31 Days of Learning English - DAY 27 - improve your English - WHAT/WHEN/WHY/WHO/HOW - 27th October

4,059 views ・ 2019-10-27

English Addict with Mr Duncan


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is there anyone there knock once for yes and twice for no
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did you find me okay are you there did you manage to sort your clocks out
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I have changed my clock we are now an hour behind however the time of my
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broadcast remains the same welcome to day 27 of 31 days of learning English in 2019
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I really have suffered over the past 24 hours trying to work out how to sort out
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this problem with the time yes we are now just after two o'clock GMT does that mean anything
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to anyone so I hope you are there I hope you are watching right
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now because it's so confusing all of this with the clocks going back one hour
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last night so I hope you are there if you are not there where are you
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so to be serious for a moment yes we have put the clock in the UK back the
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big clock that controls all of the time here in the UK has gone back one hour so
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it is still seven minutes past two o'clock
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however it might seem different where you are unless of course you have also
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altered your clocks it's so confusing can we just stop doing this it is far
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too confusing for us all so briefly to explain what we had before was this
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British summer time so during the summer we put the clocks forward by one hour
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and this makes the daylight last longer we often call it daylight saving time so
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when we do this it means that we get an extra hour of daylight during the summer
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and apparent parently apparently this is what happens it gives us one hour of
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extra light and apparently it saves all sorts of lives many lives are saved by
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this apparently so daylight saving time most people know it as British summer
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time however here in the UK we then revert we go back to where we
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were before from this we go to this which is the
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original time Greenwich Mean Time you can see their Greenwich Mean Time the
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word mean in this case means the farthest distance from the least and the
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most so basically it is the middle time so we are the farthest away from the
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earliest and also the latest so that's what we mean when we say Greenwich Mean
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Time so we are right in the middle of all of the time zones between you and me
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I find time zones very confusing especially when I travel abroad if you
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go to another country and if there is a big time difference quite often you will
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get quite confused and for example when I used to travel to Malaysia I would
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always feel very tired for the first couple of days as I got used to the time
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difference so sometimes it's seven hours difference and sometimes it's eight
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hours difference it's really quite a confusing subject I must be honest so
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now we have GMT you can see up above me just up there so it's now 10 past 2 GMT
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and that's the way it will be until next spring when it will change back to
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British summer time dear oh I need a lie down on the floor after that so hi
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everybody here we go it is Sunday and yes we can't have the new day without
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some lovely fireworks of course it is Sunday I know lots of people will be
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feeling a little and happy because Monday is tomorrow but
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you still have your free time the weekend is still here yes it is still sunday
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we are here today live on YouTube and we are coming towards the end the final
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days of 31 days of live English the final days are approaching Monday
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Tuesday Wednesday and the final day will be Thursday 2 p.m. UK time you can catch
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me over the next 4 days as we say goodbye to 31 days of English in October
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have you enjoyed it has it been interesting I know some of you have
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enjoyed it I know some of you haven't enjoyed it what can you do really you
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can't please everyone sometimes I try to please everyone but as they always say
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when you try to please everybody you end up pleasing no one so sometimes it isn't
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worth the effort by the way you can have captions if you want to follow my words
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live oh very clever you can click the button right there on your screen
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so if you want to follow my words you can lots of sport taking place today the
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world rugby tournament semi-final is taking place today
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I think it's Wales against South Africa am i right
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I'm not sure anyway England won yesterday so England are through to the
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final however who will they be against will they be playing against South
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Africa or their archrival Wales so that will be very interesting for those who
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are keen on rugby a showdown between England and Wales so that will be very
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interesting if it happens hello to the live chat oh hello live
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chat don't worry I haven't forgotten about you I just want to make sure that
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everyone is here because I'm sure there will be complaints mr. Duncan why are
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you on it's a different time I'm not I'm still on at 2:00 p.m. but it's 2:00 p.m.
