ENGLISH ADDICT - CHAT LIVE / 12th Feb 2020 / Clothes idioms & phrases / 5G / Flat Earth / Friendship

it's a beautiful day today here in the UK it's a rather nice day can you see

the view from my window here we go again yes we are back once more back on

YouTube and yes you are right it is English addict

live from the United Kingdom or as I like to say good old England

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

I hope so are you feeling happy are you happy today I really hope you are

feeling happy because I'm feeling rather happy I have to be honest with you I'm

in a good mood because the weather is rather nice today we have a lovely day

outside and if you look closely let's have a look at that view

once again the view that I was just showing you if you look in the distance

can you see on the mountains in the distance there is snow we have had some

snow however hid the snow has only fallen on the high ground so that means

all of the mountains all of the hills have had lots of snow however here we

haven't but if you look in the distance yes there it is a live view right now

and you can see that the snow has fallen across the hills and also the mountains

looking over towards Wales and also Snowdonia so there you can see in the

distance there is some snow on the ground however here well right here in

my garden sadly there isn't any snow however the view is still nice some blue

sky some clouds it is very windy however all of this pleasant weather is going to

disappear over the next few days unfortunately we are going to lose all

of that lovely sunshine once more

typical so it looks as if the weather this weekend here in the UK is going to

be bad again can you believe it we had a big storm last week which caused all

sorts of damage and lots of flooding and here we are again we are about to have

exactly the same situation over the next couple of days into the weekend can you

believe it anyway enough of that I'm glad to see you here it is nice to have

you here we are now once more halfway through the week I can't believe how

fast this year is going already we are almost approaching halfway

through February yes today it's Wednesday

Wednesday Wednesday it's Wednesday we are halfway through the week halfway

through the week how has your week being so far has it been good

I really hope you've had a good week my week hasn't been too bad even though

it's been busy one or two things that I have to do as I suppose I would say that

I have entered a new era on YouTube and also the internet because now I have my

new website have you seen my new website I have listed all of my lessons and

there are lots of other things on there as well for you to watch if you want to

join my website if you want to have a look because now we are in a new era a

new period of time things have changed a little bit you might say so for those

who are interested in the website I will show you right now the new website

address there it is you can see it on the screen all you have to do is enter

that address and you will be taken straight to my new website you will see

examples of my lessons also you will see all of the playlists as well so you can

actually find all of the playlists on my new English addict website and there are

lots of other things as well including our special idiom and also our word of

the week so there are lots of things to see on my new website and yes it is now

available so you might say that we are entering a new era when we say new era

it means a new period of time or maybe you are making some changes which means

that things will be slightly differ in the future so we often say we are

entering a new era so time a period of time a new beginning

things will be different and hopefully they will also be better as well so I

always try to improve myself and one of the things I like to do when I think

about how can I improve myself what can I do to make my life better well we

might think of a person or a thing that might be described as an influencer so

something that is capable of creating an influence so quite often on YouTube you

will hear people say I am a YouTube influencer a person who will influence

other people so when we say influencer we mean a person who might set a good

example a person who might encourage you to do something that you've never

thought of before or maybe to improve your self-image so someone that can give

you advice someone that can persuade you to change the way you do things can also

be described as an influencer so we talk about you can see the word there at the

top influencer then we have influence to influence someone is to change their

mind you might persuade them to do something differently you were

influenced you are perhaps under the influence to be under the influence

means that you are under control or under the spell of something or maybe

you have been persuaded to change your ways maybe you have been out

for a few drinks with your friends and you have had too much alcohol we might

say that you are under the influence of alcohol of course influence can be good

or bad so there can be bad influence they can also be good influence so even

though we often think of influence B as being positive quite often it isn't so

you can be a bad influence you can also be a good influence and the reason why

I've mentioned this is because last night I was watching a very interesting

documentary about a TV personality who was around in the 1960s 1970s and also

the 1980s his name was mr. Rogers have you ever heard of mr. Rogers last night

on Netflix I watched a very interesting documentary about a guy who was very

influential for over three decades on American television mr. Rogers he was a

friendly approachable TV presenter he presented children's programs so his

main area of expertise his target audience were actually children and he

became very popular in the United States during the 1960s the 1970s and also the

1980s as well there is actually a movie that's just been made a beautiful day in

the neighborhood starring Tom Hanks which is also about

Fred Rogers life and also the work he did teaching children through the medium

of television so if you haven't seen that movie yet I haven't seen it yet

however I did watch a very interesting documentary last night all about Fred

Rogers otherwise know mr. Rogers by the way my name isn't mr.

Rogers my name is mr. Duncan I'm another mr. Oh an interesting thing Tom Hanks

who plays the part of mr. Rogers in the new movie about Fred Rogers life is

actually related to mr. Rogers did you know that well now you do hello to

everyone on the live chat do you have someone in your life who gives you

influence is there a person in your life who gives you lots of influence a person

who encourages you a person who gives you good advice or maybe a person that

you just follow through example so maybe you see a person who does something in a

certain way and maybe that person influences you so you might be

influenced by someone to influence so I think I think it's a great word and some

people believe that nowadays there there is more bad influence around than good

influence however I disagree I think there is good and bad influence

everywhere so we all have a chance at some point in our life to influence

another person either in a good way or a bad way oh we have the live chat don't

worry I haven't forgotten about you hello mr. Duncan and everyone I hope

you're having a wonderful day it is a wonderful day in my neighborhood

hello Rolfie guess what you are first on today's live chat

congratulations to you for being first well done Ralphy you have a very fast

finger your finger is clicking your mouse very quickly I think so

Guadalupe is also here sweetness hello there how are you happy winds-day mr.

