LIVE English Lesson - 7th January 2018 - PART TWO - body part idioms - keep fit - uses of 'work'

twelve days of Christmas yes well the 12 days of Christmas refer to actually the

festivities that take place around Christmas so for the twelve days and

then after the twelve days you have to go back to normal that means at

Christmas that the festivities have all come to an end

so that is where we are right now this is the twelfth night it's time to take

down the Christmas decorations Christmas officially comes to an end of course

this is all based on religion our old friend religion and that's the reason

why after Twelfth Night and this of course is the beginning of what they

call Epiphany in the Christian religion did you know that I do now

so you're saying we'll get bad luck if we leave them up you mean more bad luck

how can we get any more mr duncan we get bad luck normally whatever happens

whether we take the Christmas decorations down or not which we still

get lots of bad luck hot in here you are right lots of logs on the fire as usual

usual he puts too many logs on the fire who is stoking it up mr. Steve is

telling me off he's saying that I always put too many logs on the fire last year

he put seven new logs on that the top of the fire was glowing red hot in fact I

said I think I've damaged the fire he has damaged the fire we need a new

baffle the pot part of the part of the fire has actually melted because I

apparently I was putting too many logs on the fire so so now me with excited

about the fire mr. Steve is not very hungry

do you like the star look there are three stars here oh it's there's that

one that one and where's the other one three stars as to Steve the real

Christmas star and also me as well the real star cause people would same as

Jesus Oh baby Jesus any wedding will not believe

right not condoning it now you know if you

want to do it fine can I take some tinsel you know what I

always say I say live and let live live and let live live and let live if

someone wants to believe in something let them

if someone doesn't let them fine do you win employees crackers should we take

them to make sure can I just say these are these the posh crackers or are they

the cheap ones let's take him on the fire as you what happens Steve wants to

burn these on the fire I don't I don't think that's a good idea to be honest so

we won't do that Steve put them in the box everything is going in the Box these

are any order to what we're doing just just stick it in there just stick it all

in don't worry about it okay right I'll take these these balls

off yes you can handle the balls okay there we go mr. Steve thank you very

much I'm sure you can do that just put them anywhere think about these balls is

that they're made of plastics and surveys they think actually break they

they just they just get squashed so they don't break they don't smash they're not

made of glass so fortunately you can't break them we have to say goodbye to the

snow man this snow man has been sitting in my studio during my recent livestream

see you next Christmas

Steve's broken wand oh that's okay you can fix that Oh Steve has lost his end

not for the first time that glass actually we're taking the

tinsel off now taking the tinsel off pretty easy it wouldn't be easy to

actually bring the tree out we rather than move it at the moment in that way

Steve is complaining he says that it would be better if we bring the tree out

now we're going to do that in a moment so don't worry Steve now one or two

people have asked if I could talk about tinsel

so tinsel tinsel is something that's used to decorate Christmas trees or you

can have it hanging up around the room so this particular thing is called

tinsel I'll take that no what are you doing Steve Steve we're taking it off Oh

Steve was putting the tinsel back onto the tree what's going on this oughta be

confusing I don't want to do I'm all confused

what day is it today this is this is Twelfth Night oh by the way there is a

Shakespeare play a Shakespeare play called Twelfth Night

as well written over 400 years ago and Twelfth Night is a very unusual

Shakespeare play in that it involves a little bit of gender swapping did you

know that yes Shakespeare was very much ahead of his time look at this tinsel to

hold that end sleeve called the end of it of it look at no fans look at this

tinsel it's a gigantic look at that giant snake look how long it is that

might be that might be the longest two i've ever seen a girl on stage that was

in this pageant appearing on stage like that anyway I think mr. Steve has

appeared on stage too often it's done completely to his end right it's now

completely bare okay we have to take the lights off so first of all we will pull

the tree out do you remember the last time I did this we pushed it in last

time now this time I have to pull it out all right he doesn't pull on the fire

yes mr. Matt look concerned about the heat I have it I have a strange feeling

that the tree is going to melt by the fire did you take the plugs and plug the

tree mr. Steve and plug the tree there we go I'll hold on to these while you

pull it out okay I will grab hold of it

that's it all right so now we will take the lights off the

tree as well well it tangled up here tangled it's all tangled tangled that's

a great word tangled if something is tangled it means everything is tied

together like this it is an example tangled that's that's tangled I think

that I don't think anyone can see that okay let's have a look let's take the

lights off the lights are coming off right now bye-bye lights bye-bye see you

next year

actually I think I'm taking the wrong lights off first I think it I think I

should take these lights off first

tangled up we know me sometimes I like to make a mess it's what I do I've done

it really mr. Steeves fixed it untangled it actually this is not easy to do which

one have you got I thought the I'm not sure actually at

the moment I'm not sure what's actually going on here I seem to have got myself

into a tangle there this all too quickly oh by the way can I say hello to all my

new subscribers watching in Egypt over the past few days I've had hundreds

hundreds of new subscribers watching in Egypt so a big hello to all my new

followers and of course today we are heading towards 600,000 subscribers 600

thousands - Duncan that's a lot isn't it how many people follow you on a regular

basis I wish it was that's fantastic

push you in there all the way that's it there we go

I like to think that Steve's helping me but I'm not sure if he is should I bind

them back on is he's taking them off ah

this certainly winding me up winding you up winding if you wind up so on if you

wind them up it means you you irritate them you get them really angry

you've whined them up hurry up they're gonna Knight

our mint tea is getting cold oh we've got a cup of tea yes thank you

Steve hard work we'll need a break after this

okay we're taking the lights off now so what you're watching at the moment is a

recording this is Saturday night it's Twelfth Night the night when all of the

Christmas trees and Christmas decorations have to be taken down over

they have to be taken down that's it you're doing very well they're almost

finished mr. Steve on this particular string string of life can I let you in

on the secret now I'm not saying that mr. Steve is

clumsy but quite often mr. Steve can be quite clumsy it's true close were you

acting then mr. Steve put the lights on the fire No can we reuse these next year

yes put them in the box in the box everything goes in the box he's supposed

to pack them up neatly you know it's okay you can't damage these things

there's such good quality you see all right this is a small one do you want to

hear the story about the tree the Christmas tree so this Christmas tree

well when we originally bought it we thought it would fit in here but in fact

it's slightly too large for this room so instead of using the whole tree we just

use part of it so this tree isn't the full tree it's just part of the truth

now if difficulty he was finding the ends but I don't think it really matters

to be honest if anyone watched just put the tree up they'd realize that we

there's another section to this which we accidentally put the wrong bit on didn't

