Isolation Monday / live windy walk 💨 / 13th April 2020 / week 4 / Mr Duncan in England

so here we go I hope you can hear me all right because I'm not sure what is

actually going on here at the moment I've been trying to get a signal on my

phone and all I can say is it has taken me ages to get a good signal on my phone

as you can see I'm out and about walking today I have come out of my garden and

I've walked up to the top of the hill near to where I live

unfortunately I don't know why today I found it very hard to get a good mobile

phone signal so at the moment I'm using my 4G connection and I did have a slight

problem getting a connection today I don't know why so that is the reason why

I'm late I have a good excuse for being late today and the excuse is I had no

connection on my phone so now I have found a spot I have found a place where

my 4G connection is actually quite good so fortunately I've managed to actually

get a connection on my phone so I hope you can hear me all right

if you can hear me please say mr. Duncan we can hear you if you can hear me say

mr. Duncan we can hear you and we can see you nice and clearly I hope you can

so hello and Happy Easter Monday it is Monday we have made it all the way from

Sunday to Monday so I hope I am coming through clearly and I hope you can hear

me okay I am standing near a field and also near a forest so I am in-between

those two places that is where I am at the moment I know what you're thinking

mr. Duncan I can hear you but unfortunately we can't see you well yes

I am here I'm standing in front of the camera

however my mobile phone is pointed in the opposite direction

right now don't worry you will see me in a moment but I thought it would be nice

to show you some of the landscape around me today so there you can see one of the

many farmers fields so this is a field and you can see there is some crop

growing at the moment I'm not sure what this is so this is something that is

growing in the field but I have no idea what it is that is growing it might be

wheat it might be barley it might be rapeseed I have no idea so at the moment

I don't know what this is that is growing in this particular field however

you can see everything is looking rather nice today it is sunny I suppose I

should also mention that it is very windy last night the wind was blowing

really strongly and it kept me awake part of the night I was awake listening

to the sound of the wind and the wind is still blowing quite strongly at the

moment so we are doing something slightly different today because I'm on

my mobile phone because I am doing this on my mobile phone there are no captions

on the live stream so because I'm outside there will be no captions

on the live stream for which I apologize but unfortunately I don't know why

YouTube does not support live captions on mobile streams so because I am now

broadcasting on my mobile phone there are no live captions however there is

good news because later on there will be live captions on your video so when this

is saved onto YouTube I can promise you there will be captions the wind seems to

have eased off that's nice I'm very pleased that the wind has eased off I

suppose the big question is where are you mr. Duncan we can't see you come on

mr. Duncan show yourself what is wrong as mr. Steve given you a black eye again

no not this time here I am then one two three make mr. Duncan appear on screen

oh there you are hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today

are you okay I hope so are you happy I hope you are feeling very happy today

I hope you are feeling good and well on this Monday Monday and this is the

fourth week so this is the beginning of the fourth week of the lockdown here in

the UK for weeks so at the end of this week it will be four weeks the wind has

eased off so when something eases off ease off it means it has slowly faded it

is faded away so the wind has eased off ease off it means you reduce something

or something becomes less harsh excuse me if I start coughing don't worry it

isn't anything serious the only thing is I've just walked quite a long way and

I've also forgotten my water I've left my water at home so I don't have my

water with me so this might be a very short live stream if I suddenly

coughing at the moment here in the UK it is hay fever season so because many of

the crops in the farmer's fields are starting to come out there are many many

crops growing and unfortunately it has affected my throat a little bit because

I do suffer sometimes I suffer from hay fever

Steve talking to me before I came out because mr. Steve was

was talking and talking and talking I actually forgot all about my water so I

know my where my water is it is still in the kitchen at home unfortunately it

isn't here in my hand so I might have to make this a very short live stream if my

voice starts playing up however I can assure you I can assure you completely

that I am a hundred percent well fit happy everything is all right so don't

worry sometimes I might have a little cough but it's nothing to do with ok

nothing to do with that I have a little bit of hay fever at the moment I'm at

the top of one of the many hills around here for those wondering where I am in

fact you might be wondering who I am my name is Duncan I teach English on

YouTube I've been doing this forever such a long time and during these

strange times I have decided to do daily live streams so that is where I am now

I'm outside the place where I live is called Much Wenlock in england it is a

small town a small rural town rural and the area in which I live has a lot

of farms a lot of fields and also a lot of nature as well there are birds and

animals everywhere the Sun is out even though it's quite windy today I must

admit it is a little bit windy today you can see here I'm standing right next to

a big branch can you see the big branch next to me on the tree there was a very

large branch here swinging in the wind I hope none of the trees decide to fall on

my head that would be very well actually it might not be that bad imagine all of

you is I would get mr. Duncan squashed by a large tree live on YouTube amazing

I suppose that's one way of becoming famous hello cookie cookie studio hello

cookie studio nice to see you here today welcome to my livestream I've been doing

live streams every day for quite a few quite a few weeks during this strange

period of time as I mentioned earlier this is the fourth week of all of this

the fourth week of my live streams during this strange period of time oh by

the way there's something I want to say I had a lovely meal last night an Easter

meal mr. Steve made the most amazing the most amazing roast chicken vegetables

everything it was gorgeous very nice and of course last night we had a lovely

Easter egg yesterday was Easter today of course is

Easter Monday so a lot of people normally have the day off but of course

at the moment everyone is having every day off from work

so that is what is happening here in the UK and quite possibly where you are as

well a lot of people are celebrating Easter at home or maybe they are doing

something unusual this year perhaps they are getting in touch with their friends

and relatives through through this thing isn't it amazing through this amazing

thing technology I love technology so much even though sometimes it does go

wrong it isn't always reliable I know technology sometimes can go wrong

there there can be problems sometimes however today I am with you I've managed

to find a lovely strong 4G signal and thank goodness I can appear once again

hello mr. Duncan there was a shadow over your face could you please move your

camera I'm not sure if I can move the camera very much because I have to be

careful of the signal so if I move my camera if I move my phone I might

actually lose the signal to the live stream so I don't have much choice about

where to put the camera I will move the camera slightly which isn't easy when

you're in the countryside is that better maybe that is a little bit better I just

