Learn English Live / 15th September 2019 / with Misterduncan in England

here we are again it's Sunday afternoon in the UK and we are

live on YouTube once more hello world how is your Sunday is it a good one or

is it terrible either way I hope I will cheer you up somehow with today's

live stream now I should say it is a very strange day today because the weather is

rather unsettled to say the least it looks as if it is about to rain

however the forecast says there might be maybe a short shower so we will have to

wait and see but there you can see a live view right now so that is the view

out of my studio window looking across into the distance of the beautiful

Shropshire landscape and Here I am hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England

how are you today are you ok I hope so are you happy are

you happy because that is part of today's livestream I will be asking you

what makes you happy are you a happy person in life are there things that

maybe on a day when you are feeling a little unhappy a little down perhaps

something comes along that makes you feel happy and sometimes and this is

something I've noticed in my life sometimes the simplest thing that the

smallest thing can can really cheer you up it might be just a very simple thing

maybe you see a butterfly go past your window and maybe the rest of your day

will be cheered up because of that one lovely moment of time

so I hope today you are feeling good what makes you happy that is today's big

question also we'll be looking at other things as well we'll be looking at

recycling something I mentioned last week and here in the UK we have a very

interesting scheme where you have to pay for your plastic bags so when you go to

a supermarket and if you want to put your shopping into a plastic bag you

have to pay a small charge for the plastic bag so that is something I will

be talking about and showing you a little bit later on as well meanwhile we

are here today this is my third live stream in three days so on Friday

yesterday and also today I was here live and for those who are wondering well

first of all you can follow me on Facebook you can email me and also if

you want to help my work continue you can also donate to this address at

PayPal as well don't forget I do all of my teaching for free it costs you

nothing and if you want to catch me live you can every Saturday from 12:00 midday

and also on Sunday from 2:00 p.m. both of those are UK times so don't

forget to check what the time difference is between your country and the UK so I

am here every weekend however I have something special I have something very

special something very nice arranged for next month because October is my 13th

anniversary 13 years I've been doing this on YouTube so today we are looking

at lots of things but during October we will be looking at many different

subjects that's all I'm talking about for now as far as that is concerned the

other thing of course is there is a question as to whether or

not I am going to grow a beard in October and this is something I have

been talking about on my You Tube channel you can vote so there is a vote

taking place on my youtube channel during September would you like me to

grow a beard in October quite a few people have said yes

so at the moment more people are in favor they want me to grow a beard

during October so we will see what happens but at the moment it would

appear that most people or the majority want me to grow a beard it's a little

bit like brexit but more fun let's just say so I hope you're having a good day

it is Sunday it is the 15th of September 2019 we are already half way through

September so October isn't very far away it is just around the corner as we say I

might have to adjust my camera sometimes because the light keeps changing it is

cloudy but also the Sun comes out now and again so I might have to adjust my

camera now and again so lots of things to talk about

also coming up later today after many requests I will be showing the puddle

dance a lot of people have asked mr. Duncan we love the puddle dance for

those who don't know what the puddle dance is you will find out later on so I

will be showing the puddle dance later on it's only short it's only a very

short video but apparently lots of people seem to like it hello to the live

chat hi live chatters nice to see you here today don't forget don't be shy

give it a try say hello on the live chat and we have

a lot of people already talking and chatting away sometimes the chatters

will ask me a question but sometimes the people chatting will also talk to each

other so think of this as a big English community an English language group

across the whole wide world isn't it nice so hello to Chris

oh hello Chris guess what you are first on the live chat today so of course that

deserves a big SuperDuper round of applause

so congratulations Chris you are first on the live chat today also Alamgir is

here talking to everyone and also Tomic hello Tomic blue thunder hey you guys so

happy to see you here again it's nice to be here live from England a lot of

people ask mr. Duncan where are you I'm in England broadcasting live at this

very moment it is 11 minutes past two o'clock on a Sunday afternoon here in

the UK also hello to Julie annik Anna Coby

hello Anna Coby where are you watching hello Martha

in Poland Martha Poland we debuffs we the boss I like your name very

intriguing hello from Spain nice to see you here today

Guadeloupe is also here Jeong Jeong ji is here as well nice to see you

andrew is here also Boyka hello Boyka nice to see you on the livestream as

well by the way you can have live captions let me just show you what you

have to do if you want live captions you can actually press this button on your

keyboard and you will get live captions so not only can you see me live not only

can you hear me live but also you can read what I'm saying as well and now you

can see the Sun is coming out or trying to come out so if you want to have live

captions press this and also you can if you want if you have a mobile device you

can go to the settings which are up there so there are some settings on

tablet devices and smartphones there and you can activate the live

captions on your smartphone and mobile device including Apple devices as well

so even if you are watching on an iPhone you can get live captions I think that

is a very useful thing for those who are learning English because not only can

you hear me you can also see what I'm saying

however sometimes the captions are slightly incorrect so sometimes they are

not correct especially when I'm reading the names

out so if I read your name out you might find that the caption looks nothing like

your name it looks nothing like it whatsoever

hello also - Tong Thuy who is watching in Vietnam I think mr. Bruno is here

hello mr. Bruno I haven't seen you for a very long time where have you been mr.

