Learn English LIVE - a lesson to help you improve your listening - Sunday 10th February 2019

oh how nice to see you here once again on a Sunday aren't these weeks flying by already

we are almost halfway through February coming up today we'll be talking about advice do

you ever give advice have you ever received advice and did you take any notice of it did

you follow the advice that was given to you also we'll be talking about secrets can you

keep a secret how good are you at keeping something to yourself also mr. Steve will

be here later talking about words and expressions to do with my all-time favorite thing yes

we are talking all about sweet things in particular cakes yes we are also will be playing a super

game today called guess the cake I will be showing you some cakes and we have to guess

what they are all of that coming up later on plus you on the live chat after all it's

just after 2 o'clock here in the UK it's a Sunday afternoon and this is live English

live from Much Wenlock in England on a Sunday afternoon this is live English

here we go again

oh yes here we go it's Sunday once more I can't believe how quickly these

Sundays keep going by I really can't believe it it seems like Sunday keeps coming around

faster than any other day of the week I don't know what it's all about it's very it's very

strange indeed I must say hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today

are you okay I hope so are you happy I really really hope so so here we go again it is a

Sunday I I it really is incredible I I must say I am amazed just how fast these Sundays

are going by so many things to do today I'm just looking at all the things that I have

to do today and there are so many things that I have to sort out I I can't believe it it's

true I'm not joking I wish I was so here we go I hope you are super duper on this Sunday

I hope everything is alright it has been quite a dramatic week this week because we've had

a lot of bad weather some really awful weather this week and everything is being pretty bad

in fact let me just show you now how bad the weather has been this week just to give you

an idea just how terrible everything is is being this week because we've had storm Erik

storm Erik this week and it's been really dramatic would you like to see something very

dramatic straightaway before we go any further here's something that appeared on the internet

this week and it's something very dramatic take take a look at this now if you are about

to take a flight if you are about to go on a plane maybe you shouldn't look at the thing

that you're about to see [Music] [Music] oh my goodness did you see that a bit dramatic

now that was a plane landing this week I think it was in London and the wind was so strong

that the plane couldn't land it tried to land but then it bounced on the runway and it had

to take off again it's a piece of footage that has been shown a lot on TV and also around

the internet this week so so just to give you an idea of how bad the weather was during

the week because we had storm Erik storm Erik with a K spelt with K so that's what's been

happening this week let's have a look at the window shall we I don't know why I seem so

confused today but I feel very confused by what is going on I don't know why maybe maybe

I didn't sleep very well last night and certainly the night before I didn't sleep very well

because of the wind it was so strong outside blowing against the house so there you can

see the view right now so this is not recorded you are now looking at a live view looking

out of the window you can see it's still a little breezy we still have a little bit of

wind blowing but it's not too bad really III we can't complain really can we no of course not

who wants to complain about anything these days because there are so many things

that we could complain about so many things just me so there's the view right now outside

the window and here is the view right now in my little studio in Much Wenlock on a Sunday

already it's ten minutes past 2:00 and for those who are wondering who I am well you

don't have to wonder any longer because my name is mr. Duncan and that's my job I'm here

to talk about the English language and also to help you with your English in general and

of course let's not forget also your listening skills a lot of people ask mr. Duncan why

do you do these live streams now one of the main reasons is to help you with your listening

that's the reason why so the reason why we are all here today is to practice our English

but also to practice our listening as well that is the reason why I suppose we can't

have a live English stream without mentioning the the chat or where is it is it there I

hope so the live chat is now on the screen thank goodness for that here it comes now

but the big question is who was first on the live chat today who was first let's go back

to the beginning of the chat to see who was first now I think it was matrix yes it was

matrix you were first on the live chat today well done so matrix you were first on the

live chat and congratulations you get a super-duper round of applause

yes good well done matrix also Jimmy is here and hiroko hello from Malaysia I'm going to

New Zealand tomorrow oh very nice fortunately New Zealand isn't very far away from Malaysia

although having said that it's still a few hours I think it's still at least seven maybe

eight hours from Malaysia to New Zealand it's further than you think it really is hey Rocco

so well done and I hope that you have a super safe journey to New Zealand from Malaysia

tomorrow it's a beautiful place as well New Zealand I've always wanted to go there one

of my students that I used to teach in China has actually moved to New Zealand he actually

lives there now Martha is here as well hello Martha nice to see you here Blue Thunder yes

it's another Sunday another fun day it is I hope you are feeling good today also Anna

is here fresh start hi guys also Maria mr. Bruno Emma go SIA Francisca also Fatima hello

Fatima also we have Lena hello Lena once again thanks for joining me today but how long will

you be staying for will you be disappearing I don't know we will find out Abdo is here

also an assult cause kasi and a solo kasi I hope I pronounced your name right there

also we have GaN Xie also franceska Julia sera sera also says hello mr. Duncan from

Mexico I know I have a lot of people watching in Mexico now during the past few weeks a

lot of new viewers have been joining and they have they are watching in Mexico it's true

Antonio good afternoon from Spain in tour alone enos territorial Odonis i thought you

were gonna say torremolinos then tan my says hello from vietnam how are you also Marella

blue thunder as I've already mentioned new tenant oh I like your name by the way hello

mr. Duncan I want to be the first on the chat but I am failing don't worry because I will

be back next week every week I am here so don't worry just because you missed it today

doesn't mean you will miss it next week because I am here every single week every Sunday from

2 p.m. UK time you can catch me on the livestream also Germany ute is here a big hello to you

as well Cesario I have lots of Secrets tons of Secrets who says area has a lot of Secrets

that's one of the questions I'm asking today by the way massimo is here from the slopes

of vesuvius what's happening with vesuvius at the moment i hope it's not rear up ting

i hope there's no larva falling into your back garden sweetness says hello mr. Duncan

also Alex hello Alex do you know about the Tet holiday yes of course because we have

the Lunar New Year in China they have the Chinese New Year in Vietnam they have something

called Tet Tet Tet Tet Tet Tet Tet and that is a very similar thing the Lunar New Year

so yes I know all about it also we have go SIA Emma Guadalupe is here as well also we

have a big hello to mr. Steve from our Ana Salah kasi hello to you and mr. Steve will

be here later on he will Fung is here hello Fung it's nice to see you on the live chat

and can I say a big welcome back a big SuperDuper welcome back to Belarusian who hasn't been

very well during the past couple of weeks but Belarusian is here today and I think that

deserves a round of applause thank you very much Belarusian for joining

us don't forget you are also the moderator or one of the moderators I haven't seen Pedro

where is Pedro although he is speak of the devil there he is Pedro Belmont says hello

as well also one of the moderators we have Hiroko the Duke of Edinburgh has given his

driver's license away yes this is something we were talking about a couple of weeks ago

right here on the livestream we were talking about the Duke of Edinburgh the Queen's husband

who had a little bit of an accident on the road and now he has decided to give up give

up driving completely so he will no longer be driving his car on the road maybe he will

drive around the private estate where he lives but he won't be going on the public roads

which I think is a great idea because he is 97 and this is something we talked about a

couple of weeks ago when is the right time to stop driving and I think 97 might be a

good time to stop driving because many of your senses start to fail your hearing goes

your eyesight becomes bad and of course your reaction to things so the amount of time it

takes for you to react to things around you also slows down as you get older I know all

about that so thank you for telling us about that yes but that was on the news last night

here in the UK also salmon is here hello to you and a couple of more before we carry on

we also have oaks did I see sue Kat then yes there is sue Kat hello tsukete I am expecting

my brother so I will be listening to you whilst I do other things around the house that's

okay sue Kat as long as you are there so we're even if you're just listening I'm very happy

to have your company frong have you ever been to Vietnam I think that that question is directed

at someone else Dow Duke is also here and we have Nicole Massimo Louie yes Louis says

the Duke of Edinburgh didn't even say sorry to the other person well he did eventually

he wrote a very short letter so he did actually eventually not straightaway but about a week

later he did actually write a letter to the to the woman who he hid in his car with his

car so yes I did he did do that so he did eventually apologize but not straightaway

hello mr. Duncan long time no see says Alice hi Alice it's nice to see you back here through

the looking-glass of YouTube Tomic says don't you see me here yes I can see you Tomic well

