31 Days of Learning English - DAY 24 - improve your English - DIRECTION - 24th October - THURSDAY

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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I'm out of Tic Tacs
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do-do-do-do-do oh there they are the sheep this morning in the field you can
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see they are still there welcome here we go again oh my goodness I can't believe
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that I'm still here doing this welcome today 24 of 31 days of learning
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English in October 2019
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hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you ok I
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hope so are you happy I really hope so here we
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are again live on YouTube yes I am with you every single day during the month of
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October 2019 to celebrate my 13th anniversary
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I'm doing it everyday 2 p.m. UK time Monday to Friday Saturday 12 p.m. just
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after midday and on Sunday you can catch me live from 2 p.m. UK time as well
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something to mention this weekend the clocks will change so we are going back
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1 hour this weekend because British summer time will be ending as we enter
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autumn and then winter of course so the clocks are changing we are going back
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one hour here in the UK so for some of you I know some of you are also going to
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change your clocks as well so some people will be and some people won't be
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so for some of you it might appear that I'm on at the wrong time but it's still
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2 p.m. UK time so instead of British summer time it will be G M T instead to
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be honest with you I wish we would just stop all of this can we just have the
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clocks the same everywhere in the world well you can't have them the same of
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course not exactly the same but you know what I mean anyway all of these changes
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all it does is confuse people people don't know where they are they don't
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know if they are Arthur or Martha talking of which
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it's mr. Duncan that's me by the way teaching English to the world and I've
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been doing it for 13 years at the end of this month it will be the anniversary of
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my YouTube channel however there will be no
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it looks as if there will be no that I'm not saying it I refuse to say this word
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anymore so it looks as if this is not happening at the end of October however
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my anniversary is happening at the end of October so I will be here for the
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rest of October one more week to go and then I'm finished with 31 days of
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October and English who I must be honest with you it's been very busy now the
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worst part for me was the first week during October so the first week I
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really felt as if I was climbing up hill I really felt as if everything was going
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to be very difficult however I was able to get through the first week and Here I
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am on day 24 can you believe it let's have a look outside because the window
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is looking lovely today would you like to see the view outside oh it really
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does look quite beautiful out there today very green you will see that some
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of the leaves are starting to turn autumn has definitely arrived so there
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you can see a view out of the window right now looking across and we also
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have our bird camera operating today there it is the bird camera and you can
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see there are some birds on the camera right now in front of us all oblivious
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to the fact that they are now being seen seen by the entire world can you believe
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it they don't even know it you can see some gold finches feeding now earlier on
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I actually filmed the birds outside so let's have a look earlier on because
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there were quite a few Birds outside earlier so this was earlier before I
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came on and you can see look at that there are quite a few
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goldfinches on the bird feeder I love gold finches they are they are so
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beautiful lovely lovely birds they're so nice they look happy
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they looked cheerful and also they sound quite happy as well
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I love the birdsong of the Goldfinch aren't they lovely really nice so we
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will check in we will check in live with the bird camera during today's live
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stream you are probably wondering mr. Duncan what's happened to your hands
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have you been doing some surgery in your kitchen have you been sawing mr.