Bruno it's nice to see you back here again did you receive a notification I

think so maybe YouTube is starting to improve the way it tells my subscribers

about my live streams I hope so I really do now see ya hello mr. Duncan how do

you do I'm doing quite well even though I've had a very busy week I was here

live on Friday also yesterday and today as well so it has been a very very busy

period of time for me hello to Maria Maria I'm saying hello to Maria live on

YouTube hello Franco good afternoon mr. Duncan how are you I'm okay not bad for

a boy that's what I always say not bad

I'm not a boy I'm a long way from that hello Luis

Luis Mendez says hi teacher and hi everybody hello Luis swatching in France

as you can see the light is very strange today

sometimes it is very bright and sometimes it is very dark and dull dark

and dull hello mica mica is saying hello to

everyone else on the livestream Thomas is here Pedro hooray hooray hooray

Pedro Belmont is here as well I feel as if I want to sneeze I feel as if I have

a sneeze in my nose do you ever get that do you ever find sometimes you get the

feeling as if you want to sneeze I have that at the moment I feel like I'm going

to sneeze my head off hello to all the English men and women gathering to see

mr. Duncan thank you very much it's nice to see you here as well it is live

English if you want to improve your English you have come to the right place

especially if you want to improve your listening and also if you have the live

captions you can read as well at the same time I love technology very

much I would say about 90% of my life involves using technology so everything

I do almost everything I do in my life involves some sort or some type of

technology especially when I'm making my lessons Maria

once again also Belarusian hello Belarusian and nice to see you here as

well a lot of people joining me thank you for giving up your Sunday just for

me isn't that nice Chris says what a scenic

view yes the view is rather nice even though it's a little bit dull let's have

a look at there we go a lovely image there into the distance look

across the fields and yes the harvest season has just come and gone but now

many farmers are busy because after the harvest they have to prepare the land

for the next crop and I thought well yesterday I was out and about and I

thought hmmm why don't I do some filming and then show it to you on Sunday

afternoon so yesterday I had a lovely walk I went out and about after

finishing my livestream and this is what I saw we are going to have a look at

what happens after the harvest

something for you there something very interesting I hope and something that

made you smile some views of what happens after the harvest we always

think about the harvest itself but we never think about what happens after the

harvest is finished so you could see there there was a huge tractor did you

see that tractor it was amazing and I wish I could have showed you the sound

as well I wish you could have heard just how loud it was it was really loud a

very noisy tractor it was like an aeroplane taking off and

also you saw at the very end you could see that something was being spread on

the ground and that particular thing is called slurry slurry it is raw sewage it

is raw fertilizer however it is also natural also very natural so I hope you

enjoyed that I hope that put a smile on your face and that is something we are

talking about today what makes you happy as a person what makes you smile yes

smiling even if you smile by yourself can make you feel better for some reason

when you smile your body does something quite magical something very interesting

happens when you smile I always like to smile put a smile on your face smile

when your heart is breaking so I hope you enjoyed that hello to Helena

hello Helena the fields look very tidy the farmers did a very good job yes and

you saw all of the hay bales so there were many hay bales so when we talk

about Bale we mean a collection of grass or stubble from

harvest so quite often that they will use the hay to feed the cattle during

the winter months so eventually they will take the hay

back to the farm so I think someone asked mr. Duncan what happens to the hay

afterwards so in a few days the farmers will collect the hay and they will take

it to the farm where it will be stored safely under cover so that's what will

happen next one of the things I love about living in the countryside is there

is always something going on there is always something happening especially

around here because there are many fields full of crops and also animals as

well even at the back of my house right at the back of my house there are some

cows and some bulls at the moment as well back to their live chat Wow a lot

of people want to speak today please sir can you give us some more information

about improving our skills in English professional I suppose you mean business

English do you mean business English hello Rosa

hello also two blue thunder I realized that if we smile everything will be

better I think so I agree with you sometimes yes it might be difficult it

might be difficult facing an unpleasant situation but I will say from my own

experience that smiling can go a long way they say that a smile can go a mile

to making you feel all right new char mr. Duncan how are you great topics for

today best regards from Kurdistan nice to see you here as well anna says what

does the word zing mean zing is an expression that means to

have lots of energy you have zing you have a lot of energy you have a

lot of motivation you have a lot of zing zing it's a great word by the way and it

really does express the feeling of having a lot of energy you have a lot of

zing you have a lot of zest you have a lot of energy zing it's a

lovely word I feel as if I have a lot of zing today because I had a beautiful I

had a lovely sleep last night I did I had the most amazing sleep last night

sometimes when you sleep have you noticed sometimes when you sleep you go

into a very deep sleep I always call it my coma sleep because the sleep is very

deep it's almost as if you no longer exist that's how deep the sleep is so it

feels as if you have gone into a coma a very deep sleep the Sun is out hello

son nice to see you back hello mr. Duncan

you you are adorable today Thank You rose bush that is very

kind of you to say Helena hello to Helena again

hello mr. Duncan I've changed my name to an English name so you can name me

freely but I have a question what what's your relation to the idiom closely but

no cigar I I have no idea what you mean there I have no idea

lilia or Illya Illya Johnson I have no idea what you mean there what's your

relation to the idiom closely but no cigar I've never heard of that I'm not

sure if you are getting it right I'm not sure

apparently sin or sin or D arrow says I repair tractors so you are actually a

mechanic so in your job you repair tractors so your background is mechanics

mechanical I'm afraid I am NOT very good with mechanical things technology yes

very good mechanical things not so good not so good

hello mr. Duncan are you happy I hope so I am from Iraq and I followed you for 10