really make this job very silly we made such a mess of putting this tree up did

you see the video we did a live stream and it was a miserable

it was the bismuth disaster wasn't it Steve it was made us look proper proper

proper fools I'm getting into such a mess here with the with the lights

doing Steve oh nothing giving the wrong place I certainly am all right certainly

in the wrong place at the wrong time as they say no look it's all gone limp can

you see that as how I feel I don't think we're gonna get these off you know I'm

going round around in super close I think you're you might be doing it the

right way I think I'm doing it the wrong way you're winding the back on it I'm

white wines in the market oh I see what's happening take it to a right mess

here charli's you were talking so much you

were talking so much she's just completely lost where you were think so

I've got the end look I've got I've got the end here

good job one of us knows what they're doing right there yes I've got the end

that's the end it at the end I've got the end Steve that's the end

that's done if I if I keep hold at the end oh is that it that's it yeah we've

got the lights off so the lights now off we have removed them they are now

removed from the tree now to be honest I'm not going to worry too much about

wrapping them up properly because what will happen is next Christmas when I get

these down I will actually unravel them I will untangle them so we won't do it

now we'll do it at the end of the year there

will be next year oh this year this year because it's

because it's now 2018 of T oh my goodness can you believe it it's like

we're living in future I remember when I was at school and people used to talk

about 2000 and 2001 as if it was really really far away in the future but in

here we are now in 2018 so this is really science fiction now isn't it it's

like something from a science fiction novel the only problem is we don't have

any flying cars well not yet anyway I think this is more like a comedy I

think so so oh okay then you've taken that piece I've taken that piece off so

now we have to take the bottom section we need to sort of squash them all up a

bit don't we yes this this can take a while actually

yes go make yourself a drink I think I think we might end it here shall we end

it here okay

right certain kind of office that's that's the Christmas tree now packed

away so we now have the Christmas decorations in that box and the

Christmas tree in here we have one more thing to take down just here oh I'm so

hot oh I think my trousers were about to catch fire there okay thank you Steve

that's great other than that solder in a moment we will take the Christmas cards

down but you won't see that we're going to do that after we have finished doing

this so we are now going back to the studio on Sunday afternoon where

everything is as live as life can be see you

dooba dooba dude what happened what happened I was cut off did you see what

happened there thank you very much to British Telecom

thank you British Telecom for cutting me off they disconnected my internet for a

few moments so can I just apologize to those who who were asking mr. Duncan

what happened to you I'm very sorry about that my internet connection

suddenly disconnected and it's all thanks to British Telecom thank you very

much for that at least we are back now so that was a slight technical problem

it isn't my fault it is British Telecom if you want to blame

someone blame them thank you very much for that I don't know how much of that

you saw but mr. Steve and myself we were taking down the Christmas decorations on

Twelfth Night but of course for some people around the world it is actually

Christmas Day today because they are Orthodox Christians so it I don't want

to confuse things any more but happy Christmas to those who are celebrating

Christmas today even though here in the UK officially yesterday was the last day

of Christmas right here so it's mr. Duncan we are back thank you very much

for reconnecting me we had a slight technical problem now

you know what this means this now means that there will be two videos two videos

connected to today's live streams so there will be the first 20 minutes and

then the rest of the livestream I don't know how I'm going to sort that out but

I have a feeling that I'm going to have to work very hard to sort that slight

problem out anyway we are all here together it is live we are coming up to

15 minutes away from three o'clock let's have a look at the mystery idioms now

these are mystery idioms that I showed you about two weeks ago and here they

are once again so these are mystery idioms they are expressions well-known

expressions in the English language and you have to guess what they are just say

what you see so there is the first one and there is the second one but what are

they they are well-known English expressions but what are they and there

is the first one once again if you think you know the answer please let me know

today we are going to talk about many things we are also going to talk with

mr. Steve after three o'clock all about keeping fit and healthy because of

course it is the start of a new year and many people at the beginning of the year

they like to think that they can make resolutions make plans for the new year

and one of the plans that many people make they they make the plan to become

more healthy so after 3 o'clock mr. Steve will be here with me yes it's true

mr. Steve will be here after 3 o'clock I think it's just you mr. Steve so there

he is mr. Steve will be here after 3 o'clock today live unless of course

British Telecom decide to cut us off again it's not very nice I was just

asked to explain the word wind up yes wind up can mean more than one thing

wind up can mean to tie something round in a very neat way so you can wind

something up wind up it means to roll something or to make

something more manageable by winding it neatly so you wind it up of course you

can also wind up your watch you can wind up your watch and wind up can also mean

to end some things so if you end a meeting if you end a conversation if you

start to finish what you are doing you wind up you close you prepare to finish

so I hope that helps you live-chat is up and running let's have a

look lots of people today on the live chat thank you our May - Thank You Ari -

Thank You Marie for saying hello is it ear in the mud no it isn't Bella has

also made a guess at today's mystery idioms Luciano is here hello Luciano hi

everybody hello mr. Duncan how are you today I'm

not too bad but sadly we had some technical problems today with a live

chat we were cut off it's true also encroachment or ik root Mont or AK root

Mont you latests says I am here as well it's nice to see

you nice to see so many people here live thank you for staying with me because we

had some technical problems 20 minutes into today's livestream unfortunately

the internet connection here was cut off so thank you very much once again to

British Telecom for spoiling my life stream how dare you as you know the name

of the game is to teach English we are now going to take a look at one of my

full English lessons this is an excerpt from full English number 16

do you ever find yourself stricken with shyness do you ever feel shy would you

describe yourself as a shy person it would be fair to say that we all feel a

little shy from time to time there are certain situations where shyness might

affect you perhaps you are meeting someone for the first time even worse

perhaps you are about to meet many people who you don't know they say that

loneliness is a crowded room and for a shy person this is very true we often

equate nervousness with being shy you might not know what to say in certain

situations which can lead to the appearance of being shy a lack of

confidence in certain situations can lead to an attack of shyness we often

position shy alongside awkward in a sentence a shy person might be described

as apprehensive bashful coy retiring and timid a shy person might find themselves

being accused of being antisocial or standoffish as their silence can

sometimes be misinterpreted as arrogance or conceitedness I know this because it

has happened to me I can sometimes be quite shy in certain situations which

can lead to some people asking what's the deal with your friend Duncan he

won't speak to anyone he seems a bit arrogant to me no I'm not being arrogant

or stuck-up all conceited I'm just a little bit shy that's all

have you ever taken part in a contest or competition and after the result or

winner has been announced you feel cheated you find yourself thinking that

perhaps the winner was chosen for a reason perhaps you felt that the

competition was rigged or fixed to rig something means to arrange a situation

in such a way that the result is assured to rig something is to cheat and fix a

game or contest to go one particular way for example in a talent show

the winner might turn out to be a relative of one of the judges this might

lead people to think that the contest was rigged or fixed in sport a boxing

match can be rigged so as to allow people to place heavy bets on the winner

one of the boxes taking part in the match is paid to take a fall so as to

ensure that the other one wins almost anything can be rigged or fixed so as to

give someone an advantage or a definite chance of winning

the world of English is indeed a fun and exciting place to be but it can also be

confusing for those learning the language some English words especially

can create confusion and lead to mistakes being made a good example of

this confusion is the similarity between the words momentum and memento they seem

to be related but in fact they are not in physics the word momentum relates to

the quantity of motion of an object based on its mass and speed that is to

say how heavy and how fast it can travel is related to the amount of energy it

can create this energy is classed as potential which relates to what the

object can do for example the weight and speed of a rolling rock will give you

its potential energy value the movement is its momentum the force and thrust

created is called impetus movement is impetus momentum can also relate to the

driving force or impetus of a course of events how one action or event can have

an effect on other things the size of the effect and how long it will last

relates to its momentum the discussion of a controversial topic will gain

momentum as more people become involved

the word memento refers to an object that has been kept as a reminder of a

past event a memento is a souvenir it is something that has been put aside as a

treasured possession a keepsake is a memento a photograph taken at a special

event can be a memento something bought during a trip to a particular place is a

memento so as you can see the words momentum and memento are very different

indeed

you thank you very much I hope you enjoyed that that was a segment some

excerpts from one of my full English lessons they are all available don't

forget on my youtube channel I suppose I should tell you now that all of the

playlists are available underneath this video as well so all of my lessons the

playlists are under this video and there are lots and lots of English lessons

besides my full English lessons there are lots of other general English

lessons as well don't forget I've been on here now for over eleven years it's

true and today hopefully later today we will reach 600,000 subscribers I'm

hoping so so today I'm hoping that we will reach 600,000 subscribers will you

be one of those new subscribers I know over the past few days I've had lots of

new people watching in Egypt lots of new subscribers joining me over the past few