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Steve's leg off no I haven't in fact yesterday I was in the kitchen if you
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remember and I forgot to show you these these are my rubber gloves so these are
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very useful items to have in the kitchen and yesterday I was showing you around
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my kitchen at all of the wonderful devices all of the gizmos and gadgets in
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my kitchen so yesterday I didn't show you my rubber
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gloves these come in very useful when you are doing a job that is dirty and
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unpleasant maybe mr. Steve has blocked the toilet
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up again so I have to put my hand down there and I have to get rid of the
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blockage it's horrible and sometimes I have to go all the way to my elbow
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that's how far down I have to go sometimes
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so my rubber gloves I didn't show these yesterday for which I apologize but
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there they are right now rubber gloves they are very useful if you want to do
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something that's messy or dirty maybe you are about to clean maybe something
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that is and hygienic maybe you're about to wash mr. Steeves
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underwear so perhaps you are going to wash mr. Steeves underwear you will
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definitely need a pair of rubber gloves I think so here we go then live English
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I will take my gloves off because well for two reasons one they
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are very hot and two unfortunately I can't operate my smartphone if I'm
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wearing gloves because you can't make the phone work so first of all I will
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take off my rubber gloves it feels for me so let's have a look at the live
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stream shall we who is on the live chat oh hello there hello Nessie Nessie I
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guess what you are first on today's live stream I think I'm losing my voice today
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I think my voice is actually starting to fade because I've been talking non-stop
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for the past 24 days well 23 days 24 days if you count today
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well then nasiha you are first on today's live chat
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well then Messier Rahul is here as well Anna Coby Luis Mendez Thank You Luis for
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joining me once again from sunny France I assume it's sunny it might not be here
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in the UK it's a little bit dull a little bit dismal however it's looking
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rather nice outside it really does look like autumn has arrived
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hello also to Louie Louie hello Louie Louie oh I've just realised well my
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fingers smell disgusting they've been inside those rubber gloves yeah
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that's disgusting do I really have to put it with that smell for the rest of
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this livestream yeah horrible hello - Sean Anna nasiha a gay zoo zoo seeker is
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here as well hello to you all so Theo hello Theo hello to everyone mr. Duncan
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hope you are doing well I'm not too bad but I think my voice is starting to fade
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away because I've been using it so much during October thank you very much for
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showing the Sheep you are welcome hi mr. Duncan says Cesar
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nice to see you as well hello also - Canaan or Hannon hello to you from
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Algeria amen amen ZT says hello Cristina asks why are you
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wearing your gloves well I've told you I've explained that I was going to show
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them yesterday but I forgot sweetness I hate changing the clock however in my
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country Georgia it won't happen well we have to change
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the clocks twice a year so as summer approaches we have to move the clocks
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forward as winter approaches we have to turn the
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clock back and it's really annoying so that is happening this Sunday so when
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you watch me on Sunday you might notice that the deter time will be a little bit
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different but it's not my fault I have no control over whether or not we turn
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our clocks back I don't have that much power Hanna says why do certain
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countries change the time well here apparently it all stems from the time
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when the days would get dark early and also during the days when there was
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pollution and it was actually all about safety on the roads so it was decided
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that you could get an extra hours daylight if you altered the clocks and
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apparently they worked out that this would save lives so that is what
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happened in this country hello sweetness hello also Alberto hello Alberto Wow 28
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days in a row you're amazing mr. Duncan thank you for your thank you for
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enlightening us it is difficult to watch you live but always a faithful follower
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thank you very much hello Rosa hello also to muna lots of
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people here already so let's catch up to date with the live chat hello Ana I'm
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allergic to rubber yes some people are they have a sensitivity to latex so yes
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if you are allergic to rubber or latex then you can't wear rubber gloves Thank
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You mr. Duncan for reminding us about turning our clocks back yes
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this weekend the clocks will change one hour back talking of we
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we are talking all about direction today now this seems like a small topic an
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innocent topic but I really feel as if today I may have bitten off more than I
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can chew so I feel as if I might have taken on a very big subject so this
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might seem like a very simple subject but in fact it's quite complex maybe
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more complicated than I had anticipated to be honest so we are talking about Y
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direction yeah direction yeah hmm that's what
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we're doing today I've been asked to explain a phrase and apparently this was
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used in a song I I can't remember which song but I've been asked to explain this
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what does it mean when you take for granted take for granted well if you
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take for granted it means you always expect something to
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be there you never consider the value of something you have especially if it's
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something important or valuable or something that you really need
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so because something is always there with you or near you or maybe something
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is always available you take for granted you take that thing for granted so you
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always expect it to be there for example when you go into your kitchen you will
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turn the tap and there will be water you always expect the water to be there you
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will take it for granted so when we take for granted
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it means we always expect something to be there all the time
