31 Days of Learning English - DAY 17 - improve your English - EXTREMES / HYPERBOLE - 17th October

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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we are on baby
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oh what a lovely day it is today it really does feel quite nice in fact
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welcome today 17 of 31 days of October in 2019 yes it's time to improve your English
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hmm are you going to 'stan' mr. Duncan?
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apparently this is the trendiest word at the moment if you 'stan' someone
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it means you are a loyal fan of someone so apparently all the young people on
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the internet nowadays say 'stan' and that means they are a steady fan or they
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support a certain person so please stan mr. Duncan I want to turn this into a
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hashtag I want to see this trending all over the Internet by the end of today
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okay stan mr. Duncan that's me by the way
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hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today?
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are you okay? I hope so are you happy? I hope so
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here we go then what day is it today what day is it
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it's Thursday
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thank you bbbbb out the way go on move out the way hello everybody it's nice to
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see you it's Thursday and can I just say the weather is absolutely glorious today
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I suppose I should have gone outside however it would have taken too much
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time to arrange and sometimes I am a very busy man so let's have a look
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outside oh my goodness look at that so that is a live view out of the window
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right now and as you can see it is looking very nice the Sun is out and
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already you can see many of the leaves on the trees have started to turn we are
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now into autumn and there is an actual view right now so that isn't recorded
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that is the actual view out of the window right now looking across the
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beautiful landscape in the area in which I live I am in England for those
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wondering yes I am actually in England there is another live view oh isn't it
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nice a little bit of cloud in the sky now during the night I actually woke up
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I felt very Restless last night I don't know why please don't ask me why I felt
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Restless but I did so I got up I got out of bed and I wondered around the house
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and I looked out the window in the moon was out twinkling in the sky and there
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were lots of stars as well in the sky because there was very little cloud last
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night which might explain the reason why it was so cold so as I was walking
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around the house at around about 4 o'clock this morning I realized that the
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temperature at night has really dropped so I think last night it was around 3
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degrees which is quite cold for nighttime because normally at night
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you have no heating in the house so everything was very chilly so I stayed
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up for a while however I did come up with some very good ideas for today's
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livestream so as I was sitting in a semi sleepy states I wrote some ideas for
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today's livestream for example today we will be talking about this word
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hyperbole a great word it is a word that describes the behavior of many people
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nowadays so when we look at this word hyperbole what does it mean to you so
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that is one of the words we'll be looking at today also I have received a
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question which I am more than willing to answer mr. Duncan can you tell us what
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this phrase means the phrase is miss the boat what does it mean if you miss the
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boat well this is a very interesting phrase the meaning of this phrase is to
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miss an opportunity or perhaps your chance to do something has passed
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unfortunately you have missed your opportunity you have missed your chance
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to do something sadly you have missed the boat or we might say that someone
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has missed the boat so if you miss the boat it means you have lost your
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opportunity your chance has sailed away just like Titanic I do do do do do do do
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do do do do do do do
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I'll never let you go I'll never let you go oops I've let you go bye-bye
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hello to the live chat Oh a lot of people on the live chat I always get
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very excited when there are lots of people on the live chat we had grace
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Julie and Cho all of you appeared at the same time so can I say hello to all
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three of you and congratulations for being first on today's live chat
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you see all the emotions all of the emotions that were going across my face
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during those applause I was really excited so this is a word we're going to
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look at today hyperbole also we are going to look at
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types of words that show the most and the least of something extremes is the
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word so today we will look at extremes so things that are the most and the
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least so when we talk about extremes we are talking about the furthest you can
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go or maybe you go further than you should perhaps you go less or you do
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less than you should or the very least so when we talk about extremes we are
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talking about the most and the least and there are many words that describe
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various types of things and we can use extremes to describe them so that is
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something we are going to look at today and that is the idea that I came up with
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at four o'clock this morning when I was staggering around the house in a
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semi-sleep in fact I think I was sleepwalking so this might be the first
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ever lesson that I've actually created in my sleep whilst sleepwalking can you
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believe it so that coming up later here's an