days so a big hello and welcome to everyone who has joined my YouTube

channel over the past few days watching in Egypt and of course everywhere else

around the world because now it is 2018 and we are officially in the future it's

like living in a science fiction novel don't you think

thank you very much for everyone who has decided to stay with me today of course

we had some technical problems earlier thank you very much Arry das says the

quality of the stream is much better now the quality of your live stream has

improved very much I don't know what happened

earlier we had some problems I've not been watching you for three years as I

live in London now I feel very sorry for the last three years old don't worry

about that a croute meant don't worry at least you are here now it would appear

that your online activity is gaining momentum in 2018 I think so thank you

for your lovely greetings so many people today joining me we did have a slight

problem earlier on unfortunately so today's livestream is going to be in two

parts unfortunately so we had 20 minutes and

then unfortunately my internet connection was cut off very rude but

fortunately it's come back now mr. Duncan why don't you make conversation

with your subscribers well that's what I'm doing now I'm doing that right now

thanks a lot for your lovely messages today thanks for getting involved we are

coming up to three o'clock and of course mr. Steve will be here today we're going

to ask some questions would you describe yourself as a modest person modest the

word modest is an interesting word modest means to not show off or to be

very humble in your attitude towards your own life so if you are a very

modest person it means you are very humble so you don't like to boast you

don't like to brag about your achievements you like to be very modest

so would you describe yourself as a modest person do you know anyone who

isn't modest hmm do you know someone who is a bit of a show-off do you know

someone who like to brag so yes to be modest is to be

humble very humble you don't like to talk about your achievements I think

between you and me he's not here yet but mr. Steve I think mr. Steve is very very

modest in fact I think mr. Steve sometimes is too modest I really think

that so I think mr. Steve sometimes he he becomes too modest too worried about

appearing to be showing off but mr. Steve is a very talented person he will

probably he will probably hate me saying that mr. Duncan you are a modest teacher

Thank You TS tsta we are now approaching 300 sorry five hundred and ninety nine

thousand three hundred and eighty four people have subscribed we are still a

long way from six hundred thousand subscribers but maybe by the end of

today maybe by the end of this day I might have over six hundred thousand

subscribers ah thank you very much and a big hello if you are one of my new

subscribers lots of things to talk about in the second part of today's livestream

can I just say once again I'm very sorry about the slight technical problem we

had earlier but at least we are here now and guess who else is here now can you

guess

I do bee do bee D bee do bee do bee boo and the big question this week is will

mr. Steve will mr. Steve sniff will mr. Steve cough that's the big question that

I'm asking today will mr. Steve makes some strange noises we will find out

right now because here he is it's mr. Steve hello hello mr. Steve hello mr.

Duncan we had some problems earlier hello yes I know you came running out of

the studio and there was a little technical hitch have we had a little

break in the internet connection didn't we we have a Miss there was a fault

thank you very much to British Telecom once again for ruining destroying my

livestream today I think maybe they have a problem with me I think so oh you're

getting paranoid mr. Duncan yes they're all out there together all out there to

get you is against me it isn't YouTube it's now British Telecom it's they go on

and out to get you it's the government the government against me the world is

against me every building is Lincoln's I think if those foxes on your desk I

think they're against you I'd watch out for them one of the little foxes can you

see the foxes there one of the foxes on my desk just tried to run away did you

hear that they're made of they're made of paper

aren't they they're lovely aren't they these these are my little foxes mr.

Steve bought these for me a couple of years ago aren't they lovely and the

reason why I'm mentioning foxes today is because here in the UK they are trying

to reintroduce fox hunting now a lot of people don't like the thought of foxes

being hunted so what normally happens is people ride horses with with some dogs

leading the way and then the dogs catch the Fox and they tear it to pieces they

kill the Fox so for many years this has been a

regular sport although to be honest I don't consider it a sport it's our rich

isn't it the rich and the wealthy a lot of people think that fox hunting is just

for the rich and the wealthy yes you're right Steve it is it's a it's a little a

plaything for the for the rich and the aristocracy and people who can afford to

to have horses that's it and but but it's still hunting hasn't been banned

it's just the hunting of foxes which I to agree with I've got to say so they

they that the horses now follow a scent don't they they they put some scent on

to a onto a big cloth or something like that and then trail it through the

country and then the the hounds follow that instead and the horses run out of

the hounds so the sport is still there was it employs a lot of people it's

quite a big industry but they don't actually hunt down a fox and kill it

anymore which is which i think is civilized although having said that

having said that that there have been reports of Fox hunts actually still

killing the Fox yes this is a very controversial subject at the moment here

in the UK it is a controversial but the government at the moment of trying to

make sure that fox hunting stays banned now last year strangely enough the

government here in the UK was trying to push to have fox hunting reintroduced

yes but now they've changed their mind well is it the argument that the fox

hunt has put up is that foxes are a pest they do they destroy chickens and and

and farmers animals and things like that but to use fox hunting as an excuse for

controlling the numbers of foxes is a little far-fetched because I don't think

fox hunting actually kills that many fox it's so me there they have to be

controlled in some way the populations of foxes gets too high but I think the

idea of having a bloodsport to do it is is not particularly it's a bit

distasteful elephant and of course these days Steve we have we have foxes in our

town centers and so certain routes certain parts of the UK if you live in

the town you will see foxes walk around at night so they are walking around the

streets so not just in the countryside but also in the neighborhoods

I remember in Wolverhampton we lived on a on a quite large estate and and at

night you would see foxes walking around the streets very common because they've

learnt it's much easier to raid people's dust bins for food where people throw

out a lot of waste food and eat that rather than then hunt for for little

animals in the dark so it's much easier for them to just raid people's dust bins

yeah I think so also because of farming as well so the way that farming is

carried out nowadays so so a lot of foxes are moving towards the what they

call the conurbations the areas where there are lots of people living but it's

it's very interesting it's a controversial subject it is well

sometimes we like to talk about controversial things but of course we

have happier things to talk about as well because it's the new years a new

year the new year it's baloon be high so far I've got to

say it's a big disappointment really but let's hope it picks up during the year

well we're only we're only seven days into the new year so so who knows

something nice might happen it was a shock going back to work I'd had 10 days

off and as a lot as I'm sure a lot of people were sympathise out there he had

a lot of time off work and then you suddenly go back it's a bit of a shock

to the system I couldn't remember all my passwords its computers and systems and

apps that we haven't work I forgot all my passwords how do I'd use that hour

what do I press here forgot it all oh dear that doesn't sound very good that

of course not everyone these days uses technology

now this is one of the questions that I'm asking today first of all are you

modest would you describe yourself as a modest person and another question today

this is an interesting question is there anyone you know who has no email or

computer so they have no computer devices nothing at all

and no email address they don't use modern communication devices so do you

know anyone what about you Steve do you know anyone uh I think what elderly

people tend not to the older you are I think the less likelihood that you're

going to have use the email I don't to mention anyone in particular but I know

people my age certainly who refused to go on Facebook and refuse to get

involved in social media and things like that which is fair enough but you can't

you will get left behind I think you've just got to be you've got to at least

know what it's about and you're very good at that mr. Duncan you're very good

at staying ahead with technology and the latest trends and what's going on

because and I do agree with you it's very important that you do because if

you don't you're just going to end up like a lot of elderly people sort of

bewildered and frightened of the world and not understanding what's going on

and the changes that are happening because the world is an ever-changing

place and I remember when I was at school hmm I can always remember that

can't remember much about school but I can remember this one teacher coming in

and it was we were about 16 at the time and he was touring around the various

schools and he said the one thing you your generation and every generation

from now on will have to find how to cope with and live with is change and he

said and I remember him saying this if you don't move with the times if you

don't accept change you will be left behind and you'll be living in quite a a

frightened little world harking on about the past and how you

like what's you know when you grew up as a child it's very dangerous to talk like

