It's FABuary 8th / 28 days of Learning English / chat from England with Mr Duncan - Yes / No

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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hello
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mr pigeon you don't look very happy out there in the freezing cold weather having to endure
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not enjoy they are both very different words endure if you have to endure something you
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have to suffer the pain you have to take the consequences you have to suffer for a while
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you must endure the pain here we are here we are then oh hello there we are back together
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again yes it is another day of 28 days of february how are you today
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here we are once again it's so nice to see you here once more hi everybody this is mr
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duncan in england how are you today are you okay i hope so are you happy i really really
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hope so nice to see you here again from a very cold england it is absolutely freezing
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cold outside at the moment it is below zero in fact if you if you take into consideration
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the the wind which is icy it is around six below zero outside so it's a very cold day
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to be outside today thank you very much for joining me again yes it's nice to see you
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here on the live stream and yes it's monday monday the 8th of february or as i like to
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call it february and i hope today we will have a fab time yes we have made it all the
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way to the start of the week it is monday and i hope you are feeling super duper did
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you see yesterday's live stream it was a very lively live stream yesterday i have to say
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we we did have quite a quite a good live stream yesterday and mr steve can i just say that
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mr steve yesterday looked amazing would you like to see mr steve and what he was wearing
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yesterday just in case you missed it so there he is oh mr steve you look magnificent in
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your lovely smart shirt and your your flat cap
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but i thought steve looked amazing yesterday i think a lot of people were actually leaving
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comments on the live chat yesterday saying how lovely steve looked yesterday so i think
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so as well mr steve looked amazing yesterday very smart if not handsome oh
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that almost that almost deserves a fancy pants is it too early to have a fancy pants i don't
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think so
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okay that's enough we can't have too much energy being used at the start of today's
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live stream we still have a long way to go thank you very much for joining me oh and
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outside the window there is no snow first of all i can't begin to tell you how disappointed
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i felt this morning when i opened my curtains and there was no snow outside so here it is
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the view outside the window right now you will notice that there is no snow anywhere
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however
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in the east of england and also the east of scotland the eastern areas in fact there is
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lots of snow some places are under around maybe two feet of snow that's that's a lot
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of snow by the way but sadly here in much wenlock we have no snow today nothing not
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a single flake sadly would you like to play
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you know what's coming next would you like to play spot the white van now i have a feeling
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today we are going to see a white van very quickly i think so because it's a busy day
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out there all of the white vans are driving around delivering all of their things their
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important parcels important deliveries are being paid right now they are being made all
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across the country and also just across the field from where i live let's have a look
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shall we outside the window this is live by the way we are now going to play spot the
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white van i have a feeling we won't have to wait very long i really think so come on white
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van where are you all we have to do is see a white van don't forget it must be a white
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van i will accept no substitutes so it's monday oh there we go look at that too oh my goodness
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we had two white vans at the same time so there look how fast that was we have spotted
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not one but two white vans white vans well i think that was a very good start to today's
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today's live stream oh look at that there is a big lorry as well sadly you don't get
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any points for the big lorries i'm afraid so that's it oh that was very quick i must
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say that was a very quick round of spot the white van
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we will play it again tomorrow if you want hello to the live chat yes we are talking
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about a very interesting subject something we have to do quite often in our lives in
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our day-to-day lives something we have to say something we have to show we have to say
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yes or no yes no we are talking about two very simple words they seem very simple but
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there are many other ways of saying yes and no there are many other ways of describing
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the action of saying yes and no today we will be looking at that and we will be talking
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about that as well i have a habit and this is a habit that i've developed over the past
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12 months since all of the strange times started i have decided or i decided 12 months ago
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to
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make 11 o'clock coffee time and this is something i've been doing for a long time so with because
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mr steve is here as well you see we have decided that 11 o'clock in the morning is coffee time
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so every time the clock in the kitchen on the stove turns to 11 o'clock like this there
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it is look that is my favourite time of the day it also happens to be mr steve's favourite
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time so 11 o'clock in the morning for us is always coffee time it is always the time when
