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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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Making your
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way through the world today takes everything you've got.
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Trying to forget about your worries.
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Sure can help a lot.
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Isn't it nice to get away
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where everybody knows your name?
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And this is the place? Here we are.
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English addict is back with you. my goodness.
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I can't believe it.
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It's Tuesday already.
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I am in the room.
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Do, do, do do,
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do, do, do, do do, do, do, do, do.
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We are back together again.
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Hi, everybody. This is Mr.
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Duncan in England.
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How are you today? Are you okay?
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I hope so.
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Are you happy? I hope you are feeling happy today.
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Please don't forget to give me a lovely like I know yesterday.
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I forgot to ask for a like so.
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Today I am going to ask for a lovely thumbs up.
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If you like this, please let me know.
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If you don't like it,
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then I'm
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not sure what I'm going to do, to be honest with you.
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I will try to improve whatever it is you don't like.
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Here we are then.
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Yes, we are here for Tuesday.
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It's lovely being here with you, by the way.
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Every day between now and the end of October.
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I'm doing live streams every day because it is the anniversary of my YouTube channel coming up.
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So that is what is happening a week from today.
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So next week, next Tuesday, it will be the 17th
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anniversary of my YouTube channel starting up.
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It's true.
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Hello to the live chat.
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Nice to see you here today.
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We have Mohsin mohsin.
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You are first on today's live chat.
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Congratulations to mohsin.
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You are first to day on the live chat.
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Also in second place, we have visas.
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Hello V, nice to see you back.
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Mustafa is here as well.
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My roots also is here.
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I haven't seen you for a while.
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Nice to see you back with us, said Curry is here as well.
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We also have Luke.
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Luke.
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Luke, you will go to
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the day Goodbye system.
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So hurry up.
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Off you go.
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Luke Skywalker is here.
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Isn't that nice?
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It's nice to see that you are bringing your
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your force ghost to my life.
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Chat.
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Very nice, Gilberto.
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Hello. Watching in Spain. Hello, Spain.
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Nice to see you here as well.
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We also have.
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Luke Mendez
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is here today.
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Hello, Louis.
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Can I quickly say hello
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to one of my lovely subscribers who always sends
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regular messages to me?
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Can I say a big hello to ring sack?
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Hello, Ring sack.
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This is your comment that you left this morning
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just to prove that I do read your comments
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and I am now saying hello to you.
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I hope you are joining me today live and I hope you will be joining me live
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every day between now and the end of
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October.
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I can't believe it's October already.
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Welcome to my little underground lair.
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This is my little cavern under much Wenlock.
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No one knows where it is.
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It is in a secret location.
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Even I don't know where it is.
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That's how secret it is.
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Hello.
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Also to Palmira as well.
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Nice to see you here.
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A lot of people joining us already.
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Nice to see you back with us on the live stream.
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Now, I do know and this you know,
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this is a big problem with everyone on YouTube at the moment, including me.
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It is very difficult to get your subscribers
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notified about your live streams
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and your new lessons or your new videos.
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Not only me, this is not just my problem, by the way.
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It's everyone's problem.
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So a lot of people have been complaining about the fact
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they can't get their videos or their live streams
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published to their subscribers.
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And this is something I think I've noticed as well.
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Certainly over the last two or three years,
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it has become harder to get found
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or to have your things discovered on YouTube,
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even if you've been around for a long time.
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Like I have.
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It's very difficult to do that
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today.
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By the way, we are looking at words and phrases connected to
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what might be my most favourite subject.
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So every day we are looking at different things and today
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we are looking at something close to my heart and also close to my brain
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because it's something that I have a lot of contact
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with every single day.
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And that is of course, technology.
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I love technology very much.
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You might say that I am a technology addict,
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so perhaps you are an English addict,
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but for me, I am a big fan of technology.
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I love all types of technology.
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You might say that I am a technophile.
