English Addict - 16th OCTOBER 2024 -🔴LIVE stream Topic... GIVE & TAKE - Chat Live & Learn English

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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It is pouring with rain.
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The rain is coming down heavily.
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Let's just say today is wet.
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And leave it at that.
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Here we go.
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Then we are back together again.
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It is a slightly unwell Mr. Duncan today.
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Coming to you live from the birthplace of the English language.
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This is, of course, English addict.
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Coming to you live from England.
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And home.
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We are back together again.
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We are here once more.
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And I hope you are there as well.
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Hi everybody. This is Mr. Duncan in England.
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How are you today? Are you okay? I hope so.
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Are you happy?
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Are you feeling happy today?
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I hope you are feeling happy and well.
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Which brings me to the main subject that I want to start with.
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I'm not feeling very well.
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I managed quite successfully to catch Mr.
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Steve's cold.
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So if you remember last weekend, on Sunday, Steve was not very well.
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He was just recovering from a fever.
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And now I have it as well.
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Last night I felt unwell. My throat was painful.
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I felt a little bit dizzy.
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I had a headache and my joints around my body were all aching.
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And I think it is safe to say I have caught Mr.
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Steve's cold.
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So I have a cold. Please.
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I will say it now. Please bear with me.
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If you bear with someone, it means you go along with them whilst they are doing it.
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Even if there are problems, even if there are some sorts of difficulty,
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please bear with me because I'm not feeling great.
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I think I should be in bed at the moment, nice and warm, but I'm not.
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I'm standing here in my hot studio talking to you live on YouTube. My name is Duncan.
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I talk about the English language.
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You might say that I am an English addict, and I have a feeling perhaps you are one of those as well.
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Or maybe you just like watching someone who is unwell present a live stream, in which case you are in the right place.
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Because I don't feel great today.
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I wish I looked or should I say, I wish I felt as good as I look on camera.
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So I don't know why the camera makes me look quite well and healthy today,
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but inside, underneath I do not feel great at all.
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To make matters worse, as I mentioned at the start, it is raining.
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We have had so much rain today.
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In fact, I woke up this morning.
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It was raining and here we are many hours later and it is still raining outside to say the least.
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We are having a very wet October.
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I think it is safe to say we are having a very wet month so far.
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As we approach.
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As we approach halfway through October, this month is going by very quickly.
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Can I say hello to the live chat once again?
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If I disappear, if I suddenly vanish, or if something else comes up on the screen that you weren't expecting?
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It's just because maybe I've collapsed on the floor
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because I'm not feeling great.
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I have a slight temperature, but nothing too bad.
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This morning I took some paracetamol or so.
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Some Kokoda muscle as well to to cool my body down.
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And Mr. Steve isn't even here.
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He's out and about doing his job.
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So I'm suffering on my own.
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Perhaps you can make me feel better for a change.
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We will do it the other way round. Isn't that nice?
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The live chat is already quite busy.
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Hello to the live chat.
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Nice to see you here today.
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Thank you for joining me.
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Even though I am not 100%.
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Well, unfortunately, I will tell you now.
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Hello, Vytas.
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Vytas, you are first on the live chat again.
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I, I don't have the energy to even give my applause.
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Unfortunately.
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Who else is here?
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We have Radwan. Ahmed is here as well.
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Hello to you.
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Also we have Hamed. Mahi, my Ede.
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Hello to you as well.
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Thank you for joining me today, Payal. Hello, Payal.
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Who is watching in India?
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I know that I do have a lot of people watching in India at the moment.
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Over the past few weeks, I've had a lot of new subscribers watching in India.
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Also, he is here. You know who?
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We all know who it is.
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Lewis Mendez
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is here today. Hello, Lewis.
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Nice to see you today.
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Is it raining in Paris? I wonder?
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We are having so much rain.
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I don't know why, but the rain is really coming down heavily.
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We are showing that something is extreme.
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Something is happening in an extreme way.
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It is raining heavily.
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The rain is coming down fast and furiously.
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That was a good movie.
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Did you see that with the racing cars
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that was there driving their cars around very fast in that movie?
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Hello, Javi. Nice to see you back as well.