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interesting question this is something I thought of last night as well you never
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see blue food how come why don't you ever see blue food have
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you ever wondered why you never see blue food it's a very interesting question I
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might answer that later on why do you never see blue food of course lots of
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things to look at out of the window at this time of year Oh shall we have a
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look at something nice so first of all here are some of the flowers that are
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still growing in my garden you can see some lovely fuchsias so that particular
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flower is called a fuchsia very nice also the sheep are still at the back of
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the house and there so that is something that I filmed around about 10 minutes
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before starting today's livestream so you can see the sheep are still at the
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back of the house they look very comfortable now
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even though one or two of them have injured themselves it looks as if
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they've fallen over some of the sheep are having difficulty walking but you
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can see the sheep look very comfortable very confident and even though I was
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standing very close to them at the back of my garden they they really didn't
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care they took no notice of me and oh hello you can see my socks that I'm
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wearing today I was in the garden a few minutes before starting today's
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livestream and you can see I have my colorful socks
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but something even more colorful of course are the autumn leaves you can see
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already on the grass there are many leaves that have fallen from the trees
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lots of different shades of yellow brown red one or two gold leaves as well so
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you can see at the moment everything is looking rather nice outside at the
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moment isn't it nice it really is it definitely feels as if autumn has
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arrived it really does so why don't you ever see blue food have you noticed that
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when you go into a shop to buy some food you never see blue food apparently blue
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is one of the most enticing colors so that is the reason why you never see
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blue food even certain cheese that has a little bit of blue can be quite
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off-putting and the reason why people don't like to eat blue food is because
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it all goes back to our early ancestors so if something was blue quite often it
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meant that it was inedible something that had gone rotten or maybe something
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that is poisonous so the reason why you never see blue food is because most
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people find it repulsive to look at and they certainly don't want to put it in
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their mouths so that is the reason why you never see blue food blue food is
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something that is an appetizing so that is why you often see food that is golden
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or colorful or of course green so we often see green food as being fresh and
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lovely and when we think of blue food we think of something that has gone rotten
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or something that spoiled so that's the reason why did you
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know that probably I think so because you are also smart well you must be
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because you're joining me today on the live chat yes it is 31 days of October
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and I am here with you every day during October the month of October 2019 Monday
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to Friday 2 p.m. Saturday 12 p.m. just after midday sunday 2 p.m. UK time of
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course soon there are going to be some changes with the time so my times will
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change well they won't change at all however the clocks towards the end of
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October will actually go back is it back is it fall is it fall into water spring
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into summer spring forward and fall back yes so we go back one hour in a few
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weeks is it a few weeks or a few days oh no I
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think it's I think it's is it next week or the week after so I think it's two
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weeks from now the clocks here in the UK will change and also many countries will
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also change their times and that's when it gets very confusing so as we
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officially say goodbye to British Summer Time what a shame what a pity hello to
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the live chatters lots of people want to say hello hello to Anna hello Anna
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Anna likes the Sheep as you know I love looking at the countryside and also the
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nature Green is a lovely color also if you see something that is green you will
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assume that you can eat it however blue things
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if you see something blue you don't want to eat it isn't it strange
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Anna asks a very interesting question when you are in your garden can you
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smell the odor from the Sheep do the sheep smell now it is true that the
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sheep will do their wee wees and poo poos at the back of my house on the
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field that is behind my garden however it is very strange that you can never
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smell the animals so whatever animals are at the back of the house you can
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never smell them isn't that strange now you would think that we would be able to
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smell their poop but you can't it's very strange
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maybe I have become accustomed to the smell perhaps maybe maybe not I don't
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know really Shahryar says here in sweden it is very gloomy oh well I will try to
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send you some of our beautiful sunshine because here it is absolutely marvelous
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Patrick says maybe because when something is dead it will turn blue yes
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if something goes rotten or if something goes bad quite often it will turn blue
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as as the thing becomes moldy so lots of bacteria will grow on the fruit and
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quite often it will turn blue and that's the reason why we always avoid food that
