out where.
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Where does my neighbour go?
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Every Sunday morning at 6 a.m.?
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What are they doing? Where are they going?
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I might follow them one day
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to find out what they are actually up to.
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Zeekr also likes watching detective shows.
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I like to watch Jessica Fletcher.
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Oh yes, murder. She wrote.
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That TV show, by the way, is made by the same people who made Columbo.
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Also a very good detective show as well.
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Christina says.
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I like the actor David Sue Shea, David Sue.
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She has been in many, many things most famous these days, especially
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around the world, for playing Inspector Poirot
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for many years.
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I will be going in a moment, and it's nice to see so many people once again joining in with the live chat.
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Don't forget I am here with you every Sunday and Wednesday from 2 p.m.
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UK time.
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We will be with you on Sunday hopefully.
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I really do hope. Keep your fingers crossed.
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I hope we will have Mr.
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Steve joining us on Sunday.
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If we don't then.
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Maybe he will never join us ever again.
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So hopefully by Sunday Mr.
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Steve will be 100% well, we will see what happens.
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Thank you very much for your company.
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Don't forget you can watch this again with captions.
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Later on there will be lovely captions, even captions in your own language as well will be available.
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So whatever your language, you can have translations on the screen later on.
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Thank you very much for your company.
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I hope you've enjoyed today's live stream and I hope it's been interesting.
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If there is something you are looking for,
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if you are trying to make those connections, perhaps you are looking for clues.
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I hope you find them.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan in the birthplace of the English language saying stay happy,
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stay safe.
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Keep that smile upon your face as you walk amongst the human race, and I will see you on Sunday, hopefully with Mr.
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Steve as well.
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And of course, until the next time we meet here, you know what's coming next.
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Yes, you do.
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I might go back outside and have a little play in the snow.
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We will see what happens.
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Ta ta for now.
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