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I don't know why, but I can't see
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everything.
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Everything is slightly out of focus.
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It means I can't see very clearly, including the live chat.
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I don't know why.
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My eyes seem to have difficulty focusing today.
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Hello.
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Also to English with camel in Algeria.
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Hello, Algeria as well.
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Apparently it is also 2 p.m. in Algeria.
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That's interesting.
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So you you are in the same time zone as we are.
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That makes it very easy for you.
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Palmira is here as well.
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Also we have where?
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What care worker.
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So I don't know what that means.
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Is it your name or is it a special name that you've given to yourself? I don't know.
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We also have Beatriz. Hello, Beatriz.
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Nice to see you here. By the way, Mr.
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Steve yesterday picked up
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your paintings.
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Finally, they have been framed.
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So we will show those on Sunday.
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We haven't decided where to put them yet.
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Mr. Steve suggested the toilet.
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I don't know why.
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I suppose all of the green in your paintings might.
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Might help me relax.
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For some reason, I don't know why.
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So we haven't decided where to put your paintings yet.
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But we will show them on Sunday in their new frames.
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And they look rather magnificent.
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We also have Cristina. Hello, Cristina.
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I hope the weather is okay where you are.
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I hope you are enjoying the sunshine and the fine weather.
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Unfortunately, here in the UK we are not having a nice time with the weather.
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I'm afraid Mukhtar is here. Hello to you as well.
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Hello, Mitra.
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Hello, Mitra.
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Oh, Mitra. It's nice to see you here as well. Thank you very much for joining me once more.
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Gerardo in Mexico says it is just after 7:00 in the morning.
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So can I just say it is very kind of you to wake up so early to me.
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I'm not sure if that's a good idea.
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Having my face as the first thing you see in the morning.
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So maybe it is a nice way to start the day.
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Oh, or perhaps it is
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not so nice.
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Perhaps. Hello to crazy Sindhu.
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Hello. Crazy Sindhu.
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Are you really crazy?
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Or are you just saying that?
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So you will get a little bit of extra attention.
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I've often thought of changing my name to crazy Mr. Duncan.
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But then that might put a lot of people off.
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People might not watch because of that.
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We also have three. Hello, Srinivasan.
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Hello to you as well. Where are you watching?
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Maybe you are watching in India, am I right?
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Or am I wrong? Please let me know.
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We are up to date with the hellos once again.
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Can I just give you a warning?
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Can I give you a word of advice today? I'm not very well.
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I shouldn't be here.
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I haven't been to the doctors because it's not that serious.
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But I do have a cold, and my.
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My throat is very painful.
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So every word that I say, all of my speech
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is giving me a lot of discomfort and pain today.
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Some people might say that that's the same for the listeners,
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but then they would be very unkind, wouldn't they?
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It's nice to see so many people here.
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Thank you very much for joining me today. By the way.
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We are looking at the subject of give
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and take, give and take.
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There are many words and phrases in the English language.
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I suppose I could use one straight away.
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Mr. Steve.
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Gave me his cold.
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So you might say that already we are using words and phrases connected to give.
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To give something you might transmit something such as
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a fever or a virus.
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You transmit.
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You give someone an illness.
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You give them a disease, you give them some sort of fever.
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And that's what I have.
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So thank you once again, Mr. Steve, for giving me your lovely cold. It's very kind of you.
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I, I will always treasure this moment forever and ever and ever.
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Motion. Hello, motion.
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I have not seen you here for a long time.
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It seems like a long time that I've.
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I've not seen you here on the live chat.
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Hello.
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Also.
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Girardeau.
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New, new, new is.
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It is good to see you.
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I am glad to see you. Today is sunny and not so hot.
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I think it is 28 Celsius. Hello, Girardeau.
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I wish it was 28 Celsius.
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Here it is, my old and we are having rain.
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And I also have a fever at the moment, so my temperature is probably more than 28 Celsius.
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I think
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I'm starting to lose my voice already and I've only been here for 16 minutes.
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Hello to everyone and I think that is all of the hellos and done for now
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if you want to catch my live streams.
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By the way, I am also with you on Sunday.
