'All Mouth and Trousers' / English Addict LIVE chat & Learning / Sun 20th FEB 2022 - with Mr Duncan

As you can see

outside, the weather is not looking very good today.

It is another stormy day here in the U.K.,

across the U.K., we are having all sorts of awful weather.

And I would imagine also across Europe,

as well as the storms move across.

Wherever you are in the world, I hope you are having a good day Here we are again. Yes.

Even though the clouds are grey and it's all wet

and miserable here in the studio, it's lovely and warm.

Here we go again. Yes, it's English addict.

Coming to you live from the birthplace of the English language

which just happens to be England,

you are.

We own

are we own testing.

Testing.

Hi, everybody. This is Mr.

Duncan in England. How are you today? Are you okay?

I hope so.

Are you happy?

Are you feeling happy? Despite

all the negative

news, that is flying around at the moment?

And over the past hour, we have had some breaking news here in the U.K..

I don't know if you've heard what that news is, but

we have some breaking news also here in the U.K.

Lots of things happening around the world.

Despite that, in spite

of all the depressing news, I am feeling

pretty happy and I hope you are feeling good as well.

Here we are back together.

For those who don't know who I am, my name is Duncan.

I talk about the English language.

You might say that

I am one of those.

I am an English addict.

And I have a feeling that you might be an English addict as well.

We are with you for the next 2 hours.

When I say we I also mean myself and Mr.

Steve.

So it's me for now.

But coming up a little bit, later on,

we also have the musical talents of Mr.

Steve.

He will be with us in a roundabout about 20 minutes is not a good idea.

Mr. Steve

Mr. Steve, you're

not exactly you're not exactly playing the piano there, are you?

But this is how you practise.

You don't practise with the keys.

You practise with the let down.

I don't think that's true.

Yes, it's true.

Yes. You see with the lead up.

Well, I would prefer to practise with the late

That's not the only thing Mr.

Steve does with the lead down

dare I say.

So, yes, we do have Mr.

Steve with us a little bit later on.

By the way, if you are wondering why there is no background

It is there.

Unfortunately, at the moment we have a lot of rain,

a lot of wind, a lot of storms.

Battering the UK.

Did you see my special live stream that I did on Friday?

I did it live as one of the many storms

that are currently flying across Europe,

and it would appear that we get them first.

So whatever Europe gets, quite often

the UK will get that storm first.

So we always get it first.

And as you can see outside, it's not looking very good today.

We have a lot of wind, a lot of rain and also another storm heading our way.

So last week we had two storms.

We had storm deadly

and then

we had storm units.

But apparently there is another storm on the way,

another one.

So hold on to your trees and your rooftops.

And your chimney stacks

and anything else that is loose and wobbly

because there is another storm coming

I hope you are okay where you are in the world.

Yes. We have made it all the way to the end of another weekend

and also the end of another week without blowing ourselves up

almost.

Yes. It's Sunday

Deep, deep, deep beneath me.

Baby, baby, baby, baby food.

Dude.

By the way, if you want live captions as you can,

there are captions on this live stream.

It's true.

Would I lie to you about that?

Would I lie about that? Of course not.

So if you want to follow my live chat with captions, you can.

You are more than welcome to do so.

All you have to do is press the subtitle button,

or you can press c on your keyboard

like that, and then you will have live captions as well.

Here we go then.

Nice to see you all here.

I wonder who was first on today's live chat.

Oh, the champion is back

once more.

His finger is the fastest finger on the Internet.

Vitesse.

Congratulations once again.

You are first on today's live chat

So even though

the weather is not good today here in the U.K.,

even though the weather is quite awful, to be honest,

I will try to keep a smile on my face and hopefully we will be able to give you

a little bit of information about that

very strange thing we call the English language.

A lot of people say, Mr.

Duncan, why is English so difficult to learn

when it's very strange because some people

find English much easier to learn.

I think

it depends on what your base language is.

For example, if you are French

and you are learning English, I think

that it will be easier to learn English

because many words in English derive

or are very similar to words that exist in French.

And I think that's probably the reason why when I was at school,

I found it very easy I found it quite easy to learn French.

I was quite good at French at school.

Please don't ask me to speak French now

because most of it has evaporated

from my brain cells, unfortunately.

So hello to the live chat.

I will say hello to you right now.

Hello also Tomic.

We have Beatrice Palmira, Vittoria Claudia.

Hello, Claudia.

By the way, can I say thank you?

I suppose I don't have to say thank you, but I will say thank you

for giving me a big smile yesterday.

You might not even realise that you did it, but you gave me a big smile

with your photograph that you took in your surgery.

Because Claudia is a dentist and I love the photograph

that you posted on your Facebook page where you are wearing your mask

and also your big protective visor as well.

You look ready

for some dentistry action That's all I can say.

But thank you very much.

I don't know why you gave me a smile,

and I suppose I should also say

thank you very much for continuing to do your work

during all of these crazy, difficult circumstances.

Lots of people have had to continue with their job.

They've had to carry on.

They've had no choice, especially people working in the service industry

or maybe the the medical industry or maybe in medicine.

If you are a doctor or a nurse, perhaps a dentist,

maybe you have to look after people who are at home and are ill.

So can I say thank you very much?

I suppose these days we don't say it often enough.

But I always appreciate

the hard work that a lot of people are doing

and have been doing over the past.

Difficult two years.

So we really do appreciate it.

And I do like to say thank you for that from time to time.

Hello. Also, we have Zizic.

We have Nellie.

Hello, Nellie.

Nice to see you here as well.

William is here. Hello, Willie.

And it seems like a very long time since I last saw you here.

Hello, Willie, and nice to see you back on the live chat.

Very nice to see you here today.

Of course, during the week, we had Mr.

Steve's birthday.

Steve, we'll be talking about his birthday.

He will talk about what he got

and what he didn't get

for his birthday.

So it was I mentioned.

Yes, we had a big storm last week.

And besides doing a live stream,

I was also very busy with my camera

filming the dramatic events outside my window.

So there they are, the rather dramatic scenes

that were outside my window during the week.

As Storm Eunice

came across this country and then headed towards Europe,

where it caused a lot of problems with not only wind,

but also rain in parts of Germany.

There was a lot of serious flooding.

I don't know why, but we didn't seem to have any flooding in this country.

However, a lot of trees, many buildings were damaged by the strong winds

and in fact, on Friday, we had the strongest

wind ever in the south of England.

122 miles an hour.

Apparently, it is the strongest wind that we've ever had here

in the UK ever in recorded history.

Although I suppose I should also mention Mr.

Steve's wind sometimes goes even faster than that.

A very high speed

hello to Max Po.

Hello. Max, I haven't seen you here for a long time.

It seems like a very long time since I saw you here.

We had a very strange moment on Mr.

Steve's birthday.

We decided to go out on Steve's birthday,

and we were going to go for a lovely walk.

In fact, I don't have to explain the story to you

because I have a video right here

that will do the job for me.

Happy birthday to Mr.

Steve. Here we are now.

Our intention today was to come out and have a lovely meal

and also a walk in a place called Church Stretford.

By the way, Mr. Steve.

Happy birthday. Happy birthday to me. Yes.

But unfortunately, if we look outside

as you can see in probably here.

Yeah, it's raining

so unfortunately,

we will not we will not be going for a walk.

I'm fortunately not Now,

the strange thing is the strange

thing is when we were in much Wenlock,

the the weather was much nicer

and as we got closer and closer to church Stretton

the weather got worse and now the rain is really coming down quite heavily.

I know we were going to get fluffy, whereas the camera is on the left or the right.

Oh, good.

Yes. So unfortunately

we've just phoned up a little cafe and making accommodations at short notice,

so we will like we booked in there, but we've got to go in 10 minutes, Mr.

Duncan, which means we're going to get wet,

although I have got an umbrella in the back of the car.

So one of the times where we need Mr.

Steve's rain poncho and guess what? We haven't got it.

We haven't got Mr. Steve's rain poncho.

So instead we're going to have to brave the violent storm.

So we can get something to eat, but we will enjoy the rest of Mr.

Steve's birthday.

And of course, Steve did get some very nice presents as well for myself.

I deserve it.

And also, your family sent some lovely presents.

Anyway, we'll show you those on Sunday.

Yes, we will show you the gifts that Mr.

Steve got today, assuming you're sharing this.

Okay.

Well, we're not live now.

Oh. Thought we were alive, Mr. Duncan.

No, we're not live.

This is recorded so we will hand you back live to the studio,

and we will continue with today's live stream.

Meanwhile, here, we will carry on with Mr.

Steve Birthday.

A very wet and soggy birthday.

But we're staying happy no matter what.

Of course, we're always happy to talk.

For now.

Mr. Steve was.

And there we were last Wednesday.

Celebrating Mr. Steve's birthday.

Although things didn't turn out quite as they should have

Unfortunately,

it didn't turn out quite the way we intended.

We were going to go for a lovely walk.

We were going to make a funny video but sadly, because of the rain

and it's been raining all week, it's raining now.

I was going to say that it's raining cats and dogs.

But to be honest with you, that is the only thing that isn't falling out of the sky.

Everything else is coming out of the sky except cats.

And dogs.

Mr. Steve will be with us.

Yes, he is preparing.

He's going to show us his birthday cards.

Very nice.

Also, he's going to share with us

some of his lovely moments from his birthday.

And I hope you will join us when Mr.

