31 Days of Learning English - 10th October - improve your English - THINK / VIEW - day 10

yes here we are again oh my goodness is it really Thursday already welcome to

day 10 of 31 days of English in October 2019

hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today are you ok I

hope so are you happy well are you happy I

really hope so here we are again all together on day 10 of 31 days of October

yes I'm with you every single day 31 days of live streams Monday to Friday 2

p.m. and also on Saturday you can catch me midday 12 p.m. UK time and on Sunday

2 p.m. UK time every day during the month of October celebrating my 13th

year on YouTube there are still people asking why I'm doing this the reason is

because my youtube channel will be 13 years old at the end of this month so I

thought I would do something special and what better way could there be a better

way of celebrating your 13th anniversary on YouTube than by being on every single

day so here I am for you right now yesterday we were in the kitchen I hope

you enjoyed that we will of course be in the kitchen again next Wednesday and the

Wednesday after that as well so we are coming up to a third of the way through

October and next week we will be halfway through the month already it feels as if

time is going by very quickly so already we have reached day 10 let's have a look

outside shall we what's the view outside I hear you ask the weather today is not

too bad it is cloudy we had some brilliant sunshine earlier it was lovely

and then the the Sun went in and then the cloud has returned but it isn't too

bad however however it is a little chilly especially at night

there you can see another view looking out of my studio window you can see it

is a little bit murky it isn't very sunny at the moment however it was

glorious earlier it was so nice outside I couldn't believe how nice it was but

at the moment it is gloomy here in the UK as I mentioned it is getting cold

autumn has arrived and already I have prepared myself for the arrival of

autumn and winter so I have my lovely wooly hat look there is my hat I have

got my extra warm hat ready because apparently now this is something that

the newspapers are reporting at the moment I don't think it's true but every

year this happens the newspapers always say that the weather is going to be

either it's very hot or very cold so at the moment they are forecasting one of

the coldest winters for over 30 years how true that is remains to be seen

however I do have my lovely woolen hat ready to keep my head warm also I have

my my lovely long scarf so the scarf will go around my neck to keep me nice

and warm it will keep my neck warm so I won't get a chill also and the most

important thing of all in fact I have my gloves so my gloves are also ready to

keep my little hands warm when I'm outside walking around and these these

particular gloves are actually quite unusual because they are red you don't

often see red gloves but these particular gloves are actually red

in color look at that they are red and they are very unusual you can say mr.

Duncan we have caught you red-handed Oh red-handed if you catch someone

red-handed it means you catch them committing a

crime you catch them because it is evident that you committed the crime you

have been caught red-handed very nice so I have my gloves ready and also my extra

thick underwear which I'm not going to show you you were pleased to hear so my

gloves already as well so I will be nice and warm during the forthcoming winter

months there is only one story in town right here in the UK now UK means

United Kingdom but at the moment this country is anything but United in fact

it should be earn United Kingdom and the one story that everyone is talking about

at the moment yes we are talking about this subject here in this country

everyone is talking about it because now we are approaching a very crucial moment

where we have to decide what is going to happen at the end of this month and can

you believe it the day of bricks it happens to be on the same day as my

YouTube anniversary can you believe it so over the next few days we will find

out first of all if there is a deal at the moment it is looking unlikely as the

UK prepares to leave the European Union a very dramatic week this week lots of

things lots of heated arguments taking place here and also across the English

Channel so brexit the British

sit from the european union is the only story that everyone is talking about

here in the UK right now every single person has an opinion on this subject

some people are for and some people are against some want to remain and some

want to leave I know what you're going to ask you are going to ask mr. Duncan

what is your opinion of brexit hmm I wonder what it could be so that is the

one story that everyone is talking about it is the trending story here in the UK

it's also worth mentioning that today is a global event it is World Mental Health