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A few people are asking when I am on, I always receive messages asking Mr.
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Duncan, when are you live? It is always the same time.
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2 p.m.
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UK time on Sunday and Wednesday is when you can catch me live.
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Although at the moment
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I might not actually be here on Sunday, so we will see what happens.
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If I am well enough on Sunday, I will do my live stream.
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On Sunday I will be with you one Sunday. I hope I will be with you on Sunday.
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That's all I can say hello to b k hello b k.
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It's nice to see you here as well.
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There are no words in the English language that start with b k.
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There aren't. There are none.
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What it. Hello.
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While it you have a clear accent.
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Thank you very much.
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There are two reasons for that. One is I am a native English speaker.
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I also live in the birthplace of the English language, which is England and.
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I I'm a teacher and if you are teaching, you must be clear.
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It is very important.
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If you are giving information to someone, the other person must be able to understand what you are saying or else it is a waste of.
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Time.
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We have Algeria watching at the moment.
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Very nice. Very nice to see you here today.
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I'm going to drink some water.
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I hope you don't mind, but I do need to drink some water.
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So that is what I am going to do right now. And then I will be back with you.
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We have words and phrases connected to give and take.
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Mr. Steve will be with us.
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He will be back with us on Sunday.
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So I hope you will catch him then.
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Because he will be here.
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It is, of course, Wednesday English Addict is with you live on YouTube.
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I hope you are having a good day wherever you are at the moment in the world.
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If you want to give me a like, maybe you want to cheer me up and make me feel better because I am a little bit under the weather.
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If you are under the weather, it means you are feeling unwell.
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Something is wrong with you.
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You don't feel very healthy at the moment.
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Hello, Claudia. Hello, Claudia. It's nice to see you here.
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Watching live all the way from Argentina.
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So far away.
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Very nice.
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Very nice to see so many people saying hello.
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And everyone, of course, is being very friendly as well. On the live chat.
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Please don't forget you can follow me live with captions as well.
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On the screen.
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You can also follow live captions and later on
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you will also have captions that you can translate into your own language later on.
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When YouTube saves my video,
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we are going to take a look at some words and phrases.
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A big subject because we are looking at two words.
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Normally we look at one word, but today we are looking at two words.
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I have given myself a lot of work to do today.
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All I can say is I hope my throat and my voice will will last all the way to the end.
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I really do.
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We are looking at words and phrases connected to give and take.
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That is what we are doing today.
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First of all, we will look at words connected to give, to give, to give a present.
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You give something to offer something.
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If you offer something, you are once again giving something.
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You might give an offer.
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You might offer someone a drink.
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You are giving it to them.
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Sometimes, of course, we can give something as an offer, but it doesn't mean that the other person will take it.
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You can offer something you can give something to someone, but they still might reject it.
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They still might push it away
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to hand something.
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If you hand something once again, you are giving it to someone you hand
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someone an item, you give something to a person.
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So in this sense you might say, we are using it as a phrasal verb.
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You are handing something.
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Can you hand me my pen?
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I haven't got my pen.
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Can you hand my pen to me?
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Thank you.
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Hand so we can use hand as a way of saying.
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As a way of expressing. Give
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to pass something.
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You pass something to another person.
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You pass something on.
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You give something,
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you might gift something.
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So again we are saying gift.
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You are giving something.
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Something that can be kept.
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Something you are giving as a gift.
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Maybe for someone's birthday, a gift for them.
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You gift them.
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So we can use this also as a verb.
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You see, you gift something.
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You give something.
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You might gift money.
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So when we say that you gift money, it means you are giving money to someone.
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We are using it as a verb to show an action is taking place.
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Then we have take to take
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to take something, to take the money.
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We can also use the word accept.
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So if you accept something you are taking it.
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You might accept a job.
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That means you take the job.
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A person might offer a job to you and you take the offer.
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You accept the job
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to receive.
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You receive something.
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Normally when you receive something, you will take it.
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So something that you receive is coming towards you and quite often you will take it.
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For example, you might receive a phone call.
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Quite often when the phone rings, it is a person calling you.
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You will receive.
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You will take the call
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to grab something.
