English Addict Live - Lesson 16 - Encourage Words and Phrases - WEDNESDAY 11th December 2019

welcome to very tense and nervous United Kingdom as we prepare to go and vote for

our next government welcome everyone it is another English addict live across

the worldwide web hello there

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

hope so are you happy I really do hope that you are feeling happy here in the

UK everyone is I suppose the word I would use is tense maybe a little

nervous as we approach Friday the 13th and also tomorrow as well

something is happening tomorrow here in the UK we have the UK general election

taking place tomorrow so everyone will be going out to vote for the next

government who will be making all the big decisions for this country so that

is happening tomorrow so lots of things happening as we go into the general

election for the past three weeks we've been listening to people telling us all

sorts of things making all kinds of promises how many of those promises they

will actually carry out or fulfill remains to be seen so that is happening

so I'm sure many of us here in the UK on Friday morning and of course this Friday

it is the 13th Friday the 13th this week so I'm sure across the UK many people

will be waking up feeling as if luck is not on their side for various reasons

depending or not if the party that they voted for actually gets in so a big day

tomorrow the general election is taking place here in the UK and this has been

described as one of the biggest events the biggest political

events for many years because after this vote the country that I'm living in now

might be very different in the future so some very interesting times ahead here

in the UK enough about that because there is a reason to be happy yes we

have made it all the way to halfway through the week

yes it's Wednesday

yes Wednesday has arrived and I'm ever so pleased about that I feel very happy

that we have all made it to Wednesday I don't know why but the gap between

Sunday and Wednesday when I'm not doing my live streams always seems very long

do you feel the same way so I always feel that after Sunday I always feel as

if I want to do more live streams but unfortunately I have to wait until

Wednesday to do the next one so sometimes that gap can seem quite

long indeed I hope you are feeling okay hello to the live chat I can't forget

the live chat of course so hello to everyone on the live chat hello to s

Bois oh hello to you flower Espoir hi to you guess what you are first on today's

live chats

very good flower Espoir you are first on the live chat hello to everyone watching

live at the moment across the world hello to Maria also hello sweetness

Thank You sweetness Luis Mendez watching in France thank you very much

ml hello to you Maria Mia Maria Giovanni LaRosa I love your name it's so lovely

to say it really does roll off the tongue very nicely hello sweetness again

haha hello to you grace chin I'm sorry grace you weren't first today

on the live chat even though you were last weekend

not today unfortunately it would appear that flower Espoir has a very fast

finger hello also to Adrian hello Adrian nice to see you back again as Sam also

we have Anna Anna Rita watching as well Beatriz is here hello

Beatrice once again nice to see you again as well amore

hello a Marie hello to a Marie Det Olivia Jr again I like your name

very interesting marela hello mr. Duncan hello every body Cathy

cat hello Cathy cat I haven't seen you for a long time at least it feels like a

long time since I last saw you apparently it is just after 9 o'clock in

the morning in South America in Mexico it is just after 5:00 oh no 10 minutes

past 9:00 in the morning right now so it's still very early in Mexico

so a very good morning to you Luciano is here as well hello to you I haven't seen

you for a long time either a lot of people from the past

are coming back today maybe they are wondering why I haven't told you who I

am voting for in the next election which is happening tomorrow so we have a big

event taking place here in the UK now I'm in a very difficult position I'm

going to be honest with you I find myself in a rather difficult situation

because as a teacher many people expect me not to give my personal opinions

however as you know sometimes I do sometimes I do give my personal opinions

sometimes I do give comments personal comments for myself not always but

sometimes however when it comes to politics I suppose I should be very

careful what I'm saying I suppose just like any broadcaster especially a news

broadcaster you have to make sure that you are impartial so if you are

impartial it means that you don't have a favorite you don't have a favorite party

you don't have a favorite form of politics so sometimes you have to be

very careful what you say RHS is here by the way you may have noticed that my

throat is it a little strange today I don't know why it's it feels as if I'm

losing my voice but I have no idea why perhaps it has something to do with the

fact that I was on the roof yesterday repairing my Christmas lights because

we've had some very strong winds over the past couple of days talking of which

the view today is rather nice the Sun has just decided to come out however

about an hour ago it was raining the rain was really coming down quite

harshly and in the distance right now so there it is

a view out of the window at this very moment you can see yes it's looking okay

and all I can say is thank goodness the wind has eased off I'm very pleased

about that to be honest hello also to heal ow watching in Turkey hello to you

Belarusian Belarusian have a new president here in Argentina and I wish

everything will be ok I really hope so well you know what they say hope springs

eternal in the heart of man and woman of course so yes we have a big day tomorrow

