Live English - Sunday 26th August 2018 - words / fly phrases / awkward moments

so here we go again it is another Sunday

doot-doot-doot so here we go then how are you are you okay it is Sunday and it

is a very very rainy day can you see the rain has been falling all morning

although it looks as if it's just starting to ease off but a very wet day

here in the UK I'm not sure what it's like where you are but it is rather damp

today so here we go again it's a Sunday it's mr. Duncan hi

everybody how are you today are you okay I hope so are you happy

well I really do hope that you are happy welcome to my live stream can I just say

first of all for those who are hopping or clicking around YouTube there are no

sexy ladies here there are no boxing match is taking place and there is no

hate or swearing here so so maybe this isn't for you if that's what you're

looking for but there's plenty of it on YouTube

because that's what it's all about these days it's all about the swearing and the

hate because YouTube loves that because it generates lots and lots of lovely

revenue isn't that nice the live chat is here let's get straight into the live

chat shall we lots of things to talk about today we

have mr. Steve here later on as well and you are also welcome on the live chat

wow so many people here already we have Alamgir hello Alamgir thanks for joining

us today I hope the sound is alright I was having some some slight sound

problems earlier so I hope you can hear me ok Alamgir well done you are first on

the live chat oh well done to you and I think that deserves a lovely round of

applause

isn't that nice thanks a lot for joining me

also we have Huang Krang I think you are watching in Vietnam if I'm not mistaken

also eleanor blue thunder and francisco and also we have laksa me and also

belarus er is here hi nice to see you here today as we come towards the end of

a busy month we've done a lot this month for various reasons which I will explain

later on V tats is here as well and also me code watching in a very very hot

Japan so it's very hot where you are mika here it's quite cold in fact just

to prove how cold it is I've actually put my big jumper my big sweater on so

I'm wearing my my very warm jumper yes it's been quite a contrast this week of

temperatures and today it's so cold mr. Steve actually put the heating on in the

house can you believe it late August and we had the heating on in the house

amazing Pedro is here hello - Pedro Belmont also Luis hello to you and mr.

Steve will be along later on yes don't worry he will be here Eugene is here as

well hello mr. Duncan and mr. Steve yes he

will be along for all those mr. Steve fans

Kevin is here Kevin Cheung who I believe is watching in China please correct me

if I'm wrong posh Donna is here as well and MS tip

Yannick hello to you and also TS hello TS I was waiting for the

to GP race but the race is delayed because of heavy rain yes we are having

the same problem here we are having a lot of rain at the moment here in the UK

also hello to Turkey how are you mr. Duncan Thank You Mavi I'm okay not too

bad thank you also we have Sergio it's very nice to see you here apparently

according to I can't find it now oh hello mr. Duncan from Brazil Alvaro and

also Hassler and tsukete oh hello tsukete is well nice to see you here

with lots of lovely colorful icons we like your shirt well this isn't a shirt

this is actually something to keep me warm because it's quite cold today can

you believe it it's it's coming towards the end of August and I'm actually

feeling cold it's true I will never be the first to say hello because I always

connect a few minutes later oh don't worry about that Hannah there are far

more important things to worry about in life than getting some applause from me

trust me Stanislav hello mr. duncan it's very warm and pleasant in Spain oh you

are very lucky there Kunal is here as well lots of familiar faces familiar

names if it is your first time here please let me know also we have R Andres

Arion hello to you watching in I think it's in Madagascar oh okay a very

interesting place you're wearing this sweater yes I am because it's quite cool

today I know it seems unbelievable because it's still technically it's

still summer but yes I'm wearing my jumper my

my warm clothing Maddie hello Mahdi from North europe in sweden

hello to you also town time i might be able to read this in a moment

tan in him watching in thailand where it is also raining you know one of the

things i love i love sometimes about the rain is when you get when you get the

actual rain falling in a tropical place when the with the rain falls in a

tropical place it always feels very nice very welcome even so I do I do like the

feeling of rain when it falls in a tropical place I really like that very

much but as you can see outside today it's not so nice we are having quite a

lot of rain in fact I think it started raining again outside so we are having a

lot of rather I think you might say unpleasant weather today I think so and

it's also very cool I still can't believe it

I'm actually wearing my my jumper at the moment my sweater so some people will

call this jumper jumper it is something made of wool you might

not be able to see the detail but the surface of this jumper or sweater is a

little bit like a sheep it feels very much like a sheep mr. Steve always says

that this jumper looks like I am a black sheep which is by the way an expression

in English did you know that so if you are a black sheep it means you are an

embarrassment normally connected to family affairs

so we might describe someone as being the black sheep

of the family it means they are the embarrassment or they are the person who

has bought they've brought shame on the family so yes we can use that in quite a

few ways last week we were asked if we could do some fly

idioms because we were talking about flies last Wednesday for various reasons

and so I thought it would be a good idea to have some phrases some words and

expressions connected to flies or connected with flies and flying back to

the live chat Muhammad Ali bori is watching in Iraq yes we have quite a lot

of people watching in Iraq to be honest quite a few also Irene says you look

very elegant today oh thank you very much for that Maria is here as well

hello Maria in Sicily it is cloudy and windy but warm Oh

Jamelia hello Jamelia yes it looks as if the garden is going to start to turn

green again especially the grass because it's been it's been really badly burnt

during the summer months because we have had so much sunshine can you believe it

satury know is also here hello mr. Duncan it's chilly in the UK yes it is

your jumper fits you well do you mean fit or do you mean suit you might say

that my jumper suits me suits me or fits well so yes at the end of August it is

started to be a little cold and here we say the weather has broken yes do you

Matt you might say that summer has broken here in the UK so it would

appear that we have a lot of rain on the way unfortunately

Mustafa Khaled says I do not understand you I do not understand you sorry to

hear that Mustafa there are live subtitles by the way under the screen if

you are lucky you can actually see the live subtitles under the screen oh I

remember your lessons that you made in October when you said rain rain go away

please come back another day yes that's what I'm thinking today to be

honest that is actually the thought I'm having on my mind right now Pedro says

Duncan do you like the Bee Gees yes I like the Bee Gees because I grew up when

the Bee Gees the pop group were very popular during the late 1970's and early

1980s they had a lot of big successful hits and a lot of disco hits during the

time when disco was very popular that is of course during the late 1970s

Omar is here hello Omar also Mavi yes fit is about size and suit is about the

appearance and how good something looks on you yes you are right

khadijah is here it's my second time here and thank you for your lessons from

Morocco oh hello to Morocco and also Abdul Oney why do you ignore my comments

well I don't ignore anyone's comments unless you swear at me but no Abdullah

mean or add Abdul Moyne don't worry I'm not ignoring you I never

ignore anyone sometimes I might miss the messages because the live chat moves

very quickly mr. Duncan from sweltering heat in Tokyo oh I see I see you are

having a lot of nice weather at the moment I believe in Japan although it

has been raining during the past few days also in Japan in fact you've had

some terrible storms so I hope everything is all right there now

sheeran says hi also has now hello has now my favorite song of the Bee Gees

must be staying alive well not only is that a good song it's also very good

advice as well it's very good advice stay alive Abdullah MIT says thanks a

lot yes it's okay I never ignore anyone so bad that I hope that's put your mind

at rest now blue thunder is literally having

thunder there is a storm where I live now oh okay then why do you have to be a

heartbreaker it's my favorite song by the Bee Gees ah

yes of course but it was a very big hit for Dionne Warwick so Dionne Warwick had

a very big hit with that song boy TV says I'm living in Zambia Wow now boy TV

I think you might be the first person ever on the live chat in Zambia so I

think that deserves a round of applause

Wow and hopefully mr. Steve will have one

last look today at the register Sabah the rain is so cool I don't like summer

I like winter well winter can be exciting especially

when you have snow so for your for the regular viewers you will know that I

love the snow very much my favorite song is way back home says blue thunder songs

by the Bee Gees it would appear that a lot of people like the music of the Bee

Gees and on a sad note there is only one of them left now all the rest sadly have

passed away so to Reno yes it is it is fit not souped so it fits well it fits

well on your body in fact you look very slender oh thank you Sat arena that's

very kind of you I am currently trying to lose some

weight because I have got a little bit fact over the past couple of months real

the Blanc says hello mr. Duncan hello to you as well and also Pedro is here I

think I've said hello to you already Kevin says have you been to China mr.

