Duncan's LIVE English - JAN 27th 2017 - Learn English - Live English lesson - LUNAR NEW YEAR 2017

Hello? hello ah there you are now I've just realised what has happened i think i've been

talking to you for the past 20 minutes with absolutely no sound whatsoever well that wasn't

very clever was it i have just been talking to you for the past 23 minutes with absolutely

no sound whatsoever now the other night I was on live doing a special early morning

live stream and during that live stream i had some technical issues with the sound it

would appear that the sound issue has been here today as well but fortunately we have

managed to fix it did you see me then panicking did you see the look on my face then when

I realized that there was no sound that's not very good is it so i do apologise for

that there was a technical issues there and this is something i was just talking about

during the period of time when you couldn't hear me that well that was very embarrassing

but I hope you can hear me now I'm very sorry about that i just saw some messages come up

on my screen saying mr. Duncan mr. Duncan we can't hear you thank you very much for

letting me know that there is a slight technical problem at the moment with my computer and

also the the streaming device that I have to use sometimes the sound disappears so it

would appear that the sound is now here I'm very sorry about that I can't apologise more

if I tried Oh dear me I was doing so well because I've had a very fraught morning i'm

going to show you this again now with sound I've had a very fraught morning because I've

been doing so many things today the word fraught means burdened and troubled or weighed

down so there are lots of things going on at the moment lots of technical issues lots

of things that I'm trying to do is a moment to get everything working properly and today

is being a very very hectic day because the other night I had some technical issues with

my streaming and it would appear that I've had technical issues today as well things

haven't been going very well because i had no sound nearly 20 minutes so please come

back I've fix the sound now I think you can hear me I hope so anyway if you can hear me

please wave out of your window and shout mr. Duncan we can hear you now ok I think you

can hear me now i can select so here we go it is the 26 of January or should I say this

27 the January it feels that the 26 and yesterday was Australia day did you did you know that

yesterday in Australia there was celebrating Australia day lots of celebrations taking

place over the next few days and of course tomorrow as I was explaining earlier when

I had no sound it is the lunar new year a lot of people around the world will be celebrating

the lunar new year including me maybe well today of course as you can see i'm very very

festive because i have my my little sign at the back there can you see lunar new year

and also here i have my my little rooster can you see the rooster there my little rooster

just to say hello hello hello I'm mr. rooster but why why do I have a ruse to with me today

well the reason is because in the Chinese zodiac 2017 is the year of the Rue step so

there is little ruse to that that's what I'm doing today so if you are

celebrating the Chinese New Year or the lunar new year i hope you have a super-duper time

in fact let's have a quick look we have some other things here the lunar new year and the

Chinese new year they begin tomorrow Saturday January the 28th is the Chinese new year so

for all those celebrating tomorrow can I say happy new year Kung hey fat choy to those

who are celebrating and of course i have made an English lesson all about lunar new year

and the Chinese new year not only me but also mr. Lomax appears in the video a little bit

later on I will give you the link to the video if you want to watch the video later you can

also find the link underneath this actual live stream the link to my Chinese New Year

Lunar New Year video is right underneath this stream so if you want to catch it later you

can also coming up today we have the live chat of schools because now I have fixed my

slight problem i had a problem earlier with my equipment there was no sound you couldn't

hear my voice that's no good is it anyway I fixed it now it should be okay i hope i

hope you can hear me you will have a chance at the moment when we open a live chat so

questions i'm going to ask today is do you have something in your life that has been

stressful how do you deal with stress in your life what is the most stressful thing you've

ever had to deal with every in your life what is the most stressful thing you've ever had

to deal give now today I've had a lot of stress because I've had some problems with my computer

and my live stream so today i have been a little bit stressed to say the least so today

has been a very stressful day but what has the most special thing beam that you've had

to deal with in your life also left or on the last stream i gave you some words some

words loaded flesh sub squander flash these words all have something in common what is

it what do these words having common loaded flush sub squander flash they all have something

in common one thing what is it also coming it later we have the word puzzle we have our

first word puzzle coming up if i have time i will give you two word presumes how does

that sound does it sound okay i hope so so let's open the live chat because i'm sure

there are lots of people there i hope so anyway because the first 20 minutes of today's live

stream had no sound and very sorry about that very very sorry and it all seemed to be going

so well so the live chat is now enabled I'm sure that lots of people are going to say

what happened mr. Duncan we couldn't hear you we could see you but we couldn't hear

you it's a very long story let's just say at the moment I'm trying to sort a few things

out behind the scene so behind the thing there are lots of things going on at the moment

so here we go the live chat is now have been running I must apologise again for the problem

with the sound earlier mr. Duncan it's Victoria Victoria is here first

today on the live chat hello Victoria thank you for staying with me I do apologise again

for the slight technical problems we had no sound I am trying to sort out all of these

tiny issues they are small issues but when these problems occur they cause lots of other

problems for example there is no sound so i hope you can hear me now Victoria says hello

mr. Duncan i have changed my nickname as i promised less time Thank You Victoria for

that men Jung Jung says hello hello minjiang where are you watching at the moment we're

about will you be celebrating the Lunar New Year this weekend maybe Andrew is here Andrew

monochikov says hello mr. Duncan I felt a bit like Danny DeVito in the movie twins when

he was in prison an Arnold came to visit him and talked through the glass window I think

you're referring to the fact that you couldn't hear me I think so i'm very sorry about that

it was a technical problem at least one thing this does this does prove that I am Alive

because anything can happen haha says hello mrs. anchor and hi to you gee thank you very

much miss hi mr. Duncan after such a long time again Abraham or Abraham I didn't hello

everyone mr. and non is here watching in India and reward a also has joined me thank you

for joining me once again apologies for the problem earlier lots of people watching me

thinking yeah yeah I can see mr. Duncan but why can't I here iam I can't hear what he's

saying everything's ok now c'mere 24th share c'mere 24 share says I always feel stressed

when i'm broke broke that's an interesting word the word broke

it is the words the word broke we are okee to be broke means to have no money so we can

say that it is an idiom for having no money so if you are broke that means you have no

money for the year me that very night yes being broke or having no money can be very

stressful indeed very stressful and still not sure if this is working properly and still

not sure I hope you can hear me can you actually hear your right you can actually hear me now