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Grab. It's a great word.
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It really does express that movement.
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But you grab something you might grab
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the ball, you might grab
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a person
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by the arm to grab to take hold of something
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you grab.
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And then, of course, we have another word that sounds very similar to the previous one.
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Grasp.
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Once again, a very descriptive word grasp.
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To grasp something is to take something you take hold of that thing.
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You grasp the handle of the door.
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You grasp something to grab hold, to grasp.
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You take hold.
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You take something, you hold it.
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You grab that thing.
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You receive that thing.
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You accept that thing.
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You take it.
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There are many ways of expressing the word.
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Take.
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Once again, we are back to words
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expressing, if you might give up.
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If you give up, it means you quit.
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You stop doing something, you give up.
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You concede.
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To concede means to give up.
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You have decided to stop doing something.
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You have decided to stop trying to do something.
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You concede, you quit.
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You give up,
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you might give over.
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So maybe on the road, if you are driving along and another car is coming out, you might have to move over
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so the other car can come onto the road.
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You give over to move aside.
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So maybe if you are travelling along a road, you give over so another car can pass you by.
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Give over to move aside.
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You might
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give in.
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Give in means to yield or admit defeat.
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So if you give in, it means you surrender.
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So there is a good way of expressing the word surrender.
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You yield, you admit defeat, you surrender.
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You might give a damn.
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Oh, Mr. Duncan, that's a very naughty word.
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If you give a damn, it means you care.
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You are concerned.
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You are worried about something.
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You give a damn.
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Of course we can express the opposite.
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We might say that a person doesn't give a damn.
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A person does not care or they are not concerned.
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So in that respect, it is the opposite.
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And on this list we have the final one.
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Give an inch.
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If you give an inch, it means you allow something to happen.
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You are giving leeway.
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You are giving someone some space.
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You give an inch.
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That means you are allowing someone to do something.
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You give them an inch.
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So quite often we will use this particular phrase
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figuratively.
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So we use it to show that we are allowing a person to do something.
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You give them an inch, you give them a little bit more freedom.
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You give them a little bit more space.
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You offer leeway.
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And there is an interesting word as well.
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The word leeway.
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Leeway just means gap or space.
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You are giving someone a little bit more room.
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You give them some leeway.
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We are covering a lot of words today.
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Considering I am not feeling very well, I think they are doing well
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at the moment.
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So more words using or phrases using take.
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You take in something you take in.
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If you take in something, it means you might offer a place for someone to stay.
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Or maybe you give a home
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to someone or something, perhaps an animal.
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Maybe you take in a dog, or you take in a cat and you look after it.
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So you offer a place to stay.
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You give a home to someone.
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By the way, we can also use the word or the phrase take in to mean absorb information.
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You take in information, you listen and you try to remember.
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You take in information.
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Here's another one take up.
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To take up means to accept or fill a certain space.
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You take up something.
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And so maybe if a person offers you a job, you might take up their offer.
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They offer
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you will accept you take up the offer.
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We can also use take up to mean fill.
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So maybe if a lot of people or many people are in a room, you might say that they take up
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a lot of the space they have filled the room.
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There is very little room or very little space left in the room.
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Here's one that I'm sure many people are familiar with.
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Take off to leave.
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A plane will leave the ground.
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It will take off.
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Of course, we can also take off something to mean remove.
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Perhaps you take off your clothes.
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Oh, not here.
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YouTube does not allow that sort of thing to take off.
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To remove something or leave.
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You are taking off.
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You are going away.
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To take notice.
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If you take notice of something,
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it means you are observing.
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You are watching what is happening.
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You take notice.
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You watch what is happening.
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Maybe you closely observe something very carefully.
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You take notice
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and on this list you can take your time.
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To take your time means to go steady.
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Do not rush.
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Take your time.
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Do something in a relaxed way.
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There is no need to hurry. There is no need to rush.
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Take your time.
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Take it slowly.
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There is no need to hurry.
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Here are some phrases we might use using the word give.
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You might give to charity.
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You give money or give something to a charity to help them.
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You give to charity.
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You give to the poor.
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So again you offer something, maybe money, clothing or food.
