The Survival Instinct (words) / English Addict lesson 55 / with Mr Duncan / Sunday 22nd March 2020

oh look at the view outside isn't that nice it's looking rather nice

outside at the moment what a lovely day we are having here in England and I hope

your day is going well - here we go again

yes it's English addict once more we are back again on YouTube and yes we are

coming to you live from the birthplace of the English language which just

happens to be England

hi everybody this is mr. tankard in England how are you today are you okay I

hope so are you happy well are you happy I

really hope you are feeling happy today I am not feeling too bad because the

weather outside is gorgeous I don't know about you but whenever the weather is

nice it always seems to make your mood better so despite everything that is

going on at the moment I do feel rather nice today I will be honest with you I

feel rather happy and cheerful because the weather outside is rather nice there

it is again a live view so that is what England

looks like at the moment a lovely sunny day everything is looking very nice

outside I must be honest it really does lift your spirits when the weather is

like that so we've got a gentle breeze it isn't very warm today however the Sun

is out and everything is rather nice so here we go then I hope you are feeling

great wherever you are in the world wherever you are watching I hope you are

feeling good and I am here once again to reassure you that you are not alone

so it is the weekend although for many of you it might feel as if every day is

the weekend but yes we have made it through the weekend

almost it's Sunday

so we've made it through to Sunday I hope you are feeling okay today I hope

you are feeling good because if you're not well I will try my best to cheer you

up is that a deal do we have a deal there okay then I like that

I like that very much of course it wouldn't be the live stream

without having also the live chat yes you out there you will have a chance to

get involved with today's live stream you can join in on the live chat talking

of which who was first on today's live chat

I wonder who was first shall we have a look ok then hello - grace chin hello

grace guess what you are first on the live chat congratulations to you

we are talking about some big subjects today of course I don't need to mention

that things are slightly unusual at the moment have you noticed have you seen on

the news there is something happening that is affecting the whole planet right

now however I will try to be here as often as I can I was with you yesterday

did you see my very unusual livestream yesterday I was once more in the forest

isolating myself from everyone else and I did a livestream yesterday I'm not

sure if I will be with you tomorrow I might take a little rest tomorrow

because to be honest doing live streams every day can be quite exhausting so I'm

not sure tomorrow I might take a rest we will see what happens anyway enough of

tomorrow we are now talking about today because we have lost lots of subjects to

talk about we will be talking about one particular subject we'll be talking all

about survival yes can you see it up there there is the word on the screen

survival I suppose this is a word that a lot of people might be talking about

around the world for various reasons survival is the word we will be looking

at and you will you might be amazed to find out just how many ways we can talk

about survival and this is something that is on a lot of people's minds at

the moment as we go through a very difficult and dare I say strange period

of time as I said yesterday I have never lived through anything like this the

only thing I could probably say that this is like and this is before my life

began is the second world war so during the war I would imagine that life was

very very strange very difficult very odd so this might be

the first time since the Second World War that things for many people have

been unusual or art or maybe a little bit stressful or unusual so I think that

there are many words that we can use to describe this period of time we are

living through very strange times as I've mentioned before hello also - oh

hello Sally Sally it's nice to see you here today

on the live chat thank you for joining me again Vitas is watching in Lithuania

hello to you as well Vitas nice to see you here on the live chat

Angela hello Angela nice to see you here as well if you want

to tell me where you are at the moment and if you want to tell me what you are

doing during this period of time so what are you doing to keep yourself happy

busy amused so you don't feel bored well maybe one of the things you are doing is

watching my live streams I hope so I will try I will try my best to be here

as often as possible I really will so here we go episode I

can't believe look episode 55 of English addict and the reason why I do this is

because I like to teach English my name is Duncan some people call me mr. Duncan

some people call me that idiot from up the road what does my mother

call me oh yes there are many names my mother calls me

and most of them I can't use here on YouTube unfortunately so that is what I

do I teach English and I've been doing this forever such a long time do you

know how long I've been doing this for how many years here on YouTube

14 I don't believe it and maybe you don't believe it but it is true I've

been doing this on YouTube for nearly 14 years since the days when YouTube was

just a little baby so yes a long time b-trees is here

hi everybody happy Sunday yes it is Sunday it's a fun day it's time to

improve your English listening if you have a moment spare maybe you are doing

nothing at the moment maybe you are sitting around in front of your computer

well guess what stick around because I will be with you for around about

another hour and a half yes a very long time I must say will I survive I don't

know we will find out at the end hello Ramazan Uhura nice to see you here as

well hello also flower Supergirl hello

Supergirl I am pervane or perv Anna from

Azerbaijan that rhymes did you notice that it actually rhymes it is like a

poem Susi car is here it's a Sunday it is a fun day definitely by the way for

those who are wondering mr. Steve yes of course mr. Steve will be here don't

worry he will be here soon for those who like seeing mr. Steve well

you will be seeing mr. Steve live however he is in isolation at the moment

I've had to put mr. Steve in isolation because yesterday he went to see his

mother because this weekend in the UK it is actually Mother's Day today so a big

hello to any UK mothers who are watching right now maybe you are watching on your

computer with your family don't forget keep your distance however

mr. Steve yesterday went all the way to see his mother and I was thinking maybe

it's not a good idea so what I've done today I have put mr.