Duncan Wednesday isn't too bad I'm having a good day

I've had better days I've also had worse days so today is a pretty average day

even though last night I had a lovely sleep so I woke up this morning I got up

very early this morning and decided to prepare my livestream earlier than

normal hmm so I've been very busy since about 8

o'clock this morning hello also to Vitesse watching in

Lithuania I've received some lovely photographs by the way from sue cat who

has recently gone on a trip well I think she's back now from a holiday but she

went for a lovely trip to a nice part of the world somewhere quite remote and

distant I will have a little look and hopefully you will watch as well as I

reveal some of the photographs that tsukete took hello also Luis Mendez

hello to Luis Mendez watching in France Muhammad Aslam also Cecilia also we have

T Trin watching in Vietnam a big hello to Vietnam how are you today hello also

Belarus see ya hello Pedro Pedro Belmont is here today

Pedro is here almost everyday hello - Pedro nice to see you back I suppose the

big question is how long are you going to stay for because normally you

disappear after a certain period of time I wonder why Mujahid says hello everyone

it is the first time for me to join the live stream

hello Mujahid hello and welcome and congratulations for finding my live

stream

I have to be careful I might get too excited you see we are only 20 minutes

into today's livestream so I have to be very careful I can't get too excited

hello also Maksim Helena also sweet life hello sweet life nice to see you here as

well hello mr. Duncan and I hope you are doing well and the weather is not so bad

it is nice here cold but sunny however this weekend we have another

storm coming our way this weekend storm Dennis that's what they've named the

store I was hoping they would call it storm Duncan but no they have gone for

storm Dennis so that is the storm that is heading our way right now and it will

be arriving over the weekend hello marela hello Guadalupe again hello

my hello also rose hello rose a rose is a rose it is still a rose by any other

name it will always smell sweet and look pretty

hello Vic Vic Sousa interesting name hello also to Miriam nice to see you

here as well lots of things to talk about of course it is Valentine's Day on

Friday mm-hmm and I will be with you of course don't forget you can have me on

your TV screen or maybe your computer monitor or perhaps your mobile device

every Sunday Wednesday and Friday I am with you from 2 p.m. UK time and this

Friday all of you romantic people maybe you are in love with someone and you

want to let them know that you are there for them

Valentine's Day this Friday and also next Sunday

it's mr. Steve's birthday so a very busy week ahead

we have Valentine's Day on Friday I will be with you and also I will be with you

on Sunday which is mr. Steve's birthday wow what a busy week I've got ahead

hello also Stu Rose apparently there is cherry blossom already near roses house

very nice I have noticed in the garden that some of the trees are already

coming into bird so the birds are already starting to come out on the

trees which I'm quite excited about hello from Russia hello to Eagle eggy's

Ilgaz ilgaz sab watching in Russia hello to you lots of things to talk about

today we are talking about idioms to do with clothing we are talking about

clothes idioms so idioms and expressions things we can

use in English relating to clothes that coming up later on lots of things to

talk about including oh here's something else it's been in the news recently do

you have 5 G in your country yet so most countries now have 4G which is very very

fast form of connection over the Internet and also through your mobile

phones however now there is 5g here in the UK we have 5g but not everywhere

just in one or two places at the moment so in Manchester Birmingham and

so London there is 5g but we are still waiting to be connected in other parts

of the UK so what about you do you have your 5g connection in your country on

your mobile phone apparently 5g is supposed to be really

really fast however some people are slightly worried about the safety aspect

of 5g for many years people have been concerned about how safe mobile phones

are especially if you use them often and if you have them near your head and some

people are concerned about the transmitters that will be transmitting

the 5g signal however here in the UK we don't really have 5g at the moment just

one or two cities have 5g however we are waiting to receive our 5g signal here in

Shropshire I think it might be about two or three years before we get it here but

what about you do you have 5g where you are if you feel like showing off if you

feel like telling me that you have 5g maybe you are watching me now with your

superfast 5g connection very nice Netra says we have 4G at the moment so just

about here in the UK we have 4G and over the next two or three years we are going

to expand our 5g service but it would appear that 5g is going to be super fast

hello also to Falcon hello Falcon nice to see you here today

Miriam says it might cause illnesses such as cancer and also Falcon agrees

with as well and this is the thing that I

wanted to talk about briefly some people are worried about mobile technology

especially with all of the radio signals that are going through the air however

there are many different types of radio signal many types of signal that can be

received and also sent hello Rolfie nobody speaks English perfectly not even

me sometimes I make mistakes when I'm

talking because sometimes talking is spontaneous so when you speak it is

possible to make mistakes no one is perfect

hello to Nestor hello also Cecilia mr. Duncan's lessons are relaxing and at the

same time very useful well I'm pleased to hear that it's very nice to hear that

broken boy is here again it's nice to see you here as a regular viewer thank

you very much for joining me apparently my 4G connection is only

available in my country we don't have 5g yet so I think a lot of countries around

