so here we are all together again on the final day of September yes a new month
is just on the horizon it will arrive soon
October is on its way coming up on today's livestream have you ever been in
trouble with the police we will take a look at words associated with law and
order and the police in general mr. Steve will be here with us to share some
of his wit and wisdom and of course you are more than welcome to get involved on
the live chat you know the world of English is a fern an exciting place to
be I'm so glad you could join me for another lesson
live from Much Wenlock in England on a Sunday afternoon this is
live English
tip tip tip tip tip to do DPB a la la Lala Lulu Lulu
welcome everyone here we go again
it's Sunday once more and live English is on the air hi everybody this is mr.
Duncan in England how are you today are you okay
I hope so are you happy well are you happy I really really hope so
here we go it is the final day of September 2018 a new month is just
around the corner October is knocking at the door it's
saying let me in let me in I want to be your new month and that will happen
tomorrow as October arrives of course October is a very important month for me
I know yes it's very self-indulgent I'm talking
about me and also my work my work here on YouTube so that's what it's all about
you see that's why I'm getting so excited about
October arriving so next month I will be celebrating my 12th year on YouTube can
you believe it 12 years so on the final day of October we will be celebrating my
12th anniversary I can't believe all those years ago when I was still living
in China I started making my English lessons on YouTube way back in 2006 can
you believe it all that time ago and here we are today still doing the same
thing now do you remember in 2013 as one of this many celebrations one of the
many many celebrations of my English lessons on YouTube I did a very special
series of lessons called dunk towba who remembers dunk towba and
during that period I made a new lesson every day during October
now I thought it would be fun today to have a look at one example of my series
of dunk tober lessons so instead of October
I said dunk towba so I thought we would start off today by having a look at one
of my dunk Tober lessons and here it is right now do you remember when I went
out and about in the car 31 days of dunk Toba day 13 hi everybody and good
morning welcome to day 13 of 31 days of October today I am doing something a
little different because I'm going out on the road
here we are driving through the middle of Much Wenlock this is the main road
going in too much wind block but we're not going to Much Wenlock today no we're
going somewhere a little further come on granddad put your foot down
now here's something I've never done before I'm making a lesson in the car
while the car is moving today I'm going to Anne Murray and the reason why I'm
going there is because I'm going to see mr. Steve's mum because she was in
hospital earlier in the year and I'm going today to try and cheer her up and
perhaps also she'll be cheering me up as well because she's lovely a lot of
people ask me mr. Duncan why don't you have a car why don't you drive and well
there isn't a simple answer it's just probably because I've never really been
interested in cars to be honest never I used to play with cars when I was a kid
but I never really grew fond of cars I never really got into them in a big way
my passion as a teenager was motorbikes I loved motorbikes a lot and I used to
ride a motorbike as well a couple of my friends rode motorbikes the one sadly
died and the other was seriously injured on his but I continued to ride mine
until one day when I had almost an accident not quite an accident but it
scared me enough to get rid of my motorbike after that one terrible
incident I never rode the motorbike again and I solve it so these days I
like to sit in the car as a passenger it's much more comfortable and of course
mr. steve is a very good driver
there he is behind the wheel it's mr. Steve I don't look at the camera mr.
Steve because I don't really want the car to crash into a tree thank you very
much there is mr. Steve he's a fantastic car driver he's probably the best driver
I know do you know sometimes when you're in a car and you're with someone and
their driving is so terrible that the two buttocks clenched together you're
actually holding onto the seat with your fingers because you're so afraid that
the car might crash at any moment Oh mr. Steve is not that type of driver
he's a very good driver
oh we are becoming very creative with these angles aren't we there is a phrase
in English to lose your nerve if you lose your nerve then you become
terrified you suddenly lose your confidence you lose your nerve you can
also lose your bottle it's a great phrase that so if you suddenly get
scared or you suddenly panic you can say I'm sorry
I've lost my bottle I've lost my nerve
don't worry I haven't lost my nerve today I'm still feeling very confident
and I hope you are too
do you open a car would you like to own a car do you know how to drive a car
would you like to one day drive a car some people don't like driving they hate
it they hate sitting in the traffic jams they hate waiting in the cubes driving a
car can be a very stressful thing to do just in case you thought I had forgotten
about them here are today's special hellos a big
hello to Kurt go Shane hello Bertha Xavier Hank
Eamonn rajashekar Khalid Jemma Adelson penny
don't forget tomorrow I will begin saying hello to places where are you
know please let me know
okay we're just coming into Bamburgh now or day is about to begin and this is
where I leave you this is mr. Duncan in England on day 13
of 31 days of donkey Toba saying enjoy the rest of your day and I will see you
tomorrow bright and early for day 14 this is mr. Duncan in the car in England
saying thank you for watching and of course guitar for now
of course you don't have to go anywhere because we are not leaving just yet
doo-doo-doo yes it's Sunday and it's live English I hope you enjoyed that
that particular video clip you just saw was filmed way back in 2013 during my
special celebration of the anniversary of my YouTube channel being created and
we are doing something very similar during this October
there will be some new lessons posted and of course don't forget there will be
a new lesson posted every Wednesday for those who haven't seen them yet there is
actually a new series of grammar lessons at the moment and they will be posted
every Wednesday but there will be some new lessons as well coming over the
period of October the first right through to October the 31st so lots of
new things coming your way something special as a way of celebrating October
and also my 12th anniversary to be honest with you I can't believe I've
been doing this for so many years it seems unreal so all of that to come next
month which starts tomorrow it's a very unsettled day here shall we have a look
out the window first of all so there is the view at the moment outside very
cloudy very gray fortunately it is not raining I hate the rain so much so it
isn't raining but it's very cloudy and quite windy very windy indeed can I just
say a special hello to my viewers watching in Indonesia as you may have
heard on the news or seen on the news there was a large earthquake and also a
resulting tsunami that hit in Indonesia so can I say a special hello to all my
lovely viewers watching in Indonesia I hope you are safe where you are
talking of viewers well of course we have the live chat don't we we can't
forget about the live chat so there it is the live chat is now on the screen
but of course the big question is who was first on the live chat let's go back
in time shall we and have a look right back to the beginning of the live stream
but who was first oh hello to Olga Olga was first on the
live chat well done to you congratulations I suppose I should give
