Learn NUMBER Idioms - 🔴 LIVE LESSON - English Addict - Wednesday 3rd APRIL 2024

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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Welcome to a windy day in England.
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It is rather blustery, to say the least.
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We are back here again.
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We are live from the birthplace of the English language.
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You know where that is?
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I know where that is.
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We'll know where it is.
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Of course it is.
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England
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We are back together again.
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And it's ever so nice to be with you once more.
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Hi, everybody.
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This is Mr.
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Duncan in England. How are you today?
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Are you okay?
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I hope so. Are you feeling happy today?
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I hope so.
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The weather here in England at the moment is not very good.
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It's very wet, windy.
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It's dull.
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It's not too cold.
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We have around 12 Celsius,
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which I suppose is about average for this time of year.
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April is here.
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Happy April, everyone.
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I wonder, did you get caught out by any.
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April Fool's jokes?
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Traditionally, on the 1st of April, a lot of people like to play tricks
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or pretend that something has happened when it hasn't.
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We like to fool other people to fool someone.
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The word fool is
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a verb.
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It can also be a noun.
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So the person is the fool
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or you can fool another person.
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You can play a trick on them.
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You can do something to deceive them
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and make them look very silly.
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I hope you are okay today.
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It's nice to see you here on the live chat.
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Even though things seem to be a little bit slow today.
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What is happening is something happening that I don't know about.
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I wonder.
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I was expecting a few more people joining me.
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I have a feeling it is connected to the fact that last weekend
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we did put the clocks forward by one hour.
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So for some of you, maybe the time is a little bit different.
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So that might be the reason I would not be surprised
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if one or two people join me later on and they say, Mr.
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Duncan,
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why are you on so early?
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And I will say, no, we have changed the clocks here in the UK.
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So my name is Duncan. I talk about English.
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You might say that I am one of these right here,
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an English addict,
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and I have a feeling maybe you are one of those as well.
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If you like this.
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I know I haven't started yet.
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This might be a load of rubbish.
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Who knows?
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But if you like this already you are thinking,
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who is that handsome young man on my screen?
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I will give him one of these, please.
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Could you do that?
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It would be ever so nice.
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We have a busy month coming up, by the way.
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Many things happening during April.
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Happy April, by the way.
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Is it okay?
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So far we are only three days into the new month, so I hope it's going well.
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We have a lot of things coming up.
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We have my new YouTube channel.
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You might not believe this, but I was working on some of the information,
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some of the things connected to my new YouTube channel
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way into the early hours of this morning.
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I couldn't sleep last night.
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I will tell you why.
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We went out for a meal yesterday. Mr.
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Steve and myself, we had a nice meal.
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The only problem was, I think I may have eaten too much food.
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We had the most delicious food.
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I had a very large potato
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toe and casserole dish.
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It was absolutely gorgeous.
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The only problem was there was a lot of garlic in the meal
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and during the night I could not get to sleep.
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I don't know about you, but if I eat too much garlic,
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what happens is my stomach becomes quite bad.
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Very.
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It's quite sensitive sometimes.
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My little tummy.
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So I was awake.
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So I came down here into my studio.
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I did it around about 2:00 this morning and I stayed here for 2 hours
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during the night doing some things to my new YouTube channel.
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So I am putting a lot of effort into my new channel,
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which will be
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available in a few days from now.
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I suppose I can give you some clues about my new channel.
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First of all, it is all about learning English,
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of course, because that is what I do
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and I've been doing it for many, many, many years on YouTube.
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And my new channel will have lessons for those
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who are learning English as a second language and maybe some people
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who are starting their journey into the world of English.
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Also, there will be the opportunity to have translations of each lesson
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in your individual language as well.
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So you can have my lesson, you can watch the lesson,
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you can read the lovely big captions
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on the screen because there will be captions
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and underneath the video there will be translations
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in your local language,
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whatever your native language is.
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So all of that coming up.
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I am very excited about it,
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so I am hoping there will be lots of new subscribers
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joining my new YouTube channel, maybe lots of people
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who want to follow a different type of English lesson.
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So I think sometimes doing this it might be too fast.
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Maybe sometimes my my speech is too quick.
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So I thought, I will make lessons for those who are learning
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English as a second language, but they have just started.
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So that is what my new channel will be all about.
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We will talk a little bit more
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about that next weekend, next Sunday when we are back.
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So that's what we will do.
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Hello to the live chat.
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Hello v tense.
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You are first on today's live chat.
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We also have sash sash
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who came in to the live chat
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at around about the same time as V tense.
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So congratulations to basic both of you.
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Yesterday
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we went to Ironbridge, a lovely place not very far away from where I live.
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Can you believe that?
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We went there yesterday and there is something I did not do
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that I always do.
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Where we go somewhere.
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Can you guess what it was?
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The thing that I didn't do yesterday that I normally do,
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and that is
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take pictures or take photographs
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film using my mobile phone.
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So I didn't take any photographs yesterday.
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I didn't take any video clips.
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I didn't do any recording yesterday.
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So we had a lovely walk.
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My back, by the way, is feeling okay.
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It's not too bad.
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The pain is slowly going away.
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But I have to say I am looking forward to the time
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when my back is not hurting because it is literally
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a pain in the back.