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I love
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technology, all types of technology
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from the most basic technology to the most advanced.
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I am very fascinated by it.
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The staff says, Mr.
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Duncan, why don't you tell us about the topic you are discussing?
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Well, I do actually.
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When I publish the thumbnail.
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Normally underneath there is information underneath
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about what I'm going to talk about.
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So if you look underneath this video in the description,
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there is always something there.
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It also gives you a chance to think quickly as well.
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So one of the things I love about doing this is that it is immediate.
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It is something that happens straight away because it is life.
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You see right now, 2:11
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o'clock on Tuesday, the 24th of October.
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So that is the reason why I like to do things
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spontaneously, because it gives you a good chance.
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It gives you an opportunity to do something very quickly as well.
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Mr. Duncan So please, is this stream real or fake?
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It is real V-8s.
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This is definitely real.
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I can tell you right now, I know at the moment a lot of people are talking about things
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on the Internet or things on social media that may or may not be real or true.
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Something might be false or fake.
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But I can assure you now I am standing here
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live right now.
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So don't worry about that. V8'S.
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This is definitely live as it often is, and it will be live
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every day between now and the end of October.
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So there you go. You see?
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It is good to be spontaneous
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because it doesn't give you much time to think.
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And I think that is one of the things about learning a new language.
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If you learn a second language, you have to adapt to that particular thing.
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And one of the best ways of doing that is to think fast.
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And I think it is very good for your brain as well.
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Talking of brains, we are talking about technology today.
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Some people believe that we are just another form of technology.
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There are people out there, you might not believe this
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because I don't either.
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There are some people out there
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who believe that we are all just programmes
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running inside a computer.
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Now, if that is the case,
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why do I sometimes get toothache?
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Why would you do that?
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Why would you programme toothache?
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Whenever I drink something very hot or very cold. Why?
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Why would you do that?
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It seems like a very strange thing to put into a computer program.
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So I don't think that is actually true.
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We are all real. We're all here together.
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You are real?
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I'm pretty sure I am real as well.
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But a lot of people do say
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that the human
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brain is very similar to the modern day computer.
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And I suppose in many ways it is true
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that the brain is similar, the way it functions.
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It uses electricity, it passes information
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electronically, just like the brain.
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And of course you can store things
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up here in the same way
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as you can store things in your computer.
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So it is true.
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Yes, of course. It's all real.
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This is real.
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Of course it's real.
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Why would you think otherwise?
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I think you are just trying to find out the location
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of my secret underground base.
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But I'm glad to hear that you are so intrigued.
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To be honest, it's very nice to know.
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So today we are looking at words and phrases
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connected to one of my most favourite subjects.
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I love talking about this.
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You might say that I'm crazy about this particular subject.
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Thank you, Computer.
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Thank you.
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Because of you, I can do this.
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This beautiful device has given me lots of opportunities
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to appear here in recorded video lessons and also live.
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So I would like to say now, can I say no?
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Thank you, Computer.
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You all are amazing.
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Well, so lovely.
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You are very, very nice.
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Palmira is going already.
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See you later, Palmira.
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That was very quick. That was a very quick visit.
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You can always watch it again.
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Anyway, when we look at technology, I would imagine that
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maybe Palmira does not want to learn about technology.
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Maybe. I don't know.
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For some people, it might be a boring subject.
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Technology.
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Anything that can help you to do something.
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When we talk about technology, we often talk about things that are useful, things
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that can help you to do something that is difficult, technical,
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or maybe something that takes a very long time to do or carry out.
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So that is one of the reasons why we have technology.
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There It is under there. Can you see it?
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Mustafa Apparently
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Mustafa has his own point of view about technology.
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The more you use it, the more you become stressed.
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I think you are right that it can doing anything.
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Too much can be bad for you.
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Whatever it is in life.
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You can eat too much.
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You can sleep too much.
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Maybe you can walk or exercise too much.
