ENGLISH ADDICT Lesson 10 - LIVE Chat - TELEVISION WORDS - Wed 27th November 2019

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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They say that anyone can do this guess what anyone is doing it hello
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everybody and welcome to another English addict live on the Internet
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hmm oh that is a delicious cup of coffee I will say many things about myself
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sometimes I will be critical sometimes I will boast about my abilities but can I
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just say I make the most amazing cup of coffee if you ever get a chance to come
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to my house sit down with me and I will make you the most delicious cup of
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coffee you have ever had in your life let me tell you now here we go then hi
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everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you okay I hope so
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are you happy I hope so here we are then welcome to
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another live stream from England many people ask mr. Duncan where do you
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broadcast from I broadcast from a little country called England you may have
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heard of it a few years ago we used to be a big thing but now not so big so
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hello everyone guess what we are halfway through the week it isn't the weekend
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unfortunately but we are halfway there yes it's Wednesday
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we have lots of things to do today lots of stuff so many things to talk
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about today we are talking about one of my favorite subjects besides English of
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course because I am an English addict also today we are talking about
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television words and phrases connected to this subject television I suppose
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these days we are kind of used to it we just sit down in front of the television
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we never really think very much about it or how it works or how amazing this
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technology actually is so today we are looking at words and phrases to do with
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television also we'll be having a little historical look at television how it all
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began why we have television how it works and sometimes how it doesn't work
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and I suppose also we could talk about what many describe as the golden years
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of television so some people believe that there was a period of time in the
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past when television was at its best I'll give you a clue it isn't nowadays
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it isn't now so you can't describe now as the golden age of television
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maybe the twilight years but I don't think it is the golden years when we say
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golden years we mean the best period of time when something was at its best so
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that's what we mean when we say golden years hello to the live chat oh yes
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hello to Vitesse nice to see you here today Vitesse guess what a big hello to
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Lithuania and also congratulations to you because you are first on today's
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live chat I have a haircut this morning I cut my
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hair this morning Steve was complaining he said Duncan your hair is so long it
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looks white and I said that's a bit cruel I can't help it I can't help being
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older so I have decided to cut my hair today you will notice it's lovely and
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short now shall I give you a twirl okay then so there you can see I've cut my
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hair and now it's nice and short again I look like a billiard ball the top of my
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head does anyway so yes we are doing a live English stream english addict for
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all those people out there who can't get enough of this lovely language and you
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can catch me live on Sunday Wednesday Friday 2:00 p.m. UK time so that is when
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I am on the Internet I hope you can hear me today because some of my equipment is
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missing mr. Steve has taken my lovely big mixer to be tested today I won't say
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why but it is part of another project that I'm working on with Steve no more
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news about that when it arrives also a few people have asked mr. Duncan we are
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wondering what is happening to your website are you still building your new
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website the answer to that question is yes I am it's coming along slowly but
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there will be a website some big changes happening concerning my video lessons
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and the way you see them whoa are you intrigued I hope so
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we have the mystery idiom coming up today as
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well plus I suppose we can take a look at one of my English lessons because we
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are talking about one particular subject today television
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do you watch much television do you watch much television these days maybe
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over the years you have watched less and less
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apparently you might find this hard to believe but apparently fewer people are
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watching television especially live television so quite often people will go
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to a streaming service to watch their favorite TV shows that have already been
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on or maybe something they missed that was on last week and they watch it again
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because they missed it the first time around so apparently a lot of people are
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not watching television these days and I suppose there are many reasons why
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especially and this is something you might not believe apparently young
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people don't really watch TV anymore the BBC here in the UK have for many
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years tried to keep younger viewers entertained but apparently they are
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failing miserably so fewer and fewer younger people are watching television
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however there is a growing age range can you guess who is watching television
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more and more I'll give you a clue maybe in 10 years time it will be me watching
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television all the time so the growing age group is actually the elderly so
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more and more people over 50 or 60 or even in their late 70s are now watching
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more and more television I suppose it's the reverse of what used to happen years
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ago because I remember when I was a child almost I almost remember being a
