English Addict Live Lesson 031 - Friday 24th Jan 2020 - illness words / China Memories

deary me I was in bed two hours ago thinking to myself shall I actually do a

live stream part of me was saying no mr. Duncan stay in bed you are too ill to do

your live lesson and the other half of me was saying mr. Duncan you can't let

your viewers down your students will be waiting for you

so here I am here we go welcome to another English addict live

from England

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

hope so are you happy I really hope so here we

go again I am barely conscious and yet here I am live now on YouTube I hope you

are feeling good today as you may have already noticed I still have my cold

even though it is starting to to ease off so my cold my fever is starting to

disappear however as you can tell it has now started to affect my voice my throat

is a little bit sore today to say the least so I am feeling under the weather

still but I'm here anyway I hope you are feeling super duper hey guess what we

are at the end of another week yes we have made it through another seven days

without blowing the planet up it's Friday

Leeloo so I was in bed this morning I

was lying in bed thinking to myself shall I do my livestream

I wasn't feeling great and I was still in bed two hours ago I was getting out

of bed staggering around the house feeling slightly delirious I didn't know

where I was or what day of the week it was I didn't know anything to be honest

but here I am now anyway I have my my box of tissue paper ready just in case

also my my throat tablets now you might notice today I will disappear now and

again because I keep coughing and I'm sure the last thing you want to do is

hear me cough so if I start to cough like this

you won't be able to hear it so that might happen a few times today but I

will try my best if there is one thing I'm good at

it is persevering I have a lot of perseverance to persevere is to continue

whatever happens however bad things get you still carry on you don't give up you

continue with your endeavor you persevere you carry on you battle your

way through the storm I hope the sound is better today there

were some problems on Wednesday for which I apologize but I hope those

problems have been sorted out now so I hope the sound is much better today it

was my fault by the way it was my fault hello to the live chat I wonder who was

first on today's live chat so please bear with me I'm not feeling great so

please understand that if I suddenly vanish if I suddenly fall to the floor

you will know why hello to sweetness Mitra hello sweetness guess what you are

first on today's livestream and also the chat

whoo you know the rest congratulations to you Alamgir is here v

tests I hope you are feeling better than I do at the moment

hello sweetness nasiha also Ally Palmyra Martha hello Martha welcome back

fruit zombie I like your name by the way fruit zombie very nice Christian says

hello how are you I'm not too bad I I have felt better if I was honest with

you since Monday I've had a stinking cold and it seems to have got worse so

Wednesday as soon as I finished my livestream on Wednesday I went to bed

because I felt awful and I've been in bed ever since and then this morning I

woke up and I thought shall I do it shall I not do it but of course my

conscience wouldn't allow me to stay in bed so here I am right now

suffering for all of you in friend hello to you also to Chris Oh Christian again

hello hello and a Coby hello / tree or puke tree from Indonesia hello to you

thanks for joining me today sorry I'm not sounding great but I I

will try my best Christina says Mr Duncan you have a

strange voice I do because I'm not very well I apologize for that

I don't know why I'm saying sorry I can't help it it's not me it's all of

those microorganisms floating around the one thing about having a deep voice

especially when you've got a cold which I have at the moment you can actually

make your voice sound very very sexy hi my name is mr. Duncan it's

rather nice isn't it if only I could sound like that all the

time hello also Belarusian of course we are

waiting for you but we understand if you need to stay in bed well it's too late

now I am up I'm up and about just for you just another week by the way another

week to go before we officially leave the European Union it's one week to go

before it all happens that's it so this time next week here in the UK we will be

preparing to leave the European Union however there will be about another 10

years of negotiations and discussions about what will happen next so so I'm

really looking forward to actually leaving Europe just to get it out the

way even though I didn't vote for it by the way I didn't vote vote to leave

Europe by the way yes I'm one of those I'm one of those Ramona's hello MA good

morning mr. Duncan I missed your livestream for a few weeks I hope you

will make alive to speak directly to you hello ma lumière you are welcome to join

me today because I'm here right now live on YouTube for those who are wondering

when you can catch me you can catch me right here on YouTube every Sunday

Wednesday and Friday 2 p.m. UK time so what I suggest you do check the time

difference between where you are and also the UK and then you will know

exactly when to watch me and when to catch me here on YouTube and I suppose

if you want to get in touch you are more than welcome to do so

I have an mail address I also have a Facebook page

as well you are more than welcome to join in and you can make a donation as

well because I do everything here for free

I'm just drinking some water excuse me if you've ever wanted to watch someone

suffer live on the Internet

now's your chance here it is hello Pedro Pedro Belmont is

here today Pedro Pedro Pedro hello also Aly hello from Belgium a big hello

to Belgium nice to see you here today by the way the weather outside we can't

have a livestream without mentioning the weather it's not too bad however there

is a lot of low cloud and let's look into the distance oh yes

no that is quite a nice view I will tell you what you are looking at right now we