the world still don't have 5g I think in Asia such as I think in China and I'm

sure Japan they have 5g already and here in the UK it is being introduced very

slowly however people are concerned they are concerned about their health and how

safe these things are from my own point of view I don't really think too much

about it however I am always very careful when I'm using my mobile phone I

never put my mobile phone by my head and I never use anything that transmits near

my head because my brain is very precious I need my brain

what there is of it the other thing I'm a little concerned with have you seen

those little earphones that go in your ears well of course they are they'll go

in your ears because they're called earphones and they are wireless and

apparently they use a wireless signal however those things are right next to

your brain so I wonder how safe they are but I don't really like putting anything

too close to my head that uses a wireless signal or maybe uses a signal

that's very strong so I tend not to do it

hello also - Lee Kwang I hope one day here there will be 5g all over the world

well some people are looking forward to it and some people are not and already

there are many 5g mobile phones available including Oh Samsung so

Samsung have just released their new phone the Samsung is it the s20 hello

Gigi how to pronounce how do I pronounce comfortable comfortable is that okay I

will say it one more time comfortable are you feeling comfortable

comfortable Elinor I'm at work now so I can't be with you for long I have also I

have a bad connection oh I'm sorry to hear that you could

always watch it later hello also to Jean and Sean ferry oh I

like the British accent but it's quite hard to imitate I suppose it's hard to

imitate any accent so maybe there are certain accents I like however it's very

hard to imitate them or to copy the accent so I'm sure there are many

accents that are around that you hear and maybe you think mmm I

wish I could sound like him or her hello also - flower flower Espoir nice

to see you here as well today so 5g is still a long way for many people

including here in the UK however if you go to London or Manchester or Birmingham

and I think also Cardiff as well I think Cardiff also has 5g would you like to

see some lovely photographs sooo cat has been on holiday sooo cat has been to the

Falkland Islands would you like to see some of SU cats photographs okay let's

have a look right now shall we so thank you very much once again to sue cat for

sending these photographs and here you can see some views of a very interesting

part of the world the Falkland Islands

some very nice shots and you might notice one thing it looks very remote

and very peaceful which is true it is so thank you very much - sue cat for

sending these photographs some lovely shots some lovely views and look there

are some penguins oh I've never seen a real penguin in the wild I've seen them

in zoos that looks like a seagull yes there is a seagull flying overhead so

here are some photographs sent in by tsukete of a very remote part of the

world the Falkland Islands and it looks as if sue cat had a very nice time in

fact in the message that I received from sue cat she said I would love

to live in this place I would love to live in this location because it's quiet

peaceful and most importantly of all all the people are very friendly so thank

you very much once again to sue Kat for sending your photographs that's very

kind of you thank you very much it is live English it is English addict for

all those who can't get enough of the beautiful language that is English thank

you very much for your company today hoping Chang is watching from Beijing

hello to Beijing of course China and many other parts of the world are now

being affected by what used to be called the corona virus but now it has a new

name have you seen the new name of the corona virus they have now decided to

call it covered 19 or kovat 19 it sounds like a type of software for your

computer but it isn't it is the new name that has been given to the corona virus

which is now affecting many parts of the world including here in the UK so not

only China even though at the moment China is still the worst affected place

the corona virus or as they call it now like covered 19 which does not come out

of your mouth very easily covered 19 why didn't you just call it SARS too much

easier so the corona virus causing a lot of havoc around the world and can I send

all of my best wishes to everyone in China of course I spent many years

working in China in fact I was in China during the SARS outbreak in 2003

so I was living in China way back in 2003 during the SARS crisis so I know

what it feels like because I was there when SARS was around in China hello to

my roots hello mr. Duncan I like your English

addict live lesson very much yes I am live three times a week you can have me

live coming out later we're going to talk about a conspiracy theory have you

ever thought about something that may or may not be true well here's something

that apparently has become very popular again this is something that has been

talked about over the past five or six years mainly because of YouTube

apparently YouTube is responsible for this particular conspiracy theory have

you ever heard of the Flat Earth Society apparently there are people who believe

that the earth is not a globe but is in fact flat like a pancake have you ever

heard of the Flat Earth Society there are people who believe that the earth is

not a globe it is not a sphere it is in fact flat and they are called the Flat

Earth Society but apparently the popularity of this particular society

came about through YouTube in 2014 and since then a lot more people have joined

in with the conspiracy theory that everyone is lying everyone is lying

about the shape of the earth first of all why what do you have to gain

by lying about the shape of the earth what do you have to gain what can you

win what can you gain by saying the earth is flat instead of spherical I

don't know also how do you explain the North and South Pole how do you explain

that how do you explain the oceans why don't the oceans just flow over the edge

of the earth if the earth is flat where does the sea go how do you explain the

seasons in the north and south so in the northern hemisphere in the southern

hemisphere how do you explain winter and summer if the earth is flat how does the