hope that the signal hasn't been lost so that is the problem when you are using a

mobile phone to stream with you have to be careful that you don't lose your

signal because if you lose the signal you lose your stream hello to everyone

on the live chat I haven't said hello to anyone yet I'm

very sorry about that your voice is a little bit strange today well I've just

been walking for about 40 minutes up a large hill so I was slightly tired and

then I couldn't find a place to do my livestream from because there was no

mobile phone signal and then I realized that I had no water

either so my water is still at home I'm here and my lovely refreshing water is

at home it's no good there it has to be here

really hello - Rath hello - Rath who is mr. Steve well mr. Steve is someone who

quite often pops up on my live streams he was there yesterday did you see Steve

in the garden yesterday I can tell you what Steve is doing now he's actually

working in the garden he's he's catching up on all of the jobs that he wanted to

do in the garden so mr. Steve is busy at home and I am here standing in the

sunlight it's very bright now I'm standing in direct sunlight so the Sun

is actually shining right in my face now giving me some of that much-needed

vitamin D hello to the live chat shall I say hello to some of the live chat

shaker or shaker Adam hello shaker Adam thank you very much for joining me today

hello bara also Ana pica is here as well your voice sounds very strange it's

probably because I'm really tired I've just been walking for a very long time

and then I started panicking because I couldn't get the mobile phone to receive

a signal so without my signal I have no live stream isn't that

terrible hello - arm drum excuse me I need to do something right there sorry

that please take care of yourself mr. Duncan I'm okay

please can everyone not panic I haven't got I haven't got that trust me it is

hay fever my nose is very itchy and my throat is a little bit dry it is

actually hay fever everyone please please please please please

what does mr. Steve do for his job I can't really tell you what he does there

are many reasons why however mr. Steve has a very busy job it is a job that

normally takes a lot of his time and at the moment he is working from home he

has no choice he has to work from home because of the current situation I think

you know what I'm talking about don't you

yes that's what I'm talking about so that's what's happening right now mr.

Steve is at home even though he's decided to have a few days off so Steve

is now at home but he's busy in the garden because he has decided to take a

holiday so he's having a little bit of time off work Steve is your friend

sometimes sometimes he's my friend and sometimes well you know you know what

it's like sometimes between human beings we can't always get along sometimes we

have disagreements sometimes there are little arguments sometimes there are

things that we don't see eye-to-eye about hello mr. Duncan I am new here and

I'm also blind hello to ELISA ELISA Marie nice to see you here and nice to

have you here on the live chat hello um from says sometimes Steve is your

employee I like that I like that I've never thought of that before that is the

first time I've ever heard anyone say that mr. Steve

is my employee but I like that I like that a lot

it seems you get along with mr. Steve yes sometimes Oh

this branch there was a brand behind me oh dear

it's a little bit windy everyone it's very strange today sometimes the wind

eases off and then suddenly it comes back like that with a big guest so the

wind at the moment is coming and going you can see above my head there are lots

of trees blowing around so there is the view above my head right now

and it is rather windy I must be honest I was wondering whether I should come

out today because of the strange weather and of course it can be quite dangerous

as well if you're standing under a tree and the wind is blowing maybe one of the

branches will break or snap and fall on my head is that garlic behind you yes it

is right behind me can you see behind me all of the green

behind me that is actually garlic there is garlic growing all across that area

find me so everything there is actually wild garlic there is a lot of wild

garlic growing in this area and you can see quite a lot of it behind me as well

I know one thing I've just realized it's not very warm it isn't so we have we

have a lot of sunshine a lot of blue sky and fortunately we also have very cold

wind apparently this wind is coming from

Iceland it's coming from the north so it is coming from a very cold place and

that is the reason why the reason why the wind is cold be careful mr. Duncan

with the branch behind you it might hit you on the back behave yourself now come

on stop it leave me alone pick on someone your own size there we

go I've told it now hello Vitesse hello also to Belarus er

hello Bello seeya and welcome back to my live chat in the middle of nowhere I am

in isolation a lot of people are asking mr. Duncan what is it like where you are

is it horrible well it isn't very nice being in isolation because well you

don't have so much freedom to travel around what I wanted to do this week I

wanted to go into much Wenlock into the town centre and I wanted to actually do

some filming there unfortunately I can't I'm not allowed to

I've been told that I have to stay away from the town centre hello mr. Duncan do

ticks exist in England and are you afraid of them oh yes well animals

wildlife can get little ticks they are a kind of mite that lives on normally on

farmyard animals or wild animals and of course if you are walking through an

area of long grass or maybe a place like this the thing you can see behind me you