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GMT there it is GMT so we've actually changed our clocks
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Wow oh hello - Chris Chris guess what you are first on today's live chat
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and a big congratulations to you Chris Morales I will give you a lovely bow and
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also a curtsy as if I'm eating the Queen thank you also to Tomic for joining us
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today Rahul well a loop hello Guadalupe I love
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your name by the way I love saying Guadalupe it makes me feel happy for
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some reason blue thunder nasiha also Julie Messier asks please teachers about
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phrasal verbs well in fact I have done a lesson all about phrasal verbs there is
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a lesson on my youtube channel all you have to do is subscribe to my channel
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and then you can find all of my lovely lessons so there are nearly 700 lessons
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on my YouTube channel most people don't realize that there are so many so I urge
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you to like what you see and also subscribe is well please subscribe and
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like I know it sounds very desperate but unfortunately here on YouTube we live in
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very desperate times so don't forget to Like and click and subscribe as well
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that would be ever so nice hello Olga hello Luis hello Maria
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hello armed' Wow so many people here already I'm so pleased to see that
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you've found me even though the clocks have changed we have gone back one hour
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here in the UK Patrick says hello it is now about 16 minutes past 9 o'clock at
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night in Thailand so if you are a head of the UK then it will be one hour later
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if you are behind the UK then it will be one
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our earlier as I understand it it is such a confusing subject don't you think
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roll fee is here hello mr. Dan Cohen the Dominican
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Republic is live with mr. Duncan thank you very much nice to see you here
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hello also to Berlin Chris business hello mr. business I hope you are okay
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what type of business are you in what type of business do you do or are
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you pursuing some people especially nowadays a lot of people want to break
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away from the traditional way of working so when we think of working we always
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think of going to work in the morning and then we spend maybe 7 or 8 hours at
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work and then we come home however nowadays a lot of people want to break
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away from that tradition they want to break away from the rat race we think of
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the rat race as being going to work every day or maybe during the week you
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have to give so much of your time however nowadays a lot of people are
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choosing to create their own businesses and work for themselves so this would
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appear to be a thing that is a growing trend even now so here in the UK there
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are a lot of people who are going alone they are deciding to set up their own
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business especially in things creating computer programs or maybe doing some
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sort of craft work no I don't mean that sort of craft work she is a model and
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she's looking good not that craft work craft work as in creating things such as
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greeting cards or maybe t-shirts or maybe paintings that people create their
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own things and then they sell them so that is one type of business
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that people are creating nowadays so going it alone going alone on yourself
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having your own venture having your own business is something that is very
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popular nowadays hello patch you who says happy Diwali it
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is the festival of lights apparently happy Diwali to everyone and here in the
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UK a lot of people are celebrating that as well this weekend
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ciao mr. duncan satury No hello satury no I haven't seen you for a while it is
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nice because today all of us get back one hour so all of us are now a little
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bit younger yes but the problem is you have to give that hour back next year so
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you don't get to keep it unfortunately Irene hello Rosa hello
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Celia hello also - Theo hello Theo the weather
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here by the way is gorgeous today would you like to have a look outside let's
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have a look outside it is a really nice day so much better than yesterday we had
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so much rain I can't begin to tell you how much rain we had I will show you in
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a few moments because yesterday I went for a little walk and I did some filming
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so you can see just how bad the weather was yesterday we had so much rain and
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another view looking into the distance although it looks a little bit dark at
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the moment over there the clouds are rolling by so hopefully that that view
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will look better a little bit later on I'm waiting for the Sun to come back
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from behind the clouds however over there it looks rather nice thanks for
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joining me today we are talking about interrogation or interrogate 'iv
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questions so quite often where we ask someone we will use certain words those
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words might be when why how who so words like that
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for example hello Rosa hello Alexandra hello Guadalupe nice to see you all here
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today so nice to see you here hello also to Luis Mendez I am going to
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tell you the answer even if I don't follow sport its South Africa oh I see
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so I guess that the semi-final has already taken place so South Africa will
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be playing England in the Rugby World Tournament Cup final you can tell that I
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don't really follow football all that much you cut you don't you know that now