Awareness Day so all around the world people are raising awareness of mental

illness this is something we talked about on Monday we did a livestream

where I talked about words connected to mental health so here in the UK we are

having a special week of awareness raising the issues connected to mental

health and today around the world it is Mental Health Awareness Day all around

the world many people doing lots of things to help raise awareness of those

who are dealing with mental illnesses hello Andrew you are first also yeah man

who apologizes oh don't apologize I understand that you can't be here every

day I do know that you have a busy life you have other things to do besides

watch me so Andrew you are first and also I will say a big hello to you man

as well and there is no need to apologize

congratulations you are first on today's live stream Tonya hello Tanya nice to

see you here again I think you were watching yesterday weren't you did you

enjoy my lesson in the kitchen it was a little different sometimes I like to do

things in a different way quite often people write to me and they

say mr. Duncan you are not the usual teacher you are a little extraordinary

you teach in a rather unusual way I think this is true and I will not

disagree Kunal hello Kunal Belarus EA one of our moderators is here yeah man

is also here and Noemi Louie Oh Louie Louie hello Louie Louie not to be

confused with Lewis hello Tania again yogurt hello year ago I like your name

by the way it sounds very nice and it feels nice when you say it a year ago

mmm by the way I've just made myself a cup of coffee just before I started my

live stream I actually made a cup of coffee there it is can you see my coffee

oh I have a cup of coffee this will keep me going because we have a very busy

hour we are talking about lots of things words connected to thinking also we are

talking about the differences between the two spellings of the word too and

also other things as well but for now I'm going to slurp my coffee hmm that is

a lovely cup of coffee although who it is very strong so I think today I have

put to a coffee in my coffee so it's quite

strong so I am having a very big intake a very big dose of caffeine right now so

that will keep me going it will keep me active until we finish today's lesson

hmm oh that is lovely by the way it around about 2:30 half

past two we are going to take a little look at a lovely video where I take a

walk around the place in which I live I promised this during the week and today

we will have a look as I take you around the place in which I live much Wenlock

we will have a look at that it around about half past two

meanwhile oh let's have a look out the window again because there is something

I want to show you right now this is something I filmed yesterday would you

like to have a look at a very unusual view out of my window there it is it is

a mountain well when I say mountain it is a small mountain you might even

describe it as a large hill and it is a place called kare-kare doc care Cara doc

and you can see it above the horizon and that is actually the view from the top

of my stairs in the house so if I stand at the top of the stairs inside my house

I can actually see that hill in the distance and it's called

care Cara doc and a long time ago there was a large hill fort during the now

people think it might be during the Bronze Age there is actually a small

fort up there there is the remains of what used to be an encampment or fort a

place where people lived and also there was a large wall

all surrounding it to keep everyone safe and here is another view of this

mountain so there you can see it from my house and here is a very close view so

that is the same Hill but a little bit closer so there is one of the well-known

landmarks around this area and the hill fort is half way up and you can still

see parts of the Bronze Age hill fort right now it still exists so I hope you

enjoyed that I do like looking out of my window in fact you might say that from

my window you can see some beautiful landscape landscape so when we say

landscape we mean the view of the land as it lies in front of you so the

landscape is the view that you get as you look across the land or as you look

towards the horizon you will see the landscape and view so the view can be a

noun and a verb so you will view something you will look at something and

the thing you look at is the view especially if it is a landscape so you

can see something from your window you are enjoying the view view we can also

use the word Vista as well Vista so as you look from your window you will see

the Vista the horizon and all of the land that lies in front of it Vista and

finally the panorama so when we say panorama we mean the overall view going

horizontally so across the horizon from one side

to the other a lot of people nowadays like to take photographs that show the

whole panorama so the whole view the whole view is the panorama we can

describe it as a panoramic view so when we say panoramic we are saying the view

is overall it is showing everything I hope that was helping helpful it is

Thursday yesterday I kept saying Thursday but today it is definitely

Thursday no doubt about it and today we are talking about some different parts

of the English language including the difference between these two words 2 & 2

you can see here there are two words that sound the same but they are spelt

differently and also they have different uses so very quickly I'm going to take

you through I'm going to show you very quickly the two ways of using these

words because there are a lot of uses first of all shall we have a look at the

first use okay then why not - when expressing motion in the direction of a