can sometimes find there are ticks and what they do they attach themselves to

your skin and they suck your blood and of course there are diseases as well

there are many diseases you can get from ticks including Lyme disease Lyme

disease you can get those

here in the UK yes they do exist but not everywhere fortunately not everywhere

but you can get them Zaki hello Zack Zack mr. Duncan your jacket

is kind of stylish thank you oh thank you very much

I've had this jacket for three years so this jacket is actually quite old I've

had it for four maybe three years and I I like this jacket because I can pull

this right up so this comes all the way up and then I can protect my neck from

the cold weather but yes I quite like this in fact I got this in a sale there

was a sale at a big department store I think it was in lemming Tain's bah I'm

sure it was in lemming Tain's spa or maybe Bambury oh yes it was BAM brewery

I bought this from BAM brewery I remember now and it was in the sale

half-price can you believe it so I got this in a sale quite cheap and I love

this coat yes I like it very much hello to Irene hello Irene are there any

snakes in your garden there are no snakes in the garden fortunately no

snakes live in the garden I'm glad I'm very glad to say that there are no

snakes in my garden definitely not I see that your classic red cap is back again

yes my cap is back and I'm wearing my red cap so if anyone is walking around

they can see me very easily and then they can avoid me because we have we

have to keep our social distancing at the moment we have to make sure that we

stay far apart from each other so there has to be a lot of social safe

distancing so if anyone comes past they will be able to see my red hat and then

they know that they can avoid me the older the leather the better the

quality that's what they normally say however this isn't leather this jacket

is not leather it looks leather but it isn't it

actually isn't leather what is the most dangerous animal that lives around your

place mr. Duncan there are many dangerous animals there is the greatest

spotted mr. Steve he is a nighttime predator and he can give you a nasty

bite we don't really have any dangerous animals around here I'll be honest there

aren't any large animals that could attack you or bite your head off nothing

like that so I'm very lucky that I live in an area where there aren't any wild

animals dangerous animals there are birds there are foxes oh we have lots of

foxes around here I like foxes very much what is the

difference between social distancing in social spacing basically it is the same

thing social distancing social spacing it is just another way of expressing it

another way of expressing it what about your family mr. Duncan thank you to

Islam is Matt my family well my family are all over the place they all live in

different places and unfortunately this is something I mentioned yesterday and

also last week my mother who is very ill at the moment is being taken care of and

because of the current situation I can't go to see my mother so I'm not allowed

to see my mother so my mother unfortunately is being

cared for and because of the current situation with I can't go to see her so

I'm not very happy about that I will be honest with you not happy about that

so I think it would be fair to say that we are all of

affected by this situation in some way hello 10-year tenure hello Tania do you

ever drink coffee I like coffee I normally have one cup of coffee every

day just one although I do like drinking tea mr. Duncan you are so adorable and

your way of teaching Thank You Ana pika you are welcome

that's okay I enjoy doing this even though today I am feeling a little

uncomfortable because I'm standing here in the open on a windy day even though

the Sun is out hello can can can I like your name by

the way do you know Vietnam I do know Vietnam I

am aware of Vietnam hello to everyone watching in Vietnam Xin chào to everyone

watching in Vietnam and I know there are many people who are watching for the

first time who are in Vietnam as well nice I love the countryside says bara me

too I love the countryside if I had a choice between living in a town or a big

city and living here I would always choose here to be honest I do like

living in a peaceful quiet place there are people who like to be near all of

the sounds of the traffic and the people however I prefer to be in a place that

is quiet and also a place that is peaceful tranquil oh I like that word

tranquil tranquil isn't that nice hello Anna I would like to ask the same

question what is correct on the live chat or in the live chat you can

actually use both so I am the live chat with you or if you type a

message the message is typed in the live chat so the message appears in the live

chat but it also appears on the live chat so in fact you can say both both

are actually acceptable it is in the live chat it is on the live chat so both

are actually acceptable hello Adam Adam Brotherhood nice to see you here as well

my favorite place to walk is fus Meadows which is near

Sean furred because it is full of wildlife even if you can't see the

animals quite often you can hear them so there is nothing I enjoy more than

walking around and quite often you can hear lots of animals even if you can't

see them you can you can hear them so I do like that very much

I really do Ricardo hello Ricardo nice to see you here welcome to my live

stream welcome to my little corner of England and that is where I'm talking to

you from right now I'm talking to you from England I'm in a place called Much

Wenlock which is in the county of Shropshire so when we say County we mean

the area the large area where all of the towns and cities are actually located so