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we have our cup of coffee so what about you when do you normally have your morning break
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do you have a morning break and what time do you normally have it do you have it like
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me at 11 o'clock so normally at 11 o'clock i will go into the kitchen i will normally
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make a cup of coffee not only for myself but also for mr steve as well you see because
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i'm so selfless i am a selfless individual i will even go to the trouble of making a
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cup of coffee for mr steve in his office upstairs so that that is it so what about you what
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time do you normally have your drink
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what time do you normally have your morning break bar ram says normally 10 o'clock in
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the morning well maybe that's a little bit too early for me because normally at that
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time i'm busy working here in the studio but 11 o'clock for me is my coffee break it is
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my coffee time every time so when do you normally have your break in the morning because many
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people do have to start work very early even if you are working from home you still have
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to start work early in the morning it is true mr steve for example has to be in front of
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his computer before nine o'clock in the morning you see he has to be there waiting to start
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his day at work so yes it does happen yes so what time do you have your mid break before
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lunchtime so not lunch time but before then do you normally have a break in the morning
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maybe you have a little break at around about 10 o'clock or 11 o'clock so for me it is always
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11 o'clock or as i like to call it coffee o'clock because when 11 o'clock arrives it
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is time for my coffee and i always look forward to one of those especially if i've been working
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hard in the studio all morning preparing this you see it takes a lot of work a lot of effort
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to do this can i say a big thank you by the way we've had a couple of lovely donations
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come through can i say hello and thank you to maria matane and also getano vareli for
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your lovely donations through paypal thank you very much i received those donations yesterday
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and also the day before thank you very much for your lovely donations and i really do
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appreciate it because with your help i can continue to do this forever and ever and ever
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forever and ever
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until the end of time i hope so thank you very much maria and gaetano for your lovely
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donations thank you very much talking of my viewers and all of my students around the
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world can i say hello to the live chat hello live chat nice to see you here as well oh
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hello vittes vitas guess what it would appear that you have a very fast finger your monday
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finger is a very fast finger indeed i think so well then vitas you are first congratulations
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first on today's live chat
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how lovely how lovely how delightful also beatrice hello snoo earth hello snoo earth
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i am very intrigued by your name where are you hello also to alessandra racer is here
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as well we also have anna kobe and ricardo we also have luis mendes
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he's here today also vitas i think i've already mentioned vitas with his magic finger ooh
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florence grace zuziker is here as well also we have waffey hello waffe nice to see you
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back as well florence we also have flower espoi oh by the way talking of flowers i had
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a lovely surprise this morning a very big surprise in fact something came to my door
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delivered to my house
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i received some flowers look at those aren't they lovely so i received some lovely hand
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delivered flowers from one of my viewers sent from a lovely little flower shop in much wenlock
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so can i say thank you for the lovely flowers aren't they absolutely gorgeous they are absolutely
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amazing aren't they nice i think so they were even addressed to me they they said what was
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the message it said duncan james speak english with mr duncan i like that and they came to
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my house this morning so thank you very much you know who you are i might mention your
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names but sometimes you see when i when i receive things sometimes people don't like
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to have their names mentioned but i might mention their names but they they are a couple
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of lovely viewers who watch in british columbia very very lovely thank you very much i was
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moved i i i felt a tear come to my eye if there's one thing that always manages to surprise
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me if there's one thing in this world that always manages to to to make me feel moved
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slightly touched even and that thing is the kindness of other people isn't it amazing
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isn't it lovely when something happens unexpectedly maybe it might be a smile you might be walking
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along the street and then someone will walk by and they will smile sometimes very small
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things can mean a lot to another person so i love the fact that human beings have this
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amazing ability to do very kind things and that kindness doesn't have to be a big thing
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it can be anything it can be a small thing it can be a word like thank you or hello so
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thank you very much i i really do appreciate and and very very nice i was i was quite i
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was quite surprised and it isn't very often that i'm stuck for words it is not very often
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that i'm speechless but i was speechless this morning so thank you very much for the lovely
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flowers i will show them again there they are aren't they beautiful
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i have the card in my hand here now here it is from alistair and stefanie stefani and