I hope so i think hello some friends says Sandra harsh thank you very much Sandra for

that greetings from Egypt says I'm rewarding thank you amber body a regular viewer it's

always nice to see regular viewers here regular viewers always very welcome our mando amanda

says hello mr. Duncan good morning from Mexico related Mexico you will not find any walls

here today I can promise you that no walls here hello from Italy oh hello originally

from tomorrow Kaponi thank you very much and welcome meal Linden says hello everyone and

hello to mr. Duncan me Linden now if i remember correctly you were with me the other evening

remember when i was on very late at night I think you were watching in China I think

huh yeah am i right you are now it is working well thank you mr. Duncan thank you too for

letting me know that is working alright so let's have a look at some words shall we whilst

we are here talking about the English language now over the last few weeks I've noticed that

some of the comments that have been sent to me have some small mistakes now this is something

that I want to put right today and clarify so i hope that i can do this today so i hope

i can clarify this particular thing by going over to the other side of the studio division

news so I hope you can still hear me we have a slight confusion between two things here

so let's have a look shall we the confusion between so much and too much so much and too

much so much and too much

there it is again so much and too much now believe it or not there are some differences

between these words for these sentences when you say so much we are expressing very much

as in a lot or expressing something as a certain quantity thank you so much for helping me

with my English there is only so much of the stress i can take so as you can see so much

means a lot or it can be used to express something as a certain quantity or amount there is only

so much of this stress i can take and thank you so much for helping me with my English

so in that sentence it means very much or thank you very much thank you so much when

we use too much we are stating that there is more than we want or require there is too

much sugar in my tea there is too much noise in here I can't stand it so remember so much

is a certain amount or quantity and too much is more than you want need or require so I

hope that's helpful I hope that has helped you so much into much so much and too much

there is a difference there is a difference i hope you can hear me and see me all right

I really really hope so if not i am in a lot of trouble that's all I can say we can hear

you now says simona body teacher thank you very much simona for telling me and thank

you very much for your comment as well your recent comment about my English lessons Abby

desola matt l me said hi mr. Duncan greetings from high the hyderabad in India thank you

very much i do have lots of view is now watching in India it's always great to to see where

people are watching on my YouTube channel of course there are people watching all around

the world including Turkey Mexico Ukraine chili Poland sedan Portugal Israel of course

Germany Roumania so many people around the world Salvador Finland Denmark Armenia many

many people watching every single week and I'm very glad to see you here today very glad

indeed hello mr. Duncan from k is dead i assume i think that might be Kazakhstan i'm not sure

and that comes from old valves I'll elder bergen off i hope i can announce your name

right there old as el al Garber girls that's a very hard one to say Denise says I like

you very very very much three various there wow thank you very much for that young life

portion says hello everyone and hello to mr. Duncan thank you very much we are now lives

and we have sound I hope we have sound anyway can you hear that i hope so Ming Jing Jang

says thank you yes so much and too much a lot of people get those two things confused

kamal camo she says hello mr. Duncan this is samer that's much easier to say it is my

first time to join you and any live stream in YouTube it is funny I thought it was my

problem oh you mean the sound I do apologise for that yes I've had some technical problems

i am at the moment trying to sort all of these things out so I do need to make some changes

to my studio setup but of course to do that costs quite a lot of money so I'm trying my

best to get everything working properly and to get things up and running smoothly but

now and again we do have the occasional technical hitch technical hitch a technical hitch means

something that you use normally a piece of technology stops working or it doesn't work

properly Andrew says no mr. Duncan you're not in trouble all of this was like part of

a show OIC do you mean my my lack of sound earlier okay thank you very much you are all

very forgiving thank you very much for that it is the Lunar New Year this we can how will

you be celebrating the lunar new year will be doing something special in China of course

in China they have lots of celebrations in Vietnam they have a thing called tet which

is the lunar new year as well men jang jang says I am in South Korea hello there hello

will you be celebrating the lunar new year as well maybe Louis Arturo so tell me mr.