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you know I don't follow football or rugby or tennis I don't really follow
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sport at all hello also to catch you we believe that
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today or night I don't lack sim Laxmi I'm not sure who
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Laxmi is I'm sure someone will explain Khan all this here mr. Duncan I think
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all of your students are similar to you we all love life and we are enthusiastic
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well sometimes in life you have to be enthusiastic even if you are doing
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something you don't really want to do you can still be enthusiastic so quite
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often even if you have to do something you don't want to do quite often you can
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change your attitude so I think attitude is everything in life whatever it is you
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are doing it is the way you see it the way you view something and if you don't
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like it maybe you can change it it's never too late to make changes in your
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life that's what I always say Pedro is here
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Pedro also ro sir Nadia hello mr. Duncan from Paris oh now
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I know that I have quite a few people watching in France many people watch my
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live streams and they never say hello never some people are very shy so if you
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have never said hello on my live stream before maybe today is the time to do it
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go on go on say hello mr. Duncan it is my first time typing something to you so
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go on do it now I might give you something nice in a return so yesterday
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I went for a lovely walk I went very close to where I live
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because we've had a lot of rain and the rain had been falling for for over 28
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hours so we actually had around about 28 hours worth of non-stop rain and here is
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the result
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I hope you enjoyed that so some views that I filmed yesterday on my mobile
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phone whilst out and about on a walk so yes we've had a lot of rain it has been
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pouring down the rain had been falling for many hours and and there were floods
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all over the place so around this area there was a lot of
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flooding some of the roads were blocked and you could see in that video the
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water was coming down the hillsides so the things you could see were not rivers
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that water isn't normally there it's not supposed to be there so you can tell
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just how much rain we've had over the past few days quite a lot in fact we had
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rain for 28 hours without stopping so that's the reason why hello to patch you
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hello also to Ana yesterday I went to the country I had a
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wonderful walk and picked many chestnuts oh do you like chestnuts I like roasted
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chestnuts they are very nice hmm hello Guadalupe my mother lives in a little
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town but her house is far away and there there isn't the internet but there are a
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lot of natural sounds one of my favorite things one of my all-time favorite
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things must be the sound of nature last night I was cleaning my teeth in the
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bathroom last night and I could hear sheep so all the sheep at the back of
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the house last night were feeding in the dark so they were all awake and they
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were actually calling to each other in the dark it was very nice it was a
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lovely sound not to mention the Owls quite often we get lots of owls near the
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house at night as well so quite often you can hear them
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I like the sound of nature as well hello row sir I was thinking of her
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mother oh yes of course Belarussians mother is not very well maybe Belarusian
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easy with other things because today in Argentina they are having one of these
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so in Argentina right now there is a general election taking place they are
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voting for a new leader a new government in Argentina so that might be the reason
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why Belarusian isn't here today because of the election mr. Duncan you make
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lovely videos you are also a good photographer congratulations Thank You
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Silvia that's very kind of you to say a lot of people believe and they think
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that I have other people working for me I don't I do everything myself so all of
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the videos you see were created by me all of the camera work was done by me
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all of the editing was done by me so I do everything so all of the videos all
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of the things that you see were actually created by me talking of videos we are
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going to take a little break and we are going to go back six years to this
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actual weekend to find out what I was getting up to I thought today I would do
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some of my lesson sitting down because I've had such a busy month so I'm going
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to set my chair up in the garden somewhere hmm
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now let's see where shall I put it
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you know one of the most confusing things about the English language
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relates to how it is used in England and the way it has evolved in the United
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States the fear of many students is that if they learn one version then they will
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be unable to use the other of course this is not true
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many of the differences between British English and American English are quite
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small yes the spelling of certain words in American English is different color
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and labour have no.you license has an S instead of the second C double letters
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in Words become single Center become Center with er at the end spelt
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becomes spelled aluminium becomes aluminum you may have noticed there that