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alistair thank you very much for the lovely flowers that i received today thank you i
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i don't know what to say i'm i'm really quite moved incredible thank you very much isn't
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that lovely i know it's it's lovely a lot of people saying now oh mr duncan isn't it
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lovely yes i think so i i can't believe it i really can't believe it
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the flowers were a beautiful gift it was very kind and very sensitive thank you very much
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marcia it's very kind of you to say i i sometimes i sometimes find myself speechless shocked
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by things that happen sometimes those things can be a little awkward or difficult to cope
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with and sometimes they can be the most wonderful thing in the world so thank you very much
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and also can i say thank you for your lovely wishes for my mother as well i've received
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lots of people writing to me lots of messages from people writing saying how much they hope
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my mother will be well so thank you very much stefani and alistair for your lovely flowers
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absolutely beautiful and i have them now in my dining room very close to the window so
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the light is now shining on the flowers and they look absolutely marvellous in fact i
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can't resist having another look there they are at the moment in the dining room taking
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in some lovely light not that there's much light around today to be honest there is not
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a lot of light around
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luciana oh hello luciana would you like some echo hello tiana luciana hello to you our
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lives are made in these small hours these little wonders these twists and turns of fate
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a song by rob thomas from the movie meet the robinsons i've never seen that movie i've
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heard of it but i've never never actually seen it i think there is actually a british
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actor in that isn't there a british actor a young man who started out on television
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here in the uk as a child actor so yes very interesting yes i've heard of this i've heard
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of the movie but never seen it i have never seen it hello human being apparently human
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being misses mr lomax where is mr lomax
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racer says didn't you think they might be a secret gift from maybe a secret admirer
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or a secret lover for valentine's day i wasn't too sure you see i wasn't sure i did i remember
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when i was in china i did receive flowers quite often especially on my birthday so if
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i if i attended a birthday party quite often i would be given flowers sometimes lots of
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flowers so i would go home with not only lots of birthday cake but also lots of flowers
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as well that is something i did notice when i was in china people do like giving flowers
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and also fruit to each other two things that i always remember flowers and fruit especially
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if you go to another person's house if you go to another person's house to visit whatever
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the reason is you always take some fruit maybe some oranges some apples so on the way to
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the house you will stop off at one of the markets you will buy some oranges or some
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other fruit and then you will take them to the house that you are visiting it is true
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hershid hello hershid when is your birthday mr duncan my birthday is in august i don't
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have my birthday for a long time i have to wait for a little bit longer before my birthday
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arrives however
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very soon
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it will be mr steve's birthday
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i'm not sure if steve wants to talk about it but i have i have a couple of surprises
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for mr steve on his birthday don't worry he's not watching he's busy working upstairs so
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yes you see hmm interesting hello alcare mr duncan actually you deserve these lovely flowers
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you can't imagine how helpful your contribution on the internet is you do a great job in a
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unique style thanks for everything you're welcome it's okay i love doing this that is
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the reason why i've been doing this for 15 years because i love doing it do something
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you love do something you love hello also to sandra who says do you have 28 of these
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yes i do so as you can see this is day number eight so i have eight smiley faces but i don't
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know what's going to happen when i get to 28 i don't know where i'm going to put them
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so i think it's when i filled my hat with smiley faces i think i will move down here
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and i will start putting them on my on my shirt so yes you are right i have 28 of these
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so this is day number
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day number eight you see oh dear what is this what is this video about thank you assassin
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hello is that mr assassin or mrs assassin how are you today busy day are you having
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a busy day i have a feeling that you might be a person who likes playing computer games
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i think so maybe assassin's creed oh mr duncan mr duncan it sounds like you play computer
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games no i don't i don't play computer games at all
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hello
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why are you doing this this month well i thought it would be fun you see 28 days because this
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month is a short month and then i only have to do this every day for 28 days instead of
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31 or 30. so that's one of the reasons you see
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can i send your smiles to your subscribers oh yes i i think that's a good idea i don't
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know how i'm going to do it though did you say fancy pants today i did i already said
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fancy pants earlier so if i have a good reason to do it i might oh ooh