Flat Earth rotate does it go round and round or does it just flip like a coin

being thrown in the air so the Flat Earth Society yes there are people who

still believe that the earth is flat however we do live in a strange age

where many people believe strange things

hello - rose again yes does that idea still exist apparently it does in the

United States there are many people who believe that the governments around the

world have been hiding the fact that the earth is flat but why why would you hide

it why does it have to be kept a secret that the earth is flat I don't know

Rolfie says how can you make sense out of nonsense that is crazy well it does

seem hard to believe but there are people who believe that the earth is

flat Falcon says we have two weeks we have to

respect everyone's opinion fair well I suppose so I don't think anyone

is telling other people what to say or think however it is an interesting idea

and it is all always worthy of discussion so if the earth is flat why

would we keep it a secret why would we say that the earth is a sphere instead

of flat what do we have to gain by lying

Palmyra hello to you all so Miku hello Miku I am

planning to go to Australia in April I hope you have a super time some of my

friends some of these students I used to teach in China are now living in

Australia and also New Zealand as well so some of my former students who I used

to teach when I was in China now live in Australia I hope you will have a great

time there I hope you will have a really good time here in Australia Pedro says

it is impossible that the earth is flat due to the fact that a person can fly

from Australia to Chile crossing the Pacific Ocean so yes maybe but I'm

always interested to know where the water goes where does all the water go

to if the earth is flat where does the water go to does it just fall off the

edge like a giant waterfall and how come no one has ever gone off the edge of the

earth if it is flat very interesting hello to Perry's Perry sir hello mr.

Duncan I record your lessons and then I listen to them in the car ooh very

interesting so can I say hello now as parisa is driving along in the car hello

curry sir this is mr. Duncan saying hello to you whilst you are driving your

car I hope you drive safely and I hope you concentrate on the road ahead

hello also Rolfie again I think this topic deserves a whole lesson mr. Duncan

it is very interesting well I think that whether or not that the earth is flat

isn't really important because if it's flat then why why would it be kept a

secret why why would you keep it a secret why would you have to cover the

fact that the earth is flat up why would you hide it from other people there is

gravity to keep water on the earth yes I suppose if it's if it is spherical yes I

suppose so but I'm not sure about flat if the earth is flat where where does

the water go it would just flow off the edge

surely hello also - Jean bear thank you very much for your message as well oh so

many people joining us today so the Flat Earth Society is a group of

people who believe that the earth is not spherical it is flat like a giant

pancake oh dear I feel a bit hungry at the moment I could just eat a delicious

pancake covered with syrup very nice Thank You broken boy thank you also to

tau tau hello to you as well we have a lot of things to talk about today we did

the other day mention learning curve remember this so on Sunday I mentioned

learning curve it is a way of learning and it's something you do over time so

as you learn something you start off with a little knowledge a little

information and then over time you build on that knowledge and you gain more

information you put more information into your brain so we call that the

learning curve however quite often when you are learning something you might

progress for a while and then suddenly you will not progress you will stay on

one level and we call that a plateau so the plateau effect is when you have

learnt a lot however you can't learn anymore or you feel as if you can't

learn anymore so the learning curve is part of learning anything I suppose even

in life and something I always say that is the most valuable thing when you are

learning anything is experience you cannot compare anything to experience I

think experience is the most valuable thing that a person can have however old

you are if you are eight 18 or 80 there is no such thing as bad experience or

maybe experience that serves no purpose all experience is valuable when we talk

about experience of course it's not just about learning things that might help

you to store more knowledge or know more things of course it can also help you to

learn values as well I mentioned mr. Rogers earlier have you heard of him he

was a big TV personality during the late 1960s and also the 1970s and 80s and

quite often he would talk about values also he would talk about lots of

difficult subjects as well hard subjects subjects that aren't easy to talk about

so your morals also the way you behave the way you treat other people the way

you behave in your day-to-day life your morals so when we talk about experience

well experience gives you the chance to pick things up so we say that you pick

things up you experience things and through experience you gain knowledge

you pick things up Rolfie like this lesson so more English students can join

the live stream oh yes that's a good idea thank you for mentioning that yes

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thank you very much for joining me today