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You give to the poor.
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You give a donation so you offer something to another person or a group.
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You give a donation.
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You might give comfort.
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That is something I need today.
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I need someone to give me comfort because I am not feeling very well.
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I feel a little under the weather because I've caught Mr. Steve's fever
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home.
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To give comfort is to give support.
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Warm help.
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You give comfort.
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You might give room.
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That means you give space to people around you.
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If you give through, it means you are allowing someone to have space.
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You give room.
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So maybe, maybe if you are on a crowded train and someone is very close to you, you might move over
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to give them room so they have more space around them.
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There is nothing worse, by the way, than being on a bus or on a train.
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When you are squashed with other people, especially during the rush hour if you get on the train
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and there are many, many people standing on the train, you might find that you are crushed by them or squashed.
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Sometimes it is very hard to
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give room to other people, especially if there is not much space around you.
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You might say something nice about another person.
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You might give praise.
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Praise is a very interesting word to honour, to give praise to someone.
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Maybe you are honouring them or you are showing your respect towards someone by saying something nice.
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So if you give praise normally means you are giving some sort of compliment,
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or you are saying something nice, or you are showing your admiration for another person,
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you might give your blessing.
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Now, this particular phrase is quite old fashioned, but sometimes we still use it.
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To give your blessing is to allow something to happen.
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So many, many years ago.
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We are talking many, many years ago before a young man could could marry
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someone's daughter.
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He would have to go to the father
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and ask for his blessing.
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That means that you are asking the father, is it possible for me to marry your daughter and then he will give his blessing?
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That means he will agree to it.
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He will allow you to do it.
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Lewis says, does it mean flatter? Yes.
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I suppose you could flatter someone.
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I think you mean give praise.
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If you give praise, it means you flatter someone.
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Although the word flatter
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can often be used negatively, it can.
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It can mean that you are being insincere in some way.
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Here we go.
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Some more give phrases.
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So these are actions, the way in which you do something in a positive way.
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You might give kindly.
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You are doing something that is kind.
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You give kindly, perhaps you give
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a donation or you give something to a charity.
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You give kindly, you give generously.
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Very similar to give kindly.
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You give kindly, you give generously, you give willingly.
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So in other words, you.
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You agree to do it.
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You give it willingly.
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If a person is willing, it means they want to do it.
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They are happy to do it.
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You might give something warmly.
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Perhaps you will welcome someone to your house and you give them a very warm welcome.
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You give something warmly.
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You give it in a kind way.
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Then, of course, we can also have negative phrases using the word give.
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You might give something reluctantly.
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If you give something reluctantly, it means you give it.
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But you don't want to.
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I don't want to give you any money, but I have to.
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So I give the money.
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Reluctantly.
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I don't want to give it, but I have to.
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I have no choice to give reluctantly means to give something under pressure.
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Or maybe you don't want to give that particular thing away.
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You give it to
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reluctantly.
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Very similar.
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We have give begrudgingly.
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So again, you don't want to do it, but you must do it.
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You give something begrudgingly. It's a great word.
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To begrudge means to not want something to happen.
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Maybe another person has some success and you begrudge that person you wish that they did not have that success.
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So if you give something begrudgingly, it means you give it. But
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you don't really want to.
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I don't really
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want to give you this, so I will give it to you
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begrudgingly.
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It's a good word.
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We have some very interesting words on today's live chat.
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Then of course we have take.
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There are many ways of using take.
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You might take carefully.
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If you take something carefully, you are being careful how you do it.
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You are doing it in a calm, steady way.
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You take carefully.
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You take something carefully.
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You might take something well, that means you accept the news.
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Maybe a person gives you some bad news, or maybe something you were not expecting.
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You take it well.
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To take something well means you accept it
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without asking any questions.
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Something you take heartily means something you accept with good humour.
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You take it heartily.
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You take it in a positive way.
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You might take graciously.
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Again. This is an interesting word.
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To take graciously means you take something with respect.
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You don't show any negative emotions.
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You take it gracefully.
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Even if it's something that you don't want, you might still take it gracefully.
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So you are showing respect
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by the way you do something.
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Negative.