Duncan how's it going I want somebody to add me to a group on whatsapp I think there are

quite a few groups now English learning groups on whatsapp I think so Fernando I couldn't

hear you and I thought it was my problem i thought it was a problem with my computer

I'm sorry about that it wasn't your computer it was my computer so i hope you can hear

me now I hope you can hear me ok mr. Duncan it's not all that its spell it felt like old

Jack oh IC old Jess ok thank you for correcting me Martha in Poland I am stressed when there

is an exam at my school oh yeah I used to hate exams all the time at school I hated

all of them i used to panic just before every single exam that i took i used to panic like

anything so yes taking exams can be very stressful indeed Olga says hello mr. Duncan I hope it

wasn't too stressful for you when you recognise that you had a technical issue was it was

it correct using too much you don't have to say too much stressful you can just say it

wasn't too stressful I hope that it wasn't too stressful too stressful so you don't have

to say too much stressful too stressful Muhammad s just says you are a good teacher thank you

very much for that as saying al alla i am from Tunisia hello 22 news thank you for joining

me hello mr. Duncan i am in a place called alto rio so where is that sounds like a very

interesting place I wonder where that is Maxine billet says hello mr. Duncan from friends

polish all the friends my computer isn't working very well right now so i am watching you on

my smartphone well I've had problems today with my computer as well I've had some technical

hitches a technical hitch so earlier I was doing my live stream with no sound so i hope

you can hear me now I hope you can hear me okay you two are said i am very stressed when

I have problems with my technique your technique I feel helpless when you say technique what

type of technique do you mean your English technique perhaps old jazz says I was totally

sitting here with you before and I showed you my last live on YouTube about 2am yes

that's true two days ago I was live on YouTube very early in the morning in fact I can prove

it by showing you so this is this is me the other day live live in the early hours of

the morning there i am so there I am two days ago streaming live on YouTube but as you can

see the clock says two o'clock but it wasn't two o'clock in the afternoon it was in fact

two o'clock in the morning in the morning can you can we believe it in the morning so

in the morning streaming live and if you want to see that live stream you can catch it is

available it's available on my YouTube channel tien tran says hello mr. Duncan ion from Vietnam

now we are welcoming the new lunar year in Vietnam happy new lunar year in Vietnam of

course they call it yet or you call it kept pet Andrew says in Russia it is the third

new year because we also have two of them so maybe you know that we celebrate the new

year on the first of January but also we have the old new year on the thirteenth of January

yes if I know that I in fact i think i mentioned that i mentioned that Martha says luckily

I'm a good student all I see because you don't like taking exam OIC I'm a good student i

only get a and B Mark's 0 in fact you are a very good student a very good one indeed

oh I see you are means or mint technical equipment so yes when you have a technical problem so

when something goes wrong with a device such as a computer we can say that you have a technical

problem a technical problem technical technical problem i have had some technical problems

today right here terrible kg oh hello cg nice to see you mr. Duncan i am here again welcome

say gee it's so nice to see you welcome back i was showing you some words earlier i'm going

to do it again can you tell me what these words have in common these words all relate

to want particular thing but do you know what they relate to loaded flush sub squander flash

those words have something in common what is it while we are talking about words let's

have a word puzzle as well so here is today's word puzzle just to get you all scratching

your heads here we go today's word puzzle there it is and just to give you a clue it

is two words two words and now it's gone during my early English lesson the other night because

as I just mentioned I did stay up till very late the other night I was up from 2am till

4am and during that program i asked you to tell me what particular food what type of

food has recently been given a health warning one particular type of food this week here

in the UK was given a health warning but what was it what was it Karloff a says mr. Duncan

i'm planning to go to Island any specific advice about the English accent in island

well you might have to listen very closely or carefully to what people are saying because

sometimes the Irish accent can-can well some people with an Irish accent speak quickly

so you might find it difficult at first to understand so you might have to choose your

ears in to the Irish accent but generally speaking you shouldn't have too much problem

happen you shouldn't have many difficulties to be honest I think you'll be okay Abdullah

Omar is here hello Abdullah Omar good evening mr. Duncan please don't be stressed please

can you stay as cool as a cucumber I love that if you are as cool as a cucumber it means

you are very relaxed and not stressed I am as cool as a cucumber up Neil ended before

i could not hear the sound I thought it was my problem no it's not your problem it was

my problem i do apologise for that i refreshed my browser so many times and I checked it

on Safari oh my goodness i'm very sorry about that Neil it was my problem it was a problem

that was occurring here that i was unaware of but fortunately some of my my lovely YouTube

video viewers some of my viewers out there they said Mr Dan can we can't hear you mr.

Denton we can't hear anything you're saying so I hope you can hear me now hello mr. Duncan

glad to hear you were you talking to yourself earlier apparently yes apparently you earlier

i was talking to myself yes earlier only I could hear me legrande blue thank you for

that thank you very much mika code says at the moment many Chinese people are visiting

Japan well Japan is always a very popular destination can I let you in on a secret I've

always wanted to visit Japan is a country that I've had a lot of fascination for and

I'm i'm intrigued by so yes and of course i have been to china in the past I have to

be into China but i I've always wanted to go to Japan I've never being that abdus salam

says flush is completely level or even with another surface that is true the word flesh

does mean level with another surface something is flushed but flush can be used in other

ways as well in other ways so there is a connection between these words can you see them loaded

flush sub squander and flash they all have one thing in common a connection what is it

i will tell you later on and for those who missed it the word puzzle is here as we come

up to three o'clock the word puzzle is here there it is but what is it so here we are

at three o'clock i'm very sorry once again can I apologise for those who were trying

to watch earlier but I did have no sound but i didn't realise i had a slight technical

problem now let's go over to the other side of the studio i hope you can hear me over

there I really do or else i think i will jump out the nearest window instance of them so

here we go it is a flash let's have a flash phrase have a flash word a flash word here

we go are you ready for today's Flash word are you can you hear me I hope so here it

is Oh today's Flash word is impartial impartial the word impartial is an English adjectives

the word impartial is an English adjectives that means to treat everyone including rivals

all those opposing equally news editor was aware that the output must remain impartial

to be impartial is to give the same amount of time and respect to all involve especially