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child I used to sit and watch television all the
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time my mother would put me down on the carpet in front of the TV and I would
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stare at the television for hours and hours in fact we used to call it the
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babysitter so TV used to be used as a way of looking after the child so maybe
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if your mother was busy doing some housework she would put you in front of
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the television and leave you there and that's what my mum used to do to me so I
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used to watch a lot of television when I was young when I was a child and I can
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still remember all of my favorite TV shows that I used to watch years and
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years ago hello - Tanya hello - Tanya Martha sweetness Mitra is
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here on the live chat nice to see you today by the way a few people have asked
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about my new icon have you seen the new thumbnail the new icon that is
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advertising my channel a lot of people have said Mr Duncan that doesn't look
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like you it looks too young now can I just say that the icon the little icon
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that is on my youtube channel it isn't supposed to be a real painting or
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photograph of me it's actually an emoji have you heard of that an emoji emoji is
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a cartoon character or a caricature of a person or something that shows an
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emotion so that's the reason why I've done it so it's not supposed to be a
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rape Rembrandt portrait it isn't it is just something that is there to amuse
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you so no my my little emoji icon is just something that is there to amuse
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you I don't know what's happened to my throat today I'm having difficulty
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speaking today which is not very good when you think about it mmm
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hmm maybe this cup of coffee will put the fire out let's see hmm so hello to
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everyone today hello also to Zeinab flower Espoir hello
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to you as well also to say Saima and also Marella Luis Mendez hello to you as
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well nice to see you here today on Wednesday we are halfway through the
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week hello hamp Hampton Rey who I don't think
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I've ever seen your name on the live chat before good morning to those who
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are watching in the south of America and also the USA I suppose and also those
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watching in Asia shall I say good evening your good night to you if you
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are just about to go to bed hello also to Joelle Chou Louise who is watching in
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London hello to you I'm watching in London hello to London what's the
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weather like there today because the weather here isn't that great to be
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honest it looks very murky very misty very damp very autumnal yes
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autumn is still here and they're looking into the distance that is the view right
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now out of the window so you can see things are looking a little bit murky
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someone asked the other day mr. Duncan can you tell me what murky means the
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word murky describes something that is not clear so something that is misty
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something that can't be seen clearly can be described as murky so the weather
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survey is a little murky it means something is not clear it can't be seen
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clearly hence the word murky talking of talking of autumn yes of
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course autumn madness on Sunday someone asked mr. Duncan has Steve been
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suffering from autumn madness well he hasn't this year however last year if
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you remember mr. Steve was suffering from a severe case of autumn madness
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so there he was last year mr. Steeves suffering from a severe case of autumn
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madness it is English addict for a Wednesday I hope you are having a good
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day to day are you I hope so hello - ROH sir hello also - Eman hello
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also - Ramzan or also Helena Helena has made our first comment about television
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no I don't watch television very often it comes with too much rubbish I think
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you might be right so I think one of the main criticisms of
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television these days is that most of the output most of what comes out of the
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TV is not good quality let's just say okay it's a load of rubbish so Thank You
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Helena who does not watch much television although I am very pleased to
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see that you like watching me hello Irene hello also Ana
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hello carne kilo nice to see you here as well hello - Christina in Italy the
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weather is still bad yes we are going to have quite a lot of rain over the next
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couple of days here in the UK it's really strange one of the really
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weird things about the weather at the moment here in the UK is that over the
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past few days it's been very warm so yesterday it was 15 degrees outside can
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you believe it so it was 15 degrees almost as warm as late spring so very
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strange weather we're having although it was a good opportunity for me yesterday
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to go up on the side of the house to put up some more of my Christmas decorations
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on the house so I've almost finished that
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even though the rain keeps falling so yesterday I had a lucky break in the
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weather very lucky talking of lucky did you see the news
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story about the British couple who won the lottery yes
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another big sum of money has been won on the lottery a hundred and five million
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pounds wow that is a lot of money imagine that and apparently he that the
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couple are now richer than many pop stars actors and also football stars so
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they're more they're more rich than those that's incredible so to go from a
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small amount of money to a hundred and five million pounds imagine that and
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that all happened overnight when one person chose the right numbers on the
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lottery can you believe it I don't think I will ever win the lottery well in fact
