do you ever find yourself with too much to do is there ever a time when you wish
things would calm down and not be so chaotic in these fast-moving times it is
possible to become overwhelmed by the pace of life you might find that you
have too many things to deal with at once we can say that you have too much
on your plate there is too much going on in your life this can lead to your life
becoming chaotic and disorganized you have a lot to deal with at once there
are many things going on at once you have a lot on your plate I hope you
don't have a lot on your plate today because it's Sunday afternoon here in
the UK and this is live English
yes here we go again it's Sunday it's a fun day it's time to learn some English
here we go again hi everybody this is mr. Duncan in England how are you today
are you okay I hope so are you happy I really really hope so
here we go again it's Sunday once more and it's time once
again to have some live English here it is here is today's show can you see what
is written on his paper this is the whole two hours of today's show but the
writing is so small even I can't read it where I'm sitting here I can't read this
because it's so tiny but that is it that is the entirety of today's live English
dream can you see it it's very small writing so how are you how's things how
is it all going where you are in the world I hope everything is okay it is
Sunday the 19th of November 2017 we are over halfway through November December
is approaching and of course we all know what happens in December do you know
what happens something very special something very colorful something very
exciting happens during December of course we all celebrate well some of us
celebrate Christmas and as you can see I have been very busy this week I've been
putting up my Christmas lights but as you can see I've got myself into a
little bit of a tangle here with my Christmas lights I've got a little bit
wrapped up in what I've been doing so I've been very busy this week putting up
my Christmas lights as you can see things are complete
chaotic as usual chaotic so the big question must be what was the view like
this morning the view from my window what was it like let's have a look shall
we so here it is this is the view from my window this morning I woke up to a
lovely autumnal morning as you can see most of the trees have turned brown
and gold so autumn is now at its peak so most of the trees that will turn brown
or gold of course they are called deciduous trees deciduous trees will
lose their leaves during the autumn months so there you can see the view
this morning everything looking very autumn in all and if you look in my
garden you can see that many of the trees are still green and that's because
they are evergreen evergreen so they do not lose their leaves during autumn
there is a lesson all about autumn on my youtube channel and you can catch that
by looking at the playlists did you see last week's lesson it was very busy mr.
Steve was in such a good mood last week because he ordered some new tires for
his car it's true mr. Steve gets very easily excited did you miss it
did you miss last week's livestream how dare you well for those who missed it
here it is in 26 seconds
so there it was last week's live stream in just 26 seconds did you see it last
week it was a very busy one we also have a very busy one today as I've already
mentioned we have mr. Steve and of course mr. Steve will be here today at 3
o'clock I think it's just you mr. Steve so there he is mr. Steve coming our way
live at 3 o'clock today and with mr. Steve we will be talking all about his
new health fad yes as regular viewers will know mr. Steve is a very health
conscious person so this week he has started yet another crazy health fad
what is it we will find out later on when mr. Steve appears once again and of
course we'll be talking to mr. Steve about something else today we're going
to talk all about something that a lot of people use in their everyday lives
we're going to talk all about SMS messaging now quite often when we send
messages on our phones we often abbreviate what we want to say normally
because we are quite often in a hurry so we don't we don't have much time in
which to send the message so we normally shorten things we shorten the sentences
and we make the words shorter we often abbreviate words when we send text
messages so today with mr. Steve we are going to
take a look at text message abbreviations a little bit later on as
well I went for a lovely walk yesterday Oh as we just saw autumn is definitely
at its peak at the moment it is the peak of autumn and Here I am yesterday taking
a walk in the autumn the autumn atmosphere surrounding me completely now
look at that I don't know about you but I never get bored looking at autumn I
can look at look at my window I can look out of the window and watch the autumn
scenery for hours and hours it is truly a beautiful time of the year I
absolutely love autumn so much really really do and there you can see many of
the leaves that have fallen from the trees some of them are brown some of
them are gold and some of them are still green so there it is the view during my
walk that I took yesterday oh and it was a beautiful day very Ottoman all it
wasn't sunny but it was very cloudy but it did feel very or terminal very cool
and there you can see the beautiful autumn leaves I also had a nice treat
this week I saw some birds in my garden that I've never seen before I got very
excited and this particular bird can you believe it is the smallest bird in the
UK there is no smaller bird than this bird it is the gold crest and I was very
lucky this week to actually find some gold crests in my garden sadly I didn't
have time to take any photographs so this is a photograph not taken by me
but this is what the gold crest looks like and they are very tiny birds they
are very small and as I already mentioned the gold crest is the smallest
bird in the UK it is very tiny so I felt very happy this week I was actually
outside putting my Christmas lights on the side of the house it's a very big
job and it normally takes me many days to do it so whilst out there I did see
some little gold crests flying around and they were actually feeding in from
insects they were feeding some insects they were feeding from the dams and tree
they were actually eating tiny insects so there it is some gold crests a lovely
or terminal world walk and of course we have mr. Steve coming later on mr. Steve
is coming at 3:00 today
no mr. Steve it's just you definitely just you and of course we can't have the
live chat without talking directly to you yes the live chat is now open
oh wow there are so many people already on the live chat hello - I'm Anne hello
I'm Anne how are you today also Kumar Jiang Julie
Patricia najjar Elinor Pham ooh hello to you Luciano is here hello and I hope you
are all fine and healthy we are I feel great today
Blaz Nell C is here watching in Haiti hello to you and a big hi to everyone
watching in Haiti Ayman why did you change the time now this is something
I've had quite a few emails about I haven't changed the time but the time in
the UK has changed so we have actually changed our clocks we have gone back one
hour we've gone back one hour so normally at
the end of summer when winter begins we normally turn the clocks back so that's
the reason why for some people my live stream is now appearing at a different
time so the time here in the UK has gone back one hour in fact it's been like
this for about three weeks now three weeks lots of things to ask today we
have the mystery idioms coming very soon also I have something very lovely to
show you do you remember the sleeping bull who remembers the bull that was
sleeping at the back of my house and I made a very special video showing you
the the bull having a little sleep well today we have something even cuter
something very cute to show you later and it is the sleeping chick a little
fledgling bird is having asleep in my garden and that we will be taking a look
at that a little bit later on and trust me it is very very cute some questions
to ask today when is the right time to start celebrating Christmas because now
it is mid-november but already people are starting to put up their Christmas
lights already so when is the right time to start celebrating Christmas when is
it too early and when is the right time to do it and here we can see this week
we can see this week that
it's too early to celebrate Christmas in mid-november that's what I think that's
what I reckon I think it is far too early so when is the right time to
celebrate Christmas is it too early now to do it what do you think mr. Steve
will be coming very soon and something else special today we have mr. Steve
giving a live Flash word it's true I'm not joking and for those who like
watching the live flash words and sometimes the recorded ones here is mr.