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is blue in color you never see blue food in fact the only
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food I can think of that's blue is certain cheese so certain types of
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cheese can have blue in them but it is true we never eat blue food Christina
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says mr. Duncan did you have an inspirational moment during the night
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yes I did I don't know what happened but I was wandering around the house in the
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dark and then suddenly my mind I started to wonder so I was moving
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around I was wandering around the house and also I was wandering in my mind
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and I came up with some really good ideas today so today we are talking
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about extremes how to express extremes in English hyperbole is a word that many
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people are using at the moment and the reason is because we seem to live in an
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age where people are overstating things or exaggerating or maybe they say
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something that is overblown so maybe a small subject or a small thing is made
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to seem more serious so hyperbole is something that is used a lot people seem
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to enjoy exaggerating or making things seem worse than they are something that
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is overblown or exaggerated or a statement that is too forceful so maybe
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something that is normal or something you should treat as being casual is made
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to seem much more serious than it is so hyperbole is often used in politics I
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have been told that I am NOT allowed to say to say this word so today apparently
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I am banned I have been censored from saying this so I am not allowed to say
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this today but there is a lot of news taking place here in the UK about this
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and apparently Europe has said yes unfortunately the Democratic Union Party
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the unionists have said no don't worry I will not mean
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this word I promise it's gone it's gone apparently one or two people seem to
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think that I have become a cult at least I think that's what they said apparently
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one or two people have said mr. Duncan do you realize that you have a cult
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following what does this mean what does it mean if you have a cult following
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well if you have a cult following it means that people like watching you and
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maybe in some cases they want to be with you all the time so maybe they want to
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watch your lessons all the time however it doesn't necessarily mean that you
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have a large audience so maybe maybe this is correct
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so maybe my audience is a small group but they are very keen they are very
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interested in what I do so apparently some people think that I I have a cult
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following I'm not sure about that I'm really not sure about that oh hello -
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salad hello salad have you had fresh camel
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milk I can safely say that I've never eaten or drunk camel milk no never I've
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never tried that ever in my life hello - Maria yes apparently it is the 26th of
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October so on day 26 of my 31 days of English the clocks will go back one hour
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and that of course will cause lots of confusion for many people and of course
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it makes some people late for my lessons however I will not be changing the times
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so the times for my lessons will be the same for the
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schedule however your clocks might actually be different because we will be
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putting our clocks back here in the UK by one hour on the 26th of October hello
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vinamra thank you very much all the efforts and
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hard work you invested to bring out the best in us can never be repaid in mere
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words well that's very kind of you to say we can only feel grateful for having
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a teacher like you good evening from India hello to you as well did you see
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my live lesson yesterday I was in the kitchen and I was talking about Indian
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food so one of the things I mentioned was Indian food because I liked it very
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much Giovani likes my t-shirt this is rather
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nice isn't it in fact I bought this from mr. Steve's colleague so one of mr.
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Steve's colleagues was selling some t-shirts that he had bought from someone
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else I hope they weren't stolen I hope I'm not wearing something that's been
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stolen I really do anyway to cut a long story short this is
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a t-shirt that I bought from one of mr. Steve's colleagues so now you know it
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was very cheap as well hello - sorry cat hello winter is coming
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it certainly is it definitely felt like summer last night it definitely did
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politicians talk with hyperbole nowadays says Anna yes everything is always
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exaggerated everything is always overstated so if
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you overstate something if you exaggerate if you are trying to make a
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point and maybe you are trying to scare people or to make people more worried
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than they need to be quite often people will use hyperbole
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especially in politics if we leave Europe everything will be a disaster if
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we stay in Europe everything will be a disaster so sometimes on both sides of
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the argument you might find there is a lot of hyperbole a lot of exaggeration a
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lot of overstating of things to get people worried or upset I think so
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hyperbole something you will see quite often hello Tamiko thank you once again
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for your lovely photographs of your trip that you had in Japan you can eat shaved
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ice cream with blue colored syrup apparently this particular syrup is
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called blue Hawaii yes that is very interesting now I remember
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when I was little and we used to be able to get something called an ice lolly so
