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what a beautiful day for talking to the world

on YouTube oh isn't it lovely there it is the view today very nice

another beautiful summer day here in the UK and we are having a long weekend as

well because there is a public holiday on Monday so lots of people are enjoying

their time off over the next couple of days and well I suppose I should reveal

myself yes I am back again and today you will see that the camera has been

repaired because we had some problems yesterday so here we go again

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

are you ok I hope so are you happy well I hope you are happy today because it's

the weekend and everything is super duper I hope you are in a good mood I'm

back again yes I was here yesterday and I'm back again today you can catch me

twice over the weekend and there you can see the times on Saturday 12:00 midday

UK time and of course today I am here from 2 p.m. UK time which is happening

right now so here we go again I hope you are

having a good weekend it is absolutely brilliant here we are having the most

wonderful weekend it is a public holiday on Monday so a

lot of people are enjoying the long weekend and can you hear that

there isn't a sound around it's incredible

there isn't a single sound anywhere everyone has either gone away somewhere

nice or they are all relaxing in their garden so it would appear that most

people are taking it easy today I might be the only person in England working at

the moment I might be the only man in the UK who is actually doing some work

on this Sunday afternoon so we are live just to prove it hello it is just seven

minutes past two o'clock on a Sunday the 25th of August so next Saturday we will

be saying goodbye to August and then we will enter September already I can't

I really can't believe to be honest with you I can't believe it I can't believe

how fast this year is actually going I really can't oh we have a lot of people

already on the live chat I've just noticed I can see right in front of me

on my screen I have quite a few people already waiting for their messages to be

read out yes not only can you watch this but you can also join in on the live

chat and for those who are learning English as a Second Language maybe this

is your first time here don't forget if you press C on your keyboard don't

forget you can actually get live captions there are live captions on

YouTube right now isn't it amazing there are so many wonderful things that

have been invented over the years that helped us out in our day to day lives

and I thought today it would be fun to talk about things that have helped us

now they can be any type of invention an invention something that has been

invented created to make our lives easier

my life and also your life as well so today we are talking about inventions

things that have been created things that have been invented to make our

lives easier I suppose I'm going to use something as

an example so this is just an example of something that makes our lives easier

especially when we want to repair something or when we want to build

something there we go so that is the first thing that I want to show you

today something that I think is amazing now I wonder I wonder how this became to

be a thing that we use nowadays I wonder who invented the screwdriver there it is

so this is called a screwdriver and it's very useful for screwing things into

wood or maybe into metal or maybe into a hole that has been made or of course you

can make a new hole using one of these with a screw so I think this is an

amazing little tool it is a very useful thing screwdriver screwdriver and there

are many different types of screwdriver I know what someone is going to say I

know someone out there is thinking right now I know what you're thinking you're

thinking mr. Duncan there is also a drink called a screwdriver and you would

be right to say that yes there is so this is one of my little favorite tools

one of one of the best inventions ever invented to make our lives easier so

that is one of the things I'm going to talk about today maybe you have your own

maybe you have your own favorite device or maybe your own favorite tool that you

use every day I will be showing you some more of these later on so please stick

around do not go away so I did mention the live

chat but I haven't said hello to anyone yet so I'm going to put that right

hello to Jimmy from Hong Kong hi it's Sunday again it is a fun day

Thank You Jimmy watching in Hong Kong you are first on today's live stream so

I suppose I should give you a round of applause shall I okay

congratulations to Jimmy watching in Hong Kong who is first on today's live

chat blue thunder is here watching on the other side of the pond also Martha

is here hello Martha hello everyone from Martha nice to see you here as well

Khyber is here hello Khyber also Chris Morales hello to you Olga hello Olga

nice to see you back with us again now I know there might be a couple of people

missing today a couple of my regular viewers I know that Luis Mendez is not

here today so he is doing something family related so Luis Mendez won't be

here today I haven't seen Belarusia now can I just say I didn't notice yesterday

on the live chat but I did see it later when I watched it again I did notice

that Belarusia mentioned that her mother was back in hospital so can I

send my best wishes to Belarusia and I hope your mother is feeling

comfortable at the moment there are some interesting names right here now on the

live chat I think some of these people might be new viewers if it is your first

time here don't forget to tell me say mr. Duncan it's my first time here

Thai din says it is now after 10 o'clock it is coming up to 1015 at night in

Japan very late there so a big hello to tied in talking of Japan I was looking

through some of my old letters the other day and I found a very interesting

letter from someone in Japan and it was a person that I actually met on a flight

to Malaysia and during that flight he was actually now the person in question

was a male and he was actually a Japanese television presenter

he was actually on Japanese TV and he was making a short video documentary of

his flight and guess who was sitting next to him

can you guess who is sitting next to him yes it was me I was sitting next to him

whether that was a good thing or a bad thing I'm not sure but we enjoyed the

flight together also he did some things on video and he recorded me as well we

were doing some silly things on the plane much to the annoyance of other

people on the flight I think one of two people weren't very happy that we were

making a bit of noise on the plane so I did meet someone from Japan excuse

me for my voice breaks today but I've got a bit of a strange tickly throat

today so please bear with me so yes I did meet some hatori hitoshi

his name and I found a lovely letter that he'd written to me much later and

apparently I had been on Japanese television with him so some of the

things that he filmed on the plane he actually used in his little documentary

and apparently I was in it so I can safely say that I've been on Japanese

television not many people can say that

Martha hello Martha once again heroko tani says hello from Malaysia a

big hello to Malaysia I know your country very well Yuki is here as well

hello Yuki nice to see you here Yuki Tanaka

that sounds Japanese as well I wonder I'm wondering if there are many people

in Japan watching right now I think so Chris says hello also we also have blues

bird hello blues bird how are you today also we have Thomas hello mr. Duncan and

everyone hello to mullah Mulla channel hello mr. Duncan my name

is Dacia moolah and I am from Ballack Ballakistan I am learning

English from you you are the best teacher for me I really love you so much

I never miss your live streams Thank You moola it's very kind of you to join me

today thank you very much and I hope I pronounced the place where you live

correctly because I think I might have got it wrong I might have said it wrong

for which I apologise Mika hello Mika hello I've just come back last night

from three days in Tohoku or Tohoku Tohoku I don't know where that is

apparently it is in the northern part of Japan I seem to be mentioning Japan

quite a lot today hello also to Hatice and a big hi to

Cesar hello Cesar 'Hail Caesar' yes I'm sure you get that all the time hello

also to Julie gee and hello to beat trees as well nice to see you here at

the moment I am being attacked by insects there are flies big flies small

flies buzzing flies there are bees there are wasps all flying around me so I hope

