31 Days of Learning English - DAY 25 - improve your English - SLEEP/DREAM - 25th October - FRIDAY

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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Oh No I'm late I'm late
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cha-cha-cha here we go again oh my goodness can you believe we have reached
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the end of the week once more and of course we are coming towards the end of
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our 31 days of English welcome to day 25
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oh hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you okay
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I hope so are you happy well are you happy I hope you are I hope so
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Here I am in my studio once again and I'm still having my lunch so this is
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actually my lunch you can now see how I nourish myself before my live stream
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begins so today I have a lovely sandwich with salmon and also butter and pepper
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inside so there is some lovely salmon in the middle so you can have a little
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sneak peek into my private world by having a look at what I eat so are you
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interested in that does it interest you so there is my lunch half eaten so when
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we say that something is half eaten it means I haven't finished it
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I have eaten half of it so this is half eaten here we go
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yes we are coming towards the end of October but don't worry there are still
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a few more days left before I say goodbye to October so I hope you are
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happy today in fact you should be happy do you know why because it's Friday
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I'm overly just broadcasting 280 people tear me I got up at 8 o'clock this
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morning to do this I'd been working since 8 o'clock this morning and now I'm
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talking to 7 to 8 people that's not many is it please tell a friend tell anyone
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tell your neighbour tell the person who lives down the road who you don't really like
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tell them all I am with you every single day during October live English
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every day Monday to Friday no one else has ever done this
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no one ever on YouTube has ever done a month of live lessons every day I think
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I might be the first person to do it but who cares YouTube's algorithms don't
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care clearly did you see a couple of days ago on the news apparently Google
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have developed the first quantum computer so now they will be able to use
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their algorithms much quicker than before to make sure people don't see
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your videos that's good news for all of us so thank you very much Google once
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again for making sure that no one gets to find out about my live streams all my
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lessons it's really kind of you thank you very much outside it's raining today
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unfortunately it is raining outside the rain is falling it is a very dull and
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miserable day but I can promise you now I can promise you that I don't feel dull
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or miserable I'm okay don't worry in fact I know what will
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cheer you up let's have a look at the birds shall we so here are the birds in
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my garden earlier today oh very nice so there earlier today the birds were all
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busy reading now at this time of year there
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is very little for the birds to eat because many of the insects have
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disappeared so the birds have all come back to my
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garden they have returned and there you can see a selection of birds there is a
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green Finch in the middle also gold finches I think also maybe a couple of
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blue tits as well so there that was filmed this morning however right now
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let's have a look what's happening now in the garden so this is now and as you
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can see there isn't much going on it's very quiet out there I must point out
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that mr. Steve is here today in the house he won't be on the livestream
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however he is in the house and today I was a little bit late because I was busy
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preparing mr. Steve's food so I had to make mr. Steve something to eat because
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he's at home today he's busy here in his office so I had to make a sandwich not
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only for me but also for mr. Steve as well and that's the reason why I'm a
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little bit late today I apologize so much before I go on can I say happy
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birthday to my sister it's my sister's birthday today so happy birthday Ally I
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hope you will have a nice day my sister allison is having her birthday today so
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happy birthday to my sister it's your birthday
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yes today it's your birthday hip-hip-hooray talking about
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celebrations let's have a look who is first on the livestream shall we on the
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live chat we have oh hello - nasiha well done guess what you are first on today's
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live chat
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I give you a bow and a curtsy there's no answer to that really is there baby Anna
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is here or Fabiana nasiha hello once again hello - ciao Rahul is here as well
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Eric Amit Danny lo hello Danny lo hello also - Luis Mendez nice to see you here
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today on my livestream hello also - wieder and also Palmyra
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Meeker is here as well chin hello chunk Yong Chun where are you
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watching at the moment I have a feeling you might be in the Far East I think so
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andrew is here Ana Rams Andorra also f @ e @ EF hello @ EF nice to see you here
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today also Sofia and Karen hello Karen when
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does it start do you mean my livestream it has started already now normally at
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the start of my livestream I have to play some music so I can make sure that
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my equipment is working properly so normally at the start of my livestream
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you will see an image and also you will hear some music that music now normally
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I have about two minutes at the start of the livestream to make sure that my
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equipment is working properly because doing a livestream is very technical it
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really is Christina how are you it's a sunny day
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where you are but here it is not it is not a sunny day here Farouk is here also
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Marina sorry Marie oh yes marina marina that is also a