Steve arrives.

We are taking a break.

In a moment, we are talking about mouth idioms today.

If there is one thing I like doing

and also I suppose Mr.

Steve likes doing, it is while it's using his mouth,

talking all the time So Mr.

Steve likes using his mouth.

I like using mine.

And I have a feeling you like to use yours

to speak your own language, but also to practise your oral English.

And that's what we're talking about today.

Oh, by the way, yesterday

we went for a lovely walk into town.

We managed to walk into town yesterday without getting wet because, well, in the morning

it was raining yesterday but in the afternoon we managed to have a lovely walk into town.

And on the way back, we saw our little friend the Robin.

But not just one Robin.

There were actually two together.

We will be looking at that a little bit later on.

So just before Mr.

Steve arrives, it is time to take a look at one of my full English lessons.

Yes, I talk about the English language all the time.

Sometimes I do it live and sometimes I do it recorded

like the thing you are about to see.

And then after that, Mr.

Steve will be here, and so will I.

And hopefully so will you.

As you can see right now, it is very windy here.

There is a gale blowing across England and

what you are seeing now is the effect to

what is left of a tropical hurricane.

This is all the remains of the storm.

We can describe this as the remnants

or or the remains of the hurricane.

A few days ago, this storm was very powerful.

It caused damage in places such as Bermuda.

Now, it is not as powerful.

Having said that, the storm is still strong enough

to bring down trees and loosen one or two roof tiles.

Some might say that I am taking a risk

coming out here on such a stormy day.

Let's hope that I don't get struck by a piece

of flying debris or a falling tree

Oh, no.

My watch has stopped again.

I had better wind it up.

The word wind has more than more meaning.

You can whine something up

by turning and tightening it at the same time,

such as the spring on a watch or clock.

You wind the spring up

to gather something onto a round spool

by turning It can be described as winding.

You wind something on to something else.

You can wind a hosepipe

You can wind wool into a ball.

You can wind a person up.

In this sense, you are doing something to annoy them.

Then there is wind up.

This noun describes a practical joke or prank

designed to annoy someone.

Another verbal use of wind is slowly end

something to close down a company

or cease trading over a period of time is to wind up

to relax yourself by doing something pleasurable.

Is to wind down

the past tense of wind is wound

Look at that.

The writing on the wall.

This figurative expression is used to state

that something bad might happen soon.

The fate of something is likely to happen.

It is very apparent that this thing could occur.

There is an indication that things could go wrong.

The fall in profits is the writing on the wall for that company.

In this sentence, we are saying that the company

will go out of business if things do not get better.

It may close.

There is a chance that things might go wrong.

It may be seen as foolish when told

by a wall to ignore the hint and warning

of the writing on the wall.

Grammar covers many aspects of language use,

including punctuation,

when expressing yourself in writing.

It is important to know where to punctuate

and when to use the symbols that define it.

One of the most confusing punctuation

marks must be the inverted commas,

otherwise known as quotation marks.

There are two types of inverted commas the single and the double.

In British English,

the single quotation mark is often used while in American English.

The double quotation mark is preferred when quoting

a well-known phrase or direct speech in a sentence in British English.

We will normally use the single quotation.

However, if the direct speech also includes a quote

then you will use the other quotation marks

to define it from what is being said.

If the direct speech uses single quotes

then the double ones will be used to show the quotes within.

An example in British English would be around here.

We always use the phrase no pain, no gain as our motto.

You will see that the direct speech has single quotes

and the phrase discussed has a double once in American English.

This is reversed.

You will notice in my subtitles that I use single inverted commas

when I'm highlighting a word and double quotes when demonstrating direct speech

It is worth

noting that you are free to use either of the quotation marks

as long as you stick with them all the way through the piece you are writing.

The examples used here today are only a guide.

Double quotes are fine for direct speech or single ones,

as long as you remain clear as to how they are being used.

Happy writing.

Everyone

here.

All my lovely walking boots.

Do you like them?

These boots have taken me all over the place,

up hills and down

into valleys, through woods and over dales.

And Dales.

By the way, Adele is a small dip in the ground,

a small valley or hollow.

Did you know that the word boot has many meanings

as a verb, boot means to kick something hard.

It can also mean to throw someone out of a place

or eject a person from a group.

He was booted out of the chess club.

If you put the boot in.

Then this means that you are kicking someone

normally while they are on the ground

to be given the boot means that you have lost your job.

In computer terms, the word boot means to start up a computer

on a call The boot is the opening at the back,

where items can be placed securely in American English.

The boot of a car is called the trunk

There it was, one of my many full English lessons

I is completely full of

blessings to do the English language.

Okay, here he comes.

Everyone's been waiting for him.

He is on his way

Mm. Are you ready

I'm not.

I'm not ready, Mr.

Damn Good.

I haven't put my makeup on.

Make you look okay.

Hello? Hello, Mr. Duncan, by the way, lovely viewers.

By the way, we've had to change the view so we've pointed the camera somewhere else

because the rain is coming down a very heavily

white out.

I was going to say white out.

It's so torrential rain

that your camera can't focus in the distance so there's.

Well, it's just there's nothing to film there.

There's nothing there because it's just rain falling.

It's like it looks like mist.

If you film over a long distance, all of the all of the rain

that you're filming through becomes just one big misty scene.

So so there is a different view today.

It's the trees behind us looking out the window, blowing around just to show how windy it is.

We've had a lot of wind not only last week, but also today in the studio.

That's because we've had too much fibre in our diet.

We had our chilli last night, chilli con carne,

and all I can say is it's very good

for Lucy earning your

anyway.

Anyway, lots of people have been commenting on the weather

on your video that you put.

When did you put that out?

Was it Wednesday?

Well, I was live on Friday. Friday, Friday.

Friday was a live during the the peak of the storm.

Yes. Storm Eunice when we had

60 mile an hour winds here.

Well, I think it was more than that here.

Oh, oh, wow.

It was high yes. High. Yes.

Apparently in parts of Shropshire they had recorded 70 miles an hour wind.

Right. I read it.

And the fastest wind the strongest wind besides Mr.

Steve's stomach is

was actually 122 miles an hour on the south coast.

Of England, talking of last week. Yes.

Steve, can I just finish off what I was going to say?

Lots of people have been commenting about the weather.

Okay.

Because it hasn't just affected us.

And of course in the UK, because we get such mild weather generally,

we don't really, you know, anything is an event to us,

but we don't get hurricanes and we don't get tornadoes.

In fact, somebody commented the other day, the reason that Great Britain was so and lots of

parts of Europe were so successful was because we didn't have major weather events

preventing us from

becoming successful as a nation.

So that could well have been a point.

But I mean, for example, Max was commenting

on the aeroplane landings, the attempted aeroplane landings

at Heathrow Airport, which are all over the Internet

Very scary if you're in a plane like that.

And people were there were shots of people afterwards.

It vomited everywhere because the plane was rocking

and we've been in flights and I've been in flights

when there's nothing worse.

And then you're coming in to land and, you know, it's windy. Yes.

And Birmingham is a very windy airport.

And we've come we've been back coming back from holiday.

But when we came back from Paris, we were returning from Paris.

And the wind was strong.

Of course, as Steve just said, Birmingham Airport

is well known for its crosswinds.

So when a plane comes in to land, what often happens is the plane will start to tip

as the wings get caught by the wind.

So it's very hard for a plane to to actually land on the ground

because it has to make sure that it lands straight or level.

It has to make sure that the wings don't touch the runway

for obvious reasons because it won't end very well.

So we have been in that situation, but it's amazing how many people love watching

live streams of planes landing Well, it's fascinating.

Yes. But, you know, I you know, if you've ever been in a plane when it's windy, it's all right.

When you take it off, it's not so bad.

But when you're landing, it's quite scary.

Other weather events, Tom

mentioned that his entrance door to his apartment

blew away or the skylight

or something or the door of the skylight blew away in the wind.

But he was able to repair it, to retrieve it and repair it.

Wow. That's very lucky.

We've got a fence panel, a fence panel that's come down.

We think we've been affected.

Yes. One of our fences.

So we're going to do a fundraiser to to raise money to repair the fence.

Okay.

So I'm going to try and cobble that together.

Cobble it together.

So I'm going to try and get the broken bits of wood and sort of fix them in a sort of

random way to make it look.

If you cobble something together, it means you just you're not doing

a very good job of repairing some fence.

That's it.

That's a bit of an insult to all people who repair shoes.

Well, for example, if you were to come on late, what about cobblers?

Well, that's a different thing altogether.

It might be related, but

if you do something in a rush and it's not very good, it means you cobble it together.

Yeah.

It means you're just sort of

doing you're just not doing a good job.

For example, if we were to come on the show and not prepare at all

and barely give you any information with English,

you could say, Oh, it looks like those two have cobbled this lesson together.

I thought, that's what we did.

Too many joking.

But yes, it's been

you know, I mean, it's continued one storm after another.

We've got another one coming, haven't we? Yes.

I was about to mention that we we had two storms last week, two big storms.

And guess what we have?

We have another one coming now.

Storm Franklin, apparently Franklin.

So we've had Dudley, we've had Yunis.

As we go through the alphabet, you see

so now we have Storm Franklin.

And I suppose Franklin is a man's name.

Well, of course, there was the president of the United States, Franklin Roosevelt,

who was the president of the United States for a while, Storm Franklin

to bring strong wind and rain to the UK and Ireland.