Steve with our first flash word of the day mock mock the word mock can be used
as a verb or adjective as a verb the word mock means to tease or laugh at in
a scornful or contemptuous way if all you are going to do is mock my decision
then I'm going to make something seem laughably unreal or impossible is to
mock to mimic or act out something scornfully or sneeringly so as to put
them down is mock I heard you mocking my singing from the other room to make an
imitation or replica or something is to mock as an adjective the word mock means
an examination arrange for training or practice I will sit my mock GCSEs next
month mock can also mean something that is not authentic or real but without the
intention to fool or deceive for example a mock tudor house the word mock derives
from the old french word for deride mock
Thank You mr. Steve and as I mentioned mr. Steve will be here at 3 o'clock live
with some chitchat and of course we will be talking about SMS messaging and we'll
be finding out what mr. Steve's new health fad is because apparently he has
a new health fad TS tia is here on the live chat recently I rarely use SMS
messaging because now I use whatsapp yes of course
whatsapp has become a very popular form of messaging and many people use it it
is free of course and also you don't have to rush so you can type your
message very slowly you don't have to be in a hurry and of course with whatsapp
you can also send images video so it's a very useful thing so yes some people no
longer have to use SMS abbreviations tr-8 boom is here hello Tara Boone
thanks for joining me today mr. Duncan how are your things going they are going
okay I can't complain but it's a very busy time of the year because at this
time of the year I I am preparing for Christmas I'm also preparing my lessons
my live lessons I'm doing other things as well so it's very very very busy
today hello - man hello - Manorville hello - young king or junk wing junk
wing you who is watching at the moment in China a big knee how to everyone
watching in China right now
Raven is here as well Pedro Belmont hello Pedro it's lovely to
see you again here today mr. Steve is becoming famous around the world I think
so a lot of people are tuning in these days not to watch me
but to actually see mr. Steve feel it little letdown really I feel slightly
let down by that to be honest the daylight time has finished yes we have
put the clocks back and that is the reason why my livestream is appearing at
a different time that's the reason why my mood is here hello my mood watching
in Iraq thanks for joining me today thank you very much today is a special
day around the world do you know why because today is World Toilet Day
November the 19th is World Toilet Day now it might sound like a very amusing
thing to talk about but in fact there is a serious side to this special day so on
this day lots of people raise awareness of those who don't have proper sanitary
or sanitary ways of getting rid of their human waste so that's the reason why we
have World Toilet Day so that's what it is today
and of course every week on the program quite often mr. Steve and also myself we
will start talking about poop well we will try not to mention it today even
though it is World Toilet Day but we will try not to mention poop mr. Duncan
please teach phrasal verbs and idioms in conversation there is a lesson all about
phrasal verbs on my youtube channel don't forget you can find all of my
lessons my playlists under this video right underneath so all of my lessons
and playlists are available underneath this video it's true and there is a
lesson all about phrasal verbs and quite often you will see that I will star
my liveing this dream with a phrasal verb as you saw today
boom boom is here hello boom boom thanks for joining me today
Patricia is here is it too early to celebrate Christmas with a lot of
champagne well some people drink champagne all the time they don't need a
special celebration but one of the questions today is when is the right
time to start celebrating Christmas and the reason why I'm mentioning this and
hopefully this time I have the right video is because at the moment in my
local town everyone has started displaying their Christmas trees so here
you can see this is something that I filmed yesterday and lots of people have
already started putting up their Christmas trees and there you can see
the local bookshop has already put up their Christmas delet display you can
see the Christmas tree and they're in the center of much Wenlock there it is
the place I live in this is where I live and you can see already there are some
Christmas lights displayed above the clock and there you can see another shop
with a Christmas tree in the window I must say this is a very nice looking
Christmas tree very lovely so already here in my local town you can
see that people have already started putting up their Christmas lights they
are also selling lots of things as well for Christmas I can see a little snowman
there and there is Santa Claus can you see Santa Claus and his reindeer and
there you can see a very colorful Christmas tree isn't that lovely
but I can't help noticing that their lights are very plain they have just
white lights between you and me I like multicolored lights so I like lights
that have lots of different colors so there they are the Christmas displays in
my local town this is where I live a lot of people ask mr. Duncan where do you
live I live in a place called Much Wenlock it is a very small town and
there is Santa Claus looking slightly evil I'm not sure if I like the look on
Santa Claus face there he looks slightly evil so there it was and today's
question once again when is the right time to start celebrating Christmas is
mid-november too early is it too early to start celebrating Christmas what do
you think so as you have already noticed I have been putting up my Christmas
lights even though I have got into a little bit of a tangle here you can see
I'm in a little bit of a mess with my Christmas lights so let's have a
look I have been putting my lights up on the outside of the house and here is a
video all about that very task
this month is proving to be a busy one for me I have been doing all sorts of
things today I'm on the roof of my house fixing some festive lights to the
railings above my garage have you noticed how important lights are during
festivals and celebrations even the word light can have a significant meaning we
can see the light this means that we have had a revelation if a person
suddenly changes their mind about something or they have a great idea we
can say that they have seen the light something that was unclear before can
now be seen vividly and can be understood well that person has seen the
light
these are called fairy lights they are tiny lights that glow and twinkle fairy
lights are often hung on Christmas trees they create a magical atmosphere with
their gentle glow some fairy lights flash or blink summer white while others
are multicolored the name fairy lights dates back to the late 18-hundreds
and became popular after they were used as a stage prop in the Opera aisle anthe
written by the composer's Gilbert & Sullivan for the Opera small electric
lights were placed on the actors who were playing fair is the name fairy
light stuck and is still used to this very day did you know that originally
candles were used as decorations that does not sound very safe to me
yes it is it's Sunday everyone it's live English all the way it's mr. Duncan
that's me and I have been on YouTube forever such a long time can you guess
how long I've been on YouTube for over eleven years it's true back to the live
chat we will be talking about Christmas a little bit later on is it too soon to
talk about Christmas is it too soon to start celebrating Christmas now this
week I've been putting my Christmas lights on the house because it takes a
very long time to do it but I won't be switching the lights on until December
so I'm not putting them on yet I'm just putting them up on the house because
it's a very big job talking of big jobs it is World Toilet Day today World
Toilet Day we must all consider those who don't have proper sanitary disposal
of their waste I think so it's something that a lot of people still don't have in
the world Fernando is here I think mid-november is too early to start
celebrating Christmas yes I think I agree with you to be honest I think
mid-november is too early and yet this week here in Much Wenlock people have
started putting up and displaying their Christmas trees in fact many people
already have their lights on they've already started showing their Christmas
displays I think mid-november is too early although having said that mr.