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I have to say it is very annoying, especially if you stand up for many,
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many hours like I do when I'm preparing my live streams.
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Today we are here talking about a very interesting subject.
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Of course, we have you on the live chat.
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We also have me here in the studio in much Wenlock
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and hopefully we have an interesting subject
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to talk about as well.
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Hello also to Palmira.
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Hello, Palmira.
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Nice to see you here as well.
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Mohsen, hello to you.
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Thank you very much for joining me today.
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A lot of people now have found me.
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I think quite a few people still don't realise that
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last Sunday the clocks went forward by one hour.
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So maybe that is the reason why there are some people missing today.
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Quite Labour is here. Hello to you.
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Also we have Patrick.
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Hello, Patrick.
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Nice to see you here today. I hope you are.
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k, who else is?
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Claudia. Hello, Claudia.
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Apparently we have a live weather forecast
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and report from Argentina.
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Apparently it's just coming through that it is
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raining at the moment in Buenos Aires.
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Thank you for letting me know.
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There, Claudia.
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Who else is here?
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of course.
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I can't forget you.
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I will never forget you.
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In fact, Louis, Mendy
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is here today.
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Hello, Louis.
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Nice to see you back with us on the live stream as well.
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So many people now, now they are checking in.
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They are saying, hello, Mr. Duncan,
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you are on.
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Thank goodness for that.
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Udom.
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Hello, Don.
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Nice to see you as well.
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Watching in Bangkok, Thailand.
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Hello to you, Don.
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Nice to see you here on the live chat as well.
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We are talking about numbers today.
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Numbers. We use them all the time.
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When we are counting, when we are listing,
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when we are signing in or logging
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in, maybe to one of our online accounts or maybe your bank account,
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or maybe you are buying something with your
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debit card.
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You see, I have one here.
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I can't show you the number, but that is my
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my little debit card
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whenever I use it.
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Quite often I have to put my PIN number.
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My personal identity number
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is what that stands for.
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So your PIN number is a type of number.
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There might also be an identity number.
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So quite often many of us will carry some sort of information
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about ourselves, be it a driving license perhaps,
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or maybe your passport if you are travelling to another country.
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Of course, in some countries they also have identity cards.
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Here in England, we don't have identity cards,
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not yet anyway.
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Some people at the moment are talking about bringing in identity cards,
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so there are a lot of people at the moment discussing
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certain subjects and topics.
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One of them, of course, being immigration,
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a very controversial, a very big topic here in the UK.
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And once in a while this
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particular topic comes up again and again
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and that subject is identity cards.
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So you might have your own number
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that relates to your identity.
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So maybe one day I will have to carry an identity card around with me.
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Although technically I will be honest with you.
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We do have identity cards here,
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except they are called driving licences.
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So many people have a car, many people have a driving licence
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and it is very easy to find out who that person is in the car.
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Or maybe you can ask someone to show their driving licence.
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So you might say that even though we don't officially
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have identity cards here in England,
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we kind of do
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because we have driving licences, we have passports,
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we normally have some form of identification.
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So there is always something, a birth certificate.
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Everyone has one of those
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because we were all at some point
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born,
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Even though I'm still not too sure about myself,
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I still think sometimes I was made in a laboratory.
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I think so.
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Beatrice Hello, Beatrice.
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Nice to see you here, Beatrice.
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It is good to see you.
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Where are you today?
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Are you at home?
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Are you on the low ground or are you up in the mountains?
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Where are you today?
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I wonder who else is here today. Florence.
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Thank you, Florence, for joining me.
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It's very nice to see you here today.
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Sometimes you have to have proof of your identity
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if you want to buy a certain thing.
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So now you can't buy guns here in the UK.
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So here you can't just go into a shop and buy a gun
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because they are basically illegal.
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However, in other countries you can.
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So I suppose a good example would be the United States
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where you can go into a shop and show your identity,
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maybe prove that that you are the person you say you are,
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and then you can buy maybe a shotgun or a rifle
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and some ammunition, and then you can go home
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and think
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of all the wonderful things you can do with it.
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However, here in England, we don't.
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We can't.
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You see, guns are illegal.
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You can't buy them.
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However, there are special licenses here in the UK
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that people can buy
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with a gun.
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So there is a licence, you will buy the licence.
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It will allow you to own normally just one shotgun
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and quite often that particular licence is given to farmers,
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people who have livestock, people
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who have to protect their property in some way.
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So you can buy guns I suppose.
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And quite often you have to prove some identity, you have to show who you are.
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Quite often there will be a photograph or maybe something showing where you live,
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how old you are, and quite often there will be
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an identity number as well.
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Guns are not
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easily available here in the UK.
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That's probably the reason why you rarely hear
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of any of any serious shootings.
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Fortunately, we don't have them very often.
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They don't happen very often, unlike
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other places where they do happen very often.
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Can I say a big hello to my viewers in Taiwan?
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And at the moment during the night, two
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serious earthquakes occurred.
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And I don't know if you've seen the images on the Internet, but
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some of the images are quite harrowing, I have to say.
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Although there is one that did make me smile.
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I don't know if you saw it, but there was a television presenter, a young lady,
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and she was presenting live on TV in Taiwan.
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And then suddenly the studio started shaking and moving around.
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But the young lady just carried on.
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She carried on presenting.