Steve in isolation I've isolated him so I'm not going anywhere near mr. Steve

today you will see a little bit later on what I've done with mr. Steve he is not

here in the studio he will be somewhere else

locked away out of harm's reach as they say so yes mr. Steve will be here later

on

mr. Steve was there any need that I Oh disgusting absolutely disgusting

so mr. Steve will be here however yesterday he went to see his mother we

will be taking a look at some photographs that Steve took yesterday

with his mum and they are rather fascinating photographs so I will show

those a little bit later on we are going to have a look at mr. Steve and his mum

and they were together yesterday so that coming later on as well how are

you today we are talking about survival words phrases ways of describing

survival the things that we do to survive the things we have to do and I

suppose at the moment there are many things that we are having to do to keep

ourselves safe and secure Jeff hello Jeff Jeff rich hi to you and Jeff says

hello to all the mothers watching today yes hello to all the mothers because

it's Mother's Day we call it Mother's Day or we can also call it Mothering

Sunday so for all you mothers out there for all you mothers watching at the

moment I hope you have a super-duper day stay safe and don't eat all those

chocolates at once okay I know that many mothers today will be eating chocolates

and maybe they will have some nice flowers on display in their window so

who knows hello Isabel hello Isabel hi everybody from a sunny and windy

Barcelona nice to see you as well unfortunately we are under this terrible

situation I hope you are all well and healthy well I'm okay I'm healthy I have

been keeping myself very far away from other people including Steve

because he was out yesterday visiting his mother I wasn't very sure if that

was a good idea to be honest so hmm I've had just put I've put Steve into

isolation today that's what I've done Tomek hello Tomic hi there I love the

slogan you are not alone it is so relevant to the current course of action

I am NOT alone that's right because we have certain things following us around

I think you know what I'm talking about hello Luis Luis Mendez is here nice to

see you as well how are things in France things around the world are getting

worse things are not improving however I always think that sometimes there are

things that you have to say to yourself things you have to think to reassure

yourself that things aren't so bad especially if you're at home maybe you

will have a chance to spend time with your relatives maybe you can talk to

some of your friends on the telephone or through the internet so there are many

things you can do Jimmy hello Jimmy from Hong Kong yes I am keeping my hands

washed and also I am becoming a clean addict yes maybe people will be too

obsessed later on after all of this is over maybe people will be very sensitive

to anything that they might think is unclean however in these strange times

it is better to be safe than sorry so there are things that I want you to

remember and think about during the strange time and yes I did this

yesterday and I'm doing it again I make no apologies remember every cloud has a

silver lining every cloud has a silver lining even if things seem bad

you don't have to worry too much about it because things will always get better

in a bad situation you can always find that every cloud has a silver lining

there is maybe something positive that you can find from this situation you can

make the best of a bad deal if you make the best of a bad deal we are saying

that you can do something - I don't know breakthrough the problem may be

something that you can find that is positive from a bad deal or a bad

situation I suppose also we can say look on the bright side you can look on the

bright side I suppose you can look out the window and you can you can watch the

Sun Shine maybe you can get some of the sunshine on your face in your window you

can feel the warmth from the Sun so always try to look on the bright side of

life doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo another

one things could always be worse I suppose this depends on what your

situation is currently but things could always be worse

they always could and this is my favorite don't forget there is light at

the end of the tunnel even if you can't see it at the moment there is always

light at the end of the tunnel so when things seem bad when things seem gloomy

remember there is always light at the end of the tunnel even if that light is

far away at the moment it will eventually appear things will eventually

get better that's what I think and I'm sure you do as well hello pal Miura

hello also faith hello faith idiom channel yes there is always light at the

end and of the tunnel I really like that

expression and these are things that I'm saying to you however these are also

things that I'm saying to myself so I always try to be positive I always try

to look on the bright side to find something that I can do maybe something

that I couldn't do before because I didn't have time well now of course we

all have plenty of time to do things so that is my way of thinking and I hope my

way of thinking can help you as well mr. Steve is on his way he will be we he'll

be with us soon however he is in isolation because he was very naughty he

went to see his mother and now I'm having to keep him very far away from me

very far away sweetness hi mr. Duncan I hope you are doing well

I am doing all right however when I got home yesterday from my big livestream in

the forest I was thirsty and hungry can you guess what I had to eat yesterday

when I got home I had some delicious soup some lentil soup

Wow it was so nice and Steve had got so afraid as well so I had some lovely

fresh bread and some soup yesterday after returning from my very long live

stream yesterday which by the way you can see on YouTube it is available hello

to catch you I am safe here and also it is going to go into lockdown

this is a word that we talked about last week lockdown

if you have lockdown it normally means something is cut off normally involving

parts of the population maybe a small town or sometimes a city so cities can

also be locked down it normally means that the

movement is restricted you can't move around as much as you normally could ah

on on dirge Nick under snick I hope I can ounce your name right I am sending

you nice greetings from the Czech Republic

I am your faithful viewer did you hear about the doctor who had the terrible

experience in London I'm not sure about that story I haven't read it I've been

trying to stay away from all of the news reports because I've noticed that some

of the news is just repeating the same thing so I don't want to listen to the

news all the time sometimes you need something that cheers your whip

sometimes you need something that makes you happy so I'm only looking at the

news for very short periods of time I'm not watching it too much I like your

walks in the wood mr. Duncan well I did one yesterday I had a few

technical problems at first because the signal on my mobile phone wasn't very

good for which I apologize but then after after about eight minutes I found

a new place to stream from and then everything was alright so you can find

my very long and very interesting and unusual live stream on my youtube

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a big hello to all of my lovely subscribers and viewers hmm lots of

people around the world hello to Vietnam I know I have a lot of new viewers

watching in Vietnam also can I send a special hello to my friends in China as

well I know things there have been difficult also South Korea which has had

a very difficult time not forgetting my lovely friends in Europe as well a big

hello to Italy I know things are bad there but I'm really hoping that I can

keep you company during this difficult time and remember you are not alone we

are all doing very similar things at the moment including me so you will see at

them in a moment why this is happening because mr. Steve is in isolation I will

show you that in a few minutes however we are now going to take a look

at one of my English lessons and I thought today it would be interesting to

take a look at one of my lessons that I did many years ago and this is an

excerpt from my lesson all about health and exercise and then after this we will

have mr. Steve hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are

you okay I hope so are you happy I hope so in today's lesson we will take a look

at two aspects of our lives one is something we take for granted while it

is there but miss it terribly when it has gone the other is an activity that

we are all encouraged to do but few of us seem to have the time to carry out in

this lesson we will take a look at

health and exercise when we talk about our health we are actually describing

two things first we refer to our physical health the way our body is

functioning how well it is working how all the different parts of your body are

functioning then we refer to our mental health how each one of us feels

emotionally if you feel tired after any sudden activity such as getting up from

the sofa and walking a short distance or feeling out of breath after climbing a

few stairs then there is a good chance that you are out of shape you are unfit

your health is poor there are many words connected to exercise such as aerobics

exercise that makes the heart beat fast through constant body movement we call

this cardiovascular exercise burn this word is used to express the energy being

used up during exercise recreation a general word for any exercise or leisure

activity keep fit the act of taking exercise or following a course of

exercise routine there are many simple exercises for keeping fit and healthy

the most popular ones include walking yes just go for a walk walk to the end

of your street then around the corner across the field up the hill and back

down again walk in a big circle around the streets and along the roads keep on

walking until you arrive back home oh you can

also jog jogging is quicker than walking but not as fast is running you can jog

to the end of your street then around the corner across the field up the hill

and back down again jog in a big circle around the streets

and along the roads keep on jogging until you arrive back

home oh you can go for a run

one two three oh yeah it's okay I'm just exercising my word power please yourself

believe it or not it is possible to exercise too much you can do too much

exercise there are many sporting activities that

can give you a vigorous workout and help keep you fit such as badminton football

squash tennis and volleyball another great activity is swimming which is good

for giving you a relaxing all-over body workout as you float in the water

without all that tiring muscle strain

ah that's better

mm-hmm I hope you enjoyed that an excerpt from one of my many English

lessons that you can find on YouTube

any Sunday it is a fun day it's time to improve your English listening I hope

you are okay my name is Duncan I teach English on YouTube and during this

strange period of time that we are all going through I will be with you as

often as many times as I can so here I am today with my normal live stream

don't forget I am with you on Sunday Wednesday and Friday so those are my

normal times for my live stream 2 p.m. UK time and I will be doing some extra

live streams as well because I have a lot of spare time and I have a feeling

that you might also have a lot of spare time as well talking of people with

nothing to do oh dear what can we say now here is the guy that yesterday he

went to visit his mother because today is Mother's Day however I feel that this

guy the man you are about to see has been very naughty and what I've done

I've been forced to put him into isolation his name well if you are a

regular viewer you will know exactly who it is we are talking about

mr. Steve

hello everyone hello everyone welcome to the UK welcome to my isolation zone mr.

Duncan because I went to see my mother yesterday mm she's 89 and was it

probably a bit naughty because we were told not to visit our elderly relatives

but um I think it could be the last chance I get to see her for some time

and I made a lot of extra precautions we both wore masks and kept a social

distance of 2 to 3 metres away and so fingers crossed everything is

alright I'm fit and healthy so is she so is my sister

but we are living in extraordinary times and mr. Duncan because I went to visit

my mother has put me in isolation well sort of sort of he's only a few feet

away but I am about probably 5 meters from you mr. Duncan would you say yes

you are quite a few feet maybe I think you're about 10 feet away back 10 feet

away so a nice safe distance so let's have a look at one of the photographs

because mr. Steve was very good yesterday well he was bad and also good

at the same time so even though he went to see his mother and I wasn't keen on

it because I I think maybe these sorts of events should be well not done

basically however here is a lovely photograph of mr. Steve's mother on the

screen right now oh look at that there we go there is mr.