Steve a couple of days ago was complaining because the roads were
chaotic and I said the Steve I said you know the
reason why you know what's happening everyone is rushing out to do their
Christmas shopping so I think that's what's happening
I think everything is starting earlier this year and that's what I that's what
I think is going on and that's probably the reason why everyone's gone a little
bit crazy for Christmas early this year that's what I think anyway so thank you
for Nando Oh Andrew is here is well thank you Andrew says hello and a sunny
good morning from a wax R I hope I pronounced that correctly
hello mr. Duncan from has it hello has it in Colombia I don't know what a
whatsapp si Bray I don't know what that is in Colombia we call it a per se Bray
what what is a purse every can you tell me please I would love to know Luciano
is here hello Luciano merchants are eager to get the money from customers
yes I think this year many people have started the Christmas celebrations early
because of course many of the shops have already started selling their Christmas
goods so yes I think you might be right and of course we have Black Friday as
well I think Black Friday is next week if I'm not mistaken I think it's next
week so Black Friday is a very busy period and there is a video on my
youtube channel all about Black Friday it's true how many people live in much
Wenlock I think it's only a few thousand not many 5000 I think it's not even that
but not many it's a very small town a very small place indeed Maria says Mr
Duncan and it's dangerous to put lights near your body don't worry the lights
that I had on my body are low-voltage they don't use full power electricity so
don't worry about that No okay it isn't unsafe it isn't unsafe
that the lights I had on my body were actually low-voltage the the powers it
was very very low so don't worry about that
Thank You Maria you have to play safe of course you are right thank you very much
for that Wow the live chat has gone crazy as
usual TV boom says I did put up some lights around my house and I wish I
could show you mine oh okay then well maybe if you have a Christmas display in
your house or outside your house maybe you can send me a photograph so if you
are celebrating Christmas yourself please send me a picture of your
Christmas tree or maybe the lights outside your house something festive we
might not have time to show them today but I will show them next week so if you
have any lovely photographs of your Christmas display maybe you have decided
to do it early as well please let me know
I think people in England prepare five weeks before Christmas says tyann yes
but this is longer than five weeks some people have had their Christmas
decorations up for over two weeks so I think that's that's a little too early I
really do hello mr. Duncan from Armenia says Eid
game hello ed game thanks for joining me by the way if it is your first time
today please let me know please tell me why do you have all of that toilet paper
next to you well as I mentioned earlier today is World Toilet Day so I thought I
would have this display as a way of commemorating it isn't it too early to
have a good time says Patricia I don't think it's ever too early
to have a good time never some questions to ask you today well of course we have
the mystery idioms and they are coming your way right now here they come
today's mystery idioms here is the first one
there it is today's mystery idiom number one but what is it it is a well known
expression in English if you think you know what it is please let me know and
here is idiom number two again another well-known expression in English but
what is it what is it it is a well-known expression in English just say what you
see and they there is the first one again if you think you know the answers
just write it down on the live chat and I will read your name out if you make a
guess that sounds like a good idea another thing to ask I'm going to ask
mr. Steve this question later he was a question for mr. Steve what is the
difference between cottage pie and shepherd's pie so there you can see on
the screen there is cottage pie and shepherd's pie but what is the
difference I will find out later if mr. Steve knows the difference between these
two pies cottage pie and shepherd's pie maybe you know the difference perhaps
you do would you like to have a look at one of my ask mr. Duncan lessons well
would you okay we're going to have a look at one of my ask mr. Duncan lessons
and this is ask mr. Duncan number 24
hi everybody this is mr. Duncan England how are you today
are you okay I hope so are you happy I hope so Here I am again just after
celebrating my birthday another year older but not much wiser with another
selection of your email questions and comments concerning the English language
and my work here on the Internet so without any more sitting around let's
have our first question for today can you explain the use of very and fished
for which you used in your by-the-sea video lesson this question comes from
ELISA in Italy who noticed these sentences in my video lesson entitled by
the sea during this lesson I said the Spanish Armada
sailed right past this very spot in this sentence the word very means exact or
precise on this very day at that very moment at this very spot we point at or
to an exact place or time I also used the term fished for in the video this
means that one particular creature is being sought we look for it we search
for that particular animal we fish for crabs crabs are fished for in this area
we clearly state that a certain thing is being caught as an action fish can show
that something is being pulled out from the water
the boy was fished from the they had to fish my car from the river
nice email I have received a nice email from Wesley in Brazil who thanks me for
my video lessons and describes them as inspirational that's nice
Wesley is in a process of finishing an English course and hopes in the future
to teach English to children living in Brazil thank you for your kind words and
Wesley would like to send a big special hello to all those around the world who
are watching and learning too how do we use recommend in a sentence and what
synonyms are there this question was sent in by ralph who lives in portugal
the word recommend is used as a way of expressing a strong suggestion you are
pointing someone towards a certain thing by suggesting it you can recommend
almost anything I saw the new Bruce Willis movie last night I recommend you
go and see it too I went to Madeira for my holiday last year and I would
recommend it to anyone this is my recommendation this food comes highly
recommended the last sentence shows that something is very popular and that many
people like it I recommend it I suggest it I urge you to try it or do it it is
highly rated it comes highly recommended what are the differences between the
homonyms there there and there
this question comes from Anand a who lives in Brazil a common occurrence in
English is when two or more words have similar sounds they are homonyms they
are pronounced in a similar way a great example of this comes with these three
words first we have there this word relates to the location or destination
of something in the distance or future he is over there
there she is there will be trouble are we there yet the next there relates to
possession by a third person or a group of people the group will be late
their bus has broken down we often use there when we are unsure of a person's
gender instead of his or hers we say theirs
mine yours theirs finally there is a contraction for they are the bus has
been fixed and they're now moving again finally it is worth mentioning another
contraction véra this is a shortened version of
there are there are lots of seats available on the bus this is an informal
contraption which is often spoken but rarely written it's that time again
ladies and gentlemen girls and boys grandmas and grandpas and of course
small furry animals with big eyes it's now time for word of the we
this week's word is gratuitous this word relates to an action that is uncalled
for or as seen as excessive something that
is considered unjustly violent a fight scene in a movie may be described as
gratuitous because the action is too extreme and excessive it may upset some
people this word can also relate to language if a person uses too many swear
words then this could be described as gratuitous language what are the
differences between always and ever
hmm looks like a spider hmm this question was sent in by Oscar
in Sweden always and ever can both be related to action and time however their
uses can vary considerably in its most basic form always means continually from
now on from this moment onwards something does not stop I will always
love you I always eat porridge for breakfast always can show that something
you do now has been done continually up until this moment I have always been a
happy person the word ever can define many things it can be used as a direct
synonym for always in fact many uses of always can be replaced with forever then
there is ever more we can say forevermore they all have the same
meaning from now on ever can also relate to an instance of
something happening or being done usually in the form of a question did
you ever find that redress you were looking for have you ever been
to Paris how ever did it happen we can use ever informally to help show that
something did not occur I would never ever say that all that it will never
occur from now on I will never ever say that again there's no need to wave at
the moment we're not going yet just before I leave you all today I would
like to say a special hello to all of my new followers who have subscribed to
both of my English teaching channels I now have students watching my videos
in over 70 countries around the world this is mr. Duncan in England saying
thank you for asking me and of course to tar for now
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yes we are here live on a Sunday it's mr. Duncan in England and I hope
you are okay today I had a message come through earlier on the live chat using
the word Pasiphae and apparently possibly is a word that means Nativity
so now we know of course we are talking about Christmas the word Nativity is
connected to Christmas time but is it too early to start celebrating Christmas
at the moment mid-november lots of people already have their Christmas
lights and their Christmas trees displayed but is it too early what do
you think the mystery idioms once again for those who missed them
Mystery idiom number one and here is mystery idiom number two if you think
you know the answers just jot them down write them down on the live chat and
send them to me why not would you like to see something really
really cute now who remembers the sleeping bull who do you remember the
bull that was at the back of the house there is a bull and it was having a