I can now anyway Palmira says Duncan did you did not spot me what a pity well I can see

you now I can't see everyone at the same time I only have two eyes unfortunately yes sia

says hi mr. Duncan hi to you and that's it we will go back to the live chat a little

bit later on as I mentioned we are also talking about other things as well first of all can

you keep a secret are you good at keeping things to yourself when someone tells you

something and they say don't tell anyone else it's a secret are you good at keeping secrets

can you keep a secret or do you have a problem do you have trouble keeping secrets so if

someone tells you not to tell other people do you still go ahead and tell them also today

another subject in fact we have a lot of subjects today do you ever take advice do you ever

take advice from people and this is something that a lot of people like to do certainly

these days because of the internet so you have advice things that are offered as information

to help you solve a problem or to get through life so advice can come in many shapes and

sizes and as I said also can you keep a secret are you good at keeping secrets also today

just for fun we are going to have a contest a little contest I think mr. Steve will join

in with this guess the cake so today I'm going to show you some cakes and what we have to

do is guess the name of the cake so there will be 11 cakes and this of course is my

most favorite subject of all because I love eating cakes I love snacking on sweet things

so we will be talking about cakes also Steve will be here later talking about words and

expressions to do with cake cream Jam and all sorts of things connected to cakes and

baking so that coming up later on as well so many things to look at today that plane

did you see the plane last week trying to land here it is again for those who missed

it oh my goodness this is this is so terrifying at poem [Music] Wow that's terrifying I do

not like that do you like flying do you like flying when it's windy apparently one of the

worst conditions to fly in or certainly to land in is the wind when it's very gusty and

there are some airports around the world that are well known for being very treacherous

and also quite scary to land that here in the UK we have Birmingham International Airport

now apparently Birmingham International Airport is one of the worst places to land at in the

country because it's always very windy there's a lot of crosswind so of course when a plane

is trying to land it has to keep the wings straight but if the wind is blowing then it

is very hard to keep to keep the actual playing straight so that's one of the reasons why

it is difficult to do so I hope you are well today I'm not too bad although I think mr.

Steve is a little bit under the weather today I don't know why I have a strange feeling

that mr. Steve might be a little under the weather would you like to see an interesting

word okay then let's have a look now here is an interesting word you can see the red

word on your screen and the word is shenanigans shenanigans it's a great word that now this

is something you might hear quite often in English when a person thinks that someone

is being dishonest or maybe they are up to mischief or maybe there is some monkey business

going on or perhaps there is some deceit or maybe some tomfoolery some high jinks or frivolities

so we can say that there are some shenanigans and there is the word shenanigans can you

see it it's a great word that so you might say that there are some shenanigans going

on it work maybe something that is happening that might be a little deceitful or maybe

something that is being done behind other people's backs something that is being done

in a dishonest way we can say shenanigans there are some shenanigans going on I love

that word now as you know I present my live English stream every Sunday but also I from

time to time make English teaching videos it's true I've been doing that now for 12

years can you believe it and on my youtube channel there are lots of English lessons

now we are going to take a look at one of my full English lessons these are some excerpts

from full English number 13 can you see what I'm holding here it's something sweet and

very easy to make this is meringue meringue is a type of sweet food made by mixing well

beaten egg whites and sugar together and then baking it until it becomes crisp on the outside

a meringue can be eaten on its own or used as a topping for desserts especially pies

the center of meringue tends to be soft and sticky just the way I like it this particular

meringue has been colored with strawberry juice and smothered in white chocolate which

means that I'm now in confectionary heaven by the way the word confectionary is another

word for sweet things such as chocolate and candy they are both types of confectionery

[Music] it's time to take a peek at another buzzword a buzzword is a word or phrase that

is popular during a certain period or is used frequently today's buzzword is radical the

word radical as an adjective means something relating to or affecting the fundamental nature

of something to change something from its original form to something more extreme or

profound might be described as being radical forming an inherent and fundamental part or

nature of someone or something some radical differences exist between those who follow

the news and those who don't a medical procedure that will be completely curative is radical

something characterized as being a departure from the traditional it may in some instances

prove to be innovative or progressive a radical approach a radical alternative a complete

social or political reform supporting an extreme idea or concept might be described as radical

as American Slang it is sometimes used to express very good or excellent although this

use is now seen by many as out-of-date and old-fashioned as a noun the word radical is

a person who advocates others to push for a complete change or move away from the current

methods of thinking radicalism is the noun that names being radical to convey radical

ideas to others is radicalization to radicalize someone is to persuade them to follow a way

of thinking that to others might seem unacceptable or extreme then there is radicalization which

is the noun that names the action of radicalizing someone [Music] black shoes and socks with

shorts oh what a fashion faux pas they appear so odd together when looked at from afar shorts

with black shoes and socks should never ever be seen even if you squint the sight is still

quite obscene black shoes and socks with shorts please be off and make it quick as those black

shoes socks with shorts are making me feel quite sick

do you ever wish something under the carpet no I'm not talking about doing the housework

in this case I'm talking about trying to forget something or to pretend that something does

not exist the idiom brush under the carpet means that you would rather forget that something

bad unpleasant or difficult to deal with has occurred or will occur you try to brush the

bad thing under the carpet you try to make it go away by consciously denying it you want

the thing to go away so you try to brush it under the carpet there is no point in you

trying to brush this under the carpet let's just brush all this bad news under the carpet

shall we [Music] there it is one of my full English lessons and you can find all of my

lessons on my youtube channel [Music] did do yes mr. Steve will be here in a moment

he is looking slightly under the weather I'm not I'm not sure what's going on here but

it does look as if mr. Steve might be slightly under the weather I'm not sure but here he

is anyway it's mr. Steve yeah hello hello everyone hello mr Duncan hello world of English

hello this hello piece of paper yes mr. Steve is here for those who were wondering where

he actually was maybe people were thinking that maybe you've been kidnapped or maybe

you'd gone to another planet I don't know it sounds like a good idea I haven't got a

spaceship though mr. Duncan uh you put this on me earlier yes few minutes ago there is

a reason though because I I think I get the feeling maybe you are feeling a little fragile

today Cetaphil Jade just so you know in need of a bit of tea and C T and C yes tit TLC

TLC where you can have tenderness and care I suppose or tender loving care T L C you

know how sometimes if you've had you've been out on the town oh okay oh you've had a night

out and you've had too much to drink and you feel delicate and the next day you wake up

and everything is coming at you and you feel a bit sort of stressed and anxious I feel

like that or not I haven't been drinking I haven't didn't go out on the time I just feel

a little fragile today mr. Duncan so you'll have to be gentle with me well I woke up this

morning with a view I woke up this morning with a headache too. yes I did I don't know

what's going on maybe it's the weather maybe it's the air pressure it kind of had anything

to do with the fact that we went to visit my family yesterday kind of had anything to

do with that mr. dome we went to see your mum there was nothing to do with that at all

but it was fun and also can you see what I'm wearing today I'm wearing a lovely new t-shirt

another new top it's not really a t-shirt but it's a long-sleeved shirt and I'm not

gonna feel sorry for myself actually can I have that it's just says gile there's a fragile

yes maybe maybe your brain is delicate maybe your brain is a little bit fresh there weren't

any stress today mr. Duncan right there no you're not fragile I'm hey I'm buoyant I'm

free lively I'm on top of the world I'm feeling fragile as well to be honest I woke up with

a headache I had everything everything was aching this morning I think we had too much

meat yesterday so we went to see mr. Steve's mum she brought me this lovely new shirt isn't

it lovely buy me anything yes I didn't buy you anything but she bought me something and

the strange thing is it's your birthday soon but she bought me a gift but didn't buy anything

for you well she well I couldn't find anything that I wanted she would have brought me something

yes you were gonna buy some jeans but I couldn't fight you know what it is when you go to buy

a new pair of jeans yeah how fussy are you when you go to buy a new pair of jeans I work

with me I've gotta try lots on sometimes exactly the same size and they all feel slightly different

and if they don't feel right if the sometimes you get the same waist size in about three

or four different pairs of jeans of the same size and they all fit slightly differently

hmm and yesterday I tried about three or four pairs on all the same size but none of them

felt quite right someone felt too loose the other ones too tight yet the other one just

didn't feel right in the bottom area you know just you know and if you buy them and get

them home you never wear them you look because there won't be comfortable so yes so that

might be the reason why you're a bit stressed no not at all Spence okay looking around the

shop swell up well I know yes I hate looking around shop I hate shopping as well it's terrible

now we have some questions coming today Steve we have this we have a very busy one today