you a round of applause yes I hope you enjoyed that also hello to matrix
who says hi everyone Blue Thunder Pedro is here satury know is here Mardy
is here Cris quien also shrink hello to you I
where are you watching at the moment I don't recognise your name are you new
here is it your first time on the live stream
please let me know if it is your first time Dima is here as well and we have
blue thunder Belarusian Belarusian and blue thunder are here as well ma vie
hello - ma vie who is watching in Turkey at the moment also - yo yo man who is
watching in India I know that we have many new viewers watching now in India
so a big special hello to everyone watching in India at the moment Irene is
here also tran Maria hello to Maria Silvana is here
Mika hallo Tamika as well watching in Japan Chris Francisco also we have
connell is here hello connell I haven't seen you for a long time so it's very
good to see you hi mr. Duncan and every body I'm not too bad thank you I was
busy this morning trying to get my phone to work because during the night my
phone has had an update my iPhone so now I am running the iOS 12 system in my
iPhone so and and one of two things have changed inside the phone because of the
application being updated so I'm just getting used to that I had a few
problems this morning getting my phone to work already people are complaining
about the new update on Apple they are saying why why doesn't it work properly
and this always happens every time they have an update every time they change
the software you can always guarantee that there will be some sort of problems
so I have updated it one thing I have noticed already there is something
different on the phone and now the phone will tell you how long you've been using
social media for so if you've been on social media if you if you've been
watching videos on YouTube the phone will now tell you how long you have been
doing it and also you couldn't you can get your phone to tell you to stop
watching so if you have been watching things for too long if you have been
watching too many of my English lessons for example your phone will now tell you
that you've been doing it for too long so that's an interesting development I
must say back to the live chat lots of things going on today we are talking
about all sorts of things including law and order we are talking about the
police because there is a new lesson coming very soon and I will be covering
those particular topics in great detail so all of that coming
in a few days time also of course today we are talking about the police the big
question today is have you ever been in trouble with the police have you ever
been in trouble with the police you don't have to give any full details
but if you have had a moment of time where the police have been involved with
something you've been doing maybe something that wasn't serious maybe
something that was very trivial or small so have you ever been in trouble with
the please
so all of that coming later on we'll be talking about words connected to the
police and also law and order as well all of that coming later on on the live
stream but meanwhile it's me mr. Duncan live on YouTube mr. Steve will be here
later on for those wondering where mr. Steve is yes he is somewhere special
today but the big question is where in the world is mr. Steve
hmm mr. Steve will be here in around about 5 minutes time
did do yes it's live English on a Sunday afternoon coming up in a few moments we
have an excerpt from something we did last year now in the garden there are
lots of flowers lots of plants and there is one particular flower that grows very
well in the garden in fact so well it gets very very big so at the end of the
summer season we have to cut this particular plant down in a few moments I
will show you what happened last year when we had to cut that particular plant
down because it was so big it took two of us mr. Steve and myself we had to
struggle in the garden cutting down that particular plant coming up in a moment
but of course as mentioned last week I was going to do a mystery idiom last
week and I I completely ran out of time so today before we go any further I'm
going to put the mystery idiom on the screen right now for those who love to
try and guess what the mystery idiom is so here it is here is today's mystery
idiom mmm do you know what it is a well-known phrase in English all you
have to do is tell me what that particular phrase is it is the mystery
idiom just say what you see what you see on the screen just say it say it to
yourself or maybe you can go round to your neighbor and tell them or perhaps
you could shout it out of the window maybe I will hear you so the mystery
idiom is now on your screen if you think you know the answer let me know on the
live chat because you are more than welcome to do so meanwhile let's have a
look at something that happened last year mr. Steve and myself were in the
garden and we were very busy a year ago I can't believe that a year
has gone by so fast oh hello mr. Steve hello there mr. Duncan and hello
everyone watching out there in YouTube land we are out in the garden it's a
beautiful evening it's a little bit chilly but we are out here for a special
reason because we are going to cut down the dung killas the big dunk ulis that
is growing at the moment in the garden so what are we going to do mr. Steve
well the full name of the plant is a car Duncan us and of course we bought this
particular plant because it's got a mention of your name in it so car dunk
ulis sounds like Duncan which is of course your first name I actually
spotted this plant in the shop I said to mr. Steve I said look mr. Steve this
plant is called car dunk ulis and my name is Duncan
so I couldn't resist I said to mr. Steve I said let's buy one and then we can
have a dunk ulis growing in the garden yes mr. Duncan you wanted to have a
plant in the garden that sounded like it was named after you what an ego of
course I couldn't resist buying it because it's called car dunk ulis and my
name is Duncan mr. steve is busy pulling up the sticks that have been holding up
the dung Kilis for so long come on mr. Steve give it a good pull there it goes
you're very good at this
you can see mr. Steve is thinking about it will he be able to carry out this
huge task because of course this is a very big plant look at the size of it so
what do you think mr. Steve do you think you'll be able to do it yes this plant
needs two chopping down because it's a dies off in the winter and therefore if
we leave it out it won't look very nice because you can see the one behind is
already dying off this is what you call a perennial plant which means that it
dies off during the winter months and comes back again in the spring
so this plant will kind of regenerate itself yes so this plant here will die
off so we will cut it away and then next year a new plant will reappear as if by
magic it's grown this height in one growing season and the new baby plants
are already present at the base that's incredible
can you see this particular thing here mr. Steve it is called a capitulum or as
it's more commonly known a flower head
careful mr. Steve we wouldn't want that big plant to fall on your head
so mr. Steve will now put all of the bits of the dunk ulis into the wheelie
bin
I must admit this is turning out to be a very busy evening job done and there it
is already you can see next year's car dunk
Ulis growing and a year from now we'll be cutting this one down
did it do - yes a year ago all of that was going on in
the garden
did it do it is Sunday it's a fun day it's live English day that's what it is
you see that's what we're doing right now at 25 minutes away from 3 o'clock
here in the UK I don't know what time it is where you are because I'm not there
later on we're going to take a look at words to do with law and order and also
to do with the police as well also another little question what does mr.
