It's FABuary 2nd / 28 days of Learning English / LIVE CHAT from England with Mr Duncan

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English Addict with Mr Duncan


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Here
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we are again i think it's important to mention that mr steve at this very moment is having
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a zoom meeting upstairs so all i can say is i hope that mr steve is not going to steal
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any of my bandwidth because i need all of it you see here we go then yes we are back
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it is day two of 28 days of february how are you today
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here we go again we are back baby hi everybody this is mr duncan in england how are you today
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are you okay i hope so are you feeling happy on this lovely lovely day the sun is out the
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birds are singing everything is looking ever so nice today i must be honest with you by
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the way did you enjoy yesterday's live stream yes for those who are wondering what is going
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on first of all my name is duncan i talk about the english language quite often i will pop
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up on your computer screen live right now so it is five minutes past two o'clock here
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in the uk i don't know what time it is where you are because i'm not there you see here
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we go again yes we have made it to our second day of fabuary you see can you see what i
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did there not february but fabuary we are going to have a fabulous time if you love
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the english language if you like speaking english if you love learning english well
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guess what you are in the right place because this is what we do here so i will be with
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you every day however tomorrow there will be something slightly different happening
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tomorrow so i suppose i should tell you that tomorrow there will be a video a new video
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it will be published tomorrow at two o'clock so i won't be live tomorrow i won't be doing
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this tomorrow but there will be a new video appearing on my youtube channel tomorrow at
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the same time and then i will be live once more on thursday with more super duper english
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fun that's the reason why we are here just a few moments ago i went into the garden and
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guess what i saw can you guess what i saw in the garden oh
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i'm getting very excited now because it really does feel as if spring is on the way oh yes
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look what i saw this morning yes there are some snowdrops coming up in the garden some
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lovely snow drops they have come up and whenever i see snow drops i always think to myself
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that spring is definitely on the way and they are very beautiful they haven't been damaged
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too much by the heavy rain because we've had a lot of rain over the past two days we had
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snow last weekend we had heavy rain yesterday but it would appear that the snow drops have
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survived the big storm that we had last night and there they are oh aren't they lovely so
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i feel very excited because it really does now feel as if spring is on the way so that's
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the reason why i'm feeling extra happy today very happy indeed we will be looking outside
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the window in a few moments to take a look at the landscape but also we will be trying
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to spot the white van this is a new thing i started last week i started this fun game
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i think it's fun anyway so what i will do i will show you a live camera and you will
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see a road in the distance and what you are looking out for you are looking out for a
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white van so let's see if we can spot the white van come on white van i want to see
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you very quickly so there it is a live view and there is one of the main roads in fact
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that is the main road that goes from shrewsbury to much wenlock it is called the much wenlock
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road in fact
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all we have to do is spot the white van it might take a while because i think lots of
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the van drivers the van drivers at the moment are probably having their lunch no that's
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not a white fan that's a blue lorry i'm sorry you don't get any points for a blue lorry
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you get nothing come on white van where are you if you if you see a white van please tell
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me please say mr duncan we see the white van there is no white van yet we might have to
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wait for a few moments where is the white van oh now that might have been a white van
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i'm not sure if that was a white van did you see it then it didn't look big enough i don't
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think that was a white van because white vans are much larger than a car so i think that
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was a motor car that we just saw so we will wait for a few more moments come on white
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van we are waiting for a white fan there it is there is the white van we have success
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wasn't that quick
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i did receive some messages asking mr duncan why are you so interested in white vans well
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i suppose it is a sort of joke because here in the uk we often talk about people that
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drive white vans and during this particular moment of time we have a lot of people on
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the roads driving white vans for various reasons most of them are delivering things so they
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might be courier services they might be delivering parcels or special deliveries emergency deliveries
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perhaps so that's the reason why we are doing it we are playing the white van game we are
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trying to spot the white van man we will play that again later on if you want we we can
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i don't mind it's all right by the way talking of the view the view outside is lovely there
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it is right now that is a live view looking out of my studio window and yes we have a
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glorious day you might be able to see on the top of the hill all of the snow that was there
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yesterday has now gone it is an absolutely lovely day here in england wonderful isn't
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that nice the sun is out it is still a little bit chilly but at least there is some sunshine
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and everything is looking rather nice i hope everything is looking rather nice where you