during discussions concerning a product or political point of view during the election

in partiality must be observed the word in partiality is the now in the form of impartial

to be impartial is to show no favouritism towards anyone an impartial person will not

express their own opinion or preference but will instead respect all the subjects being

discussed equally so there it is quite a quite a small word with a big meaning the word is

impartial i hope you enjoyed that a little bit later on we will have a flash phrase i

hope you can stay around and stick with me you know what I was seriously thinking of

stopping this live stream i was actually going to cancel the whole thing when i realised

that i had a technical problem very embarrassing indeed very embarrassing

what is the most stressful thing that you've ever done

camo gianna or shesh she ash camo she says Sam here again regarding your question I'm

going through one of the most stressful times of my life at the moment i'm submitting my

thesis I must submit it by next week the result of my this will be the result of my four years

of studying wow good look with that so I'm sure at the moment Sam you are working very

hard very hard indeed mr. Duncan no I wasn't talking to myself earlier why are our mess

hello mr. Duncan i am watching you from the Canary Island it is my second time and I like

it very much thank you for sticking with me because I did have some problems earlier with

the sound i hope you can hear me now i really do ab ab yes says i am now in bout Oh China

people of setting off fireworks well it must be the Chinese new year if you are watching

in China it must be coming up to the Chinese new year so happy new year gong xi gong xi

gong xi ni gong xi gong xi gong xi ni young life more shin asks what do you do mr. Duncan

but what do i do you mean here here I help you with my with your English with your pronunciation

I help you with your word power and of course I present lots of English lessons that are

recorded on YouTube and sometimes i like to appear live on YouTube as well so I hope that

helps went to your question when Carlos Alvarez says hi mr. Duncan and you are watching in

Mexico hello to you can I just say once again there are no wolves here i will not be building

any walls in front of my camera everyone is welcome everywhere around the world from wherever

you are watching you are very very welcome very welcome indeed the word impartial yes

an interesting word to be impartial is to show no favouritism Saturnino Ferrandolla

says chair mr. Duncan chances and I couldn't see you I couldn't see your nite owl version

I all but you can see it on my YouTube channel it is there so you can watch it even if you

missed it you can watch my my special early bird less than from two days ago when i got

up it two o'clock in the morning to talk to you live mr. don't get how can you read the

paper and stand behind it it's magic that's all I can say it's magic Thank You are mad

for that raccoon nurses thank you for not shutting it down I really enjoy your live

streams yes i did i did almost press press the big button which makes everything go off

I almost did but I changed my mind so I hope that you don't mind that the the fact that

for the first 20 minutes there was no sound when i when i put when I put it on later on

to YouTube I will cut out the first 20 minutes so that will be removed all right so you won't

have to watch 20 minutes of nothing so don't worry i will i will edit that later I edit

it Louie offer erroneous hello mr. Duncan how's it going yes I think you've already

asked me that about what's that yes I think you've already asked me that I I don't normally

use whatsapp but i'm sure there are lots of groups on what at for those who want to improve

their English or to practice with other people Andrew Malo jeff says the word puzzle I have

a word I have a word restore restore three bout four three vowels and an R ok maybe but

it's something else it's something very topical so there is what is today's word puzzle visits

you think you know please let me know Matthew boom you are right with the unhealthy food

now this week in the UK an announcement was made concerning certain types of food now

it's normally food that has been cooked at high temperature and one particular food that

was mentioned was toast apparently if you heat bread in a toaster normally over a certain

temperature i think the temperature is about 280 degrees but if you if you heat start she

food starchy food so that's food that contains a lot of starch if you heat it up too high

if you give it too much heat something will happen to it that's the reason why they've

said that and the thing in question can create more cause well they are saying it causes

cancer or it has a link to cancer so that was the announcement made this week in the

UK that certain foods certain food containing starch so that includes thread and also potatoes

as well because potatoes have a lot of starch in them as well so if you like to fry your

potatoes to let brown or dark brown or if you like to toast your bread until it's very

dark they are saying that you shouldn't they are saying that there is a possible health

risk so that's the food that was talking about this week here in the UK Olga says it was

very stressful when I took my driving test yes now i have never taken my driving test

I don't drive a car I've never driven a car in my life so I've never taken a driving test

but I can imagine it being very stressful very stressful indeed Louie are Ruto says

i am from Venezuela please don't give your cell phone number I'm sorry i have to remove

you there please don't give your personal details on the live chat please don't no no

please I do not want addresses or phone numbers on the live chat please don't do that thank

you very much please say hello to Brazil mr. then can we love you hear that comes from

Robbie Henrique rod Henrique welcome and hello to everyone watching in Brazil and mr. d'Ancona

from south or southern Italy I have a lot of people watching in Italy now so a big special

hello to anyone watching in Italy and also to Giovanni who has joined me today everybody

says one of my stressful things is when i start learning a new language that's true

learning a new language can be very stressful at the beginning but the more you learn the

more you study the more confident you gain then the more fun it becomes Neil Linden who

is watching in china says oh I have the word puzzle mr. Duncan i have it well done well

done Matthew Boone yes Matthew you are right burnt toast and burnt shit they are apparently

unhealthy if you eat too many of them if you eat too many on a regular basis you might

get health problems mr. Duncan the word is yes Muhammad hashem you have also got half

of the word puzzle right half of it so there it is again quickly the word puzzle you have

got half of it right Carlo korte says hello mr. Duncan greetings from Rome hello to Rome

you know what they say when in row rad h er said we love you mr. d'Ancona from Egypt yes