that because the world is changing rapidly more rapidly now than ever and

you have to stay up-to-date with these changes or you won't be part of the

modern world well that's it because things do change

I mean ah I'm on the sharp end of everything because that's because what I

do what I do is technology-based and of course technology is always changing

from week to week so so I really do have to keep studying every week finding out

what's new in the world of technology so here on YouTube for example things are

always changing they're always making things different on YouTube always

changing things technology even the thing you're watching now the way this

livestream works all of the technology involved in this livestream is always

changing always so I always have to keep up to date and it's very easy to get

left behind yeah very very easy it is at work I mean that keeps me because I'm

that that sort of generation whom well I didn't really grow I didn't grow up with

computers you didn't you probably did computers were coming in when I was a

teenager but there were very basic things we certainly didn't have mobile

phones or social media but you know I've had work has forced me to have to do it

because if you don't keep up to date with things at work then you'll be out

of a job and it's hot I don't like chain weed none of us like change and I hate

it and I hate new technology and having to learn how to do it but you know I'll

moan won't I are known about it a lot oh you only are do you definitely moan

mister I'm definitely one of those people who could go and live on a on a

desert island with nothing I could definitely feel it going for that type

of way of living you know like Mormons do that don't

they shun all technology are you sure I don't think thinking it what am I

thinking thank you you're think of the army Amish

that's what I'm thinking of the our communities the Amish and the Mormons

are very different from each other yes okay let's rewind the Amish community

that's what I'm thinking of either if there's anyone watching in the Amish

community actually they're okay it doesn't matter because they don't have

computers or electricity so we're okay so I'm going to join an Amish community

I think we've really dodged the bullet there I don't whether they have bullets

but that's technology so they're probably - probably bows and arrows it's

just a big rock just run rocks around yes Oh Bob we've talked about something

we didn't even intend to talk about mrs. oaken no I've almost forgotten about the

disastrous first hour look we're all very sporty today aren't we you tell you

mr. Duncan said to me put something sporty on today because we're talking

about health for talking about sports were talking about a new year how to get

healthy fit lose weight that sort of thing that's a theme because it's a new

year you know what they say they say new year new you and of course it was not of

today's live stream I was in the garden running around the garden that was

actually me this morning in the freezing cold weather it was - one outside it was

frosty and I was running around the garden doing the introduction to today's

live stream I've got three more day today I've been cold all day it was

freezing it's like too warm in your studio because all the lights are on

it's very nice in here Mohamed sure cow says can you please stop talking and

take care of our comments what do you mean by that so you want us to stop

talking well how can we take care of your comments if if we stop talking

that's impossible it's a paradox Mohammed want you to to read hit what

he's putting on the on on the comments well I just I've just read the comment

the comment is can you please stop talking

Oh okay well how can we answer the

questions if we stop talking that's impossible but what's the question I

don't know you see that's the thing it's it's like it's like a never-ending

circle we all within a wheel I think just to try and make people realize

because there's such a lot of people watching you're literally getting like a

comment a second coming through I know I very difficult to answer all of them but

I'd love to you know what I'm the victim of my own success but keep writing keep

writing what you need what mr. Duncan needs is an assistant but this is what

happens on the radio or television little people are sending in lots of

comments they have to filter out which ones they just have to pick a few

because you can't there isn't time to to reply to all the comments and

suggestions so you want somebody sitting in the corner we'll get you we'll get

you an assistant mr. Duncan and they can look at all the comments coming through

and and then you pick out a few ones that sound interesting or would be good

fitting in with what we're doing in the show so well I'm supposed to be your

assistant but I haven't got a screen so I can't see the comments either well

you're kind of assisting me by the by the fact that you join me for the second

hour and today of course we are talking about health and exercise a health

because of course that as I said earlier the new year the new you zoomy a lot of

people a lot of people truck is there an echo in here hello new year and you you

that's all quite difficult to say who here knew you sorry I'm talking people

can only listen to one person at a time I'm helping you I'm not sure about that

I wasn't helping your I'd be in the other room yes yes you would much help

in there either how are you mr. Duncan Oh mr. Steve my

English is getting better thanks to you Thank You Kristina for that we are

talking about health and exercise and also idioms and phrases connected with

that very subject aren't we yes I've got a few I've got quite a few here

I've got some idioms and phrases connected with health and also body

parts as well if we've got time for that yes because of course it's a very busy

show and as I mentioned earlier we were disconnected thank you very much once

again to British Telecom for cutting me off so so this this complete livestream

is now in two parts so that I think that's going to confuse everyone to be

honest everyone luciano says i love the conversation please keep going your

topics are amazing so would you like to do some health and exercise or body part

idioms mr. Steve it's up to you um let's do that let's do the health ones shall

we okay health ones right so a lot of people have been I've got four by the

way for health related ones a lot of people over the Christmas period or a

holiday period would have been eating too much drinking too much watching too

much television sitting around so you might be out this is a phrase you can

use when you say that people are out of condition or out of shape if you're out

of condition or out of shape you are unfit you are not in good physical

condition for example I'm really out of shape I need to lose weight and take

exercise there we go that's the first one if you can I could say to you mr.

Duncan all you're a bit out of shape got a bit of a spare tire around your middle

there your outer condition take some exercise I won't say that of

course but I could say that I'm glad you didn't say that

that's just fictitious over she wouldn't say that right here's another one no

comment from mr. Duncan because mr. Duncan is the complete opposite of that

he is in fact as fit as a fiddle that's true there we go as fit as a fiddle

which means to be healthy and fit I feel as fit as a fiddle today it means you're

full of life energy you feel good mentally physically everything actually

interestingly enough do you know where that phrase comes from fit as a fiddle

fit as a fiddle I have a feeling you're going to tell me I looked it up because

I thought what does that mean fit as a fiddle

apparently it it means it means fit for purpose it's very very ancient saying

going back hundreds of years where people are fiddle is another word for a

violin isn't it and they used to say that fiddle is fit for purpose or

something along those lines so it means something fit for purpose so your body

is fit for purpose ie works well it's in good condition fit as a fiddle that's

very commonly used is it not mr. Duncan yes in fact I used it today at the start

of the livestream in the garden when I was reading out when I was reading at my

little poem you might go to the doctor and for a health check-up and he says

you're in very good condition you're as fit as a fiddle that's nice so I would

fiddle actually fiddle can also have a very negative meaning as well to fiddle

means to cheat or to steal money in secrets so you take money or maybe you

trick someone into thinking something that isn't true

normally involving the the stealing of money fiddling fiddling people out of

money fiddle diddling them doing them out of

money stealing in some way but this in this context it means fit for purpose

healthy and fit I must fit as a fiddle there we go

but of course if I wasn't feeling very well I was feeling a bit under the

weather oh there's another one right okay if I wasn't feeling very well I

might say that I was how of sorts okay out of sorts or you might

say under the weather out of sorts which means not feeling well or in a bad mood

not feeling yourself oh I just I'm a bit out of sorts today I don't feel myself I