it is nice to see you on the live chat hello - just variation who says if the

earth is flat then the water gathers somewhere underneath and then is pumped

back like a fountain or maybe in a fountain but where is the fountain where

is it

hello also to Miriam hello also to Falcon Horus hello also to Perry sir if

we don't learn from our experiences then we will lose our life well I always

remember during my early years of life I didn't know much however I was lucky

enough to gain experience in many things so I didn't just learn one thing and

then do the same thing for all of my life what I actually did was learnt many

different things and did many different types of job so that is something that I

believe in sometimes an experience might not be a good one

however you will still learn something from it you might even believe that an

experience in your life serves no purpose

or has no meaning but I can tell you now that that experience will give you

something even if it's only one thing you can always learn something new from

experience hello toad to zero or to zero hello to you watching in Sicily nice to

see you here as well Ralphy says what about the CERN

does it go round in a circle the Sun stays in the same place but we we go

around the it has pretty much been proved if you

wake up in the middle of the night and you notice that it's dark

that is your proof I suppose hello Miku hello also Luis Mendez in the 15th

century when the Portuguese started the discoverers all along the African coast

the Portuguese sailors were terrified because the sea appeared to end of

course now we call it the horizon so when you are on the ocean it looks as if

the ocean just disappears over the edge which I suppose is one of the reasons

why people in the past used to think that the earth was flat however nowadays

we know that it isn't hello Bobby hi mr. Duncan I've just got back from

Marks and Spencers with a nice piece of salmon and a bottle of red wine for

dinner since you're talking about the flat earth should I start on the red

wine now well Bobby you might need more than one bottle to be honest with you

you might need a couple of bottles in fact my suggestion would have been you

should have opened the bottle in about two o'clock

well you shop it Marks & Spencer Bobby all I can say is you must be wealthy you

must be richer than me hello Rolfie hello also Shawn Cecilia

very interesting subject today do you have any friends in your life here are

some words that I would like to show you now when we talk about friendship it's

interesting how many words we can actually associate with being friends

with other people friendship is something that brings us all together it

is something that gives commonality it allows us to share our

ideas and thoughts in a respectful way so I always think that friendship is a

very deep thing it isn't just about knowing someone and liking them it is

also about knowing someone and being able to share your feelings your

experiences and maybe even your secrets as well

bonding is part of friendship so bonding means that you get to know

someone you know them well you understand their thoughts and their

feelings you are willing to get to know them well as a friend bonding you bond

with someone you join with them and you go out of your way to try and understand

the way they are oh I like this word camaraderie have you ever heard of this

word camaraderie is another way of describing loyalty or friendship a

person who will always be with you no matter what happens

camaraderie is the thing that you have a strong close friendship loyalty you have

a faithful friendship you will always be true and honest with each other a

camaraderie I think that's a great word by the way and look it has it has a lot

of A's and E's camaraderie I like that one we might also say solidarity as well

so solidarity might mean that you stay with your friend you agree with your

friend or you are willing to join a group of people who all share the same

view you have solidarity it is a type of friendship

Oh companionship so companionship means to have someone else nearby someone with

you who you can cherish love and spend your time with

so companionship means to be with another person you have another person

in your life with whom you are close however companionship can also be a bond

between a person and their pet honestly pet so maybe your dog or your cat maybe

you have an animal that lives with you and you see their company as being

companionship so you can have companionship with another person or

maybe an animal I remember when I was in China I had my little companion my

little dog was my companion and here it is here is the word companion a person

who is near you companion a person who is close to you or maybe a thing that is

living but not human so in China my companion was my little dog called

potato there are some slang words as well such as pal so here in the UK we

will often describe their friend as pal so your best friend is your pal a friend

is a pal pal so this is something we often use in British English it is an

informal word that means friend are you my pal you are my best pal pal oh he's

another one Chum a person who is your Chum now some people might complain and

say mr. Duncan Chum is a word that we use anymore however some people might

use it you are my Chum you are my friend you are my my buddy buddy has another

one quite often used in American English wingman I like this one wingman who is

your wingman a wingman might be a friend who is with you to give support maybe

you are going into a bar and you are hoping to meet a beautiful lady you

might take your friend with you to give you support and to be with you he might

be your wingman you will hear this used a lot in American English so the wingman

relates to a person who is there to give you support and encouragement here's

another word I love this word soulmate a person who is close to you a person with

whom you have a strong bond a person who seems to share all of the thoughts and

feelings that you share with others they really understand the way you think the

way you behave they seem to be the perfect person to have in your life your

soulmate do you have a soulmate I do simply we

can say also mate your mate your best mate

your close mate are we mates we are mates so you are my mate

and I am your mate we are mates we are friends so mate is another way of saying

friend some people are friends for many years

some people will stay together as lifelong friends if you are really lucky

in your life you will find someone who will always be with you someone who will

always be close to you someone whose friendship you will always treasure and

hold close to your heart lifelong friends I know in certain countries I

noticed this in China when I lived in China a lot of people who went to school

together would stay in contact for the whole of their lives so there were

people who were older than me but they still had contact with their school

friends and they would sometimes meet with their school friends so the people

they went to school with they would always stay close to so you might say

that they became lifelong friends if you are lucky you will have a special person