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are i'm not there with you unfortunately but i hope you are having a good day we also have
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the live chat hello live chat nice to see you here as well as i mentioned a few moments
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ago we have made it all the way to another day it's very nice to see you here some very
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strange things happening to my computer by the way today i am having to cope with some
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very strange things going on on my computer and i don't know why these things keep happening
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but some very strange things keep occurring on my computer do you ever lose control of
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your computer does your computer sometimes do things that you didn't expect well that's
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what was happening to me a few moments ago some strange things started appearing on my
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screen yes we have made it to the second day of 28 days of february yes it's tuesday
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yes we have made it to tuesday very nice to see you here today oh very nice hello to the
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live chat yes it wouldn't be the live stream without you joining me live on the chat and
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yes we do have a lot of people joining me already let's have a look shall we shall we
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have a little look at the live chat would you like to see it okay i will put it on the
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screen for you because that's the kind of guy i am so you can see the live chat is very
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busy at the moment can i say congratulations to vitas guess what vitas you were first on
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today's live chat
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pretty good well done v tests vitesse also hello to mohsen also palmyra is here as well
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we also have mohsen hello mohsen nice to see you today on the live stream yes we are here
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once again for our second day and for those who aren't aware i will be with you all the
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way through this particular month all the way through to the 28th it is true hello also
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mogmog nice to see you here today by the way we are talking about work today employment
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jobs what is your job we will be talking about all of that a little bit later on victoria
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is here as well palmyra also oh can i say hello to louis mendez he is here joining us
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today
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hello lewis nice to see you back belarusia also we have beatriz alessandra nice to see
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you all here on the live chat very nice to see you here as well hello also to palmyra
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we have sargid hello sargid sergeant khan hello to you i hope you are feeling good today
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as well florence is here we also have zuzika hello zuzika nice to see you here as well
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yes we are live with all the english if your ears are open and ready there will be lots
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of english coming your way today sandra gonzalez is here as well hello sam hello sam rainbow
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i'm not sure if you are interested but did you know that february is also called the
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rectangle month which means it forms a perfect rectangle on the calendar do you know what
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i will never look at a calendar the same ever again every time i look at a calendar i will
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turn to february to see what shape the month is okay thank you sam for that by the way
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today is a special day we have some breaking news boys and girls coming through now on
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the wire apparently that's what they say it is coming through on the wire breaking news
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coming from gobbleus knob gobblers knob i think that is a great place name i want to
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live in gobbler's knob in the usa we have some breaking news yes the annual event has
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taken place and we are talking all about groundhog day has taken place every year on the second
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of february books a tourney phil there he is isn't he lovely he's a little groundhog
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and apparently he came out of his little nest and he saw his shadow
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which is bad news for the residents of puxertorni because it means they are going to have a
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few more weeks of bad weather a few more weeks of inclement weather so that's what groundhog
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day is all about of course a lot of people know groundhog day from the movie starring
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bill murray and andy mcdowell as well so that so that's it it's official the groundhog came
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out he saw his shadow and that's that's it i think it's six more weeks is it six more
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weeks of winter i think so
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but i really love the name of the place where the groundhog lives i want to go and live
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in gobbler's knob i like the sound of that to be honest i think it's it sounds like a
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good place to live
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hello to oh can i say hello to marella marella watching in montenegro hello to you i hope
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you are having a good day today also we have abdul um misky hello misky oh misky mohammed
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says it is my first time seeing you on the live stream welcome congratulations nice to
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see you here today hello also to kien kien ha hello to you as well where are you watching
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at the moment i'm always interested to find out where you are in the world always interested
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to know oh hello misskey misky apparently misky is from somalia so can i say a big hello
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to you congratulations welcome
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a lovely warm welcome to you and i hope you enjoy this live stream we have english we
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have lots of fun we have new words a little bit later on we are going to look at some
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some words connected to working having a job this morning i woke up in bed and i felt really
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uncomfortable i don't know what was happening this morning maybe last night i was sleeping
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in a strange position but this is what i looked like this morning when i woke up in my bed
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what is going on there that is what i i think i think maybe mr steve maybe steve tried to
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smother me in the night with a pillow but that's what i look like this morning i look
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terrible
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i had such a rough night last night even my beard disappeared i perhaps i had a bad dream