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She didn't seem very upset by the fact that all of the lights in the studio
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were swinging around and everything was going from side to side.
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So can I say, Wow, whoever that lady is,
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she will never have to worry about finding another job anywhere.
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If she wanted to move to another TV station.
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All she has to do is show that video clip of her during an earthquake
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carrying on, presenting, staying calm.
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How amazing is that?
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I'm not sure what I would do.
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I think I would run away.
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I think I would hide somewhere and I think I would scream like a girl.
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I think so.
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But I hope if you are watching in
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Taiwan at the moment, I hope everything is okay where you are.
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Fortunately, there was no su nami, even though a lot of people
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on the internet said there was or there was going to be, but there wasn't.
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So fortunately, the latest news that I saw
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there was no serious aftershock, which surprised me
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but very dramatic pictures indeed.
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So I hope you are okay if you are watching in that particular
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part of the world.
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Hello. Also, who else is here today?
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I don't want to miss anyone out.
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Hello, Andrei.
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Andrei.
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6819.
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What is fact? Is it anything in particular?
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It is a very interesting number that I am drawn towards.
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And the reason for that is because today I am talking about numbers,
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idioms, phrases connected to numbers.
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And it is amazing how often we use numbers in our day to day life.
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Even computers
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rely on numbers,
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although they are of course a different type of number.
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They are ones and zeros
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and we often refer to that as binary
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binary numbers or binary system.
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So all of the calculations, all of the things
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that happen involve zero and
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one and that's it.
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It's just lots of them all
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moving around at the same time.
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Hello to the live chat.
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It's nice to see you today.
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Welcome to the live chat.
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I hope you are going to stay.
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So we didn't take any photographs yesterday in Ironbridge.
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However, I did buy
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a little souvenir of our trip.
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Can you see it?
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It is just over there behind me.
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Can you see? There it is.
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So I bought that yesterday
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whilst out and about it is a little woodpecker.
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In fact it is a great spotted woodpecker
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and it is something I saw in a shop and I could not resist buying it.
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And I thought that would make
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a wonderful new character for my studio.
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So there it is, a new a new addition to my studio, a little
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great spotted woodpecker
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I might show you.
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I might show you all of the detail on Sunday.
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We don't have time for today.
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Unfortunately, it is a problem
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sometimes when there isn't enough time to do everything.
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Please give me a light.
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If you like this, please give me a like.
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Would you like to see a photograph of myself and Mr.
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Steve?
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Here it is.
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So there is Mr. and myself.
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You might not be able to see it very well, but we are actually having a curry.
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And this was taken a few weeks ago.
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And you can see that I am having a lot of fun there, biting
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into a very large Poppadoms
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you often have poppadoms with a curry.
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Mr. Steve doesn't look too sure.
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He doesn't look very happy, does he?
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Looks very unsure.
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So there it is, a photograph taken a few weeks ago.
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That was the night we went out
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and we got stuck in town because we could not get a taxi back home.
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And that's the same night that it happened.
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But it was still a very nice meal.
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Yesterday we went out. Mr.
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Steve is off, by the way.
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He is taking a break from his job,
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but at the moment
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I get the feeling he didn't want to come on today's live stream.
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So instead he's gone for a big walk at the top of the hill.
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Hello.
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Also to who else is quite cool to tie, but hello to you
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and it's very nice to see you here today.
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Yes, it is true.
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I do like birds very much, even right now in the garden.
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If you look in the garden at the moment, you
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simply
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move in the room
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and then
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as I was saying, if you look in the garden at the moment,
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you will see there are many birds feeding because the weather is not very good.
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The weather is a little bit unsettled, let's just say, and things
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are not very nice actually outside, even though it's very warm.
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But you can see there are lots of birds feeding on the bird feeders.
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We have lots of goldfinches.
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So those birds you can see on the left are actually
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old finches.
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They like to come into the garden
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and have some food
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and that's what they are doing.
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So that is the scene outside
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proving that I do like birds very much.
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Hello, Mohsin.
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Hi to Mohsin.
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It's so good to see you here today.
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28:31
Quick timer says I could hear the sound
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28:35
where I lived of the earthquake that took place this morning.
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So I was actually up I was up during the night
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working on my new YouTube channel
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and I suddenly got an alert on my phone and on my computer telling me
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that this earthquake had just occurred.
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But I didn't feel anything.
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I think I am a little bit too far away from Taiwan
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to feel the earth move like that, so I didn't feel anything.
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English addict is here today.
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I hope you are okay.
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We are going to talk about a subject, an interesting subject.
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I hope you will find it interesting.
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Anyway, we are looking at numbers in a few moments, words
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and phrases in the English language connected to
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counting numbers,
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numerals, figures
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and all that jazz.
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I had a complaint the other day saying, Mr.
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Duncan, we haven't seen your.
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I'm a big boy now video for a while.
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Okay.
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This is just for you.
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I'm a big boy now.
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Welcome to the nice part of the internet.
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Quite often we are lovely, nice, kind and ever
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so sweet to each other.
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Me And here we are.
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My name is Mr. Duncan.
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I am in England and I am here to help you with your English.
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I hope you are having a good day to day.
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I really do.
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The birds do sing.
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The other morning I got up very early
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because I needed a wee wee and I went into the bathroom.