I don't think you need that on we have a very busy one we will be talking about food we'll

be talking about cakes will also be testing some food will be actually tasting and testing

some food because it will be a couple of no we're going to try this together or we're

not they're going to do this together now do you remember a couple of weeks in about

four weeks now about three or four weeks ago I talked about some mayonnaise mayonnaise

that I used to eat and shut in China and I managed to get hold of some yesterday so there

it is I've actually got hold of some lovely mayonnaise and this is Japanese mayonnaise

so we went to see you a mum yesterday and in the town where your mum lives there is

a an oriental supermarket and I managed to get some of this very expensive by the way

and it is called Q P Q P mayonnaise and there are two types there is the salty one and there

is the sweet one so this particular one is the salty one I prefer the sweet one but they

didn't have that so I'm going to do a little taste test before we do anything else what

now yes well what happens if it makes you ill well I've got to do the rest of the show

in my fragile state of mind he won't make me ill oh I love mayonnaise so now first of

all before I go any further we'll have a look at that live chat at the moment but here is

a little cracker so would you like to know no you don't want any no I don't that's terrible

how Allah what is this I don't even know whether it's edible it is edible you brought it from

a shop I've never seen it before I don't know what the ingredients are because I can't read

the ingredients this is Japanese mayonnaise and I'm going to have so many ways you try

it first okay then look how disgusting oh look at that some lovely mayonnaise I'm gonna

have some now on a cracker gorgeous what does it smell like it smells

a bit like mayonnaise oh I smell it smells vinegary well that there probably is vinegar

in there but the difference with this is now normally mayonnaise is made with eggs so the

the egg white and also the egg yolk but this is made with just egg yolk are you sure yes

how do you know that well I've checked so this is made just with a egg yolk it's already

sticking in my throat so I'm gonna have a little bit more because I I'm I'm also hungry

mmm well that's your fault for not having any breakfast mr. Duncan hmm strange thing

to do don't you think do you think it's a bit strange on an English lesson to be eating

mayonnaise on a cracker I bet that's never been done before but this is a special moment

because I was able to find the mayonnaise that I used to eat in China okay so that's

it you found it go through the whole demonstration talking of China this week it was the Chinese

New Year and also the Lunar New Year yeah this week the Chinese New Year the Lunar New

Year it is now officially the year of the pig and can you see there that that's Steve

well that isn't actually Steve although no I think the guy with the blue hair that might

be Steve it does look like Steve and this is a restaurant I went to last G this is last

year do you remember you went to a restaurant and they've decided to do some Chinese dancing

some traditional dragon dancing so there it is it's quite a surprise and there wasn't

very much room for me - yeah - actually if I remember rightly they actually demolished

part of the restaurant because scenery and scenery and food was flying everywhere it

was it was quite quite chaotic to say the least so I'm sure mr. Steve you are you are

champing at the bit to have a look at the live chat so look and here it is the live

chat is now live you are free to chat what do you think Steve Amira says gorgeous but

unhealthy and David Lombardo is on a diet and can't eat mayonnaise oh it's delicious

all I love the look Steve am told says he has mayonnaise with bread every morning yes

Sergio says it looks disgusting yes I happen to agree it isn't it isn't disgusting it's

gorgeous I tell you now I ensued I consumed so much of this when I was in China really

how is your diet carrying us Anna my diet is going very well I can't you tell from my

face I have lost some more weight I think I look great at the moment well this is quite

heavy yes so I'm imagining this is going to transfer from the bottle to around here yes

but look you could you look I've got no fat from here to around here my fact has gone look

can you see it hasn't all gone yes but it's a lot flatter that's what's going to happen

to this it's going to go in here and out there okay then well for someone who didn't

want to talk about the mayonnaise you're talking about is a lot there's a phrase that says

a minute in the mouth a month around the waist dear sounds like something sounds like something

your grandmother would say oh not again mr. doe mr. Duncan happy birthday whose birthday

is it chef place yours next week next week oh well thank you very much next Saturday's

because we won't be that my birthday will be over yet next Saturday it's Steve's birthday

next Saturday it is and I'm hoping for the keys to a nice red brand new Ford Mustang

to appear on my drive that would be very nice do I lack omelets page oh yes I do like omelets

they're usually made with but when you haven't they're made with eggs of course omelets but

they put a lot of eggs in one onlet I think you can put about 6 eggs to make one omelet

can you which normally you would never eat 6 eggs to imagine if you had 6 boiled eggs

or 6 fried eggs Wow but if you make a big omelet you have to put a lot of eggs in it

don't you and I should bulk it out with vegetables or something yes I think omelets aren't that

healthy no well well I mean eggs are healthy because they're full of protein and vitamins

yes in moderation in moderation and I like omelets because I like I like putting cheese

I don't like omelets with meat in it so I'd like to have mushrooms cheese tomato omelets

my mother makes lovely omelets but she hasn't made one for me for a number of years sassy

says that's yolk what what this this is gorgeous I was hoping Mika would be here today Mika

watching in Japan because Mika knows this very well Mika was going to send some to me

but there's no need because yesterday we found some in the place where your mum lives that's

Mika could send you the sweet one Oh Emma says some people like mayonnaise and they

put it on everything yes some people do they put mayonnaise on just about everything bread

crackers any foods that they have well it does bring out the flavour of food it's very

good on on fish isn't it goes very well with fish mayonnaise goes with anything that's

what I think too about towbar Geiger says my birthday will be on Thursday the 14th and

Thursday the 14th of course is a special day it is Valentine's Day having a birthday on

Valentine's Day I've just realized I haven't bought a Valentine's card yet for Steve I've

just realized I haven't bought one for you oh okay then so shall we great shall we agree

now not to I'm going to write it down now shall we agree not to get one for each other

because I've I've completely forgot I forgot too late I forgot all about it so did I I'm

writing it down on this piece of paper I'm gonna put it on the floor and then when I

walk out it's going to remind me yeah but I need that paper why because it's got my

notes on it that's got some of my notes on it

welcome to hey your notes yes give me my notes my aide memoire your what aide memoir you're

what it's my aide memoire aide memoirs it's something to aid my memory oso rays you used

for something to remind you to do something I think you invented that no it's French storm

Eric this week mr. Steve would you like to see something terrifying we had a storm here

but yes something terrifying you know how delicate and fragile I am today he knows and

you'll want to terrify me with something well this definitely won't help would you like

to see a plane landing this week in the wind we've had some very strong winds haven't we

yes so this is here it is this is a plane landing I think it's Heathrow Airport during

storm Eric this week what it's going to do something dramatic goodness how's that [Music]

mr. Tintin I wouldn't have liked to be in that plane the plane was trying to land and

never have a look once you see the game yes so apparently do you know what that's called

apparently there is a name for it it's called toga apparently toga is is the word that people

who are into planes and they are fan fans of watching planes apparent that that particular

maneuver is called a toga right okay never another look mr. doe agility miss Steve wants

to see it again I'm sorry about that here it is [Music] that is pretty dramatic so I

think it would be fair to say that that plane aborted the landing Nidhi went nose-down into

the ground that was a really that was that was that was quite hairy well yes I did it

does put you off flying when you see things like that but obviously the pilots knew what

they were doing and that quickly rescued the plane yes thank goodness I had a very scary

landing once in a plane yeah in a very small plane in high winds and I think we told this

story last week in the as we were coming into it there was only it was only a 12 seater

plane mm-hmm and it was extremely windy we were coming into land and just as we were

about to land the whole plane just seemed to go I thought it was going to flip over

and the the air steward steward s was sitting actually in the seat just across from me it

was a very small plane and she screamed yes I think we mentioned this last week you never

want to you never want any of the people on the plane who are working for the airline

you never want to hear them screaming ever because that's not a good sign and then after

we landed she said oh I said was that was that you know scary was that quite a scary

landing and she said yes that's the worst one I've ever experienced yes someone says

on the olena lena says on the live chat oh I like that yes I think on that plane there

must have been a lot of poo yes I think a lot of people must have been very scared to

the point where they maybe they they pooed their pants oh it's a metric Spurs day Patrick

as well people are saying happy birthday to Patrick oh I see is it Patrick's birthday

as well I think that oh yes - my birthday was February the 4th so that was last Monday