sleep and I was lucky enough to film it and I made a little video showing the
sleeping bull well now we have something even cuter something really really cute
this is the sleeping chick
oh now I did say this it was cute I did say I did promise it I hope you enjoyed
that that was a baby greenfinch having a little sleep filmed
earlier this year during the fledging time lots of birds were leaving their
nests and as you saw in that video it was a very sleepy chick very tired
because of course it had just left the nest for the first time and it was
taking a little rest on the bird bath so I hope you enjoyed that if you want to
see it again later please let me know I don't mind I will show it to you again
later it's alright we have mr. Steve coming a little bit later on in around
about seven minutes time mr. Steve will be live here he will be doing something
very unusual today he will be giving you a very special live flash word I think
it's the first time we've ever had a live flash word from mr. Steve also you
can get involved as well on the live chat lots of people here today
Belarusian says lovely image and lovely music as well also Ryan is here as well
making a guess on one of the mystery idioms okay
thank you very much for your guests Olga is here Oh mr. Duncan can you make a
special playlist of all of the cute animals from yourself yes of course over
the years I have filmed many many animals some of them cute and some of
them not so cute so a few weeks ago we had the sleeping bowl and today we had
the sleeping chick wasn't it cute if you want me to
show it later please let me know I might show it again during the second hour of
course there is another hour to come so I'm not finishing in a moment I'm going
to carry on for another hour can you believe it so mr. Steve will be
here very soon Trung Quang says I hope you have a lovely day mr. Duncan and
happy streaming why do you have some Chinese yuan on your microphone well it
is there to remind me of my time in China because of course I used to work
in China many years ago I used to be an English teacher in China that is where I
started making my YouTube videos over eleven years ago and in total I have
been teaching English for over 15 years it's true so 15 years I have been
teaching English ed games mr. Duncan did you know that my country Armenia will
snow in two weeks so there will be snow in two weeks time in Armenia Wow ts says
mr. Lincoln do you bring your camera everywhere you go quite often I take my
mobile phone so some of the footage some of the video that you see has actually
been filmed on my mobile phone and that is one of the great things about modern
technology I love technology so much first of all I can actually make video
recordings on my phone and show them to you but also I can stream live on my
phone and also here in my studio as well so I love technology so much I really do
Teresa asks do you speak Mandarin in D and E an D and E an
is is the answer to that question Pierre mr. Duncan you are as cute as the bird
thank you very much flattery will get you everywhere it's almost dinner time
for me I will stay with you in the dormitory but I will sadly have to leave
the room for dinner if I if I leave the room I will lose the Wi-Fi signal what
should I do well Mehmet it sounds like you have
quite a dilemma there so if you go away for your supper you'll lose the signal
and then you won't be able to watch me that's a tragedy but of course if you're
hungry you must go and get something to eat that's what I think so maybe your
stomach will rule your head I know it does mine JC Jordi says mr. Duncan can
you swim I'm not a very good swimmer I will be honest I can't swim in fact I
can't swim it all however mr. Steve is a very good swimmer I should mention that
mr. Steve can swim very well but I can't I can drown very well I'm very good at
drowning I've got that off to perfection to be honest
Roman pee is here how are you mr. Duncan I'm okay thank you very much I'm not too
bad Trung to you Quang says in your video
I saw the lava lamp in your ask mr. Duncan lesson I haven't seen one of
those for years do you still keep it yes I do
in fact if you have a look behind me on the monitor you can see the lava lamp is
actually on the screen behind me so that is actually the same lava lamp and yes I
still have it and I still use it to this very day mr. Duncan what about the
picture at the back of you what does it represent which picture do you mean do
you mean the one that looks like my face do you
mean this one this one well this actually is is a drawing that one of my
viewers made for me and there's also one of mr. Steve as well which you will be
seeing very soon because mr. Steve will be here at 3 o'clock I think it's just
you mr. Steve it's just you so mr. Steve coming in a moment for all
those mr. Steve fans because I know he has quite a few today we will be talking
about SMS abbreviations so when you send a text message quite often we will
abbreviate them so we are going to have a look at some of them mr. Steve has
some and I have one or two as well also we're going to talk about mr. Steve's
very strange health fad this is something that Steve does now every day
in fact every morning it is something that mr. Steve does and it's very
unusual we will be talking about that very soon minute says by the way I have
learned a new word dilemma through your videos mr. Duncan thank you very much
yes if you have a dilemma it means you have a difficult choice or a difficult
decision to make so you have a difficult situation
something that has to be sorted out that is hard to decide on it is a dilemma so
here he comes of course everyone loves this guy and no
one hates mr. Steve not one single person in the whole world
yep yep YUM hello to everyone watching at the moment thanks for joining me
today it's so lovely to see you thank you very much for dropping by I do
appreciate you spending your time with me because of course sunday is a day for
resting so I hope you are very rested and I hope you are enjoying today's
livestream here is the man who needs no introduction
hello mr. Duncan hello and hello to everyone out there
across the world oh I'm so excited to be here once again in your exciting show
and after last week you said I was a bit too dull when I introduced myself so I'm
going really over the top and saying hello welcome and it's great to be here
wait there a minute mr. Steve don't you don't you realize it's too early to
celebrate Christmas you've got Christmas lights behind you hi oh yes you're right
I've just seen them I don't like to celebrate Christmas too early have you
spoken about that already we've mentioned it earlier and quite a few
people agree that it is a little bit too early during November - some are far too
early far too early in fact it looks very pretty behind me look at these
lovely creatures these what's that a hare mr. Duncan is that is that is a
hare and a couple of cats - cats and a hare um do they get on in real life the
thing me not the thing is I realized that I had a big empty space next to you
so I had to fill it with something so so I grabbed the hare and I grabbed the two
cats to fill the space well they look very pretty I've got to say every week
this is getting more and more attractive behind me I don't want too many
distractions though because obviously you know this is the main attraction as
I see you're wearing a very interest sure today again this whole thing I'm
talking about the shirt by the way how would you describe that pattern a
check pattern I think that was check yes or checkered yes it is shirt is
checkered checkered so yes it almost looks like a giant chess board it does
you could play games all over me not for the first time let's not get
into that this is a family show so you think that celebrating Christmas at the
moment is too early yes if I had my way if I was in charge you wouldn't be
allowed to advertise Christmas until two weeks before that would be my rule as
the dictator I would say no references to Christmas until two weeks before and
that's it so you heard it first mr. Steve is now the dictator there there's
a job going at the moment in Zimbabwe you could step into I won't make any
comments I don't think I might get myself into trouble you've been doing
something very weird during these past few days you came downstairs yesterday
now I was in the kitchen yesterday and mr. Steve came downstairs and I thought
he was having some sort of physical problem something very strange was
happening you were purple you were completely purple I wasn't sure what was
going on you you were kind of a a blue purple color and I thought I was going
to have to phone an ambulance I didn't know what was going on
that'll be my latest health fad so this is your new health fad is it it's my new
health fad as you know I have many of these in fact I think we should
introduce this as a regular a regular thing because I've got so many did we
could fill up an entire year probably more than that it's true you have lots
of very strange health fans a very strange health habit
simply have all my various colon cleansing items here on the very first
show I was on yeah all the various bits of fiber yes and
things like that well anyway I've bet you'd be talking about that later you
already mentioned about the World Toilet Day or it is it is yes just because we
love talking about going to the toilet so much we actually have a good excuse
to do it today we can actually do it and get away with it we could do it we could
do it live because you've got toilet paper on your desk I've just noticed
I've got toilet paper but we don't have a toilet
sadly all right so we won't do that then so my latest health fad do you want to
tell me shall I tell you but I did tell you what it was because you were a bit
worried about me because I was a I was a strange blue color I thought I wasn't
sure what was going on I thought I thought you was having some sort of
medical emergency so so so what what is it what what is it what what were you
doing taking a cold shower that's it there we go yes well it was but but but
you were blue I was blue yet because that's because I'd I'd been under the
cold water for about five minutes which I think was a bit too long but yes this
is my latest health fad the benefits of taking a cold shower and believe me the
water the mains water coming in now because it's winter is quite cold and I
read about this supposed to boost your immune system help with depression all
sorts of health benefit I've got depression but it's supposed to give you
a boost your whole body a big boost the shock of the cold water it's supposed to
reinvigorate you and believe me it's quite a shock as anyone anyone out there
ever taken a cold shower or by accident or all because they think it's healthy
apparently it's the latest thing and it it transforms your body it gives it such