years and I really love you thank you dower dough air jasmine thank you very

much I love your name jasmine a beautiful

flower a Madhu says hello mr. Duncan I am in Ghana hello to Ghana I do have

some some viewers in Ghana I think I had someone in Zimbabwe yesterday so there

was actually a person watching my live streams yesterday in Zimbabwe as well so

I know I have a lot of people watching in Africa pappi I'm rather happy today

can I use that can I use rather in that sentence rather happy yes I feel rather

happy so it is a way of expressing that yes I am definitely happy I feel rather

happy today rather quite I feel quite happy I feel rather happy of course

rather can also mean something that you prefer to do so something that you would

rather do means something that you would prefer to do so rather can also mean

preference as well something you prefer to do you would

rather do it I would rather be in bed then go to work if I had the choice but

also you can say rather to express your feelings as well I feel rather happy

today I feel rather happy what makes you happy though what makes you happy one

thing that makes me happy is just after having a cup of tea in the morning so I

have a cup of tea in the morning and then afterwards I feel quite happy

because of the warm sensation of the tea going into my tummy I don't know why but

it makes me feel very happy and relaxed and calm so not because of the tea but

actually because of the feeling of having a hot drink it makes me feel very

cozy very warm very pleasant in fact Mika says oh this is interesting

Mika says the smell of coffee makes me happy so very similar very similar to

what I just said so having a drink a warm drink can make you feel happy but

also when you smell coffee especially coffee I love the smell of coffee it

always reminds me of when I was at school and sometimes I don't know if it

happens now but sometimes they would give coffee to the pupils at school

during the lunch break and quite often you could tell that the coffee was being

made because the whole school would smell of coffee I remember what it was

yes of course what they used to do they used to give us coffee and also

doughnuts as well so they would serve coffee and doughnuts to the children it

just seemed very strange nowadays to think of coffee being given to children

because we don't often think about that anymore

but yes when I was at school a young child that sometimes they would

give us coffee and donuts for lunch and we always knew because the whole school

would smell of coffee you could smell it so that used to make me very excited Doh

s says hello mr. Duncan once again Pedro is here Oh Pedro says when I near a

beautiful girl I feel happy I think so Pedro to be near a beautiful girl or an

attractive lady makes Pedro feel very

happy mr. Duncan in Alentejo a Portuguese reason region sorry I will

try that again in Alentejo a Portuguese region a hay-bale like that is called a

tea cake as a slang term really I didn't know that I don't know why because I

think tea cakes are round aren't they they're not square but yes that's

interesting so in Portugal in a certain part of Portugal the hay bale is

actually known as a tea cake as a slang term mmm

I didn't know that but now I do and one of the wonderful things about being here

sometimes you learn things from me and sometimes I learn things from you

Connell says there are several English words that I have to memorize but I

can't because I don't like their spelling or pronunciation and I can't

make myself use them isn't it strange well we all have words that we don't

like to use even native English speakers might have certain words that they don't

like to use or maybe they say something instead so I think yes I think that that

must happen in every language I think it must happen in all languages in fact I

think so blue thunder is here again ah very similar to Pedro my girlfriend said

that I am a funny man who always smiles what a happy day well I'm glad to hear

your girlfriend appreciates that you are a happy person isn't that lovely

hello also to Rosa now everyone is saying hello to each other which i think

is great isn't it a shame that the whole world

can't be like this isn't it a shame that YouTube doesn't encourage more of this

instead of people shouting Eevee in each other you will notice that YouTube likes