Duncan that's me and mr. Steve look like in Russian yes I will show you a little
bit later on the names our names in the Russian language because I was kind of
intrigued to find out what our names look like so that coming later on but
right now here he is live somewhere in the world but the big question is where
in the world is mr. Steve we are about to find out right now mr. Steve I'm just
trying to get through to here I've got my finger in my ear because that's what
they do on the television mr. Steve are you receiving Melo are you there mr.
Duncan are you there oh there he is mr. Steve ah mr. Duncan hello hello to you
how are you I'm okay thank you I know you're there ensconced in the studio
ensconced ensconced and I am live here in a mystery town yes Petrie I'm just
wondering now what we will do we will first of all ask on the live chat if
anyone knows where you are so there is mr. Steve he is somewhere somewhere
quite famous he's not in America he's not in New York he's somewhere a little
closer to home how about a few clues mr. Duncan well
first of all we will see first of all if anyone has got it right
because you know some of our viewers are very very very smart and I have a people
out there mr. Duncan clever people and I was going to say cleverer the nurse who
I'm sure they're clever the Nets I'm pretty sure of it I think about the law
of averages there will be cleverer people out there
than us so where does anyone want to guess no one's guessing at the moment
where mr. Steve is but he's somewhere very well-known a place where lots of
tourists visit lots of tourists visit the river or the River Avon oh close
through the center of this particular town that way let's say we are in
England okay we are in England because we blend the budgets we went to Russia
the week before America last week has no money left so I've just driven up the
road to a town I'm actually in England today and this particular town is 92
miles or about 170 kilometers northwest of London okay that's quite a long way
from London yes go up the m-40 and come off at Junction 50 approximately and you
will come to this particular town the birthplace have a very famous playwright
and poet probably the preeminent playwright and poet in the entire world
mm-hmm I think clues they should have got it by
now some good clues there and we have some correct answers already you see
happy we were right clever people clever people out there and almost too clever
yes too clever yes mr. Duncan today I'm in Stratford
Stratford upon Avon struck effort it's full name because the river even flows
through the town through the center of the town yes and it would have been
completely non famous town if it wasn't for the fact that William Shakespeare
the famous poet and playwright was born there in fact in
15 I've got my notes in 1564 he was but he was born in this right in this very
house here that we have on the screen and as you can see from that he didn't
come from a poor family because if he was born in a house that big in 1564 he
must have come from quite a wealthy house and in fact he did his father was
a glove maker a very successful glove maker and wool merchants are of the time
and his mother came from a family of rich landowners and farmers so
Shakespeare's parents were chronic wealthy there are quite wealthy so he
had a very good education which of course must have helped him a lot when
it came to writing plays but he obviously had a natural aptitude for
writing plays and I'm recounting the the human story and which he did very
successfully of course and we have many eight great 132 sorry 39 plays and 154
sonnets which is the type of poem as I said he was the son of a successful
glove maker and but he didn't actually write his plays in Stratford because he
moved to London when he was I think in his late teens early twenties and it was
in London that he wrote all of his plays or certainly most of his plays there
isn't that much information you would think that they didn't keep very good
records back then and Shakespeare himself didn't write a diary so that we
know that a lot about his personal life we don't really know in fact there's
been lots of programs about it but a lot of its basically made up don't actually
know a lot about his private life fact we don't even really know its exact date
of birth but we know when he was christened but we don't know exactly
what his date of birth was is it was a long time ago I know all so wait
waymarsh really way back in the sixteenth century he became yes now when
he went to London he became very successful as a play
right and he made quite a lot of money in his own right and he teamed up with a
group of people and they built their own theater in London called the Globe
Theatre which is still there today office it's not the same building no cuz
didn't the original globe burned down I think it did burn down I think I think
you're right it could well it might it probably did but imagine it did it was
it was made completely of wood he was also at the time writing his plays and
he was an actor as well himself so he used to appear in his own plays and
other plays on in the Globe Theatre and he was writing at the time when bubonic
plague was rife well in England so that that went on for I think 1603 to route
1610 there were plagues these regular plays
thousands and thousands of people dying that he didn't die from bubonic plague
although he did die at the relatively young age of 53 but but I think that but
that period Steve that period of time I think I think mid fifties was actually
quite old wasn't it well other than the average age then was probably about 36
that you would die yes sir he lived quite a quite a good
age it's why it's worth noting that people people in the 16th century people
didn't live that long they didn't live very long quite often also it was very
common for for women to die during childbirth
exactly so well it was I think he was I think his mother and father had about 8
children don't know how many of them survived but as you can see from this
house his parents had quite a lot of money of their own because he was a
successful businessman he came from a rich family now the house itself is
typical of houses of its time so it's made of a wooden frame with what
we call wattle and daub in between so the white in between that the timber
frames you can see is a type of it's like a type of plaster which is made
from sort of mud and clay and Anibal dung and straw and all sorts of things
mixed together and you sort of pack it in between the in between the wooden
well there was a wooden lattice which is the wattle and then the door vis the
plaster you put on top so there was like fine wooden lattice it's quite amazing
Steve quite amazing that's how they used to build houses at those days it's
amazing they they actually use poop yes they used animal dung mixed with clay