are looking into the distance about 15 maybe 18 miles away you can see the town

of Shrewsbury so there it is looking right now out of my studio window a live

view across towards the local town so this particular place you can see in the

distance it's around I think it's about 17 maybe 18 miles away from where I am

now and you can see the beautiful churches and also the large spires

pointing and going up into the sky oh dear I almost didn't know how to end

that sentence can you tell oh dear can I just go back to bed now

shall I just go back to bed now and leave you maybe I should have done my

live stream from embed now that would have been interesting hello to everyone

on the live chat sir hey Sally hello Sally

watching in Algeria nice to see you here today

hello also - Sally hello Sally I would love to sing a song for you now but

unfortunately I don't think it's a good idea how is your mother is she feeling

better Christina I don't want to talk too much about it because there are a

lot of things going on at the moment as far as that's concerned but my mother is

still in hospital things are about the same but that doesn't mean that things

are good that's all I'm saying for now and also I can't go in to see my mother

because I'm ill so they don't like people going into the hospital who are

actually sick so to make things worse I can't even go into the hospital to see

my mother so she is the same not much has changed

hello Sally hello Marie or Mary watching in Greece I'm just wondering what the

weather is like in Greece at the moment because I know in the south of Europe

there have been many storms Portugal Portugal has been hit by some terrible

storms lot of rain falling across the south of Europe especially over towards

Spain and also Portugal a place that I was in last year by the way I visited

Portugal last year very nice place very lovely I really enjoyed myself Palmero

also we have who else is on simmer hello simmer watching from India hello -

India nice to see you here can I just say if it is your first time watching me

I don't normally sound like this but I am just

ring at the moment from a terrible cold and it has affected my voice quite a lot

we have Morocco watching hello el Cori watching in Morocco nice to see you as

well do you have the flu I don't and can I also point out that I don't have

anything that has come from China for those who are wondering or asking or

wanting to ask so I don't have anything related to the illness that's spreading

around China and has slowly started to spread to other countries however

interestingly enough it did remind me of my time many years ago when I was in

China during the SARS epidemic who remembers that way back in 2003 would

you like to see some photographs taken during my time in China and I will tell

you a little story as well so there I am with my friend one glai who was one of

my students and then eventually became also a teacher at the school as well so

he was a person who was about to graduate and he became a very good

friend he was actually dating the the owner of the school that the owner of

the school's daughter so he was actually seeing the daughter of the owner of the

school and during the SARS outbreak unfortunately a lot of people were

panicking getting rather upset and across China

many things happened which are very similar to the things happening now so

people were not allowed to gather in large numbers in public places also many

restaurants and small food outlets were also closed

people couldn't travel on the buses so the buses were not running very

regularly many of them were canceled so you couldn't move around easily and I

suppose the most important thing to mention during the SARS crisis in early

2003 is that many foreigners many people from the West left China they all

decided to leave and in the city where I was living

I was virtually the only foreigner still left behind in the place where I used to