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I opened the window and I could hear all the birds
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singing with that dawn chorus.
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So you can really feel that spring is here
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and summer is not very far away at all.
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Excuse me, I. Can I just have a drink? I need a drink.
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What's this?
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This here, this.
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33:53
You want to know what this is? Well, guess what?
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This is my new superduper mug that you can also have if you want one.
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This will be available soon on my YouTube channel.
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So if you want your own English addict mug
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with my lovely, cute, smiling face on the front,
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and of course, on the other side, it has the address as well of my YouTube channel.
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You can buy one of these very soon.
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This is merchandise. Look at me.
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34:24
I'm becoming very modern and sophisticated at the moment.
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Have you noticed also you can buy one of these if you want soon.
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34:33
If you want your own English addict T-shirt
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34:36
and your English addict mug, then guess what?
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You can have fun.
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You can have your own to wear wherever you go.
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You can visit your relations, you can take your mug and wear your t shirt
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34:51
and you can knock on your neighbour's door and say, Hello,
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34:55
I've come round for a cup of tea.
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34:58
Would you like to hear about how I learn English?
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Well, this is how I do it.
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I do it like this using this guy.
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So if you would like to buy a lovely mug, then guess what
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you have the chance to do it.
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Lots of merchandise will be available on my YouTube
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channel very soon as we introduce the new channel.
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But also, I suppose I should tell you
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what is happening with this channel.
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35:26
What does it mean, Mr. Duncan?
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Does it mean that you are going to stop doing this
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on your English addict channel?
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Does it mean the end of your English addict YouTube channel?
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Well, I can tell you now the answer is
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no. This will carry on
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English addict as a channel will carry on.
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There will be live streams, continue viewing on this channel.
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However, you might find that there will be fewer and fewer
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lessons recorded lessons on here.
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So most of my recorded lessons will be on my new channel,
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but my live streams will continue on here on English Addict.
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So if you are wondering about that,
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then that is
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what is happening.
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Lots of information to give you.
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I will be talking about this on Sunday because there are a lot of things
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happening in April, including my new YouTube channel.
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I might even reveal the name of the new channel on Sunday.
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I might reveal the new name,
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and it's taken me a very long time to find a new name.
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It must be one of the hardest things to do when you create a new YouTube channel.
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I think it's very hard to come up with a very good title
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because most of them have gotten
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most of the really good titles for your
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YouTube channel have actually gone.
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So we will see what happens.
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So there are mugs available soon.
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37:14
You can have your own English addict mug.
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37:17
They are also available in black
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37:20
and dark blue as well.
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So if you don't like the colour red then you can have another colour instead.
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37:27
But all that is happening.
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I can't tell you how excited I am at the moment
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to today.
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We are looking at numbers, words and phrases
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connected to numbers and we do use numbers quite often in English.
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You may have noticed when we are counting, when we are recording the amount
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of something, the number quite often
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when we are talking about quantity,
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we will often use numbers.
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So numbers are used very often.
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So let's take a look, shall we?
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Let's dive into today's
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subject and see what happens.
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there we go. Very nice.
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That may be jump that did.
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Where did that come from?
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How did I get that?
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Through the door.
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It looks too big to go through the door.
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Anyway, we are looking at numbers, words and phrases connected to numbers.
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I wonder what your favourite number is.
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A lot of people have a favourite.
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Some people feel as if they have a lucky number.
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What about you? Do you have a lucky number?
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38:41
I used to believe that my lucky number was four,
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but not anymore.
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I don't think I have one anymore.
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38:51
Here we go then.
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When we talk about numbers, we are describing or naming
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or looking at a character representing
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a quantity or an amount.
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So you can see here I have some lovely numbers here that I've put on the screen.
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You might be thinking, Mr.
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Duncan, what do these numbers mean?
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Do they represent anything?
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They don't know that I represent anything.
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So we have one, two, three, four, five,
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six, 27,
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42, 68
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136 Wow.
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And 2024
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or 2024.
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Well, I suppose the final figure there is one that we can all relate to,
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because that is this year I feel as if I am reading the lottery numbers out.
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I would be a very good voice.
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If anyone needs a voice
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to to to read out the lottery numbers in their country,
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then I think I could do a very good job of it.
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Number one.
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Number two,
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Number three.
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Number four,
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27, 42,
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68, 136.
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Yeah, I think I could do that very easily.
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So when we look at numbers, we are looking at numbers that are
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specific or relating to
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quantity, maybe something you are
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counting.
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Maybe I will be counting the number of mugs that I
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have sold on my YouTube channel.
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Maybe, perhaps.
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Who knows?
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So there are many ways of using numbers
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and they do exist in many areas of our life.
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I think it's safe to say
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numbers can be described
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as a numeral numeral,
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41:13
so each individual number can be a numeral
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4872
41:18
or of course, numbers together can also be a numeral.
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4655
41:23
But normally we we will describe one single number
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4671
41:28
as a numeral.
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2636
41:31
We can also say figure as well.
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2853
41:34
So a number can be a figure, an amount.
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4238
41:38
The amount of something, the number, the figure,
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3854
41:43
the numeral each numeral
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3570
41:47
in the amount will make up that particular figure.
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4504
41:53
A considerable
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1735
41:54
amount is very large.