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maybe i had a a nightmare last night and that's the result but yes i i felt a little a little
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delicate this morning so i decided to come down this morning and have one of my lovely
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toasted muffins the only problem was i hadn't opened the packet and when i looked at the
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packet it said to open cut here which seems all right it seems like a simple thing the
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only problem is it would appear that you have to have two pairs of scissors to open them
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and unfortunately
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unfortunately i only have one pair of scissors so so i couldn't open my muffins because my
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muffins gave very strict instructions it said to open cut here but as you can see you have
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to have two pairs of scissors you have to use the scissors from either side and unfortunately
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i only have one pair of scissors so sadly i was unable to open my muffins however all
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is not lost because i i have my my last chocolate digestive biscuit did you see yesterday so
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this is the last biscuit that i have my last chocolate biscuit so this is no ordinary biscuit
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this is a biscuit that is covered in chocolate
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are you enjoying this it's like one of those asmr videos
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hello everyone welcome to my special asmr video where we are today nibbling on a chocolate
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digestive biscuit but this is no ordinary biscuit because this is the last biscuit that
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i have in the house so every day during february or should i say february i am going to take
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a little nibble from my
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biscuit hmm very nice it still tastes fresh it hasn't gone soggy which is good
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so i have to make sure that this biscuit lasts for the whole of this month because i don't
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have time to go to the shops so i have to make this biscuit last for the whole 28 days
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so i will put it back into the packet and i will have i will have a little bit more
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of this on thursday don't forget tomorrow it is a new video being published tomorrow
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at two o'clock yes it is the same biscuit priscilla unfortunately i only have one biscuit
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left you see just one biscuit left in the house it is the last chocolate biscuit oh
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talking of food by the way last night mr steve and myself we had some
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chips once again we had some lovely homemade air fried chips for those who don't know mr
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steve bought me a lovely christmas present a machine that you can use for making well
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all sorts of food but so far the only thing we've actually been doing is making chips
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so the only thing we've actually been making in in our airfryer is chips and apparently
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apparently chips or airfryers should i say airfryers have become very popular apparently
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they are the most trendy thing at the moment another thing apparently that people are starting
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to do to amuse themselves during these strange times apparently people are starting to take
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up a new hobby and that hobby is roller skating can you believe it apparently people are now
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starting to take up roller skating so whilst they are trapped maybe in their garden or
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in their house or in their neighborhood people are now buying roller skates apparently it's
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the hottest thing
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air fryers and roller skates perhaps you could roll a skate along the road whilst eating
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some chips i like the sound of that hello also to priscilla oh hello priscilla hello
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also to sylvia hello sylvia nice to see you here thank you for dropping by to say hello
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it's very nice to see you here again mogmog says it is night time here and i wish i could
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eat that biscuit well maybe you can perhaps your local shop might have some chocolate
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biscuits you see so maybe you can treat yourself later who knows oh we have pedro belmont
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he's here again hello pedro nice to see you here yes we are doing special live streams
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for the whole of february instead of february we have decided to give it another name we
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have decided to call it
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february
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so there it is now you know
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you know what it's all about the reason why i'm doing this is something special for 28
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days of february or as i like to call it fabuary
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we are going to talk about something we all have to do something we have no choice about
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something that we all have to do in to survive we have to do it if we didn't do it we wouldn't
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be able to survive today we are talking about work working so i suppose a good question
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to start with a good question to begin with is what is your job now i know some people
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might find it a little personal so you don't have to tell me if you don't want to but i
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am interested to find out what your job actually is a lot of people ask about my job well my
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job is doing this so you know what my job is because i'm doing it right now
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but what about you i wonder what your job is what do you do for a living so i will give
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you a few moments to answer the question and if you have a career a job a means of living
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we will look at all of those words a little bit later on
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but in my life i've done many different jobs a lot of people assume that i've always done
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this but i only started doing this about 19 years ago so i've been doing this for 19 years
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and i've been teaching on youtube for around 15 years so i went to china i got lots of
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wonderful experience there teaching and also meeting many many students and finding out
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all of the things that people who are learning english need to know so i tried my best to
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find out as much as i could during my early days of teaching and that's exactly what i
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did but before that well i've done many jobs in my life sometimes i have done jobs that