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place where they keep boats so you will often find boats in a marina
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a place where boats are kept is a marina Theo
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hello mr. Duncan because of you we learn English as a living organism where every
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single part counts many thanks Thank You Theo for that very interesting
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very deep and profound for a Friday I think so Rosso is here hi mr. Duncan hi
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everybody your sandwich looks delicious
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yes it looks delicious but if I leave it any longer in this hot studio I think it
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will go very stale so if something is stale it means it has gone bad or with
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bread it means it has gone hard so you can't really eat it so bread will go
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stale if you leave it out in the open air so my sandwich is slowly going stale
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ana says I am interested in daily life subjects well I think so well this is
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something I try to do on my live streams every day I always try to take you into
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my life the things I do every day and quite often I will teach you some
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English at the same time isn't that good do we have a deal
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do we have a deal ok that sounds good to
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me a couple of words I want to show you now
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and these are words that many English learners confuse with each other the
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words are bored and boring so bored is the feeling of having nothing to do you
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feel as if you want to do something but you don't know what to do you have a lot
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of spare time on your hands so you feel bored
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of course being bored can also be the effect of watching something that is not
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interesting or something that is not interesting to watch or follow it makes
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you feel bored then we have boring if something is boring then the thing is
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making you feel bored so the feeling is bored the thing is boring
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I feel bored because of this boring lesson this lesson is boring I feel
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bored so a lot of people confuse these two words quite often they will use this
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word when they want to say this word so I feel bored mr. Duncan your lessons are
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never boring I hope so another couple of words we can use are tedious something
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that is boring is tedious you are watching something that is boring
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something is tedious also laborious if you are doing something that takes a
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long time to carry out maybe a very slow and tedious job that the job is tedious
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the job or the thing you have to do is laborious it takes a long time to do and
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you might describe it as a boring job or a boring task something that makes you
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feel bored is boring it is tedious it is laborious
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so I hope that helps you there back to the live chat
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hello mr. Duncan thanks very much for teaching us I am always watching your
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channel because we can watch the live stream on time I hope so I hope you
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don't mind joining me every day during October I hope it hasn't been too boring
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for you no one else is doing this not another person no one else on YouTube is
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with you every single day in October Fernando is here hello Fernando
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Belarusian Belarusian is giving us more information about her mother oh I'm
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sorry to hear that your mother is still not well we will have to wait so that is
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the latest from Belarus eeeh concerning her mother and once again can
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I send you my best wishes to you in your family grace chin is here
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I live in Kuala Lumpur I know kuala lumper very well I've been
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there a few times I I know Malaysia very well I've being
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there many times especially during the 1990s I went to Malaysia a lot Rossa
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says TGIF is used on Friday yes we often say thank God or thank goodness it's
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Friday so most people feel quite relieved and happy when Friday arrives
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because it means that weekend is about to begin
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don't forget I am with you tomorrow so you can see on Saturday I am with you at
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a slightly different time 12 p.m. midday on Saturday and then Sunday we return to
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the normal time of 2 p.m. UK time however this is something I mentioned
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yesterday I'm not going to mention it again because it's very complicated and
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my brain might explode so on Sunday very early on Sunday
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morning we will put our clocks back one hour as British summer time ends and we
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go back to the old Greenwich Mean Time GMT whoa I'm bored already with this
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subject so what will happen is for some people my livestream will appear one
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hour later so if you normally watch me at 11 o'clock at night you will find
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that I will actually appear at midnight however some people will also be turning
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their clocks back so for you there will be no difference but it will feel as if
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my livestream is at a different time however on Sunday it will still be 2
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p.m. UK time so whatever happens with our clocks whatever happens I will
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always be here at 2 p.m. UK time if it's British summer time or Greenwich Mean
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Time Wow well I can't believe I've had to say all that do you know who I feel
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sorry for I feel sorry for people who work in clock shops because they have to
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change all of the clocks that they have or maybe a person who has to look after
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all of the clocks in a clock museum they have to go around and change all the
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clocks they have to turn them back one hour
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apparently in Buckingham Palace they have over a hundred clocks in Buckingham
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Palace where the Queen lives so imagine how long it takes to turn all of those
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clocks back all of the Queen's servants I don't think the Queen does it I can't
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imagine the Queen getting up on a chair to change her clocks I just could just
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don't see that happening to be honest I really don't know sir is here also