i have lots of people watching in Egypt please no don't put your telephone numbers on the

live chat pls pls tempt mr. Duncan i'm from Saudi Arabia and i'm so glad to be here for

the first time I am joining your chat says so we're Althea welcome you are very welcome

everyone is welcome wherever you are in the world you will not find a wall here no rules

here so past that hello sir i am from india lots of people in India watching today as

well thank you very much for that hi mr. Duncan i am from Argentina while Argentina watching

as well aarielle cast ela thank you very much for joining me today i had some problems today

during the first 20 minutes of my live stream there was no sound nobody could hear be very

sorry about that Serbia is here Matilda thank you very much for joining me today Matilda

there is a song all that Matilda called waltzing Matilda it's an Australian song I'll sing

but ill similar to today didn't do need to do to do to do to do via go well sing but

although we're being sorry about that capture inkay is watching in Moscow hello everyone

watching in Moscow and everyone watching in Russia a big profit to you may khong bay says

hello mr. Duncan i am from Vietnam in this time we are celebrating our holiday it is

tet tet which is of course the lunar new year in Vietnam and across China as well the Chinese

new year is being celebrated with the rooster can you see the rooster let's bring the rooster

over here shall wait here it is as my big big rooster boo oh that was a terrible impression

of a rooster but there we go there it is because it's rooster year it is year of the rooster

in China back to the live chat hello mr. than current from Tenerife Joan a cruise for when

tears is watching in Tenerife a very beautiful part of the world very lovely part of the

world yet thank you for your lessons you have helped me a lot I'm glad that my lessons have

been helpful to camo shy shina yes the word puzzle the word puzzle i will get the answer

now would you like the answer to the word puzzle quite a few of you got it right well

done and congratulations of course very topical for those especially those living in China

it is rooster year rooster year so rooster year was today's first word puzzle i hope

you enjoyed that rooster year that's today's first word puzzle i will offer another word

puzzle in a short while ok so keep watching don't go away I know it's very tempting for

those watching in in the East because over in the East at the moment people are celebrating

the lunar new year so please if you'd like to stay with me please do so thank you very

much hello mr. Duncan I just want to know have you travelled to Vietnam before tran

minute to I have never been to Vietnam I've never been there ever ever in my life thank

you very much for those who have guessed the word puzzle it was a ruse the rooster year

in Maine says hello mr. Duncan I follow your lessons every Friday greetings from Paris

brand a big bone jewel to you i am so glad that you are able to listen or a good day

Neil Linden can i use overcook to describe the food that is cooked brown or dark yes

you can you can say overcome if you overcook something it means you have cooked it too

much perhaps we can also say that you have spoiled the food so the food is spoiled it

has being overcooked it has been cooked too much it's it is ruined Bonjour mr. Duncan

come to Paris and sears i have been to France in the past and can I can I let you in on

a little secret my distant relatives were French whoo-hoo laughs it's true once again

I'm going to ask you the connection between these words here we go loaded flush sub squander

flash there is something that connects these words and whilst we're on the subject of games

i know a lot of my viewers enjoy watching my nature videos so i thought today we would

have a little contest a little quiz and i'm going to call this guess the bird can you

guess the bird in this video clip do you know what the bird is here it comes can you see

the birds now these are a certain type of bird but what are they what are they and they

are can you see them certain type of bird they're not always found in the UK the only

come to the UK at certain times of the year so there is what is that bird can you tell

me what the bird is Martha Poland Martha in Poland maybe I I can't

believe you read my lesson can you hope for this lesson Martha 10 years old it's ok I

i will i will mention anyone named i love talking to people and I love doing these live

streams Denise said it is so beautiful oh you mean the bird yes the third in the video

clip what is the bird can you see them there they are very distinctive birds but we don't

always have them in the UK these are birds that we don't normally see certainly where

I live you rarely see these birds but here they are in my back garden recorded in 2013

so this is in fact a video clip that I that I made for years ago so what is the bird do

you know what type of bird it is to Tanya Hartman says mr. Duncan could you please pronounce

living and leaving can I please I can't catch the difference so let's have a look shall

we let's look at these two words so we have living and leaving so one is it living live

living living and the other is leaving leaving so living leaving living leaving I hope that

helps you happy new year mr. Duncan it is the lunar new year thank you very much temp

cam has said that Fernando has guest mr. Duncan are they sparrows they are not sparrows they

look a little bit like sparrows certainly on the wings the wings look very similar two

sparrows but they are not sparrows hello mr. Duncan i have just arrived from work and I

came running to my computer to to watch you at least the very end of your lesson a big

hello from Brazil thank you very much Diego Marella welcome another regular viewer thank

you for joining me i did have a slight technical problem today for the first 20 minutes i was

talking but no one could hear me it isn't a sparrow no definitely not a sparrow i can

safely say it isn't a sparrow Louie Arturo says mr. Duncan rooster year is the word puzzle

yes you got it right well done yes it was rooster year the year of the rooster in the

Chinese zodiac Martha Poland mr. Duncan I asked you earlier about making a lesson about

baking and baking stuff i really need advanced vocabulary for my English competition talking

about baking or maybe cooking cooking or baking or curry a good idea i must admit I'm not

a very good cook the bird name is a diary Gary or dearie diary

I'm not sure now I don't think it's that they do have another name to have one particular

name one particular name that there no by get the birds what are these birds they have

a particular name but what are they simona body she says maybe

they are goldfinches no they are not goldfinches unfortunately goldfinches have have read on

their face have read on their face goldfinches of course they have gold wings Roddy Henrique

asks are the birds chaffinches again a good answer but not a correct answer in Maine asks

is it are they Robbins they are not Robbins but I know what you mean because there is

read on this particular bird and of course Robin have read on their breasts Martha Poland

thank you i can't wait to this lesson I'm not sure if i'm going to do a bakery of cookery

lessons because I'm not very good at cooking but i have made a lesson all about food and

issues on my YouTube channel so i have made a lesson all about food and in that less than