and straw and all sorts of stuff to pack this in and actually it was well I mean
it was a very successful building material because it still houses that
were built with it all those hundreds of years ago is still standing and I've
still got the original plaster work actually in the building this of course
has been restored an interesting fact about this house was that the famous
showman Barnum PT Barnum in 1846 I wanted to buy this house okay and take
it apart and rebuild it in America and at that time there was a lot of
resurgence in the interest in Shakespeare and they were horrified at
the thought that Shakespeare's birthplace might end up in another
country so they they got a committee together and and and I've got some money
together and I actually bought it themselves to prevent it being sent out
to America so it could have ended up there like one of the London bridges did
so it's almost an early version of activism yes
exactly well they just got together to prevent it being sold abroad the house
now is in fact a museum so you can go there and it's sort of laid out in in
the decorations and style of that particular time so you can wander around
and see what life was like for Shakespeare growing up in the 16th
century and you can alter it so it's a kind of a mecca for people interested in
creature so when I say I'm like a mecha it's like a pilgrimage people will go
it's a mecca with inverted commas so we're not talking about a pilgrimage for
for Muslim people like the city in Saudi Arabia but it's a similar when we say
something's a mecca for something then that means people will go there and
celebrate something and worship in this case literature and Shakespeare yes you
can also say a place that draws a large crowd yes for a particular purpose
somethings famous about that place like Mecca is obviously the birthplace of
Islam and Muhammad where is that this is the birthplace of literature of
world-class literature certainly modern literature because you have to also bear
in mind that Shakespeare's worth had had a very big effect on the English we use
nowadays yes and apparently I was reading at the time there was a lot of
criticism people used to criticize him because he didn't have although he was
quite well educated apparently he wasn't university educated hmm so he wasn't
regarded as amongst fellow playwrights and poets at the time elitist they were
yes he wasn't regarded as in the top they were a bit jealous of him because
he was writing very good plays and they probably weren't they're a bit jealous
of him I mean imagine if you were a playwright trying to make make a name
for yourself in the 1600s and you happen to be born at the same time as William
Shakespeare that's very unfortunate yes yeah because if he hadn't have been
born at the time there'd been somebody else around it would have been very
famous but imagine being born you're a playwright and you want to write plays
and you're born at the same time as Shakespeare you're never going to be
famous just happy no wonder they were criticizing him and also at that time
people were still very suspicious of new things that came along so that people
were quite distrusted they they wouldn't accept things straight away new ideas
new concepts new ways of expressing yourself
so so way back in a sixteenth century things were still developing is it in
the form of the way human beings think when you think nearly 600 years ago
that's incredible credibly long period of time yeah it's
just amazing to think that all that was going on you can't imagine them as much
civilization at the time but obviously there was so there aren't many actual
facts about Shakespeare that are very reliable though there are some things
that have been I think made up over the years especially when it when it comes
to his love life yes it's all I think it's all practically made up he had two
daughters he had two daughters and a wife and Hathaway of course is I think
she was famous in her own right wasn't she yes she had her own cottage exactly
well when he came he didn't actually but I mean there is the famous theater the
Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford yes
but that was nothing to do with Shakespeare because he didn't really
spend that much time after he left apparently didn't spend that much time
in Stratford he went back there three years before he died but he never he
never opened a theater in Shakespeare that was built in eighteen no
1930-something Massell abrasion are of his life but there wasn't a theater in
in Stratford before that and so that had nothing to do with him so it's quite
interesting go to the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in in in stratford-upon-avon and
it had nothing to do with him that was built many centuries later yeah I think
this is a musician this is a misconception some people have they
think the theater in Stratford is actually the one he built but it isn't
it's actually in London 1932 it was built yes the theatre that he was
responsible for forming was with a group of
was was the Globe Theater in London but the Royal Shakespeare Theatre have
nothing to do with him at all is it wasn't built until 1932 I remember when
we went to stratford-upon-avon to meet some students and also a teacher yeah
come here from from South Korea we did and I remember that particular day it
was absolutely full of people the whole place we did actually visit
Shakespeare's house but we didn't go in because there were so many people
queuing and waiting to go in two and a half million people visit Stratford
every year and just basically tourists coming to to learn about more about
Shakespeare and and it's a beautiful spot because there's a lovely River wide
river flowing to the center seat so you can go on nice boat trips you can have a
meal on the river we had a lovely day with with with those students and the
teacher from South Korea they'd had an awful they'd have an awful journey here
and not a particularly nice time I seem to remember but we had a nice day and
we've got film to prove it all I'm sure that many of your viewers would have
watched it yes I had to take that video off by the way because of there was some
music on there that came up for copyright infringement well perhaps you
can reload it with some of your own music or mr. Duncan yes yes actually you
know you know what III had almost I had almost forgotten all about that that we
did that and that was all so many years ago maybe six so maybe seven years ago
Steve so yeah you know what I'm going to do that so do you have any more
information for us I think that's about it mr. Duncan oh there's 27,000 people
live in stratford-upon-avon oh it's a quest
that's that's quite that's quite a few you mate you just normally just shorten
it just Stratford you don't the on Aven a lot there's lots of towns in and
cities in England that have on something after it the name of the town then on