work a place called Bao toe which is in Inner Mongolia would you like to see

another photograph okay so here I am with my with the boss's daughter so this

young lady is the boss the boss's daughter

and you can see here we're having a meal but this is no ordinary meal this was

our secret meal because you weren't allowed to buy food from outside so my

school would not allow people to bring food in from outside however we went out

and we bought some food and we sneaked it back into the school so we had a

little secret meal in one of the spare dormitories so there was myself

there was also Nancy as you can see there there she is a beautiful lovely

girl and also her boyfriend at the time as well so that's what was going on

there so it's very strange listening to the

news at the moment a lot of people talking about the SARS epidemic now

they're not calling it SARS at the moment however the virus is very similar

to the SARS virus and it is a form of the corona virus even though it has a

different name officially it is very similar to SARS but I do remember during

my first four or five months in China I spent most of it not working because of

the outbreak of SARS in China so they closed all the schools down and many of

the foreigners went back home I stayed behind because I didn't feel too worried

to be honest please don't spwhy I was much younger than I was I had more

courage when I was younger that's one thing I've realized over time so I

didn't go back I stayed and I stayed for the whole two months of the outbreak of

SARS so it lasted for over two months everywhere it's closed it was a very

strange period of time fortunately my school still paid me so I was still

being paid to do nothing very strange period of time and then

after that finished after that ended we all went back to our jobs but we only

stayed there for about three or four weeks and then the summer holiday

started which was another two months so I had another two months of paid leave

because it was the summer holiday so during 2003 I didn't really work much

but it wasn't my fault it was because of SARS basically so there it is a memory

from the past a memory going back way back to 2003 and here

here's another picture oh look at me there I look so healthy and young and

vibrant yes that is definitely me oh my god yes I'm a little bit embarrassed by

that photograph let's have a look at look at another photograph here we go he

was another one and you can see how slim I was way back in 2003 slim and ever so

tall and I like the way that we're wearing the same trousers we didn't

intend to wear the same trousers okay I can't remember the story behind that I'm

sure there is a very amusing story if only my memory would let me tell it

and here's another one another picture close-up wearing our masks because a lot

of people were wearing masks during that time this was taken in I think this was

March March or maybe early April 2003 and lots of people were wearing masks

however we didn't actually wear our masks so we were just doing this for the

camera so to be honest with you this is what we look like really so this is

actually what we look like we weren't really wearing the masks because to be

honest with you I wasn't really afraid I wasn't afraid at all and nor were my

friends would you like to see me sitting on a motorbike in China okay then why

not there I am now this was a shop selling motorbikes and for those who

have been watching me for a long time you will know that I was a big fan of

motorbikes in fact I used to own a motorbike in the UK so I sat on this

bike and I remember the guy that was working at the shop was really desperate

for me to buy a motorbike he really wanted me to buy one he was actually

going to give it for half price he gave me

50% of this bike if I bought it but he wanted to use me as a promotion for the

bike so he wanted to take some photographs of me with the bike and use

it in his shop but I said well first of all I don't want I don't want a

motorbike I don't want a motorbike because the roads in China are notorious

for being dangerous to drive on so that's the main reason why I never rode

a motorbike in China so I didn't do it I didn't get my cheap motorbike instead I

decided to ride a bicycle which I thought was much safer to be honest

that's what I thought anyway hello to the live chat nice to see you here we

are looking back to 2003 during the original SARS outbreak when I was

actually in China at the time I was in China during the first SARS outbreak

Cristina says do you think the masks are useful against such a dangerous virus

now the reason why people wear masks quite often is to protect themselves but

also it's to stop you from spreading the illnesses well so if you wear a mask it

is actually covering your face so you can't spread anything however I'm not

sure how effective that particular type of mask is I don't think they are

completely effective and that's the reason why we didn't wear the masks so I

didn't bother I never wore the mask at all only in those photographs so in the

photographs you just saw I'll find it again oh I love this picture I love it

so much it's so funny I shouldn't laugh I know it's not funny I'm not making fun

of this but we did wear the masks for fun we didn't actually really wear

them so we took the photographs and then we carried on walking around without

wearing the masks fruit zombie I would have been too nervous to go outside or

buy food from the market because of paranoia the masks would definitely

freak me out excuse me sorry

fruit zombie yes I wasn't afraid that's the strange thing now looking back I

can't believe that I was so brave and fearless if I was there now I would

probably leave I wouldn't have stayed but back then all those years ago I was

young I was fearless so we always tend to be a little bit braver when we're

young so that's that's all I can say about that but looking back it may have

been a little crazy staying behind however I didn't catch SARS I didn't

become ill I had a wonderful two months of my SARS vacation that's what I called

it so I actually called it my SARS vacation but at the moment yes it's all

back again a lot of people are falling ill in China they have unfortunately

been some fatalities as well unfortunately but what can you say these

things happen from time to time and sometimes you have to react quickly I

think that's the biggest secret of all the biggest secret the biggest thing you

should do is react quickly to prevent the spread of the illness and it's very

ironic that I should be here right now talking about SARS whilst I'm recovering

from a terrible cold isn't it strange mm but then life can be strange

sometimes don't you think if Fran mr. Duncan the world Health Authority people