I do talk about cooking but only very briefly tank Tom thank you very much tenth time for

saying hello there can you show me the difference between can

and be able to they relatively mean the same thing am i able to do it can I do it so can

and to be able are relatively the same thing i can do it i am able to do it you are able

to do it you can do it so the meaning is relatively the same old girl says maybe the birds on

the nightingales they are not nightingales but nightingales you don't see many nightingales

anymore they are very rare bird now very rare you don't see or hear nightingales very often

Denise says in different countries the bird is called something else when i'm going to

ask for the the general term in English so what are they known as in English it isn't

a blackbird no not a blackbird Roddy says all right mr. Duncan are the birds are they

dunnocks again a very good guess they do that very similar to the NEX NEX are a little larger

they are actually larger than this particular bird

thank you for your guesses lots of guesses coming through now Matthew Boone says maybe

they are wrens they are not ready but i do love when wrens are very small very tiny birds

they are actually one of the smallest birds in the UK UK the smallest bird in the UK is

I think it's the gold crest think so I really put myself on the spot then they are not hummingbirds

no no amuda mystery from Syria thank you so much what is the meaning of being well you

could say that being is something that occurs or exist so being big being small so it exists

in that form being something being so being normally means as it exists all as it appears

it isn't a canary no it isn't angel Mustafa says maybe they are meadow hit who very beautiful

very beautiful men a jingle jangle says up all the pokemons no they're not pokemons definitely

not let's get the bird here they are they are small birds they are very similar to pictures

and that's why there if you look at their beaks if you look at the beak you can see

that their beaks are very similar to those of pictures inches also have very strong and

large beaks what are they cool if you know please let me know Victoria has given an answer

Victoria guess what guess what you two are says is it a limit it isn't ending

it isn't a green finch angel mussafah is also right it is time to put you out of your mystery

the mystery is about to be broken these particular birds were filmed in my garden for years ago

just after moving here too Much Wenlock and these particular birds are called Redpolls

red poles are ed p o Double L read whole i will write that down and share it to you to

do to do to do to do so they are and there it is a red pole now this is a very rare bird

certainly where I live you don't see them very often they don't normally come in land

they don't normally come in in words angel yes I said redpoll yes angel you are right

well done and Victoria as well got it right well done so they don't normally come in land

but sometimes if the weather is very harsh red poles will move in land they will go to

more sheltered areas so i was very lucky in 2013 just after moving here I spotted a flock

of red poles in my garden and I filmed them and that is what what you can see there so

that is what you can see in the video so this was filmed in 2013 and there are some red

poles in my garden feeding they look very hungry and you can tell the red pole because

they have a small red patch on their head a small red patch on their head you can just

see it and their wings are very very distinctive as well in fact their wings look very similar

to those of a sparrow or academic so they are the what red poles with the answer that's

what we are so now i know a new word says mean John yes redpolls they are a beautiful

bird but we don't often see them in the UK they normally come into the UK but stay near

the coast near the sea they don't go any further inland mr. Duncan where did you learn the

Russian word for hello 'privit' well of course I learned it from you my students mr. Duncan

the bird looks like a bird that in my city is called a part I'll a part of all they are

so very similar well maybe they exist there but maybe they have a different name perhaps

maybe it seems that no one has guessed this so far the answer to this loaded flush sub

squander and / what do these words having common what do they have in common if you

think you know the answer please let me know would you like another word puzzle ok let's

have another word positive as well to keep you occupied during the next few moments before

i go just another 25 minutes to go and there it is today's second word puzzle i will give

you a clue it's a very serious one three words not one word not two words three words marriages

today's second word puzzle hey mr. Duncan I know that you love birds have you ever thought

of coming to Brazil to see the huge variety of species of birds that exists here I think

you must do that sometime not anytime that sometime I think you should do this sometime

in the future yes well of course I i know that Brazil is very famous for its wildlife

and its its nature of course you have one of the most beautiful areas in the world the

rainforests of Brazil very famous all around the world in Russia the Russian word for red

pole is the same as tap dance so we are all learning something today I'm learning something

so redpoll redpoll you can use that integration to mean tap down very interesting so we are

all learning something today hello to I've just missed a couple of people out there let's

try and Ally do and Ally do hello mr. Duncan i am watching you in Somalia hello to you

and everyone watching in Somalia I have lots of views there hello mr. Duncan my friends

love you and also my teachers as well i do have lots of teachers watching me they watch

my recorded lessons and also they tune in to watch my live streams as well so a big

hello to anyone any teachers watching out there hello to you you're doing a great job

by the way hello from Saudi Arabia look car on look at har our alsh-shabab Alshon kuiti