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hershid wants to hear the fancy pants song okay then oh fancy pants
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okay that's enough no more
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your smiley faces look good on your hat thank you very much there will be many more of these
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appearing many more of them will appear over the next few days so if you are wondering
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what this is my name is duncan i talk about the english language sometimes i talk about
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certain words sometimes i will talk about different topics you see so that's the reason
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why i'm here today we're going to look at two very simple words words that seem very
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basic and there they are on the screen right now yes and no there they are can you see
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them yes in green no in red so quite often we see yes as a positive word which is why
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it is coloured green and quite often we will see no as a negative word and that is the
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reason why it is coloured red i can't believe i just explained that but i did oh hello hello
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armpit oh armpit i see so snooze is actually our pit oh i see very nice
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racer says i like the fancy pants song well maybe we can play it again later but only
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briefly because i can't dance too much because i get very tired you see i i'm not as young
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as i used to be here you see 15 years ago i was just a youngster but now 15 years later
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all of my joints are starting to ache my brain doesn't work as well as it used to
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yes and no okay then let's have a look well first of all we'll look at a word that means
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yes we can say that something is affirmative affirmative so quite often we will use the
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word affirmative to mean yes something that might be allowed something that is given permission
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you have an affirmative response affirmative it is another way of saying yes so when you
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affirm something you are making sure that it happens or you are pushing something forward
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to actually occur we often hear this word nowadays used when we are talking about certain
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society causes or social causes so we might say affirmative action so that is positive
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action action that will help other people so the word affirmative is actually used quite
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often to mean something positive something good and also it can be used to express the
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word yes here's another one well this is the opposite of course with every positive there
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is always a negative sadly
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something negative is something that goes against the positive so we have positive and
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negative you see so the positive thing is the good thing it is the affirmative response
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and then we have the opposite which is negative so quite often we will express a negative
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response when we disagree with something something we don't like something we disagree with when
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we give an answer that is negative we are saying the opposite thing so one person might
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say yes but you will give a negative response you will say no
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and that's it you see another positive one yes and no here we go oh now this is an interesting
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word you assent to something if you assent it means you agree you are allowing something
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you agree with what has been said you give your assent you see you are allowing something
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to happen you might hear this used sometimes in law
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or in politics sometimes when a thing has been agreed on you agree to something happening
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you give your ascent the ascent is a form of agreement so you are allowing it so to
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agree is to say yes i agree with you mr duncan i agree i give you my assent and then of course
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we have well we have the opposite disagree if you disagree with something if you disagree
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with something you go the opposite way the opposite to what that person has said i think
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they should abolish capital punishment oh mr duncan very controversial but someone might
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disagree you see so we can disagree strongly over maybe a sensitive issue something that
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people are talking about that is controversial like at the moment in the united states there
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is a lot of debate taking place over whether or not they should abolish capital punishment
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the death penalty we don't have it here in the uk we don't have capital punishment we
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don't have it we don't do anything like that anymore we just send people to prison for
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a very very long time
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does it change anything does it stop people from doing bad things
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a little bit so if you disagree with something quite often you will take the opposite point
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of view you disagree by the way this is interesting i've just i've just realized if something
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disagrees with you it means that it makes you feel unwell especially when we're talking
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about food so maybe a certain type of food will disagree with your stomach like mr steve
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yesterday mr steve wasn't feeling very well even though he was very lively on the live
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chat did you see him disagree if something disagrees with you especially when we are
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talking about food it means you've eaten something and then oh you don't feel very well something
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has disagreed with your stomach
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yes it's true louis mendes says the queen of england will sometimes have to assent some
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laws that is true yes quite often when whenever a new law is brought in you always have to
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have a very long debate so quite often here in parliament for example in the uk parliament
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will have to normally sit many times to talk about a certain law if something is about
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to change and then people have to vote on all of the different parts of that law so