Duncan yes I have I've been to China I lived there for many years teaching

English the subtitles appear on my screen but they are not very good yes

sometimes YouTube subtitles are not very accurate they are not correct you were

right I haven't watched your stream for a month because I've been on holiday

says Lina thank you very much and it's nice to see you back again

mr. vodka I discovered that the jumper is one effected I don't know what that

actually means I discovered that jumper is also one

affected with Larter or by the condition exhibited by the jumping Frenchman of

Maine I I have no idea what that means I will be honest with you my car says I

live in Pakistan right now here is something we're going to do I want to

take a look at two of my favorite lessons a lot of people ask mr. Duncan

what are your favorite lessons and I thought it would be nice to show you a

couple of excerpts from my lessons that I enjoyed making and here is a group of

excerpts from one of the lessons that I made and in this particular lesson I

talked all about memory

the important things we do and see stay in the memories of you and me the

moments from our childhood remain precious and treasured the limit of the

memory cannot be measured as we make our way through this life with all of its

joy and pain those happy memories long since gone in time will make a smile

again and again

the word memory is a noun that defines the place where information is stored

memory can also be the thing that is being remembered a memory of something

is stored in the memory the action of remembering involves retrieving the

information from the memory computers have memory as to humans although the

way they are designed and operate is not quite the same a stored memory can be

anything your first kiss the first time you ever rode a bike the day your pet

goldfish died all of these significant memories are stored away somewhere up

here

as I have already said memory is also useful for carrying out a task of some

sort perhaps you are going to bake a cake you will need to know how to do it

you may need a recipe book to help you remember what to do perhaps you already

know how to carry out the task without any help we can say that you have

remembered it by heart doing something by heart means that you can remember how

to do something without needing any help he was able to sing the song by heart

she recited the poem by heart all actors must learn to deliver their lines by

heart

the opposite of remember is forget if the information is in your memory then

you will be able to remember it if the information has faded from your memory

or disappeared completely then you will not be able to remember it the

information has gone you will not be able to recall it even if you try to

remember it if this is the case you can say my mind is a blank it's gone I can't

remember I haven't a clue search me

there is a phrase in English a walk down memory lane this phrase means that you

are spending some time thinking or talking about past events we spent the

whole afternoon down memory lane talking about our school days you might invite a

person to take a stroll down memory lane this means that you want to talk to them

about their past sometimes it is nice to take a walk down memory lane

the action of fondly remembering past events can be described as being

nostalgic a nostalgic moment you are being nostalgic about something you

longed for that time to return the way something was done in the past or an

attitude towards something which no longer exists you reflect over days gone

by nostalgia is the noun that names this action items that you bought or were

given to you many years ago can help you remember a past event a souvenir you

bought during a past holiday or a present given to you on your wedding day

can help to keep that time fresh in the memory we can describe these items as

memorabilia

I hope you enjoyed that lesson and of course the full version is available on

my youtube channel

hmm it is a wet day here in the UK look at that can you see it the rain is

falling again and everything is very very damp I don't know why it sort of

seems to sum up the feeling today because everything is very damp and very

dismal but but here is something now to cheer us all up to take away all of

those blues yes it is the man who always has a big smile on his face

it's mr. Steve Oh mr. Duncan and I won't disappoint everybody today I will have a

nice smile on my face and try and make it for the fact that you're probably

less than happy today you're not in the best of moods are you today mr. Duncan

I'm not sure am i well I'm here to cheer you up

you don't plan and everybody else doesn't have to shout but I do because

the microphones not pointed towards me Oh Oh mr. Duncan oh look I've been I've

been taking my register ok goods my register as usual and but you've already

given a clap to Savino Savino is first first er damn I haven't seen Sabine's

name on here before no so well done for being on here I don't know if it's the

first time but certainly the first time I've seen you make a comment and you

were first on from India and we were talking only on Wednesday about the

number of new viewers that we have in India so there's somebody else which

which is brilliant now I've got a few other comments here

okay from various people Maria says that we don't sit down anymore why aren't you

tired after two hours of standing up oh well we are that's why that's why

towards the end of the lesson my voice gets lower and lower and I seem to be

like a record running down I seem to run out of steam and Tia said the same thing

in fact II I said she misses the old studio oh I see so yes lots of comments

from people there Luis Mendez says that his country's in mourning at the moment

okay so maybe you'd like to tell us about

we're not quite sure why I haven't got where you're from Louis so we'll have to

find out why T ass is excited about the Asian Games at the moment they are

they're taking place although no one seems to be talking about them not here

they're not know which it would be far more interesting to talk about the Asian

Games than it would be to talk about the Pope's visit to Ireland because that's

all we're talking about in the UK everyone has gone pope crazy at the

moment in the UK and to be honest with you I'm pretty sick of hearing about it

to be honest yes we're sick and tired of it yes anyway he wasn't insult and if I

Catholic viewers we get it we get it the Pope is here we get it we understand BBC

News we understand that yes we've noticed

you'd have to keep on about it Stanislav says it's very hot in Tenerife

at the moment but are you as hot as

Saudi Arabia where it's 42 degrees according to Abdullah so it's very hot

too inside you at the moment we've got a lot of new people that I haven't seen on

the live chat before hala our mate Kevin Cheung Fulgencio josé Vicente I have a

pronounce that correctly it's great Sofia

zebra or zebra and and and Abdullah as well al Abdul Marion I think is your

full name but yes it's all it's all very exciting lots of people here and we've

going to talk about aren't we have you mentioned what I'm going to talk about

later we are gonna talk about we're talking about words and phrases to do

with flies because last Wednesday we had flies invade the studio they were flying

all around us so someone suggested that you should do some fly idiom I think it

was Alice okay then I think it was Alice who I think is on today so if it was you