think I've got flu coming on I feel all out of sorts you worry too much

I think you're out of sorts so you don't feel right you don't know exam what's

wrong with you is it you just don't feel right you're just out of sorts hmm so so

you know something is wrong but you can't identify it and it might not be

physical you might not feel it might be mental you might be worrying about

something or you feel as though something's just not right you know you

don't feel connected you don't feel sort of in the right place you sort of oh I'm

all out of sorts and maybe you just need to go lie down and then you'll feel

better about assaults apparently Alamgir or Alamgir says I always use YouTube to

help me to exercise there is a very good YouTube channel that encourages people

to keep fit fantastic so so YouTube is not just helping you with your your

English via my channel but also he will you are keeping fit on YouTube well

after all YouTube is a very useful thing indeed I think so do you have another I

do perhaps we could start our own fitness channel

another fitness idiom that's we could say yes I've got one more hear that

right how about this one take a sickie take a sickie now first of

all I have a feeling that this is a British colloquialism I'm not sure don't

where they use it in America I don't think they use this in the United States

I have a strange feeling down my left leg that is a British expression take a

sickie it means take a day off work bye falsely claiming to be ill John has a

reputation for taking a sickie on Fridays so yes I you take a sickie so

you pretend to be unwell to get an extra day off work yes so we all you phone up

and say oh I'm oh oh really freely ill today I think I've got a flu coming I'm

you know I'm not gonna come in today you know make it up Stephen I hope that's

not the voice you use because that is not convincing very very well today

oh I think I've got a cold coming let me have a go I'm not feeling very well

today I've got I've got cold and and diarrhea and vomiting and one of my legs

is fall enough hmm knocked out of ten was that good was that convincing I

couldn't see it yes take a sickie it means yeah that's it could what quality

often you might for example it's Friday or even if it's a Monday you've your

bosses at work get very suspicious if you if you keep taking Fridays and

Monday's off sick because they know if it's Friday you're going off to visit

some friends some over the weekend and if you take Monday off all the time it

means you're still hungover from there from the weekend of drinking so because

some people like a sickie some people like to have a long weekend so yes

that's right they either take the Friday off or they take the Monday off and you

are right there yeah but mr. Steve do you ever take a sickie mr. Steve no I

don't and the reason is I'd feel guilty about it for one thing and also I know

that work places now if if for example I mean this has happened in the company I

work for that they've got to make some redundancies because there's too many

you know that would come not doing so well maybe or they just

need to cut the staff and what they do now is that you have to be seen to be

doing this aboveboard so you've got to be doing it in the right way so they

draw up a series of criteria and mark everybody on that and then the market of

what people that come out the lowest lose their jobs and one of the criteria

that they that they put into that is how many sick days you've taken on Mondays

and Fridays before you continue what yes what what

do you mean by criteria criteria a lack of selection a parameter way I can't

explain it properly criteria just a list of things yes make things that are

measurable the criteria can often be things that are required or things that

are observed as a way of coming to a conclusion so the criteria so you often

group things that are connected to one particular thing or the things that you

are listing so the criteria so the criteria for judging if somebody is to

be made redundant or not they might for example look at their performance that

would be wrong criteria they would look at their sick days that would be another

criteria they would they would look at HR issues human disease they they you

know punched anybody at work HR is human resources resources yeah resources so

one of the criteria I know that they use to measure is how many Mondays and

Fridays you've taken off sink yes and if it's over a certain number then you get

a minus point for that I'm gonna be honest I think in the past many years

ago I would occasionally phone work and say that I felt unwell but actually I

wasn't I just didn't want to go to work I think we've all done I I know I've

done it in the past but you know I don't I don't have to do it now and the other

thing is people can get caught out in fact what I used to work in a

Hospital years ago mm-hm and there was a culture there of you got your your

normal say twenty days holiday okay but if you took up to ten sick days off a

year there would be no questions asked so you can see what's coming next what

people used to do at work is they used to say well have only had five six days

off this I can take another five by the end of the year so what they would do is

they would just take the sick days off and it was like a coach show it was

something that everybody did and I remember once bumping into somebody at

work and I I was actually on holiday and they were with their children in in a

restaurant some in the room he was McDonald's I think okay all having a

burger and I said oh hello how are you and I said are you on holiday said now

I'm just taking my sick days because they could take up to ten a year if you

took more than ten people say oh why have you taking twelve days off you know

tens all right but not twelve and even the bosses would do it but just towards

the end of the year that all go off they take five days off because they don't

need taking five off then they'd you know it was holidays as far as they were

concerned yes I think we all will get what you mean there Steve they were

entitled to it so they they large so so suffice it to say let's just compress

everything down that you've just said for the last four minutes yes people

treat their sick days that they are allowed to have as holiday yes so they

think that they have their normal holiday which they are allowed to take

but then they have sick days that they can take but they treat them also like

holiday that's right that's very common in public sector work so if you work for

the government or the NHS it's it's it's very common for people to do that I've

got a careful what I say here is if you work in industry if you work in the

private sector then they're very they're much more strict about - looking at your

whole at your sick days and you'll get into trouble for it but I

mean I've got a friend that works for the Civil Service which is a government

job and yeah he takes a sick day off ever at least one every two weeks come a

couple of months at least I can actually I feel as if I have a sick day coming on

now you you can't have a sick day it's your own business you can't you can

never be sick even if on a Sunday when you're doing your live lessons even if

you've got the flu you'd have to be here we have a special hello coming up

Cecilia hello Cecilia mr. Duncan please say hello to my mother Angie and my

sister Ana we are in Argentina we are cooking together Wow

watching you know plastic can I say a big hello to Cecilia and also Angie Elia

and Angie hello and also your sister Ana and apparently they are all cooking what

what are you cooking we want to know delicious whatever it is is it something

nice what are you cooking we want to know we really do want to know what

you're cooking and please Andrew says we get our salaries by cash therefore on

the day when the salary arrives nobody ever gets sick oh yeah I'm sure yes no

one ever gets ill on the day when they receive their wages I think so

it's not strange yes or a lot of Christmas office party

everyone goes to that so do you have some some body part idioms for us

I do indeed yes I've got quite a few here that's okay well you just keep

reading them until I say stop right here but here we go let's kick off

with see eye to eye Oh see eye to eye that means you share

the same opinions or agree on something for example my husband and I see eye to

eye on most things which means that they agree on most things

but another way of putting that would be my friend and I are always arguing at

the moment we just don't see eye to eye over her boyfriend so I - I means you

agree so if you if you do see eye - are you often mutually agree on things yes

so for example mr. Duncan we see eye to eye on most things we agree on most

things do we not mr. Duncan but on some things for example I can't think of any

right there we might not see eye to eye for example on how many logs to put on

the fire at any one time what a strange example I know it's a

strange example but then I'd be the worst thing that might be the worst

example of anything I've ever heard in my life a good example would be earlier

some people were disagreeing with me about my views on fox hunting ah right

so it would appear that we and some of my viewers do not see eye to eye so

maybe we do not see eye to eye so we agree don't we Steve yes we don't we act

like we don't like fox hunting particular issue but some people

watching today think that fox hunting is required unnecessary and it is needed

well see they say that they use it to justify controlling the Fox population

but there are far more humane ways to control foxes than then hunting them

with dogs and tear them to pieces I'm sorry I've said it well what if they to

differ wait there a second Steve have just thought yes one of the things also

of course one of the myths is that foxes spread rabies now we don't have rabies

here in the UK do with Steve no we don't we're arc rabies free I think it's

virtually the only country in the world that is rabies free so we don't actually

have rabies here in the UK so that reason for hunting foxes is invalid in

valid it is not true or real they used to do you remember that there used to be

a there was a probe that was a program in the seventies a quite a a drama

series quite a drama was it it was a drama where society broken down and um

foxes were spreading rabies I'm sure so I'm sure there was a there a program in

the seventies about about foxes spreading old spreading rabies there was

definitely because I think in the seventies there was a danger that rabies

was going to be reintroduced into the UK and they were blaming foxes of course

dogs cats everybody catches rate you know all animals get rabies but not in

the UK not in the UK so when British people go abroad on holiday yeah they go

up to all the dogs and the cats they're you know all because we're a dog they'll

think oh they're Steve they go up to all of them yeah well you know I'm you know

this it's a way speaking British people have got this love of animals they've

got real no real fear of animals because we've got no no dangerous animals in

this country really there's no rabies so when people go abroad and a dog comes up