a shock at your body goes into sort of repair and then you're supposed to feel
wonderful actually you do feel wonderful after as it gives you a huge boost of
sort of endorphins to your brain it makes you feel
wonderful afterwards do you know what this reminds me of this reminds me of
those crazy people every year during the winter I don't know where it is I want
to say Scandinavia but I might be wrong or Switzerland but they they they
actually jump into the ice cold water they actually go naked dare I say into
the cold water they jump into the cold water well that they might not be
completely naked I think they have their swimming costumes on but they're they
jump straight into the icy water so is that is that a similar thing I think
it's a similar thing I think if they were naked under yes I think if they
were naked especially the men they would notice one particular side-effect of
jumping into very cold water and that is let's just say there is significant
shrinkage shrinkage in the male reproductive organ area the cold water
makes everything go it swivels up but it's it's supposed to be very good for
you and I just enjoy the the thought of challenging myself can I actually do
this yeah and and you know it's just a bit of a challenge I don't know it's
some kind of masochistic pleasure you're gonna ask me have you used that word
before masochistic so you actually enjoy the pain of going under the water
yes under the freezing because at this time of the year even if you have the
water from the tap that the tap water is ice-cold and if it's now after six
degrees it's winter now what what's the temperature it's about five average it
was probably about six or seven degrees at the moment I would say the water it
probably doesn't drop much below that but in the in the summer it's probably
going to be twelve or fourteen so it's about half the temperature it was in the
summer and I started it in the summer and I started gradually start off with a
hot shower and I was gradually reducing it but now I start off with a hot shower
then whack it straight down to maximum cold and just stand there oh it's quite
invigorating soon that'd be minimum cold what did I say max
cold.i maximum no maximum cold yeah doesn't sound right I think you can say
that I think you can say minimum minimum cold maximum heat possibly I think you
will find them right of course taking a cold shower is synonymous with with
let's just say killing your libido isn't it that's what we associated in this
country I see so if you get to if you get to two sort of excited sexually
aroused always say hey you can take a cold shower that is the traditional
remedy I say all that complaints over you know if your partner is sick to
death of you were making amorous advances they may say go and take a cold
shower I'm not interested I think also it can be just like an idiom as well you
can use is like an idiom just to say oh I need a cold shower just to sort of
calm down but they don't actually have a cold shower so we can use it as a sort
of phrase as well I think so now another question today this is something so this
is something you don't know about that I'm going to spring but I'm asking today
what's the difference between cottage pie and shepherd's pie so there on the
screen we can see on the left you can see a cottage pie and on the right a
shepherd's pie now these are two very popular meals here in the UK
now this is something that you and I eat now and again isn't that true Steve it
is it's a very hearty winter warming food it is so what what's the difference
so so first of all what's the difference between cottage pie and shepherd's pie
well they're both basically the same there's one crucial difference so you've
got meat and gravy and probably a few vegetables underneath with it with a
topping of mashed potato which is baked in the oven the crucial difference
though is that if you've got a shepherd's pie what does shepherd's do
they herd sheep so the meat in shepherd's pie would be lamb and the
meat inside a cottage pie would be probably beef we do the common one but I
think the crucial thing is if it's called a shepherd's pie it's got to be
lamb okay so that's the basic difference so cottage pie has beef and shepherd's
pie has lamb and of course traditionally do you know how how these particular
pies came about apparently they were just made from leftovers so when people
were sort of gathering all their vegetables and meats they were they
would store everything that was left over and they would make a pie out of
all the leftovers all of the food that was that was left so that's how we came
by the cottage pie in the shepherd's pie so cottage pie is made with beef and
shepherd's pie is made with lamb or of course mutton as well which is the old
sheep yeah Eugene Eugene is being very clever here
he says the difference between those two is one is square and the other one is
round yes I think I think you might be right there Eugene well done thank you
very much for that yes did you see that so there we go that's another mystery
solved so today we're going to look at something very unusual something that we
don't often talk about but happens quite a lot in normal life and it is to do
with our mobile phones do you send many messages on your phone Steve I do yes I
send a fair few mainly work-related friends as well but I've noticed
recently that I'm getting a lot of messages from people I think they're
using voice recognition now oh okay rather than texting so I'm noticing that
people are replying back very very quickly and I found out it's because
they're using voice recognition software in their phones
so yes texting I don't think it's going away but it's a maybe they that other
thing will take over the sort of voice recognition sign maybe some people out
there use this technology in their phone so what they are actually doing instead
of typing with their finger they're just speaking into the phone and then the
writing appears in the text message yes because it's a voice recognition
software is getting a lot better now hmm yeah although it it's if they started
off putting it in cars I'm not sure they started it there but commonly they put
it in cars to try and help you to be less distracted when you're driving but
unfortunately it very rarely works correctly it's very frustrating I've
never been in a car where it's worked properly
but anyway I'm distracting away from the main purpose of your item which is text
messaging on phones that's it yes well there are many ways of doing it you see
you can send video messages you can send photographs through text messages and
you can type so there are there are many ways of doing it of course email now you
can send through the phone but sometimes mean if you are in a hurry and you want
to type something very quick we often abbreviate the sentence or the words so
today we're going to have a look at some of these words or some of these
abbreviations and we are going to work out what the actual sentence or the word
is does that sound good that does perhaps we can perhaps we can come up
with some new ones well I believe you've got some already written down in front
of you I have a few here that I've there's lots of information about this
on the internet so if anyone wants to have a definitive list and just have a
look there's loads loads out there and some of them are quite funny and some of
them are quite surprising some of them are very common in fact abbreviations
while some of the abbreviations are almost acronyms aren't they that's it
yes mr. Duncan that's it there are different ones so some people use
abbreviations of war whilst others use whole sentences just
as the initialization here's a good one I will I would start the ball rolling up
I will kick off with this one so here is what B C BC well and this is a word it's
a what what BC yeah I would just think of that as the biblical BC there it's an
abbreviation it's an abbreviation to ever not going because he had never
heard of that one okay where you might use this in a sentence when you are
stating something and the reason for it and this is actually because alright
because so if you are shortening certain things in a text message now I know that
this can be used in other ways as well but in this sense as a text message it
means because so you will shorten it because in a text message some people
slightly misunderstanding but what I'm doing here no it doesn't mean it doesn't
mean BC as in a long time ago or Bachelor before century that's what I
said before Christ yes that's what I thought you meant so it's actually a
different thing altogether so SMS abbreviations so there's an
example there on the screen now so when you're sending messages through the
internet or through your mobile phone signal you will shorten the sentence or
you will shorten the word yes I hope I've explained that Bailey and here's
another one just to give you an idea and there it is to Mars and I'll show it to
Steve I have no idea what that one is mr. Duncan I've never used that one
before or had a text with it in I will see you tomorrow
tomorrow - Moz yes so a lot of these are used by people a lot younger than us
let's just say so too the number two is often used instead of
the word two which is tio so quite often we will use the number
two instead or the number four four or yes for example four four four we can
use number four four four so that particular one means tomorrow tomorrow
other simple ones with letters like the letter C would just mean
C as in se e yes so I see you you and here's a good one
here it is and so talking which there it is
see you so see you is basically see you I will see you see you tomorrow or I
will see you later so there are are there's another one R
the letter R for ar e oh yeah you so do you have anything to show us I don't
have anything just shit art could I could write here's well let me write it
down I'm hoping this is I didn't know you wanted me to write them down here's
one then yes I IV many years incorrectly understood the meaning of this one LOLOL
LOL okay LOL so what do you think that stands for mr. Duncan well uh I always
thought it meant laugh out loud or lots of laughter yes that is what it means
but when I was new to texting if there is such a thing was that last week there
yes I thought it might meant lots of love always were you sending laughter to
people that you want to do express affection for quite likely well I was
getting these thinking and everyone was in love with me so you thought that when
people were putting lall at the end of their messages you here for
that they were all madly in love with you I did but sadly they weren't and
they were just laughing at me with lots of laughter Oh care right go get rid of
that one what's this one then I don't know if this one is still used it
probably isn't how about BFF I can't even read that
okay I'll do it again is that is that in Chinese is that better