it would appear that around the world many countries at the moment on going

through certain types of upheaval so when we talk about upheaval we mean

disruption something that is disrupting the normal flow of life or the normal

flow of behavior so you might say at the moment around the world there is a lot

of upheaval taking place including here in the UK from tomorrow maybe because we

have the general election tomorrow I won't be with you unfortunately tomorrow

I would love to be with you but I won't be with you tomorrow however I will be

with you on Friday Friday the 13th I will be with you as

well as always for those who are wondering you can see me live every

Sunday Wednesday and Friday 2 p.m. UK time so that is when I am on with my

English addict livestream a lot of people asking mr. Duncan where is your

website the website will be launched in January so there you go

so it won't be launched before the end of the year the new website is coming in

January next year which sounds a long time off but isn't don't worry it's not

very far away because already we are approaching halfway through December so

don't worry about it hello Palmyra hello to you have you made

your decision I guess you are talking about the general election that is

taking place tomorrow we have to go out and vote for a new government chaotic

it's been a very chaotic year here in the UK lots of things that we were

supposed to decide and vote on are now undecided so because of all the chaos

that has been caused by one issue and we all know what it is I'm not going to

mention it we are having to vote for a new government tomorrow

so that is happening here lots of stuff going on in the UK I'm sure where you

are you will hear all about this tomorrow this morning we had Boris

Johnson hiding in a refrigerator to avoid being asked questions on live

television did you see that very interesting it's been a very interesting

run-up to the general election a very unusual one hello maiella hello to you

and also hello to Noemi nice to see you here as well I've got a lot of things to

show you today we are talking all about a very positive thing something positive

and something that I hope will bring a smile to your face today the word

encourage we are talking about the action of giving encouragement you

encourage someone and we'll be looking at words connected to this word and also

this action as well that coming up later on also we have the mystery idiom in

fact I think we will do that right now would you like to see today's mystery

idiom it is something I will put on the screen all you have to do is say what

you see say what you see it is a well-known expression in English and

there it is today's mystery idiom now there are a couple of idioms that you

could use so this is a very unusual mystery idiom because there there could

be two answers however today I am looking for one particular answer so one

answer if you think you know what it is please let me know on the live chat and

I will give you the answer later on it is English addict for a Wednesday we've

made it all the way to Wednesday I hope you are ok where you are Cathy cat I

would love to see your live chats but due to the time change in the UK I can't

watch him as much as I used to well that's a shame yes it is annoying

now there is something in the back of my mind that I'm thinking about at the

moment I'm not sure whether to do it or not but I'm thinking of having a late

English addict on Wednesday so I will do my normal English addict early on

Wednesday at 2 p.m. and then later I will do another one so that is something

I'm thinking about I'm thinking about doing it I haven't made up my mind yet I

haven't decided but it's something the I'm thinking of doing so thank you very

much for that Kathy it's nice to see you here today so thanks a lot for staying

up extra late or of course getting up extra early it really depends on where

you are in the world Alamgir is here koto

hello koto long time no see on the live chat how are you how am i I'm okay thank

you I have lots of things to catch up if you haven't been here for a while first

of all you might notice that things are slightly different because I have

changed not only the appearance of my live streams but also the name as well

English addict and this is all in preparation for the new website that

will be launched in 2020 which is only two and a half weeks away so that's not

too bad is it really hello pal mirror again Rosa Rosa nice to see you here as

well hello also to Naveen hello it's very

warm here in Egypt I would imagine it is it's not too bad here to be honest it's

been cold but today it's a little milder and finally the Sun has come out hello

also Touro sir me Marella again Pradeep hello Pradeep Pradeep mark

muwah where are you watching at the moment I'm very intrigued to find out

where you are Anna the UK general election is taking place tomorrow when

we will when will we know the result so normally when we have a general election

here in the UK we will open the voting stations as they call them all polling

stations so they normally open very early in the morning I think it's 8

o'clock in the morning they are it might actually be set six or seven

but they do open very early so people who have to go to work can actually cast

their vote in the morning which is nice and then normally the the voting will

stop at ten o'clock at night so at 10 p.m. at night the voting will stop the

polling stations or the voting stations will all close and immediately the votes

will start to be counted so people will slowly count the votes all across the

country and then as the night goes on and normally it goes on into the early

hours of the morning the votes will be counted and then slowly but surely the

results will come in so it's normally during the early hours of the next

morning so very early on Friday morning the results will start to come in so