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I know I will never win the lottery because I don't play it so that's the
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reason why hello to Guadalupe hello also - Irene nice to see you here I only
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watched the news on television because there is homework from my English class
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but I don't enjoy watching it so television is something that used to be
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very popular in its heyday oh I like that
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heyday so when we talk about the heyday of something we talk about when
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something was at its most popular or something that was followed by many many
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people so the heyday of something is when it was at its best or its most
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popular so a lot of people say that television was at its best
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during the 1950's so a lot of people see American television especially so a lot
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of people do believe that the 1950s and maybe early 1960s was the best period
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for television however here in the UK a lot of people believe that the 1970s and
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also the 1980s were the best periods of time for television
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so the heyday of British television I suppose you could say the 1970s and
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1980s which is when I grew up and I must admit I do I do remember a lot of TV
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shows that I watched 30 40 years ago however many TV shows that I've watched
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recently I can't remember it all they have left no memory whatsoever nothing
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whatsoever hello also to Pedro here in Brazil there
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is one particular channel that decides to make people brainwashed they want to
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brainwash the citizens they support many bad things and they have been destroying
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the familiar values I see well this is something that I mentioned last week
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when I was talking about news but television is very similar so in many
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countries the television stations are actually owned by the government so if
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you are broadcasting TV and quite often on the TV there will be news so many of
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these things are often controlled by the state or by the government here in the
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UK we have fairly free television so you can express many views if you don't like
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the government you can go on television and say that you don't like the
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government and no one will come round and arrest you or take you away so I
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suppose here we have a lot of freedom on television in the UK however there
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are still rules and regulations that have to be followed but fortunately
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there isn't a lot of censorship on television in this country I'm not
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saying that it doesn't happen because it does
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there is censorship but not that often fortunately hello Christina I can't wait
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to see your Christmas decorations I love the Christmas spirit I always get
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excited at this time of year when I put the Christmas lights on the front of the
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house and to be honest with you III know that I'm going to sound like a hypocrite
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but I don't really follow any religion I'm not a religious person so some
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people might find it odd that I get very excited at Christmas although I do love
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the festivities of well most religious festivities I actually enjoy getting
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involved with I remember many years ago I got involved with some of the
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celebrations during the Islamic New Year when I was in Malaysia so it was great
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fun lots of food lots of color lots of music it was great and I suppose
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Christmas gives me the same feeling as well I love the color I love the fact
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that everyone is nice to each other even though it's only for a short time
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although the spirit of it is quite nice so yes I suppose I'm a little bit like a
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child when it comes to Christmas I do get very excited by Christmas time I am
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so happy this morning because my daughter has passed her last exam at
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University well done Anna and a big congratulations to your daughter as well
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I suppose we can give you a round of applause would you like a round of
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applause for your daughter
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congratulations to Hanna and also your daughter as well for passing her last
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exam at University Theo is here watching television in many ways is a waste of
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time there is violence and also catastrophic
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news and trash well we were we are going to look at some words to do with
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television very shortly but I also thought it would be interesting to have
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a look at some information about television however first of all I'm
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going to reveal today's mystery idiom here it is for those who are waiting
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patiently here is today's mystery idiom i doo doo doo doo doo
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just say what you see so there it is today's mystery idiom if you think you
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know the answer if you think you know what it is just write it down on the
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live chat television is a very interesting subject now I like to look
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at the background or behind the scenes of how television programs are made I've
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always been slightly fascinated by that to be honest however the history of
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television can you believe it the history of television goes on in fact
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it's still continuing now television has always been changing as you can see the
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shape and size of the television has changed quite a lot over the years from
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the 1930s you can see right up to the 2000s so televisions used to be very
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bulky very large even though the screen itself was quite small so you can see
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there there have been many changes that have taken place with televisions not
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just for size but also the fact that originally you could only watch
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television in black-and-white and then later in the late 1960s we had color
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television suddenly arrived now originally and this is something
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interesting this is one of the first ever attempts at creating a television