I want to say last Monday so right Massimo and also Alamgir is here oh the plane looks

like it's about to crash yes it looked like it but imagine being on the plane Steve that

must have been pretty scary I think so because you would know that the plane was going forwards

it wasn't landing as it should so yes I think so so today well look we're talking about

a lot of things today by the way Steve we've got a lot of stuff to talk about and get through

be honest we have we really have so today we're talking about secrets first of all it's

it's a question that you might find yourself asking yourself from time to time can you

keep a secret mr. Steve I'm very bad at keeping secret this is true I if I've got information

in my brain it has to get out yes I'm very poor at keeping secrets it causes me stress

never de-stress never ever give a secret never tell a secret to mr. Steve because he can't

keep it in I can't it's like it's like you you just can't hold it inside your brain you

have to tell someone you have to tell someone so if you ever want to tell Steve something

that you want to keep secret my advice is not to do it not do it at all so don't do

it I'd be a useless criminal it was and have to tell somebody of the crime that I've committed

you wouldn't last very long be able to keep it to myself I'd have to tell somebody but

this apparently is a thing that does happen with criminals if you if they commit a crime

and and maybe it's a very clever crime that they have to tell someone so they can get

the praise for it so that's often what happens if you do something like you rob a bank or

maybe you do something really a something that's so amazing and people are asking how

did think how did how did they do that how did they steal that money from the bank and

they might sort of be unable to keep it in to hold it him they have to tell someone about

it and that's it that's their mistake because they tell it to someone who then thinks hmm

maybe I can get a reward for this information and war that they just can't keep a secret

either yeah either yes and they'd go and tell somebody else you know some people they confide

in their loved ones don't they secrets of bad things that they've done because I think

if you've done something bad and you're not particularly a bad person mm-hmm but you do

something bad the you've got a lot of inner conflict going on I think so haven't you conflict

in your in your mind yes I think so and in order to relieve the stress of that you want

to confide it must be a bit like people you know the Catholic Church you go and confide

their sins to a priest mmm it must it's probably quite a good actually thinking about it that's

probably quite a good thing it's supposed to be very therapeutic because the priest

of course is obliged not to reveal anything that's been told yes well this has happened

this has happened where people have gone to a Cathedral they've gone to give confession

and they've confessed to something horrendous and the priest cannot or the father cannot

tell anyone else about it because he's obliged there's some well it's it's it's that the

sanctity covenant yes the sanctity of the confessional that's it yeah so that's a great

thing isn't it you know you can go along it in the Catholic Church sorry honey Ron's Catholic

what we're talking about religion yes yeah you can go and confess your sins and all is

forgiven and you move on yes sounds like a great idea to be so it sounds to me as if

mr. Steve is not the person to share a secret weird so please keep it to yourself don't

tell me I should tell everyone the other thing we're talking about today is advice do you

ever take advice now I think can I just say mr. Steve I think that you are not very good

at taking advice no you're wrong really I thought you were going to admit that you were

very bad at taking advice I think I'm good at taking advice I I'm the opposite I'm this

- in fact my problem is that sometimes I can't make decisions I listen to too many bits of

advice of different people okay I get very confused and can't make a decision no I say

because I think I'm good at listening to everybody's point of view on a subject and then trying

to weigh it up and decide what I think's the best way to proceed but often I don't you

know that Mister don't can I try to decide on something but I I have so many different

things going on in my head yes so I do it this way that way what happens if I do this

what if I don't do this like I end up being paralyzed yes so it's more about lis it's

more about decision-making yes then whether or not you take advice or maybe you might

get advice from different people and they all say different things and then you still

have a decision to make as to who who you take the advice from I think what you've got

to do is you've got sometimes you've just got to trust your own instinct yes sometimes

what's the first thing that comes into your head is often the best course of action to

take and then so that sometimes happens to me I just said oh yes I think I'll do that

oh well hang on shall I know what happens if I didn't yes so I get all confused yes

well I should have just gone with what I originally thought because you should you know sometimes

do what you what you feel you should do this isn't an advice program no we're not talking

about actually giving advice today although sometimes we give advice about learning English

so definitely it happens it happens sometimes so the question today amongst many others

is do you ever take advice now some advice might be the wrong advice now some people

are very good at giving bad advice have you ever received any bad advice Steve so maybe

now one of the things I always think about is when you if you are investing your money

into things maybe into shares or stocks so you might be in a position where you have

to get advice from someone and they might say take your money and put it into this or

that and maybe that advice turns out to be bad advice well particularly when it comes

to your money hmm you've got to be very careful who you trust because and I've had experience

with with many financial advisors over the years and you've got to be very careful because

are they doing it how much are they going to benefit from the advice that they're giving

you is it the right advice for you because particularly there are two types of financial

advisor there are totally independent ones hmm who you just go to and pay and they will

tell you what you should do and then there's the other but they're quite expensive then

there's the other type of financial advisor that is free but they are they are linked

to a particular company so they want you to take out a policy okay the company that they

are associated with and so you only get a narrow choice of way you can put your money

so might not be the best place to put it but you don't pay for the advice the adviser gets

a fee hmm when you take out this policy he gets a fee from the company that owns the

policy so he's basically so so from that point of view it might be biased so exactly personnel

is working for the company they are trying to sell that product for someone else so you

go along ask for advice but this person is getting paid by maybe two or three companies

and then they will offer those things to you without actually thinking are these things

good for you because all they're thinking about is their own reward that's right I think

well I think I think you should I think when it comes to matters like that hmm you should

do your own research yes and decide what's the best thing for you to do because something

like financial advice it's very you know you that advice you can take could make a big

vast difference to your life in 10 20 30 years time so I think you need to do a lot of your

own research before you take the plunge before you go ahead and do it yeah I think so but

you see this a lot now on the internet you see lots of people offering advice financial

advice through the internet and how to how to make money very easily overnight by investing

or gambling with shares stocks stocks and shares so so I think it's it's not a it's

not an shame you have to know you have to know what you're doing oh but Steve the live

chat oh here's something just for me o to do with mayonnaise no it's nothing to do with

mayonnaise it's to do with me my appearance Janet says Jan I wonder if that's your sister

Janet's surname Jan Lee says mr. Duncan you look as young as you did 10 years ago when

I first watched you on YouTube what is your secret of staying young makeup eyes and that

night makeup you cheeky cheeky bugger being with me there is no make of me I think no

makeup this is all natural what you see is what you get but yeah thank you very much

I don't know why I don't know why but I've managed to keep my youthful appearance even

though I am getting older and older fairer says I like taking advice but not only oh

it's gone it's gone I don't know why YouTube keeps doing that oh here we go it's back I

like taking advice not only from books and also from videos on YouTube but also from

my environment including my family and friends yes it's sometimes it's good to get advice

from different people and then make your own mind up about it that's right but you can

have too much advice you can get confused Guadalupe says Jana you are right mr. Duncan

looks even better and younger than in the past look at the compliments you're getting

this today mr. Duncan I know yours even your sister complimented me yesterday we went to

see mr. Steeves mum and also we met your sister and she said Oh Duncan you don't have any

lines around your face around your eyes do you remember a few weeks ago you are applying

a certain product that is used to treat verrucas on your feet warts warts you were applying

it to your face burn off some imperfections yes you had on your face and it seems to be

working well that's it we were all laughing I was laughing you you had red you were damaging

your skin but it seems to be working but I don't quite look amazing not not not so modest

not that I'm suggesting that anyone does that so please don't do it only if you stupid like

me because I'm pretty stupid sometimes I do some stupid things you've got to be very careful

I think giving advice to people you've got to I think because counsellors for example

yes you can go and see counsellors can't you but they won't actually tell you what to do

no a well-trained counsellor will will ask a series of questions and in order for you

to make the decision yourself yes so they'll point you in the right direction but you have

to come up with a decision well I think counseling counseling sometimes is about getting something

off your chest well a cat yes a counsellor so if you've got a problem you can go to accounts

that I can't yeah yes and they brought they will you've got a decision to make and they'll

you know they'll draw it out of you that's it yes they won't tell you I think you should

do this yes so if you go to a cancer you know in a bad relationship and you don't know what

to whether to stay with that person or not you'll tell them everything they won't save

right I think based on what you've told me yes you should do this they won't do that

they'll they'll give you a serial ask you a series a question to allow you to come up

make the decision yourself well quite often that they say what do you want quite often

they will say what do you think you should do most so simplistic so so sometimes you

will go to a counselor you will tell them your problems and you're working through your

own problems but quite often your what you are left to try and work out those problems

also for yourself you go away they might give you some training to do or a little bit of

maybe meditation something you're trying at the moment definitely and so so there are

many ways of getting advice you couldn't get advice about health people are always on the

internet looking for advice about health and sometimes you can look at the wrong thing

and maybe the advice is terrible but you still follow it so I think you want to you don't

you want to take advice from about if you've got a particular thing you want advice about

you want to search for somebody who's who's actually done something and got some experience

in that in that field so you wouldn't go and seek financial advice of somebody who hadn't

got very much money yes oh it was you know it would reach retirement age I was living

in a mud hut or something not not that we've got anything against people that live in mud

huts. well you know I'm being extreme there yes but I mean you wouldn't go and get marriage

advice on somebody you'd have three divorces yes you wouldn't get advice on financial you're

your finance and your financial investments from someone that was sleeping in the street

exactly is that what you mean yeah so yes you have to choose very carefully who you

get your advice from I think so I think so with the live chat is very busy by the way

yes I must admit there are some people giving bad advice to deceive others at the same time

many people give useful advice yes that Thank You Emma that goes back to what we just said

so sometimes you have to choose where the advice comes from and maybe you'll listen

to more than one piece of advice so maybe the problem the problem you you put towards

someone or maybe you do it to more than one person and then they will all offer their

own opinion that's it Michel says hi guys I always advise my friends to listen to you

on Sunday oh that's very good advice very good advice that is that is very good mostly

the best advice that we've heard so far today that's number one advice in fact that that

deserves a round of applause cool bye like that advice that was very good advice was

did you like that advice Sergio says we should only listen to him and his advice oh I see

okay then I'm not sure about that maybe maybe sometimes Oh David Lombardo once it rise about

approaching women approaching women well you mean chatting up women so maybe you are looking

for a girlfriend or maybe you want a little bit of female company you are probably asking

the wrong people to be honest so so don't ask us because we have absolutely no idea

so let's let's replace the word women with a person who doesn't have to be you know just

advice about approaching anyone yes you mean you mean like maybe an animal don't don't

appear to be too needy I would say just get chatting you know and then you might have

some advantages maybe you're maybe you're not very good looking and you're worried that

not saying you but yes you've got to sort of in know what you're good at what your advantages

are and sort of worm your way in to their lives what about money okay I think that helps

well it did help what I suppose it can help yes but you don't want somebody for money

okay I don't mean paying I don't mean paying for company that's something very different

entirely approaching women yes just just talk just talk to people like then ordinary people