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were not very nice maybe jobs that were a little unpleasant maybe jobs that were a little
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degrading dare i say so there are many jobs that i've done in the past that were not very
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pleasant but as i'm sure you know we all need to survive we all me need to make a living
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in our lives so we all have to have a job let's have a look shall we oh lolly lolly
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says i am a mental health nurse in france a very good job how are you dealing with your
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job at the moment though because of all of the strange situations going on has it affected
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your job very much lolly lolly but yes a good job and you are helping lots of people i am
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sure rawan says i am a student well i suppose you might say that being a student studying
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is a kind of job the only problem is you don't get paid for it however if you are lucky if
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you are lucky you might actually get an internship so if you become an intern that means you
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can actually have experience in the workplace you might join a company and they will give
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you lots of training and experience lots of valuable experience thank you also to priscilla
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is a school teacher pretty good you have a very good job priscilla very similar to my
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job
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also we have oh belarusia is here i know what you do i know what your job is you look after
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people's teeth by the way i really do need to see the dentist but the problem is at the
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moment all of the dentists are closed but i really do want to go to the dentist i feel
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as if my teeth need a very deep clean
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slobodan slobodan hello slobodan i am an attorney at law you are an attorney a lawyer i see
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i suppose i should be very careful what i'm saying
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maybe you are writing down everything i'm saying and perhaps at some point it might
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be used against me in a court of law but perhaps you can represent me maybe you can be my lawyer
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isn't that nice an attorney an attorney attorney is a great word so a person who is an attorney
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is a lawyer they normally operate in a specialized field of law so there are many areas of law
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business law maybe there is financial law maybe employment law so there are many different
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types of law and of course social law the the laws that we all have to obey on a daily
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basis the laws that we have to obey every day
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enough hello nafash akash says i am an architect
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can i just say i think that deserves do you know what that deserves that deserves a fancy
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pants oh fancy pants oh oh an architect fancy pants oh very nice hello anacoby i teach the
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italian language here in the netherlands again you are a teacher very good
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miguel or miguel is a mechanical engineer that is a job that sounds simple but i would
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imagine being a mechanical engineer means you have to have a very good head for for
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mathematics am i right all i can say is that i would be a terrible engineer i think so
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i i would be an awful engineer as i said yesterday my mathematics is terrible
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edit edit goulet says i was an animation drawer and later a fashion editor so so two very
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different jobs there but i must admit i am interested in your first job so you worked
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as a drawer for animation so you used to draw characters is that what you did many people
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who work in animation quite often are involved in something called painting painting so quite
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often you will have maybe the characters the the actual scenes but then you will have to
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ha add all of the color so in the past people would have to work and color every frame of
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a cartoon a very long painstaking job i think you have to have a lot of patience to do that
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so edit edit galley you are now a fashion editor very nice maybe you can give me some
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fashion tips
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maybe one of the tips will be mr duncan can you please lose the beret lose the beret why
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are you wearing a big red beret we don't know why oh zuzika interesting zuzika says my job
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is related to bitcoin so you are a person who is a wheeler dealer you like to
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play with stock market maybe you like you like to invest in certain things well many
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people at the moment are talking about bitcoin in fact quite a few people are talking about
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investing their money and buying shares for various reasons i don't know if you've seen
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the news recently but people have been going crazy buying up stocks now i'm going to be
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honest with you i don't fully understand the way in which the stock markets work because
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i'm not really an investor mr steve is mr steve loves playing with the stock markets
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however i don't i don't but one of the things i do know the only thing i know about stock
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markets is
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you sell high
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and you buy low is that right buy low sell high is that right am i right there that's
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the only thing i know about investing money on the stock market i don't know anything
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else so i believe that you you sell high so you can make money no that doesn't sound right
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yes i think it is you sell high and buy low that's it i think so
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you can tell that i'm not an investor i think so oh we have racer hello racer racer says
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i am a daycare teacher so what does that involve do you do you have children with you all day
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whilst the parents are at work is that what you do
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i'm very interested to find out more about your bitcoin job because many people are talking
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about these things investing gambling on the stock market
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do you do that sort of thing i don't you see i don't to be honest with you but mr steve
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is very interested in all of that stuff he really is we've been looking at your jobs