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so to take for granted means you always expect something to
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available or nearby perhaps if you are in a relationship maybe your girlfriend
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or boyfriend might accuse you of taking them for granted
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you will always expect them to be there with you or to call you or when they
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come round at the weekend you never appreciate how much time they actually
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give you so we can say that you take something for granted
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you always expect it to be there and available
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I do enjoy explaining words and phrases so don't worry I'm always interested to
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hear from you and by the way if you want to get in touch you can follow me on
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Facebook yes I have a Facebook page some people don't realize that but I do I
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have an official yes it's official it actually has a blue tick so I've been
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I've actually been approved by Facebook so I do have a Facebook page and also
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you can email me as well if you want to you can email me and also follow me on
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Facebook Christina says you must never take your boyfriend for granted
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you must never expect him to always be with you always
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give you attention maybe you forget how much time and effort he puts into it
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perhaps some people take me for granted especially during October so maybe some
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people don't even realize how much work and effort goes into doing this because
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it looks so easy a lot of people say mr. Duncan doing a live stream it's easy you
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should try doing it sometime you really should hello Oh Rosa hello Rosa it looks
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as if you knew I was about to say Rosa says I take the
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live stream for granted yes now to take something for granted of course is not a
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good thing because when that thing has gone when the thing that you always
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expect to be there has vanished you will really miss that thing when it's gone
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today I am off because it is the birthday of my city Manaus it is 350
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years old that's almost as old is mr. Steve almost
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Giorgio ciao mr. Duncan I like your stripes on your t-shirt
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thank you very much there is a long story concerning this t-shirt I didn't
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buy this new I bought it from a friend of Steve's for five pounds that's not
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bad is it and I think this is this is what is it it's Paul Smith apparently as
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far as I'm aware that is some sort of designer clothing label I'm not really
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sure because I'm not a follower of fashion so I paid five pounds for this
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not bad when you think about it hello also to Ramzan or hello to you
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thanks for joining us today it's nice to see you here so many people here I was
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asked the other day if I could go back to my old position in the studio I think
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it was Pedro who asked now for those who have been watching my live streams for a
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long time you will know that I started my live streams in 2016 however and this
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is a big thing however over those years my live stream has changed a lot so
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originally this is what my live stream look
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like so there it is that is the original setup of my livestream so that's what it
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looked like in March 2017 so I had already been doing my livestream for a
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few months so you can see my livestream used to look very different I used to
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sit in front of my computer and talk in my chair and that's one of the things
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that I found really tiring because sitting down for a long time can be very
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tiring and also the other reason why I moved is because I got a new computer
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and also some new equipment and that equipment is very noisy so that's the
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other reason why I don't sit in front of my computer anymore I used to do it I
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used to sit in front of the computer but now I don't and also mr. Steve used to
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be a guest way back in 2017 and also 2018 and there he is
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there is Steve in the studio who remembers the time when mr. Steve got
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his grinder and it was so noisy he'd actually deafened me so there's mr.
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Steve doing something rather crazy way back in 2017 so even mr. Steve used to
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be a guest on my live stream hello to H Sam hello to you thank you very much for
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watching Christina I can't think of a day without your lessons because you
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teach well and you're like a familiar person yes a few people have said this
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they've said you are now part of my day so when I wake up in the morning the
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first thing I do is put on your live stream so for many people I have become
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part of their day part of their daily life years ago I saw your video
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like an unexpected gift and I still think so
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that's very kind of you to say I'm not looking for compliments by the way
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sometimes I feel a little bit shy a little bit embarrassed by all of the
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attention lack Lakisha says a narita reminds me of an italian name it does
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sound italian doesn't it you are right cash trailer asks Pedro do you know for
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tonight as I understand it fortnight is a
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computer game and before anyone asks no I don't play computer games I really
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don't I don't play playstation or xbox or Nintendo or Atari
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I don't think Atari exists anymore mr. deckerd you're showing your age hello
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also to Murray yeah oh it's nice to see you here thank you very much sweetness
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Mitra says how I miss mr. Steve well he might join us after October
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comes to an end so because mr. Steve has other things to do in his life he can't
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always join us unfortunately quite a few people now leaving comments Belarus er
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oh I see some some sad news from Belarus eeeh my mother is in hospital again it's
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a hard life can I send my best wishes to you and your mother and all of your
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family Greeley oh hello mr. Duncan the
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this according to Greeley Oh is the best direction are you sure about that they
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would would appear to be a lot of people who would disagree with you
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H Sam says I used to play Atari a long time ago yes I don't think they exist
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anymore do they but I remember in the 1980s Atari became
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a very well-known brand hello mr. Duncan I am listening to you