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despite the different spelling most of the words are pronounced the same ah
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but mr. Duncan Americans have a different accent that is utter rubbish
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accents exist within all languages in Great Britain the English language is
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spoken with a variety of accents all over this country English is being used
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in many ways the spelling is the same but the accents are not in the USA there
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are various accents too from one state to another
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just like here in the UK English is spoken with different accents I have
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said this before and I know it annoys many English teachers there is only one
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version of spoken English accents are not languages during my time in China
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I had a few awkward moments with teachers from the USA who took offense
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at the fact that I was being allowed to judge in English speaking contest
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why is he doing it he's British there is a certain amount of arrogance that goes
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with that statement I often found myself on the receiving end of hateful comments
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and for want of a better word prejudice from other English teachers I see no
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rivalry between British and American English as far as I can tell when spoken
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they are pretty much the same when I watch a US TV show I don't have the
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subtitles active I can understand it because it's English one English
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language one way no confusion
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for some reason we always seem to get a little emotional when talking about
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accents the notion is that a person's accent defines them but this is not true
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language is a means it is not who you are all this talk of division in spoken
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English just ends up putting unnecessary pressure on those learning it for
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English students this pressure can make learning English daunting modern
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communication has broken down this divide between languages we can grasp
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things much faster these days so remember there is only one spoken
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English one way only no confusion accents exist in all languages they are
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all as varied as each other
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doo-doo-doo-doo oh yes it is Sunday and there we were going back in time six
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years ago to this very weekend six years ago in the garden talking about some of
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the differences and also some of the misconceptions about the differences
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between American English and British English don't forget there is only one
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English language only one that is spoken the differences are often due to the
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accent that is being spoken hello also to Eric can I say a special
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hello to Frankie 54 who says hello I haven't seen your name before on the
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live chat so maybe it's your first time here Pedro asks mr. Duncan it will be
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Halloween on Thursday will you be showing mr. Steve as the ghost yes I
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will we will be talking about Halloween on Halloween which will also be the last
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day of October which will also be the anniversary of my YouTube videos being
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published for the first time I created my youtube channel way back in 2006
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however the 31st of October will not be this this is not happening I'm not
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mentioning it I'm not saying the name I will not say the name I refuse to say
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this so this is not happening on the 31st of October however this might be
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happening this might happen here in the UK in December is it my imagination or
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has the world gone quite chaotic it's become very chaotic I think so Noemi
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says Mia we are voting today in Argentina oh hello there and there are a
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lot of people I had to hue-hue if you queue
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it means you stand in a line a line of people you will wait to be seen or you
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will wait to be served so you have to stand in a queue
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lots of people standing behind each other
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hello also to Frankie Oh Frankie is now saying I often watch
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your videos but I still have trouble understanding the oral English okay
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don't worry and a big hello to Lorraine in France it's nice to hear from you I
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haven't seen you before on the live chat so I think I will give you a round of
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applause
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a big happy bonjour to you Marwa is here I agree the accent isn't really
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important but the most important thing is that you speak clearly and fluently
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yes this is something I've always said for the past 16 years I've been talking
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about this in my work wherever I was if I was in the classroom when I was in
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China I would always talk about the importance of understanding that English
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as a language is one thing many people become distracted by accents or the
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spelling of certain words when in fact you should be concentrating on all of
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the root words so when we talk about root words the common words that occur
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in English and those words will will appear and occur everywhere so not just
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in the UK not just in the United States everywhere so a lot of people do become
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a little confused or frustrated when they don't realize that there is only
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one English so don't worry about American English or British English
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quite often those things become important when you start speaking so
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maybe some people like to speak clearly when they're using English it depends it
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is almost like a choice really hello to Rolfie if all people spoke like mr.