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now we are going to look at some words connected to having a job well first of all we have
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the word job job is something that can be used in more than one way when we say job
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we actually mean task a thing that you have to do a task that you have to carry out so
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your job can be something that you have to do once maybe you have to do some maintenance
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work in your garden maybe something needs fixing so that might be the job that you have
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to do maybe for today or tomorrow so a job can be a task something you have to do something
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you have to carry out something you have to do maybe repair something fix something build
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something maybe you have to paint something
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your job and then if we want to be more specific we can say your occupation well of course
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occupation is the thing that you do the thing that you do for your job the thing you do
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every day you go to work your occupation quite often when we say occupation we mean a specialist
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area so maybe your occupation concerns a certain thing a certain thing that you do every day
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or maybe five days a week or maybe at the weekend your occupation is the thing that
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you do something that occupies your time is your occupation it describes the thing that
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you do
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we also have livelihood as well we often talk about our job as our livelihood so when we
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say livelihood we often mean your means of earning money your your way of surviving as
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i mentioned a few moments ago we have no choice about working we have no choice we have to
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do it we have to try and find a job we have to find something that we can do we have to
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find a purpose i suppose so in my job well when i say my job i mean my jobs because i've
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done many jobs over the years so before i started teaching i used to also be involved
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in sales as well i did that for a few years and i was rather good at it in fact i was
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so good at selling i used to train people in the job that i did i used to train them
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to sell so that's what i used to do that's what i used to do many years ago before i
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started teaching i've always been involved with people i've always been involved with
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the public in in all of the work that i've ever done i've always been involved in some
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way with other people hiroko says i have already retired so every day is like sunday
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so how long have you been retired how long ago did it happen was it recent now i always
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think that if you retire you always have to have some sort of plan from my own point of
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view my own personal opinion so before i retire before i give up my work i have to make sure
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that i have something else for me to do another thing to do because retiring sometimes can
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be a traumatic experience i think it can it can be quite quite traumatic so if you suddenly
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stop working because you've retired
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what do you do afterwards how do you spend your time after that
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ricardo apparently luis mendes was talking about the stock market apparently oh yes this
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is interesting apparently many stock markets or may many shares are are inflated inflated
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so they are they are their value is more than they are worth i see what you mean yes that's
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a good one many people on here are teachers i think so i would appear to attract a lot
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of teachers
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rowan oh rowan you are right yesterday i said i was going to take a picture of mr steve's
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office but i forgot about it i forgot all about it i can't do it now because i'm on
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here but i will show you a picture of mr steve's very sophisticated studio or should i say
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his office very nice he has lots of high-tech equipment in his office right now it looks
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amazing so yes i will take a photograph of mr steve in his office and i will show it
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on thursday donna is also a teacher nice rosa asks what is a wheeler dealer a person who
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is a wheeler dealer is a person who often makes deals with other people maybe they buy
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things and sell things we often describe that person as a wheeler dealer they sometimes
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sell things and sometimes they buy things quite often you might describe a person who
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invests money on the stock market you might say that they are a wheeler dealer they like
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to buy things and sell things livelihood it is your way of surviving here's another word
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labor now this is a word that can be used as both a verb so you can labor over something
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you can labor over something you are laboring you labor but of course the word labor also
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means work so heavy work hard work work that requires you to have a lot of strength might
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be described as labor so labor you labor over something you are laboring you are doing some
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heavy strenuous work labor of course the reason why we work is to make sure that we have a
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source of income now here is the word now i i mentioned this word yesterday didn't i
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there it is
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source so there is a word that i actually mentioned yesterday source so your source
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of income and there is the other word income your source of income so you need to have
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a job and you need to be paid for that job so you have some money your income is your
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money the money that you earn from your job is your income so that's the reason why we
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work
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for most of the time
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of course some of us some of us work for nothing some of us work for free i wonder who that
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could be
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i work for free yeah all of this everything here is free yes it doesn't i don't charge
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you anything for this i really don't saeed oh that's interesting syed retired in 2017.