Alice tell me whether I think it was you that said I couldn't find it on last

week's live chat is it takes a long time to look out look at it afterwards but

yes we are going to talk about and there are

a lot there are lots of phrases and words idioms connected with flies

incredible and we're going to talk about them later probably have to do them in

in in sections we had a email from Fernando who mentioned last week about

the English pudding I remember I do a and Fernando has actually sent us a

picture of the English pudding and here it is

now mr. Duncan I'm going to be honest with you Steve

I have never seen this cake anywhere so it looks more like a cake rather than a

pudding because pudding is normally very liquidy it's very soft and runny so that

looks like a cake to me and it looks like a fruitcake maybe it's got cherries

and sultanas and on top it looks like it has cherries and maybe I want to say

walnuts on the top it doesn't like walnuts in some kind of icing yes I

think what they've done mr. Duncan is that they've thought of what an English

pudding should look like and they've just sort of mixed all different

elements from different cakes and things and called English pudding we don't have

anything like that in this country I can tell you there's nothing called English

pudding and I've never seen anything like that in England it just looks like

a cake yes dear it reminds me of like a Christmas pudding yes I think it's just

like a cake with with self-tanners and and cherries and nuts in it I don't know

what you'd call it over here but maybe it's a new recipe I just well I would

probably call it a fruit and nut cake yes it's probably like a fruit and nut

cake so so we're we're Fernando is it's called

English pudding so that's interesting that you can send us some yes thanks for

sending as that photograph that's very interesting it is very entry are always

interested to see other things and it's always always interested to see how how

we are represented in other another countries

that's correct because what happens what what we get over here is we have Chinese

food here in the UK obviously Chinese restaurant and Indian restaurants but

the food that is served there is not typical of what would be served in the

original country so these were the curries that we get here in Indian

restaurants are nothing like what well they're very dissimilar to what you

would get in the natural country so an Indian curry here is very full of fat in

the UK and according to the people that make it because I've spoken to quite a

few that's not what they eat they're Indian but they don't eat this this is

just what they present to English peoples are quite often a dish in

another country is is often quite different to what it was in its original

country hmm and Chinese foods the same because you say Chinese food here is

nothing like it is in China no it's a lot it's a lot it's a lot different I

must admit it is much different if you have Chinese food here in the UK and

have the real Chinese food in China there is a definite difference shall we

have a quick look at the live chat please as I'm sure you are very eager

gagging your wagon to look at the live chat yes okay then there's no one means

if you saying you're gagging to do something it means you're very keen to

do it yes you you can't wait to do it I know there it is your dreams have come

true Steve oh yes Jamila says that mr. Steve doesn't seem

to be chilly he's not wearing a sweater now well I did start off wearing a shirt

with a t-shirt underneath but it was too hot because mr. Duncan studio is always

about 10 degrees hotter than the rest of the house by wearing mine and wearing my

jumper I felt very cold earlier yes well I put the heating on can you believe it

it's still August and I put the heating on in the house because it was colder

than it would have been in winter hmm so yes it is but I just felt a bit warm so

I took it off this mail says mr. Steve has no hair on

his head now his truth is correct well observed

well observed yes is definitely nothing wrong with your eyesight oh okay Jahlil

it's from Afghanistan and living in Melbourne in Australia oh I have a

friend also living in Melbourne in Australia one of my friends from China

who lived in China and actually is Chinese but now he lives in Australia

working in a hospital that's correct and that was somebody that you helped and

now because it because of you helping them to learn English they are now in

Australia yes they know I know they're now living there and helping people who

were ill and helping them get better they the parents hate you but hey he's

having a lovely life in Australia Oh

Luis says that you're not smiling today mr. Duncan I'm not smiling really why

not he said you're not here today mr. Duncan

not even a smile Oh I'll just go back a bit because I saw a

comment earlier on it I think it was Alice that said that it was her that

suggested that we yes that's correct fly idioms hmm I deserve a round of

applause thank you very much Alice well we gave you a round of applause already

Steve did that's true and I first cut I don't want to wear them out the spiders

may need a heat lamp says Jeff yes that's that's correct but according to

my friend that looks after these spiders who's whose spiders they are it says you

don't have to worry about them getting too cold they'll just go to sleep it's

easy you have to worry about them getting too hot because that's what can

kill them hmm Alice asks about your eye thank you I was wondering nobody had

asked about my eye I was wondering I was looking at the live chat and I thought

nobody cares about mr. Steve and he's poorly i but yes it's a lot better thank

you very much Thank You Alice oh you see Alice really

is is pleased that I'm going to talk about

fly idioms but yes thank you Alice my eye is a lot better the antibiotics have

worked and I can see clearly again I can see clearly now my eye is better what a

lovely song missile arias English pudding Suzuka yes it's funny how people

abroad have a pudding they call it English pudding mmm pasta ray that must

be like pastry yes it does sound a bit like that yes it must be the same sort

of thing like pastry what would you say was a typical English pudding you were

going to have a pudding in the UK I would say something like maybe apple pie

apple crumble yes so it may be a pie that it has fruit inside apple pie

that's a very common pudding or you could always suet pudding oh yes bread

and butter pudding bread and butter pudding and of course let us not forget

spotted dick oh of course not no he's a lot better

now we mustn't forget about our spotted dick yes he went to the GI clinic and

now he's a lot better yes that's so maybe that pudding that we saw there was

maybe it is a bread and butter pudding but it looked like cake to us that

English pudding thing could have been yes but generally English puddings are

very stodgy yes when we say stodgy we mean they're heavy full of fat and sugar

and carbohydrates and wheat but you can also have things like rice pudding yes

that's right rice pudding which isn't isn't a cake it's actually milk with

rice so it's it's actually the opposite it's it's the opposite of a cake cap

dule says what's up folks from Somalia thank you very much how lovely what's

the difference between rather than and instead of well Ismail

I would rather rather van and instead of well that they're very similar yet

getting meaning instead is otherwise or one thing is replaced

with another so instead of going to the shops I went to my friend's house so

rather than go tomorrow go to the shop I went to my friend's

house so actually the meaning is is virtually the same blue thunder want

your email address that's very nice I think I've got my email address would it

come up on the screen there it is now so my email address is now on the screen

going across right now and also my Facebook page for those who want to find

out when I'm on and when my new lessons are being uploaded you can follow me on

Facebook there you go blue thunder which we know isn't your real name but I've

forgotten what it is so maybe you'd like to tell us again we've got two people

watching from Somalia now there's somebody else oh okay well why else is

watching somebody asked you said oh no what did I get that me what's that I

thought there was somebody at two people from Somalia I thought now huh chocolate

pudding vanilla pudding yes stodgy yes that's right heavy heavy yeah so if

you're describing a cake as heavy you would use the you wouldn't use you

wouldn't use the word hefty well you could do or unwi live never heard of

hefty being used to describe pudding so you might say stodgy if it's got a lot

of fat if it's very heavy to eat in afterwards you feel very full very full

so you can say that it is very stodgy thank you

Michel for saying that you like my lovely shirts which are all from one

place because I always get all my shirts from one shop and I think I've mentioned

that before I don't know whether we'll mention it

but I always get them in the sale van long asks when do we use mean and meant

well they are the same thing except in British English we say mint

and in

general English we say mean so you meant what did you mean what we meant so quite

often you'll hear that used in British English what do you mean by that mr.