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it was like a lollipop but it was made of ice and I remember there was one
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particular type of ice lollipop that was blue and when you ate it it would make
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your mouth in your tongue turn blue and sometimes around the edge of your mouth
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would also turn blue so yes sometimes you might see things that are colored
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blue especially dessert or ice cream but generally in life you won't see blue
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food very strange
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Luis makes a very interesting point people think that pigs are the dirtiest
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animals but it is not true sheep are much dirtier yes a lot of people think
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that pigs are actually quite dirty but in fact I think well I've never seen a
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dirty pig I'll be honest with you although sometimes they do like
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roll around in their own muck something I don't recommend
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hello also to Patrick again yes this t-shirt was not secondhand so it wasn't
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owned by another person so they were new but they were being sold off very
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cheaply by a shop so one of Steve's friends actually bought a lot of them
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and sold them but this wasn't very expensive it was very cheap I never buy
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new clothing as you know I never buy new clothes unless I have to
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even my socks many of my socks now have holes in them unfortunately but I never
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change my clothing as if I unless I have to
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so as soon as my clothing starts to dissolve on my body I will normally I
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will normally buy a new thing maybe underwear or socks but nothing
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else so I don't really spend much money on clothing to be honest it is now 231
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it is just after half past two here in the UK we are going to have a look at an
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excerpt from one of my lessons because yesterday I was asked if I could give
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some advice about giving a speech so if you are about to give a speech or make a
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speech in front of a group of people here is some very useful advice from one
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of my very old lessons going back 11 years
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is mr. Duncan
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this is on ladies and gentlemen horrible judges
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I mean honorable judges the title of my speech is I'm sorry I'm very nervous I'm
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sorry I can't do this
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hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today
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are you okay I hope so are you happy I hope so
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in this lesson we will examine the skin healing process of preparing and giving
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a public speech apparently the two things that people are most afraid of
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are death and public speaking sadly there is not much we can do about the
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first one however there are ways to improve your confidence when it comes to
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making a speech to a crowd of people the first thing you need to learn and
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improve is your confidence speaking in front of people can be very scary so
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first of all you need to get used to the idea of doing it especially if it's your
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first time
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who's the fairest of them all not you it's not very nice
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it may seem like a strange thing to do but practicing in front of a mirror is a
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great way to build some of that initial confidence get used to your own
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mannerisms and ways of showing what you are saying facial expressions and body
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language are just as important as the words you are saying if you happen
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to have one of these wonderful devices then you are well on your way to
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improving your vocal technique using a tape recorder can help you to get
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accustomed or used to the sound of your own voice it may feel a little strange
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hearing yourself at first but after a while you will begin to enjoy it and
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your confidence will slowly build isn't that right yes mr. Duncan I suggest you
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start off with some simple words and sentences and as you listen to the sound
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of your own voice you will be able to hear where there may be some problems
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one common problem which arises is the speed of speaking there is no need to
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rush what you are saying give the audience a chance to hear your words of
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course you must also speak clearly so don't rush it and don't mumble once you
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are confident enough then you can move on to speaking in front of a small
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audience get a few of your friends together or members of your family or
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even your classmates to listen this will allow you to get used to speaking in
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front of a crowd once you have built up your confidence and you feel ready to
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face the audience you must then prepare your main speech it is good if you can
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talk about something you are interested in if the topic is free and open then
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you can talk about your hobbies or your favorite story or share an experience
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from your life wow that judges will love this write the speech down clearly on
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paper or type it out using a computer and slowly learn it paragraph by
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paragraph do not try to learn it all at once if you feel tired then take a rest
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finally here are some useful tips I would like to share with you when
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speaking to a crowd try to use your body as a way of making the speech more vivid
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and clear hand gestures are very useful and remember to always keep your eyes on
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the audience if you forget a part of the speech do not panic just carry on from
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the part you remember it's so hot in here
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I hope this advice has been useful speaking in public is not easy but with
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regular practice and steady confidence-building you will be alright