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You might take something rare
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greedily.
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To do something greedily means you do it in a rude, greedy way.
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You do it in an unpolished way.
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So instead of taking something gently,
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you take it
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greedily,
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perhaps food from the plate.
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Maybe a person offers a cake or a biscuit and you take it
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greedily.
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You might take something rudely.
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If you take something rudely, it means again, you are not being polite.
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You are doing something in a horrible way without any respect.
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You take rudely that give it here,
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give it here.
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It's mine. I want it
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so. There are many ways of using give and take in various ways.
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Some more.
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So we will be very specific with the details here.
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Take an offer is to accept what is being offered.
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You take an offer so maybe you are selling something and the person wants to offer you a certain amount of money.
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You can take the offer you take or you accept what is being offered.
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I will take the job offer.
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I will take the money.
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That means I will accept that.
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I will take it.
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You will find that the word take can be used in many different ways.
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Sometimes in English, the word take
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can be used quite subtly.
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Here's another one.
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You might take what is not yours.
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It is to steal or thieve.
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So if you take what is not yours, it is to steal or thieve.
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Thief is the action of stealing.
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I took the money from your wallet.
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We will take his car tonight.
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So in the second sentence, this can be used in a positive or negative way.
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So maybe we can say that we will take his car tonight.
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Means you will steal the car or it means we will use that car.
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So tonight we will take his car.
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That means we are going to use his car.
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We are going to travel in his car.
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To take part in something is to involve oneself or to participate.
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Again, a very interesting word. Participate.
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If you participate in something, it means you are joining in.
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You are involving yourself in that thing.
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I will take part in the race.
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He took part in the riot.
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So if you look carefully here, you will notice in the second sentence we are using the past tense.
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So this is the past tense of take.
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You take something, you took something.
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Take down.
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You might have to take down something.
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Take down is to remove from display or to remove something from sight.
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You are taking it down.
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You are removing that particular thing.
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You must take down that picture.
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You must take down that picture.
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I will take down the curtain.
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That means you are removing them.
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You are taking them away from view.
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They can no longer be seen.
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Here's another one
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take away.
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To take away is to walk off with something.
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Or of course, we often use it to describe fast food.
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So maybe food that you are buying in a small restaurant, you might take away the food.
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That particular type of food is described as a take away.
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To walk off with something
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or to take something away is take away.
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We will have the meal to take away.
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So quite often if you go into a fast food restaurant like KFC, McDonald's or Burger King
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or any of the other fast food restaurants, they might ask you,
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are you going to eat in or take away, eat in, or take away?
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To take away is to walk off you, take something with you.
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Do you want to eat in or take away?
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You are having a choice presented to you.
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Something is a give away.
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So quite often in a sale, if a store or supermarket is having a sale
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and everything, it is is at a very low price, the price has been reduced.
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We might say that it is a give away.
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We are giving these things away.
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It almost seems as if you are giving them away because the price is so low.
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A good offer or a low price is a give away.
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This is a giveaway sale.
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We can also say an action that reveals a secret.
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So maybe if you give away something, it means you are revealing a secret, something that was hidden.
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You give away.
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You are showing something that is supposed to be hidden.
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So there are two ways of using that particular phrase.
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Here's another phrase.
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This is one we can all learn from.
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I do love phrases.
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To take the rough with the smooth.
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To accept the bad times as you would for good times.
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It means you must take the good things in life as well as the bad things.
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You must take both of those things whether it is bad or good.
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You accept them as part of life.
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In business, you must take the rough with the smooth.
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You have to accept everything that happens, especially in business where there might be certain risks involved.
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If there are risks involved,
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you have to take the rough with the smooth.
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You might take someone to the cleaners if you take someone to the cleaners.
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This is a phrase that means to take legal action or to sue a person.
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So maybe you are taking a person to court.
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Maybe they said something bad about you and it is untrue.
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It is damaging.
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So you take them to court.
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You sue that person, you take them to the cleaners.
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We will make your claim and take them to the cleaners.
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Quite often.
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If you put forward something where you might have compensation
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or some sort of reward, you take someone to the cleaners.
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Quite often it is used in legal matters.