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even if a law seems very simple the procedure to actually agree on it can take a very long
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time sometimes years especially if the politicians ignore the requests you see so it can happen
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yes assent to ascent is to agree to allow something to go forward
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you allow that thing to happen so this word is positive to allow something allow you let
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something happen maybe a person wants to go out to a party maybe a teenager and they ask
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their parents mum dad there is a party this friday and my friend has invited me to go
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to the party will you allow me to go will you allow me please please let me go please
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let me go to the party and then the parent might say yes of course we allow you to do
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it we allow you to do it we will let you go to the party of course you can go yes we will
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allow you to do that allow and then of course with all positive words there is always a
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negative you disallow something so you don't let that thing go through you disagree with
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it you do not allow it you disallow something so to disallow is to reject something you
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do not agree with it you are saying no i'm sorry sometimes in football sometimes if a
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footballer scores a goal but maybe something else happened on the field that means that
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goal is not a real goal they disallow the goal so if you disallow something it means
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you reject it or of course you you say that that thing is not real in the sense of a sporting
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event you disallow something so i'm sorry we can't accept that goal because something
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else happened that player was offside and please don't ask me to explain the offside
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rule in football because i have no idea what it is but sometimes yes you you might disallow
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a goal during a football match i think so we are looking at words connected to yes and
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no you are giving something positive a positive answer or a negative one depending on the
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situation
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you accept something now this is interesting because accept might not be seen as saying
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yes or no but it is a positive word and quite often we can show that we are allowing something
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or saying yes to something merely by accepting it you accept something you are agreeing with
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it you accept that thing especially when you are talking about a certain subject so maybe
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a person will accept your point of view they agree with you they say hmm yes that's a very
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interesting point yes yes i think i think i can accept that perhaps you are in a quiz
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and someone asks you a question and you give an answer that is almost correct not quite
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but almost correct the person who gives the questions or asks the questions will accept
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your answer so they will allow you to give the answer even though it isn't completely
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correct but they will still accept the answer to accept something maybe you hear a knock
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at the door and you hear someone outside your front door so you have a look and oh my goodness
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look there are some flowers being delivered you must accept the flowers so you can accept
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them that means you allow them to be given over you allow them to be handed over so you
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accept the flowers from the delivery driver the person making the delivery you accept
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them you take them oh thank you very much that's very kind of you thank you very much
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for the flowers i will accept them from you
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oh of course there is a there is an opposite to this if you do not want something
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if you do not want something if you push something away maybe you disagree with what is being
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said you reject something you will reject you push something away you don't want it
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or you don't agree with it so perhaps one of your friends has a point of view about
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a certain subject but you don't agree with it you reject their opinion you reject it
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you don't agree with them you push it away you reject something perhaps
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you are taking part in a beauty contest
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and you go along to one of the auditions
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but unfortunately they reject you they don't think you're good looking enough to take part
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in the beauty contest they reject you perhaps you apply for a job you write a lovely letter
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to someone hello i would like a job please do you have any vacancies in your company
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i would be very much or very willing to hear from you if you have any positions available
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and then maybe you apply for for one of the vacancies maybe you apply for a job but unfortunately
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they reject you they reject you so to accept something or maybe to accept a person into
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your company as an employee or of course the opposite is to reject you don't want that
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person to work for you whatever the reason may be
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here's another one oh so this also can be seen as affirmative you are saying yes to
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something you agree with something you go along with something so if you go along with
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something it means you accept that opinion that idea that thought and you go along with
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it yes yes okay then i i go along with what you say i will go along with it i will agree
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to what you say or maybe a person has an idea for a plan you might say okay yes i will i
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will go along with your plan i will go along with it it means you agree to help or take
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part and that is what we are doing you see you agree with something you go along with
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it of course there is the opposite you might object to something you object to what a person