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from Japan a big hello to all those watching in Japan I have quite a few
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viewers watching there and it is a country that I've always been fascinated
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by hello to Palmyra hello also to Anna thank you Anna
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it's nice to see you all here today we are now going to take a look back in
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time on this day in 2013 I was doing day 24 of my dunk Tober lessons and now we
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are going to take a look at that very lesson which was published on this day
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six years ago
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oh hello and good morning welcome to day 24 of 31 days of dunk Tober how are you
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this morning are you fine and dandy I really really hope so welcome to another
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sneak peek at my oh so glamorous life right now I'm bringing my dust bin back
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up the driveway after it was emptied early this morning this is my green bin
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the green bin is used for putting guard and wasting grass cuttings small twigs
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and leaves anything that you cut or prune can be placed in here I have to
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dust bins here this green one and a black one the black bin is for household
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waste these are really bins they are dust bins on wheels they are nice and
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large which is good because each bin is emptied every two weeks their large size
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means that they are really good really good wheelie wheelie bins it's a joke
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not a very good one
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what a load of rubbish it's time to take out the rubbish we use the word rubbish
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in England to describe things that have been thrown away while in the USA they
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say garbage or trash we can use these words in other ways too if we think that
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a person is talking nonsense we can say that they are talking rubbish he is
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talking rubbish what he said was a load of garbage we can use the word trash to
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mean destroy or smash up the thieves trash to the house the party goers
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trashed the flat you can talk trash about someone you trash a person this
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means that you say bad things about them you criticize someone quite often behind
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their back yeah look more rubbish to check out more garbage to throw away
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yeah I'll deal with you later in daily life we all have unpleasant
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jobs to do there is always a chore that we would rather not do waiting for us I
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hate putting the rubbish out I normally push as much waste into my kitchen bin
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as I can until it almost bursts just so I don't have to walk to the dustbin
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these sorts of tasks can be described as menial they are basic jobs that must be
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done
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that is all of the rubbish thrown out all of the garbage has gone time now to
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go back indoors
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another task I dislike is housework cleaning the house is such a laborious
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job it can also appear to be a waste of time no sooner have you wiped a surface
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clean then a layer of dust appears almost straightaway it's quite vexing
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really to say the least washing the dishes doing the laundry
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vacuuming the carpet all of these jobs I would rather not to do but do them I
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must oh there's nothing like a nice rest
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after a hard day's work unfortunately there are still some jobs to do so I
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guess it's time for me to carry on with my daily tasks that pile of laundry
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isn't going to wash itself well technically it does wash itself but I
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have to put it in the washing machine and press the button it's all very hard
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you know
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there it was going back in time six years ago today I was doing my household
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chores in the house having to throw the rubbish or the garbage away and also I
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had to clean the carpet so I hope you enjoyed that just proving that I do do
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the housework so ignore everything that Steve says because quite often Steve
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will badmouth he will say bad things about me he will say mr. Duncan he never
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never cleans the house he doesn't even know where the vacuum cleaner is it's
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not true it's all lies today we are talking about direction that is what we
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are doing as we head towards three o'clock and that is the direction we are
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going in now thanks for your lovely comments thank you very much to
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Christina a sheep in the house and a penguin - very nice yes we have some
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very strange things in our house one or two of the things are in the window and
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my postman really does think that we might be a little bit crazy because we
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do have a sheep and also a snake in our window and that is of course lady
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Willington and also Sydney Sydney the snake hello - Pedro mr. Duncan do you
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spend your day alone well today I'm alone because mr. Steve
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isn't here so I am alone but I not lonely there is a difference to be alone
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means to be solo or by yourself however the feeling of loneliness is the
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sadness or unhappiness caused by being alone so if you feel unhappy because you
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are on your own then you feel alone but I
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don't I never feel alone there are lots of things to do to occupy my mind and of
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course I can go out to see people and friends but at the moment during October
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the most important thing in my life is this doing this hello to everyone who
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has joined me today it's nice to see you as we enter day 24 we are talking about
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direction today when we talk about direction this subject actually has
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quite a big a large expansive description there are many ways of
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describing this particular word so when we talk about direction it means the way
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you are going however the way you are going can be all sorts of things it can
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be physically it can be in your mind it can be the way you plan your life or
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maybe your day so where we talk about direction there are many ways of using
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this there are many ways of talking about it we often talk about where we
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are heading so when we say heading we mean where are you going or the
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direction you are heading in so when we talk about heading we mean you are going
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in a certain direction you are traveling in a certain way you are heading that
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way you are heading that way also headed now this is more commonly used in
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American English so quite often you will see headed used in American English and