what I'm planning to do tomorrow I'm planning to sit up and watch as all the

results come in sadly mr. Steve won't be here tomorrow to sit with me but I will

be doing that tomorrow however I won't be doing it on the Internet

unfortunately so there is no live stream Cecilia

hi dear mr. Duncan I've been following you since 2013 I must be honest I'm

always interested to find out how long you've been watching for so I've

received some lovely messages recently I received one yesterday from someone

saying mr. Duncan I started watching your lessons when I was a young boy now

I'm an old man and I'm still watching you thank you very much for that message

by the way well I was old when I started doing this 13 years ago goodness me

Ramsay Nora hi mr. Duncan how are you I've missed

some of your videos has the livestream time changed it hasn't you can still

catch me on Sunday Wednesday and Friday from 2 p.m. UK time so nothing has

changed there also of course many people want to get in touch with me if you want

you can write to me you can also follow me on Facebook and if you want to help

my work continue forever and ever and ever you can make a small donation as

well

I have no idea what is happening with my throat it feels as if my voice is slowly

fading away I don't know why perhaps it was because I was outside yesterday in

the pouring rain trying to fix my Christmas lights that might have

something to do with it I think so hello Zara

hello Zara my name is Fatima so your name isn't Zara it's Fatima hello -

Fatima and i religiously watch you almost every day oh so you don't just

watch my live streams you also watch me in the recorded lessons as well very

nice thank you very much Tan Cheng is here also I'm yes oh very

nice I'm Yassir oh you've made a guess on the

mystery idiom that's a good one but it isn't today's it isn't today's mystery

idiom but what do you think it is I wonder what it could be so there it is

today's mystery idiom but what is it it is a well-known phrase in English all

you have to do is give me the actual phrase something unusual of course here

is that you can have more than one choice however I am looking for just one

phrase but which one is it hmm

hmm I wonder hello also to Assam no doubt the election is democratic in all

countries they have freedom if I have to vote in this election

I will elect the excellent man which can serve the people and his nation I

suppose so well we don't just have men standing for

election we have women as well so we have Boris Johnson we have also Jeremy

Corbyn and that lady with the Liberal Democrats I can never I can never

remember her name I feel really bad about that I know I'm going to get into

trouble I had a name in my head just and now it's disappeared this is the

pressure of doing a live stream hello my yella hello Roo Hiroko hello flour

Espoir hello men Wendell hello Wendell I do like your name

Wendell thanks for joining me today please say

hello to your Brazilian students I know I have a lot of people watching in

Brazil thank you for watching thank you also for staying with me very nice

Pradeep is watching in Japan or Japan or which is in India hello to you hello

Anika Bowie or Anika B yes a very interesting answer to my mystery idiom

it isn't what I'm looking for today but I like it I like your answer very good

Zahra I like the way you explain the lessons your good mood is inspiring does

it encourage you so we are looking at some words today connected to encourage

the word encourage I like this word so if you encourage someone what is it what

are we actually doing to encourage is to give support or confidence to someone so

if you encourage someone you are actually giving support you are giving

support or confidence to someone so encourage can be many types of action I

suppose you can say something you can do something maybe you can send something

maybe a message a message to give support or to create confidence to give

support or of course you can give a person confidence as well so if you

encourage someone it means you are giving them the spirit the will to

continue with that particular thing so I think encouragement is a very

interesting thing and also important as well in teaching you might imagine that

encouragement is very important and again I agree I think that encouragement

is very important especially if you're teaching so I think this is one of the

biggest skills that a teacher can have here are some other words you can urge

someone so if you want to encourage someone we can also say urge urge so you

urge a person you give them support you encourage them you urge them so you say

things that will make them want to do something so you urge a person maybe you

beg a person to do well so urge can be a

very sincere way of giving encouragement you've aged them maybe if your friend is

running in a race maybe you are standing at the side of the racetrack urging them

on you are shouting things you are using words to urge them on to give them

encouragement so to encourage someone is

to support so you support a person you give them support you give them

encouragement you encourage by giving support and of course support can cover

many things many different types of things so you can support a person you

can support them by saying things you can support a person by helping them

continue with their work maybe you donate maybe money you maybe

you donate your time to help that person carry on so there are many ways of

supporting someone you give them support you encourage them I like that one very

much here's an interesting word you might not have heard of this word before

but I will show you anyway the word is cajole so if you could Jol

someone you will say things you will say things to them to give them

encouragement you will say things to inspire them to keep them moving

forwards you want them to do well so you will say things to encourage whatever it