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2514975
3871
41:58
So maybe a person who is wealthy,
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2185
42:01
maybe they are one of those very successful YouTubers.
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4471
42:06
Not like me, I'm afraid.
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1768
42:07
I am not one of those.
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1535
42:09
I am the opposite of that.
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2786
42:12
So unfortunately I don't have any branded
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3303
42:15
soft drinks available in the supermarket with my face on it, unfortunately.
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5339
42:21
But I do have mugs and they will be coming very soon.
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3303
42:26
Okay, I'm going to stop mentioning that now because I've done it too often.
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3337
42:29
I think so.
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1251
42:31
Something considerable is big is very big.
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3253
42:34
It is huge.
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2002
42:36
Maybe a person who has a very good job,
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3521
42:40
they earn a considerable figure,
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3753
42:44
a large amount,
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2636
42:47
or maybe they work on YouTube like me
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3003
42:51
and they earn a small amount.
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3553
42:55
They earn very little,
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2619
42:57
so they have to instead sell mugs
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3771
43:02
or of course they might be a very terrible YouTuber.
622
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3002
43:06
They might be someone who has no viewers ever,
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3003
43:09
and they might have an insignificant amount.
624
2589249
4121
43:14
So when we describe something as insignificant, it is very, very small,
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5739
43:20
very tiny.
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1852
43:21
It is almost invisible.
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2886
43:24
It is so small.
628
2604881
1618
43:26
So some people don't earn a lot of money doing YouTube.
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4321
43:31
Some people earn a lot of money and some people don't.
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3753
43:36
Yeah, it's true.
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2486
43:38
We might talk about the number of something
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3003
43:41
a considerable amount, as I just said,
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3003
43:45
a large amount or small amount
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4321
43:50
or an insignificant amount.
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3003
43:53
If it is very, very small, we might ask
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3086
43:56
how many there are of something,
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3354
44:00
how many people are coming to the party?
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3003
44:03
How many hats does Mr.
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3553
44:06
Duncan own?
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1852
44:08
How many mugs do you want to buy for Mr.
641
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4354
44:12
Duncan? Something like that.
642
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2286
44:15
Or maybe how much? How much?
643
2655231
2969
44:18
If you are asking about the quantity, maybe you want to know
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4789
44:23
how much, how much money
645
2663356
2636
44:28
does the top YouTuber
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3070
44:32
on this site, how much do they earn?
647
2672181
3620
44:36
How much do you love me?
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3003
44:39
that's a good question.
649
2679488
1385
44:40
How much do you love me?
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2819
44:43
Do you love me a lot or do you not love me at all?
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4538
44:48
Maybe.
652
2688430
1118
44:49
But quite often when we say how much we often refer
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3871
44:53
to quantity and quite often
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3086
44:56
that will be referred to using a number,
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3420
45:00
some sort of number, what is the total?
656
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3837
45:05
So maybe if you are buying lots of things
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2786
45:07
in the supermarket, quite often there will be a total.
658
2707866
3304
45:11
The final number is the total.
659
2711653
3988
45:16
After you add everything else up.
660
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3003
45:19
In business, we often talk about the bottom line.
661
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3537
45:23
So when we talk about the bottom line in business,
662
2723649
3303
45:26
we are talking about the final figure,
663
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3453
45:30
the final number at the bottom.
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2820
45:36
Continuing
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2202
45:38
the number of something can also be a code.
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2987
45:42
So we can talk about amount of something,
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2742134
4020
45:46
how much there is of something,
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2619
45:49
or we can talk about a certain number, a certain number
669
2749157
5372
45:54
that might appear in a particular place,
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3203
45:58
maybe a type of code.
671
2758300
2819
46:01
Perhaps you have to enter a code,
672
2761119
3003
46:04
maybe you work at an office where the door is always locked.
673
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4254
46:08
So you have to beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
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3553
46:13
Enter the code so you can get in.
675
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3353
46:17
You can use a set of numbers as a key,
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4955
46:23
a type of key to get in to a certain place,
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3787
46:26
or maybe on your computer or perhaps on your smart phone.
678
2786828
4838
46:31
You have a code that you have to enter.
679
2791783
3637
46:36
A phone number is also a type of number.
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4104
46:40
We are using that particular phone number so you can contact me.
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4855
46:48
Can you imagine that?
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1451
46:49
Can you imagine what would happen if I gave everyone
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3387
46:53
my phone number?
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2987
46:59
I think my phone would be ringing all the time.
685
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3337
47:02
I rarely do.
686
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1351
47:04
So there might be a press number where we talk about press number.
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4971
47:09
We mean a password using numbers.
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4355
47:14
Or maybe if you have locked all of your money
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2834775
3054
47:17
and all of your lovely expensive jewellery in a safe,
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2837862
3787
47:22
a place that is safe to keep something in,
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2842200
4237
47:26
you might have to enter some numbers
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3170
47:37
to get in.
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1618
47:38
So there might be a combination which is a great word
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4738
47:43
when you think about it.
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1318
47:44
Combination just means things that are together.
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3153
47:48
In this particular situation, we are talking about a set of numbers
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4221
47:53
that are used to get in to something
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3821
47:57
either a safe or a locked door, perhaps.
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4854
48:02
Also, you could have a serial number.