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I should know I follow this advice myself
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Wow look at that going way back in time to 2008 I can't believe it I feel so old
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now that was a lesson from 11 years ago can you believe it and that is the
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reason why I look so young in that video now of course I look old and gray it's
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not fair now yesterday I was showing you some
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food in the kitchen and I don't want you to think that I have an unhealthy
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lifestyle now I'm going to prove now that not all of the food I eat is
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unhealthy quite often I eat healthy food as well so for example can you see there
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there are some some lovely lentils so lentils are something that I eat a lot
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of so quite often I will have lentils when I'm eating curry or maybe in soup
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so there are many ways to eat this particular thing so yes I like eating
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lentils I eat lentils a lot so not all of my
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diet is unhealthy it would appear if you were watching
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yesterday it would appear that I'm always eating junk food it isn't true
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even though last night we had pizza and I think I put too much garlic on the
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pizza and that's the reason why I was awake early this morning walking around
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the house like a zombie because I couldn't get to sleep I think I put too
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much garlic in my curry sorry in my pizza we're having curry tomorrow night
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Mangala says I watched that lesson that you just showed two years ago oh my
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goodness even two years is a long time so imagine going back in time 11 years
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or even 13 years can you believe it so I've been making these you
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to blessin's now for almost 13 years at the end of this month I will be
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celebrating my 13th anniversary on YouTube Maria you know mr. Duncan we
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have a food stall or we have a food like the samosa that I showed yesterday I
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will send you the recipe next time if you want to try to cook it at home I
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know that you are a good cook well mr. Steve is a good cook I'm not sure about
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me apparently mr. Duncan your your voice has changed over the years well I
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suppose the reason why my voice sounds different on my old videos is because
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way back in 2008 I didn't have professional equipment so the the
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equipment that I used in 2008 was very basic so I didn't have a professional
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microphone I didn't have anything that was professional I just used the camera
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and that was it so that's all I used so it was very
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basic equipment that I used when I first started my my English lessons all those
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years ago wow it's incredible today we are talking about extremes where we talk
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about extremes we talk about the most that something can go to and of course
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the least that something can go to so we are talking high and low but we are
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actually talking about the highest point and the lowest point so we are going to
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talk about ways of using extremes in English and I will take you through some
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words right now also what I will do I will also have a
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look at the live chat now and again so don't worry I I am NOT ignoring you I am
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doing a lot today in fact I will try to fit in as much as I can in the
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next 20 minutes so we are talking about extremes now here is a good example of
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extremes we have biggest and smallest so this often is used when we are talking
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about size so when we describe size the the most extreme is biggest and also
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smallest so when we go to the very large thing it is the biggest when we go to
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the very small thing it is the smallest so these are good examples of extremes
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from the biggest to the smallest so there is a good way of looking at one
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particular type of extreme another one now largest and tiniest now I suppose in
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this sense you can also use smallest as well so you can actually say largest and
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smallest but also you can say largest and tiniest so the largest thing is the
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one that is the biggest the tiniest is the smallest excuse me while I have a
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little drink of water hmm this water is the wettest this is the wettest and if
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you go into the desert you will say that that is the driest they are two extremes
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another one now tallest and shortest so when we talk about the tallest we are
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talking about height so the tallest thing and the shortest thing
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so maybe we are talking about a building the tallest building in the in the world
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the shortest person in the world tall short tallest shortest again they are
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extremes here's a good one happiest and saddest happiest and
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saddest so when we talk about the happiest it is the thing that gave you
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the most joy or maybe the feeling that you have that can't be surpassed you are
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the happiest you have ever been or maybe if something bad has happened maybe you
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are the saddest you've ever been so you can have for example you can have the
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happiest day of your life this has been the happiest day of my life perhaps it
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was the day of your wedding or maybe you had a special birthday celebration this
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was the happiest day of my life however if something bad happens
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something that makes you feel unhappy an event that is not nice maybe the worst
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thing that has ever happened you can say it was the saddest day when my dog died
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it was the saddest day of my life it was the saddest that I've ever felt happiest
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saddest they are both extremes Erik says Russia
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is the largest country in the world and the smallest country does anyone know