Steve's mum she's wave um she's waving her hands she's saying hello and she's

wearing her mask so how was your mother yesterday Steve well it's going to be

very difficult for all of us to adjust to this new way of living for the next

few months but my mother lives alone and so it's going to be especially difficult

for her at her age and we're all very mindful of that and we thought me my

sister yesterday my sister doesn't live very far from my mother but we both

thought that if as long as we take some precautions then we will go and see her

but it could be potentially the last time we see her for a long period of

time if she's going to have to stay alone in our house mm-hmm so we've got

technology you have set my mother up she's got a tablet device mm-hmm and

which she sort of can use but she'll be able to keep in touch with us visually

by using that because it's okay to phone up and speak which we'll be able to do

of course because I'm now at home working from home so I won't be going

out to work so I'll be able to speak to my mother a lot more as we all will be

able to speak to our relatives who are isolated and people can phone us of

course but we've shown mum how to use her a tablet device so that she can

actually see is yes she'll be able to yeah we'll have visual and Audia yeah

well your mum yes your mum's got an iPad and this is what I was talking about

yesterday how amazing all of this technology is well without this we

really would be truly isolated and I don't think people would stay in but at

least for a period I mean we don't know yet it could be a month two months it

could be three months we don't know nobody knows what's going to happen hmm

we're all just very afraid because what we've seen happening in other

country's is very frightening and those countries aren't too far away so we're

all waiting to see what happens we don't know how this disease will progress and

what's going to happen but and we're all feeling very much in the dark everyone's

anxious and worrying understandably because we don't know what's going to

happen but we've got to keep safe however however Steve yes there are also

positive things because people can well first of all stay at home maybe with

their friends and relatives maybe you can get in touch with someone who you

haven't spoken to for a long time so a lot of people are complaining about

being bored or having nothing to do but I don't know about you Steve but I found

loads of things to do well yes I've got some books ready to read you know I like

music mr. Duncan so I'll be learning some new music I might even try and

learn how to play the piano again woohoo I was thinking I can't play it a

little but I'm very rusty so if you say you're rusty is something rusty at

playing the piano it means that you're not very good anymore

I never was that good but I can spend I think it's going to be important mr.

Duncan to have a routine now that we're stuck indoors a regular routine I think

I'll get up at the same time as I used to for work I'll shave our wash I'll do

all the things that I used to do mhm and then I'll schedule or schedule depending

on how you want to pronounce that word into my day a series of a series of

tasks I might do a bit of gardening I might do some reading every day I might

do a bit of playing to practice learning some music whatever it is that you want

to do read a book watch something on Netflix or Amazon as long as I think

you're you scheduling things into your day that's something that you are what

this time I'm going to do this so we're

going meals at the usual times because it's

going to be very easy over this period of time to become without routine and

purpose you become disillusioned and demotivated and we need to stay

emotionally in a positive place as much as we can during this time so that when

it's all over then particularly mentally that we're still active and still doing

things and that we can jump back into our jobs or whatever we do yes yeah I

mean you know this is yeah unprecedented times so this is what I

was talking about yesterday is getting some sort of exercise not only for your

physical health but also your mental health as well the other thing I noticed

it that weekend Steve which I thought was really good

where's Steve sometimes he has singing lessons or he has a friend who he goes

to and he gives him singing lessons and and I love the fact that the other night

Steve was having one of his regular singing lessons however he was doing it

through his iPad so he was at one end and his singing teacher was at the other

end skank sorry we were doing it via Skype

on skype yes so very strange though it was very strange but a few people have

commented about the importance of a routine and it this does keep you

relaxed and it keeps you distracted away from the constant bad news that you see

on the television yeah because you can watch it I've been doing I've had to

start resorting to some meditation more meditation because you know when I'm

starting to feel a bit anxious then I'm just going into a bit of meditation to

try and calm myself down because you know what I'm like mr. Duncan I like to

be doing things I like to be busy and I was talking to my sister yesterday this

morning and she's very active she goes to the gym she does this she does that

and she said it's this it's this my routine

is gone she said I'd you know I'm finding it difficult to adjust because

I'm used to doing this on a Saturday that on a Sunday this on a Monday

throughout the day having this routine and without that you feel lost and I

think the in order to get through this weave I'm going to have to very quickly

get into some kind of routine of doing something throughout the day

and it as you say mr. Duncan this is an opportunity to maybe get in touch with

relatives or friends that because you've been so busy with work you haven't had a

chance to contact you can learn a new hobby or do something new order up your

skills in some area don't mean to sound a bit preachy but in order to get

through this I think so that we don't turn feral if you say someone's turning

feral it means they're going bit wild like an animal in the wild that's

normally outdoors though yes but it is but can you actually go feral in your

own house well I think you can a dot you could probably adopt the behaviors of

somebody who is separated from civilization because because we're very

sociable beings human human beings we like to be social that's our nature so

if we're deprived of that then it's almost like being deprived of food and

the part of your part of your your psyches is deeply affected by not being

in a social situation or some people one person not too far from here in fact

some people aren't bothered about that at all they'll probably just breeze

through this as though it's nothing you mean like me

but of course well mr. Duncan you've got this wonderful opportunity to be able to

stay in touch with people through teaching English and luckily it's also

working YouTuber keeping you going which is great they're obviously working very

hard to keep everything going when their offices are probably empty well Steve

I'm not doing this for me I'm doing also so people have something to do so

it's great it's a great opportunity and this is one of the reasons why I do get

quite giggly I do get rather excited when I talk about technology I think

technology is the most amazing thing look I can stand here now in England and

I can talk to you all around the world it's incredible so here we are all

chatting together on the live chat which of course we haven't mentioned for a

while No would you like to have a look at the

live chat Steve I've got the live chat if I keep looking down it's because I'm

looking at the live chat mr. Duncan's giving me a mobile phone in here okay so

a lot of people agreeing with the fact that we need to get into a routine and I

think what I did last night is for I went to bed I wrote down a list of

things that I want to do see mr. Duncan has his live streams that's that's mr.

Duncan's routine he's going to be able to do that probably every day or at

least nearly every day but for me and for a lot of lot of you out there who

are used to go into work every day your routine is to get up seven o'clock

have breakfast go to work come home get the meal ready get the children ready

for bed etcetera that's our that's our routine whatever that may be so go to

the gym so if we're not working then we've got to adopt a different routine

otherwise we're going to get quite stressful I will I mean I mean it add

something very funny it's something you know that we've been running out of

toilet paper here in the UK probably in other countries as well well apparently

the latest thing that we are running out of in the UK now is paint yes ladies and

gentlemen people are seeing an opportunity through being at home for

the next three months to do a lot of painting and decorating and apparently

the the DIY shops that do-it-yourself shops

you buy paint brushes wall pay for all that sort of thing for your home

apparently they are packed with people all buying paint here in the UK because

everyone's thinking oh I can I can paint my bathroom or I can paint my living

room now I've been meaning to do that for years and here's the opportunity

so rather than isolating themselves people to go into DIY shops at the

moment that's a great I think it's a great idea but at the same time if

you're going to be in a place where there's lots of people you're going to

put yourself at risk yes but Steve I suppose you could say the

same thing about going shopping for food yes going shopping for food but as long

as we keep this distance you know I'm gonna take a big stick with me that's 2

to 3 meters in length and I'm going to have it I'm gonna have I think a great

big skirt made 2 meters wide remember those big dresses that women used to

wear in the in the 1800 in the Victorian ear as if you've seen programs about

Victorian women in the UK they're all these giant skirts and then away 15

Steve the cool bustles bustles and they but they went right out here and they

would design specifically to make sure that men couldn't come near to them so

if we can all have something like this on then we'll know that we're keeping a

safe distance yeah get out your bustles that's what they used to call it yes but

yes everyone's good to be frantically decorating in the UK yes so if you come

to visit only one of the UK there'd be no excuse for having a dirty unpainted

home anymore having said that I'm not sure that

breathing in paint fumes is necessarily very good for your lungs burn in

protecting you against this this virus I mean if you're if you're breathing in

paint and you've got all these fumes it might damage your lungs I'll be a bit

concerned about that probably is all right but I would be slightly concerned

breathing in paint fumes this time there are lots of other things you can do as

well you can read a book you can learn a new skill maybe something that you

haven't done for a long time maybe you can try something out that you you've

been interested in you can use the computer of course because the internet

is amazing we're going to have a look at another picture so let's just say

quickly about mr. mr. Duncan the other thing to get into that I want to get

into my routine is exercise because we do get a lot of exercise when we're at

work a lot of us are moving around walking around you might walk to the bus

you might walk around in the office a lot a lot of people's jobs particularly

the catering industry or hospitality as we call it here as well then you're

moving around a lot and getting a lot of exercise and if that suddenly stopped

them it's going to be important to stay fit so even if you are live in a city

which will be more difficult for you to get out of you live in the city because

we know that the police in some countries are stopping people from even

going out for a walk but you're we're going to have to adapt we're going to

have to do exercise in our rooms and or something because exercise is going to

be important because yeah sorry mr. Duncan that's something else to add into

to my routine yes well I think exercise probably should be part of everyone's

routine of some sort even if you are just walking around the house for a few

minutes so I would advise anyone out there not to sit still for too long you

can still walk around you can even watch my livestream whilst you are exercising

so a lot of people in a lot of people in their homes nowadays have exercise

machines or maybe they just find a way of keeping themselves active during the

day so I think exercise is a very big part and as I mentioned earlier you can

open the window you can get some fresh air into your into your house and into

your lungs maybe if you are lucky enough like here today we have lots of lovely

sunshine you can stand by the window and let some of those lovely

sunrays hit you on the face and well sunlight is very good for you and it's

also a very good sterilizer as well a lot of people believe that sunlight is

very good for your general health so not too much of course not too much sunlight