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2887
48:05
We will talk about that in a moment as we journey on.
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4921
48:11
A number can also relate to
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3003
48:15
one thing, a particular thing, an identity number.
703
2895185
4755
48:20
Now we talked about this earlier on.
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1802
48:22
Everyone has some sort of identity number.
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3520
48:25
Even if you work for a company, maybe you will be given a number
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4688
48:31
So the number that you have that goes with your name
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3770
48:35
and also your employment in a certain company,
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2915172
4237
48:40
maybe you have an identity number in your country,
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3537
48:44
so maybe you have to carry around a card
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3720
48:48
to show who you are.
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3003
48:51
It is used as proof
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3003
48:54
that you are the person you say you are.
713
2934758
2703
48:57
The house number often uses a number, but of course,
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3903
49:01
if you live in a very posh area,
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3002
49:06
people don't use numbers, they use names.
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3837
49:10
So instead of their house having a number,
717
2950507
3120
49:14
it will sometimes have a lovely name like,
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3954
49:18
I don't know, Rose Villa,
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2586
49:23
Swallow Fields,
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3003
49:29
Meadowbrook.
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2986
49:34
So if you live in a posh
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1018
49:35
part of the UK, in England, especially,
723
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3003
49:38
quite often the houses will have a name instead of a number,
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3954
49:43
which is very confusing for the postman, because if you live in an area
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4538
49:47
where all of the houses have no numbers, they only have names
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3837
49:52
and your postman is new
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2336
49:55
or post lady of course.
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2636
49:57
Yeah, because you have to be careful nowadays.
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2997787
2219
50:00
I don't want to get arrested for hate speech.
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3000006
3253
50:04
A location on a map can also be shown
731
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3270
50:07
using numbers as well.
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3003
50:10
Perhaps an account number, maybe your bank account,
733
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4020
50:14
maybe your insurance account, even your YouTube channel.
734
3014887
5823
50:20
So my YouTube channel has a set of numbers
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4221
50:25
so they have nothing to do with the name of the channel.
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3003
50:28
It is a special number that YouTube will use
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4321
50:33
to identify this channel that I own.
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4254
50:39
Maybe also the
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1001
50:40
serial number of a certain item.
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3003
50:43
So maybe if you own something normally
741
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3871
50:47
something expensive or something that
742
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3003
50:51
the manufacturer or the maker does not want you to copy,
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3721
50:56
that will often be a serial number and identity number.
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4254
51:01
That is unique to that one item.
745
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3487
51:05
Quite often we will give it a serial number.
746
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3303
51:10
You might count the quantity of something using numbers.
747
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3336
51:13
Of course we all do it.
748
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2102
51:15
How many people are coming to the party?
749
3075497
2069
51:17
How many children are here today?
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3077566
3654
51:21
Maybe in the classroom.
751
3081253
2069
51:23
Sometimes the teacher will count
752
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2969
51:26
the pupils in the classroom
753
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2369
51:28
to see how many there are attending.
754
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3003
51:32
Maybe me.
755
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1802
51:33
Maybe I am going to count and see how many people are here.
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3837
51:37
How many people are here today.
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1368
51:39
Let me just stay still. Don't move.
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2652
51:41
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven. I'm so.
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2419
51:47
nice.
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3107496
600
51:48
Thank you. Thank you for attending my class.
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3003
51:51
It was very kind of you.
762
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2436
51:53
So there are many ways
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2486
51:56
of recording the amount of something using numbers you count.
764
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4204
52:01
You tally.
765
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2486
52:03
Tally just means to make a record of the quantity
766
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3854
52:07
and quite often later you will look at what the amount is.
767
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4604
52:12
And I will show you how that works in a few moments.
768
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3354
52:16
You might also record the quantity of something.
769
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4304
52:21
So I suppose at this time of year, many farmers in this area
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4588
52:26
have lots of new lambs that are being born
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3120
52:29
and they have to make sure that they know how many lambs there are.
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5639
52:35
So they will have to count them.
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2252
52:37
They count the lambs and of course they count the sheep,
774
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4688
52:43
which is not
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484
52:44
easy because quite often people will fall asleep.
776
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3003
52:48
So when you tally something,
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3003
52:51
it is an old way of counting
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3003
52:54
and quite often it is used still as a way of counting things.
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5822
53:00
It is a very easy way, a very quick way of counting things,
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3537
53:04
and then afterwards you can work out how many of those things there are.
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4955
53:09
So you can see there on the screen
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2936
53:12
a tally can be marked using lines.
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4438
53:17
Lines are drawn with one line
784
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3003
53:20
drawn through to signify five.
785
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3637
53:24
So you can see there on that piece of paper,
786
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3187
53:27
someone is tallying.
787
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3003
53:30
And I will show you quickly here if I can find my piece of paper.
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3670
53:34
Where where has it gone?
789
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1435
53:35
Where is my piece of paper?
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2286
53:38
I had a piece of paper a few minutes ago and now it's disappeared.
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3420
53:42
Now I'm going to get angry.
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3222827
1952
53:44
So maybe if I am counting something, perhaps I will tally.
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4738
53:49
So I will count.
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3003
53:53
I will count.
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1669
53:55
And every time I get
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2319
53:57
to four,
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2002
53:59
I will draw a line through it.