yeah normally if the name is the same another place yes a newcastle-upon-tyne
yes oh there's a river tyne flowing through it because there's that there's
more there's more than one new castle and there's more than one stratford
that's it so they so that the one with the river is stratford-upon-avon so
that's how you can differentiate them to tell them apart have you noticed
something that I'm wearing mr. Duncan that doesn't belong to me yes you you
you are wearing my hat I'm wearing your red cap yes I've noticed which I thought
well I'm wearing a red shirt I need something to match it so I
grabbed mr. Duncan's famous baseball cap before I left the house and drove to
Stratford and I thought I wonder if mr. Duncan will notice and will he be angry
I did notice and I'm not angry good well do you want me to come back to
the studio mr. doom we will see you a little bit later Steve yes it'll take me
about oh I'd say about 30 seconds a drive back from Stratford that's pretty
fast we'll see you in a short while bye that's mr. Steve he will be back in the
studio live in a few moments but seeing that we are talking all about the
English language I thought it would be fun to take a look at an excerpt from
one of my full English lessons and in this particular clip we are talking all
about phrasal verbs
what exactly is a phrasal verb well first of all a verb is a word that
expresses an action it is a doing word it shows in action phrasal verbs are
formed by two or more words usually consisting of an adverb and a main verb
they can be transitive or intransitive good examples of phrasal verbs include
run out you run out of petrol you've used up all the petrol the petrol has
run out the car has used up all the petrol
another good phrasal verb is hang up too when the telephone conversation is to
hang up you hang up on someone you hang up on the person you were talking to
then there is hand in you hand in your homework you give the homework to your
teacher another phrasal verb is mix up this can
be the action of combining or mixing two or more things together mix URP can also
mean to mistake one thing for another phrasal verbs are used as a way of
expressing an action in an informal way they can often be confusing to those
learning English as a second language
did do and if we have time we will take another look at one of my live English
lessons but now here he is you know what's coming next
doot-doot it is Sunday afternoon it's coming up to three o'clock here in the
UK I don't know what time it is where you are because I'm not there can I say
a big hello to TS watching in Indonesia it's nice to see you here and a big
welcome to you all so guess who has just arrived in the studio here he comes oh
oh mr. Duncan oh I had to drive like a
maniac to get here today all the way from Stratford I've broken every law
what an entrance it's mr. Steve hello hello hello
yes I've driven like a maniac mr. Duncan talking about the law
I went faster than any police car could catch up with me on the way back to Much
Wenlock we are talking about the police today some words and expressions to do
with the police
so all of that coming later on mr. Stevie but but you're okay now I love
this shirt by the way well I wonder if anyone else is noticed
we'll look at the live chat in a minute where did I get this from mr. Duncan do
you remember I think if I remember right didn't you buy it all on one of our
holidays I did I bought it from Turkey oh okay Zeki when we went to Turkey I
went to a market and one actually was quite a quite a high-class shop in which
would have been let me think where would that have been was that in cash it could
have been cash yes or would it have been wet fethiye it
could have been 38 or what could have been cash no I can't remove it was cash
but yes and I've never I think I've worn it once
hmm because I bought it when you're on a holiday you buy shirts and you think
what's a nice shirt then you get it you get it home and you lose confidence in
wearing it so I lost a bit of confidence so I haven't worn it probably when did
we go to Turkey how long ago many years many years ago mr. Duncan when did we
last go to Turkey six seven years ago less time you are not gonna believe it
yes it's about seven seven years ago since we went to Turkey see this is
quite a stylish shirt do you notice there on the on the sleeve on the sleeve
don't undo it mr. Duncan doesn't need to be undone I went to have a look where
you could do it there's a black on that side and and a different colored one
that size this is a style yes I like this shoot I'm gonna start wearing it
again let's see if I get some good comments about it very stylish I must
say you know a million dollars it goes very well with my red hat yes
that's why I put it on so do you would you like to have a look at the live chat
Steve yes I would mr. Duncan let's have a look right now there it is
on the screen Olga likes my shirt Olga loves your shirt secured there is
Pedro though and Ali Valley is from Turkey this is a Turkish shirt yes this
from Turkey so this shirt came all the way from Turkey there we go yes maybes
looked up for that cash and a fetch a and Olga said she noticed this shirt
right from the beginning yes I'm going to go through my entire wardrobe in a
year and then we're gonna start from the beginning I wonder if I've got fifty two
shirts mister do you know what that is a brilliant idea maybe one week on the
live stream one Sunday we could talk about our own clothing so we could show
some of our clothes maybe we could show some of our favorite clothes but also
maybe some of the things that we bought in the past but would never wear again
oh yes that's a good idea now I know for a fact I know that Steve
has a lot of clothing that he bought and this was during the time when I was away
in China and you bought some very strange clothes well yes that the other
friends said that looked good on me that they said looked good on you but in fact
it didn't just say I was going out to a lot of nightclubs at the time I was
hanging around with a lot of sort of friends who were probably he bother they
were younger than me okay and they were trying to get me to go out with them and
become more trendy and this isn't one of the shirts because we brought this
together on holiday but they did try to get me to wear clothes which probably
were too young for me at the time yes this is the problem though so sometimes
you can buy an item of clothing in it in maybe someone says oh that looks great
on you but really later you realize that that particular item of clothing does
not look good No so maybe we could do that one week we could have a look at
some of our clothes from the past things that we used to wear or maybe things
that we bought and decided that maybe we shouldn't wear it because it looks
dreadful that's a very interesting subject because some people go out
shopping don't they mr. and they they don't spend very much time