particular location for example walking to the shops my first visit to England

we're going to a party so in this sense we are expressing motion in the

direction of a particular location we are going somewhere you are going to a

place the next one and there are quite a few believe you me the next one another

use of two expressing location tip in relation to a specified point so a

particular point we are relating to a specified point it's 40 miles to the

next town it's 40 miles to the next town place the flowers to the left of the

window so you are saying where something is positioned to something or the

distance from somewhere another one oh another use of two in British English we

use the word two to tell the time so we use it to tell the time for example it

is ten to five it is 20 to 6 it is a quarter to seven so there you can see

some examples of how we often tell the time especially if it is approaching the

hour another one for you to approach or if you are if you are reaching a

particular condition or situation the mood changed from joy to Hara so if you

are reaching or approaching a certain situation or normally a condition the

mood changed from joy to hora I was close to tears that means I was almost

crying I was close to tears I was almost crying another use of - and there are

many expressing the results of a process or action smashed to smithereens oh I

like that word by the way if you are smashed to

smithereens it means you are smashed to pieces two very small pieces it has been

destroyed it has been smashed to smithereens and also torn to pieces

something has been torn to pieces it has been ripped it has been torn to pieces

burnt to a cinder if you cut something for too long you might burn the thing

you are cooking it will be burnt to a cinder to identifying the person or

thing affected by or receiving something for example you were unkind to her you

were unkind to her they donated 400 pounds to the charity I'm deeply

grateful to you Wow who would have thought such a small word

would have so many uses the relationship between one person and another he's

married to his cousin Anna okay he's an adviser to the president she's engaged

to an actor

another use how one thing relates to another made-to-order so we can make

this thing to order so that means we can have something specially made for you it

is made to order a prelude to disaster the word prelude means just before the

thing that happens just before so prelude is the thing that

just before or maybe the first thing that comes before the second thing and

made-to-measure something that is made-to-measure is

made especially for you it has been made just for you

it has been made to measure quite often if you want to have a piece of clothing

that fits you really well we will say that you have it made to measure another

one to indicate that two things are connected or linked the dog was tied to

a lamppost a dozen balloons were tied to the front door so things

that are connected one thing is connected or tied to something else the

things are connected or linked a couple of more before we have a look around the

town to express purpose or intention I set out to buy food so if you set out to

buy food it means you go you express the purpose you express the intention or you

could say I will set out to buy food I will go so you are expressing intention

something you will do I am going to tell you a story

ah so I am about to tell a story to you I am determined to do well I am

determined to do well that is my intention of course there is another

spelling of the word and I will show you straight away

ah yes so this one is actually different a different spelling completely so

instead of one you have two letter o's something that is at

or has reached a higher degree than is desirable so something has become more

than you want you only want a little but unfortunately you have a lot you have

more than you want it is too hot in here you are going too fast

this lesson is too long is that for me maybe also we can use two

instead of very you are too kind he is too generous we won't have to wait too

long so you can also use this word instead of very and finally two can mean

in addition to or also so you are adding something to the thing that you already

had so maybe two people are doing something and then a third person will

come to or also or even as well you are visiting here too you are visiting here

too so we are expressing surprise that another person is also visiting the same

place as me you are visiting here too it is raining too so maybe you are

expressing the weather conditions maybe you say oh it's very windy today it is

raining too it is also raining and maybe your friend wants to come to

your party but they haven't been invited but you can say you can come too you can

come too also I hope that helps a lot of things

to explain there so many uses of a very small word and that is one of the things

that always fascinates me about the English language is how very small words

tend to have many definitions it's true thanks for your messages today I am

deeply grateful to to those who think about humanity and do the pet the best

that we people can live with love and peace side by side

well I always hope and as they say hope will always spring eternal thank you

very much Sherea Sherea ms/ms that miss a day I

hope I pronounced your name right I will be saying hello to Japan in a few

moments but first of all we are going to take a look around the place in which I

live a lot of people have asked mr. Duncan can you show us where you live

can you show us the town in which you live so just for those people who are

curious here is a very special video just for you many people ask me mr.