I don't get stung during today's live stream bee tree is hello mr. Tonko

nice to see you happy Sunday I'm having a super day because the weather is

fantastic and it is so quiet here today I think most people have decided to rest

and take it easy the only thing I can hear behind me you might be able to hear

it in the distance there is a farmer and he is actually harvesting his field at

the moment in fact if we have a look here we might actually have some harvest

shots would you like to see some harvest shots so there you can see

one of the the many wheat fields near my house and yes it is harvest time here in

the UK so lots of people at the moment lots of farmers gathering in their crops

and there you can see on the screen right now in the distance you can see a

combine harvester gathering now I think that is actually a wheat field so I

think that is actually wheat growing in that field and you can see in the

distance something called a combine harvester a very useful piece of

machinery now I was talking about useful things earlier and I think for a farmer

a combine harvester is a very useful thing indeed I think so

so there you can see in the distance some of the harvest being gathered and I

think today is a brilliant day for doing it because the Sun is out

everything is very dry it is a very dry day so I think that farmer is actually

choosing a very good time to harvest his crop when we say crop we mean the things

that are growing in the field so crop can be a noun or a verb in fact and

there you can see one of the tractors and what the tractor is doing there it

is actually turning what is left in the field into straw ah look at that a

beautiful view looking towards the sunset and there in the foreground you

can see a bale of straw and there I am trying my best to use all my strength to

push this bale of straw I'm not doing a very good job because

between you and me I'm not very strong look at my face I'm really straining

there steady mr. Duncan you might injure yourself and once again you can see the

beautiful wheat field being harvested by the combine harvester and there it is

look at that some beautiful wheat waiting to be

reaped so when you reap it means that you collect the crop you reap and there

I am sitting on some bales of hay so some people say hey some people say

straw so I think actually they are actually straw bales they are bales of

straw so I hope you enjoyed that something interesting to look at today I

hope that was interesting for you and if you have just joined me this is live

English from England the birthplace of the English language it's true hello

Khalil nice to see you here as well Chris I have a warm fuzzy feeling me too

I think it must be the weather either that or maybe a fly has gone up my

shorts I don't know hello also - hi thumb or hate them hello mr. Duncan how

are you I'm okay for this weekend I've had a lovely weekend hello to the the

legoboy in Australia I am I am the Lego boy of Oz I am Vietnamese and I'm living

in Australia oh I was right nice to watch you live my husband and my son

really enjoy watching your videos a lot thank you to the Lego boy in Australia

and I have a feeling all of your family are watching in fact I think you are the

mother of the Lego boy I haven't seen you here before I don't

recognize that name on the live stream so maybe it is your first time saying

hello Mohammed Atef says where is mr. Steve now you might

see mr. Steve later on I'm not sure I don't know what he's doing because today

he's been very quiet so I'm not sure what Steve is doing at the moment but we

might see mr. Steve later on we might I'm not sure yet

what is the weather like in England it is glorious today I think the

temperature today is about 27 maybe 28 degrees so it is a beautiful August day

there is a gentle summer breeze blowing by everything is lovely even my lovely

little sunflower is looking happy today aren't you yes you are so I have my

little sunflower waving to you all as well ah Belarusian nice to see you back

okay I didn't see you earlier can I send my best wishes to your mother

Yuki says how is the weather the weather is great a lot of people asking about

the weather it is a super day today the only problem is and wearing my shorts

and some of the flies are biting and they're biting in some very strange

places they are tranquil says hello mr. Duncan nice to meet you great to see you

here as well satury no I haven't seen you for a while

satury no nice to see you I do like sunflowers they are my favourite because

the sunflower has the sun's color and is very tall well this particular sunflower

is actually very small it's a small sunflower but I think it's lovely do you

remember in the 1980s though there was a toy that you could buy and

a little flower and it would dance when you played music addicted to do did you

did I used to dance like that it would dance to the music do you

remember they should come back they should they were really good fun hello

to Alamgir nice to see you all here today yes screwdriver I think a

screwdriver is a very useful tool but what is your favorite thing what is your

favorite useful thing it can be anything it could be a tool or maybe a piece of

technology something to help you in your day-to-day life so if there's something

that helps you in your day-to-day life and if it happens to be your favorite

thing then tell me what it is hello also 2ts nice to see you back ts

hello and a big hi to Indonesia Jamelia hello Jamelia hello mr. Duncan

what wonderful weather you're having and what a lovely garden you have Thank You

Jamelia yes it's very nice mr. Steve has been a very busy man over the past few

days Yuki Yuki Tanaka says does anyone remember a music player called an MD

music player I still have one I still have a minidisc player now the minidisc

player was a brilliant contraption it was a player but it would play very

small CDs and the CD would be inside a case and you would put the mini disc

into the player so yes I still use mini discs I don't know if anyone else does

but yes I still use mini discs MD as they call them so a mini disc is

something that not many people use nowadays because most people now have

mobile phones or mp3 players but yes I still

have my minidisc player hmm I still have it I think it's a Sony because Sony used

to make mini disc players hello Jimmy I've just received the applause

You certainly have congratulations once again for being thirst first on the live

stream Joe Ramallah says hello mr. Duncan your introduction song sounds

very Brazilian yes shall we have a little bit of the song that I play at

the start okay let's see if this will work is it there I'm having a slight

problem with my computer today was that it

so yes that piece of music is that what you mean yes it does sound very very

Brazilian it has a little bit of a salsa beat I think so hello from azerbaijan to

google our world you are welcome thanks for joining me

today also Belarusian once again saying hello to everyone on the livestream

hello to asthma who is watching in Egypt nice to see you as well

also Irene I am here mr. Duncan as usual nice to see you back David and Enrico

says hello mr. Duncan it's a great pleasure to be with you here today good

Sunday to you and also to you as well apparently it is now 6:30 6:30 in

Pakistan so you are slightly ahead of us in Pakistan Joe Ramallah says oh I think