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I'm not sure what the smallest country in the world is I want to say I want to
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say a country in Africa maybe I'm probably
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wrong I'm sure someone will know but off the top of my head I don't know the
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answer for that question so what is the smallest country in the world the
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smallest country the brightest and the dullest so when we talk about the
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brightest it is the one that is the clearest or the most obvious something
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that can easily be seen the brightest colors the brightest light and then of
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course we have dullest so the opposite of bright is dull bright dull we could
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also use the word dim as well so dim can also be the opposite of bright so the
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brightest or the dullest the brightest color the dullest color so
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the brightest color is yellow the dullest color is black or maybe grey so
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there you can see two extremes also it's probably worth mentioning that brightest
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can also mean a person who is the most clever so if a person is very
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intelligent or clever we might say they are the brightest he is the brightest
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student in the class so bright and dull something that's interesting might be
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bright so the brightest thing that you saw
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today something that made you feel cheerful or happy and then we have the
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dullest the thing that wasn't interesting or the thing that was boring
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oh here's one here's one that I really do know about the fattest and the
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thinnest fattest thinnest these are both extremes so when
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we talk about the fattest we are talking about the person who has the most weight
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they are very heavy they have a lot of fat on their body they are the fattest
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maybe the fattest man in the world or of course the opposite is thinnest so
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maybe the thinnest person in the world or maybe the thinnest person in the
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classroom so the fattest thinnest and I know that some people will not like the
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use of the word fact however it is still a word that's used even though sometimes
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it is used unkindly so the fattest and the thinnest these are both extremes
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fattest thinnest oh here's another one here's another one by the way I met the
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smallest man in the world when he was still alive did you know that I actually
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met the smallest man in the world he was actually living near to where I lived in
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China and I actually saw him one day it was quite a thrill sadly he's no longer
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with us here is warned that I really do understand very well can you guess which
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one I am am i this one or am i this one am i number one or am i number two which
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one is mr. Duncan attitude 210 did it I might be the
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poorest person on YouTube maybe I am definitely not the richest person on
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YouTube so the poorest has the least money the richest
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has the most so the poorest person is the one who has no money and if we are
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talking about a group of people we might decide to compare between each person so
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maybe the poorest person has the least money the richest person has the most
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money here is another one Oh most people say number two trust me
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I'm I'm not this I am definitely not this a lot of people think I'm rich but
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I'm not trust me if I was rich why would I buy a t-shirt for five
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pounds of someone who Steve knows I mean would I do that if I was rich
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definitely not oh oh this is a good one which one is mr. Duncan oh this this
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could be a new game by the way I think this might be a new game so which one is
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mr. Duncan is it one or two the cleverest are you sure the stupidest oh
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thank you very much that's very kind of you to say so just to explain the
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cleverest is the person who might be the most intelligent or appears to be the
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most intelligent and the stupidest is the person who seems to have no
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knowledge whatsoever the cleverest person in the class and the stupidest
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person in the class even though that is not a very kind thing to say about
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someone it really isn't
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Pedro says number two Thank You Pedro for your support I do appreciate it
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another one now o the highest the lowest high so the
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highest is the point that cannot be exceeded it is the highest point there
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is nothing higher than the highest and then the lowest is the one that can't be
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exceeded going down so the highest voice the lowest voice so we can use this in
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many ways so the highest can mean maybe something that is above you and the
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lowest is something that might be below you so the highest mountain all the
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lowest Valley the highest mountain the lowest Valley so there are many ways of
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using this also if you are paying money for something the highest price the
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lowest price so I paid the lowest price for this t-shirt it only cost me five
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quid highest lowest maybe if we are talking about the score in an exam so
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maybe the person who came top in the class got the highest score and the
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person who did the worst got the lowest score highest lowest another example of
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extremes
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now when we are talking about extremes generally we will use best and worst so
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that was the best day I've ever had mr. Duncan this was the best lesson you've
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ever made and then the worst is the thing that was terrible something that
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has never been so bad it's the worst it is the worst thing I have ever seen mr.