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Meeker in Sicily it is awful in fact I'm at
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home because the schools are closed for Red Alert is that the weather is the
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weather that bad Wow so in the south of Italy and round
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Sicily it sounds as if the weather is quite bad oh dear
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stay safe if the weather is bad where you are stay indoors and watch me is
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that a good idea I'm not sure hello Rosa also sweetness happy birthday to your
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sister yes my sister it's her birthday today she is another year older I won't
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say how old because I can't because she will come round and slap my face until
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it's cherry red she really will hello Theo happy many returns for Duncan's
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sister thank you very much we are all making history with mr. Duncan and his
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livestream every day during October can you believe it well it looks as if the
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birds have arrived oh let's have a look quickly yes there are some birds on the
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bird feeder can you see them so this is now a live view in the garden and yes
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you can see some birds not many I think most of them have already done their
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feeding they've already been fed so there they
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are would you like to see something really really crazy and unusual ok then
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here we go then well first of all today we are talking about one particular
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subject after half past 2 we are talking about sleep and dreams and you know what
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I like to do when I go to sleep at night I like to imagine something nice
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something that makes me feel really comfortable and cozy in my bed
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I like to count sheep yes so today's big subject is sleep and
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there you can see a little sheep having a sleep in my garden and that was
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something I filmed this morning do you want to see something really crazy
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once again this is all about sheep and this is something I saw this morning
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from my bathroom window something very strange was going on at
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the back of my house so yes there were some sheep in the garden at the back of
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the house also there were lots of birds flying around as well you can see there
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are some crows so those birds are crows but can you see what they're doing they
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are actually picking picking the flies off the Sheep
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and if you think that strange take a look at this watch this
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so the magpie is actually going onto the sheep it's climbing onto the sheep and
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it's actually picking the small insects off the sheep but the strange thing is
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the Sheep doesn't seem to mind it seems to actually enjoy what is happening so
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there you can see something that happened at the back of my house I was
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so curious to find out what it was that I decided to set my camera up and film
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it so there you can see a magpie doing something very unusual it is picking the
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insects off the Sheep oh I think the Sheep doesn't like it anymore I think
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the Sheep has had enough it looks as if the Sheep is trying to sleep but the
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magpie keeps disturbing it so isn't that unusual what a strange thing to see in
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your garden or at the back of your house so there is a magpie I think he's about
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to fly away ok mr. magpie off you go so I hope you enjoyed that something very
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unusual there hello - @ef hello also - Cristina the Sheep is calm it looks very
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strange I agree with you it does look rather unusual I think so
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Emmet is here how are you mr. Duncan I'm ok not too bad thank you
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Louie Louie says I think thank God it's Friday
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also comes from the series Peter Gunn it's a song also from The Art of Noise
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yes oh the art of noise I know the art of noise very well they were a
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combination of producers and musicians who were around in the early 1980s so I
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know them very well I remember a lot of their very strange songs speak John says
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I am an English teacher hello hello to another English teacher
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speak John I am an English teacher in Brazil my city is Fortaleza and I love
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your classes big hug thank you very much thanks a lot and good luck with your
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lessons mr. Mario is here watching in Sao Paulo also quite a loop yes we are
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talking all about sleep and dreams lots of words and expressions that are
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connected to this particular subject that is what we are doing in a little
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while right now we are going to take a short break because we are going to have
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a look at something a little different something different we're going to have
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a look at an excerpt from one of my full English lessons a lot of people ask
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about my full English lessons there is a playlist there are lots of video lessons
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on my YouTube channel and now you are going to take a look at an excerpt from
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one of them right now
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it would appear that more and more people are unable to concentrate are
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unable to concentrate for long periods of time due to due to them having short
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attentions short attention spans
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do you know someone who is snooty have you ever met a snooty person the
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word snooty means to behave with an air of superiority to be snobbish and
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arrogant is to be snooty a snooty person believes they are better than others
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their view is that they have a better lifestyle than most other people a
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person with money might behave in a snooty way they look down on those who
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have less wealth or appear to live in a lower class than them a snooty person
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tends to be arrogant and stuck-up we can describe a snooty person as a snob this
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person behaves in a snobbish way they have a high-and-mighty attitude they are
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toffee-nosed supercilious pompous haughty conceited and quite often
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arrogant
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it's time to take a look at another buzzword a buzzword is a sentence or