Duncan well what I mean is I meant to give the explanation of the word mean

did yes I meant to do something you're sort of saying that you've forgotten to

do something and and you meant to do it so I I meant before I came on on this

mr. Duncan's live show today I meant to go to the toilet but I forgot lovely now

my bladder is full hello from Japan has she no hello huh Kushina watching in

Japan a big hello to you as well SEC East I haven't seen SEC East out for a

while no well a hello lovely what a lovely

view it looks like looks like a panoramic shot of something I think I

think a sec of star I want to say Seco star is in Indonesia Indonesia but I

might be wrong well I've got something I've got something I want to show that I

can speak in Indonesian mr. Duncan really yes so you you know some

Indonesian language I do indeed so I think ts is for

Indonesia isn't she yes and so that's two people well I'm in a choir as you

probably know because I've mentioned it before and we are singing we've got a

concert in about seven weeks time okay and we're learning some new pieces of

music and we were given a new piece of music that we're going to sing which is

an Indonesian lullaby now are you telling me that you actually will sing

this song in Indonesian well I'm not going to sing it because it's a

four-part harmony song oh okay and the part that I sing isn't the

so I'm the tenor so I'm singing one of the so you're sort of doing it

yes I'm not singing the actual tune okay then but yes if we can should we say

that for later this would anyone like to hear me say something in Indonesia I'm

intrigued to know where he's in lullaby I'm intrigued to find out where this is

actually going to be honest well I just thought it'd be interesting because we

speak English a lot do we have lots of people watching so Mendon easier I

sometimes speak English yes so I thought it would be interesting to to let people

know that we are actually singing we don't always sing everything in English

we're singing something in Indonesian well you could give us a taste of it now

so Lee Ram I can let you have center stage you can show is what this is all

about I'm rather intrigued and then I can I can control the volume to make

sure it's not too loud but it won't take very long

so this is an Indonesian lullaby so a lullaby is something that you sing to a

child to help it to go to sleep so it's soft sort of melodies designed to calm

and send your children to sleep really so it's quite a common a common type of

song but I didn't know that you had lullabies in Indonesia so this one is

called I don't know if I'm going to pronounce all this correctly but it's

called su Lee Ram and it's a lovely piece of music and the words are su Lee

Ram su Lee RAM RAM RAM su Lee Ram yang - I do high in dong soo who rang so maybe

somebody could tell me what I'm pronouncing that correctly B Jack

lisanna deep and Angmar nice which means asleep my baby and her shoe

bar well that's the translation we've got

here so yes it's lovely zuly rom slowly ROM

ROM ROM truly ROM Young Money's hard into pjcrus on are deep on demand nice

that's not very good that's sort of what it is well that should light up the live

chat mr. Duncan I finished by the way you can come back

now wait a lullaby so it says close your eyes sleep my child high above the

silvery stars go by Oh sleep my baby and hush you by and it just goes on like

that and then we're all singing berries harmony so it's very we don't want to

get copyright claims do we mr. Duncan so I won't say who it's by but that must be

an Indonesian melody so we'd like to know please if it is so tea ass if

you're there or anybody else from Indonesia could you understand what I

was saying maybe once it's maybe everyone's very keen to talk about the

about the the fly idioms okay they seem very interested to they but can I just

show something we've just had an email come through - from Blue Thunder

and they've they're living in Vietnam and here is some delicious Vietnamese

food whoa what do you think about that that looks like chicken wings to me it

does look like chicken and maybe the I think the other thing looks like I

wonder it looks a bit like prawns in the bowl yes it could be with rice with rice

and also it looks like lettuce lettuce lettuce lettuce lettuce it looks like it

should be pronounced let you yeah but it's a lettuce yes lettuce

so that looks very nice in fact I want to reach into the screen right now and

actually take a bite to be honest that I'm a little bit hungry if the truth

were known I want to know I want to know if anybody says anybody from Indonesia

like TR says that I've pronounced that correctly well already someone says it

sounds Japanese Jamelia says it sounds Japanese but it's supposed to be

Indonesian this is an Indonesian lullaby yes is it was almost mr. Steve but you

have you have a great but you have a great job and your voice is wonderful

oh okay I wasn't really in tune with that because it's a what you call a

four-part harmony so you've got you've got the top Sopranos and you've got the

Altos which is a lower voice in the females and you've got the hi tanners

male voices and then the basis so there's four part harm

and I I'm not singing the tune or the melody it's The Sopranos that are

singing that so I was trying to remember what they normally sing but yes we're

just what I just want to know whether it really is an Indonesian lullaby or Natsu

Lee Ram it's called okay there's sue Lee Ram sue

Lee Ram please tell us because I'm singing it so if it's a load of rubbish

we want to know and I want to be able to tell they the choirmaster paradise says

TS is already sleeping because it is very late now

in Indonesia couldn't even stay awake for me singing of Indonesian oh yeah no

the lullaby two TS is there maybe you've sent her to sleep center to sleep

because it is a lullaby yes designed to help people children just fall off to

sleep or anybody for that matter it's making me doze off to be honest no

you need a rocket up your jacksie mr. Duncan a rocket up your jacksie Oh

Kailyn how do I explain that to phrase you should as you mentioned it if

somebody's bit sort of it seems a bit tired or not really getting on with the

job and it needs a bit of it like it's like saying give somebody a kick up the

backside it means get them going so if you put a rocket up there jacksie

it means you put a rocket up their backsides or what does Jack sue mean

jack sea means your backside your bottom oh okay

so if you stick a rocket up there obviously they'll be zooming around then

that's the idea as I understand that actually originates from from jackass if

I'm not mistaken I don't know I think so you need a rocket up your backside I

will try to find out where Jack C comes from or maybe someone will tell us on

the live chat because they all have Google they do TR su ly RAM on here is

spelled s UL r a am s u ir am I'm going dyslexic mr. Duncan think you are su l

ir am yes no one's going to understand any of that I think it's probably not

proper Indonesian let's let's get on with these fly idioms shall we before we

fly you've just stolen my thunder mr. Duncan like that here we go the way you

do them in groups of a hundred if it fills the time there aren't that many

mr. dunk no okay you said to me earlier there was but not hundreds oh okay then

how many roughly I've got about 12 I've got have I got time to go upstairs and

have a sleep mr. Duncan you need a kick up the backside or jack see right here's

the first one then to fly at someone if you fly it somebody it means you're

suddenly angry with them and you start berating them and

attacking them in some way it can be verbally or physically hmm

so if I was suddenly fly at you mr. Duncan and starts shouting at you that

that would be how you would use that expression or somebody you you're from

from nothing you suddenly just jump at somebody you go there you go for them

you go for them so perhaps they were there was a party and somebody was

chatting up somebody else's girlfriend and they were getting more and more

angry they could see them dancing and that's suddenly out of nowhere they just

flew at them and it started punching them and hitting them that's how you

would use that expression to fly it somebody but it can be verbally as well

can't it mm-hmm I'm just writing something on the chat English lullabies

yes there are lots of English lullabies maybe on maybe that would be suitable

for a Wednesday evening wouldn't Oh what are you writing mr. Duncan I've tried to

write something down but it's not working

there we go I hate technology so much not as much as I do mr. Duncan I'm

really going off technology I might I might emigrate to a a desert island

where there are no computers carry gas that's correct British slang the

buttocks or anus let's just say bottom let's just say bottom yeah we almost got

through a live english stream without saying bottom or anus but there you go

Jeff has already mentioned one and I've already written it down I know you're

trying to catch me out but there's no flies on me there's one I've got one in

already if you say there's no flies on somebody it means that they're sharp

quick-witted you can't get one over on them isn't that right mr. Duncan that is

right so if you say there's no flies on somebody so I have this ready even

though Jeff mentioned it because you know I've done my research yeah you

can't get one over on me I know he's only joking I know it

but fly off the handle that means to suddenly become very angry mm-hmm

doesn't it so you just fought and it can be unexpected and and sometimes there's

no logic to it so you might said I might suddenly shout at you for no reason you

say I don't don't fly off the handle with me I haven't done anything too big

to become enraged or angry very suddenly yes and sometimes maybe if you appear to