I think that quite often you find somebody attractive and you you they and because you're

so wrapped up in being attracted to them you can't therefore when you go to talk to them

you don't that conversation isn't natural because you're trying to be on your best behavior

you're trying to look attractive or that's the thing I think you've got to try and put

that out of your mind okay because if somebody senses that you're very attracted to them

you know you've got to be I think you've got to be a bit relaxed and you know let them

come to you yeah but I think I think one of the words we haven't used yet is confidence

just having confidence it's it's the hardest thing I mean I would never approach anyone

in any situation when I was younger because I was so shy and this is I think shyness is

probably the biggest thing that stops people from approaching other people but the other

advice of course is just to get into social situations like you you mean if you if you

have if you have an interest maybe you could join a club or group and then you you you

find people that share similar things similar interests to you Pedro's advice is to practice

okay sounds like you've had a lot of practice Pagerank practice what chatting up women how

approaching women what how do you practice though you've got to be careful you've got

to be very careful in today's can climb it what you mean you mean like global warming

no I meant in terms of the sort of social climate at the moment you can't you've got

a very careful approaching people and chatting people up or you might be accused of something

that you didn't intend to do the current zeitgeist yes you've got to be very very careful hmm

but yeah just talk just talk normally to pee anybody but knots but we're not really this

isn't an advice channel no we're not giving advice we're just talking we're just talking

generally about the types of advice so as I said we are the wrong people to ask so I

don't know maybe you just if you see a nice lady in the street you might go up to her

and say oh my goodness our I couldn't help noticing you from across the street so see

if they've got a see if they're married first yes have a look at the finger have a look

at the finger see if there's a wedding ring on her finger if there is just just turn the

other way in going find someone else unless of course you are in a Gillette advert in

which case don't do it at all so Belarusea is back by the way oh because Belarusian feeling

better yes apparently she can see the live chat now brilliant so that's great so hello

Belarusian nice to see you back with us all by Lena as Lena going Lena's going I know

I knew I knew Leda was going to go ride with that because Lena went last week as well what's

going on at 10 past 3 mmm well I think Russia is about two hours ahead so so it's still

early evening in Russia I think I think Palmyra is in Russia or Ukraine around that area Lewis

says tell her you are a good chef ah yes that's a good one because it's it's very popular

now cooking so if you if you if you invite someone on a date maybe you can invite them

to your house and maybe you can cook something for them and and it's very impressive as well

because everyone's very impressed by by people who can cook I think I think so if you can

cook then yes you sort of people feel more attracted to you if you cook them a good meal

being respectful having a good sense of humor and being honest and true it's beautiful when

beginning a chat yes I think so I think there's a way of doing it there is a way of doing

though there isn't a secret to chatting to people or to Otto getting someone to to be

attracted to you I don't think so I do think there is sassy Lera says not everyone turns

around when they see a ring in other words just because you've got a ring on your finger

doesn't mean you're not still going to be chatted up by somebody yeah sometimes that's

a challenge yes they're trying to take your take your husband or your wife away from your

lunch chatting you up yes Massimo says my dream is to see mr. Duncan on the BBC who

knows I might be on the news for left for some reason you mean yeah I think he means

teaching English you might see it see some some video footage being loaded into the back

of a white van yes you don't want to be on the BBC for the wrong reason I think that's

the only way I'm ever gonna get on the BBC ever maloca says hello from Egypt I have started

watching you since I was 11 and now I am 17 you've helped me a lot thank you very much

maloca and you are very welcome to join us here today it's isn't it nice would you like

to play a game Yohan it's now time everybody to play a game and this game is called guess

the cake now I'm going to show you some cakes mr. Steve and you have to tell me what the

cakes are and I'm going to open it this up to everyone so if you are watching at home

if you are watching at home on your internets in your webs you can also get involved so

I'm going to show some cakes now on the screen oh I want you to guess what they are and I

think today it's going to make us feel very hungry well the ironic thing is we haven't

got any tea cakes today we have no cakes there's one no cakes because we went to your mum's

so we didn't get any tea cakes from the local shop yes so so we have no tea cakes we have

no cakes at all although we do have some lovely mayonnaise maybe I can just squeeze it into

my mouth if it was socially acceptable you would I would if I could do it now I would

open this I would flip this open and I would squeeze it straight into my straight into

my mouth but I'm not going to do that cake it's task the cake guess the cake so let's

play guess the cake I wish I had some music to play oh do do do do do do do do guess the

cake guess the cake what is the cake here is cake number one so this is the first cake

mr. Steve coming onto your screen right now Oh what is the cake well I think we should

let other people answer that before I do oh okay then so this is the first cake can you

see it it's on the screen now but what is it does anyone know what it is I will give

you a clue it's something that well it's it's kind of a pastry if I wanted to use has it

got an apple filling it might have apples inside yes it might don't give too much away

there so that I know the name of this case so what is this actually I think it has another

another title is well another one so Emma says apple pie so dessert sue Kat and also

sue Kat but what type of apple pie it has a a particular name Oh mr. Duncan I don't

really know is it a sandwich well it you're not far off actually because it is a kind

of sort of sandwich it is something that has a hot filling but the pastry has been folded

over ah I think I've given you a clue there have a nice Steve holded pastry with another

filling yes you'll have to you'll have to read to tell us mr. Dunn okay here it comes

so this particular cake is called it is it's an apple turnover mr. Duncan as you turn over

it's an apple to know I picked out the wrong I picked up the wrong one that's another one

for later Apple turnover so there it is Apple turnover an apple turnover and be the reason

why they call it an apple turnover is because you put the Apple in and then you turn also

the pastry was square a region yes and then you turn it put the filling in in turn and

it's sweet pastries in it yes sweet yes you could have doesn't have to be Apple you could

have Jam in the middle and have a Jam turnover couldn't you yes you could you can put anything

in there too / so there it is an apple turnover so that's the first cake did you enjoy that

Steve I bet you're feeling hungry there I feel a bit sick today but it's sick today

because we went out for this meal yesterday and we had lamb and there was so much meat

it's and then we had this this really sugary chocolatey pudding afterwards and I felt sick

ever since don't say anything about that because we might be talking about that later is it

fried says sassy it's baked baked so it's like it's like tasty it's like pastry but

it's very flaky and melaka says whatever it is I want to eat it I think so sue Kat says

it's true strudel I think that is quite similar that's a German that's what I was going to

say yes it can also be called apple strudel as well yes but I think I think that's slightly

different I have a feeling that might be slightly different so yes there is strudel as well

so Apple turnover but I also think you can call it apple strudel as well here comes another

cake this is cake number two oh wow look at this ah I think Steve will know what this

is I think so pretty quickly oh yes I do but let's see if anybody asks can guess it especially

especially since that is quite a quite a again we've got pastry on the base and round the

outside and then we've got quite a a solid filling yes it's like it's a sort of sponge

but it but it also has a particular flavor yes and it's dead that's quite a solid and

it's got some lovely icing on top has anybody managed to guess that one it is named after

a famous town in England Tomic says cheesecake well I can see it looks a bit like cheesecake

it isn't cheesecake but it does look a bit like it it looks like cheesecake but it isn't

put it on again here it is again so it's named after a famous place ah in England well sue

cat you're you're half right oh yes you are half right half right half right a brill says

that is a tart you are correct yes it's a tart but it has another name as well yes this

particular one does yes so this particular tart has a so what is a tart well a tart is

a kind of cake that normally has a pastry base pastry base are normally something inside