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word that is in common use during a certain time or as seen as being popular
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today's buzz word is attention span this phrase relates to the amount of time a
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person can concentrate on one thing this can relate to a task or an activity a
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person's attention span is measured by how long they can concentrate on doing
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one thing we often talk about the short attention span of young people the
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various attractions and distractions that exist nowadays has led to a belief
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that people are beginning to develop short attention spans the advent of
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instant digital media and online streaming allows people to view many
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things within a short space of time it would appear that these days people grow
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bored easily as more choices means that they can swap and change what they are
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watching in a more convenient way the term short attention span highlights the
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inability to concentrate on just one thing it would appear that more and more
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people are unable to concentrate for long periods of time due to having short
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it is inevitable that at some point in your working life you will have to
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answer to someone who is above you in status or rank most work environments
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have some sort of administrative hierarchy the word hierarchy means chain
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of command or pecking order from the lowly to the high up the positions in
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the workplace tend to follow a typical pattern from the unpaid intern right up
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to the senior management somewhere in that chain you will be placed more often
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than not most senior management chains consist of supervisors and managers then
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right at the top there is the CEO which stands for chief executive officer there
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are many ways of describing this person both formally and informally
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this person is the boss the top man or top woman the chief the leader in formal
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terms include the big man the head honcho the big cheese the top brass the
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boss or company owner might be described as a fat cat this particular name is
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seen as being negative and derogatory as it suggests that the boss is wealthy and
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very powerful the bank is owned and run by a bunch of fat cats
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and there it was one of my full English lessons a few excerpts from one of them
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I hope you enjoyed that and all of my lessons are available on my youtube
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channel
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hmm as you can see whilst that video was playing I was eating a little bit more
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of my sandwich so there was only a little piece left now will I get to eat
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this before the end of today's lesson I don't know really because I'm not
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psychic I can't see the future who do you think I am
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uri geller hello Anna I like I like so many types of pesto and spaghetti and
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macaroni oh I believe it's a special day today isn't it a special day for people
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who like macaroni please tell me more about it business says fat cat yes a fat
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cat it is normally a negative word for the owner of a company or a large
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organization and quite often they are seen as being greedy and selfish and
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only interested in their own things hello also - Irene hello mr. Duncan and
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everyone I am late don't worry as long as you are here although it is a little
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bit wet outside shall we have a look it's wet it's miserable and I suppose we
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could have mr. Steve would you like to see mr. Steve doing the petal dance
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would you now we can arrange that right now so let's get mr. Steve prepared
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outside in the garden and he will show us his world-famous poncho dance
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but of course I'm not going to let Steve have all the fun because now I am going
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to show you my poodle dance
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I hope you enjoyed that so mr. Steve was demonstrating his poncho and I was
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showing you my bit little dents because it is a wet day here in the UK but don't
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worry I am here to chase those gray skies away it's live English and I'm
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with you every day during October 2019 we are talking about a lovely subject
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today sleep and dream words associated with this particular subject and there
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are many many words that we can describe sleep as many phrases many words that we
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can use to describe going to sleep
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there is a little sheep having dreams I wonder when a sheep goes to sleep does
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it count human beings because we we often count sheep to help us get to
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sleep so that's what I was thinking of earlier that's that's the road I was
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going down with that joke so when we talk about sleep we can say that we fall
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asleep now sleep is something we all need they recommend that you should have
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at least eight hours between 7 & 8 hours sleep every night and sleep is good for
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the body in many ways especially this thing up here sleep is very good for
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your brain if you stay awake for too long it is very hard for your brain to
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cope lots of things start happening in your brain the wiring and all of the
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circuits start breaking down the signals go in the wrong direction you become
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disorientated and confused so you fall asleep you need to sleep however they're
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all that's lots of ways there are many ways of describing sleep for example you
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nod off oh I like that one nod off if you nod off it means you fall asleep so
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you are physically falling asleep you
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nod off so when you nod off it means you fall asleep you might say that it is the
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action of actually falling asleep you nod off doze off so the word doze can
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also mean sleep you become tired you become sleepy
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you doze off you drift off so you might drift off to sleep you slowly fall
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unconscious to be unconscious is to be asleep like that you drift off you I