798
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4321
54:04
So every time I reach five, that is what I will do.
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3970
54:09
And then afterwards I can add up all of those tallies
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4622
54:15
and come to
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3003
54:19
a total or result.
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2619
54:22
So there are many ways of doing that.
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1885
54:24
I hope I show that clearly.
804
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2519
54:26
I will show it again just to make sure.
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2820
54:29
So that is what it looks like when you tally something.
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4171
54:34
If you are counting something,
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3003
54:37
maybe lots of things that are the same, you will often use
808
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3803
54:41
tally
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2969
54:44
what is.
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1569
54:46
Yes, the tally can also be a verb as well.
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3770
54:49
So tally is also to work out
812
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3003
54:53
the result or the answer you tally.
813
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3820
54:57
You add up the amount,
814
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2586
55:00
the number of things you are looking at.
815
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2986
55:03
You can count on me.
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2452
55:05
Here we go.
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3305859
1168
55:07
This is what you've been waiting for.
818
3307027
2102
55:09
Some idioms relating to numbers
819
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3303
55:12
and also counting as well you can count on me.
820
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4971
55:17
This is often used to show that a person
821
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4104
55:22
can be trusted or relied on.
822
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3870
55:26
To count on someone is to rely on
823
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2886
55:29
or trust someone to be there for them.
824
3329232
3871
55:33
You can count on me to be here
825
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3987
55:37
every week talking about the English language.
826
3337691
3386
55:41
So if you count on someone, or maybe of course
827
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3871
55:45
you can count on something happening, it means, you know it will happen.
828
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4204
55:50
You can count on it, you can trust it, you know it will happen.
829
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5556
55:56
You can count on it.
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2703
55:58
You can rely on that thing happening.
831
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2669
56:03
Here's another idiom
832
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1151
56:04
connected to numbers.
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3454
56:09
Figure out if you figure out something, it means you are trying
834
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6573
56:15
to come to a conclusion why something happened.
835
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3421
56:19
Or maybe you are working out some sort of equation using numbers.
836
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6272
56:25
You figure
837
3385304
2186
56:27
figure something out.
838
3387490
1918
56:29
You are trying to come to a conclusion.
839
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3003
56:32
You are trying to find out why something happened.
840
3392778
3354
56:36
Maybe your wife.
841
3396549
2169
56:38
One day
842
3398718
2335
56:41
she packed her bags and left you and you don't know why.
843
3401053
3804
56:45
So now you will have to figure out
844
3405141
2986
56:48
the reason why she left you.
845
3408911
3003
56:54
Maybe it was your bad cooking.
846
3414016
2720
56:56
Maybe you didn't know how to cook and she decided to leave you.
847
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3219
56:59
Maybe you were lazy
848
3419955
1836
57:01
and you never helped with the housework or something like that anyway,
849
3421791
3887
57:06
so if you figure out something, it means you are trying
850
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3453
57:09
to work out why something happened,
851
3429698
4288
57:14
to investigate something, to study something
852
3434320
5405
57:20
you will often need to figure out.
853
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4021
57:24
It is a very common idiom used in English.
854
3444380
3270
57:29
Here's another one as
855
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951
57:30
we come towards the end of today's live stream,
856
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3003
57:33
your number is up
857
3453288
2987
57:37
to be called in
858
3457276
1401
57:38
or to reach the end of something.
859
3458677
3003
57:41
So in a few moments my number will be up
860
3461947
3003
57:45
because it will be time to go.
861
3465367
2653
57:48
Also, if a person is about to die,
862
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2986
57:51
or maybe if they do die, you can say that their number was up.
863
3471290
4321
57:56
He's gone.
864
3476645
1184
57:57
She's gone.
865
3477829
1202
57:59
She's no more.
866
3479031
1368
58:00
Her number was up
867
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3003
58:03
to be caught.
868
3483735
1585
58:05
Maybe the police catch you.
869
3485320
1735
58:07
Maybe you are trying to run away from the law and they catch you.
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3787
58:10
You can say that your number is up.
871
3490842
1869
58:12
They've got you. You.
872
3492711
1685
58:14
You must now face your punishment
873
3494396
3003
58:17
to be chosen for a certain job or a task.
874
3497415
4321
58:21
You can say that your number is up.
875
3501736
2336
58:24
It is your turn.
876
3504072
2069
58:26
Your number is up.
877
3506141
2102
58:29
So quite often we can use
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2052
58:31
this particular phrase in many ways,
879
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3087
58:35
but quite often we use it when we talk about coming to the end of something.
880
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4171
58:39
Your number is up
881
3519437
3003
58:43
to be at sixes and sevens.
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3523575
5005
58:48
If you are often at sixes and sevens,
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it means you are in a chaotic or confused state.
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Maybe you are rushing around in the morning
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and you have lots of things to do.
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You are all sixes and sevens.
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I'm all six seasons sevens today.
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I'm all
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in a state of chaos or confusion.
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I have lots of things to do.
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Everything is happening. Me.
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I am at six in sevens.
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It's a very interesting phrase.
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Another one for you.
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This is something that we might use when we are buying
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a large quantity of something.
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Bakers dozen.
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So this is normally done in a very humorous way or a funny way.
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So when we referred to a baker's dozen,
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we are saying that we want something
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that is a quantity of 13,
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not 12.