I am in a place called Shropshire however I'm also in a place called Much

Wenlock which is a town and I'm standing at the top of a hill very close to a

place called Wenlock edge and it's freezing cold I forgot to bring my

gloves today I didn't bring my lovely red gloves so

I'm I'm feeling a little cold on my hands I also forgot my water as well

I forgot to bring my water that's mr. Steeves fault he was talking away

talking talking talking hello from Sudan might happen Mohammed has stained has

seemed Obi I like your name hello to Sudan a big hello hello also lover on

roads mga lover on roads nice to see you here in hallow tomb in Manila Manila in

the Philippines nice to see you here today mr. Duncan we all know we owe you

believe us oh that's ok that's alright as long as you are here and as long as

you enjoy what I'm doing I'm happy you will always see a big smile on my face

mr. Duncan what's your favorite word that sounds beautiful to you at least

set that's an interesting question I might have to think about that for a

while because there are many many words in the English language but I do like

them I do like them the place I'm in is called Shropshire Shropshire so that is

the County County the large area and then in that area there are lots of

towns and villages there are many counties across the UK and also of

course here in England you can put your hands in your pockets I can but I don't

know why I I don't like putting my hands in my pockets isn't that strange some

people you always see them with their hands in their pockets like this they

always they always have their hands in their pockets like this but I don't know

why I always feel uncomfortable I always feel slightly uncomfortable

when I have my hands in my pockets I always feel like I'm going to fall over

at any moment

so I I don't normally put my hands in my pockets even even if it's really really

cold hello to Kin Kin Kin karna hello to you

hello from Spain a big hello to Spain today we have a holiday and I'm on my

armchair with my husband and my daughter listening to you thank you very much

thank you very much race or raised watching in Spain a big hello to Spain

and a big hello to everyone today I know that things are weird at the moment

things are strange and to make things even stranger I'm here making things

really weird and unusual hello Anna hello also to cap Devi you are able to

pronounce are you able to pronounce fluidly the word

supercalifragilistic expialidocious of course I am that's an easy word that's

so simple even a child could say that your jacket has lots of pockets that is

one of the reasons why I like this coat is because I have lots of pockets on my

coat you can see there are many pockets on my coat and if you are a person who

does video filming or photography or something where you need to carry lots

of things then a coat like this is very useful because you have lots of useful

pockets and even inside the coat so even inside the coat there are lots of

pockets as well so that's one of the reasons why I love this jacket

because I have lots of lovely pockets in which to put my bits and pieces

Athens is here hello to Athens in Greece nice to see you here as well it's great

to see you here on the live chat my name is Duncan I live in England and I'm

standing here right now in front of my little mobile phone

enjoying my own little piece of self isolation I am self isolating in the

middle of the forest well in front of me let me just show you again just in case

you missed it so here is the view in front of me so that is what is in front

of me so I'm looking in front and that is what I can see there is a lovely

field a farmer's field things are growing in the in the field things are

growing at the moment but I don't know what it is

I'm not sure what it is that is growing in the field so there it is that is the

view today standing here on a very windy Monday

it's Monday oh yes of course it is Monday I don't know about you but

sometimes I forget what day of the week it is because every day feels like the

same day it feels like it feels like I am stuck with my own personal Groundhog

Day that's what it actually feels like so there is the field there is nothing

growing at the moment I think the field will eventually have corn or maybe wheat

or perhaps there might be some rapeseed I'm back there I am wow what a nice

place thank you very much it is very remote very isolated here and that is

one of the reasons why I found it very difficult to get my mobile phone signal

so at the moment I am coming to you from an isolated area and one of the problems

of course is getting a connection on your phone so if you live in the

countryside quite often you will find that your internet connection or your

phone connection is not very good so it took me a very long time today a very

long time to find a suitable place where I could get my mobile phone to work so I

have a nice strong signal now hello yes see ya hello yes iya nice to see you

here if it is your first time if you've never seen my live streams before say

hello mr. Duncan it's my first time here I've never seen your live streams before

something like that you can say something else if you want and a card

hello Ann are you happy I am I'm feeling very happy because when I woke up this

morning I realized that I had another day here we go again another day another

day of life isn't it nice the place you are in looks like a forest behind me is

a forest so behind me there is a forest and in front of me there is a field so

you can see what is in front of me is very different to what is behind me I

have a forest behind me and a field in front of me I hope you are ok in England

Thank You Athena well I suppose it goes without saying there is no need for me

to say that things are not good at the moment here in the UK we are all having

to do things that we don't want to do we are all having to stay at home we can't

go out there are many restrictions ah I like that word there are many

restrictions on what you can do at the moment

so there are many controls there are many things that are being said many new

laws that are being created to keep everyone away from each other so that is

the reason why I've come out for a walk near my house tomorrow is the 14th of

April it is oh it's also my sister's birthday

tomorrow I've just remembered I've remembered tomorrow is my sister's

birthday her birthday is on the 14th of April today hello hallo stickman hello -

stickman I hope you're feeling good today yes another day of lockdown says

satury no this is now the fourth week so today is the beginning of the fourth

week of the lockdown here in the UK and I can't believe it's been a month so at

the end of this week it will be one month that we've been doing this I don't

know about you but now and again I feel like I'm going to lose my mind

sometimes so how are you coping what are you doing at the moment what are you

doing to pass the time away during this weird

period what are you doing how are you keeping yourself busy I tell you what

mr. Steve has been doing Steve has been phoning all of his friends all of the

people that he hasn't spoken to for a very long time so this morning I heard

Steve he was on the phone and he was calling all of these people these

different people and many of them he hadn't spoken to for a very long time so

I think this opportunity is in some ways a good one because it gives us a chance

to get in touch with people who we may have lost touch with I think so so there

are positive things sometimes you have to find the good in

the bad I think so hello Ana pica Boris Johnson has been discharged from

hospital is that true it is true yes he came out of hospital he is now

recuperating oh I like that word he's recuperating if you recuperate it

means you are resting and also recovering at the same time so you rest

you are resting your body and also recovering at the same time so we call

that recuperating you recuperate recuperate I like that word so there are

many interesting words we can use if you are recovering you are getting over

something you are trying to recover you are recuperating hello Konstantin

hello Constantine the lockdown though otherwise depressing is a good occasion

to learn English from you mr. Duncan yes there is always something good sometimes

when things seem bad I always say you can always find something positive or

something good when things go wrong for example you know what's coming next yes

you do sometimes it is good to make the best of a bad deal so that's what I'm

trying to do at the moment I am trying to make the best of a bad deal even if

things are going badly even if things are going wrong sometimes you have to

try and make the best of a bad situation when things do not go your way sometimes

you have to try and find something positive from it I know it's not always

easy I know it's not easy to do I know sometimes it might be hard to

find something positive however one of the things I say to try and make things

go my way you have to sometimes make the best of a bad deal I am trying to move

my paper unfortunately it is very windy sometimes you have to look on the bright

side sometimes you must look on the bright

side of life to cheer yourself up maybe you can watch a funny program on the

television maybe you can try and cheer yourself up by speaking to your friends

or one of your relatives on the telephone or through your mobile phone

always try to look on the bright side even though sometimes I know it's

difficult it's hard to do but I think looking on the bright side of life can

sometimes be very therapeutic

Satur Eno says I'm spending my day doing some fixing in my home so in quarantine

you can gain anything oh you can't sorry in quarantine you

can't gain anything but you can save your money doing something for yourself

so you are doing some home repairs maybe you are fixing things in your house that