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like this phrase you go bye-byes you go bye-byes you fall asleep you
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drift off you nod off you doze off so there are some ways of describing sleep
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and also the action of falling asleep as well some more words that can be used to
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describe sleep we can have a nap so quite often when we say nap it means
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a short sleep so maybe you sleep for a short period of time
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so you might go to bed for half an hour or maybe one hour or maybe just ten
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minutes you have a nap nap so when we say nap it means a short sleep you go to
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sleep for a short period of time and then the word doze so you can doze you
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fall asleep maybe you are sitting in your chair maybe you are still working
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but perhaps you work at night and you might have a nap you you might have a
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doze doze you have 40 winks oh I like that word I like that phrase very much
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so if you have 40 winks it means you have a short sleep you have
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a rest for a short period of time quite often you will fall asleep so when you
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have 40 winks you have a short sleep hit the hay if you hit the hay
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it's the same thing you go to sleep you go to bed you might feel tired and you
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may say to someone oh it's getting late I think it's time for me to hit the hay
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it's time for me to hit the hay it's time to go to bed Valentin asks a
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very interesting question do you remember
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Napster yes I do and I remember Napster when it was illegal sometimes I would
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download tunes from Napster so in the early days of the internet there was a
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website called Napster and it was very useful for getting pop music movies all
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sorts of things from of course it was all illegal maybe I shouldn't have said
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that I might get arrested the police might
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come to my house to take me away for illegal downloading but yes I do
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remember Napster in the early days I think it's a bit like BitTorrent so
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nowadays we have BitTorrent don't we so a lot of people will torrent something
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ooh you see I do know things that young people know back to our main subject you
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have 40 winks you hit the hay you have a nap you doze some more words that can be
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used you Zonk out oh I like that one Zonk out so if you donk it means you
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fall asleep oh you Zonk out you fall asleep it's a great expression that
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you will often hear the word Zonk or zonked in American English and British
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English as well so a lot of people think that the word Zonk or to be zonked is
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American English but in fact it is used in both British English and American
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English Zonk out you go to the Land of Nod oh I
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like that one so if you go to the Land of Nod you go off to sleep that means
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you go off in your mind you are unconscious you go off to the Land of
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Nod we will often say that about a child so maybe when a child is falling asleep
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we will often say that they have gone to the Land of Nod and of course as we
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mentioned earlier you fall asleep you fall asleep so to fall asleep you fall
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into sleep you fall asleep a person who is asleep is unconscious all creatures
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need to sleep most animals need to sleep it's some period of time some animals
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will sleep during the day some animals will sleep during the night an animal
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that sleeps during the day and stays awake during the night is called
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nocturnal so a nocturnal animal is an animal that is awake at night for
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example an owl or bat are nocturnal creatures some people can you believe it
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some people are nocturnal so people can also be nocturnal maybe you have to work
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at night maybe you work in a factory where you have to work during the night
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or maybe you are a security guard in a factory so you have to work during the
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night to keep an eye to the factory so even people can be
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nocturnal they stay awake during the night some more words to describe
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sleeping you can snooze oh I like that word
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so again snooze means a short sleep short brief just for a short moment of
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time you have asleep so you will snooze quite often maybe in your bedroom next
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to your bed you will have an alarm clock maybe when the alarm rings you will hit
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the snooze button so quite often an alarm clock will have a snooze button
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which allows you to continue sleeping for a short period of time normally five
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minutes or ten minutes so to have a snooze is to have a short sleep for a
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short period of time or like this one catnap so if you have a catnap again it
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is very similar to snooze if you have a catnap it means you sleep for a short
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period of time so you have a catnap you sleep for a
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short period in the afternoon now this is something that I I didn't used to do
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but nowadays I do in the afternoon I always like to have a little cat nap in
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the afternoon so quite often I will go to bed not in bed but on the bed and I
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will have a little sleep I will have a cat nap I like that I like that
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expression also you can slumber slumber if you
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slumber it means you sleep you are actually in the process of sleeping you
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are unconscious we talked about a person slumber there moment of rest they're
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sleeping period their slumber drowsiness
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word a little closer so growls can mean to be sleepy or to slowly fall asleep
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but also we can also drowse a person we can make them feel drowsy so maybe you
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are doing something that makes a person feel bored or sleepy so a person might
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drowse they will go into a light sleep so they won't fall asleep completely
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they were just drowse off or a person might feel drowsy so when you are drowsy
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you are feeling sleepy you are feeling drowsy another