I've read that one already something very strange is happening to the live

chat it keeps going back to Pham says I love to learn English from you even

though I would rather speak American well what we say American you mean the

accent so American English when spoken is just the accent so there is only one

English language never forget that there is only one English language so the root

of all the types of English spoken is the same however when we talk about

British English and American English we often mean the accent

so maybe the accent the dialect the way the words are used but the root of all

of those accents is English there is only one English Fatima says hello mr.

Duncan I have watched you for three years thanks a lot for that I wonder

now this this is something I might do next week or later on

I wonder who has been watching me the longest so we might do that next week so

how many years have you been watching you can tell me next weekend

surah says hello from Iraq hello Iraq nice to see you here again I am showing

you some useful things today one useful thing don't forget you can press this on

your keyboard and you can have live captions isn't that incredible so thank

you once again to YouTube for supplying some live captions for my live stream

isn't that nice just for me very very kind very kind of

you indeed so it's a summer day and a lot of people do things in a certain way

on a day like this and I thought it would be interesting to show you

something that a lot of people do here during a hot day they will often have a

barbecue barbecue so there you can see the word their barbecue or sometimes

people will abbreviate that word and they will just call it barbecue BB Q so

quite often you will see this written down but what it actually means is this

it means barbecue so maybe you will receive an invitation to go to a

barbecue and you will see this written on the invitation so that's what it

means when you see this it actually means this it means barbecue and a lot

of people like to have barbecues at this time of year it is something that is

very popular oh there you can see look there is a

barbecue a very typical barbecue and quite often you will take it into your

garden you will put it in the corner of the

garden and then you will have lots of guests they will come round and you will

cook some food for them over hot coal so first of all you will heat up the coal

and then you will serve some barbecue food here's another picture oh look at

that now that looks very delicious there is a selection of meat and also

vegetable kebabs I think they look like kebabs the things with the sticks going

through them they are kebabs but also you can see some meat as well of course

these days some people are vegetarian so quite often they will have vegetables

instead of meat and there you can see some lovely vegetable kebabs

they are roasting on the barbecue so barbecues are quite popular in the UK

and maybe where you are as well apparently the word barbecue is now if

memory serves me correct I think it's Spanish I think the word

barbecue actually is Spanish I think it means something that you hang things

from to dry out or to cook and I think also barbecue used to be a word that

meant bed as well no I might be wrong there but I think if I remember

correctly from my school days I think the word barbecue is Spanish if I'm

wrong I'm sure someone will tell me so there you can see I hope you enjoyed

that I don't know about you but that has made me feel very hungry

hello also to Nydia hello Nadia Nadia is watching at the moment in Costa Rica

nice to see you here today ana is here hello Ana your garden is

astonishing astonishing if something is astonishing

it means that it makes you feel very surprised or amazed astonishing

something is astonishing you can feel astonished I am astonished

by your garden your garden is astonishing so thank you very much

yes I am a lucky man I never forget that I do realize that sometimes I am lucky

some might say privileged I don't know I suppose it depends who you speak to

Josie Jana says hello hello - juicy honor quite a lot of new people watching

today I think so June cook hello jungkook Gian says I

like you very much thank you very much and it's kind of you

to say so hello also to Amtel energy on Kauai

where are you from mr. Duncan at the moment I am talking to you live from

England so at 24 minutes away from three o'clock in the afternoon here in the UK

I'm now talking to you live would you like to have a look at the view so there

is the view right now looking into the distance yes that is a live view right

now and you can see it is absolutely beautiful also it is very quiet today it

is so quiet here I can't believe how peaceful everything is a lot of people

are having a long weekend so on Monday there is actually a public holiday so a

lot of people are taking a very long weekend they are taking advantage of

this beautiful weather I think so so that's probably the reason why hello

Mavi watching in Turkey hello to you as well nice to see you

here am tell is here also Chris and can you tell me the difference oh this is an

interesting one can you tell me the difference or what are the biggest

differences between British and American English well I think I might have

answered that question already there is no real difference between the root

English so the root of American and British English is the same there are

some slight grammatical differences there are definitely some differences

between the spellings of words so I think that probably probably is the most

the most noticeable difference between British and American English but as I

mentioned earlier there is only one English language so American English and

British English are basically the same language

the differences are spelling of some words and also the accents when English

is being spoken I hope I've cleared that up your view is beautiful thank you am

tell that's very kind Mika says I really must check that video

which you have been which you were in on Japanese TV now it was many years ago it

was I think it was about 1996 1997 so it was actually a very long time ago but

his name is he taro Hitoshi was his name and apparently he was very well known on