I have to pronounce your name ride sometimes I have difficulty pronouncing them but i try

my best I always like to take the bull by the horn David s hello from Spain hello David

s do you know Ellie idioms or phrases to do with animals we had a couple of them earlier

we had raining cats and dogs raining cats and dogs was mentioned earlier when I had

no sound but do you know any other words or phrases or expressions that involve animals

animals another one is has the cat got your tongue has the cat got your tongue it means

do you have nothing to say you have nothing to say to me you are speechless the cat has

got your tongue you are speechless you have nothing to say Saturnino is weldon saturnino

you are doing very well with this yes you are almost there well done almost the connection

between these words please the connection something connect these words ok some phrases

and expressions to do with animals para life capo Lupo says I smell a rat brilliant that's

a very good one if you smell a rat it means you think there is something wrong there is

something not right there is something very suspicious going on I smell a rat dash t says

i love your English so much thank you you are very welcome in Maine asks is the linking

word water no it isn't water now know that the link between these words isn't water good

answer Sharif says hello mr. Duncan what is the difference between survey and quotation

well they are completely different words they have nothing in common so to survey something

is to look around or to explore and quotation means something that has been said that you

are also saying so a quotation might be something that a person has said or quotation can also

be something that is written down as a way of showing the cost of something so you give

a quotation you offer something that tells another person how much something will cost

a quotation of a quote Diego dell is hello mr. Duncan how are you today not too bad but

I did have some problems at the start of today's live English i had no sound to me a bird never

flew on one wing I've never heard that expression before I've never heard of that ever lucky

star says hello mr. Duncan it is now midnight in Tokyo i really want you to visit Japan

me to meet you I'm very fascinated by Japan hi mr. Duncan how are you today Luci barrera

is here hello Lucy welcome survey and pole are the same thing yes that's true that's

true survey and poll can be used in the same way so if you survey or if you run a pole

it means you ask people for their opinion or what their opinion is of something so a

survey survey can mean to ask or two to take people's opinions and a pole is very similar

so you can poll or have a pole which means you have an election so an election and you

get people to vote for what they preserve or what they would rather have is also a pole

pole or of course you can use survey you two are says oh mr Duncan and i think the word

that links all of these words is money i think its money guess what you

are absolutely correct you were spot-on on the bottom it is money all of these words

relate to money i will explain for you know loaded the word loaded can mean to have lots

of money so if you are loaded it can mean you have lots of money you are rich you are

wealthy you are loaded flush also can be used in the same way we can use flush to mean you

have lots of money or you have plenty of money you are flush now sub is an interesting word

it can be used to mean subscription charge or it can be used to mean money that is lent

to someone so a sub can mean money that is lent to someone squander if you squander your

money it means you spend it without thinking so if you squander your money you waste your

money you squander your money you waste it and of course flash we can use flash with

money for those who like to show off their money so if you'd like to show people how

much money you have if you'd like to show off with your money it means you like to flash

your money around we can say that you like to flash your money he likes to flash his

money around it means you like to show off how much money he has so there are loaded

to have lots of money flush the same thing to have lots of money you are very flesh said

it means to lend money that is length squander you spend your money carelessly you waste

Germany and flash things or it can be used to show that someone like to show their money

off they like to boast they like to flash their money around so i hope that i hope that

helped you some more phrases and expressions through with animals ok Maxine billet curiosity

killed the cat I like that one yes that means be careful if you decide to be curious about

something perhaps something bad will happen to you so don't forget curiosity killed the

cat oh that's an interesting one Maxine billet also has put he who lies with dogs rises the

sleeves I've never heard of that one honestly I've never come across that in my life no

that's a very good one very interesting Victoria my husband sold the task with money i wrote

the answer earlier well done Victoria well done money no problem thank you in many Lucy

varela says I loved your last program do you mean the very early morning program that i

do two days ago when i got up it two o'clock in the morning half asleep and I did two hours

live stream on Wednesday yes thank you very much for that and the whole thing is now available

on YouTube to watch second star i would really like to attend you or two to see you when

you are staying in Japan i'm not going to Japan just yet because it's very expensive

too apply there so not at the moment unfortunately thanks mr. Duncan i have learned a lot of

things from you today al-sharif thank you very much greetings from Egypt hello to Egypt

hello I'm glad long time no see oh yes where is am glad there is anger I can't see I'm

glad where are you please ways to me and God oh there you are so the word puzzle we have

one more word puzzle to come before we leave there it is three words it's very serious

word puzzle this one very serious some people might say it's a bit grim a very grim and

serious word puzzle but what is it mmm what is it indeed just another 11 minutes to go

and then I am out of here another expression related to animals let the cat out of the

bag yes that's a great one if you let the cat out of the bag it means you reveal a secret

something that was hidden something that you should not tell other people you reveal something

you shouldn't panic you let the cat out of the back the secret is out the cat is out

of the back wow that's a good one moving down the chat just another 10 minutes to go mr.

Duncan you can make a monkey after someone yes that's a very good one if you make a monkey

after someone it means you make a fool of them you make them look foolish you make a

monkey out of mr. Duncan will you do a lesson about the first move of Donald Trump i'm not

sure if I'm ever going to do a lesson about Donald Trump because lots of other people

are talking about him anyway on YouTube in fact thousands and thousands of people on

YouTube at the moment are all talking about Donald Trump so I think there are plenty of

people already doing that to be honest lots of people Rodney Henrique the word is wholehearted

this word no it isn't wholehearted it would be good if it was it something more serious

a bit more serious and grim three what hurts what are they hello i am from Mexico says

normal quesada i always enjoy your videos another expression is stop horsing around

yes horsing around means to misbehave or to waste time or two to play up so you are horsing

around you are misbehaving all stop horsing around great someone's old boot are says mr.