that's better yes okay BFF you are my BFF if someone says that what are they
saying let's let's see if someone out there in internet land knows BFF ins
acre or a gang Zarqa or anxiety and forever
correct correct is that your best friend for you are BFFs forever it's not nice
best friends forever andrew has given us quite a good one and
I think I might have it here as well I'm frantically writing them down now that I
know you want me to tell you that mr. Duncan
yes that was kind of the point of doing it you see how about can I put one up
I've got one here's another one Oh another one I've got me to it there
we go so there is another one anyone know what that is I will show it
to mr. Steve don't say it so does anyone know what that means so that is an
abbreviation used in text messaging or SMS messaging what is it anyone know yes
well done Sayaka Sayaka Afridi says great yes it is the
abbreviation of great gr8 great so of course the number eight is often used as
the second half of a word ending with eight so there we have great
we can also have late as well so gr8 in a text message means great miss Duncan I
got another one Wow you're getting very excited now do
you have another one here's one Oh mo M G these are very hard by the ng this one
is such a difficult one oh I can see a really scouring scouring for these oh my
god yes yes sorry Kat has got that one right
and also eggs aya also and are sure AB D and everyone else on the planet I'm just
wondering if you if you were depending on your religious beliefs you could
change the G at the end couldn't you to other things
whatever your sort of deity is or your sort of a great person that you worship
whatever religion you are I wonder if other countries substitute the G for God
for other things I don't know like OMB oh my Buddha Buddha OMA yes yes perhaps
km8 here we go so here's another one here's another abbreviation km8 like I
mean thinking fast now mr. Duncan yep can you see it k m8 okay then so what is
that one that is now if you are letting your friend know that you got their
message or that you understand what they're saying you can say okay mate
came ate which means alright my friend okay mate yeah you see you like that it
one for you mr. Duncan I think that's quite a good one okay mate okay mate
here's one for you mr. Duncan sorry oh my goodness okay I don't think
this is real I think you're making this or no no this is a legitimate
abbreviation you might you might need to move it back slightly because I think
there's that there's a letter at the end go across the other way that's it that's
it I I thought there was a letter missing
at the end you see ah I have no idea what that is
does anyone know what that is you've gone off the screen again mr. Steve oh
why yes back again how about that no the other way that way that's the other way
a bit more oh that is the other way shall I just put you on the wide-angle
there we go that's better easier I can't tell you we'll be here all day
MTF bwy anybody got that one I have no idea I have out shall I give you a clue
I don't I don't know what that is do you want a clue mr. Duncan and the live chat
is also gone very silent well it's legitimate is it real yes hold it
up again my is it my no men oh let me give you a clue okay it's related to
Star Wars of goodness sake yes of course is it may the force be with you yes
sometimes people put that in texts really yes it's here it's on this
official list of text abbreviations I soon yes obviously not used very popular
e pop not very popular popular around I just made up a word then today everybody
we have made up a new word popular read let's move on I like this one where they
let me just write this new word down I'm going to phone up the Oxford weather and
we're moving on hello is that the Oxford English Dictionary it's another one we
have a new word popular e it's um it's popular a real word
apparently it isn't things happen when you're live in front of the entire world
isn't this fun how about this one this might be used by children if they are
texting is it is it Peter files all lie it is not mr. Duncan okay
it is anybody got that one did you use that when you were a child play and
laugh no its parents are listening oh I see yeah that's very good I like that
one yes that's a very modern one so if you're talking on the phone you might
send a secret message to your friend saying P al which means parents are
listening for its related form oh no pear oh I know this one this one's
easy parents in room that's correct mr. dome that means that the parents are
nearby and they are listening isn't there are something called a PIR
detector is that I think there is isn't that an infrared detector it's probably
something else in the world of electronics you're
telling me I thought you would know that being electronically I love it
yes do you ever use it in text message well I've never used it because when I
was a child there were no mobile phones oh he's all about that here's another
one what you're talking about now by the way yes sir they're just drifting I
thought you made it IV use that abbreviation you're like you're like a
boat just sailing away on the on the ocean just drifting away if anybody out
there got any to send us for us to guess here's another one and that's for you as
well mr. Steve before something before
what could the n stand for see psycho or Saker say cat Afridi is very good at
this well then it is bye for now oh yes I'm not saying that just yet are
we we are not saying bye although quite a few of the viewers off
Oh guess what we've had an email come through let's change the subject
slightly please someone please change the subject here we go it is Eugene and
Eugene has sent a photograph I think it might be something to do with Christmas
let's have a look shall we I have to wait let's wait for it to come
through oh yes look it's me it's me on the TV there I am look on there on the
screen can you see me so there I am at Eugene's house so Eugene also has some
lights around the window a bit a bit like me here in my studio with my
colourful lights and of course there are some lights behind mr. Steve so if you
have some lights or a Christmas tree in your house that you would like to send
me maybe send it today or maybe send it for next week or maybe you could send
something special during Christmas time yes very good let's have another work
let's have another look right we have quite a few here I've got one oh okay
then ready while you've been talking I've been writing them down yeah yeah
this is a bit of an old one I don't know whether it's used in text messages but
it's an abbreviation and never aka I think I know that one does anyone know
what a que a stands for it is a well-known abbreviation quite often I
think it's probably used in text messages also known as select or adass
our dad says also known as aka so some people have to know
so you might say Steve aka mr. Steve also known as very good okay here's one
Fiat for everyone to guess here we go there it is does anyone I can't see it
no that one you like the ones with letters and numbers can yes yes it's
quite interesting in fact I just gave the answer away literally I just gave
the answer to that one so minus ten yeah does anyone know this it's very easy
actually I thought this might be difficult but I think it's actually
quite easy so this is something you might use in an a text message if you
want to send it very quickly it is anyone anyone oh yes ne1 anyone so does
anyone know the answer to this oh you see I actually gave the answer away by
accident silly me if we were talking about
something hmm and one of us had had enough of it we
may use this abbreviation e o d okay then and this is this is a real text
message text or Internet okay then I don't know what this could be
e o D everyone is it no we've been talking about something one of us gets a
bit bored and so we would send a text saying I don't know anybody got it
apparently an - and - says end of day all very close it could mean that there
that could be something but oh it's the first two
words are correct for what I was thinking of and what I've got down here
end of discussion end of discussion that means it's time
to stop talking oh I say might be a bit rude I don't know I was reading about
text messages if you you can you can use these we've we've capitalized them all
hmm or abbreviation for for capitals of
course is cap always thought but if they're in you can use these
abbreviations or acronyms as some of them turn into in you can use them in
capitals or you can use them in small letters but if you tend to use lots of
capitals in text messages it means you're trying to make a point and it can
be come across as a bit rude can it you're not well it's a bit like informal
writing as well if you write something formally you never use capital letters
if it's an email you never use capital letters if you are sending something
formally because it can come across as very rude or of course it can make you
seem a little bit crazy as well do you use predictive text mr. Duncan
III find predictive text very annoying because quite often it gives me the
wrong word and sometimes it gives me a rude word so sometimes when you're
typing things you you want to say one thing but you end up with something very
different on the screen yes sometimes the word the word is very rude or
sometimes a little offensive and you have to be careful not to send it so you
have to always check so sometimes when your phone predicts the words you have
to be very careful indeed yes I've got to be very careful generally sending
text that you don't accidentally send it to the wrong person I think so okay then
another one oh I haven't got any more I've run out no no there are loads of
here I could how about
I bet you could hear me writing that that was that was very clear I could
hear your pins how about this one oh I see oh I think we know this one don't we
this is something that I say a lot to my neighbors I normally say this to my
neighbors quite a lot does anyone know anyone know which abbreviation that is
that you might use in a text message because of course that's what we are
talking about today we are talking about SMS abbreviations so the way in which we
shorten words or sentences yeah so we can type them very quickly so you might
ask me mr. Duncan oh I saw you with that girl last night what what's going on
there and I might say well I might say this I might say some other things but
this might be one of them Connell Connell says oh none of your
business correct well done Connell done right for
you and also an and to Chao Hoenn who I think is watching in Vietnam also says
none of your business something that we often say quite often
around here where we live who do you think you are sure as well are sure also
said none of your business as well so that's very interesting one more one
more each or just one more from me I've got I've got one more and then you can