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picture and this particular type of television production is actually
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mechanical and there were two types of television production there was
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mechanical and also electronic so the first mechanical television the first
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successful transmission of mechanical television was carried out by John Logie
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Baird a Scottish inventor you've probably heard of this man I would
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imagine you have John Logie Baird a Scottish inventor first his first
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transmission of simple face shapes in 1924 using mechanical television March
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the 25th 1925 Baird demonstrated television at the London department
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store Selfridges so you can see that TV has been around even if in the early
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days television was rather crude so there it is John Logie Baird sitting in
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front of the first televised or and that's what they called the television
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so the first mechanical television and that's the way the picture was actually
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produced John Logie Baird with his televised or in 1925 however later a new
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form of technology came along and this is the form of technology that we use
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well we have you used virtually up to this present date
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electronic scanning which was created by Philo Farnsworth
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so the first scanning television was first successfully demonstrated in San
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Francisco in 1927 by Philo Farnsworth a 21 year old inventor using Allen Dumont's
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cathode ray tube so the cathode ray tube was a very clever invention and
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because of that we were able to transmit pictures electronically so instead of
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producing the picture mechanically we could actually do it electronically the
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first ever television station was Jenkins W 3xk which started in 1928 so
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there it is the first ever TV station was set up in the United States a long
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time ago many people over history have been
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involved the key figures and also events which led to the television that we all
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know and love nowadays so for example we have Paul Nipkow who was a German and
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in 1884 he actually presented a patent for the very early formation of
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mechanical television transmission however he never actually built the
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thing that he invented he never actually built it later charles Jenkins came
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along and he produced well as we just saw he created the first ever television
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station in 1928 he was also an innovator of cinema as well so he helped to invent
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and create the modern form of cinema also we have the first TV station which
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was produced first of all in 1928 it started
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broadcasting in 1928 we have John Logie Baird also responsible for the
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mechanical scanning so that was the very early form of television and then later
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as I mentioned we have the electronic scanning and that is the TV that we all
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know and love right now so you can see over the years televisions have changed
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quite a lot in fact ever such a lot so who would have thought that so many
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people would have been involved in the creation of the early television sets in
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fact people were experimenting with television in the early 1800s although
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they never produced it nothing ever came of it so it wasn't until the early 1900s
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that people started to get interested in creating a form of visual transmission
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very interesting talking of television we're now going to take a look at one of
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my youtube lessons would you like to have a look at an excerpt from one of my
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full English lessons where I talk all about television and then after that
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we're going to have a look at some words and phrases connected to the same subject
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can you see what I'm doing here I'm trying to find something to watch on
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television sometimes it is hard to find something good to watch I often spend
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many hours trying to find a decent show to watch
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I often flick through the channels in the desperate attempt to find something
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that catches my eye you flick through the channels you flip through the
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channels you scan up and down the channels many years ago we used to have
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to get up and go over to the TV to change the channel these days we can use
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the remote control this item can cause a lot of annoyance and frustration as it
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often gets mislaid has anyone seen the TV remote it was here on the sofa
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earlier but now it's gone the TV remote is used to control all the functions of
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the television set including the sound level and picture controls the sound
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level is called the volume you can turn up the volume to increase the sound
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level and turn down the volume if the sound level is too high or too loud in
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this case the word volume simply means amount or quantity the level is the
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volume which controls the amount of sound coming from the TV a person who
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likes flicking through the TV channels can be described as a channel hopper if
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a person watches TV all the time that we might describe them as a telly addict
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telly is another word for a television set a television can also be called the
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goggle-box the word goggle refers to a person's eyes staring at the flickering
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picture and box refers to the shape of the TV although these days many TV sets
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are actually flat and take up very little space television sets come in
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many different screen sizes from just a few inches to fit on a small desk
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right up to the ones that resemble something you might find in a cinema
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that was quick I thought that went on longer than that but it didn't oh hello
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there hi everybody welcome to English addict on a Wednesday and it's mr.