mr. Duncan because spring is here people who are commenting cuz you did a live

stream yesterday didn't you while I was visiting my mother you were in the

middle of a wood in though surrounded by trees yes which still don't have the

leaves on them yet because spring is just started here it's a beautiful day

outside as you can see behind me and we at least we've got that to look forward

to across Europe at least and in many parts

of the world certainly in the northern hemisphere spring is on the way so we'll

have the opportunity even if it's we can't go very far at least we can go

outside into the garden maybe talk to our neighbors across the fence as long

as we're not too close but at least it's going to be something I mean imagine if

we were going into winter I thinking the prospect of being stuck indoors for

three months in the depths of winter would breathe pretty horrible yes so I

think the biggest thing to deal with Steve is is not necessarily the

situation itself but also making sure that people are safe I would imagine

that keeping active keeping your mind active keeping your body active so if

you are in one place there are many things to do include can I include

watching my English lessons as well I know I am going to be here as often as I

can and here we are today with myself and

also mr. Steve is here even though he is very far away from me I am making sure

that mr. Steve is very much yeah in isolation Rafi Rafi are

a question do we say the police is stopping people or the police are

stopping people the police are the police are stopping people hmm you've

never used is would you in in in in that sentence

no police are stopping people unless it's an individual so you might say the

policeman so you might say the policeman is stopping people yes but when you say

the police of course that is an organization or group so it's always are

the police are stopping people the policeman is stopping people because

that is singular if we are talking about a group or organization quite often we

will say our our so the police are the police are stopping people in the street

I believe in Paris I believe well not just Paris but I believe in France as

well there are restrictions on movement generally so I think you have to have

special papers to move around in France I'm sure Luis Mendez will tell us if

that is true yes Anna it is toilet paper I have here mr.

Duncan put this down here for some reason I don't know why I think he's

just referring to the fact that still here in the UK people are panic buying

do you know that's something we I was watching the news the other night hmm

and they were showing the horrible scenes in Italy and there's a lot of

people from Italy watching today I've noticed yes having a very hard time in

Italy at the moment and one thing that they commented on was that people

weren't panic buying the shop still had plenty of food for people and I don't

know whether that's true but this is what was reported on the the UK news

that in Italy people were not panic buying whereas in the UK the shops are

and many of the supermarkets people have panic bought and I've stripped the

shelves are our food and in fact up we've heard reports of some people like

they've got a room which is just full of food they put one room aside in their

house and just packed it full of food which is very irresponsible as causing a

lot of problems here in the UK style and stockpiling but but it's something that

is something that we tend to do in this country whenever there's the slightest

hint that there's going to be a problem with food UK people seem to go out and

panic behind it's it's even when I was a child they used to do if they used to

say all there's a shortage of shortage of wheat people used to go out and panic

buy bread so we don't seem to stay very calm in this country but what's it like

in other countries I'd like to know are people panic buying in the countries

that you're in well I can Steve Steve I have a feeling that it might be unique

certainly to this country and this is one thing that we do a lot I think we we

do tend to panic a little bit too much here in the UK over things and maybe

this is just another thing that we are doing and we are over reacting so many

of the shops at the moment are telling people not to panic by not to rush

around buying all the food apparently the warehouses are full of things full

of all of the provisions and all of the things that you will need in your day to

day life however people are taking more than they should and that's the problem

the problem is the supermarket's cannot restock their things quickly enough so

it always appears as if there is a shortage however there isn't so I have

received some emails from well the shops that we deal with from time to time and

they've reassured us that there are there is stuff

however people keep rushing into the shops and buying all of the stuff I'm

just yes people are desperate people are desperate because they're their sort of

animal instincts are kicking in this fear is of course unprecedented nobody's

ever experienced this I don't think certainly in modern

civilization we've never had a situation where everything is shut down

practically even in I was speaking to my mother who lived through the Second

World War as a child and she said you know even during the war all the shops

stayed open you could always get food there was rationing you had to you had

to you had rationing slips you could only get so much food but nobody went

hungry but all the shops stayed open or the restaurant stayed open or the hotel

stayed open but yeah this is absolutely unprecedented and I think that's what

it's going to prove quite difficult it's all it's all right now at the first week

we're only into the first we can't win the you came here yes here it's only

just starting so this is all this is all new for us or new we've only been we've

only been in this sort of state where everyone's been off work and the with

any just recently the last couple of days of that it was it yesterday when we

closed restaurants well Friday Friday so it's all very new to us here a lot of

countries have already had this so it's going to take once again to be like

after three months I mean they were talking on the news yesterday if maybe

this being a year you know it's anyway Steve Steve we've got a that's a

positive yeah no well no it's that speculation no one can say that yes they

said on the news yes that's better that might happen that's what they're

speculating however we don't know it's all unknown we don't know we don't know

it's unknown territory that's where we are at the moment I like sweetness

sweetness says no TV no news for me I like your style sweetness

I must say yes that's a that's a very good idea say no TV no news for me I

will never watch the TV in the news those are all negative things for

Humanity well that's what I've been doing I've been avoiding the news

however I noticed this morning mr. Steve was watching the news well I think it's

worth keeping up-to-date with this particular topic because this is this is

this isn't just something that a lot of news that you see on the television is

just bad news and doesn't directly affect you particularly if it's

happening in faraway countries but I think what we're living through at the

moment is something that affects all of us and I think we probably do need to

stay up-to-date with what's happening but but limit our exposure so that we

don't get too down about it yes well if you if you are in your house and you

can't go out there isn't much that's going to happen is the early in the

hours what you need is what you need is the news in your house so here is the

latest news from from mr. Duncan's house there is a spider on the bathroom

ceiling and also we are getting news of a dripping tap in the kitchen well mr.