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Duncan there would not be a problem oh okay then well I agree with you some
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people say that I do speak very clearly but then I am an English teacher I mean
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there would be no point doing this if you couldn't understand me it would be
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pointless to be honest with you when we ask questions we are using a form of
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interrogation so you are using a sentence interrogate of Lee
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so when we are asking questions there are certain words that we will use to
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show that information is required so I might ask a question but I quite often
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will require an answer so we will often use certain words as a way of asking
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questions for example what what an occurrence or an action you might react
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it by saying what what was that what are you doing so quite often we will ask
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what as a way of finding out an occurrence or maybe something that
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recently happened what what happened what are you doing or maybe what are you
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doing tomorrow so maybe a future event you were also asking about what another
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one quite often asked why why once again you are asking for information why did
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something happen why did you say that why did you go there why did you hurt me
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why why so both of these are forms of interrogation we will ask a question and
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normally these require an answer what did you say what did you say I didn't
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hear you what did you say why did you say that so in this sense we
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are asking the reason for it why so quite often
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why is used to get information and also to find out the reason for something
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occur ring why did it happen why did you hurt
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me what did you say another one again and very common words and these are all
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forms of interrogation where where where quite often refers to location or the
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position of something so you are asking for the location or maybe the position
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of a thing or a person where are you where is he where do you come from so
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quite often when we ask where we are asking for information about location or
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position where are you time is another question you might pose or put forward
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when so when we ask when we are also asking for information about not
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position but time we want to know when something happened or when it will
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happen when did it happen
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when will you arrive when will I be famous when so this particular word
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relates to questions about time position time however sometimes we can also use
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where when we want to ask a question about a particular time so this can also
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sometimes we used to ask a question about time when is almost always used to
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describe time or to ask a question about time frankly it is better in English for
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people I believe but of course it is more practical for me in French do you
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mean the language hi mr. Duncan I send you my regards and greetings from Rio de
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Janeiro in Brazil yes your English is perfect to be understood furthermore you
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are one of a kind in teaching English direct from its birthplace it's true
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England is where it all started this is the birthplace of the English language
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thank you very much for that hello @ EF @ EF says sorry I did not hear the
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notification I am late don't worry you are here and that's all it matters mr.
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Duncan would you please upload full English grammar courses from basic well
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the problem with that is everyone else has done that if I do it everyone else
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has already done that so I always try to do things in a different way different
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from other people so if I start doing a 20 part or 50 part course about English
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that will take all of my time I won't have time to do anything else and to be
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honest with you there are so many people now on YouTube doing the same thing they
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are all doing the same thing they are all teaching from basic English to
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advanced English so if I did that it would take all of my time and I wouldn't
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have time to do this so that's the reason why how this is another question
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that you can ask people how so the circumstances of a certain thing the
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circumstances of a situation the one thing became another thing so maybe a
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change of circumstance and if you want more information about it we will often
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ask how how did it happen how will you get here so if there is a transit
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taking place from one thing to another we might be interested to find out how
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it happened or how it will happen how will you get here how can I earn
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some extra money so you want to get from one thing to another how do I get to
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your house how so this is another question when we
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are talking about the transition of one thing to another how did you become so
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unfriendly how did you become so miserable how how did you get from one
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thing to another how hello to Emilio what questions what questions our basic
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topic when English language is studied I'm not quite sure what you mean by that
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what questions are basic topic when English language is studied I think
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maybe you are giving me an example of the use of when well in that case we are
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talking about an occurrence so when something happens so in that sense the
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word when refers to the circumstances of something occurring so in that sense it
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isn't a question here in Mexico we have changed the clocks to to what did you go
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forward in Mexico or did you go back in Mexico so here in the UK we have gone
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back one hour how is mr. Steve mr. Steve is all right don't worry mr. Steve is
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still alive and well
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how did you find this channel and this is an interesting question actually this
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is one of the questions I do like asking how did you find this now over the years
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when I first started doing this on YouTube
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the channel was very different from what it is now in fact I would go as far as
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to say I would say 100% that YouTube in 2006 was completely different from the
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way it is now completely almost unrecognizable in every single way one
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of the main things of course is the quality of the video so many years ago
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when YouTube was very young the video quality was pretty bad first of all the
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screen was very small and also the resolution of the picture was very poor
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I think it was about 240 P which is a very fuzzy grainy picture so the picture
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originally on YouTube was small and grainy very fuzzy the quality of the