have one more if you beat me to it yes here we go so this is something that
you might say if you think something is OK or if you approve of something if you
approve you might just say this in a text message but what is it
what is it andrew has got it right also say care and also Ann - yes it's can you
see it mr. Steve no and because I I have no idea about that it easy
fact I can't see that ah here we go then I'll show you this way okay I don't know
what that is mr. Duncan I that's it yeah it's on the screen now we can see it
okay there's mine so there is mine and there is mr. Steeves so you've got to at
the same time to solve yes we've had some answers for mine no problem
yes well done no problem if something is fine or okay or you approve of something
its NP no problem no problem no problem oh if you didn't know the answer to that
you might say I don't know I I don't know I do yes I D okay I don't know I
hope you've found this interesting today it's been a very different topic I must
say mr. Steve yes are you going to have another cold shower tomorrow I might
have one after this show you might have wondering I hampered you in order to
calm down I might need to do something drastic like go now I've had one cold
shower in fact I haven't had one today I had one yesterday but I went too far
and as you were rightly pointed out I was purple because look like I was
half-dead I knew I'd overdone it because it took
me about four hours to warm up I've got cold down to my bones
you didn't look well you look purple you were actually blue I think the limit is
two minutes really anything more than that athletes do this it's very popular
now with footballers and any kind of athlete cyclists that they go into I saw
a program at about footballers and after their training session they went into
this cold room this specially prepared room that was minus 30 and all the or
they all crammed in there for a short period of time and the cold apparently
is good for helping the muscles to and the joints and your body tissues to
repair themselves after they've had a lot of physical activity
so you know I think I'm on to a good thing with this shower so do you think
it's helping you definitely or are they only for a few minutes I suppose I
should at this point give a health warning to anyone who is thinking of
jumping under the cold water so can I just say don't do it straight away find
out that if you're if you're healthy enough to do it because the shock might
well it might kill you basically so please take care if you are going to do
it please check with your doctor first just to make sure so I'm just clearing
myself there just to make sure that we don't get sued by anyone very
responsible or or any next of kin apparently it's good for if you're a
health freak you'll know about free radicals oh I read I see I read ass is
on the live chat apparently it's called cryotherapy cryotherapy very good yes I
didn't why didn't you say that I was going to say it helps your resistance to
oxidative stress but cryotherapy yes that is is is a cryo meaning cold of
course um I think cryotherapy is is pretty cool yes that's a great athletes
are doing at the moment it's the latest thing
to help them recover so they can have longer faster more intense physical
training sessions then they go into the cold and helps them recover didn't we
just say did we just say this I just said it in a different way sorry I'm am
i watching the replay of this lesson
oxidative stress do you know what that is mr. Duncan oxidated stress
III think ain't it I think I'm getting it right now
it's a buildup of nasty free radicals in your body caused when when well do you
want me to go into the details not particularly
I didn't think you would know I could feel I could feel sleep coming on I
think I think half the planet will be will be asleep by the
let's stick to cryotherapy cryotherapy I'm definitely well some somebody asked
if I'm going to do it I'm definitely not going to try I like my showers nice and
warm I like my hot showers I like lots of steam in the bathroom III want the
windows to literally steam up when I'm having a shower
where is mr. Steve he he doesn't he likes to take cold showers I don't like
the ideas I'm tough duh and resilient apparently according to arias I think
era das says it's oxidate because of the lactic acid yes oh yes definitely
you are correct there when we are because we have to we have to produce
energy in our bodies and the way we do that is to burn carbohydrates and fats
we need oxygen which is why we breathe in oxygen but that process generates
lots of byproducts of one of them being lactic acid and the cold helps the body
to metabolize it quicker so I understand yes and yes so yes I might to get a
little bit more in there so to metabolize what does metabolize
mean that means to to break down yes to process the thing in recess it break it
down yes it's quite strange actually because they the process of burning
energy creates these free radicals which are sort of reactive molecules that can
destroy your tissues and we have a system that that will soak up these free
radicals so the very act of breathing exercising is actually aging you at the
same time because everytime you burn some energy up you're producing free
radicals but if you've got a good system in your body that soaks it all up and
the cold can help with that apparently so yes apparently according to according
to analytic brain sorry - Andrew how did you change Andrew - analytic brain
because there next to each other on the alive chance
somebody called analytic brain did you say well I think i think it's a nickname
married Roma can I can I just read this out please go ahead I find it better to
do squats to make your body work or just walk for 20 minutes yes I agree may you
and really I agree with you yes people who do you there is that there is a an
ideal amount of exercise to take which which is good for your body if you go
over that so if you see people running miles and miles apparently that is
actually aging you yeah there is that there is a peak that's like a curve and
you want sort of 20 minutes half an hour a day is about the optimum level and if
you start doing a lot more than that it's actually aging you yeah well you
know what I always think whenever I see someone doing a lot of running they run
every day because quite a few people around here run very regularly but I
always think that it's putting a strain on your bones and your joints I guess
but that's also a benefit because to have a bit of stress it's like going
into the cold you you want a bit of stress on your bones because that
actually helps to keep them strong because when you put a bit of stress by
running then that sends a signal to you your bones in your joints too but a bit
more calcium in or make them a bit stronger or a bit thicker but the secret
is not not to do too much so I mean if you only do 20 minutes that's fine if
you're running for two hours then that's going to cause problems for you in the
long term and I mean I spoke actually interestingly I went for a health
check-up recently sorry am Iraq going on too much about this I went for a health
check-up and this chap was a heart surgeon an expert in in how the heart
works then he he told me that all the latest research now shows that people
who do lots of very strenuous exercise in fact live less long than people who
just do small amounts of ghent more gentle exercise apparently one of the
worst is that is cycling this sort of you know speed cycling puts a lot of
stress on you on your heart there's this thing that
people do and I think it's been very trendy for a long time they they go to
the gym and they they do this very fast cycling it's called spinning and I think
that's that that's supposed to get the heart rate up very high and very very
sudden and very quick but but I think it's a very bad idea well it's alright
in short amounts it's if you start doing it every day for a long time short
amount is fine but I think I'm no health expert but I do reach out about it and
apparently 20 minutes walk a day is probably all you need I've been asked to
tell you how I've been asked to mention how cold it gets here in Much Wenlock it
can get quite cold around about minus 5 sometimes much lower than that maybe
minus 10 but having said that during the past few years it hasn't been that cold
here in the UK but we sometimes have the temperature fall below freezing and and
what I'm looking forward to is mr. Steve going outside on a very cold day and
hopefully if we have some snow we will see if mr. Steve will roll around in the
snow instead of having a cold shower what do you think about that I won't be
doing it naked because they might upset the neighbors it'll upset everyone it
would so the secret apparently is not to force yourself one doesn't want to do
too much you can overdo anything apparently moderation I think so
moderation all these or if you rent people live they live to a hundred and
they get interviewed you never hear any of them saying I took regular exercise
all the things that they tell us are healthy all the people live to a hundred
they never they've never done any of them then what but the one thing they
always seem to have in common is that they're just moderation in everything
that they do so they have a bit of everything or do a bit of everything but
they don't go to excess with it so they might have a drink
they might even someone they might have the odd smoke but they just do it in
smoked wasps in small amounts that are like smoking is a good idea
yes moderation but moderation seems to be the key to to living a long time
maximizing your lifespan that's very nice
Joe say is here Joe say Manuel Broughton's Martinez that's one name by
the way that's one person's name hell of a name today is the first time that I
see you in the live chat Thank You mr. Duncan thank you very much Joe say or
Joe say Joe say or Jose I think it's Joe see I often get told off for
mispronouncing that also we have also a Patrick mal Val is here as well watching
in France a big Bonjour Bonjour Bonjour Tom on Beliveau what was that Jim a pal
mr. Steve Monsieur it's not mister it's Monsieur Marshall um you are Monsieur
stiffer stiffer Oh old British people know a small amount of French but that
French people know a lot of English that says we're lazy in the UK learning other
languages do you think so definitely it's an attitude it's always been always
been there but everyone what I grew up we all learnt French at school but we
didn't you know we yeah yeah we did it wasn't treated that seriously whereas
I think in most of Europe I think learning English has taken a lot more
seriously it's just a bit of a bad attitude that we've got in this country
we just have we just assume everyone's got to speak English it's a bit
arrogance really for those who have just joined us we are now watching mr.