is they are doing you want them to do well you say nice things

you give them words of encouragement you could Joel kajol perhaps that's a

word you've never seen before who knows Caesar says please mr. Duncan

support me and my wife oh please support me my wife wants to

hear a happy birthday from your voice mr. Duncan so hello to Caesar's wife I

don't know your name because Caesar hasn't told me so happy

birthday a happy birthday to Caesar's wife I hope you have a super-duper day

and I hope that Cesar brought you something nice for your birthday

mmm you are very lucky to have a husband like Caesar campaign now here is an

interesting word the reason why I'm using this word is because campaign can

be used in more than one way you can use it as a noun to name the action so you

are naming the event of going out and asking other people for support

especially during a political campaign so a campaign is a noun and also if you

are going around asking other people to give their support to the person that

you want to be voted into power then you are campaigning you campaign in a

campaign by going around asking people for their support will you vote for mr.

Duncan in the next general election so you are campaigning you will campaign

from door to door and quite often this is something that happens during a

general election here at the moment many people have been

knocking on our doors asking for our support in their election campaign anna

says your support of our english-learning is giving us your time

and knowledge mr. Duncan thank you very much for that well I always try my best

I try my best advocate so if you are an advocate for someone it means you are

giving them your support you advocate or you are an advocate of that person you

are giving them support you are saying I really think that guy or that lady can

be the next prime minister

so you advocate them advocate here's a sentence we can use to show support that

we are giving you lend your support so especially during a political campaign

you might lend your support you might offer your support to someone I will

support you in the next general election you lend your support so you will be

there for that person you will give them encouragement you will lend your support

here's another political one which can also mean support or encourage you

endorse someone so if you approve of what someone is doing if you want that

person to succeed you will often endorse that person so endorse can also mean

prove or promote so quite often we will we will see this word used in many

different ways you endorse something you promote you approve of something you

approve of a certain person and their beliefs

so you endorse that person and of course this particular word can give a person a

lot of encouragement because if you endorse someone you are giving your

support and encouragement

here's another phrase get behind if you get behind someone it means once more

you give them support you get behind them you show your support to one person

or a group of people you get behind a certain issue maybe you get behind the

environmental issue movement there are many people at the moment talking about

the risks and the dangers that pollution and other things are causing to the

environment so you might get behind that movement you get behind something you

encourage it you support it you give it your encouragement hello to Guadalupe

hello to pal Mira again a lot of things have been happening in France this week

some huge protests taking place Riya Riya qua - says hello mr. Duncan and

this is why R a--from Iraq I have been watching you from or since

2012 thank you very much for your support and a big hello to everyone

watching in Iraq I know I have a lot of viewers there

I really do neo neo oh sorry neo zero is to have

someone called neo neo but neo zero I don't think you're any relation are you

I don't think so the pension revolution I suppose that's one way of that's one

way of describing the protests that are taking place at the moment in France

spur on here's an interesting word you spur on so spur means to give

encouragement you want that person to do well you spur them on you cheer them on

you give them your support so you spur a person on you give them your

encouragement maybe your favorite football team you will go along to watch

them play you will spur on your favorite team you

will encourage them to win the match

hello also to zero find hello to you as well a lot of people

called zero on the live chat today hello Louis again I would like to know we will

know a bit more the following days I'm not sure what that's about I think that

might be a reply to another question that people are talking about on the

livestream so a lot of people wanting to find out about encouragement how do you

encourage a person what words can you use here we go egg on I like this one if

you egg on someone you get them to do something you encourage them you maybe

get them to do something that will benefit them you egg a person on you

encourage them to do something you egg them on this can sometimes be used

negatively as well so not only positively but also

sometimes we can use this in a negative way as well you egg someone on Sally

says mr. Duncan I am preparing food for my grandfather whilst I'm watching you

Thank You Sally it's nice to see you here and hello to your grandfather as

well I wonder what you are cooking last night we had pizza and I made a slight

mistake I think I may have put too much garlic on the pizza last night because

last night my stomach was so bad during the night very painful I had terrible

indigestion so I always like to put lots of cheese and lots of garlic on the

pizza and it wasn't just me who was suffering mr. Steve was suffering as

well so I think it was something to do with last night's pizza so last night I

did I did make a pizza but I did put slightly too much garlic on the pizza

garlic is lovely unless you eat too much of it if you have too much garlic it can