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So quite often we look at one person as being 12.
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So 12 of something can be described as a dozen.
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However, a baker's dozen is 13.
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It is one extra.
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So that is what we refer to when we talk about a baker's dozen.
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The quantity of 13.
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I'll have a baker's dozen of cream cakes today
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because I am feeling quite greedy.
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We have three more, including this one
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numbers you see number two.
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dear.
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Number 202.
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Am I really doing this?
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I'm not really going to do this.
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Well, I need some help from Mr.
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60:52
Steve.
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You see, if I do, if I do it, I need some help from Mr.
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60:56
Steve. If I can find if I can find it.
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Where is it?
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Where is Mr.
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Steve? On the toilet.
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61:05
I can't find it.
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Where is Mr. Steve? On the toilet. Gone.
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It used to be here,
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but is it gone?
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that's not very nice.
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I wanted to show you Mr.
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61:17
Steve sitting on the toilet when we talk about number two,
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we are talking about going to the toilet
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for a poo.
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Where is the nearest toilet?
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I really need a number two
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when we say that, you mean
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we need to go for a poopy time?
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61:42
Poo poo poo poo poo poo poo poo time.
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I'm trying to find. Mr.. Where is it?
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Where is it?
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there it is. I found it.
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This is.
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This is what I wanted to show earlier, and I couldn't find it.
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61:57
This is what I wanted to show you.
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Yeah,
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that is disgusting.
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I'm sorry about that.
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62:09
I feel so guilty showing that, but
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I hope you're not too offended by it.
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62:14
But there it is.
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If you go for a number two, it means you go for a puppy time.
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62:23
Count me in.
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2018
62:25
Maybe a friend has invited you to a party or a meeting.
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62:30
Or maybe some sort of gathering.
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You might say that you can count me in.
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I want to do it.
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I want to go there.
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I want to be there with you.
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You can count me in to express
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an interest in being involved in an activity,
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a certain type of activity.
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62:53
Do you want to come to the party?
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62:57
Count me in.
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62:59
And that is the reply.
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63:01
That is the response.
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63:03
Do you want to come to my party?
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63:06
Count me in.
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63:07
Yes, I want to go to your party.
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63:09
I want to go there and eat lots of lots of food.
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63:13
Dance to the songs
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63:17
to go tend to the dozen.
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63:19
If you are doing something very fast, if you are doing something faster
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63:24
than it usually happens, maybe you are walking
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very quickly.
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You can say that
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your legs were going ten to the dozen.
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63:39
They were going very fast because you were walking quickly.
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63:42
So if something goes ten to the dozen, it means it is going very quick,
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63:47
very fast, faster than it normally does.
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63:51
So that's what it is.
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63:56
Tony asks about Roman numbers.
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64:00
Yes, well, that I will be honest with you.
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64:02
That is a whole different story.
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64:06
That is a whole new subject.
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64:08
But we might talk about that another time.
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64:11
But you are right.
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64:12
There are Roman numerals.
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64:15
They are old way of showing numbers,
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64:19
quite often on very old clocks.
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64:23
You will see Roman numeral rolls
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64:27
as a way of showing what time it is
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64:30
with each hour and minute.
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64:33
Talking of time, it is almost time for me to say goodbye.
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64:39
I have run out of time.
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64:41
My number is up because it's time to go.
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64:46
I hope you've enjoyed today's live stream.
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64:49
I hope you have enjoyed everything today,
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64:53
including my lovely red t shirt.
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64:55
You will be able to buy this soon if you want one.
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64:59
You don't have to have one, but if you want one
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65:01
and maybe you can show off to your friends and neighbours, or even better,
1001
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65:06
you can go around to their house and show your nice new English attic mug
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65:12
and you can say that you are truly an English addict.
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65:18
You will have an opportunity to get them very soon.
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65:21
It is time to go, unfortunately.
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65:23
I know it's not very nice.
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65:25
I don't like leaving you.
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65:26
I really wish I could stay here all day.
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65:29
I wish I could stay here for the rest of the day till tomorrow.
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65:34
Even I wish I could just stay all night.
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65:38
I wish I could stand here and talk to you for many, many hours.
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65:42
But I don't think I can for two reasons my age.
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65:48
And also I have a bad back.
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65:50
Thank you for your company.
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65:52
See you later.
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65:53
If you've like this and if it has been useful,
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65:57
please give me a lovely light.
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66:01
Thank you very much.
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66:03
I will see you on Sunday.
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66:05
I'm back with you on Sunday. For goodness sake.
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66:10
You can't keep me off the internet.
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66:12
I'm back on Sunday. Mr.
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66:14
Steve will be with us on Sunday.
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66:16
Hopefully he will not be having a number two,
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66:20
I hope and I will see you as well on Sunday.
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66:25
Don't forget the time 2 p.m.
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66:28
UK time is when I'm back with you.
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66:31
And of course, until the next time we meet here, you know what's coming next.
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66:36
Enjoy the rest of your Wednesday.
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1802
66:38
Have a super duper day.
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66:40
Whatever it is you are doing, go out, enjoy the day.
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66:46
Keep that smile upon your face as you walk amongst the human race.
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66:50
And of course,
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66:54
the final word is always the same
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67:02
buy my mug.
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Ta ta for now.
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