So the the meteorological office have issued weather warnings

as a third storm is expected to bring

disrupting conditions on Sunday and Monday.

Well, we've got it.

So I have a feeling what is happening behind us now

is actually Storm Franklin arriving.

Paolo is going to stay.

He has repeated several times.

Thank you that despite the storm, he's going to stay and watch anyway.

Oh, good. So that's good and glad to hear that.

Yes. We're very pleased that you're going to stay.

People wishing me thank you for their comments on my youthful appearance.

Yes, miss and mine. I should stay.

Steve had a birthday I did last Wednesday.

Thank you, Beatrice.

And other people have said that. Happy birthday again.

So thank you for that.

Sandra as well.

But yes, it's nice.

There wasn't. And it was a nice birthday.

It was wet.

The weather was not good.

No, but we made the most of it. I didn't like the bad weather.

I made the most of it.

I did.

I did show the video earlier of sitting in the car because we couldn't go for a walk.

By the way, we have some breaking news.

Everyone have you heard the news that the queen has COVID? Yes.

The queen of England, Queen Elizabeth.

The second has been tested positive for COVID

I have a feeling that she's been positive for quite a while.

It's just that no one quite knew how to break the news.

So I think she's been with with COVID

or she's had COVID for a while, but no one's wanted to actually mention it.

They've they've been a little reluctant to actually say it.

But the queen of England, quickly, Queen Elizabeth, who is the current queen,

even though at the moment everyone keeps talking about

Prince Charles and Camilla

as if they are about to take over,

which which can't be very nice for the queen when you think about it.

And Jemmy says, God save the queen.

Don't say. Probably referring to this this news.

I wanted to say as well

that other people have also wished me happy birthday listed as well.

So in the past, since it was about you were talking about the queen of England, and all Steve wants to talk

about is his birthday Well, I just don't want to forget people that have said happy birthday to me.

So that is the big the big news at the moment.

The Queen of England has COVID, but

as as the reports are actually stating,

she is just suffering mild and cold symptoms.

So we wish the queen of England and everyone

at the moment struggling with that particular situation.

All the best.

You are very well conserved, says Pedro Oh,

do you mean do you mean that I'm looking good is what you mean?

I think should not be well preserved.

Preserved?

I remember years ago. Who remembers?

Do you remember, Steve, when when they dug that that man

who apparently was supposed to be prehistory Eric,

or from from the very early days of mankind?

I think he was supposed to be one of the early incarnations of human life.

Piltdown man.

Oh, yes.

Well, Mr.

Steve is the real Piltdown man.

Was a hoax.

Yes, it was.

Well, I'm just saying you are the real one, because it looks as if Mr.

Steve has been preserved

in a bog

not the toilet.

I mean, some land

that if you get stuck in the bog, not the toilet,

but the the ground

then over time, you you will actually be preserved.

So Mr.

Steve looks as if he's just been dug up or conserved

according to Pedro, if you conserved something, it means you.

You save it, don't you?

I think. I think look after it.

I think with you, it's is definitely preserved.

You look after it. Yeah.

And you, you, you, you look at it and think, how can I, can I restore that back to how it used to look?

So, yes, it made

me my hair will come back with a bit of luck.

Yeah.

It's still waiting for that miracle

of modern science, which still hasn't happened.

I can't believe after all these years they still haven't worked out,

you know, some simple cream that you rub on and bingo,

your hair comes back

But anyway, I got over that in my early twenties, so this is great.

It's all about me, Mr. Duncan. It's all about me.

That's not.

So Mr. Steve's birthday occurred.

Did you get some nice cards? I did get some nice cards.

Would you like to show us some of your cards that you received for you?

Have you got a special camera?

No. No. Okay, then. Right. Here we go.

We'll just use this one.

Look at that wind out there, Mr.

Duncan. Yes, it's very difficult.

Then move it forward because it will go out of focus. There we go.

There we go. So there's a nice card.

There's somebody that knows me.

That's from the choir.

And she knows that I like gardening.

And thus there is a picture that of a watering can

of beans to do good.

I'm going to sneeze a watering can.

I'm pinching my nose because that's supposed to stop me sneezing.

Okay, good.

I want to account for let's see how we ask.

We've got gloves we've got a trowel. Yes.

And we've got some garden twine on a roll.

Yeah.

Garden twine

or string.

You are describing this so clearly.

Well, there we go. Here's a nice one.

So we share that one. Yes.

Here's a nice one from some friends that we went in to see.

And. And she

struggling to get it all back to front just.

Just hold it like that. I know, but it's like.

It's like looking yourself in a mirror and trying to show me your knees.

I have been doing this for four years.

The live stream you should know by now. So.

So this is us in the middle.

There's Mr. Steve, and there's myself.

I have this habit when you might not realise this.

If we are in a social situation

and we are having a photograph taken, I will always pull a stupid face.

Always.

So in that picture, you can't quite see it clearly.

But I am actually making an ugly face and it's sort of like this.

And there's Sonia.

I hope she doesn't she hopes Bushy might be watching.

But now, see, Sonia is a friend of mine from far

from when I was in my late teens when I was at college.

So very quickly we introduce Sonia.

There is Brent, there is Mr.

Duncan, and there is Mr. Steve.

So we had a little get together. Yes, a few weeks ago.

They are married so.

Yeah, I'm getting to.

Okay, Harriet, we had a lovely time, but.

But as I was saying, I always like to put a face

and a picture and one of the times that I normally do that, Steve, is when

we're in a wedding photograph.

Okay.

And Sonia always makes her own cards. Okay.

So you think Steve wants to show more of that?

There it is.

That's it? Yeah.

So she took that picture. Black and white.

Black and white.

I'm not sure why, but because that amount of of.

You know, you always look better.

Photographs always look better in black and white.

So if you take a picture of someone's face and always take it

in black and white, I don't think anyone's using black and white anymore.

People use black and white all the time.

It. Okay, then.

Have you made me professionally?

Have you ever been to it

in that way that you don't need to be professional to make something black and white?

I know bright people generally doing black and white I think this looks really arty.

It does. And it's very nice.

Here's another one, another garden themed birthday card.

You don't have to lean in states.

You got to keep calling me around.

Mr. Duncan, if you move forward, that goes out of focus.

Will you hold it that you hold it, you know, do you hold it

I should do that.

You say it goes that.

If I wasn't doing that, Mr.

Jenkins, which is holding it up, I wasn't doing that, was I?

You see, you're going to extreme now.

I was just holding it up.

It's difficult to hold it up because it's like looking in a mirror.

What you see on the screen is very it does the opposite thing with this camera.

But like anyway, so there's another garden theme here, knowing Mr.

Duncan, I'm not just a simple

that's into the garden themed birthday

come up a little bit more arty from my sister.

So it's a arty sort of card, as you would expect and

here's one from my mother.

Now, this this looks like a card that you would buy

for a 14 year old boy I don't know why it's got cars on the front.

Well, it's a lovely car.

So I remember when I was about 12 a

my mother would always buy cards that had like footballers

and cars and all these macho

missing all the live chat while we're doing well, we can't do both.

Yes. And I would go those three cars I will never be able to afford to own

probably know the red one at the top.

I think it's supposed to be a Ferrari. Okay.

And we've got I think it's an Aston Martin in the middle and obviously a Porsche

nine 11 on the bottom.

Fortunately, this particular Porsche is not on fire.

No. Did you read the story this week about

there's a ship, a cargo ship full of cars very expensive

cars, and the ship caught fire

and all of the cars were destroyed.

I would imagine millions of pounds worth of cars were destroyed.

So there they are.

That is a lovely card from Mr. Steve's mother.

There it is inside. It's not lovely.

The 84,000 cars were destroyed.

They were all bound for America

Porsches, I think it was 90

German cars, Audi and Volkswagens.

And there were some Bentleys on there. As well.

Okay, so, you know, there's a shortage of cars, new cars worldwide because of the shortage of microchips.

So this is going to compound things even more make it worse.

Compounds are adding up. Things are adding up.

I have bad news for you.

If you are waiting for your Porsche to be delivered

or your Bentley I'm saw it.

It's now a smouldering lump of metal in the middle of the ocean.

Yeah, there was one particular I got to some YouTube star.

I don't know his name.

He he had bought some very expensive vintage Porsche.

Okay.

And that was coming across to America, and that got destroyed as well.

That's a shame.

And they think it's these lithium batteries bursting into flame from these electric cars.

This ferry's best.

It was a ferry burst into flames in Greece as well.

And I think there's some missing people from that or maybe they found the last person.

But and they are blaming blaming cars again, bursting into flame.

Here's one

from a friend of mine who I've known for about 30 years.

And let's just say she

thinks I'm an underachiever.

And she always sends funny cars, but they're sort of almost bordering on insulting.

So here's the card. You hold it up, Mr. Duncan.

Because obviously I don't know what I'm doing.

So this is the car that she decided to send to me.

Am I a good person? No.

Do I try to make myself a better person each day also? No.

So that's very sarcastic, suggesting that,

you know, I'm that's supposed to be a representation of me

sitting on a chair.

So what she's saying to me is that you have done very little

with your life, and it's supposed it's supposed to be funny.

But, in fact, I found it a little insulting.

I suppose there's a certain amount of accuracy in this car

I don't

think that's accurate because I do try to improve myself every day.

Thank you, Julie, for your card.