Duncan it's colder than a Penguin's breakfast I like this that's my Express should wow thank

you very much that I i think i created that expression in time didn't I that's my expression

i'm sure it is let's have another word show you have a flash phrase before we go because

we are going very shortly I am NOT here for much longer so let's have a slash phrase before

we disappear i will go over there and give you today's final / is in fact we've only

had one today and this is it do you do once again can I apologize for the

technical problems we have some slight difficulty is before everybody joined me unfortunately

today we had some problems with the sound during the first 20 minutes but later i will

edit that out hopefully i will cut that out so you won't have to sit through 20 minutes

back here it is today's Flash phrase oh there it is look can you see it the phrase is take

the bull by the horn I like this one I like this very much the phrase take the bull by

the whole in English phrase the phrase take the bull by the horns as an expression that

means to do something wholeheartedly without hesitation or fear it's time to stop wasting

time and take the bull by the horn to deal with something decidedly is to take the bull

by the horns you can't keep putting that visit to the dentist off you need to take the bull

by the horns to deal with something that you've dreaded doing in a full-on and positive way

is to take the bull by the horns don't wait do it's just get stuck in go on do it take

the bull by the horns the phrase take the bull by the horns related to someone taking

hold of a wild bull by its horns in order to tame it so there it is today's Flash phrase

take the bull by the horns so there it was and that phrase of course involves an animal

we have been looking today at words phrases expressions all sorts of things relating to

animal can you see what I've got here can

you see it i was i was going to eat eat some Maltesers today because Maltesers come in

a a lovely red box can you see today the theme today is red because of course during the

lunar new year and during the Chinese New Year people like to read where red clothes

will have things that are coloured red because red is considered a little colour it is definitely

it is almost time for me to go in name says it is now 5 p.m. in Paris and you well here

it is coming up to 4pm there are people that are ahead of me and there are people that

are behind me as far as the time is concerned it is coming up to 1am in South Korea very

early in the morning thank you very much minjiang for staying up until one o'clock in the morning

so you can watch me thank you I I do appreciate that David s has given me an expression if

wishes were horses beggars would ride I like that one again another one I've not heard

before hello everyone says roser carry been hello road sir you are just in time to see

me disappear because i will be going in a roundabout full minutes time just enough time

to give you the answer to the word puzzle there it is today's word puzzle want what

was today's word puzzle i will give you a clue it is something very grim something very

serious the word puzzle is odia OD me mr. Duncan at very serious very serious and the

world war three that is hope it doesn't happen i'm pretty sure it wasn't traditional

Lucy says when we make another program early in the morning I don't know not for some time

that i might do it again but not just yet i'm still recovering from doing my very early

morning live stream two days ago ming Jan says world war three no I hope not Magnus

foreland says world war three yes world war three let's hope it doesn't happen i'm pretty

sure it won't but one of two people have been talking about it that arena says i have heard

this proverb in the USA the hen lays eggs and the rooster feels pain in his I don't

know what that mean it means one works hard and the other does nothing more than complaining

again I've not heard of that one that's a new one for me it is 230 km in Australia says

camo she ash ash nuh-uh moshe hackner to thirty in the morning in Australia my goodness that

is very very late i think you win the prize there you will be awarded for the person who

has stayed at the latest thank you very much for watching me until such a such a late time

thank you so much if it is your new year if you are celebrating the lunar new year over

the next two hours can i wish you was special happy new lunar new year that goes for everyone

watching in Vietnam or china or any other country that celebrates the lunar new year

and of course can i wish you were super duper ruse the year because it is the year of the

room there it is hello my name is mr. stuff so i

have a super time whatever you are doing let off lots of fireworks lots of lovely food

i'm very jealous by the way I am going now he's coming at four o'clock it is time for

mr. Duncano that's me to say goodbye thank you again for another great lesson says riku

no thank you very much i will be with you next Friday hopefully we will have no problems

with the sound next week I hope everything is alright i am currently doing things behind

the scenes to try and get all of this working a hundred percent maybe even a hundred and

ten percent mr. Duncan I love your hair style thank you very much for that you mean my hairstyle

now or my Donald Trump hairstyle I don't know goodbye mr. Kern from Victoria thank you very

much it's been a great two hours even though you couldn't hear me for the first 20 minutes

thank you very much Lucy maxime Matthew thank you very much yes being British means that

you have black humour yes I think I think British humour can be a little dark humour

or all something funny relating to a serious subject or topic we can we can talk about

dark humour dark humour yes I think I think British Schumer sometimes can be very very

dark sandra harsh thank you for watching see you next week I will be here next Friday as

live is live can be Thank You mr. Duncan Carlos thank you very much it's been a great day

despite the problems i hope you have a super weekend i will see you next week make it is

time to go unfortunately that's the sorry about that i wish you could stay longer but

I have to go now because I'm having some curry it's curry night see you next week oh and

by the way just before I go this the search that I i put on the shopping channel the other

day i was looking for something on on my local shop i was buying something online and i put

bog roll roll now that is a very crude way of saying toilet paper so you can say 'bog

roll' the word 'bog' is a word that can mean toilet and of course roll means something

that is wound up so a bog roll is in fact toilet paper so now you know but let me just

warn you it is very crude and some might say unpleasant expression but we do say bog roll

sometimes especially in England oh no I'm out of bog roll so catch you next week this

is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English you know where it is it is of course England

saying thanks for watching me teaching you and of course have a great weekend and I will

see you next Friday at 2pm UK time and of course ta ta for now.

Okay I have to go now I'm sorry. 8-((