Japanese TV and I was on Japanese TV as well I can't believe it so I've been on

Chinese TV and I've also been on Japanese TV as well hello to to fam

thank you very much I have a feeling you are watching in Vietnam I know I have a

lot of people watching there raw or Rowell says in Argentina we

harvest the wheat at the end of winter that's very interesting so at the moment

here in the UK many farmers are gathering their crops they are

harvesting the wheat they are harvesting their crops hello from Egypt Mohammed

Hussein says hello I wish you made videos every day well I wish I could as

well but the problem is it takes too much time so I wish I could come on and

talk to you every single day but unfortunately I can't however you can of

course keep in touch with me by contacting me on Facebook or maybe you

can send me an email as well or to help my work continue forever and ever you

can make a donation on PayPal as well so if you'd like to make a donation to help

my work continue forever so if I get some donations maybe I can actually do

more live streams and make more lessons so everything I do I give for free it

doesn't cost you anything maybe now and again you might see the

occasional advertisement but that also helps me in a very small way so if you

want to make a donation you are more than welcome to and maybe one day I will

be able to do the live streams every day imagine that imagine if I could come on

every day and do a live stream as my card asks mr. Duncan are you a foodie I

would say that I am a fan of food I do like eating sometimes I eat too much I

was in Paris a few weeks ago mr. Steve's company gave us a holiday and we spent a

few days in power and some of the food there was amazing I

think it was safe to say maybe some of the best food that I've ever eaten

hello I am my name is yummy hello yummy and I am watching in India hello to

India is it your first time watching today please let me know can you please

tell my wife hello Albina can Yvette or can I can I check Albina can avec can

you say hello to my wife so hello hello to Albina to tham says

I'm extremely happy even on cloud nine every time you respond to my comments

thank you very much the only thing I always worry about is that I

mispronounce your name so I do apologize for that

apparently Belarus ear I think Belarus ears mother is actually

celebrating her birthday today is that true

how did I miss that I didn't see that on the live chat Yuki says the sounds of

the birds behind you reminds me of a wooden clock from which a cute bird will

come out like that I think you mean a cuckoo clock so a cuckoo clock so yes

maybe some of the sounds behind me sound a little bit like a cuckoo clock it is

coming up to 3 o'clock 15 minutes away from 3 o'clock hello also to Mohammed

Mohammed II says hello mr. Duncan and good afternoon to you shall we have a

look at another useful thing we're talking about useful inventions useful

things things that help you in your day to day

life and they can be small things maybe something that you see quite often

around you so let's have a look at something else another thing that I find

very useful especially when I'm preparing my scripts there you go

something very useful something useful for cutting when you want to cut

something or when you want to trim something you can use a pair of scissors

scissors I love this word by the way scissors now it is very easy to get this

word wrong when you spell it so don't forget there are two two S's in the

middle of scissors and of course there is also a C as well so this is a word

that a lot of people have difficulty spelling

they often spell it wrong because it has the little C there and also double s in

fact there are 1 2 3 4 SS in scissors so a pair of scissors very useful for

cutting things you might want to trim something you might want to make

something smaller so you will cut you will trim

you will make something smaller so we often describe these as a pair of

scissors so this is often described as a pair of scissors pair of scissors and

the reason why I love scissors so much is because they are very useful yeah

that's better I've made that better now it doesn't

take up so much room on the screen so you can see my lovely face scissors

another wonderful useful daily invention something that you can use every day a

very useful tool scissors it is live English in the garden you are a fishy

facetious person I'm not sure if I'm facetious that is very very strange

description of me I've been called many many things in my time I'm not sure

about facetious Guadeloupe hello to Guadalupe hello to to Pham yes you can

say a pair of scissors but we don't say two scissors we don't say two scissors

we say a pair of scissors so this is one pair of scissors one pair of scissors so

when we talk about scissor we are actually talking about the thing that

cuts so that's why we say a pair of scissors because there are two blades

the thing that cuts is called blade and a pair of scissors has two blades a pair

of scissors I really hope that was helpful

mr. Duncan you just cropped the sign yes you can crop something crop means cut so

if you want to make something smaller you can crop something so I suppose you

could say that I was cropping that piece of paper to make it smaller crop is a

very useful word so crop can mean something that grows in a field

maybe wheat so we can describe that generally as crop and you can cut

something you can cut something you can crop something so that can also be a

verb and a noun Mahmood dawood says mr. Duncan how are

you today I hope you are happy and I hope so a big hello to tenta tenta in

Egypt I know I have a lot of people watching in Egypt someone asked

yesterday they asked mr. Duncan you are wearing a necklace what does the

necklace mean I've never seen you wear a necklace before now I can tell you now

many years ago I used to wear necklaces all the time and this is one of my old

necklaces so this particular necklace is probably around 20 maybe 25 years old so

this is something that I bought many years ago in the 1990s so I found them

the other day I was looking through lots of old photographs and old letters and I

found this necklace as well so I thought it would be nice to wear on one of my

live streams so that's why I'm doing it and also it is very relevant for today

because this is I think this is Aztec and on this necklace you might not be

able to see it but there is a little Sun on the necklace so you can see the Sun

and also some hired ethics as well so this is actually I

think it's based on some Aztec design but it is related to the Sun can you

believe it it's actually related to the Sun so that's why I'm wearing it today

and also yesterday here's mr. Steve your best friend he certainly is mr. Steve is

my best friend he is my soul mate he is the person that I go to when I

have a problem and also he's a person I go to when I want a good time I want to

have a laugh and a party and a joke how adorable and Asia ancient

your necklace is so this isn't this isn't ancient it's only about 25 years

old but I know what you mean but the design is ancient it is a very old

design mr. Duncan I want to improve my English I want to be able to enroll in

university Thank You Mahmood for that well you are in the right place because

listening to me will help you to improve your listening and also to help you

understand words as well don't forget you can also see the subtitles as well

and you can watch them live your necklace makes you look younger

does it really oh I never thought about that really I used to wear this when I

was young so I used to wear this about 25 years ago this necklace can you

believe it Belarus ear is very busy at the moment mr. Duncan I am watching your

livestream whilst sewing my trousers I'm actually using a pair of scissors right

now and I'm also using a needle and thread

so you use a needle and a piece of thread to repair something

if you want to repair maybe an item of clothing that has been torn or damaged

you can so you can so you can stitch you can repair the tear also you use a

needle and thread to to put a button on maybe a shirt or a coat I have read

about the Aztecs mr. Duncan and I've also watched a full documentary about

them yes as I understand it this particular necklace is based on Aztec

design Hussein says mr. Duncan please read my chat words I will read them

right now in fact I have read them I've read them now I love the interaction and

good humor of both you and mr. Duncan and mr. Steve thank you very much mr.