and a shallow filling that's it so they tend to be shallow often round and they are very

sweet so they often have things inside them so maybe there is some pastry with something

something in the middle got a pastry base and a pastry sides and then you fill it with

something yes so that's at and they could be very sizes this particular one just to

give people an idea is probably about twelve years yes about thirty centimeters across

so that's part of the size of it roughly yes or more even more than that could be more

than that yeah you can have small ones you can have little round ones so I will give

you this away here it is we'll have a look at the chat one more time the tart in Dutch

means cake so it's another word for cake so tart so in in in this country when we think

of cake mm-hmm we tend to think of something that's just sort of sponge yes spongy so a

tart is something different because it's got a cakey filling but the key thing there is

that you've got that pastry round the outside hmm and on the base yes in French of course

they say patisserie yes patisserie Azeri cake isn't it yes means a whole series or different

types of cakes so yes so the name of this is here it comes for those who are wondering

at the right one this time okay I will the right one this time Steve the name of this

particular cake is dead it's Bakewell tart base o-tar well then you got the tart but

it's baked well a baked well is a small town and I think I want to say Derbyshire it is

that is correct mr. Duncan is in Derbyshire and it's the place where the Bakewell tart

was invented but it is pretty done again mr. Duncan we will explain what's in it okay that

it's got particular ingredients that make it special yes so you've got the pastry but

then you've got right on the the next the next layer up from the bottom is jam so then

you've got some jam I think I don't whether it's strawberry or raspberry jam and then

the filling is it's going to be flour obviously but they put they crush it that what gives

it the flavor is the jam the cakey filling but they put almonds yes ground Almonds into

the cake mixture or almond essence and almond essence so that's what gives it that particular

flavor and the way that they put the Pat the icing the patent in the icing I don't know

if it's strawberry jam or raspberry gel I think it's raspberry although I don't think

it really matters no as long as there's some kind of jam at the bottom I think traditionally

I think it's raspberry it's a very it's a very heavy cake is yes you can't eat much

of it without so sugar flour if you eat too much you will feel very sick and the flavor

is very much of almonds so if you don't like almond you won't like but right it's cherry

tart that's another would be yes instance oh yeah this isn't cherry this is baked well

but it's almonds is the predominant flavor and it goes very well with custard yes as

as most tarts do yes we'll be looking at some words and phrases connected to cakes and making

cakes a little bit later on with Steve we have some very very interesting words coming

up here's another one Steve oh he is I think you you will like this one Steve so here's

another one did you do what is the cake ah yes now anyone know I will give you a clue

you might be able to see on the top there is there are bananas so that is a clue but

does anyone know what it is blue thunder has to go now Oh we'll see you later you can watch

this later on the replay and I just a moment they said the answer it's Bakewell tart yes

the last one was Bakewell tart and this is the next one now I will I will give you a

clue it's banana and something else and the name also contains what is in the cake it

does again this is quite a heavy cake very sickly he would probably have it with ice

cream yes well your clothes Emma you're close but not quite yeah and Abril is quite close

as well yes it well it does look a bit like a cheesecake it does but that the brown part

the part in the middle you can see is something else it's not made from the same ingredients

that you were put in a cheesecake no it's actually toffee it's toffee that's right toffee

a biscuit base which you often have in a cheesecake but the filling isn't isn't cheese or that

whatever they put added what do they put in with a cheesecake we might we might talk about

that later and cream this is you say toffee with better toffee and banana flavored filling

yes but what is the name of it I don't think anyone oh yes Jamelia you are correct congratulations

Jamelia to me Jamilah well done you get a free piece of cake yes it is banoffee banoffee

which means what mr. Duncan it is a combination of two words it is a combination of banana

and toffee so that particular cake is called banoffee because you have bananas and also

toffee mixed together it is caramel and banana cake that's right I don't I don't really like

bananas to be honest you don't really like any fruit really do you mr. Duncan Emma says

I've never heard all you have it it's absolutely you can make it go it's a nice one to make

at home hmm and it's slightly healthy because you've got bananas in there except for all

the calories and the sugar that's right so another one will have a couple of more and

then we have some words and expressions to do with I have cakes and baking and Wow that's

the type of cheese Matt yes and yes yes yeah I'm sure okay all right Steve Steve gets very

excited you seem to be liven hang up now that's the cake some more cake because that's what

we're talking about today guess the cake now this is a cake that might be familiar to some

people especially if you live in the UK yes this is something you might see served with

a cup of tea a cup of tea yes it's a very well I presume it's a it's a very British

cake sarah says my dad made banoffee yesterday Wow so there you go everyone wants to eat

junk food now Jeff is here hello Jeff thanks for joining us today well if there's one thing

oMG I one junk food now Sid yeah well yes you've come to the right place yes we love

junk food I think my ultimate would to drive around in in a v8 Mustang eating a piece of

cake at the same time it doesn't sound very safe that would be you know very hedonistic

I think you would lose your license like the Duke of Edinburgh yes so well let's just explain

this we've got sponge in the middle yes which is which is in different two different colors

yes it almost looks like a chessboard that's right and there's little layers of jam in

between the sponge yeah and then it's wrapped in a marzipan so that's it and again we have

Han marzipan is something that also tastes like almond it does yes so this is something

that has a very sort of it's a very cosmopolitan very sort of lavish name it's yes it's quite

a sort of a posh cake rainbow cake says Patrick is it rainbow cake Emma says it looks like

sushi oh it's very sweet it's very sweet it's definitely not sushi lays of jam in between

the sponge in the middle and then you have marzipan which is as we said is almonds but

I can't think what else you mix a mix with the almonds to make it to turn it into marzipan

it's something you roll out yes you put it on Christmas cake as well it's very soft it's

very soft I do like marzipan but again if you eat too much of it you get very very sick

probably better and things in there so there it is but what is the cake it's something

that has a very very nice name good guess palmyra palmyra says cheesecake or chest cake

oh I see it's a very this is a very typical sort of posh British cake that you would have

as you say you vote that's a good picture there you would go to a posh tea shop yes

some tea rooms yes and you would you would have this with a nice cup of tea and a China

proper bone china cup and saucer yes a you have pictured there so it's it's very posh

for typically British typically sort of English but it has a surprising named Ozzie pan checkerboard

low that's a good guess Misha that's a good good guess yes but here he comes now the the

answer is well first of all it's quite surprising the answer because it is a cake that was invented

in this country but it is in fact called Battenberg Battenberg Lautenberg isn't that strange that's

a strange name for a cake yes well you would think maybe that the cake originated in Battenberg

but in fact the cake was named or it's supposed to be named as the rumor goes in honour of

the marriage of princess victoria who was a granddaughter of Queen Victoria so there

it is so that's why it's called Battenberg so it doesn't actually relate to the German

town of Battenberg it actually has no real connection to that but it is an English invention

it was actually created here in this country so despite the name it was actually created

in England and it's a very posh cake if you have Battenberg cake it's associated with

royalty yes so you you you have Battenberg cake and you feel very very posh and very

upper class yes very very sophisticated small little slices of Battenberg cake yes it's

very sweet sponge with is marzipan round the outside but some good guesses a lot of people

are getting hungry apparently watching rise watching these cakes Belarusian says Oh mr.

Duncan what are you doing I'm hungry watching these delicious cakes we'll have one more

because we are already running out of time Steve we are shall we have a look outside

the window because today the weather is not too bad we had a lot of wind though didn't

we oh we did I'm not kept as a rake I'm not talking about mr. Steve stomach a lot of wind

outside we had some storms but you can see today it's not too bad very sunny today sunny

cool windy we had a bit of rain but there it is a live view right now outside looking

across Patrick sir talks about something called Welsh cake oh okay Welsh cake which I think

we've had Welsh cake I think it's a type of very heavy fruitcake I think Welsh cake it

reminds me of a pancake well I don't know I think there's something else it which is

like a solid sort of sponge cake okay oh I see Welsh cake but that it would be a bit

heavy for most people's tastes hmm but yes it is not a big red sponge cake it is a very

light sponge and it's quite popular with refined women yes if you are a refined person have

a cup of tea and a slice of Battenberg you really have made it into the upper echelon

of society the upper what a challange what does that mean the heights you've made it

into the upper areas of society so the high levels high levels of society upper excellence

excellence yes yes Ilan's of society you are you're mixing with royalty and and people

of note ok Battenberg cake and you would probably you know eat it like this I know you would

probably eat it you would slice it with a whether it with a silver you've probably eat

it with a silver spoon a spoon or cutlery maybe mate you probably wouldn't use your

fingers at all you don't use a fork you'd use a fork Lautenberg you know you know when

you have you have you go to a posh restaurant they give you that tiny fork and it doesn't