Duncan where do you live well I thought today it'd be a good chance for you to

have a look in the place I live because it's such a beautiful day today so here

it is here is the place in which I live it's much Wenlock in Shropshire one of

the most beautiful places in England and if you haven't been here my question is

why not can you see what's over there that is the local Undertaker they are

the people responsible for arranging funerals they help to dispose of dead

people it's a rather sobering thought that one day those people will be

putting me in the ground

if there's one thing I really love about a day like this it's the gentle calming

breeze just a very gentle breeze blowing in the air helping to keep me nice and

cool the word breeze can be used in many ways of course it is the gentle wind

cooling and refreshing as it blows by a very gentle breeze just like today

really there is a lovely summer breeze in the air keeping me nice and cool

also breeze can mean to do something very easily

I passed my exam yesterday it was easy in fact it was a breeze something that

is very easy to do something that you found easy to do can be described as a

breeze to move gently maybe into a room or out of a room or in front of a group

of people to suddenly appear can be described as breeze he breathed into the

room with complete confidence

now there is a very interesting place a gate to a secret garden a place that is

unknown and never seen by anyone just like the story have you ever read that

story it's called the secret garden it's a brilliant story full of adventure

excitement mystery and of course a little bit of fantasy as well we all

like a little bit of fantasy in our lives from time to time

do you recognize this place this is where I did my famous petal dance but as

you can see the puddle has now gone the water has disappeared it's so hot at the

moment the puddle has completely evaporated

it might sound like a strange thing to say but due to making these English

lessons for you my life changed completely and here is what happened way

back in 2012 I made a special lesson right here in Much Wenlock talking all

about the origins of the modern Olympic Games and I fell in love with this place

I loved it so much I ended up moving here and so did mr. Steve the field

behind me is where every year the Wenlock games are held and this very

place was the inspiration for the modern Olympic Games that we all know now

here is an interesting phrase that you might hear used quite often in English

the phrase is cross the line

if you cross the line it means you have gone too far you have done something

that has upset many people or one person you have crossed the line up until a

certain point what you were saying or doing was okay but you had to go too far

you had to cross the line you went from being okay to offensive you went from

being acceptable to unacceptable you crossed the line I must be honest it is

absolutely baking hot today I can't believe I've been outside for the past

four hours filming in this heat this intense heat I think it's fair to say

this we will all remember the summer of 2018 and can you see behind me look

everywhere is scorched the Sun has dried all the grass all of the trees all of

the bushes everything looks parched and tinder-dry

and that is one of the reasons why there are many wildfires breaking out at the

moment including here in the UK and more recently in Greece

if you remember earlier in the year I showed you this field I showed you all

of the yellow flowers that were blooming in this field

this is rapeseed so everything you see behind me is rapeseed and now as the

seeds come out you can see now that we have small seed pods and inside these

are the rape seeds and these will be gathered very soon and then they will be

compressed and all of the oil will be extracted and that is rapeseed oil but

as you can see once again the theme is very similar this whole field is now

very dry very arid and perhaps I'm not 100% certain but perhaps this whole crop

has been ruined by the hot weather although if I just have a look inside

this pod yes you can see all of the rape seeds can you see them there they are

very tiny black seeds and that is where the rapeseed oil will come from

can you see what I've got here a lovely icecream

the only problem is it's so hot today the ice cream is already beginning to

melt however it is very much appreciated there is nothing worse than being hot

and sticky on a day like this right now I'm in the square here in Much Wenlock

in the center of the tower a very small cozy area in the afternoon lots of

people like to come and sit down especially today because the Sun is out

and some people have decided to come into town to enjoy the sunshine and of

course sample the local ice cream so for those who are wondering where I live and

the town in which I live now you know the answer you are very aware of the

place in which I live so I hope that answers your question and I hope you

enjoyed that video which was filmed last year during a very hot period of weather