Yes, you are right.

Yes, So there we go.

I'll have that over here, Mr. Duncan.

You want it back to

just a representative?

We're not showing the one that you sent to me.

We? No,

Well, that was a bit too personal.

Is that it? Is that.

Are those the only cards you got?

Oh, okay.

The words on it would be, you know, we've got to keep some things to ourselves.

It's a bit sad. Really.

That is all the cards I've received. Yes.

Still missing from the thousands of

good wishes from the lovely viewers that are watching this today.

Of course, I did get Mr. Steve a gift.

A gift that he's been needing for some time because of telephone in the house.

The house telephone broke, and it's it's

just awful, terrible technology.

Whoever bought that made a terrible job of buying it.

Oh, it was you.

So I bought Mr.

Steve a lovely new telephone for his birthday.

Isn't that nice?

And one of the things I like about this telephone is it's

specially designed

for people

who are over a certain age,

who have difficulty looking at numbers and reading them

because their eyes are fading.

So one of the reasons why I bought this is because it's it's

very good for people who are over a certain age.

It's got wonderful big buttons.

Look at those, Steve.

Look at those big buttons.

So you can we can see those clearly.

Can't we highlight big buttons on a phone? Yes.

And Yeah, I just. Yeah, yeah.

So you've got one for downstairs, which is

well, it's wired.

You can get phones now that are wired or wireless. Yes.

Most phones are sort of cordless.

So this is like the old fashioned telephone.

It's a corded phone. You would call that.

It might be some people watching under a certain age wouldn't recognise what that was or to think people.

Is that why are coming out to the phone?

I don't think I don't think you can still get phones with wires.

I think it's becoming a rarity.

Okay, so there we go.

Mr. Duncan bought me a nice new phone, and the one upstairs in my office

is is one that is

non-core.

They asked What's the word I'm looking for?

You mean cordless, cordless or wireless handset?

So we go

and it's got it.

It's a nice phone because the other one we had before was pretty useless.

Yeah, there we go. That's it.

That's a nice shot, Mr. Duncan.

So that's what I bought for Mr.

Steve for his birthday.

A phone with great big numbers on.

So when Steve is trying to dial his mother's phone number, he can.

His finger will never slip

he will always get through to his mother.

I'm not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing.

Well, I mean.

I mean, yes, the thing is, Mr.

Duncan who needs a house phone anymore, I think

I mean, I wanted to have one, obviously.

In fact, I nearly bought one the other week, didn't I, Mr.

Duncan?

I didn't know you were going to buy me this for my birthday present.

And in fact, I was asking you, I was on I was on Amazon

looking for a new house phone,

and you managed to keep your cool throughout it and that you somehow

put me off buying one by suggesting that we didn't actually need one.

And then you bought me one. It already bought me.

Well, there's nothing more horrifying than than planning to buy a gift for someone.

And then you see them on Amazon looking at the very thing that you want to buy for them.

I didn't see that phone.

It was horrifying.

And I nearly bought bought one, but I didn't.

Yes. Is it hands free?

It is. It has hands free.

It has a little speaker phone.

So you can just press one button and talk without having to put that thing to your ear.

But many people now don't have.

See, that's that's a landline phone.

Yes, I think so.

It's connected to the, you know, the old fashioned phone line that comes into the house cell fashioned.

Well, you know, that of course, these days everyone's got a mobile phone

and a lot of people now don't bother having a landline at all

because that effectively paying for two phones.

But it's we've decided that we still want to have one

because we have to because we have the Internet yes.

But we don't have to have a phone plugged into it.

No, we wouldn't have to. In fact, I very rarely use that.

I mean, that phone probably won't ring for six months. No,

it's which which again, is very sad because,

you know, I talk to everybody on my mobile phone talking of phones, we had a phone

call the other day from one of our friends who lives not far away from where we are.

And we haven't heard from him for a long time.

And it turns out that he hasn't and I find this amazing.

He hasn't left the house.

He hasn't been anywhere virtually.

He stayed indoors

for the past two years

during lockdown and all of that horribleness.

So we were quite surprised.

But it was nice to hear from from him he phoned us the other day.

So that was a nice surprise. It was.

George, can I can I slip in here an English

sort of suggestion?

Okay.

Or a question from somebody, George Roman.

I'm not sure.

We heard from George Roman before.

Welcome. If it's your first time.

Hello. Or the first time on the live chat.

Hello, Mr. Duncan.

Mr. Steve, I went to California last holiday

and I was trying to order from a restaurant.

What would you phrases would you use?

He suggested I would like to order

as one suggestion, but if we were in a restaurant,

British English speaking person, what would we say?

Well, I think it doesn't matter where you are.

First of all, if it's America, the United States, American

English, British English, I suppose you could say the same thing would you say?

Yes, I would like to order.

I would like I would like to order.

Or you could say I would like.

I would like I would like maybe you have the menu in front of you.

So you are looking at the menu and you are choosing the food that you want to eat.

You would say, I would like some chips.

I would like to order the

soup.

So you can say the soup

or you can say the full breakfast

if you are lucky enough to go to a restaurant or a cafe

that has a full English breakfast.

Very nice.

You can ask for a full English that you could.

Yeah, but you could say, I'll have the soup. Yes.

You could just say I'll have I'll have the soup, please.

I'll have the pasta.

Please. I'll have the the salad, please.

Whatever that salad is. Yes. Well, I would like to order.

Well, have you got sometimes they don't have that particular item on the menu.

So sometimes you can say, you know, have you got any, have you got the soup left?

Have you got any salad, you know, that sort of thing.

But normally I would like to order or I'll have the whatever it is, please.

Or you might even ask if they have it.

Do you have you might say,

do you have any soup today? Yes.

If you haven't looked at the menu, that's all you can just ask question. Yes.

So you can ask general questions about the menu.

Do you have any sandwiches?

Do you still have some soup left?

So there are many ways actually of asking that question.

If you are ordering a meal in a restaurant and you will find that it is the same,

whether it's British English or American English,

wherever you are using your English around the world, it's quite often

the way you will ask for a meal a lot.

Life chances very busy today, Mr. Duncan. Good

What is your favourite car?

So, Sandra?

Well, if you're a regular watcher, you would know what that is.

It is, of course, the lovely Ford Mustang which I'm still waiting for somebody to buy for me.

Yes. I don't think anyone's going to do that.

Maybe you could buy one that's been fire damaged

on a ferry or a cargo ship.

Maybe you could buy one. Maybe you could buy a Porsche.

I think over the next few months there are going to be lots of people selling Porsches

that are slightly fire damaged.

One Porsche for sale slightly

fire damaged is going to put the price

of second hand cars up even further.

Second hand car prices, I think virtually everywhere

are at an all time high

because of the shortage of new cars.

And that

disaster, you could call it losing 4000 vehicles.

I think that's quite significant, but must be very good for the manufacturers in Germany.

Because they've presumably already been had the money for them

and they're going to make 4000 new cars is very good for them.

Oh, okay.

That's it. That's the end of what I want to decide.

That might be because that might be the shortest amount of time that Steve has talked about cars ever.

Well done.

Dan says get a model Mustang and work your way up to the real one.

Well, I've got to Dan, I've got to because Mr.

Duncan last year bought me two model Ford Mustangs for my birthday. Yes.

And we opened them live.

Well, at least one of them live on a live stream on my birthday.

So if you look back a year, you can see me

opening my model Ford Mustang.

Yes. I gave Mr. Steve an extra gift,

and it was another

model of a Ford Mustang.

Mhm. Yes.

Christine Harvey says, when am I going to start?

Stop doing smart working, I presume.

You mean when am I going to go out and see customers again?

Well, I think it won't be too long

because we seem to be relaxing all the rules in the UK whether or going you don't.

Next week I think it's next week.

You won't even have to quarantine or go into isolation if you, if you've had COVID

or if you think you've had it or if you think you've got it.

So it's very, very interesting how things have

really become relaxed here in England.

A microbiologist watching is Hello, guys.

I'm Ju Des from France.

I guess the most important hasn't been discussed.

And what are you referring to?

Please, what would you like us to discuss?

Well, maybe they are referring to the queen, which we mentioned earlier.

We mentioned the queen.

But there's another big news story, isn't there?

Oh, yes, that's all.

Everyone's talking about our UK.

I think we should avoid that because I think everyone's talking about that particular subject.

If you get my meaning

a little bit later on, Steve, we've got to we've got to change the subject.

We really have

a little

bit later on, we're talking about mouth words and phrases.

We like to use our mouths. Mr.

Steve and myself, you will notice our mouth's are always moving.

We went for a walk yesterday and we came across

a little friend that we met.

Well, we've actually met this particular friend a few times, but not only that,

this particular friend

actually had another friend with them.

And guess what?

I actually filmed that moment of time

to squeeze

it Isn't that lovely?

And the thing I can't believe is yesterday, how close

the one of the robins allowed me to get?

I got really close to it.

I have a feeling that particular Robin was

was very comfortable with my present is very tame, very tame.

A bit like us.

We're very tame.

Yes, we are definitely not wild.

We won't bite if you come near a snow.

Well, not hard anyway.

Even Tomic says what a lovely creature

it's unusual for

Tomic to sort of, you know, normally he's making sarcastic comments.

Okay, but he's actually saying he's actually that lovely.

Robyn is gone straight to his heart.

That's nice.

Which is what birds often do.