is what Steve is doing Steve is in the garden today and he's doing a lot of

maintenance in the garden

thank you Hameed hamid reza you are funny you are funny looking thank you

thank you very much for that thanks a lot

you are funny looking oh but also you look very brainy you look very clever oh

thank you very much mister don't can you look you look weird but we think you're

clever isn't that nice I'm not sure if that's a compliment or not every cloud

has a silver lining every cloud has a silver lining when things look gray and

gloomy sometimes you can find a glimmer of hope or maybe something to cheer

yourself up every cloud has a silver lining

so even when things seem dark or gloomy quite often you can find something

positive from that situation you can and I know it works because I do it myself

you see I do it for myself a lot of people asked mr. Duncan you always seem

so happy and cheerful and that is because I always have a positive view of

things you always try to find something to cheer yourself up there are lots of

lovely things around even small things maybe in the morning I look out of my

window and there is a little bird sitting outside my window that will make

me feel very happy for the rest of the day I think oh that's a nice moment that

is really cheered me up so sometimes you have to look you have to look for the

bright sides or the silver linings and this is my favorite of course there is

light at the end of the tunnel even though things

seem bad we can always reassure ourselves by saying when things are

slowly getting better there is light at the end of the tunnel there is light at

the end of the tunnel

hello what about your children my children I don't have any children trust

me I don't I have no children as far as I know as far as I'm aware I have no

children what I can't believe I just said that hello to the Ukraine Alexandra

is it true that the libraries in London are very big there are local libraries

that are average but also there are big libraries large libraries most cities

around the UK will have a large library situated in each city hello on tran Ungh

tran asks what is herd immunity herd immunity is something that was talked

about a few weeks ago herd immunity means that you allow a disease or a

virus to spread through the population to help everyone gain immunity in other

words they gain protection from that particular virus so it is a thing that

is sometimes talked about especially during these strange times there are a

lot of people talking about one particular method although these days

people are not talking about it they've suddenly stopped talking about that

altogether maybe they've decided that it's not such a good idea

and of course during this time there is one more thing I want to remind you of

if I can find it ah yes please remember please remember

you are not alone during this time I will be with you every day doing my live

streams every single day on YouTube sometimes I will be outside like today

and sometimes I will be in my garden or maybe in my studio so I will try to be

with you every day and I am with you now live from England a big hello wherever

you are watching in the world please mr. Duncan take care of yourself

thank you very much I always try to take care of myself even

on a windy day like this mr. Duncan can you dance for us what do you think I am

I'm not a I'm not an animal performing at the circus you know unless I paid I

wouldn't have a cake unless I paid I wouldn't have a cake is this a true

sentence it doesn't sound like a real sentence it sounds like something that

is saying maybe there is a condition so if I don't pay I won't get so we are

talking about a type of conditional there so that particular sentence is a

conditional if I don't get that or if I don't do that I won't get that it is a

form of conditional

please you don't leave is mr. Lincoln please don't leave us alone mr. Duncan I

will try not to mr. Duncan you are singing not dancing yes of course I'm

singing and not dancing I'm not dancing here I'm too shy I might scare the

animals the animals might be frightened away by my strange movements

we like your singing your singing is amazing thank you very much for that I'm

not sure if my singing is amazing today

does the word talkative have a negative meaning it can be used in a negative way

although it can also be used in a positive way to describe a person who

likes saying things or talking about things a person who likes chatting I

would say that Steve is very talkative he is a talkative person so he likes

having conversations with other people so in that respect it is positive so

most of the time we can use the word talkative as positive he is a talkative

person he likes to chat to people he is very sociable I suppose also you might

use it negatively as well you could use it in a negative way as well what would

happen if you cut down a tree there I don't know I suppose it depends if

someone saw me doing it if someone caught me cutting down a tree I don't

know what would happen maybe I would end up in prison Anna says someone just

passed behind you yes well they are very far away so there is a track down there

where people can walk so there are people going by but they are very far

away don't worry don't worry it's all right I am safe distancing I am keeping

my distance so there are people walking by maybe behind me but we are very far

away from each other so please don't worry I'm okay I'm keeping my safe

distance the only thing that I'm getting near to is this tree you can see this

tree is very close to me Hey go away though you know there's safe

distancing at the moment you're too close to me this tree is too close to me

I don't think it realizes that there is social distancing going on at the moment

is that a private forest that particular forest behind me is actually public so

that is a place where people can walk through they can actually walk through

that place so this is not private this is actually public it is a public place

hello Anna hello all so Marcia did your Easter Egg taste good I think so it

looked delicious it was very nice I was absolutely

delighted I was so delighted when I saw my big Easter egg and last night of

course I am NOT a selfish person I gave mr. Steve some of my Easter egg and I

had some as well very nice Steve also made a very nice meal as well a

beautiful meal hello Ernesto guess what Ernesto is doing at the moment mr.

Duncan I am on my treadmill at the moment I am watching you on your live

stream and I'm also on my treadmill as well you know what you don't always need

a treadmill sometimes you can just walk on the spot like this I hope no nobody

saw me that do that I hope not for it is good to have sunshine here unfortunately

it is raining heavily and it is very windy we are lucky today because we have

lots of sunshine unfortunately we hope we also have a lot

of wind blowing around mr. Duncan someone is writing bad words but no one

is canceling it I didn't notice that I will see if I can

find the person who is saying rude words how could you say rude words on my

life's dream Oh

I'm shocked I am so shocked really very shocked

Louisa says you are so funny yes my mother says that as well we

really missed the Sun and also the fresh air we miss the Sun and the fresh air

guess what mr. Duncan I can hear a cuckoo in my forest says

Irene that is amazing here in the UK every year people try to listen out for

the PERT for the first cuckoo a cuckoo is a very interesting type of bird and

the cuckoo is one of those birds that has a little trick do you know what the

trick is there is a little trick that the cuckoo does do you know what it is

yes a lot of people here in the UK get very excited when they hear the sound of

the like that did you like my bird impression I

thought I was very good a lot of people say mr. Duncan you are a little bit

cuckoo yourself hello - Louisa

hello also - Adrian why can't we say the worth of a good deal why can't we say

the worth of a good deal I'm not sure what you mean by that to be honest mr.