deciding they just say well like that that that and they just buy it and take
it home they make very quick decisions on purchases of clothes by Pedro Pedro
going already yes have rude they probably got
something else to do doesn't matter we don't mind we know you'll be back and
but some people like myself go out shopping and I thought shall I have that
shan't I does that look quite right doesn't it I
my head gets filled with indecision and then I end up going home buying nothing
I'll tell you something never go shopping with my sister Oh your sister
loves shopping my sister is a Shopaholic I shouldn't say that but she loves going
shopping but she will I went out shopping once with my sister when I was
in my early twenties and she just told me to buy and buy that that'll suit you
buy that but you know I never wore any of them no spent a fortune and never
warrant got them home and I didn't like them yeah there are two things you
should never do there are two things you should never do and this is this is a
little tip from me you should never go shopping with other people if you are
buying clothes because quite often you can make a bad purchase and the other
thing I don't necessarily agree with you there yes but but they might persuade
you to wear something that because they're trying to change your image but
maybe they're trying to change your image too much or maybe they're getting
bored and they just want to go out of the shop and they just tell you to buy
it you can get out of the shop and go for a cup of coffee
yes that's it so it's a and another thing is well talking of buying things
never go to the supermarket to buy food if you are hungry never so never do your
grocery shopping if you are hungry and the reason why I say that is because you
are more tempted to put lots of things into the basket if you are hungry so
never go food never go shopping for clothes if you clothes are getting tatty
yes because otherwise you buy anything I'd say you might be tempted to buy
anything I Pedro see you Pedro buy what Pedro is going to do
I'm very interested no maid luck says ts okay then why good luck oh I don't know
maybe maybe maybe Pedro's going somewhere maybe for an interview or a
date a date yes now I'm very interested a lot of new people on the live chat
today mr. Duncan shall we have another look the live chat there it is - Germany
says edeltraut Schmidt Belarus es always saying but goodbye - ts there we go I
saw somebody new but I couldn't pronounce their name because it's in is
it syllabic second from the top oh yes of course
that looks let me just get that back again now if I'm not mistaken that looks
like I want to say Thai really I think that might be from Thailand hello this
is the first time for me nice to meet you all and I think that
might be Thai I hope I'm not wrong but I think it is I think it's Thai World of
Tanks oh ok good games World of Tanks talker by Pedro and what that means
ok then Pedro good luck good luck in what hello - yes well I'm very intrigued
I'm really interested I want to know what Pedro is doing yes
tell us before you go don't leave me in suspense
next Monday says Carrodus is a day without buying it don't buy anything
oh is this a special event taking place around the world so according to Cara -
next Monday is a day without buying anything
blimey that were very good for the economy really no so so one day a year
no one goes to the shops no one orders anything off the internet so yes I don't
see that going down very well with governments no I don't think so or even
large businesses they won't like a know buying day but I think it's a very good
well it used to be Sunday Sunday traditionally in this country but yeah a
day run all the shops were shut literally Oh
of them say you couldn't buy anything but now of course they're open all year
round yes up from certain bank holidays I
don't think the shops are ever closed anymore
I think we've got a holdout once do you remember I think there's one day I think
they still shut on Christmas Day and not all of them that the one I think it is
Steve I think it might be if Easter yes falls oh no I think it's it's good
friday or is Easter Sunday there's no Easter Sunday because of course many
shops now open on Sunday so all of those old laws that don't exist anymore after
chatter for and and if Easter Sunday well Easter Sunday always falls on a
Sunday so you can't open your shops at all so you are not allowed to do it so
that's the only day of the year that you're not allowed to actually open
your shop on Easter Sunday but all the rest of the days even Christmas Day
pending on your religion and Matt can you believe it even Christmas Day now
some shops are open incredible anyway enough about Christmas we have of course
we're a multicultural society now of many religions yes and a lot of these
laws about shop openings are to do with the attitude with religion so Church of
England so we're a multi-faith country yes so obviously that's a lot of other
faiths will keep their shops open actually we're secular aren't we I think
you'll find the UK is a secular country we are but traditionally that's why the
shops would be closed on a Sunday in this country because it was a day of
worship so everything's a bit more free and easy
now of course game for anything yes we are talking about lots of things today
now what we are talking what's wrong Irene said she had a fine house a hen
house oh okay yuria is that a house with hens in it we had a fire in our hen
house last week the firemen came and it took two hours to extinguish the flames
now what I want to know is how how did this fire start now were the hens
worthy playing with fire were they smoking so so may be that all of the
hands were in the henhouse and they were having a cigarette because sometimes
they do these animals they can they could I don't know how they hold the
cigarette by the way maybe they mean maybe they hold it with their wing or
maybe they hold it between their foot one of one of their feet to ours that's
a bad fire yes a lot a roast chicken that's incredible
so did yes shouldn't be nasty no I'm just joking Steve said that not me
did any hens die that's what we want to know yes how are the tragedy how are the
hens how are the hens are they okay were
there any boiled eggs oh dear anyway I hope everything's all right seriously
the first thing next time we will ask Pedro what he did yes we want to know
what what Pedro is up to today because it must be very important if he's
leaving us actually what could be more important than watching us what could be
more important than this just tell now you must be meeting the Queen or
something like that or you must have been invited to the presidential palace
I think something's going on there's got to be something spectacular yes all we
have the mystery idiom let's show the mystery idiom very briefly whilst mr.