Steve's lecture all about why English people are very lazy and too lazy to to
learn new new language when I was at school we had a French teacher who came
it was an exchange French teacher okay she I was 16 at the time probably 15 16
and this incredibly beautiful female French teacher came
from France to teach her she was probably about 21 or something and she
used to say that my name is Steve but she used to call me Etienne Etienne
because she said that was the closest thing to the name Steve in French
obviously Etienne that's what she told me
anyway I fell in love with her served there you go that's it I think
everything every person in the school had fallen in love this French teacher
though there is some that there is something strangely alluring about the
French accent and I think also the Italian accent as well I think I think
they are very romantic accents and very romantic languages they sound I could
listen to the French accent for a very long time to be honest I think the
French accent is it's quite lovely to listen to and also maybe the Italian
accent as well very sort of I want to say sexy definitely the last job I I had
one of the bosses was a French woman incredibly beautiful French woman and
she could say anything we just believed her yes that's what they say about
British people they say you couldn't you can literally say anything in English if
you have a if you have a British English accent like like like mine and mr.
Steve's apparently you can say anything in people will believe you some words
you would pronounce and everyone would laugh because there are certain words
that when French people are trying to pronounce them they can sound quite rude
apparently Steve Steve in German is Stephan Stephan Stephan ah right so that
if you are called Steve the the German equivalent is Stephan fan so what is the
French equivalent is it Etienne all these years I thought it was Etienne but
maybe it's not yes it is apparently arid ass arid ass also says Steve is
Etienne wow that's great lovely there's a word can i you can i
there's one word that that french people often pronounced in english which can
sound very rude if not pronounced correctly what's that it's the word
focus ah I know yes and also in certain accents or
certain languages when a person is using English another one is paths paths focus
or peace yes focus yes I think so big because sometimes accents with
certain English words can actually make the words sound a little rude another
one is peace so if someone says peace yes they might say something else
because of the pronunciation so instead of saying peace they might say piss so
it word in the word focus the O is pronounced with as o focus we need more
pissed so if you pronounce that as an O more of a closed vowel I would say that
was then it comes out as something completely different
we need more peace in the world peace give rise give peace a chance
so instead of saying peace you say that's it apparently in in Greek
apparently Steve is Stephanus or stephanas anis ah this is greater we're
learning quite a lot today here with just five minutes to go Stephanie is a
girl's name in this country so I wonder a Stephanie is the oven that's a French
female name or maybe German the German name but I wonder where Stephanie comes
from because people it's not a popular name is it over here
well I think I think Stephanie is like the female equivalent of Steven yes I
think so I think it is in this case a bit like Victor and Victoria I think
there's a there's a similar sort of thing there a similar link
five minutes to go yes we are going to give the answers to the mystery idioms
we've only mentioned them a couple of times today and we will finish today
with the sleepy chick Oh mr. Steve did you see the sleepy chick
oh no you didn't see it oh no what what's this sleepy chick it's a little
chick that's having a sleep where it's so cute it is something I filmed in the
back garden and it's very very lovely and that's what we'll be finishing with
that today but of course we have some unfinished business which is the mystery
idioms so first of all here is the first one quite a few people got this one
right well then and this particular idiom is face the music face the music
the meaning to be confronted with the unpleasant consequences of one's actions
is to face the music he walked into the courtroom to face the music and the
second one I thought this one was quite easy but actually not many people got
this right which I was very surprised by the second mystery idiom for today is
hold the fort hold the fort the meaning take responsibility for a situation
whilst another person is temporarily absent you take charge for a short time
you hold the fort so there they are today's mystery idioms are now sold yes
what for example mr. Duncan if you suddenly had the need to go to the
toilet so I go live your show I could hold the fort for you while you were
gone but that's been eating out of time I won't have to do that today that's it
so you take responsibility whilst the person in charge goes away you hold the
fort I've got a flash word here yes of course well that's what we were going to
squeeze in at the end this something we don't normally do but today
we are going to do it so it's all yours mr. Steve today's Flash word is a Nodine
is that on the correctly on there can you see it mr. Duncan I can see it
anodyne is an english adjective the word anodyne is an English adjective that
describes something that is inoffensive and tame to do something in a way that
won't upset or offend anyone can be described as anodyne I found his speech
to be anodyne and uninspiring a thing that's done in a safe and boring way can
be described as being anodyne to avoid offending anyone he decided to keep his
jokes as anodyne as possible synonyms of anodyne include bland dull inoffensive
insipid neutral safe tame anodyne some people say that my English stream is a
little bit anodyne I don't think so I disagree and I was going to say your
show is anything but anodyne it is it is whatever the opposite of anodyne is
exciting anodyne apparently in French it's a node in a node in it that
actually there's a medicine there's this there's a type of medicine that you take
when you get a headache called an ad in yes yes ah right and that's it that
that's as interesting is that sentence is going to get that's how they name the
yeah the drug I don't know maybe maybe not who knows we might never know we
might never get the answer to that question that but it dulls the senses
don't the pain yes panadeine mm-hmm Safiye Ola is here hello Saffy EULA how
are you doing I'm doing okay but we are going in a moment we are going to end
today with the sleeping chick a lot of people liked the silly
keeping chick so well I haven't seen it yet so I'll come over and have a look do
you want me to buzz off while you close the show you can state you might as well
hang around for a bit longer he normally tells me to go because he likes to close
the show you know I left Sundays because on Sunday I know that I can do my
livestream and also for supper of course what what's what's on the menu tonight
what's on the menu tonight a bit of a bit of a song where song yes a bit of
Poisson is on the menu tonight wes on that's French for fish fish
specifically it's going to be because it's Sunday it's salmon salmon Sunday
Sunday is salmon day with rice roasted tomatoes some hollandaise sauce and
sweet potatoes and brown rice sounds great and a few peas because we like
mixing peas in with the rice some Petit Pois Petit Pois pecan it's all turning
French look at the look at that look at the that the effect that one French
person has had on has turned as European again of course I am part French you are
I am I'm actually a little bit French you're probably about an eight French I
AMA I'm a little bit I'm not sure which part of me is French but but one of my
one of my body parts is apparently French look at your grandfather or your
great-grandfather is French that's true came over all away from friends that is
true we are going now thanks a lot mr. Steve we'll see you next week thank you
mr. Duncan and good bye to everyone out there and have a happy week learning
English that's great and we will see you very soon bye bye bye that's mr. Steve
he has now left the building he is now in the garden already already he's run
out of the dole he's ran out he's outside now taking his clothes off
enjoying the cold weather not really that would definitely scare
the neighbors it's time to say goodbye bye-bye two FS bye bye Julie bye bye -
Tara Boone tyann Jamelia Randall Pilar and Sofia Sofia analytic brain and also
TS Tia we are going to finish with something that I showed you earlier it
is the sleepy chick a baby green finch having a sleep I will see you next week
have a super super week stay safe and of course enjoy English you know what's
coming next of course you do ta ta for now 8-)
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