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You might tie your body out or even injure it.
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So I think, yes, I suppose it is true that you can do everything.
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Everything can be done too much.
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I think so.
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But yes, it is nice.
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Some times to take a break from technology.
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I think so.
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We often think of technology
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as labour saving.
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Now, I love this phrase.
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This is a phrase that was very popular.
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A lot of people would use this particular phrase
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way back in the 1950s and 1960s
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when all of these new types
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of devices, machines,
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they all came along and they were often
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described as labour saving
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something that is labour saving
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is a thing that can help you
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to save effort and time.
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So that's the reason why we often do that.
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We often describe it as labour saving.
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Some people, of course, might say that it's a bit lazy.
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I'm not sure about that.
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But something that saves you time
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or maybe saves you effort.
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So it's not so hard to do
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can be described as labour saving.
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It is a phrase we often use.
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Perhaps there are some examples.
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I suppose I can think of a very simple thing,
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something that can save you a lot of time and effort.
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I suppose.
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One of these an electric toothbrush.
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Now I have to say, over the past couple of years,
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I've started using an electric toothbrush.
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And I have to say it is pretty good.
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It has helped me to keep my teeth nice and healthy,
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almost.
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So I would say that this is a particular good example
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of a labour saving device,
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a type of technology that is,
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I suppose when you think about it, very basic.
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It is a very simple type of technology,
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but it is very good at doing the job.
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It saves you time.
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It is not so tiring to do.
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And also it is very convenient as well
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because you can take this particular thing anywhere with you.
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So I would say that this is probably something
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that could be described as a labour saving device.
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Definitely. So an electric toothbrush,
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something that is saved time and also has made my life
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much easier.
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It might be a little bit lazy as well.
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I don't know about that.
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Device.
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Device, something that is used,
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something that carries out a type of action.
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It serves a purpose.
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So everything that you use may be a type of tool as well
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could be described as a device.
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Quite often we use this particular word
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when we are looking at electronic things,
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things that are electronically powered.
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They use electricity and they often perform
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some sort of service or function.
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So we often look at devices
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as things that carry out a certain task.
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I suppose the most common one is
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probably the thing that you're holding at the moment in your hand.
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Do you have one of these in your hand at the moment?
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I think you might have one of these.
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You might be watching me.
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You might be scrolling through your emails.
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You might be hypnotised
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by the things you are looking at
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on your screen right now.
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It happens sometimes even to me.
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Sometimes I am looking at the internet.
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Maybe I am reading some news stories and then eventually I become so distracted
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by what I am looking at.
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I can spend a whole hour
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just staring at my phone and then I suddenly realise
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that I have been sitting or standing
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for nearly an hour or sometimes 2 hours.
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It's true,
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staring at my phone.
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So I would say a very good example,
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a classic example of a device is
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the smart phone.
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Of course, a lot of people these days
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are looking at other types of technology,
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not only their phone, but also what they wear
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on their wrist as well.
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So I've seen a lot of people now they have not only their smartphone,
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they also have a smartwatch as well.
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I don't have one of those.
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So my watch is old fashioned.
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This is a very old watch, although this is also a piece of technology.
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It might be old fashioned
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because this particular watch is around 20.
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I think actually this watch must be around
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25, maybe 26 years old.
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So I had this watch
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way back in the 1990s.
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So this watch has been on my wrist
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for a long time.
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A very long time.
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So even this is a type of technology,
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although some people would say that this is old fashioned technology.
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This is a digital watch.
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But way back in the 1990s,
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this was a pretty cool piece of technology.
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It really was.
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Hello to Khalid.
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Hello, Khalid. Nice to see you here.
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How are you watching me today?
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Are you watching on your phone?
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Are you watching me on your tablet device?
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Or maybe you are watching me on your computer
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or even your TV Because now, of course,
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you can watch my YouTube lessons
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and my live streams on your television as well.