so it was a very hot summer last year in 2018 so I hope you enjoyed that some

people saying the streets looks so small that is true so the place I live in or

at is a very small place and that is why the roads are quite narrow

sometimes the town is very busy especially during the summer months when

many tourists come to visit so yes it can be a very busy place but also

sometimes it can be very quiet and secluded so I do like this place and

as I mentioned in a video I live here because of making these lessons so

because I filmed the lesson here in which Wenlock I actually fell in love

with the place and now I live here so sometimes the things you do in your life

can take you in some very interesting directions that's what I think anyway

Cristina says what a lovely walk around much when Locke

there are many historical places to visit and there is nature everywhere

there is actually an old Abbey as well which is now derelict so when something

is derelict it means it has been destroyed there is something left of it

so you can still see it but sadly it is derelict it is unused it has been badly

damaged it is derelict thank you to ledge L

hello lads l fascinating thank you very much I'm glad to hear that Najeeb is

here yes mr. Steve is always here with me except for when he's working so he's

not here at the moment a lot of people wondering why Steve

isn't with me today but he can't be with me because he's working in fact I think

today he's gone all the way to a place called Macclesfield so Steve today is

very far away hello also to Anna it was love at first

sight with Much Wenlock well I must be honest with you it is strange sometimes

how things that you do in your life can actually affect other things as well so

I just happened to come here to do a lesson to make a lesson so I was doing

some filming just before the Olympic Games began in London and that's the

reason why I came here to do some filming but then I fell in love with the

town I loved the place I loved the surroundings so

eventually in 2013 we actually moved right here we moved to this place my my

nephew is watching at the moment hello Damien afternoon mr. Duncan watching you

live now from Stafford I should be working

oh very naughty so sometimes when we should be working we we like to do other

things instead and we call that skiving if you sky Eve

it means you avoid doing the thing you should be doing or perhaps you avoid

avoid doing work okay then I was I will probably see you at the weekend actually

because I'm coming over Stafford yes Stafford is the place where

I was raised that is my hometown mr. Duncan

Pedro Belmont I think Pedro is making a point mr. Duncan you should give your

special attention for your followers from South America as you know you've

plenty of fans here too late and live this is something I used to do I used to

do a very late livestream but I stopped doing it for two reasons one it was very

tiring and two not many people were really watching to be honest so those

were the main reasons Demian says by the way Demian is my nephew it is quiet in

the office Oh on you lucky I wish it was quiet and relaxed here I've been doing

this since 7:30 this morning so normally in the morning I get up very early and I

have to spend many hours preparing this livestream so I do spend a lot of time

doing this in fact during October I am doing this every day can you

believe it 31 days of live English every day during October I know it seems

incredible but I am doing this every day and I will be back tomorrow so I'm here

for another 10 minutes thank you yeah man who is watching in Indonesia yes I

have a lot of people watching there so it's very nice Thank You Pedro for for

your suggestion shark sharra says I have been three times to

London it is a really nice city and also multicultural there are many people from

different parts of the world with different languages and from different

cultures living in London I will be there at Christmas oh I was determined I

was determined not to say Christmas during October but sadly there we go

I've said it yes people are already talking about Christmas here in the UK

there is a shopping channel on television here in the UK and already

they have started their Christmas promotions it's it's still October it's

only the 10th of October please can everyone stop talking about Christmas

it's too early to talk about Christmas hello to freedom thinker hello good

evening it's great to have you as my online teacher yes I have received some

lovely comments from people saying I will miss you when you've gone well I'm

not going anywhere but during October I am with you every

day so I think a lot of people now look forward to watching my live stream every

day and you're not the only one because Steve said two days ago he

said why don't you do everyday all the time

what I'm not sure I'm not sure about that no I'm not sure about everyday and

and last night we were having our supper last night and I made a joke to Steve I

said why don't we do a live stream on Christmas Day and Steve said ok I'm not

sure about that hi sir what do you do with your printed pages oh I see do you

mean do you mean these to me my my pieces of paper well all of this is

actually reused so you can actually take the back of this you can see here I've

used some tape so I can take this tape off and I will actually reuse this paper

so I can use this paper again for other things I often use the paper that I use

in my live streams for for writing down notes so all of the paper that I use

does not go to waste it is used again in some way oh by the way there it is again