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heading used in British English so there is a difference between these two words
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however they basically mean the same thing he's headed west
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he's heading west so American English British English I hope that helps where
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we talk about direction of course we are talking about lots of things so we talk
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about direction we are talking about our course so this again is a word that can
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be used in more than one way so when we talk about course it means maybe the way
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we are going or the route we are taking of course this can also mean the
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direction you take when you are doing something in your life or of course if
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you want to educate yourself you will take a course so a number of things that
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you have to learn a number of exams that you must take to achieve the thing that
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you get at the end so when we talk about course in education it means a group of
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things are a number of things you must learn a skill you must attain and of
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course exams that you must take at the end so during the course you will learn
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things and normally at the end of the course you will be tested route so again
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this word normally is used to describe direction so we talked about a person's
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route where you are going so in that respect direction and route pretty much
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have the same meaning you are talking about the way you are going the
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direction you are going in which direction are you going in which route
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are you taking when you are driving on the road for example there might be many
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directions that you can go in to get from one place to another or you can
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take a certain route so when you go on a certain route
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it means you in a certain direction you follow some
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instructions so the word root can also mean a set of instructions that tell you
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where to go so the root might be on the map so you follow the route on the map I
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I am here and I need to get to here so I must follow the route I must go in a
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certain direction so some good words there some very interesting words some
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more words we can use connected to direction we can say way so where you
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are going so the way you are traveling the way again this can be used in more
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than one way so when we talk about way we might mean the way to a place so the
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direction or the route or of course we can talk about the method of doing
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something so when we talk about the method of doing something we can also
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say way so the way you cook your meal the way you do something the method and
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of course the direction you must find your way you go from one place to
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another you find your way quite often we use that phrase to mean that we are not
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sure where we are going maybe you are not sure which way to go another one
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bearing so your sense of direction so quite often when you are outside you
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will know where you are so your bearing is your sense of direction you know
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which way to go you know which way to turn
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you know which direction to go in you know which way you are facing and we
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often use this word bearing bearing so your movement in a certain direction and
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also knowing the position you are in which way you are facing so you might
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lose your bearing you might get lost track is another one and this word also
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has lots of uses track can be a pathway that you follow to get from one place to
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another you can have a preset lion that something will follow such as a railway
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track so track can also mean line that goes in a certain direction a track also
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track can mean follow so in that respect we are using it as a verb you track
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someone you are following them you know where they are you are following them as
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they move around you track that person you know where they are going another
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word in fact we have three words here journey now these are words that
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describe the trip that you are making so when you go in a certain direction you
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are moving to a certain place you are going from somewhere to somewhere you
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are going on a journey so the journey is the trip that you make transit transit
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means to be moving so you are moving along you are in transit so when we talk
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about transit it means travel the movement
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transit you are in transit so if we say that a person is in transit it means
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they are moving they are on the move they are traveling they might be in
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transit by car or plane they are in transit if you are going on a long trip
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or a long journey we can say voyage voyage a long trip a long journey is a
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voyage we often think of voyage as traveling over sea so if you are sailing
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on a cruise if you are on a boat we will often describe that as a voyage because
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quite often when you travel by sea the journey will be very long quite often
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another word we can use eventually trip I've mentioned this already so generally
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speaking we will often use the word trip to mean journey you are going to a
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certain place you are going to see a certain city or a certain country you go
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on a trip you take a trip of course the word trip can also mean fall so if you
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fall over you also trip so this particular word
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has more than one use expedition if you go to explore something you want to look
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at something closely maybe you go on holiday maybe you go to a certain place
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perhaps you go to Egypt to look at the pyramids you will go on an expedition
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you will go to look around a certain place sometimes you will investigate the
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things that are there you will look closely at them so we say expedition
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if you are going somewhere for a short time maybe just one day or maybe for the
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afternoon we can say outing you go on an outing so an outing can mean a day trip
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you go somewhere for a short period of time so you might go on an outing to the
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beach you go to the beach and then later that day you will come back an outing
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you have an outing you go on a short trip you take a short journey and you
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stay there for a short period of time you just go out to experience something