Steve drinks some more vodka the mystery idiom there it is a well-known phrase
I'm sure you know what it is Steve I've already guessed it yes yeah I can guess
that you are sews you are so smart usually very good at those sorts of
things so smart so there is his if anyone doesn't get that no I'll I would
know how can I be diplomatic well if anyone doesn't get that one I
think it's too late then I would say that maybe they've never heard of it
before Carrodus says was the rooster on fire with the hens yes maybe they were
getting very passionate hmm and maybe they were getting so passionate
that sparks started to fly off the birds and that's that's maybe that's how it
happened maybe that's how the fire started
other people are joining in with the the roast chicken jokes oh I see so we do
apologize if it if it is causing offence yes to the person whose name has now
gone off the screen whose henhouse did it burn down we want more details can we
have more detail or details please about the henhouse I hope I hope nothing's
really really bad happened near us we are both in so much trouble
we've been watching a new comedy series haven't we Richard halfway which is
let's just say the people in it are not particularly nice people okay comedy but
they they don't really have any respect or any any empathy or any thoughts for
other people they're just very selfish people in this sitcom it's extremely
funny It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia that's the name of it that's the name of
the show and we started watching it a few days ago and it's hilarious it's so
funny and the people in it do all sorts of unmentionable things they are really
really horrible people besides that it's very funny to watch it's a bad influence
because you and you end up our voices going mr. Duncan you end up sort of
thinking about behaving they say you you you are what you what you think and what
you watch what you eat don't they say if you watch programs life if you are what
you think yes well that's it well what's going on up here is probably how you're
going to behave in real life yes anyway right
so today we are talking about the police shall we have a look at this I I love
this clip please police this is this is my favorite thing today
so this is what we're talking about today have you been in trouble with the
police police words police words and expressions as well now I must admit
I've never been in trouble with the police ever knew goody two-shoes I've
never been in trouble with the police however hi I have been in trouble with
the authorities certain authorities now that word Authority can mean anyone who
controls the rules or make sure that the rules are carried out so the rules must
be obeyed so I have been in trouble as a child because of course when you are a
child you you do things sometimes the usual thing that you shouldn't you do
things that you shouldn't you do silly things when you are young and I remember
at school III was punished I was punished for
damaging a tree damaging a tree in the school so that's what happened so it
wasn't just me it was to other people as well we were we were all hanging off
this small tree and one of the branches broke off and the teacher saw it happen
and we were all taken to the headmistress where she punished us she
slapped our hands very very hard I remember it being very painful and I was
so embarrassed afterwards I was really embarrassed and then of course if you
are in trouble at school they will always tell your parents as well so that
was a very embarrassing moment for me and I was only I was only about seven or
eight and he is old Duncan you were so bad
damaging a tree waitin so what are you telling me Steve are you
telling me that you've never been in trouble with anyone Oh
damaging a tree that that's the worst thing you ever did as a child blimey mr.