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expression to mean sleep you can get your head down so when you get your head
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down it means you lie on the bed so your head
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will be on the pillow or whatever it is you rest your head on you get your head
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down so this is another way of expressing sleep I need to get my head
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down for half an hour it means I need to have a sleep you get your head down
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you hit the sack if you hit the sack it means you again get on the bed you
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rest your head and you hit the sack so you might say oh I'm feeling so tired oh
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I really need to hit the sack if you hit the sack it means you go to bed or you
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go to sleep I think all of this talk of sleep is sending a lot of people to
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sleep because it's very late so we're so in some parts of the world at the moment
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it is very late so maybe you are starting to fall asleep another way to
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describe sleeping is to get some Z's Oh mr. Duncan we've never heard this one
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before if you get some Z's or of course if you are American you
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will say get some Z's because the letter said is Z in British English but here in
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British English we say Zed you see not Z so you get some sense you get some Z's
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and there you can see lots of them so when we write the sound of sleeping so
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when we write it down we will write it like this so this is what it looks like
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when a person is sleeping when we have to write it down so a person is sleeping
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they are fast asleep they need to get some jets or Z's I know
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I know people always complain about that they say mr. Duncan why do you keep
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saying Zed it isn't Zed it's Z but in British
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English we say is Zed Pedro says I am asleep right now
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oh I'm sorry about that Pedro I'm sorry too
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make you feel so bored there here we go with the way a person sleeps so maybe a
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person is a light sleeper if you are a light sleeper it means you don't sleep
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deeply so when we say deep sleep it means you are very much unconscious you
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are really asleep you are fast asleep you are so sleepy you are so unconscious
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however if a person is a light sleeper it means that they don't sleep deeply it
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means they are easily disturbed so the slightest sound or noise around them
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will wake them up they are a light sleeper so a person who is a light
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sleeper they sleep lightly they don't go to
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sleep deeply their sleep is not deep because they are a light sleeper so some
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people really do suffer from being a light sleeper so if you are a light
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sleeper you will often find that you can't get to sleep properly or maybe you
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will have sleep but it won't feel as if you've had sleep there we go
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light sleeper a person who is a light sleeper is a person who doesn't sleep
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deeply they are not completely unconscious the opposite of that is
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heavy sleeper so if a person is a heavy sleeper if a person can be described as
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a heavy sleeper it means that they sleep very well they have a deep sleep they
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are completely unconscious they are a heavy sleeper they sleep do
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plea they stay asleep it is very hard to disturb or wake up a heavy sleeper
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so some people are heavy sleepers whilst other people are light sleepers a light
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sleeper easily wakes up a heavy sleeper is very hard to wake up
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sleep is important however there are certain people who cannot get to sleep
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unfortunately they stay sleepless or they are easily disturbed so if you are
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sleepless it means you can't get to sleep unfortunately you can't get to
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sleep you are sleepless you are restless you
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can't relax so we say that you have a sleepless night you are easily disturbed
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you are sleepless you have a sleepless night you are easily disturbed maybe
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your neighbor maybe your neighbor has a dog that keeps barking at night hmm dear
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oh I was having a lovely sleep then until my neighbor's dog started barking
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so a person can be sleepless or they can be easily disturbed by certain things a
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person who has difficulty sleeping or maybe they have a condition something
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wrong with their brain or something they can't control so a person might not be
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able to get to sleep physically this is something that can happen to many people
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we can say that you are and insomniac so when we say insomniac
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it is a person who cannot sleep so the insomniac is the person who can't sleep
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they suffer from insomnia so insomnia is the disorder that means you cannot sleep
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you feel awake you feel Restless maybe your mind won't stop working maybe you
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keep thinking about all sorts of things you suffer from insomnia you are an
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insomniac so there are many people who suffer from this and quite often if you
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have stress or anxiety quite often you will also have insomnia
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as well it is quite often a side effect of certain illnesses that affect the
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brain insomnia you are an insomniac you can't get to sleep
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there is another very interesting disorder something that many people
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suffer from and some people don't even realize that they have it it is this
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sleep apnea and this is something you may have heard of or may not have heard
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of sleep apnea now this is a very interesting medical term that means a
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person who stops breathing so they are breathing normally and then suddenly
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they stop breathing they don't hold their breath they have actually stopped
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breathing their automatic reflex for a few moments stops so when you're asleep
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quite often you will breathe normally in your sleep it is one of the things that
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is controlled by your brain stem so that will always keep your heart beating and
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also your lungs drawing in so sleep apnea is when your lungs stop
