Learn English Words - Late and Live - Wed 21st March 2018 - 10pm UK time

oh my goodness are we on time am I am I actually early

I'm not quite sure hi everybody how are you today are you okay I hope so

are you happy I really really hope so yes here we go again it is a Wednesday

night it is late and live and here we go again with another live stream I hope

you are okay how has your week mean has it been okay I really hope so as well my

week hasn't been too bad but you know what it's like there is always something

that needs doing I've been busy today doing my housework

I'm seriously considering getting a maid to come and help me around the house

honestly I'm not joking I'm really considering it so if you would like to

come round a couple of times a week maybe on a Tuesday and a Thursday to

just a dust around just to get rid of the dust and maybe wash mister Steve's

stinky old socks then you are more than welcome to it's up to you really so here

we go I hope you are okay lots of people already on the live chat

so it is nice to see lots of people let's have a look first of all at the

live chat and come on there it is oh my goodness lots of people here how is the

weather Thank You Alice or Alex the weather is okay it's been quite nice

today it's starting to feel like spring at the moment because the spring weather

has arrived we had snow last weekend and the snow has gone and now we have lots

and lots of beautiful sunshine and of course this weekend spring officially

ends and summer begins because we alter the clocks this weekend

so on Sunday very early in the morning on Sunday the clocks will go forward one

hour for the start of British summer time

oh look lots of people on live chat so nice to see you there hello everyone

from Wales oh hello Wales I'm not very far away

from you do you know that I'm just up the road around about 40 minutes away

from Wales in fact I can see the Welsh Hills from my house hello lapel hello

lapel and also shadi as well Jamelia is here hello everyone nice to see you

Jamelia and also carlos is here hello everyone I wish you all a nice warm

flowery spring well that's nice thank you very much carlos luciano is here as

well also juliana hello Juliana Juliana Jonas nice to see

you as well Zainab says hey people and hey Zainab

live from England yes it's true we are now as live as live can be just in case

you don't believe me it is now just coming up to six minutes

past 10 o'clock here in the UK it's very late all of my neighbors have now gone

to bed so they are sleeping soundly oh I like that expression

if you sleep soundly it means you have a very good sleep so someone might ask you

how did you sleep last night and you might reply I slept soundly hmm

you had a sound sleep that means that you slept very very well so lots of

people talking on the live chat it's so nice to see many of you here of course

on Wednesdays I am here at 10 p.m. and you

can catch me on Sundays every Sunday from 2 p.m. and the reason why I do this

on a Wednesday so late is to give other people the chance to join in with the

live chat because that's what we are here to do we are here to share our love

of the English language so this weekend the clocks will change yes Sam the

clocks will go forward which of course means that the time for my livestream

will also change so don't forget that on Sunday the clocks here in the UK will

change Agnieszka is here hello Agnieszka a

saying saying hello to my him in the live chat also anna is here anna what a

beautiful name it's almost the same name is my mother Magda is here as well hi

i'm glad to be with you well you are very welcome Magda no problem Natalie

yeah Natalie oh I am a newcomer on your live chat but I have watched many of

your lessons well Natalia you are more than welcome welcome to my live stream

right at this very moment I am standing in my little studio on Wenlock edge

broadcasting live to the whole of YouTube or at least to anyone who is

interested Zeinab says if you didn't sleep well would you say that you didn't

sleep a wink yes that's very good and as we mentioned last week William

Shakespeare came up with that particular phrase so not to sleep a wink if you

didn't sleep a wink that means you had a very bad night's sleep

you didn't sleep a wink math Emmaline says it's pretty easy to understand your

English Duncan compared to other English

speakers well some people speak clearly some people speak very quickly some

people have very strong accents some people don't pronounce their words

clearly some people are very lazy when it comes to speaking English even native

English speakers sometimes get it wrong it's true so just because you speak

English as your first language doesn't necessarily mean that you are good at

speaking the language you will be amazed how many native speakers are really

awful at speaking English I'm not joking they are absolutely terrible at speaking

English juliana says I love your classes thank you very much that's very kind of

you sadly there is no mr. Steve tonight I'm very sorry about that but for all

those who are missing mr. Steve at this very moment this is just for you

DPD be deep deep dude yes we are live to the Internet hello to you and I hope you

are feeling very very happy today I really really hope so it's mr. Duncan

that's me for those who aren't familiar with my work I teach English here on

YouTube and I have done so for the past 11 years I believe it or not I'm the

first-ever native English speaker from England to start actually teaching

English on YouTube it's true the live chat is very busy so I don't want to

ignore you I will try to include as many people on the live chat as possible I

love your accent so much Thank You Ahmed for that that's

very kind of you Daru she says good evening mr. Duncan I

missed a lot of sessions I am happy to be with you again you are welcome

everyone is welcome here if you are learning English as a second language or

of course maybe you are lying in your bed at the moment with your mobile phone

or another mobile device in your hand perhaps you can't sleep and you are

watching my livestream to keep you company

Zainab says this is the first time for me to join you live and I am over the

moon well that's good I'm very pleased to hear that also Marco says can you

please say a big hello to me okay Marco here comes your big hello hello Marco a

big SuperDuper hello to you as well thanks for joining me live of course

don't forget you can catch all of the live streams again later on my youtube

channel and of course don't forget you can also follow the live chat as it

happened on the recorded version it's amazing

I have had a big problem this week do you want to hear about my problem here

is my big problem that I'm suffering at the moment now springtime is arriving

and many of the creatures who were sleeping during the winter are now

waking up and that includes this particular insect can you see it

it is a ladybird and at the moment my house is actually overrun with lady

birds they are everywhere inside the house in fact I have spent all of this

week clearing the lady birds out of the house sadly unfortunately I have

actually stepped on a few of them so one or two of them are now squashed they are