make your stomach quite upset root for have you ever rooted for someone if you

root for someone it means you give them your support your encouragement so you

support that person you want them to succeed you want them to do well you

want them to win you root for your team you root for your friend you want them

to succeed so to root for someone is to give them your support that person is

the one that you want to win

talking of which we have a general election tomorrow here in the UK that

should be very interesting hmm a lot of people already feel as if they

know what the result is cheer on cheer on if you cheer on someone then it means

you give them your vocal support so maybe you shout things you cheer maybe

you wave at the same time so you cheer on someone maybe as your football team

comes out onto the field you will cheer on your favorite team you will give them

your support so if you cheer on this is an action normally using your voice or

maybe you will wave you will cheer on your favorite team if you have a

favorite team to be honest with you I don't follow football at all so when we

encourage someone we give support or confidence to someone and as I said

earlier I think being a teacher is a very important job and one of the

reasons why teaching is so important is because one of the things that a teacher

has to do is encourage their students I think so pal Mira says mr. Duncan I

please mr. Duncan please do not eat pizza before going to bed yes I think

that might be the mistake that I made yesterday so so mr. Steve and I sat down

to eat some pizza

so if you encourage someone we can say that you give them a slap on the back

this sounds like you are hitting them but in fact you are encouraging them so

if you give them a slap on the back or maybe a pat on the back you are saying

well doh well done you did well and I hope you do well next time as well you

give them a slap on the back you are showing your support and approval of the

thing they have done you are giving them a slap on the back maybe your boss will

give you a slap on the back if your sales figures are very high you can say

things to encourage a person go for it go for it perhaps your friend tells you

all about a great idea that they have for a new business a new business plan

that they are thinking about you might say that sounds like a good idea go for

it go for it so when we say go for it we mean do it don't hang around don't wait

don't hesitate go for it do it so I think this is a great way of encouraging

a person to do something and also to do it well here is something that I've

almost said in my English lessons you can do it you can do it you can do it

you can do it

you can do it if you want it you can do it you can definitely do it this is a

way of giving encouragement to someone saying yes I believe you I believe that

you can do it you can do it you really can Leila is here hmm and I'm about to

lose my voice I don't know what's happened to my voice today as I've been

doing my livestream my voice has slowly started to disappear I'm sorry about

that excuse me well whilst I drink some water I don't know what has happened to

my voice today it seems very strange of course encouragement is great but also

sometimes we can do the opposite we might say things to discourage someone

so if you take away a person's confidence maybe you say something that

makes them lose their ability or their desire to do something you discourage

someone you say things that are negative and they discourage someone you take

away a person's confidence not very nice we can say that you take the wind out of

their sails so if you say something that takes a person's confidence or their

motivation away we can say that you take the wind out of their sails you say

things to discourage them you say something

that takes away their confidence you take the wind out of their sails you

take away their confidence and

self-esteem self-esteem now that's an interesting word your self-esteem is

your way of looking at yourself in a positive way your self-worth the value

that you believe you have to other people take away their confidence and

you take away their self-esteem you discourage them you say things that make

people lose their confidence so you discourage someone you deject someone

oh no you say things that make a person feel less confident about what they are

doing they feel dejected so if you make a person feel dejected you are making

them lose their confidence the thing you do is deject you say things to make a

person lose their confidence sometimes people do that for various reasons

people might not want to see you succeed so they will say things to make you lose