in your life a special friend that will be with you for all of your life if you

are lucky it is just after 3 o'clock here in the UK hello to everyone who has

just joined so I know that some people can't join me at 2 o'clock however some

of you might be joining me right now in which case hello to you welcome it's

live English with English addict and guess what I'm here with you for another

30 or 40 minutes what about that

yes look at that it does help if you open your microphone mr. Duncan

look at that look out the window everything is looking rather nice today

don't you think so I've been asked what the weather is like today the weather is

not too bad it is cold it is windy and this weekend we have another storm

coming our way can you believe it yet another storm oh I can't believe that

we've had so much wind and rain really we've had so much wind and rain it's

been one of the wettest and windiest winters that I can remember for many

years oh hello to Anna

hello also to me when did we hello to you as well how can we say how can we

express a friend that we have communication with but we never meet

directly well I suppose there are many ways of keeping in touch with someone

without meeting them especially these days so in the past you used to have a

paypal or pen pal so a pen pal is a person you would write to so in the past

many years ago before computers people would write letters to each other they

would send letters and quite often the person you were sending the letter to

might be someone who you'd never met in your life and we call them a pen pal pen

pal however nowadays because of modern technology it is possible to communicate

with someone you can even see a person live like this for example you have

never met me however here we are together sharing sometime so thanks to

modern technology it is possible nowadays for us to share time together

without ever meeting isn't it strange isn't it amazing so yes when we talk

about virtual reality we are talking about things that appear real and maybe

seem real but they aren't so a virtual friend may be oh thank you Pavel yes a

virtual friend might be someone you can communicate with through the internet

however you never meet them my mother had a pen

pal many years ago we used to send letters to each other we would send

letters to the other side of the world and sometimes the letter would take

maybe two weeks to get there so you had to be very patient in the past you

couldn't rush these things you had to wait Guadalupe says mr.

Duncan you are a very dear friend to me thank you very much it's very kind of

you and I love doing this I get very excited on Sunday Wednesday and Friday I

always do because I know that I'm going to be here spending my time with you so

yes I also feel very lucky and very glad to have so many regular viewers mr.

Duncan is our virtual friend and also our virtual teacher

I suppose so so here I am now your virtual teacher I don't think I've ever

described myself as that mr. Duncan you are our best friend for many years this

is true I can't argue with that something very interesting that appeared

in the news this morning something I want to mention you may have heard a lot

about internet policing internet control the things that are put on the Internet

the things that are sad the things that are shown and this morning I saw a

variant Sting's story a very interesting story

concerning the laws here in the UK apparently the UK government will

appoint a new regulator to police what is posted on the Internet

it has said the decision was made as part of a new online harms plan which

ministers say will protect people as they use the Internet

but critics say the addition of new rules and regulations could stifle free

speech on the Internet giving the government unprecedented powers to

decide what is posted and available on the Internet campaign group Big Brother

Watch has called the plans dangerous and wrong and suggested they are a direct

attack on the fundamental right to freedom of expression so a very

interesting story that I noticed as I was looking on the internet what about

in your country how is the internet controlled in your country now here in

the UK we already have rules and regulations that are there to help

people stay safe on the internet however it would appear that here in the UK we

want to have more control over what people say and do and think on the

Internet there are some countries around the

world who do control what people say and do on the internet and it is something

that many people have been talking about the internet is a controversial topic I

think so it is controversial but it is also something that many people are

concerned with especially here on YouTube because YouTube have to stick to

many rules and regulations including here in the UK as well

Anna mr. Duncan has definitely become a friend for us thank you very much that's

very kind of you to say I always feel glad to get your positive messages it

always makes me feel very happy today we are talking about clothes idioms

so things relating to clothing or clothes things that are related to the

things we wear the items of clothing and in English there are many ways of

expressing clothes we can say clothes garments clothing attire gear

Kluber I like that one Kluber we use that in British English

and it means your clothing your clothes your clobber your threads

it is another informal expression that means clothes and also we can use the

postfix wear and we can use the prefix men so men's wear ladies wear children's

wear so that means the clothing that is designed for one group of people for

girls boys men women sew clothes garments clothing so clothing is the

general term for anything that is worn your attire so attire means clothes

quite often we use it when we are talking about wearing smart clothing

maybe you are going for an interview and they might say if you are coming for the

job interview please we're smart

attire and that means smart clothing you must present yourself in a suit of

way gear the things that you wear your headgear your eye gear quite often hats

are described as headgear or maybe something that is worn to protect your

head is also described as headgear clobber clothing threads clothes let's

have a look at another one well let's have a look now at some expressions and

idioms that can be used to express various things in the English language

for example you might lose your shirt if you lose your shirt

it means you lose your money you have lost your shirt you have lost your money

maybe you have gambled some money on a horse race and your horse doesn't win we

might say that you lose your shirt you have lost your shirt you have lost your

money pull your socks up this is something we might say to a person to

encourage them to do better to encourage them to do more with their life or maybe