seem to belong anywhere and that's a little does dessert fork and that means you can eat

a little piece of cake with it well sure ah a Beatrix says Welsh black cake is delicious

yes well is it there's a lot of cakes that you could call Welsh cakes okay I think that

the black cake that's got treacle in it lots of black treacle so that probably is delicious

but Welsh cakes are quite tend to be quite heavy because they're probably designed to

sort of keep you going lots of energy inside them when you're going down the mines okay

so here's one we mentioned earlier. so here is the next one I think a lot of people will

get this one right I think this is quite easy so here is our other mystery cake but what

what is it what is the mystery cake now one or two people have said this already at the

bottom yeah at the bottom you have a very thick base made of biscuits and then in the

middle something very soft and fluffy and it tastes quite I would say savory it's quite

savory isn't it yes it's not a mccann be very sweet and sweet and savory it's quite an interesting

mixture Emma says she likes you log yes I like that that's a Christmas something you

have a Christmas which is a chocolate sponge with the chocolate fondant filling and then

covered in chocolate so it looks like a log that you would put on the fire but it's made

of made of sponge with chocolate on the outside we like you cheesecake yes everyone's getting

that one right everyone's getting the cheesecake right Geoff has gone one further and it's

calling it a cherry cheesecake he's referring to the the topping yes so there is like a

sauce on top that's it so cheesecake would is that a particular type of now we did ask

this question earlier because I can't remember what what you use to make cheesecake yeah

the one thing I know I don't think it actually is cheese because it looks like cheese I think

I think it's a type of soft yeah I think it could be type of soft cheese I don't know

but yes so the filling on the top so you might have a blackberry cheesecake hmm so the cheesecake

is always the biscuit base and that filling soft fluffy filling and then you put some

so if you had a raspberry cheesecake you would put raspberries on top yes that one's got

cherries as Jeff pointed out but you might have a blackcurrant wall you could have anything

on top yes okay then that's pretty good yes I think I think that was an easy one cheesecake

okay here's the one that you had yesterday that made you six Steve yes so this is what

Steve had yesterday and it made it made Steve feel slightly sick I think these are I think

these I might be wrong but I think these originated in America okay I'm not sure but you see when

we were growing up we never had this type of cake when when we were growing up so I've

got a feeling this is come from America so this is something we yet yesterday mr. Steve

had some chocolate sauce with it it has got it right Philadelphia you can put Philadelphia

cheese in there which is a type of soft cheese soft cheese that's it soft cheese so but not

so not a hard cheese a soft turns you know you don't put a big lump of cheddar mascarpone

cheese as well in cheese cake or Philadelphia that thank you very much for that I've never

made cheesecake no I haven't I've eaten lots of it but never made any in my life so what

is the mystery cake now this is something that we ate yesterday it can be very sickly

and it contains a lot of chocolate beet trace has got it right got it right Beatrice Emma

Abril and also Anna and Jeff and Julie of all said chocolate brownies I wish I could

reach into the screen right now and actually take one of those brownies because I'm feeling

a little peckish we didn't have them yesterday so they are called brownies brownies so there

is the word on the screen right now brownie everyone got that one so a chocolate brownie

very energy dense yes they have a lot of energy energy in them and the I think actually the

name comes from the color some people are saying chocolate cake I'm not sure what the

difference between a brown chocolate brownie is smaller mm-hmm and there I suppose but

a cake is but that is more spongy that's more solid it's loaded with chocolates and a cake

if you had a chocolate cake it would be something different or together it would be just a big

traditional round cake and you cut off sections like you normally do offer a cake so you normally

have it in little slices in slices sort of triangular slices from the center here's something

good whereas it whereas a brownie is those little rectangular dahveed says who doesn't

love chocolate can you name someone I can who ask and you can who your sister well she

I think she does love chocolate uh-huh but I think it's so addictive that she gave it

up I was surprised years ago I was so surprised yesterday we were talking about chocolate

whilst we were meeting your sister and she said she doesn't like eating chocolate Jeff

has just eaten two glazed doughnuts oh yes so when we say glazed we mean they're there

they're covered in in a sugar coating yes it's like a ZZZ a sugar coating like icing

sugar yes baby solid or you can sprinkle sugar oh my goodness and and of course I love Jam

doughnuts so that's a solid doughnut that has jam in the middle Emma says they take

off water from my mouth I think the phrase that what you would the correct English for

that would be they make your mouth water yes you can say oh my gosh all this talk about

cakes in food is making my mouth water that's it it means it's it's really making your appetite

build up I think so your digestive juices are flowing Oh saliva okay here's an interesting

one Steve I wonder who will get this this is this might be a bit of a trick question

here so here is another one and it is a type of cake it can be very rich very very sickly

but also sometimes you can have alcohol inside this particular cake you can have certain

types of alcohol so sometimes this particular cake will will have alcohol inside but what

is the cake what is it called I will leave you with clue it has a very continental name

continental name I'm sure it looks like it looks like chocolate it looks like a sort

of a layered chocolate cake mmm but there is a lot more going on in that okay okay a

lot more so it has cream on the top on the side inside it can also be flavored with fruit

or it can be flavored with with alcohol as well like a trifle nope it's sponge so it

is sponge cake but it's a particular type of cake very particular right Sergio is dripping

with saliva how busy I can only assume that's what you are referring to dripping I am dripping

okay yes making your mouth water yes the way we say that phrase so here we go I will give

you this away because we are Renata look Malacca Malacca which sounds like which sounds like

chocolate that name Malacca it sounds like maka which is chocolate and coffee drink isn't

it so your name sounds like it sounds like a that that's could be a truck Malacca Locker

that's a very interesting name if we've got a particular type of coffee over here called

called a mocker which is chocolate mixed with that coffee okay black forest chocolate cake

yes you are near they got it right oh I told you Patrick that is very close Patrick has

got it right Patrick you are spot-on really yes look at that Patrick says is it gateau

gateau ah there it is well done it is it is cat oh but black forest that was very very

big that a black forest cake does look like that and a black forest cake is is-is-is chocolate

cake but it's got lots of berries in it sort of black berries in it hmm so that's a gateau

gateau so normally it's very rich lots of sponge lots of fruit out of layers lots of

cream on the inside and outside and quite often it will also have alcohol and they're

very tall aren't they a gateau is a very tall that's it yes you can always layer you can

always recognize a gateau because it's very tall and there is a famous gateau called Black

Forest gateau well somebody just said that and it's it's all it's all it's all chocolate

gateau yes and quite often Forest gateau quite often also it will have also alcohol inside

as well it might contain alcohol as well so there either again yes right okay so they

haven't got much time yeah I'm dribbling all over my words here I'll show one more before

the end but now we are going to show you something else because mr. Steve has some expressions

words to do with cakes because I'm feeling so delicate I want you to help me with today

mr. Duncan with cakes and the ingredients the things that go into cakes as well so Steve

you are about to appear on your personal camera so are you ready give me a countdown I will

give you an intense yeah I want your complete professional intensity now you complained

last week you said you said that it was annoying because I was standing behind you well you

were in the shop so today I will I will make sure that I don't get in the way so there

we go okay right are you ready Steve I'm ready hello everybody I'm on camera two right so

the first expression a piece of cake so obviously we know what a piece of cake is but if you

say to that if you say to somebody or that was a piece of cake it means something that's

a very easy tasks oh that's a piece of cake not quite sure where the expression comes

from perhaps because a piece of cake is easy to eat so for example it's it's said sometimes

to reassure somebody as well that they can do a particular task but it just means a task

something that's very easy to do for example oh don't worry that job interview will be

a piece of cake for you because you've got all the qualifications and experience that

you need to get it so they're saying don't worry about it's going to be an easy interview

for you can you get that report to me in an hour says your boss and you say piece of cake

it means yes I'll be able to do it very easily you can use it in a negative way a lot of

these expressions you can use the other way round so I've used it to mean something that's

easy to do but if you said to somebody for example you had a child and they were going

off to university and they were going to spend most of the time you thought going to parties

every night you might say to them I don't think University will be a piece of cake you

have to work very hard if you're going to get your qualifications so you can use it

the other way around so you're saying to them university life isn't going to be easy a piece

of cake you've got to work to get it so a piece of cake for mr. Duncan doing these live