So, you know, there are feelings that I don't know why that Robyn was

so I don't know why that Robyn was so friendly and time.

Well, Laura says, how did you shoot from such a short distance?

Did you film it from such a short distance?

I was able to get as close as I am to Steve.

So the Robyn was right in front of my phone and I just stood that way.

You didn't see it because you walked off?

He left me was boring.

But Mr.

Duncan's filming What can I do to stand around?

Just enjoy the moment, so.

But yeah, I know, but I just bored, so I'll wander off.

That's why it's all these years of encouragement

when someone else is doing something and you're not involved yeah.

You you know, it doesn't take long to become disinterested.

There's no answer to that.

There's no answer to that one.

So if, you know, if some Mr.

Duncan is filming and it takes a long time to set things up,

you have to be 10 minutes from what am I supposed to do?

Just stand around?

So I just sort of wander off.

I thought something must have happened because I thought, Mr.

Jenkins, a long time, I was sitting on a bench looking

across the Gaskell field, okay?

People walking their dogs and letting their dogs poop everywhere.

And I thought, whereas Mr.

Duncan, he's been a long time ever to go and have a look,

see if somebody hasn't mugged him or something, and they hadn't.

No, they hadn't.

Also a Mr.

Steve's birthday.

Well, in fact, on Valentine's Day, we had some lovely chocolates.

We actually had some chocolates for Valentine's Day, didn't we?

Some lovely chocolates, which we discovered.

Go very well with coffee.

And guess what?

We also received

a lovely e-card and a donation as well.

So I'm going to put this on the screen now.

So here it is, the card, if I can find it. Of course.

And e-cards.

What was that for? Happy Valentine's Day.

Oh, from Dorothy and Dorothy sent a Valentine's gift.

How lovely.

Yes, a donation as well.

So thank you very much, Dorothy.

For Your e-card, your Valentine's

Day card, and also the lovely donation as well that came through on PayPal.

Thank you very much.

And I forget all of your donations will help this to continue,

hopefully forever and ever and ever.

Do I come

across as a cold hearted monster, says Tomic.

Do you?

Oh, I see. Not you. I was joking. I was joking.

I think sometimes Tomic likes to be mischievous, like a naughty child.

It's just

banter a bit of fun, which is what we like.

So yeah.

No, no, I well, I don't know, I don't, I don't think that, but it's just a joke

just to just banter

Inaki says

the music seems to have been chosen by the Robins themselves.

Yes, it's very Robin music you are right.

I thought the same thing.

This sounds like a good piece of music to have with birds.

Yes, I think so.

Mostly it wants to hear me sing well, I will if I can think of something that

isn't going to get Mr.

Duncan a copyright strike, but I always think it's best.

It's always best not to sing anything.

If in doubt. If in doubt, yes.

So we have done it before, but only when we've sort of passed it all through.

The YouTube sort of censor

to make sure that because what can happen is I can sing something.

It's a song that is copyrighted

and then YouTube will pick that up through its very clever

artificial intelligence or whatever it uses

and it will put a block against Mr.

Duncan's video, just the same thing as if we saw heavily.

It might do the same thing.

What if you don't say shit?

Yes. Well, well, yeah.

So you've got to be very careful because we don't want Mr.

Duncan to have a strike against his name. No,

it doesn't matter what you put on the live chat.

Actually, you might not realise this, Steve, because I've been on YouTube for over 15 years

and YouTube does actually allow you to swear.

Oh, not many people know this, but they only allow you to do it.

So many times.

So if you swear only two

or three times in your video, then they will allow it.

But if you swear all the time,

as you're speaking, then they won't allow it.

So they are actually quite good YouTube.

Sometimes they like you to have a little bit of swearing in your video

to make it more spicy but not too much.

Or else YouTube will get angry and I could sing something that's out of copyright yes.

Like something from Gilbert and Sullivan, but that might not know.

I don't think it will encourage the viewers.

I know exactly.

I can imagine everyone clicking away maybe, maybe one day

is that any particular subject, Mr.

Duncan, that we are going to love? I've already mentioned it.

We're talking about mouth, idioms, idiom, phrases, idioms, words, things.

That you might come across when we are talking about this

particular subject.

We had

we had a big storm, didn't we?

Now, we're not talking Friday.

We're not talking about today.

But we are talking about the big storm that we had.

And it was storm Eunice battering.

And we do have another storm coming.

In fact, if you look behind us, Steve, there it is.

There is the storm now arriving and this is Storm Franklin.

We will have a look outside here's another view for those wanting to see.

There it is.

So I'm not sure what it looks like out of your window, but that's what we're looking at at the moment.

It is wet, I think

excuse me, just at our interest.

We called it on Friday Storm Eunice.

Yes, it must have affected other countries in Europe.

It did. But Germany was flooded. Germany.

But anyone from Germany watching, did you call it Storm Eunice or did you call it something else?

Well, as I understand it, to know as I understand it, it is always named

by the first country or the first place it hits

so if a storm is coming towards a certain country,

they will be the one that names it.

So that's what we did.

We named it Storm Eunice and I think as it

travelled across Europe, they still called it Storm Eunice.

Interesting. Yes.

So I think it's always where it makes landfall

the first place or the first group of people to actually notice

that this storm is on its way or it's forming in the atmosphere.

So so, yes, some people are commenting that, in fact,

I think they'd like to like us to swear that if

that there are channels where they do a lot of swearing

but yeah, maybe if that's

if you're always doing it, maybe you get away get away with it.

But yeah, we started doing it.

Now, I think if you are a millionaire pop star, or you can like Nicki Minaj,

like a lot of her songs have have the effing and jacking,

as it were, a lot of swear words.

Yes. Well, it looks like you were correct, Mr.

Duncan, which is annoying.

It was called Storm Eunice in the whole of Europe.

If Eunice is a girl's name, is it not?

That's right. Well, they alternate.

They're actually alternating between a male name and a female name.

So that's why last week it was deadly for D,

and then E was a woman's name, Eunice.

And the next one is Franklin, which is a male name.

So the one after that will be G.

I'm trying to think of a G,

a woman name for a girl or woman.

Jemima Jimbo.

That's J, isn't it?

No, Jamal is that I think Gillian. Yes.

So I think that's a good one.

So I think the next one will be Storm Gillian,

because it will be named after a girl A girl's name.

I can't think of any others.

You want this storm, Duncan. But that's past.

We can't have one night from.

I'm still waiting for storm Duncan.

And they stay always Mr. Duncan out.

So that's why last week we had Storm Dudley.

I really thought they were going to use Duncan.

Storm Duncan, but they didn't.

Thank you, Laura.

Eunice was one of the daughters of the God of the sea.

Awesome.

Right? Okay. It used to be a popular name here

in the UK, but sort of maybe decades ago.

I don't know, Eunice, it probably is probably because somebody is called a storm.

Eunice.

Then people will be probably naming their babies.

Eunice Now there'll be a lot of lunacy arses,

I think you're going to say they're going to name their babies still.

Eunice, what's your name?

Well, my name is Storm.

Storm.

Yeah, maybe, I think.

Yeah, people say, Well, that's a good name.

I'll use that for my newborn child.

So I think, you know, in sort of five or ten years time, there'll be lots of Eunice's

in school. Yes.

So yeah, maybe that's what will happen.

Maybe that's what who knows? We'll have to wait and see.

What does it have to be?

A break when we get to table, will there be a storm?

Tomic, do you think

maybe if

you were the first to suggest it or it could be a storm.

Louis or a storm?

Marcia Yes, or a storm.

Vittoria Well, there's a storm, there's a storm brewing between Tomic and Victoria anyway.

You know, after last week I think there's, you know, still going on,

the flames are still burning.

They certainly are

yes. Somebody's been to Brazil.

I said, Oh, that's interesting.

Oh, I'm always fascinated with what people

write on the live chat

Hmm, right.

Very interesting.

Shall we say, Mr. Duncan? It seems we get away with it.

No, I've only, I've done it once already and I think I got away with it.

I think I got away with swearing once today.

That's it.

We swear at us.

Well, that happens all the time.

I'm used to that it's fair to say as many times as I'm used to that

when I walk around the neighbourhood, the neighbours always swear at us.

Yes, they use very colourful language.

As we walk by.

Anyway, we have a subject to talk about today.

We've talked about a lot of things already, including Mr.

Steve's birthday. We talked about that.

We've talked about the Queen of England, who apparently has officially has COVID.

But would appear

to be not not suffering too much from it.

So that's good news.

I thought it would be interesting to look at some words

connected to

the mouth and there is Mr.

Steve literally foaming at the mouth as

what's annoyed me now.

Is it the neighbours? I love that photograph as Mr.

Steve and I think he's cleaning his teeth he doesn't look very pleased.

So we, we have mouth, idioms and phrases.

I can't stare at that photograph for the next half.

An hour.

I kind of keep laughing that that really is so funny.

I don't know why if he foam at the mouth, it's an expression that's used

when somebody gets really irate or angry about something and keeps talking and talking,

getting more and more angry, you can say to them, you stop foaming at the mouth

or they guess that person is getting so angry they're foaming at the mouth. Yes.

To become excited or angry, you can say that

that person is foaming at the mouth like Mr.

Steve whilst cleaning his teeth.

Anyway, we have some words, some very interesting words.

For example, you might tell someone to put your money where your mouth is.

We are asking a person to prove something.

So they are saying it.