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doing that they stop working for a few moments and then you might suddenly wake
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up like that so quite often Sneap sleep apnea is something that affects many
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people so a person will stop breathing whilst they're asleep
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and then they will certainly wake up and the reason why they wake up is because
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your body is starting to drown in carbon dioxide so all of the carbon dioxide is
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building up in your blood so your body reacts to that it's almost as if you're
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drowning in fact so sleep apnea is the reflex after your breathing has stopped
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at night a lot of people suffer from this many people do and they don't even
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realize it in fact I think that I have a little bit of sleep apnea as well neo
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zero says you have spelt it wrong no I haven't I have not spelt this word wrong
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that is how you spell the word mmm naughty naughty so you can spell it in
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other ways as well so you can leave out the Oh
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however in British English this is the spelling in American English they will
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leave out the O so actually this is the correct spelling mmm you thought you got
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me there didn't you Christina says I was on holiday with a friend of mine and
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realized that he suffered from sleep apnea my vacation was a nightmare there
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are many things that can happen whilst you're asleep yes many things
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I made myself laugh then you can talk in your sleep oh not now darling oh no no I
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don't want to know don't tell the wife oh no don't tell the wife she'll be so
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angry she finds out oh no don't tell the wife that we're seeing each other if the
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wife finds out she'll kill me sometimes talking in your sleep can get you in a
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lot of hot water a lot of trouble mr. Mario is going bye-bye mr. Mario
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I think mr. Mario wants to have a sleep see you later
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so there are many things you can do whilst you're asleep you might sleepwalk
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some people move around whilst they're still unconscious
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so it can happen some people have night terrors maybe they have a horrible dream
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or nightmare and they wake up suddenly screaming and
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shouting we call those night terrors so when we say night terror we mean a
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nightmare that you wake up from in a panic Theo says you pronounced apnea
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correctly because it is a Greek word that means without air yes that's it
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Thank You Theo so apnea means lack of air if you stop
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breathing suddenly your body has no air going into it and as we all know your
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body needs oxygen to survive or else you will turn purple and then blue and then
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white Thank You Berlin thank you very much I hope you've enjoyed this I hope
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you've enjoyed today's lesson it's almost time for me to go can you believe
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it already and out of the window this morning I saw some lovely sights just
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before we go let's remind ourselves that it is still autumn there it is so that
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is a tree in my front garden and you can see a lot
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of the leaves now have come become red and golden and they look lovely at the
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moment so there you can see one of the sights let's have a look at another one
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and there is another sight outside my house this morning so even though it's
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raining it still looks nice and or terminal I hope you've enjoyed today's
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lesson I really do if you don't like it well I'm sorry about that I don't know
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what I can do really you can get in touch with me before I go
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Facebook and also email if you want don't forget to Like and subscribe
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because I've been doing this for many years but over those years YouTube has
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made a lot of changes so many many people find it very difficult to get
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their live streams and their videos watched nowadays because of the YouTube
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algorithms so if you want to beat the algorithms
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I suggest you like and also subscribe like and subscribe please that's very
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nice and as you know I do everything for free if you want to make a donation you
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are more than welcome to do so there is the address for all of your donations if
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you want to make a donation because I do all of this for free it costs nothing to
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you thank you very much Pat ciao it's very nice to see you here today
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it's very lovely to see all of you here today in fact I love the red leaves yes
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the leaves are looking rather nice we will have one last look outside there
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are just one or two birds on the bird feeder there they are looking very
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desperate at the moment the birds appear to be very desperate right now because
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there isn't much food around as winter approaches thank you very much for your
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lovely messages I'm going now I'm back tomorrow
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forget tomorrow I am back on Saturday so tomorrow is Saturday and don't forget
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the time is different 12 p.m. just after midday so there it is
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you can see the time right there there it is BB BB Saturday 12 p.m. UK time and
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there it is I will let you go because it's time for me to go
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this is mr. Duncan saying thanks for watching today I hope you've enjoyed it
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thanks Rolfie for your lovely message there thank you so much mr. Duncan for
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another amazing livestream he was very useful I hope so I hope that this is
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never boring I hope you never feel bored by my English lessons
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so whatever YouTube thinks whatever the YouTube algorithms think it is out of my
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control so I do thank you very much for your loyalty and your viewership
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see you tomorrow and of course you know what's coming next
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before I have a little dance and I am going to finish my sandwich as well
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you know what's coming next of course...
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ta ta for now 8-)
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