people to argue and complain because that's how you get viewers where is here

you will very rarely hear me complain in fact the only thing I really complain

about is YouTube YouTube does annoy me sometimes new Shar says smiling can

increase the hormones connected to happiness and that is why it is very

important I think so I think so something that makes you happy can

actually make you feel better up here and also here as well so I think

you're right yes Mika green tea I'm not a big fan of

green tea I'll be honest with you when I was in China they would always give me

green tea and I'm not a big fan of green tea it's a little bit too bitter for me

mr. Duncan how do you use throughout in sentences and what does it mean well

throughout means all through so all through a certain event throughout

throughout or of course when we are talking about a place or an area if we

are talking about throughout it means right across so maybe the whole area so

throughout the UK people are talking about brexit throughout across so many

people in a particular area or doing a certain thing throughout so quite often

it is used to show the occurrence on a very large scale throughout or if so of

course something happening for a very long time so sometimes when I'm in bed I

will snore throughout the night throughout the night I will often snore

so it means from morning or should I say from night time to the next morning I

snore throughout the night throughout so over the whole period that particular

thing happens throughout

hello to Nessie yeah nasiha says I am a landlord oh I see so you you take care

of property that you own so a person who is a landlord will often take care or

they will look after a certain property and quite often they will own that

property so the landlord is quite often also the owner of maybe a house or maybe

land or maybe both the landlord yes the son keeps disappearing it is not a great

day today even though it's very warm I am so hot

standing here in front of the lights on a Sunday afternoon it is already coming

up to 20 minutes away from 3 o'clock hello also to saturina I've had a

tough and harsh life the things that make me happy are just simple things I

like to sit down on a rock and look at the sea and think a few happy moments

that life has given me I love that I look at that that is almost poetic

that almost sounds like a poem so the things that make me happy are sitting

down watching the sea and thinking of the lovely moments from my life or the

lovely moments that life has given me lovely yes so as I said earlier it is

strange how sometimes simple things can make you feel happy and normally they

are very small things very small things even on a day-to-day basis maybe during

the day maybe you are walking through town and you see a stranger and the

stranger gives you a smile that can make your day

completely better a smile from a stranger an innocent moment of time but

it can make you feel better someone out there has seen you and they have decided

to give you a smile very simple thing hello rose sorry hello Palmyra Palmyra

is talking to Rosa and says I saw the legendary Brazilian player Oscar Oscar

Schmid who is in the final that sounds like a very interesting topic a

conversation about football something that I know nothing about I am NOT a

follower of football soo Kat says hello mr. Duncan hi sue cat I haven't seen you

for such a long time where have you been where have you been

hello everyone hello and goodbye oh okay that was quick I am going to an animal

reserve that is an hour from my town to visit a baby wild cat that we delivered

a few weeks ago so when you say delivered you mean you

watched the small animal be born so you saw an adult an adult wild cat give

birth amazing that's incredible the only thing I've

ever seen being born is a sheep or should I say a lamb so the only thing

I've ever seen being actually born actually coming out is a baby lamb which

was just behind here in fact one of the fields in the distance there were some

lambs being born and mr. Steve and myself were

lucky enough to see one actually pop out isn't that nice

Pierre is here hello mr. Duncan and everybody I am late my computer does not

work very well I know the feeling I am having a slight computer problem at the

moment but it's not a problem with the computer the computer works perfectly

but I am having a problem with the amount of data the amount of storage

inside my computer for some reason and I don't know why and this seems to be a

big mystery but apparently it isn't very unusual the the C Drive so the main

drive on my computer keeps keeps filling up and I don't know why so at the moment

I only have about one gigabyte of free space on my C Drive so it's very

annoying and sometimes I I will get an alert on my computer which says you are

running low on disk space please create some more space on your disk so I don't

know what that is all about but maybe there is a computer expert watching

right now who can tell me but for some reason the C Drive so not the other

drives I have other drives are the hard drives on my computer but for some

reason and I don't know why the C Drive keeps filling up and it's very annoying

I'm sure someone on here is a computer expert now Ruto asks mr. Duncan can you

tell me why do the British people use dinner instead of lunch you will hear

people saying I will have my dinner meaning I will have my lunch this is

something I spoke about I think a couple of weeks ago I talked

about this yes breakfast most people agree that

breakfast is called breakfast however when we talk about lunch

some people say dinner so when we say dinner we just mean the main meal so a

main meal a big meal something that will fill you up so we often think of dinner

as being a big meal so you might have lunchtime

you will have a large meal so we will say yes I'm having my dinner but also we

will say lunch and evening as well so evening meals we can also say dinner my

evening dinner or some people will say tea so I'm having my tea so tea in that

sense means evening meal but these are often used in British English British

English and then there is supper as well supper Sergio has a comment to make why

do they sell coffee in closed cups I suppose it is so people don't spill

the coffee all over them because many years ago and this is something I

remember from the past many years ago people would go into McDonald's or

Burger King or KFC and they would order a cup of coffee or a cup of tea which of

course would be very hot and sometimes people would spill the coffee or the tea

over them and then they would get burnt they would get harmed they would suffer

pain and then afterwards they would sue the restaurant they would sue McDonald's

they would sue KFC they would take legal action to get

some money for the injury that they suffered so I think that is the reason

why they seal they put the top on a cup of coffee so you don't spill it all over

yourself and even on the side even on the side of the cup it tells you this is

where we are now this is where humanity is we have to be told that the cup of

coffee that contains hot tea or hot coffee is hot we have to be told that

can you believe it so there we are life in 2019

hello Shiraz hello also to franceska Anna wow so many people are here I won't

be able to say hello to everyone today because there are a lot of people here

today Helena to stay happy I always look for

good books good music and free time to enjoy them learning English makes me

very happy too I'm very pleased to hear that I hope my lessons also make you

feel a little bit more happy a little bit cheerful talking about being happy

we are now going to take a look at one of my one of my early English lessons

and this is one that I made many years ago the other day Luis Luis Mendez

mentioned this actual lesson so I thought it would be a nice opportunity

to show you some excerpts so this is not the whole lesson this is just one or two