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Duncan that's me by the way for those who are wondering who is that strange
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man on my screen at the moment well it's me
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I'm sorry about that here we go then a lot of people on the live chat today oh
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hello hello - carne kilo hello to you hello also - van Lew Guadalupe is here
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also we have Christina the first means of communication was the electric
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telegraph Morse in 1837 yes before television came along before radio came
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along the only way of actually communicating was with Morse code so the
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telegraph was the earliest form of communication electronically there were
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many other ways you could shout out of your window if you wanted to let your
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neighbor know that you were coming round in half an hour I suppose I suppose that
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was the early form of email you just used to shout hello - Prady also hello -
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LAN view hello to you lots of people at the moment are watching in I think in
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Vietnam thank you very much for joining me
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Irene says mr. Duncan you are my best TV thank you very much now this is
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something that we might talk about now because television has become less
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popular over the years for many reasons one main reason of course is the change
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in technology so you might say that
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nowadays because we can go on the internet because we can stream things we
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can look at something at a different time including this live stream I mean
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this live stream can be watched again later on so a lot of people don't watch
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this live they actually wait until later and then
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watch it again so we might say that one thing has superseded or it will
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supersede another so this is a very interesting word so when we say
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superseded we mean take over from so one thing takes over from another so in the
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past a lot of people would use their televisions to watch whatever was on and
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here in the UK I remember growing up we only had three channels not a hundred
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not 200 just three so when I was growing up we only had a choice of three
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channels and most of those channels weren't even on during the day so some
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of them would come on later in the day so in the morning quite often there
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would be nothing on at least one channel there would be nothing on so to take
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over from is to supersede so you might say that the internet and our mobile
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phones they have superseded television they have taken over from TV and I think
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that's one of the main reasons why there are fewer people watching television
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anymore by the way this word this is a very controversial word for those who
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love English because a lot of people spell this word using the letter C right
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here so a lot of people spell this word with a C here however that spelling is
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incorrect you must always spell soup
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seed like this even though some dictionaries nowadays also show the
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incorrect spelling without mentioning it so if something becomes the preferred
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thing to become the preferred thing the thing that you would rather do or rather
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have something that takes over from another thing we can say superseded
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superseded hello to as worthy I am so glad to see you today me too I'm glad to
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see you because without you I don't know what I would do to be honest
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hello mr. Duncan how can I get a British accent well there isn't a magic spell
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there isn't a potion that you can take to make you sound British so you can
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mimic you can copy you can practice to speak clearly so it is something that
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you have to learn over time so what you have to do is find something you like
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listening to and then use that as a reference so reference is the thing that
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you look at and you take things from so maybe you want to use me as your English
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reference hi Lee Kwang says my favorite channel is Star movie and also the
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Cartoon Network I used to watch the Cartoon Network many years ago there was
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a very funny cartoon called Ren and Stimpy who remembers Ren and Stimpy I
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used to love Ren and Stimpy he was brilliant
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Saima says hello from Turkey hello to Turkey by the way I have been to your
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country twice hello also 2pr Chaudhary I am watching
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you from India nice to see you here as well we are talking about
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television today television how much television do you watch do you watch a
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lot of television we briefly spoke about how television became the thing it is
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now however there are many words that can be connected to television for
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example here in the UK we often say telly when we mean television so telly
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is a short form of television and it is quite often used in British English so
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you might say I have just brought a new telly I bought it from the local shop in
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the sale I bought a telly in the Black Friday sales telly so it is an
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abbreviation of the word television we might ask someone to put the telly on
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can you put the telly on so if we ask someone to put the telly on we are
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asking them to turn the television on they want to see what is on the telly so
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can you please put the telly on I'm going to put the telly on so we normally