be too sensitive to something you get angry very easily you fly off the handle

yes angry or upset so your your reaction is

disproportionate to the event really so you you're reacting in a way that is you

shouldn't be reacting as much as you are so you fly off the handle usually for

little or no reason hmm so oversensitive maybe you're you're a bit stressed and

the slightest thing makes you start shouting and getting very upset yes you

lie off the hand you lose control of your emotions

exactly it must be something to do with like a hammer and you suddenly that the

handle flies off or something like that and it's something going out of control

so you fly off the handle I am flying when I drink my vodka I bet you are

mr. vodka man I'll put it on the screen chiller oh it is lose control that's it

Chris that's exactly what that means suddenly angry flight but but but in in

a disproportionate way yes Hoshino says flying off my handle because of my

anxiety well anxiety can cause people to to to react in a way that they otherwise

wouldn't have done the same thing happens to me doesn't it mr. Duncan it

does I get a bit anxious sometimes and a bit you know you're thinking about

things too much and then the slightest thing can make you lose your temper and

fly off the handle just lose control of your emotions as

mr. Duncan said before sue cats just at home

interesting no I see ah Valerie series is is is is talking about

shaniyah always that is that mr. Watkins man's name do we know now shaniyah

call Veen Shelia Corinne I thought it was Lena all right okay genia cool

korneev right here's another one oh I can't be seen there's no point to be

doing that it's and until we do this we mr. Duncan makes me bigger we're back

won't hurt a fly or wouldn't hurt a fly wouldn't hurt a fly there we go see if

you describe someone as a as a person who wouldn't hurt a fly

you can probably work it out it means they're quite Jen quite a gentle person

they wouldn't do harm to anybody either physically or verbally for that matter

so mr. Duncan could be described as somebody he's such a nice person mr.

Duncan he wouldn't hurt a fly except if except if you were watching last

Wednesday uh I did hurt two flies yes exactly so in fact that would be an

inaccurate way of describing that expression so it really means that

they're a very gentle person because most people kill flies they're not

really considered an endangered species no or sacred or sacred in any way I

don't know of any religion or country where flies are sacred it was not an

open season can you imagine if it flies and mosquitoes were seen as being really

sort of iconic or premise be preserved the whole world would have malaria we

would all have these diseases that are transmitted by flies or mosquitoes

yes that that's right so if you don't even if you can't even kill a fly then

you must be a very gentle person and a nice person but maybe maybe sometimes a

bit put-upon and a bit downtrodden perhaps because

sometimes you need to stand up for yourself and maybe practice by by

killing flies yeah so if you if someone describes you as a pet if you feel a bit

put down perhaps or a bit like people are using you then maybe you should

start killing some flies and to make you you know to get your bloodlust up and

make you feel like you could stand up for yourself and then move on from flies

to I don't know Birds where would you go after that I don't

know as long as you don't you don't end up doing humans that's it once you once

you feel comfortable killing humans then maybe it's time to stop yes it's

probably that's probably the limit that's when you wouldn't describe

yourself as a person who wouldn't hurt a fly

yes but there you go well even if you would hurt a fly you could never say

that you wouldn't hurt a fly because you you would hurt a fly so I think a lot of

people will kill insects because they they fly around and they land on

horrible things things that spread diseases and then they land on your food

and things like that so I think I think it's justified I think you are justified

to actually kill flies because they can spread germs diseases and especially hot

countries so you have mosquitoes in spreading malaria malaria sue cat

doesn't kill flies no sin cat was getting upset on Wednesday when we were

killing the Flies yes but no I mean I don't like twe don't like to kill flies

we don't like to kill well I mean we let end it I let an ant

if there's an ant I will let it out I don't like to kill anything but

sometimes you just have to there is no way back anyway because for the past

couple of we've both been feeding crickets to

these giant tarantulas so to be honest they have there is no way back yes

not even my responsibility I don't I don't know how I became the person who

had to feed the crickets to these to these stupid tarantulas yes can we just

go back a bit on the live chat because some people were making comments

I suppose so loud about the use of the word fly and I think just a little bit

further mister vodkas the right okay Oh Eugene right okay set out flypaper says

Jeff yes well hmm would you use that expression there set out fly my best

pose you could do yes I've never heard it used I think you can put out flypaper

hang on hang glider but thanks for trying

yeah it's still good a use in we contacted set it we can't accept that

one today I'm afraid it's not that's not particularly correct

unfortunately I'm sure we can get another use of the word set in Josep is

got one ah where's that then fly the nest there's a good one fly the nest

so that means does it not mr. Duncan when when you when you when you've grown

up fly the nest it's it's like a bird flying out of it a baby bird leaving its

nest and going out to be an adult for the first time basically it means

leaving home leaving home that's it mr. Duncan fly the nest you leave home you

leave your parents your parents wave goodbye to you a new wave goodbye to

your parents some might say that's the best day of your life yes it's it's

natural for most people to want to leave home not everybody does but it's it's

nothing nothing you nothing wrong with that the birds do it that's it

all animals usually leave home or leave the nest

and we both did and the rest is history I don't know where I'm going with this

mr. Dingle but I have I have no idea where you're going with this people

right flyball flyball now I haven't heard of that one

what about a fly on the wall a fly on the wall I've got that one somewhere

oh okay it's here why don't you show it then well I was looking at their

comments and then you know move on yeah why I'm the water fly on the wall

well when anybody I find the wall it basically means that you want to be

invisible in a room watching and listening to what's going on so if you

think something's secrets going on in a room it might be a a meeting at work

your boss has gone in there with with a colleague maybe to tell them off or

something and you would use the expression while wish I was a fly on the

wall because you want to know you can't you don't know what's going on but you

want to know so you want to be as small and as invisible as a fly on the wall in

somewhere and then you can watch everything that's going on I think it

also means you can blend in to the surroundings because no one really

notices a fly sitting on some furniture or on the wall and so they can listen to

the conversation I would love to be a fly on the wall of mr. duncan studio

after the live stream finishes I would love to be a fly on mr. Duncan's studio

wall that sort of thing yes oh if for example if somebody was

cheating on on the boyfriend or girlfriend and and they came home and

they were they'd found out and well the neighbors might say well wish I was a

fly on the wall in that house mmm because you'd want to hear the argument

that was going on you want to be you want to hear the thing that you would

actually not be able to hear and there is a word we use it

eavesdrop yes Eve's eavesdrop eavesdrop eavesdrop so if you eavesdrop

it means you listen in to something that you're not supposed to everybody's being