to improve their performance you haven't been doing very well in my class it is

time for you to pull your socks up if you pull your socks up it means you have

to improve yourself you have to do much better you have to concentrate more you

have to pay more attention in my classroom you must pull your socks up I

like that one to be collared so this part of your

shirt is called a collar so there is the collar so if you are

Collard it means someone has caught you they have grabbed you they are they are

taking you away by force so to be Khalid means to be taken away quite often by

the police so the police might collar you someone who is after you someone who

is hunting you might catch you we can say that they have collared you they

have got you you are now there's another interesting

one oh I like this one you could have your collar felt so to have your collar

felt well of course the word felt is the past tense of feel so to have your

collar felt it means you have been captured or you have been in trouble

with the authorities maybe the police have stopped you and they've had a word

with you mr. Duncan you were walking down the road too fast you were speeding

your legs are far too long you must go slowly in the future so we

might say that you had your collar felt the police came to you and they had a

word with you or maybe they took you to the police

station to chat with you you had your collar felt oh dear me

here's another one oh I like this one it refers to your shirt you might have to

roll up your sleeves as you can see I have rolled my sleeve up look at that

hey what's that what's that can you see that what is it that is disgusting oh

dear me I don't know what that is there we go that is my horrible elbow it's

okay now what is happening to my body my skin seems to be stretching so there is

your elbow and there is your sleeve if you roll up your sleeves it means you

get down to business you mean to work hard you roll up your

sleeves and you get to work it means you do something with lots of energy and

enthusiasm you roll up your sleeves and you start working gene says yuck I think

I might have an operation to have the skin on my elbow taken away but I think

everyone has that don't know do you have that do you have a little bit of skin

there on your on your elbow or is it just me maybe next week I will have some

plastic surgery so to roll up your sleeves is to do something with a lot of

energy and enthusiasm oh he's an interesting one to get caught with your

trousers down if you are caught with your trousers down it means you are

caught doing something you shouldn't be or maybe you are caught unawares or by

surprise so if something happens if someone discovers that you are doing

something wrong or maybe you are doing something you shouldn't you might get

caught with your trousers down I like that one very much have you ever been

caught with your trousers down here's another one tell someone to belt up of

course a belt is something you wear around your waist to keep your trousers

up or maybe to keep a skirt up around your waist you tell someone to

belt up the phrase belt up means be quiet belt up shut up belt up so if we

tell a person to belt up we are telling them to be quiet for goodness sake belt

up be quiet stop talking you might have a bee in your bonnet you have a bee in

your bonnet if you have a bee in your bonnet it means you have something that

is bothering you or maybe something that has made you irritable or maybe

something that is on your mind that is causing you distress or anger you have a

bee in your bonnet something is really causing you a lot of annoyance and

distress you have a bee in your bonnet

miku is going to sleep goodnight Miku sweet dreams to you I hope you have a

nice rest and you feel refreshed tomorrow morning a female a lady might

wear a skirt a piece of material that goes around the waist and hangs loose

around the legs is a skirt however we

also use the word skirt as a verb to skirt around something if you skirt

around something it means you avoid a certain area or place you go around the

edge instead of through the middle you skirt around you might skirt around a

certain subject or maybe something people are talking about you might skirt

around a certain subject or topic something that is not easy to discuss

hello to patch her again Oh keep it under your hat what does it mean if you

keep something under your hat it means you keep something to yourself you keep

it secret you don't tell other people maybe

something was told to you in confidence so you have to keep it under your hat

you keep it secret you don't tell other people about it to

keep a secret means you are keeping something under your hat or maybe

something that you are not willing to tell other people you keep it under your

hat so I hope that helps you

hello to Bobby a game to knock someone's socks off is to do something that

impresses people so much their socks fly off of course it is figurative not

literal so their socks don't really fly off however it is a great expression

that means to impress a person so much their socks almost flew off so yes that

there is another expression using the word socks

the socks that you put on your feet you can knock someone's socks off you can

blow someone's socks off we can use the word dress and there we can see it as a

noun and also a verb so in this sense dress is something that is worn an item

a dress and in this sense dress is verb which means to put your clothes on so in

the morning when you get out of bed the first thing you will often do is have a

wash and then you will dress yourself dress so in that sense it is used as a

verb but in this sense it is used as a noun to describe an item of clothing the

way someone is dressed their dress sense the clothes that they like the clothes

that they enjoy wearing we can say it is a person's dress sense ah now this

believe it or not can be used as a verb so trousers are the things you wear on

your legs men wear trousers women wear trousers dogs sometimes wear trousers

have you seen dogs wearing trousers it's true the big thing now here in the UK

you see people walking their dogs across the field and the dog has clothes the

dog is actually wearing clothes so the word trouser can mean keep you keep

something for yourself if you trouser something it means you keep it so maybe

there is some money that you find in the street and instead of going to the

police station you put it in your pocket you trouser the money you keep it for

yourself so to keep something for yourself

something that you don't want other people to have you keep it for yourself

you trouser something it's true so that can be used as a verb where we get

dressed well we can use many expressions and sentences of course you can there it

is you can clothe your cell you can dress

yourself you can get dressed you can put your clothes on or put on your clothes

so you can put your clothes on or you can put on your clothes you get changed

however this particular one the last one get changed has more than one meaning of