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use this in British English the word telly I like it I like it a lot Luis
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Mendez says in the 1970s Portuguese people were crazy about television
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Brazilians tell a Novalis that has changed the language in Portugal on
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holiday sometimes I had to ask the meaning of some expressions I suppose
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you have touched on something very interesting there you have because
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television is often credited for changing the way we behave
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so I suppose over the years television has been accused of being a good
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influence and also a bad influence so yes I can understand what you mean there
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Louis because I think that television over the years has influenced many parts
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of society not only the way we speak but also the way we behave in fact you might
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say that a lot of people over the years have been addicted to television you
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might describe them as a telly addict so if a person is a telly addict
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it means they love watching television they can't stop so a person who is a
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telly addict so again I mentioned this a few days ago the word addict can be used
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in many ways so you can have English addict you can have a telly addict a
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person who loves television so much they can't stop watching it Rakesh is here oh
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hello mr. Duncan nice to see you after a long time maybe after four days but why
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your live streams are not every day I want to see you every day
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thank you Rakesh well there is a reason why I'm not doing my live streams every
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day it's because I have other things that I have to do so my life is very
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busy with all sorts of things so not just doing this but also I have other
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things that I have to do unfortunately so that's the reason why although it
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would be lovely it would be ever so nice if I could be here every day but sadly I
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can't for various reasons gogglebox oh so we can call the television the
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goggle box if you watch the TV you are watching the
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goggle box so this is a great word goggle so when we say goggle it means
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look or watch we are using our eyes so watch the box goggle box so this is a
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slang term for the television you might sit in front of the goggle box all night
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doing nothing goggle box like this there is a TV show in the UK called goggle box
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and you might not believe this but this TV show involves people sitting watching
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television so we are watching our television and on the television there
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are people watching television
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that's where we are now in 2019 we now have TV shows that are just basically
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people sitting watching television so we sit and watch them watch television
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goggle box incredible hello Irene hello - sweetness goggle box I love that word
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you can also describe the television as the box that's pretty simple
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even though nowadays televisions are not really box shaped are they they're not
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really shaped like a box so nowadays they are quite flat so many years ago
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TVs used to be shaped like a box so we used to say the box is there anything
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good to watch on the Box tonight I'm going to stay in tonight and watch the
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box watch television another word we can use to describe
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television is the tube now televisions have changed a lot over the years and
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for many years a television had a very important part called a cathode ray tube
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so the tube is basically the thing that you watched it was like a giant bulb and
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what the bulb would do it would scan across the screen many many times a
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second and that's how the TV picture was produced so we used to call it the tube
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which relates to the cathode ray tube or a lot of people describe it as a CRT a
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cathode ray tube and that is how the picture used to appear on your
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television by using one of those so many people used to describe the television
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as the tube is there anything on the tube tonight
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and that's the reason why we also have YouTube so YouTube is a reference to the
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old word for television tube the tube
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and in American English a lot of people used to describe the TV as the boob tube
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I don't know why maybe it was the shape because some TVs the screen was was not
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flat so maybe that's the reason why the boob tube is what Americans used to
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describe as their television of course not everyone likes TV there are some
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people who don't like television there are some people who don't like watching
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TV there are some people who think that television is bad
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and they describe it as the idiot box so this is not what I think so this is not
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my opinion so please don't write to me and complain however some people do
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describe the television as the idiot box because they think that the people who
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watch television are not very clever also maybe you could describe the people
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who appear on television as being idiots so over the years people have described
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television in many ways some of them positive and some of them negative so
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the idiot box and that's used by people who don't like
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television someone very famously referred to television as chewing gum
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for the eyes so when you have nothing to do maybe you have a spare moment maybe