very clever with this and and coming up with with examples that I've that I've

already got here which is very good so somebody's got one fly by night by night

fly by night so well done - rozer fly by night that's that somebody who is

unreliable and we'll just sort of disappear without telling anyone so you

might you might employ somebody and certainly one day they just don't bother

coming into work anymore and they don't even tell you a fly by night somebody

who's unreliable somebody who isn't around when they should be hmm you can

say that about a boyfriend or a girlfriend as well fly-by-night and

unreliable person yes or maybe someone that comes stays for a while and then

disappears vanishes so they are just temporary so a fly-by-night shop or a

fly-by-night salesman so they come they do their business and then they're gone

so they are just here today and gone tomorrow

they are fly-by-night and they go the expression is meaning that they're just

sort of disappearing at nighttime hmm but of course they just date it what it

means is they just don't turn up anymore and they don't tell anyone they're just

gone and you never really find out what's what's happened to them or where

they've gone never see them again an unreliable employee or person I would

say good one pigs might fly - they might pigs might fly or pigs will fly

Guiseppe thank you for that one mr. Duncan might get a thousand viewers on

his live stream or pigs might fly or pigs will fly

yes as if you don't believe something will happen ah this is a very good one

if you don't believe someone will do something yes you you can use expression

no pigs of pigs up pigs might fly or pigs will fly so for example you could

say oh I wonder if we're going to get a 10% wage rise this year look

and then somebody might say and there's no chance of it happening seems oh oh oh

yes pigs will fly before that happens pigs might fly so it's something that's

highly unlikely to happen hmm so you're like a pigs obviously can't fly and will

never fly so if you were to see a pig flying you're saying that the thing that

you thought would happen is is is is just what it just means it's not gonna

happen but you're stating the unlikelihood of that thing happening

that's right so mr. Duncan will be on YouTube for

another 10 years doing his live streams or I would say we're and pigs might fly

mr. Duncan that's to say that you will be on YouTube for another 10 years so I

don't think that's a correct use of the term first I try the fly to go outside

oh I think we're talking about killing flies now first I will try to get the

fly to go outside so I can oh so I open the door and I chase it with a towel yes

but sometimes flies are very very stupid and they won't go to the window they

just fly around the room or if you're doing something else of course flies can

be very distracting like the other night we were trying to do our live stream and

the Flies kept attacking mr. Steve I don't know why that's it once they said

well maybe says it that she tries to get them out and then if they don't then

she'll kill them you know you give him a give them a chance yes give them a

chance imagine gives us a fighting chance but yes they if something starts

to hurt you and it's an insect then well it's it's that then that then you then

you want to kill it it's the same with dogs it's the same with any pet

everybody goes oh look at that lovely dog I spew and then it bites you I'll

put it down hmm so animals are alright as long as everyone's quite willing to

let animals live and be nice and happy but then the moment they attack you then

it's time to put them down would be what most people would say I mean we've got a

bit of a problem in this country because a lot of people want pets and want dogs

as pets it's become we were discussing that the other week it's becoming more

and more prevalent more and more people are having dogs as pets but because as a

result of that what's going to happen is that more and more children are going to

get seriously injured because a dog at the end of the day is still an animal

and eventually if you you know it might get jealous and it might bite your baby

and there's a lot of cases of that tragically in this country where

particularly if people buy dogs of a certain aggressive breeds then they'll

just attack you eventually mostly they don't of course yes I'm not going to get

started on this subject because I have a lot to say about not just dogs but dog

owners as well and today is national dog day is it can you believe it is it here

we are a national dog day where all these people who believe that dogs are

exactly the same as human beings will treat their dog like a person they do

they do I mean it is I think we're probably I would probably quite

confidently say that the UK was probably the the world's capital in terms of the

number of people who have dogs as pets you'll find it happens in a lot of

countries in China is the same thing in China it's it's almost like a fashion

accessory a fashion accessory if I can actually speak for a change a fashion

accessory so something you buy just to show off

your friends just to show how lovely and how oh look at me I have a dog and I

rescued this dog this is a rescue dog so so I'm so lovely on tie this is my

virtue I'm showing you how virtuous I am by having a dog but dogs are not people

they are not human beings and some people treat them as if they are

interestingly our neighbor because we've got we've got some neighbors just down

the road who have got two very annoying dogs that bark very loudly at you every

time you go past and but they just stay with but they say that they're rescue

dogs hmm so someone says they've got a rescue dog it's like oh it doesn't

matter how the dog behaves I've been so good as to take these dogs in then you

can't criticize me yes rescue dogs know that they will bark there if they'll

bite you their rescue dogs yes that's what I just said though they show their

virtue don't know yeah the person the person will say I am such a good

virtuous person look I have a dog and I rescued it aren't I wonderful and and

last week I went for a charity run anti a virtuous person look at my t-shirt it

says charity on it I am so virtuous look at me look at me

my virtue yes but one of somebody we had some friends around the other day didn't

we and they laughed when I when I described when I described because they

were talking about their dog they've got dogs swelling on this a bit so I'm just

going to say that people often they said that people will describe their dogs as

rescue dogs yes as an excuse if they're if they're not well behaved yeah so what

it means is they haven't trained the dogs properly rescue dogs it's also fair

to say that often a rescue dogs are badly behaved yes that it's so because

they're there there are kicked around and abused but still worse things happen

to human beings every day around the world and no one cares they seem that

they seem to care more about dogs than they do about other human being

it's very worrying it is you can take it too far right

he's do you want another phrase mr. doe let's have another phrase with a fly

blue asked fly blue asked fly that means that you're very busy so someone is

running around like a blue asked fly it means that they're very busy so you can

say oh my goodness it's been so busy at work today I've just been running around

like a blue-assed fly hmm and that actually refers to a blue

bottle which is a common type of quite a big fly but they buzz around very

energetically all over the place they never they never sort of land they never

sit still so it's describing the activity of a fly and relating it to how

busy you are in your everyday life you can just say I've had such a busy day

today I been running around like a blue-assed fly yes and and once again

arse refers to your bottom it does so it's a it's it's a blue bottle which is

a fly that's got a blue bottom mmm literally is it's got a blue back to it

yes it's that the actual fly is called a blue bottle yes okay that's good yes yes

a busy busy person dashing around like a blue asked fly mr. Duncan before on

Sunday morning before he comes on to his livestream he's running around like a

blue-assed fly hmm very busy getting everything ready I'm having a lie-in

next Sunday lovely lion can't wait okay let's make

sparks fly make sparks fly that's got two meanings really the first one is to

start an argument or a fight cause confusion turmoil make sparks fly if

Mary finds out he was seen if Mary finds out that her boyfriend was seen out with

his ex-girlfriend sparks will fly so it means it there's going to be an

argument a lot of upset a lot of turmoil and literally just as if you were to

start sparks if you were to start sparks going and it could catch fire to a bit

of paper or wood and then it'll just blow up out of all proportion so it just

means having an argument causing confusion making sparks fly and turning

it into a great big fire and that's it Oh fight will break out a fight yes oh

but it also can convene to do something with great energy or enthusiasm hmm

so that new footballer that's joined Manchester United has really made sparks

fly on the on the field so it just means somebody with a lot of energy and

enthusiasm that everybody else in the team is humble I mean look at him well

we've got to up our game now so it's somebody that makes sparks fly

somebody's got a lot of enthusiasm and energy that they bring to whatever they

do that sometimes will shock other people around them hmm

yes all right yes that's pretty good we're almost at the end of the

livestream so we're going to end with an excerpt from one of my lessons what time

we finishing today mr. doing earth it will finish in about 10 minutes

it's gonna be have another quick I've got a few more here

okay this have some more let's quickly go back to the live chat before we

before we pack up can you check your email now I can't blue thunder I'm now

standing here doing a live stream unfortunately I could do it just a few

moments ago but not now Alice it was justified to kill those two flies

because they bit mr. Steve exactly once they once they'd bite you attack you

that's it it's time they've got to die I would be more worried about what the

what the flies will catch from mr. Steve to be honest yes exactly who knows what

I'm carrying indeed yes making sparks fly says Hoshino yes because my rival of

Poe come on faced well you faced each other

exactly yeah so you make sparks fly you get it really creates a bit of a bit of

energy and enthusiasm like that that stupid boxing match last night on

YouTube because because if there's one thing that YouTube loves its aggression

hate and violence it gets lots and lots of lovely clicks and ad revenue ah

oh you tube you really do like it so much espírito that's a nice name

espírito that sounds like a very energetic name hello my name is oh that

isn't you know my name is Maura and I'm from Brazil and they love us so thank

you very much that's nice I'm glad someone does everybody loves you mr.