parts of the lesson and the lesson in question is all about being happy and

feeling sad

we all have feelings they are the individual part of our character that

show the way we feel depending on the situations around us when we say

feelings we are actually describing one feeling at a time although sometimes for

example due to illness a person may experience many feelings at

once the way you feel relates to your emotional state mood frame of mind

temper disposition state of mind spirit good or bad can be added to all of these

words to show a positive mood and a negative one

our feelings and moods are all related to the way we think in our minds the

study of this subject is called psychology this also covers the way we

behave generally our minds control everything we do

besides actions your mood can also affect your health if you were to feel

unhappy over a long period of time then you may need to see a doctor

you could be suffering from depression this is often caused by stress from a

sudden change in your life such as the loss of your job or the death of a loved

one there are many different things around us that have the ability to

change the way we feel a piece of classical music might make you feel sad

it touches you emotionally it moves you a happy story may uplift your mood and

cheer you up you may find yourself both laughing and

crying while watching a romantic movie either alone or with your lover

I feel happy I feel glad I feel excited I never feel sad the day is alive and I

feel great tomorrow will be good I just can't wait my heart is warm with a rosy

glow the smile on my face I love to show I need to jump I like to sing I want to

live I love everything

I feel down I feel bad I feel miserable I really feel sad I hate this day I

dislike it all my heart is down feel like I will fall so gray is this world

with its trouble and strife so cold my spirit in this dark and gloomy life

happy cinnamons bright content cheerful elated glowing jolly

joyful Mary sunny

sad synonyms blue forlorn depressed down gloomy glum moody solemn woeful

it would be fair to say that we all go through times when things seem bad

people can sometimes let you down they have the ability to say things that make

you unhappy events and circumstances may come along and destroy your plans for

the future as the poet Stephen spender once wrote

you must live through the time when everything hurts life comes with no

guarantees or promises the sunny days of contentment can only be truly

appreciated through the dark gloomy nights of despair for without sadness we

would never really know what it is like to be truly happy

I hope you enjoyed that one of my very early lessons all about feeling happy

and being sad well you don't have to be sad today because I am here live on

YouTube we are talking about what makes you feel happy and maybe the things that

make you feel sad as well so I have received quite a few questions here and

very interesting hello - let's have a look shall we

well Naruto asks mr. Duncan what makes you sad and what do you do when you are

a sad or when you feel sad what do you do what do I do

well some things do make me sad some things make me very unhappy some things

make me angry maybe I think one of the things that makes me really sad is when

people are unfair and I think that's it so unfairness so unfairness in society

unfairness in a situation when you see one person being unfair to another so I

think unfairness is one of the things that really makes me feel a little sad

and unhappy but generally speaking I would say that I'm quite a happy person

I've had periods in my life where I felt down felt unhappy but what can you do as

I said in the video that you just watched sometimes life brings things

your way that are difficult or hard to cope with and other times life is just

full of joy and that is it life comes with no guarantees or promises the dark

nights of despair can only be fully appreciated by the warm sunny days and

vice versa so without happiness or without sadness

we would never really know the joys of actually existing that's how I look at

it anyway maybe you agree maybe you disagree Sergio

oh I see Sergio has something to say about my C Drive you just need to

separate your C Drive from all the other storage well I have my computer is very

high spec very high specification so I have a separate C Drive and also other

drives which are not connected to the C Drive I know that so I know that already

so it is nothing to do with that but for some reason and I don't know why

something is creating files and data inside my C Drive and I have done

everything I have cleaned the computer I've done system cleans or cleanups as

they call them so you can clean your disk to get rid of all of the unwanted

files I've done that I've done everything but for some reason my C

Drive keeps getting full and it's very annoying so that makes me sad so there

is another thing that makes me feel sad sometimes when my C Drive keeps filling

up and I don't know why so I don't normally get sad and not as much as I

used to I used to be a person who would worry and think about things too much

but over the years I have learned to relax and calm myself and not get too

upset by the things around me especially things that I can't change so sometimes

you might find yourself becoming sad or feeling unhappy about something that you

can't change stop Belarusian you are making me cry oh I see

Belarusian says this lesson touched my heart mr. Duncan well

I the reason why I made that lesson wasn't to make you sad it was actually

to make you happy and feel a bit of joy so I suppose it is keeping everything in

perspective so sometimes we think too much about

negative things when we should be thinking about nice things it sounds

easy when you say it but in reality it is not

so easy to do so I do understand that Blue Thunder says I love winter winter

is a full fun time yes I think here winter is great especially when it snows

as you know I love snow where is the puddle dance well the puddle dance is

coming up in a few moments because we are coming up to three o'clock and a lot

of people have asked mr. Duncan can we have a look at the puddle dance so for

those who have requested the puddle dance and I really hope this puts a

smile on your face here it is right now

thank you thank you thank you oh how kind thank you very

much for those applause as well I hope you enjoyed that yes I said it was short

not very long so there was my puddle dance that I recorded I think I made

that last year dancing in the puddle

paddle paddle paddle so when the water collects in a hole maybe the rain falls

and then the water will collect in a hole we call that a puddle puddle what a

great word Thank You Mika really I've always bought my cup with me

when I get coffee at a shop I suppose so and I think this is something that is

happening now especially in the UK and I suppose many countries around the world

as well people are being encouraged to bring the same cup back to the coffee

shop so yes I'm not sure how hygienic that is

though I suppose you have to make sure that you wash the cup before you take it

to the cafe but yes I think that's a very good idea I think so if you take

your own cup then you don't have to use a plastic cup or a paper cup do they

still have paper cups do they still have paper cups I I think many of them are

now plastic so mark I think your boots were soaked says Tomic no fortunately

fortunately I can safely say that my boots are waterproof so the water did

not get in satury no gives me some advice on my computer oh thank you very

much I really need your help if you can help me solve this problem I

need to solve it I need to sort it out some editing software creates several

copies of your work and saves them for the editing ah yes I know what you mean

yes well we call them scratch disks scratch disks and also you might find in

certain software the the software will create a copy of what you are editing

however my my Premiere Pro which is what I use so the editing software that I use

is naturally Premiere Pro CC and it's the new version but as far as I know

everything that that particular software uses is in a separate drive it is in

another drive so it isn't in the C Drive it is in a completely separate drive but

that is a very interesting suggestion so I'm not saying that I'm not going to

listen to your suggestion because I think it's a really good one that's a

very good suggestion Thank You satury No so I will check that out later I need to