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you are looking for something to do to entertain yourself or to press the time
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away maybe you will watch the television even if you are not really interested in
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what is happening on the screen chewing gum for the eyes so you are watching
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television you are doing something but really you are doing nothing we describe
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it as chewing gum for the eyes an idle activity someone once described
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television as the sewer in your living room because of all the rubbish that
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came out of it the sewer in your living room I always remember my English
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teacher at school telling me this and I always thought it was brilliant I
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thought it was one of the funniest things I've ever heard the sewer in your
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living room another negative way of describing the
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television I like that one so you've come home from work you've sat
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down and you're trying to think of what to do I think I might have a night in
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front of the telly to spend a night in front of the telly it means that you are
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sitting down and you are watching television you are having a night in
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front of the telly it means you're sitting down to watch the television and
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the word telly is often used in British English so I hope that has been helpful
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what about you do you watch much television now I don't watch as much TV
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as I used to I used to watch a lot of television when I was a child but not so
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much anymore to be honest hello - Kevin Cheung hello Kevin Cheung watching in
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China hello to you Christina also Guadalupe thank you very much for
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joining me today I will be going soon but before I go I will give you the
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answer to today's mystery idiom so I'm here for another three minutes if you
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want to say hello please say hello if you don't want to say hello don't worry
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you don't have to the mystery idiom what is it now normally when I have my
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mystery idioms you can just say what you see so all you have to do is say what
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you see on the screen so this particular mystery idiom is and here it comes now
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the answer oh the answer is you haven't got a leg to stand on
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and this is an expression that is used quite often the meaning to have no
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options or choices of how to react to a fight back against someone or something
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if your options are zero we can say that you haven't got a leg to stand on you
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have no argument you have no one to help you you cannot be saved there is nothing
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you can do to change the situation you haven't got a leg to stand on and there
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it was today's mystery idiom I hope you enjoyed that you can watch all of this
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again later on for those who want to get in touch
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some people say mr. Duncan can we follow you on the Internet
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and my answer to that is yes
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so now you know that is the address email you can also follow me on Facebook
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and if you want to make a donation you can as well I do everything here for
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free it costs you nothing thank you very much for your company today thank you to
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ro sir Thank You Pat you thank you very much to con kilo nice to see you here as
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well pachu is late don't worry you can watch
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this again later on so this will be stored on my YouTube channel
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forever and ever so you can watch this as many times as you want also another
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thing to mention as well this might sound a little bit desperate but please
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if you want to please like and subscribe as well give me a thumbs up and that
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will help the YouTube algorithms to do their magic and also subscribe so you
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will never miss another one of my lessons whether they are recorded or
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live and for those who are wondering yes you can catch me three times a week in
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fact you can catch me on Sunday Wednesday and Friday 2 p.m. UK time so I
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will be back with you on Friday at 2 p.m.
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Thank You Pat chu Thank You Luis thank you also to Noemi I I don't like missing
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people out before I go by the way can I just mention Belarusian who picked up a
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lovely award last week and can I say thank you Belarusian for your lovely
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message and also the photograph of your award 25 years since Belarusian
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graduated from dentist University so congratulations to you as well
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what a lovely way to end the show Thank You Carl
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thank you once again to sweetness thank you so much for another amazing
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livestream as always I'm glad you enjoy it if you did enjoy it tell your friends
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if you didn't enjoy it tell me thank you Saima Thank You pal Mira thank
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you also to Pedro thank you very much for your company today I am going I hope
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you've enjoyed this as we pass three o'clock here in the UK
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this is mr. Duncan in England saying thanks for watching I hope you've
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enjoyed this SuperDuper hour for all you English addicts watching out there and of
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course I'm back on Friday 2 p.m. UK time yes the website is coming that's all I'm
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saying and of course until the next time we
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meet here on YouTube this is mr. Duncan saying to you...
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ta ta for now 8-)
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