Duncan Alice says is fly the nest the same as fresh out of the nest

well fresh out of the nest means new it's something or inexperienced ah yes

so that's the difference there fly the less me to fly the nest means leave home

so fly the nest means leave home you go you leave home and fresh out of the nest

means you are inexperienced ts says that mr. Steve is on the fly yes if you do

something on the fly actually that actually that isn't actually right I'm

sorry oh if you do something on the fly it means that you're not really prepared

no you do something spontaneously without any preparation you do it on the

fly but I do do that sometimes well actually yes you are right I often do go

off and say things don't I on the fly you certainly do but if yes if you say

somebody's doing something on the fly normally it means that they do something

spontaneously they're not prepared they're not following any set method

there they're just sort of relying on their experience and intuition to sort

of carry them through I'm sure I've got that one

let's have a look I thought I had that one alright so thanks for that - yes

have I done that one already on the fly no it just means you yeah you're just

doing something spontaneous there doesn't it mister Jess so to do

something spontaneously without any preparation or you you decide to do it

spontaneously you do it on the fly Oh in Argentina apparently fly is money we're

not going just yet of course we used to use fly as street talk to mean a person

who is very cool and very attractive they are very fly I don't think we use

that anymore I think that comes from the 1990s but you can have a fly a fly guy

or a fly girl or my boyfriend he is so fly kind of street talk that's that's

what I want to say street talk here's another one fly in the face of if you

fly in the face of something it means you do something in complete opposition

to something else so you're in clear opposition or something that's that a

new idea that comes out that there's a complete opposite to whatever ideas and

concepts are thought about that's it so a good example is mr. Duncan's

livestreams fly in the face of all those other people who tried to get clickbait

by being sexy and having suggestive thumbnails that be quiet yes that would

be that would be that new theory about the universe flies in the face of all

current thinking surrounding the origins of the universe something like that what

you just said flies in the face of everything that we've agreed upon so you

say something that's complete opposite of what is considered to be sort of the

norm or what is what has been established as as a set set rule

maybe there we go I keep saying there we go don't I there

we go I tipping fly-tipping so if you if you're a fly tipping means

illegal dumping and when I say dumping I don't mean going to the toilet fly

tipping it means that if you if you've got an old bed mattress or an old sink

and you you just you think well I can't be bothered to take it down to where it

should properly be disposed of I'm just going to chuck it on the side of the

road yes so to leave your rubbish in a place of convenience so you just take it

out in your car and some people will throw their unwanted things out of the

car in a country lane in fact round here you will often find strange objects on

the side of the road where the person is just parked the car got the thing out

dumped it they've left it there and then driven off so we call that fly to

tipping fly tipping it's it's like doing something on the fly you just suddenly

do something but in this case you're tipping tipping rubbish is actually

illegal you can be fined in this country for fly tipping so tip just means you

are you are leaving rubbish somewhere so you can have a rubbish tip so that's a

place where all of your unwanted things are left so fly tipping is the actual

verb you are of doing it you are tipping something you are leaving it there so

there are other definitions by the way besides that fly in the face of

Providence that's yes that that's a thank you for that sérgio fly in the

face of Providence of what is considered to be what you should do mmm-hmm right

so here's another one mr. Duncan another one another one

barfly perfect bar fly so the bar we refer to here is somewhere where you go

out drinking to hmm so a barfly is somebody who spends a

lot of time too much time in a bar or a pub drinking so they just sit there

drink after drink they might spend hours and hours of this if you've got a friend