Steve might be making an appearance today he might be coming on to the

livestream and we will have to wait and see so it's been a lovely couple of days

we've had some lovely lovely views also there is something happening in the

garden as well this time of year we often get lots of damsons on the damson

tree and look at that there it is the dams and cam now we had this last year

and we're having it again this year so there you can see in my garden at the

moment there are lots of lovely dams uns growing on the the dams and tree at the

back of the house and it looks as if they are growing quite nicely at the

moment so there you can see the dams and tree we don't have many fruit trees here

to be honest we only have a couple of fruit trees we have some plums

well we used to have them and then mr. Steve chopped it down so we used to have

a plum tree but a few weeks ago mr. Steve decided to chop the plum tree down

we also have apples growing in the garden there is a big apple tree and as

I mentioned already we also have some damsons as well and there you can see

the dams uns on the tree and it looks as if they are growing quite nicely at the

moment so there is the dams and tree at the back of the house so mr. Steve will

often pick the dams ins and then he will make some Jam so that is something that

Steve will be doing over the next couple of weeks the seasons of the dams and jam

yum yum I think so Thank You Yuki for that yes I do like dams and Jam very

much hello to Vietnam I am from Vietnam says pan Pham do you

know Vietnam yes I do I know Vietnam I have a lot of people

watching there in fact many of my subscribers are actually from Vietnam to

Pham asks should I speak with an American accent

or a British accent it's up to you it's up to you I think we will be able to

understand you so yes British people can understand the American accent so you

don't have to worry about that so don't worry mr. Duncan is the king of the

damson no I'm not mr. Steve is the king of the damsons because he makes

delicious dams and Jam every year so yes I must admit I do like mr. Steve's dams

and jam he makes lovely damson jam

I've also noticed that the the captions are not showing the word damson it says

something else it says dams on damson one word damson

is the damson the same as a plum asks Guadeloupe no no they are very different

a damson is quite small and it can taste very bitter

it can taste quite sour plums are normally larger so a damson is small a

plum is normally much larger so I hope that helps what is a damson a damson

is a kind of small grape so it looks like a grape it looks like a

purple grape however they are larger than a grape but smaller than a plum and

they make delicious Jam they really do they're lovely in jam I

can learn English with you thanks to my Wi-Fi I am now watching on my mobile

phone internet and also Wi-Fi a very good invention I think so we'll be

talking about technology a little bit later on because there are many too many

to mention there are some great forms of technology that allow us all to live our

day-to-day lives so yes I think you're right Wi-Fi and also internet connection

through cables or wires and of course you could have satellite internet as

well so if you live in a very remote area far away from everyone you can

actually get the internet from a satellite as well so yes I agree with

you Wi-Fi internet Wi-Fi connection on your

mobile phone great invention I think so I like your

necklace I am from Morocco do you know Morocco

yes I know Morocco very well though there is some lovely food in Morocco

I've never been there but Morocco is a very popular place for people to visit

something very exotic garden feeds the soul

hello to you I haven't seen you for a long time hi mr. Duncan have you been to

Bristol next year I am going to Bristol for two months in order to brush up on

my English or brush up my English if you brush up

it means you practice with the view of improving so if you want to improve

something by practising we can say brush up it is time to brush up your English

it is time to brush up your English pronunciation brush up you improve by

practising practising brush up so maybe something that you learnt in the past

that you've almost forgotten about you might have to practice doing it again

you can brush up brush up I like it Mika asks have you ever made rhubarb

jam now rhubarb is something that grows in the UK at certain times of the year

mr. Steve likes rhubarb I don't like rhubarb it's too bitter

it's very sour so I'm not very keen on rhubarb but mr. Steve likes it and one

of my neighbours who lives nearby her name is Martha and she sometimes gives

us some of the rhubarb from her garden which is very kind don't you think can

you recommend some ways to learn new words

on the internet well one of the things you can do is this the thing you are

doing now so you can watch youtube videos you can listen to what is being

said you can also read the subtitles as well on the screen so there are many

ways of learning just from watching this the thing you are watching right now is

very helpful

do you support any football clubs I don't support football I don't really

have any interest in football to be honest I'm not a sports person I'm not a

person who follows sport to be honest mr. Duncan I would like to invite you to

make a live video from Luxor in Egypt a very interesting place and very scenic

so I think yes that would be amazing imagine that imagine if I did a

livestream from Egypt standing in front of the ancient pyramids

apparently in Vietnam it is pouring with rain oh dear that's not very nice I'm

sorry to hear that I will send you some of our sunshine is that a good idea

I hope so mr. Duncan I like your necklace

I am from Morocco yes I do know Morocco as I mentioned earlier I know Morocco I

have heard of it it is a very exotic place very nice shall we have a look at

something else it's very useful something that's very useful to me at 2

minutes after 3 o'clock here in the UK what time is it where you are is it in

the morning or is it late at night I don't know

so one more thing to show you and then I think we might have a surprise visitor

mmm that's all I'm saying I wonder who it could be I wonder who

the surprise visitor could be find out in a moment so another very

useful thing here we go this is something we use quite often a very

useful device can you see it this is called a milk whisk milk whisk and this

is something you use when you are making a cup of coffee you use it to whisk the

milk to make it all frothy and creamy so here is a very useful piece of equipment

so normally you would put the milk into the cup you will put the coffee into the

cup you will put the sugar into the cup and then you will pour hot water over it

and then you will use this to mix everything together but it will also

make everything very foamy and frothy so this is one of my favourite pieces of

equipment that I have in the kitchen my little milk whisk whisk so whisk can be

used as both a noun and a verb so you can use a whisk and you can whisk

something with a whisk so there something very useful do you have one of

these if you don't I think you should have one especially if you like drinking

coffee so I wonder I wonder if someone is going to come and join us

I wonder if you want mr. Steve to appear you have to wish you have to wish it so

to everyone join your hands together and wish wish as hard as you can

for mr. Steve come on everyone wish we wish for mr. Steve we wish for mr. Steve

come on mr. Steve we wish for you here we ease it weren't we have mr. Steve

coming around the corner right now oh here he is oh my goodness he's very busy

today in the garden

hello mr. Duncan hello mr. Steve you look very very rosy can you see mr. can

he see Steve's face he looks very red in Rosie I think you've had a very busy day