course get changed can also mean to change your clothing

from one thing to another so quite often a person who gets changed it doesn't

mean that their personality is different they don't become another person they

just change their clothes so they wear one type of clothing but they need to

get changed so they put something else on maybe they are wearing their office

suit but later on they're going to play some sport so they have to get changed

into their sport clothing hello Pat you says what is a feather in your cap if

you have a feather in your cap it means an achievement something you have

achieved maybe a thing that you have been praised for or maybe something that

people have noticed and they've said oh you've done very well there well then we

might say that that is a feather in your cap or in your hat we just talked about

getting dressed what about the opposite what about taking your clothes off well

you can get undressed get undressed you can undress yourself so to undress

yourself is to remove your clothes you can take your clothes off or take off

your clothes you can strip so you strip you take your clothes off maybe you do

it quickly or maybe you do it slowly you strip or we can also say strip off as

well so if you take your clothes off you strip your clothes you strip off you

remove your clothes I'm sure you will have some fun with that one there are

many different ways to damage to cause damage to your clothes you might damage

your clothes somehow so your clothes have become damaged you might rip your

clothes so you rip the clothes so maybe with a knife or maybe a sharp object rip

rip you tear your clothes the clothes are torn torn so damage is damaged rip

ripped tear torn stained if you have a stain on your clothes it means something

that is on there that cannot be removed so quite often if we say that something

has a stain it means there is something on your clothes that cannot be removed

maybe you spill some wine on your clothes well of course wine is

not very easy to get off so once you get something on your clothes and if you

can't remove it we can say that that is a stain the clothes or the clothing has

been stained stained you can wear clothes and when we say where we mean

the clothes start to look old so maybe if you wear your hat too many times

maybe it will start to look faded and old maybe the material will start to

fray or tear so you wear your clothes out so if something is worn out it means

that it has been damaged with use so over time your clothes will become worn

and old crease if you crease your clothes it means you have put a fold or

maybe a mark on the clothing that you can't remove so your clothes have become

creased sometimes you will put a crease in your clothes so sometimes especially

with shirts you might have a crease in your shirt can you see it there crease

or fold Helena says in French one can say she wears the breeches it means her

husband has nothing to say she is the boss well that is true yes here in

England we have the same expression so in England if the woman in the

relationship is the boss if the woman is in control and the man is not we can say

that the woman wears the trousers so Oh have you seen have you seen Jenny

and unday vieni wears the trousers in their house

it means that Jenny has control over everything hmm what are worn out clothes

asks Amit if something is worn out it means it is old

maybe it can't be used anymore maybe something that looks battered and used

so maybe you have an old hat that is worn out or maybe you have a shirt that

is worn out or maybe a pair of trousers maybe there are holes in the trousers we

can say that the trousers are worn out they are worn out yes there are some

very interesting phrases concerning trousers the lady in a relationship the

woman who has all the control we can say that she wears the trousers look outside

the weather now is gorgeous look at that the Sun is out there is a little bit of

blue sky everything is looking rather nice at the moment look at that so there

is the view from the window right now I hope you've enjoyed today's livestream

we have covered a lot of things today so many things we have covered and I can't

believe it to be honest I can't believe how many

things we talked about there is always something to talk about

I hope you've enjoyed today's lesson a lot of things that we've talked about

today I'm going now I've been here for 92 minutes so 92 minutes I've been here

I hope you've enjoyed it don't forget I am back on Friday and this Friday it is

Valentine's Day are you going to buy something special for your loved one do

you have a boy or girl who you fancy or maybe someone that you want to tell that

you love them you want to say hello I have been watching you from afar and I

really like you Jean says where is this lovely country well this is where I live

the place you can see on your screens is actually where I live right now so this

is the place where I live much Wenlock in England

hmmm it's looking rather nice out there at the moment mr. Duncan please tell me

can we say blood for our friend in the UK blood i I understand it the word

blood can be used for a person who shares some sort of commonality so maybe

something that you have in common with another person you might describe them

as your blood relative so a blood relative for example is a person who is

in your family so you share the same blood type so quite often we will talk

about blood relative a blood relative but of course a friend can also be

described as your blood and as I understand it that came from Street

Street slang many years ago so yes some people will refer to their friend or

close friend as blood however we don't use it very often to be honest hello to

marina a very interesting lesson a nice place see you soon on Valentine's Day

yes on Friday love will be in the air because it's Valentine's Day so if you

have any Valentine's Day cards if you have any cards from anyone who is in

love with you then let me know I will see you on

Friday don't forget I have my new website as well for those who may not

have seen it yet why not I have a new website you can catch all of my English

lessons you can even watch my live stream through my website and there you

can see the address on the screen right now so there it is if you want to check

it out you are more than welcome to do so that is my new website address

after many weeks of waiting for my new website it's finally arrived isn't that

lovely hello to Val oh hello Anna

a lot of chocolate is given on Valentine's Day yes there are many

popular gifts that people give on Valentine's Day and that is something we

will be talking about on Friday because on Friday it is Valentine's Day and next

Sunday don't forget it's mr. Steve's birthday so lots of things coming up

over the next few days I will see you on Friday

this is mr. Duncan saying thanks a lot I hope you've enjoyed today's live stream

a very long one once again highly quang on Valentine's Day I will show you my

girlfriend oh really okay as long as your girlfriend doesn't mind hello Pat

you hello also Ally thank you very much Thank You Lois see you on Friday

I will be with you from 2:00 p.m. UK time I hope you've enjoyed this today

we've talked about a lot of things today to be honest with you we've talked about

friendship look the learning curve experience flat earth we've talked about

5G we've talked about words connected to clothing and idioms so many things that

we've discussed today thank you very much for your company Thank You mog mog

thank you very much to Pat you thank you Shawn

see you on Friday this is the final time that I'm saying goodbye until we meet

again on Friday this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of

English saying thanks for watching see you later and of course...

take care stay well

ta ta for now 8-)