Duncan strange you should mention dripping taps okay because since we've

been in this state of isolation everything's going wrong in the house

the heating broke down last week and we had to call somebody in to to repair

that and then on Monday the cooker stopped working the stove stopped

working but don't stop working yes but we know what the problem is there I know

but it stopped working and mr. Doad we have to bash it with our fists to get it

to work yes and and then on Tuesday I went into the kitchen mr. Duncan there

was a big pool of water on the kitchen floor because had been a a leak of water

leaked from under from the sink area you know so well that was the

that was the dishwasher that was the dishwasher yes it is a very old

dishwasher but nevertheless you know we don't want to be we can't call people in

to repair them because we don't want people coming in from the outside we

don't know where they've been what they're carrying I've got to be safe so

I'm going to have to make these repairs myself mr. Duggar won't do it well as

mr. Duncan's not very good at DIY well I do he did fix the he did fix the cooker

Duncan fix the the cooker wasn't working and mr. snow can wind up to it and

bashed it work yes if you're gonna Steve just take a deep breath for a second

there are two people on this live stream can I just say that I am good at DIY I

spent years and years working as a painter decorator I know how to lay

bricks although it can be very painful oh yes you are good at painting and

decorating yes well you just said I was no good at DIY I forgot that that's a

lie we forgot that did you no okay fine Ralphie says great news from all this

nature is recovering from pollution animals are in places that they weren't

before because of the crowded people what didn't where was it that they saw

dolphins I don't know I think it was such as Italy was it in my kitchen sink

no oh I can't think of the name of Belize now that's good lots of canals in

Italy yeah come on mr. Duncan look well what do you I don't know what your place

in Italy with lots of canals you're telling me I know well I can't remember

do you mean Venice yes Venice that's it you forgot Venice only because I'm you

know it's the pressure of being live and somebody that was on the news that

they've seen dolphins dolphins in Venice which they've never seen before because

there are so many boats of course and everywhere

is very busy so nature will return then quickly you see the activities of man

stop and within a few days or weeks the animals come back to reclaim it

yes that's nature that's incredible so so what are the dot what are the what

are the Dolphins doing are they are they sort of going around in gondoliers

probably I don't know but that there was a report whether it's true or not yeah

everyone is living in Venice and has seen a dolphin please let us know what I

like about Steve is he never verifies anything well it's just something I've

seen on the news that's okay

bedroo says hello everyone from Spain yes of course yeah mm-hmm not too much

panic says that sassy we are storing food but for a week so as not to have to

go out every day what you see that sensible you'd probably want to fight

you want to limit the number the amount of time that you are putting yourself in

danger by getting close to other people so you don't want to go out every day

for food which I think that's a very sensible thing sassily or just go out by

a week shopping and then you are limiting your exposure yes shall we say

other thing is that not not to panic by not to panic not to do things in a hurry

not to get too carried away or crazy and many people are doing this so we are

going to have a look at another photograph with mr. Steve and his mother

yesterday so here it is now I'm about to put it on the screen I love this

photograph what I like about this photograph is that mr. Steve's mother it

has sort of pulled her mask down so her nose is poking out so here it is here is

another photograph for a mr. Steve visit to his mother

that's great so they are both wearing their masks mr. steve has his mask and

mr. Steve's mother is also wearing her mask as well you look very well Steve

looks surprised you look very shocked on that photograph I was trying to

concentrate on taking the photograph well interestingly enough people if

they're watching the news in the UK not many people are wearing masks mmm and

when I in fact my brother wanted to get some bird food yesterday some sunflower

hearts because she wanted to be able to watch the birds while she was at home on

her own so we went out and we went in the car went in my car and I thought it

would be best because when you're in a car you're quite close to somebody that

we both wore masks well people were staring at us because we were the only

people wearing masks and it's very people aren't adapting to this very well

here at the moment I don't think probably I don't know I don't think we

are so I went we went out in the car and we were being stared at people would

actually going oh pointing at us because we had masks on and I mean we're only

doing what's advised but other people aren't aren't paying any attention to

this tool at the moment here in the UK but I wanted to make sure that I would

say from our mother is safe so I thought it would be best that we both wore them

the mask that I'm wearing isn't a medical mask it is just a dust a dust

mask that you use for DIY so it's only designed to keep dust out but at least

if you've got something on it stop if you sneezed or something like that it

would stop some of the some of the virus getting out so we don't offer some

protection that's it so it's probably not very much

but it somethings better than nothing yes the droplets the droplets it would

contain some of the droplets I mean I didn't sneeze but even when you're

talking this is the problem mr. Duncan if you are sitting across from somebody

when you are talking and different languages they're there they're the

words and the way they pronounce words causes more droplets to be expressed

from your mouth when you do that if I go to like a tea if I do that then the tone

every time I do that small droplets of saliva are coming out of my mouth yes

and if that saliva is coming yes got the virus in it then it's traveling you

can't see it is traveling across to the person next to you hmm

and that's where a mask could help probably that's why they're advising

that we wear them I think so the picture there's a bit of a delay on my screen

here so I've just seen the picture of my mother we were probably too close

they're far too close then that's not social distancing don't don't take my

example but I said to my mother hold your breath hold your breath and then if

if we're not breathing we're not do enough putting out any droplets of water

so that's possibly would reasonably safe yes but the reason why you went there

yesterday is because today is Mother's Day so a big hello to all the mothers

who might be watching around the world at this very moment so a big hello to

all the mothers around the world mr. Steve's mother also my mother even

though sadly I can't see my mother at the moment because she's she's being

cared for and the place that is taking care of my mother has said that I can't

go there so I can't even go to see my mother on Mother's Day which is quite

sad really however I suppose the precautions are

there for a good reason they are heat they are there so we can all survive

in a few moments Steve I'm going to look at some words connected to survival oh

I've got yes I've got a book on survival maybe I should get it out yes

interesting we were talking about it's Mother's Day here today

well our Prime Minister Boris Johnson said this morning on the news that we

must not go and visit our mothers on Mother's Day today but we must keep them

safe you see that's what I was saying and

we're being told not to yes Steve I was saying the same thing to you I know and

that's the reason that's the reason why Steve is now in isolation he's not

coming near me you see that's why his locks away near near the window Sassie

says there was a beautiful swan in the canal so I'm guessing sassy that that

wasn't there before so yes the wildlife is coming back sorry

if I keep looking down I'm trying to control the live chat don't worry

mmm I was panicked about yes okay yes people are were all adapting to this new

situation aren't very very strange it is is well this is what I said earlier and

yesterday I said everything is so weird I've never lived through any of this

before anyway mr. Steve I'm going to give you a little break

thank you so I will cut mr. Steve off for a few moments because we're now

going to take a look at one of my full English lessons and then I will be back

and we will be looking at some words and phrases connected to survival

can you see what I'm wearing over there these are overalls we normally refer to

them as a pair or set an overall is an item of clothing that is worn so as to

protect a person's body and clothing from damage caused by such things as

paint or grease some overalls are designed to cover the entire body while

others only protect certain parts in general overalls are designed to cover

and protect you they are very easy to put on and take off some overalls have

lots of pockets on them so as to allow you to safely carry things around with

you the material used to make overalls can be thin and lightweight or very

thick and heavy the thicker overalls offer better

protection from things like grease and oil and can prevent skin damage caused

by a knock or fall you can wear lots of clothing under your overalls so as to

keep you warm all if it's a hot day you can be completely naked under them and

wear nothing at all these overalls are so comfortable I wish I could wear them

all the time

don't you just hate it when things go wrong when something you are trying to

do goes to pieces when a project you have been planning for a long time goes

awry to go awry refers to a situation or event that goes off course the thing you

expected to happen did not it went awry something that is not straight or

appears crooked can also be described as being awry the poet Robert Burns once

wrote that the best-laid schemes of mice and men often go awry

which means however much work and preparation you put into something there

is always the possibility that something will crop up or come along to jeopardize

your plans the problem in question can come from an outside source or through a

mistake of your own just one false move on your part can damage or destroy what

you are doing it would be fair to say that the more complex the thing you are

doing the higher the chances are that something will go wrong a problem or

difficulty can be described as adversity this word Dame's anything that is seen

as a setback or problem an obstacle that has to be overcome or a problem that

causes disruption and delay is an adversity an adverse occurrence is

adversity when there is a problem we can say that there is a catch glitch hiccup

hold up hitch hindrance hurdle setback snag there is something wrong something

has gone wrong it's all gone pear-shaped it's all gone to pot it's all gone a bit

rung

I say it's up then you say it's down I give a smile while you show a frown I go

off to the countryside while you go off to town why do you have to be so

contrary all the time why do you have to be so contrary I say it's easy then you

say it's hard I say hello there then you say Tatar I say front garden then you

say backyard why do you have to be so contrary all the time why do you have to

be so contrary I say it's black then you say it's white I say good morning then

you say good night I say it's too loose and you say too tight why do you have to

be so contrary all the time why do you have to be so contrary I say go to

Majorca but you prefer Corfu I want to cheer while you start to boo

I feel like eating salad but you want a hot fix - why do you have to be so

contrary all the time why do you have to be so contrary I not my head in

agreement while you shake yours and disgust I warmly greet new people while

you view them with distressed I want a world of freedom but you don't care if

it's unjust why do you have to be so contrary all the time why do you have to

be so contrary

TIPA TIPA TIPA doodoo here we are then yes it's Sunday it is a fun day it is

time to improve your English we have been with you for one hour and 25

minutes and I will be with you for another 35 minutes yes we are live right

now on YouTube

I hope you're having a good day today joining me also is mr. Steve we will be

rejoining Steve who is in isolation in a few moments however we are also going to