as usual I am doing all the garden and house maintenance Oh mr. Duncan swans

around doing live streams I'm having an easy day today I'm just standing here

talking to you mr. Steve is doing all the work all the work all the hardware

the hard tough graft I've been painting railings today mr. Duncan mr. mr. Steve

has been painting I have because viewers see my lovely railings I need to project

these there for two reasons one it's horrible and two I think the neighbors

are all relaxing in their gardens today rusted here we effective Steve said that

not me so would you like to say hello to to all of your friends hello all of my

fans okay then that was good so hello - Myka hello - need Amtel also

Olga Chris Mirim Merriman sorry don't know if I'm pronouncing your name

correctly there's Miriam Miriam it's just so lovely to say hello to you all

yes because I don't get let on these live streams very much anymore but mr.

Duncan did say to me come on later and I might give you a quick 5 minute are we

really having this conversation again now can I just say it was Steve this

said he wanted to do other things me a lot of people think that I sacked

mr. Steve I did not dismiss mr. Steve can I just get that straight well it was

sort of half and half I said I didn't want to do so much because it took up a

lot of my time that I needed to spend during the summer months out in the

garden and mr. Duncan talked that as me meaning I didn't want to do it at all

and just threw me off I didn't there was no throwing Oh mr. Duncan what's going

on behind your shoulder there's a there's a plant it looks like it's

trying to attack you little sunflower this is this is the only sunflower in

our garden this is just one solitary sunflower and where did it come from mr.

Duncan mum is to me no because of all the sunflower seeds that you put out for

the birds the birds throw them all over the place and they keep springing up all

over the garden so I put one into a pot so this this is actually a sunflower

from one of the seeds that I feed to the birds but is it a real one is it one of

those plastic dancing mister do you remember those they usually used to have

these little flowers that would dance to music in the 1980s a long time ago so

maybe maybe before your time Guadalupe as Guadalupe being funny they he says

mr. Steve knows a lot of tools yes well mr. Steve uses a lot of useful tools

that is Guadalupe using that in a different meaning no no it could well be

so we're talking about things that are very useful tools I've got something out

of the garden that you asked me to bring mr. Duncan oh yes but we didn't have a

plan we did mention this we have the damson cam there it is the damsons

are now on the tree and maybe in a couple of weeks they will be ready to

actually pick off the tree and I think Steve has some damsons actually in his

hand right now there they are I've sacrificed a branch there's some

very valuable dams ins as you can see they're a type of plum

but quite bitter we've spoken about these in the past and there's a lesson

is there not mr. Duncan with us making or me rather making the dams and jam

there is something we did last year we actually made some dams and jam in the

kitchen are they ripe yet let me be a test oh they're still very bitter

they're not ready they're not ready but when they are in say I would say I'd

give them another three weeks and then I'll make the jam and here is an example

of the dams and jam which is quite dark vintage 2017 well that's quite old so

that's two years old it's probably worth a fortune mr. Dimmick it's amazing you

know what you should do you should actually make some dams and jam and then

sell it in the village I know I could get at least two pound three pounds a

pot I think more that I think I think you could sell this for five pounds each

pot you could you could make a fortune artis and jam cry don't we put it up for

auction what you actually say is craft jam so that's what that's the word that

we use nowadays it's become very trendy to say craft before anything that's

homemade or artisan yes well craft is the one that's now popular so craft

cider or crack yes Jam well we know somebody don't we a company that went on

television oh no they're making specialist bread and they call

themselves artisan bread makers that's very pretentious damsons they're

straight from the damson tree I usually get about 24 pots of jam off all the

fruit and I give some away to neighbors but next year because I'm going to have

it severely pruned because it's far too big we may not get any dams and next

year so next year it looks as if we're going to have to cut the dams and tree

quite short because it's gone crazy this year I'm mad if nearly touching the

house we've had so much rain and now we've had we've had some sunshine as

well everything is growing really quickly

so they're some of the damsons from the dams and tree anything you want me to go

hello Jeff um yes that's right I am gonna get the fireplace ready for winter

in fact in fact how perceptive of you Jeff because we had the chimney swept

this week we had a man he came and he stuck something at my flew he stuck it

he got something in his hand and he shoved it straight up there

didn't he he kept shoving and pushing and pushing maybe the good clean out he

gave he gave my flue a good clean out so now I can light a fire underneath it and