find out why my C Drive keeps becoming full all the time it's very annoying I

don't know why I feel happy and sad or I feel sad and happy at the same time I

think I am crazy not necessarily not necessarily I did not say what you read

out I asked whether your boots got soaked or not no they didn't know

fortunately my boots are waterproof so the water didn't get in but they got wet

on the surface but inside my feet stayed nice and dry hello Anna hello char hello

charred nice to see you what does you never know mean something in the future

that is unknown maybe something that may or may not be possible

something that might or might not happen you never know you never know so it is

an expression that means nothing has been determined

nothing has been planned so maybe something you want to do in the future

something you want to do in your life later do it because you never know you

never know do you like to dance mr. Duncan yes I do

pachoo I love dancing when I was a teenager I used to go to the discos all

the time there used to be a disco on Saturday night very close to where I

lived and I used to go there all the time I love dancing I love music I love

to move my body move my body move move move move move

a boogie boogie boogie boogie boogie so yes I do I really do like to dance and

also I love music as well as you may have noticed in my videos so many of my

video lessons contain all sorts of music many different styles of music next week

on the 21st spring will arrive in Argentina and we will be watching the

bare branches of the trees growing their tiny leaves I love spring I think

springtime is a magical time of year a little bit like autumn so I always think

that springtime is kind of the opposite of autumn

so during autumn everything starts to fade the leaves fall

and everything starts to go to sleep the trees will use every little bit of

energy that they have so autumn and spring are opposites you might say

Alamgir says I am hungry I have to go now because I'm starving

you're not the only one I'm also a little bit hungry as well I am looking

forward to my tea cake today I am really looking forward to it mr. Steve was in

the garden earlier and I will give you a little clue as to what he was doing

you can you see what I have there in my hand

these are damsons and right now the damsons are ripe they

are ripe on the trees and so mr. Steve has been busy in the garden this morning

picking the damsons off the trees so you can see here there are some dams ins

these are ripe they are ripe which means they are ready to be picked so that's

what Steve has been doing he's been busy in the kitchen in fact that's where he

is now Steve is now in the kitchen and he's making some Jam so for those

wondering where Steve is he is now here but he's in the kitchen so he's not here

next to me he is here around the corner

loretta says hello mr. Denker and I have some questions what's the difference

between make a point and have a point well a point is always something that

you express may be an opinion so you make a point about something in that

particular sense so what is your point what is your point of view so we are

talking about a person's opinion so your point of view is your opinion so point

means that is the thing that you are focusing on your point of view so where

does your point of you go to what is your point of view so to make a point

means to express something that you want to get across something that you want to

express maybe an opinion your point of view you have an opinion that you want

to make about something and if you have a point it means there is meaning to

something so to have a point means to have meaning or a purpose so you have a

point you have a meaning you have a purpose so there are some differences

between those two sentences do now everyone I want you to join hands

because I have a strange feeling that I'm about to be joined by the one and

only mr. Steve I think he is on his way mr. Steve is here

hello mr. Duncan hello got to be careful today because I've got a bit of a sore

throat oh yes I forgot to mention that Steve isn't feeling very well today you

have a slight now you think maybe you have a slight cold

yes fever suddenly came on yesterday sore throat the classic symptoms runny

nose I don't know why it's very early I don't normally get colds this early on

in the flu season mr. Duncan but anyway I'm very busy

I'm very busy should I here's a clue here's a clue what is written on my you

have to go right back that's it oh I see so on mr. Steve's apron it says Steve

domestic god oh okay then bow to me mr. Duncan bow to your God domestic God yes

so what does that give you a clue I'm in the kitchen I'm pretty sure people are

going to ask what does domestic mean domestic means things you do in the

house or at home so if you are a person who does domestic jobs you are doing

things in the house maybe cleaning the house maybe you are in the kitchen

cooking the food or or all have a domestic yes you have a de missed if you

have a domestic it means you have a fight that's right maybe a husband and

wife are having a fight yes doesn't have to be physical it could be just verbal

mmm but a domestic you might hear you might hear the neighbors shouting at

each other you might say oh they're having a domestic next door so it just

means that you know in the domestic environment your home people are arguing

as opposed to a work place argument so what am i doing in the kitchen mr.

Duncan I don't know what are you doing in the kitchen mr. I'll give you a few

clues these tell me here we go so first of all I've got a big thermometer that's

a very big one Wow very big thermometer can I hold it I'm going to stick that

we're later and take a temperature reading Steve is going to put this

somewhere I don't know where I don't know I don't want to know where where

where are you going to put this well it's got to be very hot oh okay that mr.

Duncan it's a thermometer I don't think this will fit in that is a thermometer

Debbie disgusting that's thermometer mr. Duncan is designed to be put into very

hot liquids okay and what we're talking about today like hot water or your that

sort of thing maybe something else maybe something

very sticky I can think of I can think of something very hot and sticky that

you might put this in double-entendre is very very naughty mr. Duncan here's

another clue granulated sugar sugar oh yes Lois has guessed correctly has had

other people that's that's mr. Duncan Dietz naught that through earth or a

straw I love sugar that's mr. Duncan's cocaine what well

that's what they described sugar as it's or it's virtually they have identified

it as addictive as cocaine okay but can I just say that I have never snorted

I have never snorted sugar at my nose ever so there we go and this is the

final clue of course I've been picking them this morning

the damsons are finally ripe I'm fact they've gone a bit over right

but there aren't very many this year so I've just got enough to make about 14

pots of jam okay and give some to the neighbors and literally as we speak hmm

the damsons are just starting to come to the boil I put some water in them that's