to them in the street or a cat they'll go and Stroke it but of course it could

be full of rabies dogs can be dangerous yes I'm a particularly they've got

rabies yes or or if it's a big dog with very sharp teeth and it's not in a very

good mood no I'm talking about diseases and I'm talking about rabies in

particular now I understand what is rabies Oh some people are asking what

rabies is well can I quickly say it is a disease that's transmitted by animals

normally through a bite would I be right there Steve you are correct

it's a it's a it's a nasty disease spread by the the bite of of animal any

animal can carry any furry animal even bats have got it as well bats bats and

once you get bitten you it the disease takes a long time to come on so it can

take weeks or months even years sometimes for the disease to to actually

show itself by which time it's too late you're gonna die it's a 100% fatality oh

dear with rabies it's that that one where you're foaming at the

mouth and strapped you've seen pictures of people strapped to beds and that the

all your nerves are infected with this virus and you start foaming at the mouth

it's a it's a horrible way to die you don't want rabies so all of this white

foam comes out of your mouth and you shake you convulses it's not a very nice

way to go killed tens of thousands of people

around the world every year but of course there is a vaccine you can take

and also here in the UK we are we are completely safe from rabies we are know

for those asking what rabies is now you know jordão asks mr. duncan you said

you will take your Christmas tree down but what about the lights in your studio

still got them look well to be honest mark my studio always has lights always

so so these lights you can see here behind me are not Christmas lights they

are my normal studio lights on the set and of course mr. Steve has some lights

as well yes I think these you've got to go mr. Duncan no those aren't crib that

those that those are just set lights they is that those are lights from my

studio - maybe they weren't there before Christmas yes but they are there now see

we're not seeing eye to eye on this mr. don't know we are falling out are

falling out on this one shall we have another body part idiom how about this

one elbow grease Oh elbow grease that means to do some hard

work with your hands normally if you want to make that table look smooth

you're gonna have to use some elbow grease it just means a bit of hard work

your elbows are going hard work polishing sanding something use some

elbow grease it's a bit like it's a bit like mr. Steve when he's cleaning the

car he has to clean a car you have to put a lot of elbow grease yeah it's when

you're using your arms and your hands for something I remember when I was at

school years ago I was made to look the complete fool I

was in woodwork class okay and we were sanding some wood down with some

sandpaper okay and the teacher came up to me and said put some elbow grease

into that and I'd never heard that expression before Oh No so about ten

minutes later I went up to him and said I can't remember his name Oh have you

got some elbow grease and he bursts out laughing told the whole class and I was

made to look a complete fool because elbow grease isn't grease you know that

grease is something that's slippery and makes everything I know we know you've

just explained it to us Steve you've just explained that to us how far to go

with my explanations so I thought this was a real thing a jar with elbow grease

written on it and I've remembered that because you always remember being mocked

and made a fool of a teacher in front of the rest of the class you always

remember those involved in all I can say is I'm glad you didn't hear the

expression cut your nose off to spite your face because you might have got the

scissors and tried to try to cut your nose off anyway I had to take that one

on the chin Oh take it on the chin okay what does that

mean that means be brave when something bad happens

that's probably usually your fault just accept something when it happens to you

it's too late to change it there's no way to change it just take it on the

chin there we go I've raised an example who I've crashed

my friend's car he's going to be furious I'm just gonna have to tell him and take

it on the chin take your punishment take your punishment in other words you're

gonna tell your friend you crashed a car he's gonna punch you in the face but

that it's not doesn't mean literally that's going to happen but that's where

it comes from so some things happen it's bad it's your fault

you've got her own up to it accept it take it on the chin although it might

happen he might actually punch you in the fame I tactually but

it's sort of metaphorical than the right well T we're going to take a break for a

moment because there is a lesson to my stride there is a lesson on my youtube

channel all about health and exercise and now we are going to take a look at

some excerpts from that very lesson hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England

how are you today are you ok I hope so are you happy I hope so in today's

lesson we will take a look at two aspects of our lives one is something we

take for granted while it is there but miss it terribly when it has gone the

other is an activity that we are all encouraged to do but few of us seem to

have the time to carry out in this lesson we will take a look at health and

exercise

when we talk about our health we are actually describing two things first we

refer to our physical health the way our body is functioning how well it is

working how all the different parts of your body are functioning then we refer

to our mental health how each one of us feels emotionally if you feel tired

after any sudden activity such as getting up from the sofa and walking a

short distance or feeling out of breath after climbing a few stairs then there

is a good chance that you are out of shape you are unfit your health is poor

there are many words connected to exercise such as aerobics exercise that

makes the heart beat fast through constant body movement we call this

cardiovascular exercise burn this word is used to express the energy being used

up during exercise recreation a general word for any exercise or leisure

activity keep fit the act of taking exercise or following a course of

exercise routine there are many simple exercises for keeping fit and healthy

the most popular ones include walking yes just go for a walk walk to the end

of your street then around the corner across the field up the hill and back

down again walk in a big circle around the streets and along the roads keep on

walking until you arrive back home Oh you can also jog jogging is quicker than

walking but not as fast is running you can jog to the end of your street then

around the corner across the field up the hill and back

down again jog in a big circle around the streets

and along the roads keep on jogging until you arrive back

home oh you can go for a run one two three oh yeah it's okay I'm just

exercising my word power please yourself believe it or not it is possible to

exercise too much you can do too much exercise

there are many sporting activities that can give you a vigorous workout and help

keep you fit such as badminton football squash tennis and volleyball another

great activity is swimming which is good for giving you a relaxing all-over body

workout as you float in the water without all that tiring muscle strain

ah that's better

anybody here we are with just another 15 minutes to go just 15 minutes left and

then we have to say goodbye for those who are watching this after the

livestream can I just tell you that today's livestream is in two parts

because we had a technical problem so if you are watching this later on the

replay this particular livestream is in two parts because we we did have a

slight problem with the internet connection these are today's mystery

idioms I will give you the answers today and here is the second one they are well

known expressions in English or you have to tell me is what they ah and there is

the first one once again and of course mr. Steve is with me today

and it looks as if he's in the corner of the studio doing some exercises oh look

at that you are so strong mr. Steve just watching you there I thought I just

catch up enough for you if I yeah die daily routine just slowing up my pecs

just notice the thanks yeah as you can use this in various ways just showing up

my muscles oh yes ah it looks like you're firing a bow and arrow yes what

this is a good run for your stomach oh yes I get your stomach go that looks

like you're doing something very wrong that's it it looks really rude back at

the head there we go Oh Steve mr. Steve please stop doing that

haha well that's that's me done for the day is starting to scare me I've had

this since I was 18 and that was the last time you used it yeah exhausted now

after all that mr. Steve is desperately trying to develop his biceps yes

triceps they are the the muscles in your arm what the thing you did

just with that apparatus looked very rude by the way I might save that as a

gift because it looked it looked brilliant it looks so rude it's a

brother for years it's you know it's it's brilliant you'd have to go to a gym

just buy one of those you keep it for 30 years but you do have to use it I do use