look at words connected with survival and I thought that this is an

interesting one yes an interesting word let's put it on the screen now shall we

there it is just above my head survival I think this

is a good buzzword for this particular period of time lots of people are

looking out for themselves they are trying to take care of themselves they

are trying to survive so when we talk about survival

we are generally talking about the way in which we take care of ourselves to

ensure that one will endure and survive to ensure that one will endure and

survive so I like this sentence ensure there it is the word ensure means to

make sure you make sure that something stays in a certain way so you make sure

that you will endure and survive so if you endure something it means you get

through it you can handle it you can bear the difficulty you can take the

strain you endure and of course survive so when we talk about the word survival

that is basically what we are saying the actions that will ensure your well-being

is survival so the things you do the things you do to protect yourself you

are trying to survive you are ensuring your survival the actions that will

ensure your well-being I that word well-being so when we talk

about a person's well-being what we are actually saying is how well they are how

fit they are and quite often we think of a person's well-being as their health be

it mental health or physical health mr. Steve is still with us don't worry

yesterday he was visiting his mother here she is again on the screen oh isn't

she lovely I love mr. Steve's mother she is one of the nicest people I've ever

met in my life and of course we also have mr. Steve there he is

hello Steve oh you back to me how we bet I did

I did literally say hello Steve I'm sitting like a news reader you know how

a position do you like it mr. Duncan you have very we call that professional

intensity professional intensity hmm I could read the news couldn't die mr.

Duncan I think so uh somebody's made a comment net Naomi has made a comment if

I can bring it back up which oh there we go

Naomi al Sewer said mr. Steve tell your mother that she have to put the mask

covering her nose well that's a good thing that you noticed there because

yesterday and my sister kept telling my mother you must put the mask over your

nose which of course is true but it was a bit difficult I think they're very

uncomfortable wearing masks for a long period of time so I think mother kept

slipping it down so that she could breathe properly because if they are

very uncomfortable it's very there's a lot of humidity

it just feels horrible wearing them well can I just say Steve I don't like

wearing masks I don't like it I don't like the feeling it's it feels like I'm

being suffocated exactly now you use the word survival mr. Duncan

and I found a book I purchased this book many many years ago it must be 20 years

old mr. Duncan because I saw it in in a secondhand shop and I thought that looks

interesting can I show it yeah it's called the SAS survival book can you see

that mr. Duncan yes now this is the SAS it's it that s it

what the SAS means that refers to a special special Air Services is a branch

of the of the Armed Forces that do all these specialist tasks and this

particular man was was obviously in this specialist armed force division and he

wrote this book on survival what's that know what's his name

John lofty Wiseman I think he must have been told you know what I think say

somebody is lofty yeah it means that they're tall so I think Steve there was

a chance that this guy used to be a soldier he was a soldier and he's

written a book on how to survive that interestingly enough I was looking

through this I've never really looked at this book but I bought it because it

tells you how to tie all sorts of knots how to kill animals and track them how

to skin and rabbit and all these sort of things if you were stuck out in the wild

and you needed to survive if you broke your leg how could you make a splint so

that you could get to civilization and get to a hospital which plants you can

eat it's all in this book and there is an interesting section on diseases and

it actually tells you I'm not going to read it out but it tells you what to do

if you're in a group of people and somebody gets sick due to an infection

it talks about that you must isolate them and you must wash everything and

hand should be thoroughly washed after treatment avoid splashing with mucus

from somebody so there's all this in in here telling you how to respond when

somebody's got a disease but at the beginning of the book there's a

warning it says the survival techniques described in this publication are for

use in dire circumstances where the safety of individuals is at risk and

it's actually talking about what to do in the event of an infection due to an

unknown disease yes so it's in this book in dire and that's what we are now in

dire circumstances would you like to explain the meaning of the word dire yes

well if something is dire I suppose we could say that it is it is very severe

so so may be a severe situation or may be something that has to be dealt with

in a very serious and Stern way so urgent urgent very urgent possibly

life-threatening yes in fact we have some words here that I'm going to show

because I did show some words a few moments ago so we had the actions that

will ensure your well-being also we said the survival of the fittest now this is

this is a very interesting phrase so when we talk about survival of the

fittest what we are actually talking about is the survival of well I suppose

I don't want to say the strongest but unfortunately quite often we think of

the strongest surviving during a bad period of time so the survival of the

fittest which is why it's important to stay healthy when there is sorry mr.

Dean can go on when it's important to stay healthy when there is a serious

event or something serious taking place well the term survival of the fittest I

think could well have been a term that was coined by famous evolutionist

evolutionary person that did Charles Darwin to describe what happens in the

wild that the fittest tend to survive in with wild animals because that's that's

the only way you survive if you're stronger fitter your immune

system is more powerful then you're going to be the animal or the organism

or the plant that survives and it's a harsh term but why did that term come up

mr. Duncan well I'm talking about survival I'm talking about words

connected to survival and how to survive so we often say survival of the fittest

Charles Darwin discovered that in the wild amongst animals you will find that

the fittest quite often are the ones that survive the longest I suppose when

you think about it it's it's kind of well it's almost common sense when you

think about it because the survival of the fittest

well the fittest tend to be the strongest I suppose he's another one I

like this one here's another one if I can get it on

the screen to thrive I like this word to thrive if you thrive well it means you

go on surviving you are thriving you go on to survive so I like this one it's

thrive I like this very work very much so to thrive is to go on surviving to do

very well yes so if you in a job situation you could say youth a person

thrives in a certain environment couldn't you so if you are a person that

is for example if you were a presenter and you were good at it you could or any

any job that you are good at that you like doing in you're confident in

somebody might say that you are thriving in that job or thriving in that

environment you're just doing very well and being very successful because it's

something that you're very capable of doing hmm and also a good word that

connects to survival we also have yes here's another one a plant will

thrive you can say that a plant thrives if it gets plenty of light and and and

the soil is good quality for it to grow mm-hmm a tree is thorough that tree is

thriving in that corner of the garden it's getting lots of Sun lots of water

and of course that also refers to people so where we say strive I've put it on

the screen now we have the strength of survival so to thrive is the strength so

you find a way to survive quite often whatever it takes so you

might thrive by doing whatever it takes to survive as as quite often happens in

the wild so when we look at animals I'm sure we've all watched documentaries

David Attenborough normally here in the wild of much wedlock you can see mr.