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so how are you enjoying your retirement syed is it good are you having lots of fun
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here's another word your means of living so your job provides two things first of all
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it gives you something to do with your time let's face it sometimes if you have nothing
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to do you can feel bored so having a job gives you a purpose you have something to do you
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you can offer your services to someone but also a job is a means of living you have to
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have a job to live so when we say your means
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the means are the things that you have or the things that you earn your way of surviving
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your means of living so that's the reason why we most of us have a job because we have
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to live we have to earn money when we talk about our job we often discuss our career
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i'm sure you have a career i have a career
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your work path can be described as your career so just because you start doing a certain
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thing when you are young it doesn't mean that you will do that thing all your life some
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people do lots of different jobs during their lives including me so over the years i've
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actually done many jobs many jobs over the years
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some of the jobs were very unpleasant i i know i've mentioned this before in my life
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i've done some very horrible jobs for a few months i had to work as a cleaner it's true
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this is going back many many years but yes when i didn't have a job i had to go out and
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i had to find any job i had to do anything so i was always willing to do some work even
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if the work was unpleasant i would still do it so yes i used to work cleaning the floors
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in a large supermarket and i used to have to get up at four o'clock in the morning and
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i would go to work and i would clean the floors in the supermarket and i would go upstairs
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and i would have to sometimes sometimes i would have to clean the toilets
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and i have no shame saying that because sometimes you have no choice sometimes when you have
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no job maybe during a difficult period of time you have to take anything you have to
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take any job and that's what i did so i never worried about doing a job that was unpleasant
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or difficult and there is a reason for that that i will explain later on i will explain
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later on why it is a good thing to do any job anything even if that job is a little
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bit unpleasant
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there are two types of job two ways of doing your work you can be employed by someone so
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that means you work for another person or maybe you work for a company you are employed
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by the company you are employed by another person so that person will pay you for doing
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your job and then you can be self-employed and this is interesting because i i went into
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self-employment many years ago and it's not an easy thing to do i think self-employment
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there it is self-employment is not easy being employed by someone i think is much easier
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i think it's much easier to be employed by someone than to be self-employed and the reason
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is because if you are self-employed then you have to do all of the documents all of the
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paperwork all of the tax returns you have to do everything yourself so not only do you
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have to do your job you have to do all of the administration as well and that can be
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very difficult
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can i let you one on a secret i'm going to tell you a little secret now and i've never
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told you this before because sometimes i do like to share my secrets mr steve takes care
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of my book work mr steve does it i don't have to do it you see isn't that good so you might
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say that mr steve is is my accountant
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is there anything that mr steve can't do he is the most amazing person he can do so many
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different things he really can so you can be employed by another company or self-employed
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and of course the length of time that you work each week can vary you can work full
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time full time so for example here in england most people work for around 40 hours each
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week so the average working week is 40 hours
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but of course you can also work part-time as well so maybe your job is only there for
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a few hours each week you only have to do your job for maybe 10 or 15 hours a week so
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many years ago i also used to work part-time so again sometimes you you have no choice
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over the type of work you take so in the past when things were hard and i am going back
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many years i did do part-time work so you can have full-time work
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and part-time work and of course at the end of the week or the month you will always receive
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your wage or salary you will receive your wage or your salary so most people these days
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will be paid every month so at the end of the month you receive your wage you receive
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your salary
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another word well we have pay and we we have something called re remunerate you remunerate
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you give something in return so you might say that your wages or your salary is something
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that is given back to you it is something that is given back so you provide your time
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and your energy and your labor and they give you something in return
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so what about you in the past have you done any unusual jobs maybe jobs that you didn't
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enjoy doing maybe a job that you didn't like maybe something that you had difficulty doing