it as well you know and my pecs are a testament to my dedication to keeping

fit okay then that's what we're talking about today you just saw an excerpt from

one of my lessons in fact there is a lesson all about keeping fit and

exercise and it is available on my youtube channel if you want to watch it

you can no problem so mr. Steve you want to talk about health and exercise

because I think you are I think it would be fair to say that you are very keen on

on keeping fit yes I've always tried throughout my life to maintain a healthy

ways and take exercise and things like that yes I yes I do of course every year

at this time of the year after Christmas everybody starts to think about getting

fit they all start joining gyms don't they and spending money on a year's

contract to join a gym they're probably here for three months and then stop

doing it all together gym gyms are very they like to recruit people at this time

of the year because they know full well that half the people that that join will

go for about two months and then give it up but they'll have to pay for it for

the rest of the year so they make a lot of money out of people not going to the

gym but you don't need to join a gym you don't need to do that you just go for a

walk and losing weight now this is a very controversial subject well sort of

people like to lose weight it's very simple you know all this don't over

complicate it there's all these programs about how to lose weight and joining a

gym special diets it's actually quite simple if you take more energy in than

you're using up you'll put on weight it's as simple as that

we all know what to do but we don't all like to to actually make the effort to

do it so people put on weight them they over a long period of time you don't see

people putting on a stone in a month it happens over over a year or over two

years and then suddenly you find yourself couple of stone overweight but

that's happened slowly so it's best if you want to lose weight then that's

because you've only probably been eating an extra two or 300 calories a day but

over a long period of time that results in you're putting on weight

and what do people do they go out and buy a new pair of trousers because the

the other ones got a bit tight and then that feels alright and so where they get

used to that wait another year then they are a bit tighter so they go and buy

bigger trousers and then they get used to that no stop stop when it gets tight

and do something about it that's what I say Steve yes here is something that

I've always wondered now I don't I don't want to seem insensitive but I always

wonder when you see someone who is very fat I always wonder at what point did

they realize they were getting fat so at what point when they pulled their

trousers up or try to fasten the belt on their trousers at what point did they

think you know what I think I think I'm getting a little bit fat but yes it's

very difficult it's very difficult but it's not difficult to lose weight all

you've got to do what we're not a health fitness channel are weeds of anyone's

watch no no we're talking we're just talking from our own experience because

yeah because I'm I'm pretty slim and you're very slim in fact I think I think

you are more into health feds are a bit obsessed with all that

than I am so I like exercise III sometimes eat unhealthily but most of

the time I try to control the amount that I eat but of course at Christmas

everyone always eats too much but I'm just

wondering how you get from being slim to fat

it happens over a long period of time because it's over a long period of time

years usually you get used to each stage it's like getting older you get you know

it happens so slowly hmm that you don't notice the sudden change because it say

you put on a stone over it over two years okay you don't notice those small

little changes you get used to it and before you know it it's gone too far and

the secret is all you've got to do is tip the balance to the other way you've

got to eat less so you taking in less calories and take a bit more exercise to

use more calories up but you don't have to go to the extremes just you know I

have a couple of less chocolate biscuits a day and then go for a walk for an

extra 10 or 15 minutes yes and then if you tip the balance the other way you

will then start to gradually lose that weight Oh over a long period of time

that's all you've got to do let's just look at crash diets

okay Steve I've got to put the brakes on slightly let's have a look at the live

chat very quickly one or two people are talking about this now because it seems

to have God got a lot of people interested Manilla someone watching in I

think it in Manila says I am an instructor and it is important to do

exercises for the body and the mind for many aspects yeah yes of course it could

help your health overall and certain diseases of course can be kept away not

completely but of course health and exercise has also been linked to helping

prevent certain types of cancer would that be fair to say Steve they now

realize that X sighs even a small amount of exercise I

don't know expert in this but I do read a lot about it even just ten minutes a

day exercise is enough to prevent a lot of major diseases like diabetes a lot of

cancers it makes a huge difference there now they now saying that exercise just

10 minutes a day is equivalent is more powerful the most powerful medicines

that we have it on a disposal hmm and if you just do something like that it's

going to make major differences to your health down the road

exercise is important a lot of people need need it's very difficult sometimes

on your own to make these changes so it's sometimes a good idea to join

groups and get support from groups and and and go to an instructor and join a

group of pianned and there's a social element to that as well but the danger

is the crash diets people trying to lose a stone you know in it you know in a few

weeks that that's what's dangerous yes dieting if you try to lose too much

weight or a lot of weight in a short period of time we call it crash diet

crash dieting and it puts your body into into into a stress mode into into it it

thinks it's starving and you can't keep these sort of things up for long but you

can make small little changes here and there so you can just maybe walk a bit

further take that if you go by bus or train just just just walk a bit further

and maybe stop buying biscuits it's very if they're in the house you'll eat them

if you don't buy them you can't you can't you can't eat them it's almost

sounds you're almost sounding is if you're lecturing very I know I don't

mean to lecture but you can make small changes go to bed half an hour earlier

look we had this conversation last week or the week before we had the

conversation before about everything in moderation so this is something I I know

I'm repeating myself slightly but I don't want to but of course everything

in moderation a small amount of this and a small amount of that and some exercise

a pretty good recipe for keeping yourself fit and healthy definitely and

of course you can you can go to the doctors as well if you are lucky enough

to have free treatment or maybe you have some sort of plan with your with your

local doctor you can go along and have physical checks as well which I always

think is a very good idea especially for people of a certain age yes if you if

you haven't been in any exercise for years and then you suddenly want to do

it it's probably good idea to get a check-up before you do it and pointing

at me and I'm pointing it mr. Steve and the reason is because we are we are of a

certain age and of course it's certain ages it's certain ages you are more

susceptible you are more likely to get something that's pretty nasty or

horrible so yes I think I think regular health checks are also very important

and of course going to the doctor before you do any exercise and that's another

important thing so if you are thinking of doing some exercise always make sure

that you are able to do it by visiting the doctor as well so don't forget to do

that because it's very important I think you're right going for a walk I think so

do you know mr. Steve there are lots of uses of the word work are you aware of

that okay there are lots of ways of using the word work first of all you can

work it out have you heard of that expression work it out yes to try and

find a solution yes a solution may be a problem if there is a problem or

something that's bothering you or maybe you have a disagreement with someone you

can try to work it out you try to solve the difficulty you work out an argument

over something a difference of opinion you could also work something over as

well an ting over work something over if you work something over it means you you

do thing to another person you might work

them over you might attack them beat you up

beat them up yes you'll work them over oh dear I don't like the sound of that

one and also work can also mean function so if something is operating or it's

working normally we can say that it does work it functions for example the the

internet was not working earlier now it is yes it's completely the opposite the

the opposite of work of course is break so something that that isn't working or

isn't functioning has broken so earlier my internet decided to break or break

down it stopped working also you can work in something if you

work in you mix things together you might work in one thing into another

thing you work it in work yes you might be making if you're making cakes you

might you might if you're mixing the the the butter with the with the flour you

could you're working a teen aren't you you're working the two together that's

it's true the meant making cement and then there is of course work up work up

if you work up it means you are building up to something you are creating tension