Duncan which playlist on the channel should I listen to to begin learning

English I have my big list of English lessons all of my English lessons there

is a big playlist there are around ten lessons a hundred and ten so the

idea of my lessons is to give you a chance to listen to English being spoken

so I am here to help you improve your word power to learn new words you can

also read the words on my screen sometimes you can also listen as well so

developing your listening skills is a very important part of learning English

it really is mr. Duncan I am sweating so much on my treadmill I wish I was

sweating at the moment I am not sweating I am doing something very different at

the moment I'm quite cold actually I'm quite cold

the cuckoo oh thank you Luis Mendez hello Luis

Mendez watching in France Luis cuckoos are very lazy birds they are lazy and

quite often they will lay their eggs in other birds nests what a lazy bird but

even worse than that when the chicks when the cuckoo chicks catch out they

will actually push all of the other chicks out of the nest

so the the real eggs are pushed out so the cuckoo chicks will be taken care of

and all of the real eggs are pushed out by the chicks by the cuckoo chicks it's

not very nice is it sometimes sometimes mother nature can be a bit of a bit

mr. Duncan I can't believe you said that but Mother Nature can be very cruel

sometimes there are a lot of cruel things that go on in nature so the

cuckoo even though the cuckoo sounds nice and friendly like that it sounds

very friendly but in fact don't be fooled by the cuckoos friendly call

because they are a little wicked especially when it comes to raising

their young because they are so lazy they actually get other birds to do it

for them yes hello everybody I hope you are ok and take care and your relatives

are ok take care and be responsible Thank You Yoona Karina lots of love for

those who are also unwell I know this is a crazy time one of the most common

questions that people ask me at the moment about this is mr. Duncan what do

you think about this what is your feeling about this and it's very hard to

describe it in words I don't normally have difficulty expressing things or

explaining things but I don't know where to begin really talking about all of

this it is a very strange period of time I've never experienced anything like

this the only time I've experienced this is

when I was a child and if I was naughty so my mother would punish me by making

me stay in my bedroom and sometimes she wouldn't allow me to have any supper

because I was a very naughty boy so that's the only time that I remember in

my life being in isolation is when I was naughty or I was misbehaving at home so

my mother would send me to my room she would say I've had enough of you Duncan

I've had enough of you you are being naughty today very naughty go to your

room and you will stay in your room all day

and you are not having any supper

something like that something like that so that is the only time in my life that

I've known isolation other than what is happening now to be honest um hello um

from hyung says the cuckoo is the most dishonest bird yes I think so I actually

I actually agree with you I would say that the cuckoo is a very dishonest bird

hello - Jonah's family dog oh sorry did I say family dog family vlog hello once

again - Jonah's family vlog vlog video log so the word vlog means that you are

recording a diary or a record of your life or your experiences and also you

are doing it on video so video log the log it is a compound it is two words

that have been pressed together a bit like Brangelina what mr. Duncan

it is not 2008 please get up to date we don't talk

about Brangelina anymore it's all about the Megane Markel's now what is your

worst nightmare mr. Duncan my worst nightmare is McVitie's announcing that

they will be no longer making jaffa cakes I think that is my worst nightmare

thank you very much mr. Duncan thank you also to Kong

Levu hello to you I believe you are watching in Vietnam can you speak

Chinese I remember you used to be an English teacher in China yes many years

ago I worked in China as an English teacher in fact this is very bizarre I

actually worked in China during the SARS crisis

so when SARS broke out I was actually living in China at the time but yes to

answer your question I do know some Chinese I can even sing in Chinese

yes I can I can sing a Chinese song I did actually do it on Chinese television

they made me go on TV to sing hello son Tran Sanh Tran says bye-bye Sanh Tran

hopefully see you again sometime if you are passing this way hello to Lou Lynn

Lou Lynn fam hello to you it has been 10 years since the first time I saw your

videos for English no words can describe how much your lessons have motivated my

studying thank you so much my great teacher thank you as well for your kind

words I have been doing this for a long time I started doing this 14 years ago

I've been doing this on YouTube for 14 years mr. Duncan that doesn't seem

possible I didn't think the internet existed 14 years ago but it did yes when

YouTube was just a little baby YouTube was just a little baby very young I

started teaching English on YouTube in 2006

mr. Duncan are you being blinded by the Sun I'm okay because I have my lovely

hat you see so because of my hat my my eyes are protected from the bright

sunlight so I'm okay I am NOT being blinded

hello Sanh Tran again Sanh Tran Sanh Tran where are you watching I have a

feeling you might be in Vietnam but then again I might be wrong hmm you create

YouTube mr. Duncan but you are not a youtuber luckily no I would not class

myself as a youtuber a youtuber is a person who plays computer games and then

comments about the computer game and then they get 20 billion viewers I I'm

just a person who stands in front of a camera that's what I do

hello Tuan Tuan new in hello to you as well watching in Vietnam I seem to have

a lot of people watching do you mean the playlists where the videos are 7 or 9

minutes long yes that is right there is a very big playlist on my youtube

channel and there are around a hundred and ten videos so over the years I've

made many English lessons some are short and some are very long and over the

years I've done lots of filming I have filmed in different places I have made

my lessons in different parts of the world as well including Turkey and also

Malaysia as well and of course China which is where I started doing this many

many years ago franceska says do you know Brad Pitt I

don't know him but people sometimes say I look like him in the dark

Thank You Vietnam thank you to everyone watching today it's so nice to see you

all here as well please could you talk about some interesting English novels I

used to read a lot of books at school my English teacher used to encourage us

to read all sorts of literature there are some nice books that you could read

traditional books classic books maybe such as novels or stories by people like

Charles Dickens if you like a little bit of Dickens then I think that is the sort

of thing you should be reading something that has meaning I do like stories that

have a sort of meaning or a moral purpose so I do like stories that have a

very deep meaning and things that connect with you emotionally as well I

do like that very much how old are you mr. Duncan a lot of

people seem very fascinated by my age I am I am no I'm not going to say it I'm

too shy hello thank you for your lessons to fam thank you very much eunuch Erina

says you must be 14 I wish I wish I was 40 I really do ah very good Francesca

Animal Farm by George Orwell a lot of people know George Orwell through his

dystopian novel 1984 however there is another story that George Orwell wrote

called Animal Farm it is a rather gruesome and rather violent and some

might say and pleasant story hello mr. Duncan from Yemen how are you

doing your act scent is very good to understand and

easy thank you for your livestream thank you very much as well hello I will begin