the smoke will escape safely so yes we had our chimney swept this week we did

yes 45 pounds it cost to have our chimney swept you can convert that into

your own currency I think it was quite reasonable actually okay yeah because we

don't want a chimney fire are you advertising for him well I didn't if you

would like your chimney swept by our chimney cleaner oh we could Gardens feed

the soul said that we could sell the jam and distribute the proceeds to charity

yes we could we could we could you could just distribute it to me because I even

official charity mr. danaiah I'm a charity I think I might do that I might

become a charity mr. Jenkins English charity wouldn't that be good it's very

hot and bright out here today mr. Duncan so is that is that a jar it's a jar yes

so this is there was some jam in here that I bought from the shops like her of

course we keep the jam jars and we can reuse them to make our own Jam not many

people make their own Jam these days but I do a simple yes would have sufficed

you know me I have two biscuit bando max I'm Asian I'm trying to do something

here I'm trying to do a bit you see a bit for the camera so so we this would

be useless for that yes because it's just a twist-off yes so that is

something you can easily open with your hand

but sometimes if you want to open a can or a tin you have to use one of these

and this is another one of my wonderful little tools a useful thing and this is

a tin open app I'm sure people know that that's a tin opener mr. dink they might

know what it is but they might not know the English words for it okay yeah we

teach English here you see a tin opener and there it is tin opener so you might

say tin opener or can opener so it depends if it's British English or

American English we often say tin opener but in American English you might often

hear can opener so this particular thing is a very useful item most people have

one of these in their kitchen somewhere and this is old-fashioned so nowadays

you can actually get these but they are actually electric but this is an old

fashioned can opener or tin opener but it works and we don't have to replace

the batteries that's it it has no batteries it doesn't run off solar panel

you just use your fingers or you could just stick a knife in the top Frank rip

it open Franko says it's nice to see you here again Steve thank you Frank oh we

are having a fantastic weekend by the way the weather is amazing it's not now

normally because this weekend it is a public holiday so on Monday tomorrow

everyone will be off work yes including you

well technically but I will be working in the garden for nothing but are you

going to pay me mr. Duncan for my work in the garden not really no I didn't

think that was part of it yeah I didn't think so was that part of the agreement

I don't think so maybe you can help me maybe you can help me mr. Duncan I think

we know that's not happening that's never happened never will know all right

you're making some very blunt point you did put some washing in this morning so

I'll give you that yes apparently some of the viewers are

noticing that there are insects crawling over the lens well I think they've gone

now I was going to point that out but after

better off it because when I normally point those sort of things out you tell

me not to well that would that was but that was an

interesting one maybe the the insects are trying to get

involved with the live stream anything else you want me to do during my brief

moment on camera well you can just smile and look happy or beautiful well let's

not go too far so there are many use of alright I'm going to ask you the same

question mr. Steve mr. Steve what is your most favorite tool or device or

something you really love to use something that is very useful to have

around well very anywhere in the garden well anywhere anything just name a thing

useful device just name something a laptop the Sun no laptop

laptops are it's something something you like using you enjoy you don't enjoy

using a laptop no that's drunk I don't know Bob what

sort of things do I use mr. Duncan I can't think of anything I would say in

the garden it has to be it has to be the hedge trimmer ah the electric hedge trim

though the thing for cutting the hedge and also trimming your bushes can you

see that Bush behind us that one there no because you're in the way Am I there

we go our duck down that one that one if you look at mr.

Duncan's streams from about two or three weeks ago you will notice that that Bush

is a lot bigger than it is now I have severely cut it back in order to

make the gargy neater and give us a better view and you a better view as

well what's mr. Duncan doing mr. Duncan hates it when I cut back the bushes I

was I was what I was doing then was showing the bush but I think you were in

the way no I did move I moved over slightly that's very good you're getting

good at this so that's it Steve I'm going to show some more useful things

and then I think we will we will go so I'm going to be here for about another

fifteen maybe twenty minutes and then I'll be saying goodbye so thanks Steve

or 15 minutes to do a lot of secret things mr. Duncan doesn't know about oh

and then we're going to have then we're going to have some tea cakes are we not

mr. Tong we are having tea cakes today we are well I've been learning a new

song that's what I've been doing have you heard my dulcet tones I could hear

some singing I wasn't sure if it was singing or next-door neighbor's dog was

feeling unwell again support that's what I like support from mr. Duncan I was get

it you don't have you plaintiff support mr. Duncan I wish to have some in return

yes of course well let me just say goodbye to everybody yes we do have a

big garden but it's not that big but I suppose it's a lot of bushes everywhere

it takes a lot of maintenance mr. Steve spend a lot of time trimming his Bush as

it does of the house a church key is good to open the old drinks interesting

oh I see so I think because because Church keys have a very big the part

that you hold with your fingers I think you can actually put that over the

bottle and yes and of course open the bottle would it be a Budweiser for you

Jeff well beer Budweiser why would you say that because Jeff is American there

I'm sure there are lots of other beers and typecasting you as a Budweiser

drinker used to be very popular here didn't it Budweiser I think it's not so

popular now I'm not sure I don't know I don't know what the statistics are of

the consumption of Budweiser well when I was a student it was very popular I

don't have it on me but now people tend to go for real AOL

don't they yes Greg craft beer craft beers so beers that are made in very

small breweries and so if you go around the country from place to place you will

find that there are lots of different local beers so I've never been so fit

mr. Duncan I don't think since I was 18 I've been running I've been skipping

I've been doing the garden I don't think I've ever been so fit for four decades

really yes I am fighting fit you you you do look well shed the years have just

peeled away I'm not sure about that anyway I'm full of confidence today mr.