by getting people prepared for something that's going to happen so you might work

up to something or you might work up the crowd you look around you can have very

excited work up and of course work out means to solve as well so solve or of

course talking of health and exercise work out work out can mean to actually

do exercises to keep yourself fit you

work out I like it if you if you have worked very hard to the point of

exhaustion you can say that you've worked your fingers to the bone yes so

there are many ways of using the word work and of course work in its most

general form can mean a task to do something your work you do something

maybe you work in the garden or work in the laboratory all like mr. Steve and

myself we work here every single Sunday and you can captures every Sunday from 2

p.m. UK time it's almost time for us to go can you believe it mr. Steve I've

only used up a few of my body idioms ok well because we had a problem earlier

I'm going to be very generous and I'm going to stay a little bit longer so I

think we've got time for two more ok then two more are we all which shall

I choose two more of your body part idioms oh he's a good one right get

something off your chest mm-hmm get something off your chest that means to

tell somebody about pent-up feelings problems secrets all worries you get

something off that off your chest that you've been worried about that's been

you know deep down there you haven't told anyone for example I told her I was

leaving I was glad to get it off my chest

thanks for listening to me telling you about my problems at work it feels good

to get it off my chest so you've got maybe a confession to make something

you've kept secret or something you worried about that you haven't talked

about you suddenly talk about it with someone you get it off your chest so

something that that you're you're concerned about deep inside yes you've

get it off your chest so really the expression kind of relates to the

feeling of having something yes were you decide weight heavy on your chest

when you get stressed you have this very tight very uncomfortable feeling in your

chest so to get it off your chest I think it refers to the feeling of

getting rid of the stress and the worry I think so

exactly we had a slight problem earlier so we are going to overrun there are two

parts to today's live stream because we had a slight problem in the first hour

so we have 20 minutes of the first hour and as you can see one hour and 40

minutes of the second hour so we will carry on a little bit longer we will

have one more of mr. Steeves body part idioms which one should we have I've got

about five here for this one pick a good one

keep your chin up keep your chin up you say this to someone in a difficult

situation to help them to feel or to be brave keep your chin up for example I

know your worries about your first day in the new job but don't worry it'll be

okay just keep your chin up be brave keep your chin up you know no

matter what's happening you just carry on it's just a phrase that you use to

people isn't it to make them feel better keep your chin up and it just encourages

them to be brave that's it yeah persevere don't give up keep your chin

up be brave yes face the problem directly keep your

chin up don't become disheartened don't lose heart back hips keep your chin up

that's what I've done today I've kept my chin up because we had some technical

difficulties earlier everything went wrong thank you very much once again to

British Telecom for disconnecting my livestream earlier and don't forget

there are two parts to today's livestream in fact I think people are

already watching the first part how because I'm getting messages now

coming through from people watching the first part so there are two parts and

don't forget later on you will also have captions and subtitles will be available

later and don't forget you can press this little symbol this little sign here

underneath the video and that will give you the subtitles if you are watching

this on the repeat mystery idioms were going to give you the answers to the

mystery idioms mr. steve is going to hang around like a bad smell thank you

so here we go today's mystery idioms so here is the first one and now we will

reveal the answer

chain reaction is the answer to that one so now you can see that the chain is

reacting so that is the picture and the phrase is chain reaction the meaning one

event that leads to a sequence of other events taking place the product of one

reaction leads to others taking place there is a chain reaction and the second

one I thought this was quite a good one actually I it took me a long time to

create this so here is the second mystery idiom and the answer is coming

right now yes make a pig's ear make a pig's ear the meaning to do a very bad

job of something to make or produce something in a careless way is to mess

something up you make a pig's ear of something so there they are today's

mystery idiom answers and that is just about all we have time for it is now

coming up to ten past four we have had a slight problem today with the stream we

had a slight interruption didn't we Steve we did I wasn't here at the time

but yes you came running out all out of sorts I was out of saw hours so I was

panicking slightly I was bit worried in fact I thought I thought Steve had done

something to disconnect me and I said to you keep your chin up it'll all be

alright you're not in over your head what does that mean in over your head

that means you you take on a task that you can't handle but you handled it

beautifully mr. Duncan in over your head I've been asked to do a presentation at

work oh but it's I'm in over my head or it's too

difficult I can't do it so something that you are incapable of doing or

something that is out of your your realm out of your depth your ability your

ability you might be able to do it once you get more training but at the moment

you're a bit in over your head but mr. Duncan is not in over his head

when it comes to sorting out technical difficulties I thought I handled the

problem very well and by the way your mother is learning how to use an iPad is

that true I'm not going to comment on that but it's true there isn't it

she's got an iPad I'd say if it's true or not she let's put it this way

somebody bought her an iPad for Christmas it wasn't me

she's got it in her house whether she's using it or not I don't know now I've

heard that your mother sends messages to your sister so I think maybe your mother

is watching it but sometimes do you know that your mum watches us on her iPad why

I'm gonna be careful what we say secretly so we better be careful what

we're saying just in case mr. Steve's mother is watching right now we we

really better be careful because I'm going soon because when Steve goes home

to see his mum he will get his hand slapped I would get it in the neck you

and maybe even a slapped bottom I'll get it in that no I'm a bit too old for that

whose get it in the neck I'll get it in the neck get it in the neck that's

another expression to do with the body it is what does it mean it means that

you'll be punished for for saying something bad or doing something bad I

think it mainly refers to somebody giving giving you a verbal telling off

yes they punish you by shouting at you or by being angry with you yeah so you

receive someone else's anger you get it in the neck I like it so that said it's

time to we are now coming towards the end we've

done a slightly longer version for this part because we had a technical problem

earlier compensation everything wrong nation but I must admit I handled it

very well you weren't in over your head and you kept your chin up I thought I

handled the situation very well indeed so thanks for watching we will be here

next week we're back next week hopefully there won't be any problems with the

Internet thank you very much for your lovely

lovely comments let's have a quick look at the live chat before we disappear

thank you very much - Jo Dao and winner said ute Belarus year and also Julie

psycho I read ass Olga thank you very much for

your lovely lovely messages thank you very much - grammar nazi' is that really

your name really really okay then grammar or grandma no grammar Oh grammar

nazi' oh I like that yes that loans you being very strict about about your

English new grammar quite a good name I think I think we'll move on from that

one Jamelia is going now christina and also luciano thank you very much for

watching us today bye it's been a very interesting two hours not least of all

because the internet was cut off what are you doing Rudy on there we go

Wow mr. Steve you look like a Jedi Knight hey is this my lightsaber I'm not

sure what was that was that your impression of a lightsaber oh no I don't

know I I'm not very good at impressions Shh

we are going now see you next week and of a bye sorry well that when I finish

you can say goodbye and of course I get it in the neck afterwards from mr.

Duncan you certainly will I will see you next week thanks for watching thank you

very much for watching thanks for bearing with me as well because we did

have some problems some technical problems I will see you next week it's

time to go time to say goodbye thanks Steve

Thank You mr. Duncan see you next week bye

that's mr. Steve he has gone he has left the building already

he's just climbed out of the window no you're not mr. Steve said I'm still here

but he isn't because I've turned his microphone off see you soon thank you

very much for watching and of course you know what's coming next until next week

yes I will be back next Sunday from 2 p.m. UK time you know what's coming next

of course you do...

ta ta for now 8-)