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picture was not good not good at all and we have the final one of all the
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questions you might ask who who this is very specific this is a way of finding
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out information about a person who maybe someone broke into your house last night
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and they stole all of your jewelry who broke into my house who did it who was
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responsible for the robbery who
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who are you you might not know a person's name you meet them for the
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first time you don't know who they are you ask their name who are you who a
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person who who are you who are they who do you think you are if
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you are angry with a person you might ask them who do you think you are who do
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you think you are it's normally said at a point of extreme
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anger it really is would you please show us
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your first ever YouTube video my first video is actually on my youtube channel
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and I was actually filming inside my house in China so that is actually the
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first video I ever put on there Rolfie says I found this channel in an English
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group on Facebook that's why it's important to share this channel with
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your friends to make it grow and reach 1 million subscribers can you imagine that
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if I had a million subscribers wow that would be amazing I must admit that we've
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rather that would be rather nice I think then I would do live streams every day
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maybe even twice a day who knows for those who are wondering 31 days will end
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this week on Thursday it will be the final day of October so on Monday
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Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday I will be with you from 2 p.m. UK time as we come
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to the end of English in October it's quite a shame really isn't it I think
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some people might be a little bit disappointed I think so do you like
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technology I love technology so much in fact I love it so much I made a full
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English lesson all about
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here is a word that might be familiar to you the word technology generally
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relates to any complicated tool that has been created to carry out a task of some
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sort this task can be a simple one such as adding up numbers right up to the
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really complex and difficult ones such as steering a jumbo jet or sending
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someone to the moon there are some other words that relate to technology such as
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device which is something that uses technology to function such as a
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smartphone or tablet they are types of devices the device forms the hardware of
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the technology while the programs and applications running inside are the
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software they are both forms of technology it is hard to imagine what
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life was like before modern technology came along technology is used almost
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everywhere now in factories and offices in our leisure pursuits in our cars and
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homes and perhaps in the not-too-distant future as a part of the human body it
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would be fair to say that virtually all of the great technological leaps forward
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have occurred during the past hundred years since the
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discovery of electricity our world has been magically transformed into an
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amazing Wonderland where our thirst for information can be easily quenched and
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the human imagination is encouraged to run free
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do you like technology would you miss it if it wasn't around what piece of
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technology do you use the most a computer game a mobile device a
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super-duper talking watch which piece of technology are you looking forward to
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using in the future a flying bicycle a driverless car an artificial brain a
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holographic TV perhaps will they ever be reality only time will
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tell
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so there it was one of my full English lessons an excerpt from full English
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number 15
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hmm I hope you're enjoying today's livestream yes we are live for a few
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more moments and then I am going so you have a few more moments to stay with me
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and then I will be off hello to Noemi who says I agree with Marwa you deserve
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more than a million subscribers well sometimes you know what they say
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about life sometimes the things you want the things you desire are always out of
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reach so sometimes yes it is a little bit difficult
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Erik asks mr. Duncan did you finally receive your special gift from YouTube
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no no I've never received any plate or play button from YouTube ever isn't it
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strange so it would appear nowadays to be awarded something on YouTube you have
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to sit in front of your computer and play computer games all the time and
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Jane just and then just shout and swear and then that's it YouTube will give you
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a special prize and lots of money as well isn't that nice however if you put
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a lot of work into your videos and do it for 13 years the rest as they say is
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history Amelio interesting as all of your
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lessons are thank you very much we have become addicted to your live streams
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what will we do after the 31st of October well I suppose you can always
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watch all of my other videos there are many videos on YouTube on my YouTube
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channel don't forget like and subscribe you can subscribe to my channel and then
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you will never miss another video or live stream so there will be more live
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streams ah after the 31st of October but not every
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day so I won't be doing live streams every day there will be some changes and
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I will tell you all about those as the week goes on so on Thursday I will tell
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you exactly what is happening on my youtube channel after November the first
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arrives I found this channel by advice from the
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best channel to learn English and since I started to see mr. Duncan's lessons
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I couldn't stop mr. Duncan is addictive hmm it is almost as if people are
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addicted to English Wow I like that hello also to Zayid mr. Duncan we want
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full English grammar basic courses if you keep typing the same thing again and
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again please I've seen your message okay
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okay see this is what happens sometimes dear me when will people learn I've read
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your message I have seen it clearly and I have responded to it please tell us
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what do you think people think about Russia as a country what do English
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people think about Russia well I'm sure there are many people who are who love