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new or interesting excursion so when we talk about excursion it means an
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organized trip an organized journey so you might go with many people on a bus
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or a coach you will take a coach to a certain place you will go on an
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excursion an excursion so you might go away next week to the beach we can say
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that you are going on an excursion day trip day trip so once again day trip
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means a short journey or a short stay a day trip you go somewhere and then later
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the same day you will return if you want to take a little journey if you want to
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go on a journey and have some fun we can say jaunt jaunt you might go away
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somewhere to have a bit of fun maybe you go out in your car and drive somewhere
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scenic you will take a jaunt I love that word it sounds French doesn't it hello
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to Palmyra hello to Shawn ferry voyage is a long journey
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yes so if you go on a voyage quite often it is a long journey we often think of
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it as going by boat or by ship many people nowadays like to go on a cruise
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so they will go on a boat for many days and nights and travel around the world
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to different places they will go on a voyage of discovery oh I like that
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so when we talk about voyage of discovery it can also mean the things
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you learn about yourself or about life so that's the reason why I said that
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this is a very big subject so not only is Direction physical it can also mean
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the way that you view your life or the things you want to do later in your life
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so the direction is not only physical it is also in your mind as well the
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direction that you want to go in the way you want your life to go the things you
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want to do in the future we can talk about your direction the way you are
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going hello to Ramsey Nouah again mr. Duncan all these words are they nouns
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most of them are nouns yes so the excursion describes the journey
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direction is where you are going if you direct someone that means you are doing
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the thing you are telling a person where to go so direct is verb we are using it
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verbally you are telling a person where to go I will direct you I will tell you
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where to go I will explain the directions to you so in that respect it
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is a verb hello Mika I often go for a day trip at the weekend I think a lot of
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people do it's very popular especially when the weather
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is nice especially when it's nice outside but as you can hear I'm losing
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my voice can you believe it I made it all a wait
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today 24 and I start losing my voice can you believe that I can't believe it so
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when we talk about direction I'm going to show you very quickly how we can
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express direction with some of my amazing drawings would you like to see
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my lovely drawings oh here we go
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so quite often when we give directions we will often use these terms the terms
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are up/down so quite often we will say up and down now the way we use this
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varies depending on the situation so when we say up it can mean climb so you
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might go up a hill or up a mountain you go up a slope you go upwards so we are
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talking about not just traveling forwards but also traveling up so up
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however in some cases we might also use the word up when we are talking about
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direction so quite often we will say up the road you need to go up the road and
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quite often and this is very strange I don't know why this happens but quite
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often if we are talking about things that are on the right we will say up and
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quite often if we talk about things that are on the left we will often say down I
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don't know why that happens it's very strange but I've noticed when I do it if
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I ever give directions if I'm pointing right I will always say up and if her
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point left I will always say down you need to go up there you need to go down
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there it's very strange that so quite often we will use up and down to show
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direction on a certain route you can go up the road you can go down the road so
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if it is going away from you in front its up if it is going away from
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you behind you it is down I came from down the road down the road I was down
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the road and now I am going up the road I came from down the road and now I am
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going up the road so you will see that these two words even though they are
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very simple words very basic can have their own special meaning when we are
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talking about direction you go up you go down the other thing that it's worth
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noting is you are watching me on a screen so when I say right and left it
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is not your right and left because you are watching me so as you look at the
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screen this is left and this is right however from my point of view this is
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right and this is left and that is one of the things that can be confusing when
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you are giving directions you have to make sure that the other person knows
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that you mean left and right you have to make sure they know that it is their
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left or your left so my left and your left are different depending on your
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point of view which where you are facing anna says up the road can also be follow
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or straight yes you are right yes you can go straight up the road you can also
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go straight down the road you can also follow the road so when you follow it
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just means you drive along so you follow the road you drive along the road I hope
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you enjoyed my little diagram when we are giving directions we will often give
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specific instructions for example you might come to a junction and you can see
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here this particular Junction is called a crossroads so you can see the
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crossroad is two roads that intersect so that road continues and that road
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continues across so when we are giving instructions we might tell someone to go
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straight on so if you go straight on it means you go across the road of course
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you have to stop first of all you have to stop to make sure there is no traffic
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coming this way but when we give a person instructions we will say go
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straight on go straight on so don't turn go straight on continue ahead however we
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might also be telling someone to turn so you might tell someone to turn right you