watching those videos from now and follow your live streams thank you so

much thank you dr. Manor you are welcome it's alright it's my pleasure hello

Mikkel Mikkel ger and Ian it is my first time here

hello Mikkel welcome to my livestream I am doing special daily live streams

during this period of time because basically I don't have much else to do

at the moment we are all in lockdown unfortunately hi every day I keep on

sweating over my treadmill well all I can say

Ernesto is you are doing the right thing you are keeping yourself healthy

I know one thing during this strange period I have started eating too much

food I am very aware that I'm eating too much food because sometimes I was

sitting in my my house and sometimes I'm thinking oh I've got nothing to do I

know I will go into the kitchen and eat some food and I'm sure I'm not the only

person who is doing that I'm sure I am NOT the only person who is doing that

mr. Duncan every day you have a different age it depends on your mood

your age is all in your head I do agree with that sometimes you are only as old

as you feel I don't feel as if I'm getting older

certainly inside and in my mind and in my heart I don't feel older even though

sometimes I look at my body in the morning and I think oh my goodness that

didn't used to be there it used to be much higher up

so sometimes I stand in the mirror I stand in front of the mirror and I look

at myself and I go oh well some of that is a little bit lower down than it used

to be what's happened how are the partridges and the pheasants

are they still alive asks Vitesse they are still alive

the pigeons the pheasants and the partridges are all very well thank you

very much they are doing well they are probably

doing better than me I think if I was honest I think the pheasants and the and

the pigeons are having quite quite a good time at the moment because it's

mating season so they are very happy the Italian birds in our courtyard in

Rome are not as not as Pacific is yours in many ways that a seagull is fighting

a crow oh I see what do you mean passive or do you mean

friendly quite often you will see the birds fighting even in my garden

sometimes the birds will fight each other over all sorts of things quite

often food or territory so two of the things that birds often fight over is is

food and territory Miquel where are you from I am talking to you live from

England I am in the English countryside on a very sunny albeit windy and chilly

day it's quite cold here today I'm surprised how cold it is Wei Chen hello

Wei Chen nice to see you here today on the live stream what is the difference

between lend and borrow lend is to give something for a short period

of time so you will give something to a person and then later they will give it

back so you lend something maybe you lend

some money to a person I will lend you some money borrow of course is the

opposite borrow means you take something from another person first for a short

period of time I really need some water I really do need some water

so lend borrow lend you give something for a short time or temporarily borrow

you take something for a short time or maybe you take something and then you

give something else back later especially when we're talking about

money a lot of people do borrow money some people will also lend money

dr. Minar says I will lend you some water

yes it's by fault it is my fault unfortunately when I came out of the

house I left my water at home so my water is at home and I am here not a

very good situation to be in to be honest what are you doing in quarantine

what are you doing during this time well one of the things I am doing is this so

one of the things I am doing at the moment is coming out or going into my

garden and I am doing these live streams I

wanted to watch your videos that you filmed in Malaysia but I couldn't find

it says grace grace chin there is a video lesson that I made all

about penang penang it is called welcome to penang and that is the title of that

lesson it is on my youtube channel i'm trying to remember what the number of

the lesson is but I have made a lesson all about going to Malaysia I think it

is called welcome to Penang the pearl of the Orient

so maybe you can search that in my video list and you will find it so I was very

lucky a few years ago to go to Malaysia and I did some filming there I also went

to Turkey as well and I did a lesson in Turkey also hello - on trim again which

I think that is a message for someone else that is a private message for

someone else oh yes hamid reza says i was there for two

years Penang is gorgeous I know I used to

travel to Malaysia many times during the 1990s so I have been to Malaysia many

times I love it so much and Penang is one of my favorite places in Malaysia

one of the main reasons is the food the food in Penang is incredible really

amazing so the food in Penang is possibly some of the best food that I've

ever tasted in my whole life so I do recommend it or not at the

moment at the moment no one is going anywhere

unfortunately hello - Quran Karim I want to thank you so much teacher for your

great job you are welcome thank you very much

it is my pleasure dr. Mann ah have you ever visited any Arabic countries I

haven't I've never been to any Arabic countries

hello also - grace chin again hello to you hello T Huang new Jian Li hello you

are a good teacher thank you very much I have a feeling you might be in Vietnam

am i right I think so so yesterday was Easter Easter Sunday today is Easter

Monday normally this would be a public holiday so normally people would be off

from their work they would be having a public holiday today however because of

the lockdown because of the current situation you know what I'm talking

about what is the difference between the American and British accent I think I

answered this question the other day I answered this question the other day I

did the accents are all different so in British English and American English the

accents are all varied they are all different however when we are talking

about the English language there is only one English language there is only one

actual English language there are many different accents that is my explanation

of that so even here in the UK you will hear English spoken in many different

ways with different accents just as you would in the United States

the English accent is very beautiful Thank You Maria that's very that's very

kind of you to say what is the accent of mr. Steve it sounds strange I think

Steve's accent is from maybe the South I want to say the South East of England

because he was born in the Cotswolds and in the Cotswolds they have a very

particular accent however can I let you in on a secret

mr. Steve's family are very posh there so sometimes I think that mr. Steve's

family they have a very posh accent they talk like the Queen sometimes that's

what I think anyway mr. Duncan go home okay bye mr. Duncan go home

we need you need some water I'm okay now I'm all right now I will be okay for a

few more minutes and then I will go so don't worry mr. Duncan don't talk to

yourself please call Steve and ask him to bring some water I think I will

survive for a few more moments all I need to do is clear my throat wait there

a moment I'm just going to clear my throat and then I will come back just a

moment

oh that's better I just had a little clear of my throat that's better