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Russia but of course there are always people who will hate everything or
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anything there are people who hate English people so maybe if I go
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somewhere in another part of the world maybe there will be people who hate me
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that is something that happened to me personally when I was in China I got a
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lot of criticism a lot of hate from people who didn't like an English man
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being the centre of attention so yes it could it could refer to anyone really
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anywhere there are people who did like who disliked Germans or French or
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maybe some people who disliked Australians so there are people who
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don't like Russia and there are people who do between you and me I am always
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fascinated by the history of many countries including Russia so during the
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periods of time when a country changes from one thing to another it is always
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interesting the same thing has happened here in the UK so over the years there
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have been many changes to the way people behave or maybe the way the government
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works and of course the monarchy so I suppose the biggest change here over the
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past four or five hundred years must be the monarchy the the rulers of this
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country there used to have all of the power but now they have very little
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power in this country after the signing of the Magna Carta Patrick hello I like
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Russian vodka and also girls well good for you
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I'm very happy to hear that at EF I don't like Iranians oh okay then I don't
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know why why don't you like Iranians I've never met an Iranian that I didn't
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like but then again as I go around the world I try to find nice people to talk
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to but there are good in bad in all societies and all countries including
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here in England and the UK so everywhere has it's good points and it and it's bad
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points sometimes people will focus on the good things and sometimes they will
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focus on the bad things so it depends really
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it depends sheriff says racism is not good well I suppose so I think it's fair
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to say that being Ray assist is not good or logical to be
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honest when you think about it it makes no sense Connell says I was searching
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for the silent letters in English on YouTube and I discovered my lovely
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teacher mr. Duncan Thank You carnal I'm always interested to find out how people
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found my lessons so I suppose I'm a little bit different from other teachers
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because sometimes I will talk about subjects that other people won't talk
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about so for example I did a lesson all about death a very hard subject to talk
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about and yet I did it I did it I didn't want to shy away I decided to be brave
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and push the boundaries so many many years ago I made a lesson all about
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death a very hard subject to talk about Rosso is here also our man Z T Abdullah
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mr. Duncan greetings from Bahrain you are the best English teacher and you
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have a unique way of teaching English can you use other platforms platforms
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like Instagram for teaching and also Twitter well first of all I do have a
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Twitter account so I do use Twitter but not very often
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because Twitter is is not really an education platform you may have noticed
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that Twitter is a place where people go to fight and argue over all sorts of
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things I do have an Instagram account but again I don't use it very often but
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I do have a Facebook account you can also also find me on Facebook Facebook
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there we go Facebook there is my address on Facebook and also my email address so
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yes I do have a Facebook channel and that is the one that I use the most
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besides YouTube so you can find me on Facebook and quite often I will post
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lots of information as well to tell you what's happening in my world so don't
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worry about it there are lots of ways of getting in
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touch with me why would someone hate a whole country
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because of a bad act some of someone else or somewhere else
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well it does happen sometimes people are not logical they come to conclusions
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about things maybe @ef says Mr Duncan once again I have to tell you your
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pronunciation is fabulous thank you very much I am going in a moment because it's
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five minutes past 3:00 GMT so don't forget we are now GMT that is our time
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zone so no longer are we British summer time no that's ended now we are GMT
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Greenwich Mean Time so that is the time zone that we are in here now Patrick
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thank you very much thank you also to Rahul by the way if
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you want to make a donation yes I have a donation account on PayPal so for those
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who would like to send a donation don't forget everything I do I do for free for
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13 years I've been doing this and I never charge you anything for my work
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including this livestream so there is the address for your donations if you
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want to send a donation you are more than welcome to do so if you've just won
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the lottery maybe you've just won the lottery maybe a million pounds I don't
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know Pat you sir can you tell me whose sound
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is recorded on the International exam preparation course I don't know I have
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no idea don't know who it actually is I know
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when I was in China I recorded some of the tests for the listening exam in the
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English examinations in China so yes I did that myself but I'm pretty sure that
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isn't me so I'm not sure who the voice is on the international exam preparation
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course I don't know thank you very much for your company I am going now I hope
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you've enjoyed today's lesson as we approach eight minutes past three
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o'clock I hope you had a lovely day let's have a look outside briefly whoo
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it's got a little bit dull outside now oh look at that it's a little bit dull
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that's not very nice I'm hoping that that will get a little bit brighter
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thank you very much for joining me thank you sir Ed thank you also to business
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I'm still interested to find out what your business is maybe we will talk
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about that tomorrow so see you tomorrow it is the final four days we only have
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four more days of October and then it's all over
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this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying see you tomorrow
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2:00 p.m. UK time and of course you know what's coming next
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yes you do... until tomorrow...
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ta ta for now 8-)
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