Duncan and mr. Steve are looking for food

they are looking everywhere mr. Duncan likes to eat chocolate mr. Steve is very

keen on eating grain oh and health food mr. Duncan chocolate hmm yesterday I

noticed I was watching a live stream yesterday while I was watching it this

morning and somebody said that they were obviously isolating at home I don't know

which country they were from but they had run out of chocolate what a disaster

that is I can't think of anything worse I don't mind running out of bread water

milk coffee meat anything but to run out of chocolate well that's just a disaster

it's like a crime that just I've been out how will you survive this no three

months of isolation without chocolate it's unthinkable of course of course

Steve there might be a positive side to this because I might lose a little bit

of weight you see so who knows this might be the

the thing that I need to help me cut down on the amount of chocolate I eat so

yeah what made me made me amused made me laugh the other day when I went out to

get some shopping mm-hmm we had nearly run out of milk had we not mr. Duncan

yeah so I went to the local shop because there were reports of a panic buying

that there was not any milk left so so you panicked as well so I thought well

we were down to our last bottle of milk okay so I thought all right I'll go out

and get some so I went out to the shop and there was no milk at all apart from

one whole shelf full of full fat milk hmm there was no skim milk

there was no semi skim milk everyone had bought the skim milk and the semi skim

milk and left the whole fat milk which made me laugh because we're facing a

deadly virus and people are worried about a little bit of whole milk I

thought that was hilarious they're worried about their arteries fairing up

who wasn't have whole milk that's bad for me nurse I can only have

semi-skimmed Steve I have another logical Arius yes there's a deadly virus

around and people are worried about whole milk yeah there were shelves of

old milk yes I could I could have had like ten gallons of whole milk if I

wanted to you you paint a very vivid picture there I just thought it was

hilarious yes but there is a sensible reason because the that milk will go

sour so that the long light milk the long life milk Steve will last longer

no but that just generally milk Jen there was no there was no long life

semi-skimmed no there was no long life pasteurized yes sorry there was no there

was no type of milk apart from full fat milk yes okay isn't

that ridiculous I don't know yes I think it is I'm not sure if it is ridicu

because people are even there's a deadly virus around and people are choosing

what milk to get okay I'm there thinking oh I better not get the whole milk

because that's bad for me yeah there's too much fat in it oh I wouldn't worry

about the amount of fat in milk from the least of your worries

really that I'm just amused by how hilarious I just found it amusing okay

people were worrying about the amount of fat in there look at this time yes well

I suppose I suppose people have different ways of looking at health

people have their own views of what is healthy and what isn't

I suppose we are looking at the words connected to survival so we've looked at

quite a few we can also say strength or survival in a certain situation now this

is almost talking about what we are talking about today so survival in a

certain situation so maybe something comes along that you have to survive

maybe something comes along that is a situation that you weren't prepared for

something you didn't expect to happen so quite often we will say survival in a

certain situation or maybe I suppose also we could say survival rate so

survival rate and survival in a certain situation well when we say survival rate

what would you say that was what would you say that was Steve me hmmm survival

rate yes it just means how many people maybe a percentage you could express

that as a percentage of don't want to sound you know I don't want to talk

about human beings really well you say just generally what the words mean yes

survival rate it just means you normally express that maybe as a percentage or or

one in so many people yeah so you could say one in a hundred people

as for example Will Survive that would be a survival rate would be one in a

hundred or just a number or one in a thousand or one in a hundred you could

express that as one percent yes survival rate and if that can apply

to two jobs you can you can say that in they used to say the they used to quite

often use that phrase for people in difficult jobs if you worked in the

stock market for example they used to say there's only a survival rate of a

ten percent because it's such a difficult stressful job not many people

can survive that pressure you know a constant pressure or if you're learning

to become a doctor a difficult job like that only so many people will survive

the course hmm oh and if you were training in the Army for example you

might you might want to use that phrase there to express how many people make it

through that's it to the other side of it I think of the course so to get

through something is basically survival and here's another one I like this one

so here we go those who survive a difficult situation are the survivors so

I would say that that makes perfect sense it is a much clearer way of

expressing what that actually means so those who survive a difficult or

stressful situation are the survivors they are the people that come out the

other end so in that case we are saying those who made it through and I would

imagine that many people will be survivors

normally in life we might describe a person who is always able to find their

way out of a difficult situation we can say that they are a survivor

yes Mayday wait or maybe we can say that they are a born survivor so maybe a

person who is very good at taking care of themselves we can say that they are a

born survivor yes sir some people seem to have a lot

of bad luck in their lives we want we all know people like this they keep

losing their losing jobs being sacked from jobs or being made redundant or

they have tragedy in their life but they just keep going they don't give up they

keep going and you sometimes say about somebody or they're a survivor they're

one of life's survivors so no matter what adversity comes along what

difficulty comes along in their life they carry on they adapt and they they

they somehow find a way to carry on whereas other people might not they

might just give up they're a survivor John's a survivor he's been through a

lot of difficulty in his life but he's carried on and kept going and his own is

okay now so we don't necessarily mean from disease we mean from just everyday

life just keeping a job surviving paying your mortgage that sort of thing and

some people we all know people who seem to have lots of bad luck and they get a

lot of adversity in life but they just keep going and we say they're survivors

Rolfie interesting comment here six days in quarantine so far and already made

friends with a rat I think I'm going to keep it as my pet I think Ralphie you're

already losing it of all the things to make friends with well you know maybe an

animal that is well known for carrying diseases exactly a plague rats famously

I carried bubonic plague so maybe hopefully I think maybe that

isn't such a good idea I'd stay away from that well maybe if you're just

watching it from your window that fine and and it is nice isn't it mr.

Duncan to recognize animals that you the same animals every day you sometimes

notice certain birds that come into the garden or certain animals that that come

into the garden squirrels and you recognize them as the same one it's nice

to see them and that's something else that can keep your spirits up in this

time of when we're all isolating is to try and see nature hmm and have a look

out of the window and notice what's going on because we we were so busy in

our lives we just dash around everywhere and we don't notice what's actually

happening very close to us birds animals the weather the clouds I mean just

watching the clouds is very relaxing but yes so we might all notice things as the

pace of life slows down for us all yes well that again that's a positive thing

that's that's something you could take away from that and say this is actually

quite a positive thing because now I can take time I can actually sit and I can

actually appreciate certain things that exist around me so maybe things that I

didn't notice before because I was always in such a hurry yes I was always

trying to get from one place to another so now I can relax even though I'm at

home I can't go out very far I can still look out my window and maybe you will

see things that you've never noticed before because you've always been so

busy spend that's something that I want to do spend more time in here and now

more time here rather than in here thinking about things that have happened

in the past things that may or may not happen in the future and while you're

doing all that you're missing the present know present moment and maybe we

could all now slow down and just watch an ant crawling a

the kitchen table yes and see where it goes and what it does yes mindfulness

that's that's either buzzword at the moment mr. Duncan mindfulness there's

lots of books on that and videos can I go Steve can I just say that of

all the people I know you might be one of the least one of the least mindful

people quite often Steve seems to exist in another world I might say something

sometimes too Steve and then a few seconds later he will ask me a question

and I've literally just told him the the actual thing that's happening yes

because I'm always my mind is always elsewhere yes I know it's that is not a

good way to be I think it's it's okay to think about things but if you you can

end up getting into the habit of spending too much time thinking yes

about past events as I save future events that may or may not happen and

then you miss what's actually going on the only real moment is now anything

that's happened 10 minutes ago is gone hmm and something that may happen in the

future hasn't happened it may not happen anyway

and so that's what mindful that I mean I've been looking at this to try and to

try and change the way and I think to try and because it's stressful when

you're thinking in your head all the time it actually causes stress because

your mind works overtime so that's why I like coming on these live streams mr.

Duncan because I'd literally have to be you have to be present in the moment the

here and now to be able to do this yes I can't be sitting there wandering off

thinking about something that happened yesterday or something that I what might

happen tomorrow I might want to do tomorrow even though Steve earlier you

did drift away I must admit Steve did drift away slightly so he he seemed to

go in his own world when I when I activated the camera and I even said

hello Steve and he was still in his own world

I've got an excuse I was reading all about the

on the live chat which is very busy mr. Duncan yes a live chat I cannot keep up

with the number of messages it's wonderful yes and can I say something

Steve Jamelia has just said something which i think is very important and I've

completely forgotten all about it in a few weeks time well maybe I think it's

next month it will be Easter and of course we all know what happens at

Easter people will eat lots of chocolate eggs oh I thought you were going to talk

about religion then mr. Duncan no I wasn't well for a lot of people the

religious aspects of Easter are important but for us it's all about the

chocolates it's all about the chocolate forget about the religious part all I

want to do is stuff lots of Easter eggs into my big mouth there we go that real

stories here we're getting lots of real stories on the live chat somebody

earlier talked about their stress and anxiety at having think it was asthma

worried that what might happen if they catch this virus there's a real story

and another real story is somebody here and Maria is a web designer and it's

hard to survive when you're a freelancer because the work is starting to dry up

that's the other very upsetting aspects of of this is is the effects on the

economy and the number of people who are being laid off work currently because of