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Duncan today's lesson was the worst lesson I've ever seen or maybe you say
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it is the best lesson that you've ever seen so you can have the worst oh dear
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the best so generally speaking we can say that was the best meal I've ever
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eaten that was the worst meal I've ever eaten that is the best song I've ever
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heard that is the worst song I've ever heard in my life another way of
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expressing extremes is of course most and least so the most and the least so
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when we say you give me the most joy I've ever felt or something gives you
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the least joy that you've ever felt so we are talking once again about extremes
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the most is quite often good the least is quite often bad however it also
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depends on the thing you are expressing so maybe you are expressing something
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negative but you don't have much of it so maybe the least sad so this is the
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least sad that I've ever felt so because the word is negative we can
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still say the least so basically you are saying that you are happy so I hope that
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helps you we've talked about quite a few things today and we have been talking
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about things called extremes so from the worst to the best the extremes the
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extreme cold it is the coldest it is the hottest the hottest day the coldest day
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I have a feeling that we are going to have one of the coldest days this winter
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apparently apparently it's going to be very cold during the next few weeks here
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in the UK thank you very much for your company today it's gone very quickly it
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always goes fast I don't know how I don't know why but it always goes very
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quickly what is the difference between the least and the lowest well they
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basically mean the same thing the least is often used in quantity the lowest is
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often used in position so when we talk about the lowest it is often position
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when we talk about the least the least we are expressing quantity so I hope
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that helps Mika says you are the best English teacher
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thank you very much don't forget if you want to if you want to stand me they
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can't find it there where's it gone there I can't find my Stan where is my
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Stan there we go if you want to Stan mr. Duncan apparently this is the word that
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all the teenagers are using now apparently it is very trendy so please
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can you stand mr. Duncan can you stand by me and be a very loyal fan I would
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appreciate it also if you want to make a donation you can also make a donation to
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Pay Pal and there is the address right now don't
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forget everything I do I do for free it costs you nothing not a single penny
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thank you very much to ty thank you very much to pat you Louie Oh apparently the
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smallest city the smallest country sorry country is Vatican the Vatican so yes I
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suppose Vatican City is actually blessed as a separate place so yes maybe that is
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right in fact that does sound right say I thought I thought it was somewhere in
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Africa because there are lots of small countries in Africa Thank You Louie
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Louie for that answer to the question that I asked earlier can you say the
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most stupid yes you can so you can say that that is the most stupid thing I've
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ever heard the most stupid thing I've ever heard although to be honest with
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you it would be more normal and more acceptable to say that is the stupidest
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thing the stupidest thing so the stupidest thing is the worst thing
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you've ever heard it is the thing that makes no sense that is the stupidest
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thing I've ever heard it is the fastest hour of the day because your lessons are
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interesting Thank You Noemi that's very kind of you thank you also to our med
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can you please show me how to pronounce ball ball and Bowl I will say them again
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ball Bowl so one is Oh ball ball Oh ball and the other one is bold Oh Bowl
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I hope that helps just before I say goodbye Thank You Maria thank you rich
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Rashid thank you very much to Palmyra thank you
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very much to Louie Louie thank you also to Bayern dave says please answer I'm
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here right now what is the longest English word mr. Duncan well there are
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many long English words some people actually debate which word is the
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longest because one of the longest words in the English language relates to a
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lung disease so there are many long words in the English language some
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people disagree some people say oh this is the longest word whilst other people
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say no this is the longest word so quite often it is open for debate
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Thank You Louis Thank You Pat choo I am going in a moment
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see you tomorrow it's beautiful outside I might actually go for a walk look so
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that is the view out of my window right now it is so nice out there I might go
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for a walk into the forest and there is another view right now looking out of
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the window and as you can see the sun is shining and I am feeling very jolly
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thank you very much for your company today I am going this is mr. Duncan
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saying see you tomorrow don't forget to p.m. UK time and of course tomorrow it's
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Friday Wow the weekend is just around the
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corner ooh are you excited I hope so thank you very much Anna Thank You Maria
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see you tomorrow and of course you know what's coming next
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yes you do from your favorite English teacher I hope mr. Duncan in England
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ta ta for now 8-)
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