They are saying they can do something.

Or they are saying they are good at something.

You might say you must put your money where your mouth is.

A good example would be a person who is boasting about their abilities.

Oh, yes. I'm a I'm a very good singer.

I yes, I can do that.

I'm very good at running.

I could do the London Marathon in record time

and someone might say, you will now have to put your money where your mouth is.

Shows that you can do this thing that you're talking about,

the mouth being your talking, poppy boasting, saying something as you say.

I myself, I think I could run the London Marathon and then you might say, prove it.

Yeah.

Put your money where your mouth is.

Prove that what you're saying that you're going to do it.

I mean, elect it could be literally money as well.

We're using it figuratively.

But you could say, for example,

I think that

Mr. Duncan is going to get

to 1 million subscribers by next week.

And you might say, oh, come on then.

Let's bet on that. Put your money where your mouth is.

I bet you £5 it won't happen or £5 that it will.

You could literally use money in that expression.

But quite often it's used figuratively, isn't it? Yes.

To prove that you can do the thing that you are saying you can do,

you are asking the person to put their money

where their mouth is.

Here's another one, a person he keeps boasting

or a person who keeps talking loudly.

We might say that a person is all mouth and trousers.

I think this is a great expression.

So a person who's always talking and they are talking big about themselves,

they are also always boasting about their abilities,

very similar to the previous one, in fact.

So to be all mouth and trousers means

you are always doing this, talking about yourself.

Or maybe you are boasting and showing off about things.

Or maybe a person who is always acting aggressively

with their mouth and the words that they use.

Yes, that man was in the pub the other night.

I think he wanted to start a fight,

but he's all mouth and trousers.

Is he saying these things?

He's opening his mouth and saying these things, but he won't do it.

He's all mouth and trousers

and you can just shorten that to his own mouth. Hmm.

He's all mouth.

In other words, it's somebody who just talks, says they can do things

but never actually does it.

You know, somebody might say, Oh yes, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do that.

And because, you know, they've said things before and never done it,

you know, that they're the sort of person who's

just talks, just talks the talk but doesn't walk the walk. Yes.

So a person who is all talk and no action,

it's all mouth and room. It's not you.

So say you're in a pub, you're in a bar somewhere

and somebody is annoying you at the other side.

You know that they might be shouting

a lot or just behaving in a way that annoys you.

So you might be with a group of people.

You might say one.

Oh, I'm going to show him that he's Mr.

Jenkins choking on water oh, right.

So he might say, Oh, I'm going to show him a thing or two.

How dare he annoys and shout like that.

And ruin the atmosphere.

And somebody might say, Oh, you're all mouth.

You wouldn't dare go over there and say something.

Okay?

So somebody might say, Yeah, he might pretend that you're

butch and macho and you're going to sort people out.

That in fact, would you?

Because that would elicit a confrontation

and you might not be the sort of person I would be like that.

Okay, Steve, I'm just explaining what it means, you know, that's good.

Well, you know, I was covering for you you did a very good job.

And back on the phone, was that a new phone ringing? Oh,

oh, I thought it was.

I knew phone ringing.

Hey, Steve, this is going

well. I'm just covering while you were coughing, Mr.

Duncan, to put your foot in your mouth

I think Steve could explain this one.

Yes. That's when you that's when you say you say something,

and it could be

offensive or you say something you didn't

imagine it might upset somebody or you you forgot what you were saying.

And it ended up offending somebody. Yes. Yeah.

Yeah.

To say the wrong thing, gypped yourself up in some way,

reveal something you shouldn't have done

you put your foot in it.

I do this a lot.

You know, you could just say you put your foot in it.

The it being your mouth,

put your foot in your mouth or you put your foot in it.

And it just means that you you look silly

because you said something stupid.

Yeah. It's just to say the wrong thing.

At the wrong moment and you put your foot in your mouth.

One of my favourite ones must be of Mr. Steve's.

When we were, we had an Easter live stream and I was eating

lots of Easter eggs and Steve said that I'm getting fat.

And I said, yes, my stomach is getting really big.

And then Steve says, I think you're going to have a chocolate baby.

And I think, I think that, that, that, that may be taken

the wrong way, even though we know what you meant.

Yeah.

But you know, people are very sensitive nowadays, very sensitive about these things.

Even though Mr. Steve meant it as a joke.

You might say that in technically maybe Mr.

Steve put his foot in his mouth.

I do it all the time as well.

I often say the wrong thing, the wrong way to put your foot in it.

You normally shorten it to, Oh, I've put my foot in it now, haven't I?

So you can say something that, you know, you might say that

you might have a group of people, then you might be saying something about somebody

and you don't know that other people don't know this information and it might upset them. Yes.

And they might say, well, I didn't know that.

He said, Oh, I've put my foot in it.

You might reveal something about somebody in a social situation.

Maybe someone's planning to get married.

And they told you, but they didn't want you to tell anybody else.

And then you reveal it accidentally.

And then somebody says, What?

Who's getting married while Rebecca is getting married?

But I've put my foot in it now.

You didn't mean to say it.

Yeah. You know, it's something you didn't mean to do. That's it.

But to put your foot in your mouth means you you say the wrong thing, you make a mistake.

Whilst talking.

Oh, word of mouth.

I like this one, by the way.

Sorry for the coughing, but it's a bit dry in here.

The air is very dry, and my throat becomes a little dry.

That's why I have my water.

You see, it's not vodka.

It's definitely water.

Word of mouth.

The way in which news or something

can be passed from one person to another.

Maybe some information, maybe something new

that you've just found out

from another person who told you all about it.

You can say that you heard about it through word of mouth. Yes.

So you didn't see it written down?

It was just passed on from one person to another.

Incidentally, going back to that last phrase, put your foot in it.

Victoria has a very

correctly said.

You could say it was a gaffe.

A gaffe, yes.

Something that was said inappropriately that probably could well cause problems.

So, yes, thanks for that.

And Autumn says put your foot in your keyboard.

Yes. Well, yeah, because you can

write things down from your keyboard that could upset people as well.

Could be the wrong thing.

You said so maybe you've created a new expression.

Look at that, Mr.

Duncan.

It's absolutely tipping it down with rain that it's that storm.

Frederick. Yes, right.

Yes. It's getting worse is the point I was making. Yes.

Storm Frederick,

it's by the way,

talking of weather, you see we think we've had it bad with weather

here in the UK, but, you know, with our bad storm.

But in fact, in Brazil, they've had these horrendous mudslides haven't they?

Yeah, that was on the news.

So for Masi and other people watching,

it was it was horrible to see these very graphic

pictures of mudslides in Brazil this week.

So, you know, we're not the only ones to have bad weather.

In fact, we normally get quite mild weather.

So that's why it's very unusual for us, even though in real terms,

it's not causing any real distress to people.

I think a few people died, but not many over 100 well through Storm Eunice.

No, no. You obviously.

I know. I but I was saying in the U.

Oh, I see.

In Brazil, there was a large loss of life and fortunately very terrible.

But I think three people lost their lives here because of Storm Eunice.

So some people might say that's a good thing, but not for the three people who lost their lives.

Yeah, it was a good one, Laura.

Okay. It went viral through word of mouth.

Can you say that?

Um, yes.

I suppose nowadays we often use the word meme

to show something that's been spread through the Internet.

May be something that people have found out about.

So yes, we might.

We might actually use that instead word of mouth or maybe through the Internet.

We often say that something spreads virally or

something goes viral.

It spreads normally through the Internet.

People passing on the information from one person to another,

drunk or drink.

If someone is talking too much, we call them mouthy. Yes.

Or mouthy.

Yes, yes.

Always giving it that.

They're a bit mouthy.

If you're in a restaurant and someone's talking a lot in the next table,

you might say, listen up them.

They're mouthy.

You just mean somebody is always talking a lot and can be heard all the time.

Annoying.

If somebody is mouthy, you're saying that they're annoying.

You don't use that phrase in a positive sense.

Oh, you're mouthy.

It's it's in a negative sense.

You don't like it.

It's annoying a person who likes to talk about themselves or maybe a person

who is a little arrogant with the way that they speak or just never stops talking. Hmm.

Oh, they're a bit mouthy. Hmm.

Here's another one, Steve.

To mouth off.

That's right. Yes.

If you mouth off at someone it means you are losing your temper.

You are shouting at someone to mouth off at someone.

Maybe you are using insults, verbal insults.

You are saying bad things to another person you mouth off at.

Look, so this is being used as a verb to mouth off

is to to verbally abuse or shout at someone.

Yes. Yes.

That is a quite a commonly used expression.

It is that he mouthed off

to his friend in the restaurant

because they were annoying them. Hmm.

Thank you for your comments about the storm. Yes.

Storm Franklin is the new storm

that is coming past at the moment, and that's what you can see

battering

the UK and especially England at this very moment in time.

You might you might leave people

open mouthed.

You're so surprised and shocked by what somebody said.

You can't respond verbally.

You so shocked that you just

somebody says something shocking.

They might say something offensive to you, swear you call you a horrible name,

or it might be some information they're telling you about.

That's shocking.

And you're just so

shocked that you can't say anything.

No, it leaves you stunned, shocked, open mouthed.

And yeah, people do that.

I might say something horrible to Mr. Duncan.

I probably will after this show is finished. Why?

I'm only joking.

What if I did not leave Mr. Duncan open?

I'm just joking.