must stay six feet away from each other to prevent themselves from catching the

virus well at the moment they have I think they have closed three major

cities in China including parts of Beijing so there won't be any

festivities in Beijing this weekend which is very unusual so this weekend of

course it is the Chinese New Year the Lunar New Year so many parts of Asia

will actually celebrate the coming of the Lunar New Year and in China they

always celebrate the Chinese New Year in a very big way however many parts of

China have been told that they cannot have their normal celebrations including

Beijing so things are certainly being done to prevent the spread of the latest

outbreak of the Nova virus or should I say corona virus not norovirus norovirus

is a different thing altogether in fact in my mum's the hospital where my mum's

staying at the moment there is actually an outbreak of norovirus there another

thing you don't want to catch especially if you are old hello Theo mr. Duncan I

hope you are much better although your voice is not sounding okay what about

your mum as I said earlier I don't want to talk too much about it but things are

happening there there is not much improvement that's all I'm saying for

now hello also Lina apparently now it has increased to 16 cities are now

closed in China I didn't know that you see I haven't caught up with the new

because this morning I was in bed so I got up I put my clothes on I came

downstairs and I I thought to myself what am I going to do for today's

livestream I had no idea what to do

excuse me this is not a good this is not a good livestream by the way I do

apologize for this I should be talking about something completely different

today but it's hard to escape this news because a lot of people around the world

are now talking about it apparently yes the market place where they sell food or

should I say live animals is where the virus started so it was transmitted

first of all from birds or fowl or poultry and then it was transferred to

humans as well and that's if I remember rightly that's how SARS started in 2003

that's how that started that came from animals as well fruit zombie I would

lock myself in my house I have seen photos of government officials in hazard

suits spraying the streets well this is just a precaution

of course so what they're doing at the moment is doing things as a precaution

and as we say in English there is a great expression in English prevention

is better than cure so it is always better to prevent something from

happening than to actually wait until it gets bad and then try to cure it so we

always say that prevention is better than cure if you can prevent something

from happening then

that is always the best way to go to be honest Pedro asks where is mr. Steve mr.

Steve is working it is Friday it is a weekday so of course Steve is working

however he will be with us on Sunday hopefully

unless of course I have completely lost my voice in which case you won't cecilia

asks why would people eat backt soup now I know what you're talking about here

there are some videos on the internet that have been passed around showing

people eating some strange food and apparently they are supposed to be in

China there is one particular video of people eating back soup so it is soup

and it in the soup is about however you might find that virtually no one eats

that soup in China having lived there having experienced many different types

of food I can tell you that bat bat soup is hardly eaten anywhere another one

apparently is the three squeaks have you heard of that apparently there is a

viral video on the internet showing a Chinese man we assume eating live baby

mice now it sounds horrible however a lot of people now believe that this is

also a hoax it is not a real thing so people getting very upset about those

things but can I just assure you having lived in China for many years people

don't eat bats they don't eat dogs all over China however in the south of China

there are some small areas that do and also they don't eat baby mice

okay so I can put that to bed straight away hello Miriam this guy transmitted

the virus are you saying that I caused it I'm not sure about that prevention is

always better than cure I agree with you I think so

snakes yes in certain parts of China you might find that people eat snakes but

not the whole of China there are a lot of people living in China but in the

south of China there are some very strange delicacies that people eat but

it's only very small areas of China very tiny areas not the whole of China so

sometimes it is very easy to generalize if only 20 people do something or 100

people do something it doesn't mean that the whole country does it and that's the

problem and says that sounds disgusting well I think so there are many things

that I would never eat that I would feel afraid to put in my mouth

oh dear so there you go Christina Jackson have you been in contact with

your Chinese friends well the strange thing is most of my Chinese friends

don't live in China anymore they've all left China hello also to marry em there

was a rumor that the virus was started from a lab well yes this is the problem

this is the problem with the Internet so lots of people are now writing all sorts

of rubbish about this latest outbreak in China and there are some video clips as

well appearing on the internet showing people

fainting in the street and some of those are not new video clips they are old so

that is the problem with the internet so sometimes you can get a lot of

misinformation a lot of fake stories sometimes people like to create these

things for fun why I have no idea two years ago I fell down on black ice

and I had three pelvis fractures I don't like the sound of that the suffering was

terrible I was motionless in hospital for four

weeks I do not like the sound of that I am happy to say I've never broken any

bones in my body but I am sad to hear that you had that problem

two years ago Irene how are you now though are you feeling better now I hope

you are up and about what about insects mr. Duncan again certain parts of China

you might find insects they are often fried or cooked on sticks but again not

everywhere in China just very small areas and this is the problem this is

one of the reasons why quite often the reality of something can be distorted so

maybe if you watch television television will want to show you all of the

exciting all the shocking things that people do but all the normal things they

never show and that's the reason why so quite often people get the wrong idea

I suppose it's also similar to the idea that people in Korea

eat dogs all the time which again is not true but this is the problem if you

watch the internet for too long you will start to believe all sorts of things you