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Can you imagine that watching me on your 50
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inch plasma television?
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How? Pretty cool.
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Another word we sometimes use
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when we are talking about technology or a certain tool
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that we use is
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gizmo.
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So there it is. There is the word. The beep.
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Beep, beep, beep, beep.
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Gizmo, A type of thing
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that you use to make your life easier.
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A gizmo, A type of device.
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A tool.
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Normally something electronic.
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Quite often something that has
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some sort of technology built into it.
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Gizmo. I love that.
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I believe it was also the name of one of the gremlins
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from the well-known movie
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way back in the 1980s.
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Another word we can use when we talk about technology
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or types of technology is appliance.
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Appliance.
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I like this word appliance.
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It means a thing that does or carries
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out a particular task.
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So maybe an appliance
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can be something like a washing machine.
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So we often describe items or devices
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that carry out a certain task as an appliance,
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an electrical appliance, a thing that carries out
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a certain function, something that does a certain task.
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Washing machine.
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Maybe you have one of those wonderful things that can dry your clothes.
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I don't have one.
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Unfortunately.
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I have to do it the old fashioned way.
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I have to take my clothes into the garden
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and hang them up outside.
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But some people do have
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modern appliances.
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I suppose another thing that most people have somewhere in their house,
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quite often in their kitchen, is a refrigerator.
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A refrigerator, too, or maybe a deep freezer.
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So that, again, is another type of appliance.
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It is something that carries out a certain job.
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There it is.
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The word is appliance.
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When you apply yourself to something,
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it means you are doing a particular task.
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You are carrying out something.
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So that is the reason why we have this particular word
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beep appliance.
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It is something that carries out the task.
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When we talk about technology,
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we might talk about advanced technology.
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We often describe it as high tech.
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I love technical A-G, and I have to be honest with you, if I may,
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I love high tech.
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Anything that performs a complicated task
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or does something that seems remarkable or miraculous.
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I love all sorts of technology.
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So I think it is fair to say that high technology or high tech,
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as we often call it, things that carry out complicated functions
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or they have complicated applications,
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we often describe it as high tech.
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We might also describe something that is advanced,
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maybe a very advanced type of technology.
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We can describe it as high tech.
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It is high tech, which basically means high technology
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function.
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I love this word, by the way.
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Function
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likes to say, I don't know why when you say it, function,
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function
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nice.
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Did you try it?
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Did you have a go function
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something that is done or something
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that can be done by a machine
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or maybe something that is carried out or done?
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The function or purpose of a particular thing.
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The function is what it does.
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The function is what it carries out.
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So maybe if you want to add some numbers up,
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you might use your calculator.
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So the function of this device
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is to add up numbers.
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Hello, Antonia.
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Hello, Antonia.
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Nice to see you here. Hello, Mr. Duncan.
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I've been watching your videos for many years since I was a student.
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But nowadays I am an English teacher
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and I usually recommend your videos to my students.
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Greetings from Sao Paulo in Brazil.
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Thank you very much. How lovely, Antonia.
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Thank you.
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And I'm glad my English lessons have been useful to you.
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I'm always pleased to hear from you.
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If my video lessons or live
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streams have helped you at all, please let me know.
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And there will be a big smile on my face.
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I'm pretty sure of it.
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Don't forget to give me a line, please.
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It's very nice.
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So when we talk about the function of something,
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we talk about the things it does.
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The things, the things it can do, the function,
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or maybe many functions.
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So modern technology can often do more than one thing.
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It can carry out more than one function to carry out a task.
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The thing you are doing, the function of it, to operate,
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to work, to function.
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When we talk about computers,
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we often talk about hardware.
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And I love hardware.
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I think of all the things
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connected to technology.
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I think I love hardware the most, to be honest.
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So when we talk about hardware, we are talking about the
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things that go into
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technology.
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Quite often the parts of a computer, for example.
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So quite often these are things that can't be changed or altered.