all these shops that have closed the hospital the hospitals the hospitals are

open just just make sure yes can I just reassure you the hospitals in the UK are

still open well I mean I wonder I mean a lot of people they they they don't know

how many to lose their jobs and of course there's

all sorts of the governments are trying to put packages in place to try and

support people financially through this but they're also now in the UK wanting

volunteers volunteers somebody who does something that's unpaid in order to

benefit the community at large in these troubles and times and that they want

people to volunteer they're asking retired doctors and

nurses to come back to work they're asking for people who will man phone

lines because to help with the the emergency services the number of people

that are calling in hmm they want people to help with delivering food to

particularly elderly people that are stuck at home and can't get out the they

reckon there's about 1.5 million very vulnerable people who have got specific

diseases who really have to stay in and they cannot go out they must not go out

so we're going to have to support each other and to help everybody get through

this maybe go out and buy some food knock on the door and then leave it on

the doorstep that sort of thing so they're after volunteers now to to help

everybody get through this I always find that these situations they often bring

out the best in human beings and in people and of course I suppose from my

point of view as well I have to be careful because I I also suffer from

asthma however these days my asthma isn't so bad however yes I suppose I

should think of that as well from my own point of view but

fortunately at the moment my asthma is not present fortunately it has subsided

but yes if there are any people out there who would like to volunteer their

time to bring some Easter eggs to my house so I have lots of Easter eggs to

eat during the forthcoming Easter Festival at the festival of Easter

so I can sit in front of the television and I can watch Columbo and I can eat

all the Easter eggs that I can well you don't get diabetes mr. Duncan because

that's one of the the vulnerable conditions that would make you

vulnerable to this this this virus yes what you food Spain says adair

everything will pass and you are absolutely right it will it could be two

months three months four months six months a year but it will pass and life

will return to normal we'll get over it because that's something that the human

condition is very good at surviving and and forgetting about traumatic past

events quite often and it will we will get over it together there is light at

the end of the tunnel that's what we say that's right the sandwich live-chat I

just can't keep up with it mr. Duncan I can see have you already stocked up on

any chocolate Easter eggs mr. Steve no not yet but you know I might have a

surprise for mr. Duncan so don't say anything but yes we're not going to get

too many because it is unhealthy yeah but we will but we need some comfort

food I think at the moment yes and chocolate will be one of those mmm

well mr. Duncan mm-hmm before Angela was listening to you as she was driving oh

and she's now on her sofa so what would he be driven your car into your sofa in

into your living room maybe the sofa is in the car oh I'm having trouble with

this live chat mr. Duncan oh yeah I think I have a feeling that mr. Steeves

big fingers mr. mr. Steve has huge fingers mr. Steve has fingers like like

a bunch of bananas so when he's operate seeing anything that needs to be done

carefully unfortunately his big fingers just he has no control I do do a lot of

that I have got big fingers it's true you know what they say about people with

big fingers and big gloves Oh quick brained you're a very quick

brain person mister I would say mr. Duncan has got a very quick brain quick

it means you can think on his feet he can come up with with answers to things

very quickly and and and funny quips yes I'm very good at responding that's right

very quick brain I just can't keep up to date with it with the with the live chat

we've noticed amazing how many people are watching today mr. Duncan Oh

millions millions yes there we go says Irene a practising hello it's important

to live in the present not to worry too much about the future that's true yeah

absolutely right we don't know what's going to happen in the future and people

many many people have tried to make predictions about what might happen in

the future and they're very often wrong hmm and but when they are right they

tell everybody about it to try and make themselves seem important yes I think

this is one of the problems at the moment that people are listening to

things that are being said on the internet and quite often the things are

not accurate or maybe the the news is not even real so there it is a strange

time where we have to be very I suppose we have to be very aware of what we of

what we read what we see the things we hear from other people so sometimes they

can be accurate and sometimes they can be inaccurate

guess what Steve what's that it's four o'clock nearly does that mean it's

nearly time for a cup of tea yeah and well we would say tea cake normally

we're having a what are we having hot cross buns

somebody said earlier that they thought I was getting outside as they could be

right it's something I Lewis says no I think it's Irene says there isn't time

like the present that's not the way you would say that phrase you would say

there's no time like the present hmm or of course opposite of what you've

written so I had to correct you but this is an English so I hope you don't mind

me correcting you there so you say there's no time like the present yes

there is no time like the present and of course there is no present like time

there's no present like getting some chocolates ooh

using present in a different way of class yes so now can be the present or

also we can say a gift something that is given to you can also be a present as

well it's almost time for us to go unfortunately so Steve will be leaving

us soon and I will be going as well because we have hit four o'clock here in

the UK I hope you've enjoyed today's livestream I will be maybe I'm not sure

at the moment because I might take a rest tomorrow

because I have been doing live streams every day for the past few days so I

might have a rest tomorrow however I might appear on your computer screens

sometime during the day but maybe not for a long time okay

what's the weather going to be like tomorrow mr. Duncan have you seen the

forecast no I haven't yet Steve because I'm just wondering it's nice and sunny

out there today shall I go and cut the grass for the first time this year okay

is it started to grow or should I wait for ten till tomorrow

I think I'll wait until tomorrow because we've got to go for a walk you don't

have to stay three metres apart at all times but we

will go for a walk at so after we've finished the live stream so we all have

a cup of tea we will have a tea cake and also we are going to have a walk as well

maybe we will have the walk first what do you think Steve

yes I think so and then we will reward ourselves for our efforts by having a

nice sticky burn when we come back a nice tea cake or mr. Steve we might have

oh I think hot cross buns we've got both to be honest but I think today we will

have a hot cross bun because Easter is coming thank you Steve thank you very

much for your company today Steve thank you mr. Duncan and thank you also the

expression everybody's using now is stay safe or keep safe I've noticed that in a

lot of texts my friends so I'm going to say that to you all out there keep safe

stay safe and see you sometime soon you'll see mr. Duncan before you see me

yes I think so thank you Steve Oh bye that is mr. Steve

he has gone oh thanks a lot Steve I did enjoy that something slightly different

today because I've put mr. Steve in isolation I have isolated him away from

everything else because he went to see his mother yesterday and so I just want

to make sure that he hasn't brought anything back you know just to be on the

safe side it's almost time to go thank you very much for your company we are

completely out of time I am going we will have a little walk I'm going to get

a little bit of sunshine on my face because at the moment outside the

weather is absolutely glorious look at that so there is the view outside right

now that is what England looks like at this

very moment the Sun is out there is a gentle breeze it is chilly but Pleasant

I think that is the best way of describing the weather right now and I

hope you will stay safe stay happy don't forget keep calm and wash your hands and

the most important thing of all to remember is you are not a

I will try to be here as often as I can and of course we can all join in

together on the live chat and share our experiences of this very unusual period

of time so I hope you've enjoyed today's livestream Thank You beet trees thank

you miss Sadie's thank you also Luis Valentin Hiroko thank you very much for

your lovely company today sweetness also Anna and Metro Manila Maria see you

later maybe tomorrow although I might be

having a little rest I need to rest my voice because I think I am starting to

wear it out and of course I will be back I think I will come back on Tuesday

definitely and then of course I will be with you on Wednesday as usual don't

forget I do everything for free here so I will hold out my hand and I will say

if you want to make a donation you are more than welcome to do so so you can

make a donation to help me through this very strange time because I will be with

you as often as I can and don't forget everything I do is free

I charge nothing for 14 years I've been doing this on YouTube and it doesn't

cost you anything however if you want to make a small donation or even a large

donation you are more than welcome to do so

this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying thanks for your company

today I hope you've enjoyed it thank you very much for all of your lovely

messages and your continued support as well I really do appreciate it

this is mr. Duncan once more saying thanks for watching see you later take

care stay healthy stay happy and of course before I go you know what's

coming next yes you do

ta ta for now 8-)