really will sometimes it's best to switch your computer off for a few

moments walk away go outside breathe some fresh air look at the sunshine

and forget about it all do people eat snails in the UK no we don't we don't

eat snails however and once again there might be some restaurants where you can

eat garlic snails now these aren't snails that you find in your garden

these are bread snails they are specially bred to be eaten just like

cattle so it's the same thing basically however I've never tried it I've never

tried eating snails and I never would because the thought of it makes me feel

a little sick to be honest a lot of people believe that French people eat

snails well yes some do but not everyone not everyone in France eats snails and

that's the thing you see if the problem is it's too easy to generalize what

people do so if 20 people do something and then it's talked about by a million

people that million people might think that everyone in that place does the

thing that they are talking about and we call that generalization generalization

Thank You marina thank you also Netra television thrives

on misinformation well I think we live in a very interesting age where

arguments and conflict are a very potent thing especially when it comes to

selling television programs reality TV the news all of these things rely on

conflict so two groups of people arguing fighting disagreeing it's great

television it really is and that's the reason why quite often people like to

show it so at the moment you are seeing lots of misinformation on the

Internet about the current outbreak of the corona virus in China so some people

are making things up the things that they are talking about are not real or

true I do love the fact that I am coughing

and sneezing whilst talking about this subject this might be the strangest

livestream I've ever done and it might be the strangest that you've ever

watched to be honest hello also to flower Espoir in morocco

we eat snails yes I think many countries do like to sample the odd escargot

escargot that's French by the way for snail but quite often they will cook the

snails with garlic and all sorts of other things as well I've never tried it

and I don't think I ever will so there are certain things that even I won't eat

snails definitely not Elle Cory says it's a

good interesting subject it really is thank you very much if you

become ill quite often most illnesses or many illnesses are transmitted they are

passed from one person to another and when you become ill we can say that you

become sick you become sick you pick up a sickness you develop a sickness so to

be sick or to have a sickness means to be unwell you are ill you are unwell you

don't feel well you have a sickness so that just means that you are not feeling

yourself you don't feel very well you feel unwell so that can be caused by

anything it doesn't have to be something that you've caught from another person

so you can be ill with anything you are feeling sick you have a sickness you are

feeling ill

you fall ill if you fall ill that means you become unwell so you fall ill now I

like the fact that the you they use the word fall so we often say fall ill but

it doesn't mean that you fall on the ground

it just means you become ill you are overwhelmed by it so the feeling of

illness has overwhelmed you you fall ill if you catch a virus or a germ or a

disease we can say that one thing has infected so to infect is to pass

something on maybe a germ or a virus in fact or to make something bad or to

spoil something so in fact in fact that's another great word and if you

have been infected that means you have the infection the thing that has been

pressed on has infected you so now you have the same illness you have the same

disease it is an infection as a noun so the thing you have is an infection

infection so the illness if it's been passed on from one person to another

maybe someone sneezes nearby and then you catch their illness you catch their

infection you develop an infection as a noun

you can transmit or transfer yes I suppose you could use both of them but

we we often use transmit more often jerm a small thing a small living organism

that can be passed from one person to another very small very tiny it can be

passed in many ways through the air or through the mucus in your nose as you

sneeze jerm jerm the the thing that starts the problem so we can use this

word in many ways in fact so the beginning point or the start of

something could also be the germ of something and so we often use this as a

way of describing a virus or disease that is crest around you caught a germ

the thing that is being spread around

virus is another thing so a virus something that is easily spread it is

spread from one person to another and I suppose you might call it that the thing

that's happening now in China you might call it a virus you might say that it is

something that is spread easily in computer terms we could also say virus

to mean something that is transmitted between computers something harmful to a

computer is also a virus bug generally speaking we use this as an informal way

of describing illness so if you catch a bug if you give someone a bug bug

illness germ virus you give someone an illness you give them a bug maybe you

eat some food that has been infected by something or infected with something and

then it makes you ill you might say that you have picked up a bug you have a

stomach bug quite often a stomach bug can leave you feeling very unwell if you

become ill then quite often you will look for what we what will you look for

you will look for a cure so the cure is the thing that can make the illness go

away it can alleviate it can ease it can make the thing that is affecting you go

away cure it is amazing how human beings over the years have

managed to cure so many diseases there was a time when people would die from

all sorts of illnesses all sorts of viruses all sorts of diseases but quite

often now those particular diseases have almost been eradicated cure so you find

a cure for something if you get an illness if you pick up a virus we can

say that you acquire the virus you have acquired it so something that has been

passed on it has been acquired so to acquire something is to get

something something that is passed on to you or something that is given to you a

disease that can be cured is curable curable so a curable illness is one that

can be cured so there are many illnesses that we think about that can be cured

most of them can be cured quite simply just by eating lots of good food or

drinking lots of water sometimes the Cure might be more complex maybe you