oh I feel much better now ah this is interesting

hello Annie Annie mister some years ago I met people from Dublin and I couldn't

understand them sometimes the Irish accent can be hard to understand for

various reasons one is because of the speed as well you you might find

sometimes that with the Irish accent the the words are spoken very quickly and

they all run into each other and besides that you also have an accent

as well so I think the Irish accent can be hard to understand especially if the

person is speaking very quickly or at a very fast pace

I think so hello mr. Duncan I am back with your lessons hello to Mahmood

Mahmood Dawood nice to see you here Oh Nestor says lucky oh I'm very lucky

because I have a treadmill in my house mr. Duncan can you speak a different

English accents not very well I wouldn't class myself as an actor I'm not a

person who can do different accents I can do my own accent Khalil mr. Duncan

how is the weather now in the UK the weather is quite nice

we have blue sky there is blue sky above my head so the Sun is out there is lots

of blue sky but unfortunately one of the big problems is the wind it is very cold

so even though everything looks nice today it is absolutely freezing cold it

is very

cold here hello again welcome back did you like the view up there it's very

nice however the wind is blowing strongly another accent that is hard to

understand is Scottish ah yes another one yes I suppose the Scottish accent is

well when you think about it you might find that there are some connections

between the Scottish accent and the Irish accent so they do have in some

cases or in some ways they have similarities what is the time in your

current place it is now oh it's a quarter to four it is now a quarter to

four I will show you on my watch so this is the time right now in the UK

there we go so that is the time in the UK it is a quarter to four oh my

goodness is it my imagination or is it getting really cold it's freezing I'm so

cold goodness me I have been here for one and

a half hours standing here talking to you oh hello - I always like saying

hello to my new viewers I am watching your first live video but I have watched

a lot of your video lessons you are my dream teacher I have been watching you

for five years you are still young Thank You our pan that is very kind of you to

say you can be an older person you can be getting older however if you feel

young inside if you feel young at heart that's all it matters so that's what I

try to do I try to stay young guy try to keep a young outlook I tried to stay

young at heart I try to keep myself feeling young and most importantly happy

as well I will be going in a minute because it's absolutely freezing I've

been here now for 92 minutes 92 minutes an hour and a half I've been here you

know what when you go home will you have a cup of hot tea and will it be very

tasty to you because of the cold weather there is nothing nicer than getting into

the house when you've been outside there is nothing nicer than getting into the

house and having a lovely hot drink especially a cup of tea so you are right

when you've been outside in the cold when you've been outside and you are

experiencing the cold weather when you get into the house and you have

a cold you have a hot drink a cup of tea it's amazing

yes you're right it always tastes very nice it always tastes very nice indeed

my mood says what is the latest news concerning in the UK well things aren't

good we are still going through our peak period so a lot of people are trying to

flatten the curve so as people or people affected by that thing at the moment it

is still going up it is still very high so unfortunately we are still having a

lot of problems here in the UK and that is the reason why the lockdown has been

extended for another two weeks so it looks as if we might be doing this

in May so this might be still going on next month

who knows all I know is that we are living through crazy timings very crazy

times oh the wind the wind is very strong hi Lee Kwang says I have an IELTS

exam coming soon and I am very nervous because of the exam well taking a test

taking an exam of any type can be a little worrying so I think you will find

that that is a normal feeling it is normal normal feeling black gut cha is

going see you later take care I hope you have a good day whatever you are doing

take good care of yourself stay safe and most importantly of all stay happy

and healthy yes unfortunately we are hoping that we can reduce the number of

people who are being affected by that particular thing but I still think we

have a long way to go Vitesse says I have put on my headphones

and I can hear the birds singing and someone is cutting wood you are right

behind me there is someone cutting wood you are right there are some people

cutting wood but I don't think it's here it's it's way far away very far away

from where I'm standing please stay safe mr. Duncan I will try my best

yes you can hear the birds there are some birds singing in the trees above me

and it sounds very nice I'm starting to feel as cold as you says güell ii-era

you are right it is freezing here I will be going in a moment because I'm getting

very cold standing here on this little hill in the middle of nowhere so I will

be going back home and I am going to have a lovely cup of tea

I can't wait don't forget to give me a like before I go give me a lovely like

underneath the video go on hit that like button hit it Oh mr. Duncan I'm going to

hit that like button so hard do you have a fire or a fireplace in your house yes

I do I do have a fire in the house so maybe later on if it gets too cold I

will light the fire in the house

my my hands my hands are so cold at the moment they are freezing because I

forgot to bring my gloves today I didn't bring my gloves and because of

that my hands are very cold thank you very much for your company today I'm

going home now to have a cup of tea is it summer in the UK not yet

it is late spring/early summer so at the moment it is still early summer early

summer so summer is just starting to arrive summer is coming there is there

is summer there is light summer light at the end of the tunnel thank you very

much for your company someone is very busy with their chopper

they are chopping down some trees in their garden I think so thanks for your

company don't forget give me a thumbs up hit that like button go on hit it hit

the like button hit it as hard as you can summer is coming and yes I agree it

is a wonderful time of year thank you very much Eric

thank you to everyone who is joining me today Thank You Danielle thank you very

much Sergio maybe it is a chainsaw killer I hope not thank you teacher

see you tomorrow I'm back tomorrow yes I will be live with you again where will I

be tomorrow I have no idea literally I have no idea where I'll be tomorrow I

don't know where I will be tomorrow I might be on the roof of my house I might

be in my studio I might be sitting on the toilet who knows catch you later

have a good time have a great day stay healthy stay

happy enjoy the rest of your Monday and of course from the birthplace of the

English language this is mr. duncan in england saying thanks for watching see

you tomorrow 2 p.m. UK time 2 p.m. UK time tomorrow and of course you know

what's coming next yes you do see you later and

ta ta for now 8-)