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turn right at the next Junction so at the next Junction you turn right
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we might tell them the opposite we might say at the junction
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you need to turn left turn left at the next Junction turn right at the next
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Junction so when you come to a junction and that's a junction a junction is
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where one road meets another but you have a choice of which way to turn you
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either turn left or right so there is your choice and this type of Junction is
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called a T Junction the reason why we call it T Junction is
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because it looks like the letter T we can also talk about direction from a
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point of view of a compass so quite often certainly years ago many people
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would carry a compass something that they would look at so they would know
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which direction or what direction they were going in so quite often we will
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give instructions to tell someone to also go in a certain direction so these
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are very precise instructions for example we might tell someone to head
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north head north you head north so in the
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country you are traveling in in the town you are traveling in you head north so
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if you look at the direction of your compass you will know that you need to
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go north and then of course we have head south when we say head we mean go you go
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in that direction you head south so again in the country or city or town you
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go in that direction on the map or on your compass
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we can head east head east you go in that direction or of course head west
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head east head west it is very distracting because from my
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point of view this is actually the wrong way around but I know it's right you
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head east you head west you go east early you go west early an
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easterly direction westerly again it means the same thing
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so I hope that's alright we are big how we will not know English I don't know
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what that means I don't know what I mean Sayid
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if you could explain what you mean that we're very nice hello grace chin
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oh hello grace nice to see you here I will be going soon I can't believe how
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quickly this lesson has gone today if a person is going the wrong way we can say
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that they are heading in the direction that they shouldn't be so we might tell
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a person that you are going the wrong way you are heading in the wrong
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direction you are going the wrong way you have to turn around you do what you
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are going the wrong way
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no you are going the wrong way direction and appearance we can also describe
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things in certain ways from their appearance the direction of an object
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the wrong way up so for example this is the wrong way up it is upside down it is
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the wrong way up
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now it is the right way up so the wrong way up means something is upside down it
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is the wrong way up and just to prove it
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this is upside down this is the right way up so upside down is direction it
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refers to the position of an object whether it is the right way or the wrong
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way something is upside down so direction can also refer to the way
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something appears as well what if something is inside out inside out again
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we are talking about the appearance of something perhaps you put on your
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clothes maybe you put your t-shirt on your body you wear it but then suddenly
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you realize that it is inside out so the inside of your t-shirt is on the outside
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so you've put your t-shirt on inside out inside out another way of describing
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this something is inverted inverted so maybe it is inside-out or maybe it is
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the wrong way round as if you are looking in a mirror so when you look in
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the mirror you are seeing an inverted image so something that is inverted is
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the wrong way round it has been turned around for example your reflection in
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the mirror is inverted or we can say reversed so something has been
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first it is the wrong way round it's almost time to finish I hope you've
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enjoyed today's livestream by the way if you've enjoyed it tell a friend if you
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haven't tell me if you would like to subscribe don't forget you can like and
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of course don't forget you can also
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subscribe don't forget to activate your notifications so you will never miss
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another one of my lessons so please subscribe and like
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like and subscribe that would be lovely I am about to go I will see you tomorrow
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we are here every day every single day during October so I will be back
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tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time and I will see you tomorrow hopefully if it be a
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good day because it's Friday tomorrow so I'm sure everyone will be really happy
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thanks to grace I love your lessons very much thank you so much mr. Duncan you
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are welcome no problem that's why I'm here
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let's have one last look at the birds I wonder what the birds are doing let's
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have a look outside well first of all those are the trees we'll see those in a
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minute like that you see however what I want to show you are the birds there
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they are right now in the garden oh look I can
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see in the middle you can see a green Finch so the bird in the middle is a
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green Finch and then the one on the Left the one on the left is a goldfinch
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so there are quite a few birds now in the garden so that is a live view out of
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my window at the moment you can see the birds are
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busily feeding it is there their late afternoon lunch and that's it there is
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no more it's time to go I can't believe it it's gone so fast thank you iron
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Thank You Meeker Thank You sweetness thank you Anna
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I will join you again tomorrow from 2 p.m. UK time and of course the weekend
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is just around the corner are you excited I hope so
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this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying thanks for watching me I
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am going to rest my voice now and I will see you tomorrow
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and of course you know what's coming next yes you do until tomorrow
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ta ta for now 8-)
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