have to take certain drugs or certain types of treatment so

something that is curable means something that can be cured it is

curable the opposites I suppose is deadly deadly something deadly an

illness that cannot be cured can be deadly so a deadly illness a deadly

infection a deadly virus is something that is very harmful it will cause a lot

of harm and as this word suggests there is a good chance that you might also die

it is a sad fact that many people have illnesses or diseases that cannot be

treated something that is terminal an illness that cannot be cured or eased

something that will not go away and unfortunately it will be fatal an

illness or disease that is terminal cannot be treated cannot be cured

something that is terminal sadly you don't need me to tell you which diseases

I am talking about or which illnesses I am talking about incurable a thing that

is incurable is something that will not go away however something that is

incurable might not necessarily be fatal which is strange I know it sounds

strange but an incurable illness or an incurable problem might not be fatal it

might just be something you have to live with for the rest of your life

Pal Mira says we can say lethal disease yes a lethal disease something that is

lethal means that it will cause death so there is no there is no doubt that that

thing will cause a person to lose their life

lethal something is lethal you might talk about lethal weapon a gun is a

lethal weapon something that can cause death when a person becomes ill

especially if they have an infection that can be spread easily we isolate

someone so this is something that is doing this is being done right now in

China so an isolated person a person who is being isolated so we isolate a person

we put them alone in a special ward or a room where they can't pass on the

infection we formally call this quarantine so you quarantine something

if you quarantine something it means you make sure that it cannot be spread so

you will often see special hospitals or special areas within a hospital we often

call them quarantine wards or a quarantine area quarantine to put

something aside or out of the way where it cannot cause any more harm quarantine

I like that word Irene says mr. Duncan is stubborn am i I'm not sure if I'm

stubborn do you mean because I'm still doing my livestream even though I feel

like I was going to say something then a very rude word chronic now as I said

earlier some people can actually suffer from an illness or maybe

something that is making them feel unwell for a very long time so quite

often we talk about chronic illness when we talk about chronic illness it means

to suffer pain for a very long period of time or illness something that gives you

discomfort for a long period of time we can say that it is chronic you have a

chronic illness something that is causing you suffering over a long period

of time like my cold maybe maybe my cold is a chronic illness hello to Helena

hello also el Cori to boost your immunity you have to reduce sugar I tell

you what I'm doing at the moment I am eating a lot of fruit at the moment so

over the past few days I have been eating lots of fruit oranges mr. Steve

bought some lovely oranges for me so I am eating a lot of fruit a lot of

healthy food on Sunday we are going to have oh I think on Sunday we're going to

have some salmon on Sunday we haven't had it for a few weeks so yes a bit of

fish hopefully it won't make me LLL marry em the difference between fatal

and chronic well chronic is something that makes you ill for a very long time

so it isn't necessarily fatal but fatal means it will end your life eventually

so you might think of certain types of cancer so if you have a certain amount

of cancer in your body then it is most likely fatal it cannot be cured chronic

means something that just goes on for a long time so quite often we will

say chronic back pain if you have chronic back pain or chronic pain it

means you have it all the time and it will not go away mr. Duncan I saw your

Duncan Krueger video really which one is that I don't remember doing a Duncan

Krueger video mmm I can't remember that it's it seems like it must be something

I did a long time ago Irene also Netra I am having fish today

says Netra oh that sounds nice yes we are having fish here on Sunday on Sunday

so if you become ill if you catch something that has been transmitted if

something that one person has spreads to you we can say that you catch the

illness you catch the virus you catch the infection you can catch it one of

the most unhealthy places you can be is a hospital

quite often in hospital if you go in hospital for a certain reason you might

actually become more ill if you spend a long time in hospital so quite often

hospitals can be the worst place to be if you want to avoid catching something

ill is catching something serious really so you catch an illness you catch a cold

quite often you will catch a virus you go down with something so you go down

with something you become ill you start to show signs of becoming unwell you

come down with something you might say that you come down with

the flu or you came down as a past tense you came down or he came down with flu

he can't come to the meeting today he's come down with flu that means he has

become ill because of flu of course flu is more commonly known as

influenza I do not recommend that you get flu it is horrible you might get a

case of something so when we talk about a case that is relating to the thing

that is making you and well so what is it that's making you unwell what is the

reason for your ill health so we often describe it as a case if you get a case

of something it means you have got it you have it so those are the symptoms

that you are showing you have a case of something maybe you have a case of flu a

case of stomach problems a case of something specific that is causing you a

problem

you can also become unwell if you become unwell it means you become sick you

become ill and well you become sick you become unwell Cecelia says it was

the lesson that you did on the 20th of the 1st 2019 oh I see the 20th oh that

was Leste was that last weekend I can't really remember to be honest in fact I

can just about remember my name at the moment so that might be the reason why

fruit zombie hospitals can be the worst place to be in in zombie outbreak movie

well yes we're not talking about movies though we're talking about real life at

the moment so unfortunately you might go into hospital and you might find that

you end up or you get more sick or you pick up something else that you didn't

have before you become unwell you become sick yes to be unwell to be sick to feel