that you know is always out drinking and maybe goes to the same pub all the time

the same bar but often they will sit in exactly the same place at the bar and

drink that's it sounds like a good idea to me so they've

got their favorite scenes and they just sit there night after night a barfly

don't know why they call them a buck a flies move around but that's it well I

think also they tend to sort of settle in places so sometimes you'll see a fly

in one place and it'll just stay there for a long time or maybe a barfly it

might also refer to them going from one bar to another

Guiseppe says I should fly to Sicily one day I'd love to yes just send me the

airfare ok mr. Duncan wants to pee I don't

shiron says that what's wrong with you today you look a bit sad come on yes I

don't you need to cheer up mr. Duncan I do life's not so bad jeff says zip up

your fly yes my fly isn't open trust me not not that they'd be much to see if it

was a boozer Sergio that's it a barfly booze to

somebody who drinks a lot that's it and Tomic said he used to be a barfly oh

that's very interesting right as the crow flies as the crow flies

this means the shortest route to somewhere the shortest route to

somewhere because obviously if you go somewhere in a car then the roads twist

around all over the place they don't go straight so you can say so as the crow

flies it's the distance the shortest distance is somewhere so as if a bird

was flying from one place to another so the bird doesn't have to think about the

roads or the valleys or the hills it can just fly across

so that is the shortest distance that's it crude The Crow is causes a bird a

type of bird but you could say as that as the plane flies but you normally

prefer to a bird say a crow hmm something like that so it's a straight

dicey because then the nearest hotel is 15 kilometres away as the crow flies

people often say that I don't though they say it so much now but we always

used to say that oh it's it's it's ten miles as the crow flies so if you were

to walk across the fields and go in a straight line hmm ie go the same way the

crow would go it would only be that would be the short distance but if you

went in your car or on a bike you'd have to go round all the bends and over the

bridges and things like that so sometimes if you live near a river and

and the the bridge and you want to go the other side of the river to another

town the bridge might not be right where you wanted to be it might be five miles

down the river so the next town is just across the river it's only a mile away

is the crow flies if you were to drive it you'd have to give five miles we've

defined a bridge to go I know it so as if you are flying there yes it's as if

you are flying exactly it's a more accurate description of how I mean if

you can see if you look out of a window and you can see somewhere you know a

mile away then you wouldn't describe that as being

need ten miles away you'd say well it's only a mile away as the crow flies of

course you were to drive there you've got to go I think I've described that

one any more any more yes like a plane shiron exactly yes Giuseppe Giuseppe

Trump's policies flying in the face of common sense yes you could describe that

you could describe he's flying in the face of of how how you think a president

should act hmm we're not saying whether that's right or

wrong but that is a correct use of the phrase Giuseppe well done time flies

almost time to go well I got that one saved up for last but because I thought

that would be quite a clever way to end the livestream that somebody's already

got in butterflies in your stomach butterflies so obviously the butterflies

are nice little gentle but butterflies are butterflies aren't they we know what

butterflies are they're insects they're insects that sort of flutter around with

these lovely delicate wings and often when somebody is nervous or anxious

perhaps they're going to have got to make a speech or they've got a job

interview or an exam you might have an English exam coming up and you might the

anxiety and distress caused by worrying about that can cause butterflies in your

stomach which is that feeling that you get when you're a bit nervous a bit

anxious so it's it's basically an idiom for feeling nervous you have butterflies

in your stomach yes so sometimes I get butterflies in my stomach before 2:30

when I'm coming on to be with mr. Duncan on the livestream yeah

so another one and then we'll start to get ready to wrap this all up drop like

flies people getting sick or ill or dying in a short period of time people

are drop dropping like flies so you might say there's a flu bug in the area

you lots of people get ill sudden you can say peep they're dropping like flies

so everybody's suddenly becoming ill or sick all of a sudden it could be flu it

could be any illness can you think of any other use where you would use that

it just means people to suddenly I mean there could be a you could be a group it

doesn't have to be illness no there was brother was a recent story about a lot

of people becoming ill in a hotel do you remember oh yes very recently in Egypt

so a couple of people sadly died and lots of other people became ill so

people someone described the actual event as people were dropping like flies

they were all becoming ill one after the other

very quickly so it's like flies don't live very long and a lot of them can

suddenly die or become ill but yes if you if there's a situation where lots of

people suddenly become ill for no apparent reason

food poisoning like in a hotel or a flu bug then you can say there they're

dropping like flies hmm fly by the seat of your pants

oh yes that's similar to just on the fly mm do something and you make it a bish

you go along that's it you make it up as you go along you're unprepared for

something so you just fly by the seat of your pants you're just using your

intuition and your experience to get you through a situation hmm

so if somebody is new to a particular task or sometimes people just don't

prepare very well about anything then you can say they're flying by the seat

of their pants they're not very well prepared okay and I think this is a

suitable one for the last one yes because we're going in a moment I'm

going to finish soon and we're going to have an excerpt from one of my favorite

lessons before we leave you so let's have one more mr. Steve and then look at

the live chat first let's look at the live chat okay here it is the live chat

is on the screen our Virginia is her husband's birthday today

and he likes studying English with us thank you very much big hello for London

city centre Debenhams Oxford Street that's a sonal a sonal man is that

closing down no we would love to know what your actual name is a sonal man it

might be your last chance to ever tell us a sonal man what is your name mr.

Duncan is a bit tired today I am tired I'm very very tired not sick just tired

Tran wants to know your email address again yes I but I keep putting it on the

screen you know you have to sort of there it is it's going across now it's

now on the screen it's now there right there on the screen going across the

screen right now it's now there there it is the email address is there and also

my facebook address is there on the screen is using the correct hello Carlos

from Brazil Eugene is using the correct is using that phrase when time flies

time flies when we have fun that's it and we've really had fun today amen now

I'm not feeling cold at all I'm feeling quite warm today because it's hot in mr.

Duncan studio I think mr. Duncan needs to take his jump Rob think that's why

he's a bit tired he's overheating I'm not tired today I'm not just a bit tired

but but it depends what definition of tired you are using you see

ceqa star mr. Duncan a mr. Steve it was also very nice lesson this time as well

goodbye from Tokyo see you later second star I actually said you were in

Indonesia but you are of course in Japan my mistake I'm ever so sorry time flies

like an arrow yes I that that's never seen that expression before but that

that's a good expression so it goes very quickly and when we say time flies it

means that a particular period goes seems to go in a shorter period of time

than it actually is and it's usually for happy events or Pleasant events you

normally say you could say oh while I'm watching mr. Duncan's livestream time

flies it's because you're enjoying it so when

you enjoy things time seems to pass faster it doesn't of course know but

that's just an expression so I might say it's the opposite oh I wouldn't say that

about your back your life dreams mr. Duncan it means that you're sort of

reminiscing about the past in a way you you're thinking about nice Pleasant

events bad times usually go slowly Pleasant times usually go very quickly

mmm so it doesn't seem that we've enjoyed it today so time has flown for

us because it hasn't seemed like nearly two hours that we've been alive I've

only been on for over an hour hmm mr. Duncan's been on a bit more than

I'll fly hi says Giuseppe thank you for that one Giuseppe you could both fly

high which means we'd be doing very well hmm and very successful it says flying

high what's the opposite singing sinking like

a rock yes as I say that yes so you fly high if you are doing really well for

example if you're on YouTube and you have lots of people watching and you're

doing really well maybe you're you're going live with a boxing match with

another half-wit yes then you'd be really really flying high oh you might

be sinking like a rock like like I don't notice certain English teacher so there

you go we're going sooo not we Steve yes it looks like it ooh time has flown

Thomas flown it's the time for us to go that those those 11 years back again

very quickly very quickly yes what does that mean well we'll be back again very

quickly yeah soon soon well we're back again soon because you mustn't

disappoint our lovely viewers now well there will be some videos in September

but you may have seen on my youtube channel this is the last livestream for

a while we won't be doing any more for a while so during September there will be

no live streams and this actually is the last one today so to miss these mr.

Duncan yes well you know we'll be back though so live streams sometimes

circumstances come along and you just have to bite the bullet as they say so I

hope you've enjoyed today's livestream we're gonna end with something quite

interesting one of my all-time favorite lessons and it's something that I like

watching now again sometimes I watch my own lessons I

know it's very egotistical and Steve always makes fun of me for watching my

own things but yes sometimes it's very useful as well so we'll see you later

thanks mr. Steve thank you very much thank you to everyone today thank you

for your lovely comments and I'm going to continue to keep the register going

okay and and see who's watching your videos mr. Duncan even though there's no

livestream he'll be you'll be doing that you'll be doing some live streams I know

mr. Duncan bro Jeff says OMG yes look everyone's upset

mr. Duncan no nobody's upset of course they are lots of other wonderful

wonderful content on YouTube lots of sexy ladies teaching English lots of

cute young men lots of people fighting in boxing and swearing so there's lots

and lots for everyone I will just fade away and no one will remember me Oh mr.

Duncan don't be silly it's true don't be silly mr. do not being silly

it's true that 24 hours from now this livestream will fade away and no one

will be watching it and I know that that's true

because it happens every single week well it's a live stream there you go mr.

Duncan anyway on that and happy note yes I will say goodbye and hopefully see you

all again very soon mmm Thank You mr. Steve ta ta for now mr. Steve is going

and there he goes

we'll catch you later and I will leave you with something... this is one of my

favourite English lessons and I hope you enjoy it

we all have feelings they are the individual part of our character that

show the way we feel depending on the situations around us when we say

feelings we are actually describing one feeling at a time although sometimes for

example due to illness a person may experience many feelings at once the way

you feel relates to your emotional state mood frame of mind temper disposition

state of mind spirit good or bad can be added to all of these words to show a

positive mood and a negative one

our feelings and moods are all related to the way we think in our minds the

study of this subject is called psychology this also covers the way we

behave generally our minds control everything we do

besides actions your mood can also affect your health if you were to feel

unhappy over a long period of time then you may need to see a doctor

you could be suffering from depression this is often caused by stress from a

sudden change in your life such as the loss of your job or the death of a loved

one there are many different things around us that have the ability to

change the way we feel a piece of classical music might make you feel sad

it touches you emotionally it moves you a happy story may uplift your mood and

cheer you up you may find yourself both laughing and

crying while watching a romantic movie either alone or with your lover

I feel happy I feel glad I feel excited I never feel sad the day is alive and I

feel great tomorrow will be good I just can't wait

my heart is warm with a rosy glow the smile on my face I love to show I need

to jump I like to see I want to live I love everything

I feel down I feel bad I feel miserable I really feel sad I hate this day I

dislike it all my heart is down feel like I will fall so gray is this world

with its trouble and strife so cold my spirit in this dark and gloomy life

happy synonyms bright content cheerful elated glowing jolly joyful marry Sonny

fad synonyms blue for law depressed down gloomy glum moody solemn woeful

it would be fair to say that we all go through times when things seem bad

people can sometimes let you down they have the ability to say things that make

you unhappy events and circumstances make them along and destroy your plans

for the future as the poet Stephen spender once wrote

you must live through the time when everything hurts life comes with no

guarantees or promises the sunny days of contentment can only be truly

appreciated through the dark gloomy nights of despair for without sadness we

would never really know what it is like to be truly happy.