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Hence the name Hard wear.
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It is something that goes into your computer.
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It is part of a computer.
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There are many parts of a computer.
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You have basic things like the motherboard.
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The motherboard is probably the most important part
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of a computer because that is the thing that connects everything together.
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So you might think of the motherboard on a computer
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as the wiring in your house
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where everything can be connected to your lights.
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Maybe the things you operate from the electricity supply.
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The motherboard is very similar.
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So that's what it does.
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It carries out a rather simple task.
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However, these days they are quite complex, but they do a very simple thing.
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So when we talk about hardware, we are talking about
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the method of storing information maybe on hard drive
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or maybe a solid state drive, things that allow you
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to save items or information in your computer hardware.
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Hardware for a computer
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can be very expensive, especially if you want.
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If you want your computer to do things like this.
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What I'm doing now.
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Software.
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So we have software quite often programs,
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things that help the computer to run.
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So when you turn on your computer, you have lots of software.
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The things that run your computer, the things that operate your computer.
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A lot of people will have a certain type of
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operating system in their computer.
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For example, I have Windows, Windows ten
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professional
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because I have to I have no choice, unfortunately,
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because I have to do this.
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And for that I need a professional computer.
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Unfortunately,
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function can also mean something
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that is used in a position that is theirs.
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Yes, that is it may maybe a person's function in their job.
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What is their purpose? What do they do?
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Also, we can use the word function
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to describe a type of meeting as well, where many people get together
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to talk about something or maybe they eat
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and talk at the same time.
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A gathering of people where quite often food is eaten
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can be described as a function as a noun.
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So yes, there are many different types of software.
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The basic software in most computers of course, as I mentioned, the operating system.
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So what about you? Do you use Windows?
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It is apparently still the most used software for running a computer.
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I know a lot of people these days prefer Apple equipment,
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although unfortunately, it does tend to be expensive.
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I would love to have an Apple computer to do all this,
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but it would cost thousands and thousands of pounds
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to build one, unfortunately.
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So I have to settle for windows instead
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because it's much cheaper, to be honest.
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Much cheaper.
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When we talk about computers, we often talk about
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hardware and software.
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Software is the program.
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And inside a computer, you can have many different types of software.
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Then we have the memory all your memory
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in your computer and also in your head.
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As I said, computers are very similar to us,
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especially up here.
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One of the things I've noticed recently,
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certainly over the last year,
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is I'm using much more memory in my computer
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because I'm making more videos and I'm using
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higher levels of technology.
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So every time you you make your technology better,
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or maybe if something runs more powerful,
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different types of software, for example, you might find that
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you need to upgrade your computer as well.
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So that is one thing.
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Antonia says there are 47
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people and only 27 likes.
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Well, I don't know why I can't control this.
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You see, I have no control over it.
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All I can do is press my little button
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and then hope that someone out there
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is watching.
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Very nice.
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And almost, almost at the end,
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a person who knows a lot about technology, a person who is knowledgeable
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about such things as the way computers work.
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Maybe they're very good at repairing technology when technology goes wrong,
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when it breaks, when it stops working.
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And let's face it.
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I think one of the problems these days
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with technology is not when it works, but when it doesn't work,
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which is quite often when you think about it.
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In Arabian
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countries, computer parts are very cheap.
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Mr. Duncan Well, maybe I should be going there
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to get my Apple computer.
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Sadly, at the moment I can't afford one, I'm afraid.
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So there are many, many people out who are knowledgeable.
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I would say that I am quite tech savvy,
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so the word savvy means familiar.
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You are familiar with a certain thing.
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You are familiar with a certain area
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or a certain skill or a certain thing.
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You are savvy.
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You understand that thing very well.
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So a person who is tech savvy is
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knowledgeable about technology.
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So I think I am quite tech savvy,
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maybe not completely, but at least
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I managed to build my own computer.