the first stage bit of water boil them up cook them for half an hour

add the sugar get rid of the stones boil it till the set point is reached and

then put it in to the jam jars I have to be careful here I will be doing that

very shortly I can't stay for long because it could be boiling over yes

okay oh no it's these

I guess sweet well I can smell something burning yes para mirar is she she says

that I think mr. Duncan is pampered I by mr. Steve yes as you have discovered

week on week I'm the one that seems to be doing all the difficult jobs it's not

true I'd also do some jobs as well I put I

put the dishes in the dishwasher and sometimes I cook for mr. Steve when he's

in a hurry so I will make meals for Steve so I I do I do things I wash his

stinky disgusting underwear very I'm Miriam you see see the damsons a bit

closer will that be in focus mr. don't code it probably won't know it's a bit

like it's a type of sort of plum I suppose you would say a soft fruit with

a stone in the middle a hard stone in the middle but they're a little on the

bitter side they're not that popular in this country no they make great Jam

Thursday because I said the other week it's it's not it's not a plum but in

fact it is a type it's a type of plum is I think it is yes I think it is a stoned

a stone fruit yeah so it has a small stone inside yes and I've got to get rid

of them because if you don't get rid of them and you give somebody some of your

dams and Jam and they spread it onto their bread and there's a big stone in

it they could break that break my other teeth yes or Chubby's and choke on the

stone three very important to remove the stones from the middle that will be

amazing though I would like to see the death certificate of someone who's

choked on your jam and and the reason the cause of death will be choking on

mr. Steve's damson Jam damsons Lerato abut dams and Jam type of plum yes house

wife belongs to mr. Steve well I'm a house why I do everything I do all the

jobs don't I mister don't can you name it I can turn my hand to any job it's

not true though because that then sounds as if I don't do any work in the house

but I do I take care of all the things I have to I have to wash his stinky

underwear and sometimes I don't know what he

doesn't I don't know what he does I I think he might have a bit of a problem

you know but you know when you get older you know to get older and you know it

elderly people they sometimes you know a little bit of something comes out oh

somebody wants a pizza they don't want Jam are you talking about you Wittering

on about mr. Duncan I'm gonna go and quickly check because I don't want the

the jam to boil over no mean do you mind if I go and I can always come back if

you want no I won't be here much longer I'm only here for another 10 minutes

okay and then we're going to have tea cakes and a cup of tea so that's a brief

visit from me today so I'll go back into the place of work why do you keep doing

that I don't want to catch your cold oh I see I'm defending myself yes I'm

talking I'm not going to project too much today mr. Duncan good

Zota tower everybody I'm going back into the kitchen to slave away of course I've

got this cold because I have to work so hard and run down run down through all

the work and effort that I've been doing over the last few all the jobs and so

I'm now very susceptible to getting these cold Oh mr. Duncan cold

there is your that's for you yes there we go you see hold that mr. Duncan you

see when the jam is at the right temperature for setting yeah because

you've got to get rid of some of the water there's a little mark on there a

red mark and when you put the thermometer in and the thermometer comes

up to that level then you know the jam is ready there are other ways of telling

whether it's at it's set point but that's the most reliable way

good bye mr. Debose differ I don't like Jam says that lerato but I would like to

know a damned yes it tastes like sort of plum jam plums sweet lots of sugar and

in the version I'm going to make this right goodbye

Tatar see you all next week hopefully I will be vocally louder

and there was mr. Steve so he was hanging around but he is very busy in

the kitchen at the moment making some lovely Jam so thank you Steve and thanks

to everyone who has been involved today before I finish this is something that I

talked about last week I talked about the environment and also recycling and I

thought it would be fun to take a look at one of my lessons I did all about the

reasons why we have to pay for our plastic bags

I've always been interested in language and the way it is used more than that I

have for a long time been intrigued by the effects of certain types of language

on the psychology of us this area includes the use of words and the

language used for certain reasons at a particular time or the use of influence

and words to alter our behavior 2016 has seen some great moments where certain

types of language use has engrained itself on the consciousness of society

with I'm sure lots more still to come before this year is out in October 2015

the UK government decided to put a levy on plastic carrier bags in England which

would bring it in line with the rest of the UK which already had a levy in place

a levy is a form of monetary charge or tax normally implemented as a way of

raising funds a levy can also be brought in as a way of changing behavior such as

a levy on tobacco or a levy on alcohol the plastic bag levy was originally

introduced so as to discourage people from constantly taking free carrier bags

each time they did their grocery shop for many years it has been reported that

discarded plastic bags were creating environmental issues the production and

disposal of these Handy items has for a long time being widely seen as

problematic by conservation groups the habit of picking up a few plastic bags

during every shopping trip had to be broken and a levy seemed the best way to

do it

before the charge was introduced it was decided that the levy itself would be

five pence per required back which means that if your supermarket shopping

requires six new plastic banks for packing you will be charged thirty P

extra on your shopping bill the concept of charging for each bag used ensures

that money will be raised for good causes while at the same time making

people aware of the need for them to reuse the bags they already have stored

it home you could say that the levy serves as a gentle way of prodding the

general public into changing a particular habit what is interesting

about this exercise is that the charge itself is quite small five pence per bag

does seem like a very tiny amount of money to pay however even the levy as

small as that would seem to be enough to get people to change their neglectful

and careless ways in July 2016 it was reported that by the

end of the year the use of plastic carrier banks in England will have

decreased by 83 percent meaning that the levy scheme had worked not only that but