unfortunately dead but this one this one I managed to save so this week there

have been many many lady Birds invading my house and there you can see one of

them they are actually beautiful little creatures they are so lovely don't you

think so there it is one of my unwelcome visitors that has decided to invade my

house this week if you want to see more of the lady bird later please feel free

to ask if he is a Wednesday night it is now 15 minutes past 10 o'clock as

I mentioned earlier sadly there is no mr. Steve tonight I'm very sorry about

that but he is very busy he has a big important conference to attend yes he

does he certainly does Ginny asks I have a

question are you speaking slowly to let us listen to more clearly no I'm not

this is how I normally talk a lot of people think that I'm talking really

slowly but this is how I normally speak in my everyday life

I thought that was called a ladybug thank you Alex

yes in Britain we call that particular insect a ladybird and in the United

States they call it a ladybug so ladybird or ladybug so you have a choice

really okay Emma asks what does avoid mean if you avoid something it means you

stay out of the way of it you stay clear of something you stay away from it you

make sure that you don't come into contact with it you avoid something you

might avoid your your family you might avoid the person who lives next door so

maybe in the morning you go outside into your garden and you see your neighbor

but you don't want to speak to them so you try to avoid them you make sure that

they don't see you you avoid them I hope that helps Fernando is here

hello Fernando hi mr. Duncan how's it hanging it is hanging quite well at the

moment I have my extra loose underwear on tonight are adass says yes ladybirds

don't they make the maids work well I wish the lady Birds certainly the

insects I wish they would help me clean my house because they have been a real

pain this week I'm the first one in the channel and I'm Egyptian I'm sorry

you're not you're not the first one who Sam I have been on here for nearly 20

minutes already Wow it's going so fast hello mr. Duncan

from Spain how are you thank you very much Francisco I'm okay a

busy week always something to do and this week I have been doing some spring

cleaning because spring is on the way today the weather was absolutely

beautiful it was a gorgeous day here in the UK right where I lived we had

sunshine almost urn unbroken sunshine so that means that the Sun was out all day

so yes it really does feel as if spring is coming and as I mentioned earlier the

clocks will go forward they will go forward one hour forward one hour this

weekend because it is the start of British summer time oh I can't begin to

tell you how happy I feel because summer is just around the corner I love I love

springtime and I certainly love summertime as well live chat very busy

on this Wednesday night here in the UK our Ahmed asks how are you are you okay

yes I'm okay I hope you are as well millet says hello

from Darby oh hello Darby it's nice to see you tonight

whereabouts in Darby are you I know Darby quite well and I love Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a beautiful part of the country ah some beautiful places to

visit one particular place is called Dovedale very very nice in fact I

actually made an English lesson very close to Dhamma B did you know that yes

and it is available on my You Tube channel

Ahmed says Hossam really early that man is very good you will enjoy it oh thank

you Ahmed I think our med is actually recommending my lessons thank you very

much Shahrukh Chao qui Chuck we says what is the program mr. doe

tonight we are talking about many things many topics and of course you are more

than welcome to join in as well first of all we have an excerpt from one of my

full English lessons to give you an idea of the sort of things that I do here on

YouTube later on a good question for you can you keep a secret are you good at

keeping secrets now sometimes when a person asks you to keep a secret some

people are not very good at keeping something to themselves they are not

good at doing it so one of the questions tonight can you keep a secret can you

let me know later on let's have a look at one of my full English lessons here

is an excerpt from one of my early full English lessons and don't forget there

are over 500 video English lessons on my youtube channel have you ever been

caught doing something red handed have you ever been caught in the act

the idiom red handed means that you have been caught in the act of committing a

crime or doing something wrong you might have been seen carrying out

the bad act as it was being done or perhaps some evidence was found that

showed you doing it such as a photograph or video clip you have been caught

red-handed you were caught red-handed the phrase originated in Scotland and

refers to the bloodstains found on the hands of a murderer

as a child I used to play many games but one game in particular still sticks out

in my mind hide-and-seek I bet at some point you have played this game too

the game is almost always played by a group of people one person hides and the

other people must try to find that person we can use hide-and-seek as a

phrase to mean the task of trying to hunt for someone if a person keeps

escaping from your view as you pursue them then we can describe this as a game

of hide-and-seek we can also say that the people involved are playing cat and

mouse the pursuer and the pursued the runner and the chaser to search for a

person who is missing or in hiding can be described as a hunt

grammar is probably the hardest part of English to grasp so I have decided to

take some parts of English grammar and look closely at each one for each full

English episode there will be one grammatical element to look at today we

will look at sentences English sentences fall into four types the statement the

question the order or request the exclamation the statement is a sentence

that gives information to state is to say and quite often saying means giving

information the car is travelling very fast the boy looks very unhappy these

are statements if information is being given or an observation is being made

then we are making a statement the question something means we make an

inquiry we need information so to get it we must first put forward a question if

you want to find out something you will almost always ask a question to

investigate something always involves asking questions is that car going too

fast did you see where that man went can you hear the plane flying over mr.

Duncan's head

to give an order or make a request is to ask for something to be done or not to

be done or to demand something don't be so rude don't drive so fast a request

can be in the form of a question but in this case information is not required to

ask someone to do something or tell them is an order it is a request an

exclamation is a sentence that shows surprise or shock it is often used to

show anger or rage you cheated on me how fast that car is going oh what a mess an

exclamation can also be put forward in the form of a question

the most common form of sentence is the statement this is because most sentences

pass on information conversation normally involves parting with

information or making comments which themselves are statements