bricks it everyone's talking about it some people are fighting about it some

people are going into the streets and they are having fights in the street ok

not really not yet anyway yeah man says I am in Bundang oh I wonder where

that is have you ever sinned palmyra or palmyra says Mr Duncan what a sin

you made oh I see you are you are telling me that I've made a sin I wonder

what that sin is there are so many of them here is an interesting word and it

relates to something that we do quite often it is something that I do and also

mr. Steve does a lot especially at night Eve often does this particular thing at

night when he should be asleep do you know what it is no it's not that

think think so this is something we all do sometimes we do it a lot and

sometimes we do it very little or too little

so to think is to consider something in your mind the things that are going over

in your mind sometimes you think about maybe just one thing sometimes you will

have lots of things to think about there might be many things that you have to

think about at the same time and sometimes I think thinking can be a real

pain in the neck because especially at night you're trying to get to sleep you

want to get to sleep but your brain is still working it still wants to think

about things and your body is saying for goodness sake go to sleep brain so to

think is to use this to maybe imagine something or to go back in time and

think about something that happened a few days ago or even a few years ago

think another word we can use is consider so you will consider something

quite often when we consider something we might have to come to a conclusion we

might have to make a decision so you consider you think about the thing in

question maybe you have to make a choice or a decision you have to consider

consider maybe you have to consider your choices

or the things you might do so there is a good word consider you think about you

consider I like this one

this is a great word ponder I know it doesn't sound like a real word but it is

a real word if you ponder it means you think about something you maybe think

about the meaning of life perhaps you are lying in the garden on a warm

summer's day and you are thinking about all of the things that are happening

around you you will ponder ponder to consider

hmm hmm what's it all about I will ponder

another phrase mull over if you mull it means you think about something so if

you mull over something it means you you will think about it

again if you have to make a decision if you have to come to a decision

you mull over a particular subject or topic mull over I won't give you a

decision right now I can't tell you what my answer is right now I'm sorry I will

have to go away and mull over my decision I will have to think about it

sometimes thinking means that you have to make a decision so quite often when

we think about something we might have to come to a decision and to do that you

will need to judge so when you judge something it means you are considering

the outcome or maybe you have to make a choice of some sort so to judge a

situation or to judge outcome of a situation so you have to make a decision

or a choice but to do that you have to judge quite often during a contest

there will be a group of people who have to choose who they prefer or who they

like and they will judge the contestants

another one another way of expressing feel and judging way you way so to weigh

something is to think about something maybe you have to come to a decision you

have to make a choice you weigh the idea you weigh the consequences you think

about the outcome so here is another way of expressing thinking as a way of

making a decision you weigh the consequences you weigh the outcome you

consider it in your mind I like this word here's a big one sometimes I like

to get a big one and show it to you Bing adjudicate oh yes I like that one I like

that one Judah Kate adjudicate if you add Judah

Kate it means you judge you make a decision you make a choice so very

similar to very similar to this word very similar to judge so you judge

something you adjudicate you adjudicate so maybe you listen to maybe two sides

of an argument but then you have to make a decision you will adjudicate you will

oversee something with a view to making a decision

or a choice adjudicate I like that one that's a great word and you do hear it a

lot especially in legal terms so in law you will often hear people say

adjudicate or adjudication and finally you need to think

about something you need to figure out if you figure out something it means you

think about it or maybe you come up with an answer or you work out what you

should do you try to come to a decision or you try to work out how to do

something you figure out and quite often if you want to figure out something you

have to think and there it is we are coming towards the end of today's live

stream I can't believe how fast it has gone but don't worry because I'm back

tomorrow Friday it's just around the corner before I go can I say a special

hello to all my lovely friends watching in Japan take care because over the next

24 hours there is a terrible typhoon apparently they are describing it as a

super typhoon typhoon Hagibis or is it a Ha jee bis?

typhoon Hagibis at the moment is making its way towards Japan with winds

apparently some of the wind speeds will be up to 200 miles an hour so this is a

pretty ferocious storm heading towards Japan so can I wish all of my friends

watching in Japan a safe weekend stay indoors don't go outside and please take

care and stay safe as I just said thank you Eric Thank You pal Mira

thank you Najib is way a synonym of measure yes it is especially when we are

talking about how heavy something is so wait if you weigh something it means you

want to know how heavy something is so way is the verb form you weigh something

so in that sense you are working out how heavy some

thing is but if you way in your mind it means you are considering the situation

thank you very much Christina Emre hello amory I didn't see you on the

live chat nice to see you here now hello Naomi pachu Christina thank you very

much for your company I'm going because it is now in fact it it has just passed

three o'clock here in the UK hello also to nasiha who says don't

judge the book by its cover hmm I like that one so the appearance of

someone should never be taken as what their character or the way they are

actually is so you might look at a person maybe they appear angry or upset

or maybe you dislike them because of their appearance however you should

never judge the book by its cover you might be surprised at what is between

the covers thank you very much for joining me I'm going now by the way I'm

going to finish off my cup of coffee this is mr. Duncan in the birthplace of

English saying thank you very much for watching me today I'm back tomorrow 2

p.m. UK time and all I have to say now is thanks for being here on day 10 I

will see you tomorrow for day 11 and of course it's Friday tomorrow the weekend

is just around the corner and of course you know what's coming next

ta ta for now 8-)