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So I think I did a very good job of that.
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I did manage to build the computer that you're watching me on now is the one that I built.
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Isn't that nice?
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We have many different types of technology, of course.
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I always think of medical equipment.
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Whenever I think of great technology, I always think of technology that can help people
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to overcome illness or maybe things
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that can be used to find illness or discover
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a problem with a person's body, especially on the inside.
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I think one of my most favourite types of technology
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must be
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this particular thing.
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Can you see it on the screen now? There it is.
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So that particular thing is called an MRI scanner.
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It's stands for magnetic resonance
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and I think it's information.
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Information.
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Magnetic resonance information or imaging?
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Medical equipment.
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Whenever I think of technology that is amazing,
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I often of this particular device
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because it is very useful for finding problems with the inside of your body.
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Maybe something that is growing that should not be there.
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So this particular thing is a very useful device.
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It also costs thousands and thousands and thousands of pounds,
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which is why quite often hospitals have to try
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to raise money through charity to buy these
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that particular device.
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By the way, that piece of equipment.
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The MRI was actually invented here in the UK.
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It's true.
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I'm not joking.
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So medical equipment, there are many different types of medical equipment
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that we can use nowadays to help people recover
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from an illness or maybe to discover
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something serious
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that is going on in your body.
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A person who likes technology
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can be described as a techno file.
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Of course, we have the opposite.
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A person who does not like technology
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might be described as a technophobe.
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They don't like technology.
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They might even feel afraid
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of going near technology
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because they fear that they might break it.
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Or maybe they fear that in the future technology
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will be ruling the world, which is one thing a lot of people are talking about at the moment.
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To be honest,
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Andrew says, Mr.
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Steve was so generous, he actually presented you with a computer.
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Now, Mr.
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Steve does help me sometimes, but I am a proud person, so I did save some money.
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I also had some lovely donations from you out there as well
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to allow me to build this computer.
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So I'm always
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grateful for your donations because of course, don't charge anything.
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Everything I do here, even this.
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Right now, as I stand here talking to you, it's all free.
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It does not cost anything for you.
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And you can watch my lessons as often as you want.
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And, of course, I've been doing this for 17 years.
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It's a free.
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It's true.
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Finally, the thing that you might like
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or the things that you might not like, especially when it's connected to technology, algae,
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or maybe something that can can help you to
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to do things much easier.
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You might be a person who is a Luddite.
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I love that expression Luddite.
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The word Luddite means a person who doesn't understand
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technology, can't use it.
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Maybe they try to avoid it at all costs.
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They try to avoid having any contact
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or maybe they just refuse to understand
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what modern technology can do.
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We can describe that person as a Luddite.
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Everything has a dark side.
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Yes, you are right, Mohammed. I think you are right.
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Everything technology can be very good,
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very useful, a great thing to have around.
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But also it can be the opposite.
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It can also bring a lot of bad things as well.
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Just like everything,
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I will put that
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on the screen
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for you.
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So that is today's short lesson.
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I am only with you for a short time during these few days,
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but of course I will be with you every day.
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So there is an upside and a downside to this.
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Thank you very much for joining me today.
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And thank you also once again, Computer Thank you, Computer,
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for allowing me to do this today.
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I will be back with you tomorrow from 2 p.m.
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UK time back with you again.
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And I hope that will join me as well.
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I will be ever so pleased if you can.
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Thank you very much for your lovely messages as well.
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If you want to leave a comment, you can end the video.
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You are more than welcome to do that.
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Very kind of you.
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Thank you very much for your lovely messages today.
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Thank you, Andrew.
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That's very kind of you.
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I will see you tomorrow from 2 p.m.
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UK time.
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Catch you later and we will end on something
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happy and joyous.
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And of course, you know what's coming next.
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Yes, you do enjoy the rest of your Tuesday and I will see you tomorrow from 2 p.m..
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UK time...
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ta ta for now.
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