your confidence not very nice hello TS I didn't see TS earlier hello Palmyra

Palmyra also didn't see T s as well can we say

boost someone to support them yes you can you can give someone a boost

so boost means to give more power you put more power or force into something

so you boost you mates make something more powerful you give it more strength

so yes you can boost a person's confidence by saying things to encourage

them disparage this is the opposite by the way this is the opposite of boost

and encourage if you don't encourage someone if you say things to make them

feel unhappy about themselves you disparage a person disparage you say

things to make them feel bad about themselves and the thing they are doing

not very nice really when you think about it here's another one you will say

horrible things you will say horrible things about the person maybe you will

say horrible things to other people about that person you demean them you

say negative things about someone you say things to make another person seem

as if they are not doing a good job you demean them you pull them down by the

things you say demean you take away a person's confidence you say things that

are cruel you demean them live-chat very busy hello Anna

you have so many subscribers mr. Duncan does this increase your self-esteem it

used to but not anymore it is great having lots of subscribers but it's not

so good if your subscribers don't know that you are there that's all I'm saying

so many years ago I used to always feel excited when I got lots of new

subscribers but the problem nowadays is many of my subscribers don't even

realize that I'm still here on YouTube which is a very good really when you

think about it in fact you might say that when I find out that people don't

get to find out about my English lessons it will always deflate me I feel a

little deflated so when you deflate something maybe you have a football and

you take the air out of the football the football will deflate the air will

escape and so the ball will deflate you can also do that with a person by saying

bad things to them or if something negative happens you might feel deflated

something will make you feel a little unhappy or depressed or down you will

feel deflated the negative thing will deflate you put down is another one to

put down a person is to say bad things or negative things about them you put

down someone you say things negatively you say things to discourage a person to

take away their confidence you say negative things why do you always have

to put me down why do you put me down all the time that means that people are

going around saying bad things about me you put down someone

belittle and this is the final word be little if you belittle someone once

again you say things you do things to make that person seem foolish or maybe

to take away their confidence you belittle someone you go around saying

bad things about someone because you want them to fail you don't want them to

succeed you will belittle them you make that person seemed in insignificant you

belittle them

maroush says hello mr. Duncan what does persuade mean to persuade

means to change a person's opinion or their mind or maybe you want them to do

something that they don't want to do so to persuade is to change a person's mind

by asking them or using some way to change their mind

so persuade is the action you persuade them you use persuasion so when we say

persuasion that describes the action of trying to get someone to do something or

to change their mind or to change their ways you do something you say something

to get them to change persuade is the action of doing it pal Mira

let me down and put me down is that the same thing if someone lets you down it

means they disappoint you so maybe they promise to come to your birthday party

but they don't come unfortunately they let you down by not

coming to your party put down means to say bad things

about another person so if you feel put down or if someone puts you down it

means they are saying bad things about you so they are different they are

different yes I suppose if you want to impress a person you want to change

their opinion of you so yes persuade once again is a way of

changing someone's mind so maybe they see you as a lazy person so you have to

persuade them that you are not a lazy person

yes you're right persuade can be used in many ways sometimes we use gentle

persuasion sometimes we will ask a person nicely other times we will use

aggression to get someone to change their opinion or their mind about

something so persuade can be gentle or not so gentle it just depends the

antonym of persuade is dissuade yes it is but you you rarely hear people use it

it's very strange so you rarely hear anyone say you

dissuaded me it isn't a word you hear used very often if you want to follow me

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hello to vin raj thank you very much once again for your suggestion of the

opposite of persuade dissuade you dissuade or discourage of course Rakesh

mr. Duncan and everyone in India it is now 8:30

is it really 8:30 p.m. good night good night well I will be saying goodbye soon

thank you Christina thank you everyone before I go don't

worry I'm not going to forget here is the answer to today's mystery idiom so

the thing to remember about mystery idioms is that all you have to do is say

what you see however this particular mystery idiom could be more than one

thing for example it might be if the glove fits it might be handing glove

however it isn't the answer to today's mystery idiom ear the gloves are off the

gloves are off and now you can see the picture the gloves are off this is a

well-known expression in English and the meaning is to fight without holding back

or observing the rules to do battle or retaliate ruthlessly without showing

restraint this time the gloves are off it means you will not play fair you will

be ruthless you will break the rules if necessary to get your own way so there

it is today's mystery idiom the answer has now appeared on your screen

and it's time for me to go I hope my voice is better on Friday so I'm with

you on Friday as usual as long as my voice works and yes on Friday it is so a

lot of people believe that Friday the 13th is unlucky we will see I'm sure

there will be some people who will be unhappy on Friday depending on what the

result of the general election is here in the UK yes that is what is happening

tomorrow we have the UK general election so I will see you on Friday who knows I

have no idea which government will be running this country by Friday

but on Friday if you join me we can all find out together

this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying thank you very much Olga

thank you also to pachu thank you to zoo seeker

thank you very much for your company today and I will see you on Friday

what is the difference between gloves and mittens gloves have fingers mittens

do not have fingers so mittens cover the whole of the hand without any fingers so

it covers everything however gloves have fingers the gloves

have fingers so that's the difference thank you very much see you on Friday

2:00 p.m. UK time I hope my throat feels better on Friday we will have to wait in

see it's lovely outside by the way the Sun is now out even though it is

starting to set already a beautiful day is now occurring here in England it

looks really nice out there I might go outside to have a little run around and

of course you know what's coming next until Friday 2 p.m. UK time...

ta ta for now 8-)