Duncan although I wasn't earlier I was a bit depressed wasn't it yeah mr. Duncan

was accusing me of being a bit morose thief was on Seavers on the roof of the

house standing on the ledge and he was gonna do it he was gonna and I said

don't do it Steve don't do it don't paint those railings well don't do it

there sorry are we on the same livestream you and I somebody just said

if I got my own channel I'm thinking about it

Steve had his own channel he made two videos and that was nine years ago and

that's all he did doing this isn't easy it looks easy I make it look easy don't

I but it isn't right mr. Duncan I'm going to go back upstairs

I'm going to well I'm going to go into the kitchen and I'm going to prepare a

cup of tea and two tea cakes yes morose there was a word I just used morose

morose just feeling a bit sort of down in the dumps it's sort of know if you

feel morose you all gloomy gloomy morose go and do you then you know do you

gloomy look no that's not very good no this is gloomy bit of an exaggeration I

can't do gloomy when I'm talking to the world mr. Duncan how can I it's

impossible you can't be gloomy when you're doing a live stream it's hard to

be gloomy on a day like this Oh greetings from layoffs laughs what I

haven't got laughs are you talking about Laos that's the word we use here to

describe a horrible bug that infects you and makes you scratch so I hope that's

not too pronounced I like that mr. Duncan yes I am full of beans today and

the garden is full of beans because I've been planting them everywhere there's a

beanstalk Jack and the Beanstalk it's going to sprout up in a climb to the top

what is Steve what have you put in this Jam oh all sorts of things in that

are you eating this jam or sniffing it I'm not sure we have all sorts of plants

can be grown in the garden and they can find their way into all sorts of things

like Jam no it's illegal to grow to grow over certain plants isn't it for a

recreational use in this country you need a lot of light Oh mr. Duncan I've

just thought all this light from all these we could grow there are all sorts

of plants in your studio all your lights on for mr. Duncan we could make a huge

profit looking everybody hooked Much Wenlock area you people know what I'm

talking about is anyone still watching I wouldn't be I wouldn't be Alban do

anything illegal mr. Dempsey now you know why now you know why I gently

pushed Steve away because of this this is this is my evidence what could happen

anything could happen when I give live on stream I'm even talking about taking

recreational drugs now and growing them in the garden but I'm not going to do

that because the neighbors would but dhaba zine you Dobb somebody in that

means that you would tell somebody to the lab to the police you would report

the report them exactly dub them in you will you would do you would tell

somebody that they've done they've done wrong Oh mr. Duncan is spitting his

drink I just want to know what you've what have you done of you have you eaten

something seeing mr. Duncan you know how it cheers me up

yes you are the only person it does cheer up I've been watching Shirley

Bassey back in a heyday in the late 70s fabulous fabulous anyway I'm gonna go

now before I cut off the rest of your viewers yes here's something that's very

useful Oh mr. Duncan you know I could talk all day I all know bye Steve

I'm not cook I'm not quite sure what that was but there was mr. Steve Wow

he's still got he still got the tape over his mouth that looked very painful

so there is Steve he's going there could you do that slightly quieter well there

there was another memorable moment of YouTube occurring sorry about that it

was good to see mr. Steve again oh that's very nice don't know what to say

after that to be honest it takes a lot to leave me speechless

trust me but I'm I'm pretty speechless after that yes

simona says I think mr. Steve has been in the sunlight for too long I think

maybe it has boiled his brain in his skull I think so maybe hey thank you

very much for your company today I've got a couple of more things to show you

and then I'm going to say goodbye because already we are approaching

harpist three I can't believe how quickly this is gone today it's gone by

so quickly so you just saw me using something something very useful but here

is something else it is also very useful

something that I use quite often around my studio

can you see it can you hear it

this is called velcro and it is something I use a lot in my studio

especially when I want to tie my cables together to stop them from making too

much mess so that particular thing is called velcro and the way this thing was

invented was quite by chance it was actually invented just by chance it is

actually based on something that happens in nature so velcro look up the history

of velcro it is quite fascinating the way in which velcro became invented is

very fascinating look that up later on the internet and find out what the

history of velcro is and I tell you now you will be amazed you will be blown

away you really will thank you very much for

your company today it's been an interesting one where the loop says oh I

don't want this to finish well you know what they say all good things must come

to an end eventually including me yes velcro apparently in

Spanish velcro is pronounced exactly the same velcro so yes velcro is something

very useful it is very useful when you want to fix two things together some

people don't like the sound of velcro they don't actually like the sound of

velcro there is actually a little B can you see the B there was a B on the

sunflower isn't that lovely I would love to zoom in on the B I

wonder if I can that see if we can zoom in on the B I will try to zoom in it

might not work so please excuse me if it doesn't work

there is the sunflower ah isn't that lovely and if you look very closely you

can see there is actually a bee sitting on the sunflower there it is ah look at

that live is live can be there are two bees in fact I think that's a fly that's

actually a fly I don't want to look at flies flies are horrible

say goodbye to the fly bye-bye fly bye-bye

well that was interesting did you find that interesting quite

quite likely not so I'm going in a moment and there you could see the the

lovely little bee isn't that nice next to me it's like a David Attenborough

program without David Attenborough thank you very much for your lovely company

Thank You Irene thank you also to lose faith thank you to grissino-mayor Oh on

clothes yes velcro is very useful when you want to put clothing together thank

you also to mullah in which case can we use the word

beautiful well beautiful can be used for anything that you find attractive so

something that is attractive to you can be described as beautiful you look

beautiful today this sunflower is beautiful something that is attractive

or pleasant to look at can be described as beautiful a beautiful sunflower a

beautiful day a beautiful English teacher

maybe not I'm going in a moment thank you very much to Guadalupe thank you

also to lose Jamelia thank you very much for watching me today don't forget I am

back next week every weekend you can find me live on YouTube from 12:00 p.m.

midday on Saturday and on Sunday 2:00 p.m. UK time and hopefully if I have

time there will be a new full English lesson on Wednesday as well so I'm

hoping to get that done if not you can come round and personally smack my

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live stream imagine that if I was actually on the Internet live every

single day would you watch me would you like that we will have to wait and see

what yes mr. Duncan you are a beautiful

teacher thank you very much for that flattery will get you everywhere I think

so I'm going now thanks a lot for your

company today I've really enjoyed it if you would if you are doing something

nice this weekend do it safely have fun enjoy yourself and most importantly of

all smile as much as you can this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English

saying thanks for what to me today I've really enjoyed it it's

been lovely sharing my time with you in the Sun on a Sunday afternoon thank

you to Valentin a wonderful teacher of English I would say by lots of thanks

for letting Steve appear today it's very kind of you

very lovely yes maybe mr. Steve will join us next week I don't know it

depends it depends on his behavior I will be back with you next Saturday

don't forget next Saturday from mid-day UK time and also don't forget it's the

last day of August next Saturday and then we will be into September as summer

slowly fades away that's not very nice thank you Jeff thank you Jeff watching

in the United States Thank You Mika see you later Thank You Martha

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you won't be able to get rid of me Thank You beet trees thank you also to Auggie

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thank you also to Rupesh does this program happen every Saturday yes every

Saturday and also every Sunday every week Saturday and Sunday I am here live

on YouTube talking English to you this is mr. Duncan for the last time

today saying thanks for watching and of course you know what's coming next yes

you do until the next time we meet

did you hear the Robin then even the Robin was saying goodbye and of course

ta ta for now 8-)