under the weather to be off-color maybe you are feeling off-color or you look

off-color do you ever meet someone in the street maybe someone you haven't

seen for a long time and you think to yourself as you look at them you don't

look very well but you can't say it of course because it's not friendly it's

not kind to say that but there you go it is 20/20 yes as I said it was last

year so last year was 2019 it was yes definitely and now it's 2020 yes I know

thank you for telling me thank you for reminding me so now you can see how bad

my cold has been I can't even remember what year it is

last year oh okay then on the 20th of January 2019 apparently I was dressed

like Freddy Krueger okay I might have to look at that myself I often watch your

previous videos they are really amazing thank you very much

netra says contagious something that is contagious is something that can be

caught or transmitted so an illness that can be passed on easily is often

described as contagious something you can catch so maybe if you are sitting

next to me in a restaurant and I sneeze or cough near to where

you're sitting you might catch my cold so you might say that my cold is

contagious so I can spread this and give it to someone else if they are nearby

hmm sir why do so many people not pay attention to their health although they

know it is important Pat Chu thank you very much for that

well my parents both of my parents used to smoke during my childhood and they

used to smoke a lot my mother always had a cigarette in her mouth that's one of

the things I always remember about my childhood my mother always had a

cigarette she was always smoking however I I hated

it I hated the smell of cigarette smoke I really did I hated it I hated the

smell I hated the way it made me feel when it went into my nose horrible so it

put me off so because both of my parents smoked it actually discouraged me from

smoking I didn't want to do it so I suppose I should thank my parents

because their smoking habit actually put me off smoking is that a good thing or a

bad thing I don't know Cristina there are many

cases of medical malpractice yes this is something that is happening now in the

UK certain hospitals in fact one of the hospitals that was involved in a very

big scandal around two or three years ago is actually the hospital where my

mother is now that's all I'm saying miriam i think a lot of people take

their health for granted yes we always assume

that we will always be well so when you are young you always feel as if you will

live forever nothing bad will ever happen to you because you are young so

we often believe that we can do anything and nothing bad will happen nothing bad

will occur cigarette smoke is dangerous you are right

very few people smoke cigarettes here in the UK so it is something that has been

reduced quite a lot and my mother gave up smoking around thirty five years ago

around thirty five years ago my mother stopped smoking so she did give up quite

a long time ago however yes smoking drinking alcohol these are things that

cause a lot of illness eating even the thing that you have to do can be bad for

you if you eat too much or eat too much of certain types of food hi Lee Kwang

hello to you it is Tet Tet Tet Tet Tet Tet it is the Lunar New Year coming this

weekend and today is the last day of the 2019

Lunar New Year so yes it is tomorrow the Lunar New Year begins a new year

across Asia and including Vietnam and as I mentioned already China although there

are not many festivities taking place in China because of the outbreak of the

corona virus which has caused a lot of worry let's cheer ourselves up now would

you like to see something nice so here is something nice something cute during

my time in China I had a little friend who lived with me

a little friend that I bought when it was very small would you like to see a

photograph in fact you can see two photographs right now oh there is my

little dog my little dog now I called my dog potato

so this is the dog that I had whilst in China on the right you can see the

little dog as a puppy and on the left you can see the same dog as an adult so

there is my little dog that I owned whilst living in China and a lot of

people owned dogs in China a lot of people also used to steal dogs in China

I will come to that later so there is my lovely little dog now the reason why I

had a pet in China was because I needed company so I lived on my own I didn't

have anyone nearby I would sometimes chat to mr. Steve via the internet or

via the phone so there is my lovely little dog her name is tudo tudo tudo

which is Chinese for potato because I always thought that my little dog had a

head shaped like a potato here's another picture oh there there she is

so this particular picture was taken when my little dog was a puppy so I

liked I hope you enjoy these pictures this really made me smile this morning

when I was looking at these photographs it put a big smile on my face and I hope

it has done the same thing for you as well

one more here's another photograph so this is my little dog that I had whilst

living in China absolutely lovely and the breed is pug pug so this particular

type of dog is called a pug and they don't

grow very large they're not big dogs one of the things I will say about the pug

is that their fur comes out all the time they really do lose a lot of fur so

their hair is always falling out always so that's the only bad thing that

I would say about my dog is the fact that it's hair would fall out all the

time it would it would just lose its fur all over my furniture all over my

carpets all over everything so I hope that cheered you up I hope that this

made you feel happy however there is a sad part to this story

sadly my dog was stolen someone took my dog one day I let her outside to have a

little wee-wee and within seconds she had vanished disappeared gone forever

never saw her again so was not a very nice feeling I think maybe that's the

reason why I don't want to have another dog that's the reason why I don't want

to have a pet so I don't want to have another pet because I will become too

attached and if something happens to it I will be upset and devastated again so

I can't do that I really can't

lovely little dog yes I think so today is also an interesting day for me

because it is the last day that I was living at my previous house so would you

like to see a photograph so there it is looking out of the window of my previous

house and it was seven years ago today seven years ago today that I left

my old house so there it is the final sunset the fine

sunset taken from my previous house and then the following day I moved and where

did I go - well of course you know where I live now I now live in much Wenlock so