You say I'm joking or I'm I'm

but yes, you know, we

we often get things said to us on the live stream

by certain people whose names we won't mention

that leave us open mouthed with shock.

Yes, you can't you can also say bad things about another person.

You can bad mouth someone. Bad mouth you.

All right?

That is also a phrase.

If you bad mouth someone, it means you say bad things about someone.

You have. This is something we're always doing at work.

Yes. Behind people's backs.

If you do something behind someone's back,

it means they don't know just doing it.

And we're always badmouthing other people at work.

It's a horrible trait.

It's a horrible thing to do.

But friends, colleagues at work will phone up each other

and we'll talk about some other colleague

about some behaviour that they displayed in

a Zoom meeting and we all go to work.

Did you see them fancy saying that, you know, they're what an idiot, they're idiots.

Or you might be saying something nasty about somebody say you're bad mouthing some days

you might just be criticising them, talking behind their back.

Here's another one, Steve.

Moving on. Yes,

tongue in cheek, something that is being said as a joke,

something that is being said that isn't meant.

It is just something that is being said

in a light hearted way.

Something is a little bit tongue in cheek.

So it's something you're saying it might sound serious it might sound like something

that is maybe mean or bad,

but you're actually using it tongue in cheek.

You are using it light heartedly.

Yes. You might suggest to somebody, why don't you

you might see two you know, two friends that

get on quite well together

or that they we seem to be going out together places

you don't think there's any romantic involvement, but you might say, oh,

why don't you two get married

tongue in cheek?

You don't really mean it.

You're just sort of a bit of a joke to see what response you might get.

And literally, you could put your tongue in cheek at the same time to indicate that you are joking.

I've never seen anyone do that. Yes. Well, yes, you do.

You said, yeah, well, you can even say, Oh, why don't you two get

married?

Tongue in cheek.

I just say, literally, that is, you're indicating that you're joking.

I've never I've I've never seen anyone make a joke and then go

oh, quite so obviously

is that I think people understand what I mean,

tongue in cheek.

But that's where the expression comes from. Yes.

I know, I know. I'm joking.

Okay, Steve, I hope it is anyway. I hope it is.

We've had a good suggestion from Jemmy.

I mean, you might have this one anyway. On your list.

Okay, I've heard the phrase.

Don't put words into my mouth.

Yeah, don't put words in my mouth. Yes.

Maybe you are repeating something that another person has said, but you change

what they've said to make it appear

to be something different or maybe something more offensive.

You might say that the person said

something that they didn't say it all. Yes.

You are putting words into that person's mouth.

You paraphrase something that somebody said or you might say something to somebody,

they misinterpret it or they deliberately repeat back something to you.

And it's totally different from what you actually meant.

So and

that quite often comes up when you're offending somebody.

Maybe. Yes, maybe it may.

Maybe somebody at work suggests that oh, oh.

You might say to some your boss might come to you or you might get

your boss might come to you and say

yes. Can you try and hit your targets?

This week, please?

And you and you might say, what are you saying?

I'm not doing my job properly.

And the boss comes back and says, I don't put words into my mouth.

I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying, can you get your targets this week, please? Yes.

You know, so you may be suggest something more

than what they're actually trying to say to you. Yes.

So you might say

another example could be Mr.

Duke. You

you might say

to be.

All right, let's move on, because Mr. Nothing is nothing.

No. I'm intrigued to find out what happens next.

It's fine.

It's funny. Well, I probably can't remember.

And I was thinking, oh, okay. Yeah.

It's just it's when you it's when you suggest it.

Maybe you come back with

or somebody comes back to you with something and it's more than what you actually meant.

Yes. Or different or different. Yes.

Yes. You misinterpret what someone has said.

You put words into their mouth. Yes.

You might say, oh, that that just looks a bit tight on you.

And the person might

come back and say, well, are you saying I'm fat?

You know, I know.

I didn't mean that. You know, you're putting words into my mouth.

I'm just saying that dress looks a bit tight.

I didn't say fat. I said plump.

I'm putting words into my mouth.

Here you go. It's a good one. Thanks, Jemmy.

If someone says something that makes you angry,

you might have to stop yourself from reacting so what will you do?

You will bite your tongue.

Not literally.

You don't do it.

You don't actually bite your tongue.

But you you hold back saying what you want to say.

Maybe a person is is making you angry.

Like.

Like the way I'm apparently I'm making Mr.

Steve angry today. I don't know why.

No, I'm being lovely.

I'm over it now. I'm like a little kitten.

I'm like a little cat curled up on your lap.

And now and again, I will stand up and lick your face.

Bite your tongue.

It means you bite

your tongue figuratively.

You are holding back.

You are stopping yourself from losing your temper, stopping his heart from saying something.

You might want to say something.

I mean, there are times when I see comments from people on the live chat I really want to say something.

I have to bite my tongue because I don't want to upset people.

I'm joking.

But yes, you might be in a you know,

you might be talking to somebody and you want to say to them,

for goodness sake, you know, but you think, no, that would be offensive.

It might upset that person.

Therefore, you hold back from saying literally what you want to say

just through maybe social etiquette or because you don't want to upset that person.

But yeah.

So that said, yes, you find quite often you have to bite your tongue

because you want to say something, but, you know, you can't see stopping yourself because it would offend

or could be socially unacceptable to say something definite on time.

Definitely yes.

That's it.

Yeah. And we we often get that in conversations with friends.

You see something happening in a room and you want to comment maybe on somebody's appearance,

maybe they're wearing something inappropriate, maybe they're doing something

that you think is inappropriate and you want to say something, but you don't want

to bite my tongue there because you could get yourself into trouble.

It's, you know, you, you don't say something because you fear the repercussions on yourself.

If you were to say that, that's it, pretty good.

Here we go.

It's another one now on the screen to become tongue tied

so of course, your tongue is in your mouth.

And that's what we're talking about, mouth. And

I suppose we could talk about other parts of your mouth.

As well.

So to become tongue tied means

you you find it difficult to express yourself.

You find that you don't have the words that you want to use.

You can't think of what to say.

Or maybe you just feel so nervous

or afraid that you can't speak.

You want to say something, but you become

tongue tied or tongue tied, you know, tongue

it's almost as if your your tongue is become knotted.

It is turned into something that you can't use. Yeah.

Somebody says to you, oh, can you just get up and tell this

this group of people, you know, something?

You know, you might be a public somebody might ask you to stand up and say something.

Suddenly

in front of a group of people and you're quite nervous about it.

And you stand up and because the nerves affect you,

your speech process, you sound nervous, your tongue very long.

I can't get the words out.

Literally feels like your tongue is not working properly.

Tongue tied. It's tied up.

And you can't get your words out because of nerves. Yes.

So you become tongue tied maybe sometimes it's not nerves.

I mean, I often get tongue tied on the live stream. Yes.

But it probably is all down to you worrying what people will think

because I'm trying to read the live stream and comment at the same time.

Maybe there is a beautiful girl or a beautiful man or a beautiful person.

Maybe there is a right.

And you want to ask them out on a date? Yes.

But you and you go up to them and you say hi

oh, oh,

you become tongue tied because you can't you're too nervous.

You are afraid to ask that person out on a date.

So instead you say nothing because you become tongue tied

and it

says, Can you say big mouth? Yes.

Yes. The person who won't stop talking a person

who talks all the time and won't shut their mouth,

we can say that they have a big mouth particularly.

Yeah. Or they are a big mouth particularly.

They're talking about themselves a lot or what a big mouth.

Usually that. Is that correct?

They're usually showing off about themselves. Is that right? Yes.

A person who boasts a person who constantly wants to give their opinion about things

got a big mouth full, a big mouth who was talking about themselves

and what they've done and their birthdays and that's, you know, that sort of thing.

Not me in all, he says I often become tongue

tied every time I have to express myself in English.

Well, competence, you build your confidence.

You try to do that as much as you can.

And then over time, you will become more confident.

Confidence is something you have to build over time.

It doesn't come quickly.

You have to practise. You have to become more

confident as time goes by.

That's it. Exactly.

You might tell someone,

Hold your tongue, hold your tongue.

It means you are telling them to be quiet.

Stop talking, hold your tongue.

Don't say anything because you might regret it.

You might say something that you will regret.

So you might say, Hold your tongue

stop.

Or maybe you start to say something

and maybe the other person is getting angry and they say, Don't say that.

Hold your tongue.

Don't say it.

That's a great way of expressing that.

If somebody says that to you, that normally means you've really overstepped the mark.

You've really said something upsetting and they want you to shut up. Yes.

Because you've been offensive

people are talking about

maybe expressions in their own country.

Power Mirror says to have a long tongue is somebody who likes to gossip.

Oh, now, didn't know about.

So thank you for that. A long term. That's a good one.

Somebody who gossips a lot.

It talks about other people and other people's lives

and maybe makes things up a bit of all the negative characteristics of a person.

I think gossiping talking about other people

without them realising it is one of the worst characteristics of a person,

a person who likes to go around and and they talk about other people

quite often in a way

to to stir up problems, disparage or trouble.

They say things negative overly about other people say.

So yes, that's a good one.

We will come to something very similar to that in a few moments.

Actually, Thomas says he became Tongue-Tied

when he was about to give a presentation to large

group of people. Hmm, that's true.

Yes, you can.

But particularly if you haven't rehearsed it beforehand,

there's nothing worse

than having to spontaneously talk on something that's.