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says you object to their behaviour you object to their opinion you object so it's the opposite
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you are pushing it away and of course in these days where everyone has an opinion some people
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have an opinion that other people object to and some people have an opinion that people
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accept or they go along with
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hello live chat don't worry i haven't forgotten you if you are wondering why i'm not saying
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hello it's all right i know i know you are here so don't worry about it we're looking
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at words connected to yes and no i will be with you for another 10 minutes and then i'm
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gone but don't worry because i will be back tomorrow yes every day during this month every
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single day here's another way of saying yes or maybe another way of agreeing to something
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if you agree to something or if you allow something to happen you say yes you clear
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something you clear it so this is an interesting word that can actually be used in many ways
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to clear something is to empty something so maybe you clear your room or you clear the
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front path you clear something away so the thing that was there has now gone you clear
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things away you clear something however to clear something can also mean to agree with
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something you are allowing something to happen you clear that thing you allow it to continue
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you are not saying no you are saying yes i will clear your identity card so maybe you
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work for a company or you start working for a company and maybe there is a lot of security
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in that building you have to be cleared to go in you have to be cleared to go into that
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building to clear someone is to say yes that's okay i allow it i clear that thing maybe something
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that happens in the legal procession or the the legal profession you clear something you
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are allowing something to go ahead you are allowing a person to land an airplane oh you
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are clear for take off you are clear for landing it means they are allowing you to do it there
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is plenty of room for you to land your plane it is safe to take off with your plane
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jamilia oh hello jamilia nice to see you here today wow thank you very much for joining
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me jamilia says what if a person will not take no for an answer well
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if a person will not change their mind so if they will not take no for an answer well
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that person might be seen as persistent you see so a person who will not take no for an
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answer is persistent they will not stop asking even if you say no they will continue they
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will try to change your mind or change your opinion about it they are they will continue
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to ask they will be persistent and sometimes that can be very annoying i think so here's
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a negative word we just had the word clear now we have the word block the opposite so
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if you clear something it means you allow it if you block something it means you disallow
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that thing you are not allowing it to happen you block that thing you are stopping it from
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happening you might disagree with something and because of that you block the idea you
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block the decision you block the proposal you are stopping it because you disagree with
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it you are saying no you can't do it i am blocking you i will block your plans can i
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just say around here if you want to make any changes to your house it's very difficult
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to do because there are all sorts of regulations in this area where i live and i remember a
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few years ago we wanted to make a very small change a very small change to the house nothing
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big but we had to apply for planning permission we had to write to the council and then someone
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had to come and inspect the work that we wanted to have done they had to approve what what
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you wanted so they would approve the planning or they would block your planning your intention
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to change your house would be blocked so your plans would be blocked by the council they
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would they will say i'm sorry you can't do that you can't put a new window in your house
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you can't make your house larger you can't do those things we will block your plans block
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them not very nice at all here's another one we have five minutes left before i go if we
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disagree with something well we might block it but what if we want to go with something
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if you go for something it means you agree with it you go along with it i can go for
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that i can go for that it means i agree i'm saying yes i can go for that do you fancy
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pizza tonight would you like to eat some pizza and you might reply hmm i can go for that
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i can go for that it means yes that's a good idea i agree yes let's have pizza tonight
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what a brilliant idea i can go for that oh yes and then of course we have the opposite
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which is i can't go for that i can't go for that i think there was a song wasn't there
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was there a song many years ago by daryl hall and john oates i can't go for that no no can
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do i can't
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i'm really showing my age now i can't go for that it means i disagree i don't want it i
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can't go for that i'm sorry sorry i disagree i'm saying no i'm objecting to what you say
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i can't go for that i really can't here's another one well i suppose if you want to
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say yes if you want to agree with something you can simply say sure
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sure okay no problem sure oh by the way it's snowing oh it's starting to snow outside everyone
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would you like to have a look outside the window it's starting to snow look there it