tomorrow is the anniversary of moving too much Wenlock and that is something I

did seven years ago tomorrow so a little anniversary a personal anniversary for

me tomorrow I moved here seven years ago I can't believe it I can't believe it

was seven years ago that I moved here doesn't time fly when you're having fun

talking of time I will be going soon Thank You sweetness for your lovely

comment about my photographs I thought it would be nice today to share some

photographs hello - Jamelia cats and dogs is considered a delicacy in China

some people do eat dogs in China but not everyone in certain areas they eat dogs

quite often in the south of China but but then it's not everyone in the south

it's certain areas small areas not everyone no one eats cats in China it's

another thing that isn't true so people don't eat cats in China they do not

however certain types of dogs are bred especially to be eaten just like we

would breed sheep or cows to be eaten Baptista that's disgusting who eats dogs

and cats I will never visit China bautista can I

just say that not everyone in China eats dogs not everyone in China eats dog meat

some do but most and that's a lot of people most don't

hi Lee Kwang says I will see you later I hope I will see you later I hope you've

enjoyed today's livestream happy personal anniversary mr. Duncan yes I

can't believe that tomorrow will be the seventh anniversary of moving here too

much Wenlock I can't believe it I feel as if I should be doing more to

celebrate it maybe on Sunday we will do something because I will be back with

you on Sunday 2 p.m. UK time is when you can catch me and I suppose also if you

want to like and subscribe there it is you can like and subscribe to my youtube

channel so please like this video now get your finger click your mouse and

give me a happy thumbs up go on you know you want to especially today because

I've been I've been really suffering have you noticed thanks a lot for your

company today it has cheered me up in fact I feel quite well not great but I

feel a little better than I did this morning

Chinese cuisine is diverse and strange yes you might find this in other

countries as well certain animals are eaten that would not be eaten in other

countries so yes I think that is one of the wonderful things about living in

this world is everyone has their own taste

sometimes the taste is not the same as someone else it's just the way it is

Cristina says I enjoyed it as usual thank you very much I hope it hasn't

been too dull or too boring I hope not and I really do hope that I feel better

on Sunday so have a super-duper Happy New Year

to those who are celebrating the Lunar New Year as it arrives and I hope you

a great time stay safe as they say Li Wang says the New Year is coming yes it

is the year of the rat in the Chinese zodiac the Lunar New Year is just around

the corner Thank You pal Miriah mr. Duncan stay safe and sound I will try my

best to do that I really will and going in a moment thank you very much to

Manuel thank you also to Miriam thanks a lot mr. Duncan it was enjoyable hope you

are getting well soon I really hope so for two reasons one I hate being ill and

the other reason is I will be able to see my mother in a hospital because I

can't go there whilst I feel like this unfortunately people will not like it a

German friend went to China and told me that cats and dogs are more expensive

than beef cat meat people are not eating cats in China trust me you have to trust

me on that one and if they are they probably shouldn't be hello also two

best Easter Thank You Julie thank you fruit zombie Thank You Irene for

watching today I hope you've enjoyed this it's been a little bit different

but as I explained earlier I was in bed this morning until very late I got up

and I wasn't sure what to do but now I've done it I feel quite glad that I

did it I just hope you do as well bye everyone bye Christina see you later

Anna see you later also fruit zombie thank you very much for your company

Thank You Jamelia yes I hope I feel better on Sunday mr. Steve will be here

as well and for those who are wondering no mr. Steve didn't catch my

cold which is slightly annoying to be honest only I have been suffering this

week just me Thank You Cecilia Chinese eat cats well maybe they do but not all

over the place that is the point I am making you might eat cats in China but

it doesn't mean everyone is eating cats in China my dog was stolen but it wasn't

eaten I'm pretty sure of that Pat you take hot water and take water vapor

Manuel says thank you thank you Carlos Thank You Batista thank you zoo Zika

thank you very much for your company today some wonderful comments on the

live stream today thank you very much I'm going now definitely before I collapse

on the floor this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying thanks for

watching I hope you've enjoyed this I really do and I will see you on Sunday 2pm

UK time and of course do you know what's coming next yes you do

do you? do i?

ta ta for now 8-)