English lessons is a piece of cake they're very easy for him right so you can have your

cake and eat it so to have your cake and eat it yeah is an expression that means to want

to have you want to have two things that are enjoyable you want to do both of them but

they're actually incompatible so two things that are incompatible two things that you

would like to do together but in fact they shouldn't go together or are just not compatible

so you don't have enough money to buy a house and a new car you can't have you cake and

eat it so in other words you've only got so much money you can't do two things with it

you can only do one thing so you can't have your cake and eat it you can't buy a house

and buy a car at the same time you want to go out with me but you want it still carrying

on seeing your old girlfriend I don't think so you can't have your cake and eat it so

they're quite often that expression is used for people who are already in a relationship

but they want to carry on seeing somebody else you can't have your cake and eat it but

it's incompatible because it would upset everyone so that that expression you could if you say

something is selling like hot cakes or going like hot cakes it means that something is

selling very easily those new phones are selling like hot cakes so that you can use that expression

it's quite funny too to say if you've baked a load of a lot of quite delicious cakes in

a party and people can say in a humorous way all those cakes are going like hot cakes because

they're popular their cakes and everyone's eating them so it's something that's sells

very easily selling like hot cakes because obviously everyone likes a hot cake as we've

seen on the live chat today so the icing on the cake this expression was used rather than

in the 1950s apparently for the very first time the icing on the cake so if you've got

a cake and it's already a cake is already something very nice to have but if you put

icing on it it's even better so that expression used in in life means you've got something

already that's good but then it's made even better by adding something on to it something

extra that is also good you make it even better it can be used sarcastically as well by the

way we'll come on to that I got the job and then found out it came with a company car

that's just the icing on the cake so you already got a job and then they told you you got a

company car again oh wow is everything's fantastic the icing on the cake so that's even better

I passed the exam after months of hard work at which I was very pleased about but then

I found out that I was first in the class that was just the icing on the cake so you

passed the exam which you you were worried about but then you found out you come first

so it was wonderful so using it in a negative way you could say something like I got stuck

in I got stuck in traffic I missed my appointment and then I had an accident on the way home

that's just the icing on the cake so you don't have to say it for something that's positive

you could say it for something that's negative as well so in America cakes or biscuits are

sometimes called cookies and I think Americans love their cookies and so do we but here's

another expression that's the way the cookie crumbles that was made popular apparently

in a film a number of years ago but this means you just have to accept that sometimes in

life things happen that you can't control unfair things sometimes things out of you

controls nothing you can do about it and you often use the expression well that's the way

the cookie crumbles that's the way life just sometimes happens and so for example everything's

gone wrong today at work but that's just the way the cookie crumbles so things go wrong

sometimes there's nothing you can do about it last night I had two important clients

but I can't read my own writing there mr. Duncan anyway another way of using that expression

the French used the expression c'est la vie which just means such as life sometimes things

just go wrong oh that's life c'est la vie or that's the way the cookie crumbles what

was that you were trying to read that doesn't matter we're moving on so look that takes

the biscuit that really takes the biscuit that means that someone is taking advantage

of you and maybe using you maybe even stealing or taking something from you other what you

can use the phrase takes the Mickey or even take takes the piece no is a rather rude way

of saying it but it's to take the biscuit that's a very British expression I lent my

car to a friend for a few days then found out he'd gone all the way to Scotland and

it put a thousand miles on the clock he's put a dent in one of the doors and he's not

going to pay for it that just takes the biscuit she asked me to look after her dog for the

weekend and then she's left a job and and disappeared and now I'm left with it and she

wants me to hang on to it and look after it for another month that just takes the biscuit

so she's someone taking advantage of you using you would you agree with that mr. don't mate

maybe they want you to look after some spiders well I was going to say that maybe they want

you to look after some spiders and they say it will only be for three or four weeks but

unfortunately a year later that person might still be looking after those spiders and they

have that the person who who asked you to take care of them is just saying a little

bit longer a little bit longer and you might say well that really does take the biscuit

because because we agreed that it would only be three or four weeks the expression comes

from so if you take a biscuit like stealing a biscuit you're taking something that perhaps

you shouldn't do from somebody so often in cakes you get Jam as we saw in Bakewell tart

there was Jam on the bottom but if you an expression that is a very British expression

jammy if something is jammy it's a very British expression I don't think you see that in in

America often said it with a jealous tone because you use it to describe someone when

they are very fortunate or lucky something good or wonderful happens to them and they've

had to make very little effort for that thing to actually happen and you might think that

they don't actually deserve it so you describe someone as very jammy so for example if they're

if for example you'd never played golf before and somebody just said oh come on now I'll

show you how to play golf and it could be any sport of it it could be tennis and then

you go out and play and you beat them and it's your first time you've ever done it and

it's just look and you might say well that was a bit jammy or if you played gold for

your first time you hit it you've got a hole-in-one and you might say huh that was a bit jammy

so in other words you're saying they were lucky and it was nothing to do with any effort

that they put in you might win the lottery on the first time you ever did the lottery

you might win a load of money and someone might say jealousy huh that was a bit jammy

right final one mr. Duncan ooh so you often put cream on top of a cake sometimes a cream

filling a very rich cream filling here's an expression creme de la creme creme de la creme

it's a French for the cream of the cream or the best of the best so if you've got the

best possible cream you could have that's the best of something so the creme de la creme

means you've just got the best of something most exclusive the best of the best only the

creme de la creme go to that University so you're saying that only the cleverest people

go to a particular university like Oxford or Cambridge University you might say only

the creme de la creme can get to go to Cambridge University that's another wasn't of the cream

of the crop cream of the crop I was about to say that mister don't do before you rudely

interrupted sorry creme de la creme best of the best if you were for example if you were

a musician in the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra well regarded as one of the best orchestras

in the world you would say that anyone playing in that Orchestra was the creme de la creme

the best of the best there we go Wow our the question is is mr. Duncan the creme de la

creme of online English teachers who knows that's it that's all my expressions for this

week I know you're back and now I'm back on camera one just as we say goodbye there there

was one you've missed out Steve and that's sponge sponge yes because there is a type

of cake now don't say anything else because I have one more cake to show before we go

you see so here is one I was going to use that expression but it doesn't refer to sponge

cake yes why I didn't use it so this is the final cake I'm okay on our guests the cake

now this is something that we see quite often when we go into town where we live they often

have these on sale and it's two pieces of sponge with cream in the middle and also quite

often there is some sort of fruit filling like jam maybe strawberry jam very popular

British cake it's very popular in this country so this is a particular type of cake but does

anyone know what it is it is a very popular cake in this country but what is it it would

appear that there are melaka says that everyone actually called them mocca for short oh I

see witch did you know that maca in I don't know if it's just in this country but it's

coffee and chocolate is a particular drink so that which is delicious yes so that's a

good nickname to have I think everyone would be attracted to you with a name like that

so if you go into a coffee shop and you ask the barista for a maca they will give you

a combination of chocolate and coffee it's coffee but they add some chocolate to it ah

there you go you see so what is think it's about slightly different yes what is this

particular cake before we go oh yes it's the last one what is it what is it Cristina you

are right it is us but well it's a sponge yes Jamelia Jamelia is going right right she

knows her cakes well done Jamil you know your cakes twirler well done yes it is yes the

cake in question is a Victoria sponge and did you know Steve that it's actually named

after the Queen of England Queen Victoria yes many parent it was her favourite afternoon

snack Wow so she would have a cup of tea in the afternoon and a Victoria sponge I don't

know what they called it then it probably had another name it was probably called I

don't know squish squash or or spelunky I've dad has got it right okay gibble d goobidy

bye Beatrix see you again but now we call it Victoria sponge Victoria sponge we'll have

a look at it one more time Oh Steve today's live stream has made me feel very hungry and

we've got no cakes we haven't got our usual tea cakes that we have have we haven't got

any tea cakes we've got nothing today I can't believe it we've got some biscuits that my

my mother gave me oh yes because I'm chocolate biscuits okay chocolate biscuits which we've

been in there German biscuit yes biscuits with a chocolate coating which we've eaten

for years and we only found out recently how to how to correctly pronounce the word that's

it anyway we're going now we're going now before Steve goes off on another tangent chucko

live knits yes okay then I'm ending now you see Steve okay this is where we finish and

then we've done a diet then we disconnect from the internet I'm lightening up now yes

we should come on two hours later than normal this is the first time that I'm watching the

live chat it's entertaining enriching and educating kudos kudos to mr. Duncan and Steve

Thank You Jan Lee come back next week yes we'll be here we're back next week from 2

p.m. UK time mr. Steve you are going now thanks a lot for joining us on the live chat mr.

Steve is now going and we'll see you next week Steve bye bye so that's mr. Steve saying

goodbye and it's almost time for me to say goodbye as well because yes the two hours

have gone by so quickly I think anyway it's just after 4 o'clock it's time to go as we

look outside for the last time today that is the weather it's very sunny very bright

but quite windy and cold as well and it's time to go this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace

of English saying thank you so much for following me today thanks for watching and of course

until the next time we meet here on YouTube yes you know what's coming next of course you do...

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