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sometimes it happens maybe we start a job maybe we work for a company and perhaps the
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work is too hard the work is too difficult to actually do
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if you are very lucky you might receive some training you might get some training you might
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be able to join a company and get some training we often use the word apprentice an apprentice
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is a person who works alongside another person they watch that person working they watch
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that person doing their job so an apprentice is someone who is learning from another person
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and finally oh this is my favorite word of all i think this word is the most incredible
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word in the world especially if you're talking about your job or your career the word is
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experience the most valuable thing you will ever get in your life more valuable than gold
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more valuable than diamonds experience you can't put a price on experience because when
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you learn something you keep it forever so in my own life in my life i've noticed that
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there is no such thing as bad experience all experience is good experience all experience
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is useful experience so whatever it is you do whatever it is you are trying to do with
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your life you can find a place where you can get experience learn how to do something give
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yourself a skill gain experience so every single job that i've done in my life i've
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always taken away some experience from that job even when i was cleaning the floors in
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the supermarket over 30 years ago
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i actually learned things and the things i learned even doing that job are still with
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me to this day so if you learn something if you get experience you can't begin to appreciate
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the value of experience it is something you can't put a price on you really can't
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ricardo says experience is the mother of science yes i think so i think experience is the mother
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of life
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because if you don't get experience then you will have no skills that's where your skills
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come from you see experiencing things even if you learn something in school or learn
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something at university or if you learn something when you start a new job you are gaining something
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that's very valuable something you can't put a price on and that thing is experience you
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can't put a price on experience it can give you a lot of help in your life
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i hope you've enjoyed this live stream this is the second live stream that i've done this
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month don't forget i am back with you tomorrow as well victoria says before teaching i was
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a lawyer's secretary and a congress organizer all of these things were good experience yes
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i agree with you whatever it is even if the thing that you are learning even if it doesn't
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seem useful at that moment you might find later on in your life that thing will be useful
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it will be valuable a good example i suppose was when i was a teenager i was always interested
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in taking photographs it was something that i always liked doing so i've got lots of photographs
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of my mother and my family lots of photographs of nature in the area where i lived the area
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where i grew up and i became very interested in taking pictures and i thought this is quite
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good fun it's great you can take a picture of a person and that moment of time is frozen
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forever and here i am now many years later standing in front of a camera and also using
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a camera not only to take pictures but also to film videos so you see any experience in
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your life can lead to something else even if at the time you don't know what it is it
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could be something that comes along later in your life
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thank you very much for your company today i am going in a moment yes my hour has come
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to an end don't forget tomorrow we have something different from tomorrow 2 pm uk time there
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will be a new video wow there will be a new video on my youtube channel something i haven't
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done for a long time and then on thursday i will be back with you live thursday live
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from 2 p.m uk time so please look out for my video tomorrow i it will be there you will
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have a chance to look at something unusual something different and you can listen to
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my voice at the same time if you can stand it please join me then thank you mr duncan
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thank you beatrice thank you moretta thank you faye
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i am a teenager and i just can start can c can't teach myself it is all that i can do
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for my future oh i see so you are learning new things well the best time to learn something
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new is always when you're young always thank you beatrice thank you very much i am going
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to have a cup of tea with mr steve thank you for joining me today don't forget tomorrow
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i am with you on video tomorrow wednesday and then on thursday i am back once more live
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right here in my little studio i hope you've enjoyed this thank you for watching see you
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on thursday and also don't forget to look out for my video tomorrow this is mr duncan
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in the birthplace of english saying thanks for watching i hope you've enjoyed this i
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am going now it is time to say goodbye for now i will see you again very soon and of
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course until the next time we meet here on youtube wherever you are in the world whatever
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you are doing stay happy stay safe keep that smile upon your face
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and of course you know what's coming next
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ta ta for now
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