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Matters where you might have to take legal action against someone.
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You might, of course, take someone's word.
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If you take someone's word for something, it means you believe them.
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You trust what a person says to trust what
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an individual, a friend, a family member.
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You trust them. You take their word.
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54:41
I will take your word that the order will be finished on time.
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I take your word, I trust you.
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I believe what you are saying.
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Of course you can do the opposite. You can give your word to someone.
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So if I give my word to you, I am asking you to trust me.
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55:04
I am saying that I'm being honest with you.
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And finally,
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my my throat is so pleased that this is the last one
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to take something as red.
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If you take something as read,
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55:27
take something
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as red to assume or trust without checking
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55:35
you assume you trust that thing without checking, without looking closely at it.
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So quite often you will take something as red.
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It means I believe you.
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55:54
There is no need to check.
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55:57
I will take it as red.
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I will take you this red that the deal will go ahead.
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I take it as red.
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56:06
There is no need to explain.
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56:09
There is no need to show me the proof.
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I accept your word.
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56:15
I take it as red.
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56:19
And that, as they say, is the end of our very long list of words.
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56:26
All I can say is my throat is quite happy about that, because it means I can go and take some water and have a lie down.
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Thank you for your company today.
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56:39
There are many, many other phrases Lewis says to give someone the cold shoulder.
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Yes, to give someone the cold shoulder is to ignore them.
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56:55
You ignore someone, you push that person away.
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57:00
You give them the cold shoulder.
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57:04
That means you push that person away.
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57:08
You exclude them.
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57:10
You ignore that person.
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57:12
You give them the cold shoulder.
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It's a very good expression.
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57:20
Very good expressions.
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57:24
Palmira asks.
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I wonder how much time you took to prepare this live stream and also being under the weather, Mr.
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57:33
Duncan, you are our beloved hero. Thank you very much.
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57:37
I've been working on this all morning.
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57:39
I woke up very early this morning feeling unwell.
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57:43
Mr. Steve went off to work and I was on my own.
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57:46
So I came in here at around about.
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57:49
I think it was around 915 this morning.
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57:54
So I stayed here all morning preparing everything that you saw.
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58:00
It took me around four hours to do it.
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58:03
Although I will be honest, I did have to drink a lot of water during that time.
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58:08
Anyway, that is today's English addict
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finished for today. So I hope you've enjoyed it.
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58:17
And I am going to
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58:20
have a lie down on the bed.
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I might even have a cup of tea, although I might wait for Mr.
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58:27
Steve to come back home and then we can have a cup of tea together.
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58:31
But I'm looking forward to having a rest.
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58:34
I need to rest my voice.
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58:37
So can I just say on Sunday?
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58:40
I hope I will be here?
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58:44
It depends on my voice.
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58:47
It depends on whether or not my cold has gone away.
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58:52
But at the moment it's just beginning.
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58:55
So yesterday was the first day when I felt unwell.
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59:00
Today is only the second day.
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59:02
And of course, as you know, if you have a cold or a fever, sometimes it can go on for many, many days.
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59:12
So I really do hope that on Sunday I will be with you from 2 p.m.
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UK time.
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59:20
That is hopefully when I will be with you next.
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59:25
Thank you Hamda thank you Mosin thank you algebra I hope I pronounce your name correctly.
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59:34
Thank you dynamic.
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59:37
Amazing session.
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59:38
Thank you Mr. Duncan.
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Thank you as well for watching.
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You can watch this again later. Don't forget with captions.
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So later on hopefully YouTube will process this
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live stream and there will be captions for you to watch later on.
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This is.
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This is Mr. Duncan
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with with my voice almost vanishing, saying thanks for watching.
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See you on Sunday. Mr. Steve will be here.
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60:12
Hopefully I will be still alive on Sunday.
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We will see what happens.
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And of course, until the next time we meet, take care of yourselves.
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60:23
Stay well,
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60:25
stay happy.
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60:27
Keep that smile upon your face as you walk amongst the human race.
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And I will see you on Sunday, 2 p.m. UK time.
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60:36
And of course, you know what's coming next.
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Yes, you do.
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Ta ta for now.
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