I hate that.

See, I don't mind if I'm in a play or doing in a musical way.

You've rehearsed and rehearsed and rehearsed, but

when it's spontaneous, I'm always in great admiration of people

who can just stand up and talk off the cuff,

as we say, without any notes about a subject.

Yes, I'm quite good at that.

Yes. Well, you do that all the time on your live stream.

I suppose I've got better at it

since coming on the live streams.

And Mr.

Duncan, I used to be very bad at spontaneously talking,

forming sentences in my head

because I was like to rehearse lines.

That's what I'm used to see.

Somebody at work said to me, a boss at work, quite a high up manager

who came to see me in Scrooge I think it was.

I said, Oh, how do you do that?

How do you how do you learn all those lines and do it?

And I said to him, because I've seen him perform many times

in conferences without any notes at all.

And I say to him, How do you just spontaneously stand up

and just talk you know, for 10 minutes?

30 minutes on air is a business.

I would that to me is very difficult.

So yes,

becoming tongue tied began anyway.

Right? Hold your tongue.

Hold your tongue. Mr. Duncan, I've got something to say.

Okay, Steve,

I do appreciate it.

When Mr.

Steve shouts right into my ear, By the way, I am with you on Wednesday.

Don't forget, there is another live stream.

So we're here today.

But also I will be with you on Wednesday from 2 p.m.

UK. Time for those wondering.

Yes, there is a live stream

on Wednesday and I will be back on my own.

So there will be no Mr.

Steve on Wednesday.

Oh, good one from Christina.

Okay. Straight from the horse's mouth.

Oh, yes.

Thank you for that. Yes.

You hear something from the person

who is directly associated or involved

with that particular thing straight from the horse's mouth.

Reliable information and so the person

who who gave you the information is reliable.

It came straight from the horse's mouth.

Let's hear it straight from the horse's mouth.

The person that has that information and not second hand

that they've passed it on to somebody else that's hear it straight from the horse's mouth.

Hello, Iqbal.

Iqbal Hussain, nice to see you here today.

And we have one more Steve Young, more

and as I mentioned earlier about gossiping people who gossip

to get

or maybe you set tongues

wagging the tongues or tongues are wagging.

It means people are gossiping.

They are talking about you neighbours,

especially neighbours,

nosy neighbours, maybe maybe the neighbours

are always watching through their window or through their curtains.

They are watching what you are doing and then they go

and tell other people about what you were actually doing.

We've got one neighbour who's very, very gossipy.

You might do something, for example,

for example, your neighbours might see

something very interesting because we all like to look at what our neighbours are doing differently.

So savouring example we saw or somebody, our neighbours

saw somebody coming to visit us,

visit us, visit us, I think they would be surprised.

Maybe a couple of attractive men came in a car

and came to visit us and came inside

and the neighbours, all that did, they might think love what's going on there, Mr.

Duncan and Mr.

Steve, they never get, they never get people visiting them.

Oh, what's going on?

What's going on?

Are they, are they doing things they shouldn't be doing?

We are so private and then they talk to other neighbours

or we might see a similar thing

and you know, somebody's living on their own, somebody might arrive.

You've never seen this person visit them before.

What's going on there?

Are they having relations it set tongues wagging.

It means people are talking, gossiping about what could be going on the neighbours house.

I like it when the neighbours around here have new furniture.

I like it when a big white van arrives at someone's house

and I will spend ages

standing at the window waiting to see what it is

and having delivered normally a piece of new furniture

or I normally get excited when it's something

electrical, like a big TV or something.

So I do like watching my neighbours around here,

getting deliveries to their house, especially when it's furniture.

Somebody has a new car or something big and expensive new car.

Ooh, look at that. Ooh, how can they afford that?

I don't know that people get sets tongues wagging.

You start talking, people start gossiping.

Here's one from Ahmed.

How about the cat has got your tongue?

Yes, that's a good one. Yes.

It means something that you don't want to say or you don't want to talk about.

Maybe you go silent and the other person might ask,

what's wrong with you as the cat got your tongue?

Yes. What's wrong with you?

Why won't you answer the question?

Yes. Why won't you give me a reply?

Why have you gone silent?

Has the cat got your tongue?

Oh, good one.

I like that one.

Well, there was a lot of good suggestions. Yes.

Thank you very much.

Lots of good suggestions today.

Very nice.

We will be going in a few moments.

But don't forget, on Wednesday, I am back with you.

And I suppose it's worth mentioning that we are coming towards

the end of February.

It is February, the last few days of February.

And I suppose a lot of people are wondering what is going to happen in March.

March is always my favourite month,

one of my favourite months at the start of the year.

I don't like I will be honest I don't like

January.

I don't like February because normally

the weather is bad as we've proved today.

Yes, February is normally because January

in the UK, January and February were a very sort of cold,

dark, miserable months when it comes to weather.

But because Christmas is just happened, you don't mind January so much

because it's a new year and but then when it starts going into February

and the weather is still dark and dreary, you start to get a bit down depressed.

February I think is the worst month of the year

apart from of course it's my birthday.

I suppose that brightens up February, doesn't it?

My birthday.

This will be a little bit but usually.

Yeah, but back, back to what I was saying.

March is coming and yes, always about to say always the best month

and I might be doing something different in March.

Something a little different.

That's all I'm saying for now.

Well, the plans or the plans are in my head

and that's the only place they are at the moment.

You better bite your tongue or you might tell everybody and ruin the surprise.

I will have to be careful not to let the cat out of the bank. Yes.

Oh, yes.

Well, of course it's Monday morning tomorrow.

Monday morning work

Telmex already mentioned he's deleted it, but I haven't forgotten poor Mr.

Steve at we will have to go back to

to to work tomorrow.

Please wrap it up. Systematic.

I want to go and cook my food.

Oh, I see.

We are about to. Yes.

What I'm definitely going but yes, unfortunately I've got to go to work tomorrow

and to bring home the bacon to earn money

to keep paying for our mortgages and saving up for Ford Mustang, that sort of thing.

Yes. And keeping Mr.

Duncan in the equipment that he needs to carry on doing the last week, as I've already said, Steve,

you might be able to get

a cheap second hand

push with, you know, some slight fire damage.

Maybe the seats are melted. Yes.

Every time you get into the car, you stick to the seats because they've all melted.

But, yes, you might you might be able to get a cheap

fire damaged Porsche or Bentley.

Who knows?

We are about to go.

It's almost time to say goodbye.

I hope you've enjoyed today's live stream and also the dramatic images behind us

when a huge storm came

through whilst we were doing our live stream. Oh,

we'll be gossiping.

Will be gossiping.

About Victoria and Tomek.

Oh, okay.

I wasn't I wasn't sure where, my dear Tomic.

Oh, well, I've been looking at the live stream.

You see, Tom makes a bit of a sports fan.

I've noticed that that Victoria is as well.

So they have things in common

this will set

tongues wagging on the live stream, especially yours, it would appear.

But joking, of course.

I guess it's an example of that expression.

But wouldn't that be be amazing?

Wouldn't that be amazing?

Now I know lots of friendships have been created because of our live stream

and there are lots of people around the world who are now friends because of us weather.

Steve, I'm trying to do something

but yes.

Wouldn't it be lovely if, if two people met through our live stream who then fell in love?

Victoria is married

yeah, we said that, didn't we?

I thought.

I think we said that last week, didn't we? Yes,

bye bye, love.

What I said now I'm upset, though.

Never said that to be.

Who said who said that?

Thomas said to Victoria, bye bye.

I love I'm really getting confused with your,

you know, romantic connexions on the live chat because I thought it was Pedro.

Yes. But this was a thing that he.

Right. It's just, it's just laughter.

A bit of fun.

Is it a bit of fun? Yes.

Maybe for you.

Well, bye bye, everyone.

I'm going to go now because this could prolong the live stream for longer, much longer.

And people are planning for us to go at 4:00 UK time so they can do things.

Oh, I see.

Well, they're cooking food, spending time with family, that sort of thing.

So lovely to be here again.

And lovely to interact with you all

and to get our tongues wagging about English. Yes.

And I'll see you in the living room with a cup of tea.

Oh, I'm looking forward to that in about five or 10 minutes time. Yes.

I'm not going to wait very long for that.

I'm looking forward to my cup of tea. Bye bye.

Thank you, Mr. Steele. Every week

and enjoy learning some English if that's what you plan to do.

And they loved it to see you all here again next week.

I don't think Steve wants to go

there. Are you okay, Steve?

Do you want to go back?

I want to go.

What have I got to go, Mr. him.

I don't think Steve wants to go and buy.

Well, that was strange.

It's time to say goodbye. Thank you, Mr. Steve.

Thank you.

Also to you, the viewer.

Thank you very much for putting up

with all of this today.

I hope it's been interesting

Mr. Steve is so funny.

There is never an unhappy moment when Mr.

Steve is around there is always something going on.

Thank you very much for your company today.

I'm going to leave you with the little Robin once again.

I think we will have a look at the Robin that we saw yesterday

with its friend, a very nice C on Wednesday.

I will be back with you on Wednesday from 2 p.m.

UK time and I hope you can join me then

with another English addict

and all I have to say now is enjoy the rest of your day,

enjoy the rest of your weekend

and I will see you on Wednesday.

And of course,

until the next time we meet here.

You know what's coming next.

Yes, you do.

ta ta for now