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is now that is outside right now and it's snowing oh my goodness how exciting i wasn't
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sure if the snow was going to start but there it is it's now snowing outside the window
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everyone are you excited sure mr duncan sure we are excited yes we are excited definitely
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wow it really is snowing
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finally we get some snow i've been waiting all night this morning when i woke up i was
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hoping that there would be some snow on the ground but there wasn't but now the snow has
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started and i feel very excited to be honest i'm rather excited by that it's almost time
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to go oh i know what you're thinking mr duncan oh it can't be the end of the live stream
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no way no way mr duncan i'm sorry you can't go you can't leave no way it means you are
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disagreeing you don't want me to go you want me to stay no way mr duncan it's not okay
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you can't go you must you must stay longer you must stay here for the rest of the day
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well i can't i'm afraid i'm very sorry about that yes you can no you cannot no way it is
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not okay
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yes that is a good word concur yes you can concur with someone you are right i don't
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have that word here in fact i thought i did i thought i did actually put that word here
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but i don't know why it isn't there but i thought i did how strange what a strange event
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but yes concur you can concur with someone it means you agree with them you go along
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with them you agree to you agree with what they say
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i will allow that i will allow it to happen no problem i will let you do it i will allow
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you to do it so if you let something happen you can say that you will allow it i will
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allow that as i said earlier maybe during a football match perhaps the referee will
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say that perhaps the goal was not a real goal however he might decide afterwards that it
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was so he will do the opposite instead of saying no he will say i will allow that i
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will allow that goal it is a goal definitely and your favorite football team will win the
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cup
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and finally the answer or should i say the opposite i won't allow that if you won't allow
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something then it's the opposite you see you won't let it happen you won't allow it i'm
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sorry i won't let that happen it can't happen it will not happen i won't allow that it means
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you will never say yes you will always say no i won't allow that maybe the children want
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to bring food into the classroom and you might say no i won't allow that i won't allow that
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it means you are saying no you are saying no that is forbidden it is not allowed i'm
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saying no
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whenever i see comments on the live chat that have been deleted i'm always interested to
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find out what they are because sometimes i miss them you see i don't see them i won't
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allow that i won't allow bad language and rudeness on the live chat i won't allow that
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at all it is unacceptable so there it was yes and no ways of using that it is interesting
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how people are coming on here but they do not stay for very long do you know why
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very nice there's some very polite people today on the live chat but they never stay
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very long have you noticed they always go very quickly they never like to stay here
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very long i wonder why thank you very much for your company i hope you've enjoyed this
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yes i am back tomorrow we are back tomorrow hailey quang says mr duncan is cancel a good
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word yes well i suppose you can use cancel if you want something to stop or if you try
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to stop something so we do have a very interesting phrase that exists now we often talk about
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cancel culture so when we say cancel culture it means a group of people will move to try
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and get an individual taken off quite often we use this on the internet recently there
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have been some some very well-known cases where people have been removed from the internet
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or maybe they've lost their job because of various things so if people protest or object
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to something happening you might find that there will be
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consequences such as that person losing their job or their career completely or even their
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freedom
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so yes you can use the word cancel definitely i am going now it's time to say goodbye i
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hope you've enjoyed this hour i will spend another hour with you tomorrow we are back
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yes tomorrow is tuesday i wonder if the snow will continue or will it stop will it be yes
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or no find out tomorrow i am going now thank you very much for your company i hope you've
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enjoyed this thank you valentin thank you zuziker
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thank you joggers are so smart you know what they probably are i have never met a jogger
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that could count or not count to more than 10. so yes i think joggers are pretty smart
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they are very smart indeed hello grace goodbye grace see you tomorrow i must go now i have
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to go and put another smiley face on my beret for tomorrow you see but i don't know what
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will happen if i have too many too many of these badges on my beret what will happen
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i have no idea see you tomorrow 2pm same time as usual and i will see you tomorrow thanks
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for watching this is mr duncan in the birthplace of english of course saying thanks for watching
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i hope you've enjoyed day eight of 28 days of february and i will see you tomorrow and
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of course
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ta ta for now
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