the money raised so far by the five P charge had totaled over 41 million

pounds with a portion of the money going to environmental causes the upshot of

this is that there has been an actual change in the behavior of the general

public regarding how they use and reuse their plastic carrier bags

so the psychology are and the attitude towards our plastic bag use has been

altered by nothing more than a few carefully worded campaigns and of course

the 5p levy but what exactly has this done to our brains would it be fair to

say that this change in behavior has in some way altered our brains has it in

some way made as more environmentally aware perhaps a few new synapses have

been created appear by this new attitude that we've been coerced into adopting

I know from my own shopping habits that I've sometimes had to turn back halfway

down my driveway after realizing that I didn't have a carrier bag with me there

is no way I'm going to pay five P for a carrier bag when I have piles of them

stashed away in a cupboard back home these days my brain won't let me go

anywhere without at least one rolled-up carrier bag in my coat pocket you know

just in case

words use today intrigue aroused the interest or curiosity of something or to

make secret plans the secret planning of something a

mysterious or fascinating quality levy to impose a charge or tax a penalty or

fine a charge or tax a penalty or fine psychology the study of the human mind

the attitude and way of thinking among people the way in which the mind works

behavior created by thought mental factors governing a situation implement

put something into practice carry out a plan or idea by putting it into effect

fraud to poke something with a finger or sharp object to coerce and encourage by

persuasion to encourage a reluctant person to do something stash to put

something away in a safe or secure place to place many things in one place for

storage items hidden away for safekeeping or to be used

and there it was a lesson all about reusing and also charging people for

using plastic banks it is a beautiful day it's Sunday it is a fun day and we

are learning English together well I'm teaching and you are learning but

sometimes of course I will learn from you as well especially when it comes to

certain things that I don't know about like why is my C Drive filling with

information on its own hello to Galina who is here after such a

long absence hello - Galina nice to see you back with us again apparently we

have to pay for plastic bags in every kind of shop says Maria

Sergio thinks and being distracted Sergio Sergio thinks that there are

certain types of plastic that are eaten by bacteria ok Steve come on show is the

disaster there's been an accident mr. Duncan yes now whilst that video was

playing I went to the kitchen to see if mr. Steve was making his jam and what

happened Steve well while I was talking to you all know there hasn't been a

murder I know it it looks like blood this is what happens when you cook dams

and jam and you leave it on the stove and you walk away and do a bit of a live

stream and then you go back and discover that it's boiled over that looks

horrendous it looks like blood mr. Duncan came into the kitchen he looked

through the window and I was mopping up what looked like blood III ran in I ran

in and said are you ok because I thought some I thought mr. Steve had had an

accident you know physically I thought maybe

maybe he had had enough of me but yes so yes I had to clear it all up with these

paper towels so this is its and in fact if you get this anywhere they used to

use damsons to dye cloth because you can see what happens when you boil them you

get this red dye that comes out and that's the color of the jam when it's

ready finish clearing up I think the color is

really nice I think I might have a nosebleed it's very dramatic he was all

over the floor I probably lost about 1/4 of the jam yes anyway good job I hadn't

put the sugar in because that would have been horrendous tomorrow that would have

been a terrible terrible moment yes so me Mika says did your jam boil over yes

boil over so there hasn't been a murder in our house although there might be I'm

blaming the live stream so once again I get the blame right I will go and

salvage what is left so salvage means you're going to get

something it's ruined but you're gonna get you're gonna get to try and get

something from it yes or what remains what's the mains of it and and try and

make something with it so probably we won't get 14 pots of jam I think we'll

get 10 okay so see you next week so the rest of the jam is now on the floor in

the kitchen unfortunately but it did give me a little bit of a shock when I

looked through the window and there was red things red stuff there was red

everywhere and I wasn't sure what it was I thought mr. Steve had finally decided

to do the indecent thing yeah anyway I'm going now I hope you've enjoyed this

that was unexpected but that is the thing about doing a live stream you

never know what is going to happen so because of my live stream and because

mr. Steve wanted to say hello to you his Jam is ruined it is a very big disaster

Ahmed you are right thank you Anna thank you

wrong Thank You Valentin thank you Jeff Jeff is here oh I like your new logo you

have a new icon Jeff oh no that that's a different Jeff you are a different Jeff

because there is a Jeff who follows from the United States but Jeff her Jeff her

says my wife and I keep bringing cloth bags to the supermarket for over four

years so these particular banks are called banks for life so these are banks

that will last for many years and they are often made of cloth or some of a

recycled material so my wife and I keep bringing cloth banks to the supermarket

and we don't buy plastic bags we haven't bought plastic banks since 2015 well

here in the UK you have to pay for plastic bags you have to pay for them if

you want to put your groceries in there thank you - Louis thank you also

- Meeker JC Jordi Thank You pal Mira thank you - amra wardi thank you - Jay

oh hello Jay ah nice to see you here as well so I now have to go into the house

where mr. Steve will probably have some very harsh words for me because I caused

him to ruin his jam so on a light note we are going to end with the poodle

dance because a lot of people like to watch me splashing around in the puddle

I will see you next weekend don't forget live times there they are

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forever and ever and ever and of course until the next time we meet here on

YouTube this is mr. Duncan in English and saying thanks for watching see you

soon and of course you know what's coming next

ta ta for now

let's get splashing