Duncan Mike you haven't lived can you beat that
well I'm not sure I can beat it what are you saying have I ever been in trouble
with the police have you ever been in no I'm a hardened criminal mr. Duncan
I've done time can I just tell you now don't be taken in by mr. Steeves
innocent smile and his sparkling eyes beneath this exterior there is a
hardened criminal a mastermind of crime a crime no I mean I've had I haven't
really I have had the odd brush with the law
obviously all that's a good one I like the wash well I haven't actually got
that one no if you have a brush with the law rush with the law I can write that
down you can write that down if we've missed that out I've missed that one out
a brush with the law it just means that you might have done something that
wasn't necessarily a crime but the police have maybe had words with you
giving you a bit of a warning maybe maybe you were driving erratically
speeding or maybe you were hanging around in the park or doing something
you shouldn't be the police might come up to you and give you a bit of a
warning so you have it you've had a brush with the laws so it's just like
somebody brushing you you know you know it's not nothing serious you don't like
you've been put into handcuffs no it'll taken off to jail you haven't
been locked in prison you haven't been locked in prison but
you could have been no you could have been taken in for questioning hmm you
might somebody might you might police might come to your door and say no I
want to come in and ask you some questions this is this is one of the
stinking this is one of the things we always say about the police now I
remember growing up we would always make fun of the police and we would always
put on a very strange voice when we imitated the police we would always
imagine the policeman saying ello ello ello
what's going on here then we do that's how we yes that's how we would picture
mr. plod Oh mr. plod Louie Louie loop because policemen used to patrol the
streets it was a reassuring sign for for many many years but of course recently
since the sort of 1960s 1970s the amount of police patrolling the streets has
gone down and down mm-hm and my new crime hasn't
necessarily gone up as a result no certain crimes I think have but but
generally actually in the in in in the Western world crime apparently has come
grant has been coming down for decades I suppose it depends it depends which type
of crimes type of crime so maybe some crimes don't occur because you could be
caught more easily and then other crimes that are harder to solve they they go up
or stay where they are but as societies become more wealthy
yeah that there's a direct correlation between the wealth of a society
correlation and the amount of crimes what does correlation mean it connected
with yes so the two things are connected so so one thing is connected to
something else it is associated with it so yes so if there is if as if a country
is quite rich a lot of wealth everyone's there could be full you know
good high employment nice socio-economic conditions socio-economic conditions yes
a harmonious place to live then there'll be less crime because people generally
commit crimes because they want something somebody else has got so they
want it's robbery if you've got lots of drugs to be lots of drug-related crime
look at certain parts of this country like in other parts of the country
anyway but anyway we're getting bogged down we're getting stuck in all of this
oh how I've been involved with mr. plod we will have a look in a bit we
find out about mr. Steve's life of crime but first let's have a look at some
words associated with what we're talking about today first police well police is
a noun but we normally refer to that word as the police so quite often or
more often than not we will say the police it will be treated as a plural a
plural not the pop group the civil force of a state responsible for the
prevention and detection of crime and the maintenance of public order so when
we talk about public order we mean society being kept in some sort of
control and that's why we have laws also you can say members of a police force so
the police force is the organization in charge of maintaining and observing law
and keeping law and order or should we say public order as well so that is the
word police also as we continue you can use it as a verb as well so of the
police force with the group that is in charge of keeping law in order also
there are some rather interesting terms as well police terms some of them are
offensive by the way now I don't I've only put them here today just to show
you but I don't agree with these words before anyone starts to complain so
there are some police names including slang terms you can have boys in blue
these would be ones used in in the UK yes say where you can use some of these
in the UK some of them can be used in other countries as well so the boys in
blue that is a term that describes the police because they
uniforms are very dark blue although I always think they look black yes but
I've never chain but apparently are they are dark blue also coppers coppers
coppers so coppers the coppers so copper a
copper is a policeman and in the United States quite often the police will be
referred to as cops cops and the reason why we use that word of course is
because the word cop means to catch someone if you grab someone or catch
hold of them you cop them I might hold of them
you cut hold yes you cup hold of them so that's the reason why they are called
cups because because they catch people the next one is filth that is offensive
never ever say that to a policeman unless you like spending the night in a
Cell also fuzz is well the fuzz there is a movie called hot fuzz so fuzz is
another word an informal word for police here's one that I remember growing up
old bill the old bill the old bill of course relates to the police the next
one is very offensive this is the worst of all I'm not even going to say it so
yeah I real Oh Steve wants to say it why yes pigs pigs out pigs the pigs are here
the police are here yeah look out the pigs are coming so it's that offensive
oh well it would be to a policeman I think to a policeman or policewoman or
police neutral gender it would be very very offensive and finally we have roses
I don't know what that means or where it comes from
no I'm not sure how that came about but Rosa so the roses again that is a term
that is normally used in the UK so that is often used in this country
though rozzers so there you can see some terms some terminology for the police I
am in the process of making us a long special lesson all about law and order
and the police and that will be coming during October because it's an exciting
month in October is it your 100th livelesson no it is my
12th anniversary on YouTube well belli Rusia earlier said that she
thought it was your 100th live lesson was going to occur in October really yes
I think I noticed that she said that right at the beginning I think I've done
more than a hundred yes your 12th year hmm so that's growth anniversary so my
12th anniversary 12 years ago on the 31st of October I started doing my life
my recorded English lessons in China and Here I am a bedroom in Wolverhampton no
are you talking about over in China yes in China
I thought you meant the first one proper one here in the UK no no when I first
started my youtube channel so Tom accounting that one right
Tomic says I used to live in a police state when I was 7 I was chased by a
policeman I'm not going to say what you said for no particular reason and he hit
me once with a long stick on my back I was completely innocent Oh Tomic so
Tomic says he was innocent he hadn't done anything wrong as I state that's an
interesting phrase quite often the police will carry a weapon in their
hands normally a large stick here we call it a
trench and that's it so a truncheon is a large rubber stick with wood in the
middle and yes so they used to be made of wood but I think nowadays they're
made of rubber yes hard rubber and you you beat the person if you are trying to
control them of course nowadays they also use a thing that will send
electricity through their body and it's called a Taser
pays a gun a lot of people die from those yes sometimes if they've got a
weak heart or heart conditions so if they get tasered they can die because of
the reaction because they're also carry guns and of course the big one
yes the big one of course not here necessarily all over the place so the
police in this country in England or in the UK don't all carry guns
some do it depends what type of policeman they are so if they are
protecting the government or a building where important people are meeting so
may they will then carry a gun but out on an average day on a normal day the
police do not carry guns however in the United States they do and in lots of
other countries they do that's it yes so here most of our policemen the ones you
see on the street generally don't carry guns so let's go back to the live chat
and then we will find out what mr. Steve did when he was a child he did something
that apparently how do you know well you you said you've said just now that you
did something when I want to reveal what I used to do and your child mind gee
we've got to be careful what we say when we did as a child based on what we've
seen on on the US television recently oh yes of course that you did in your
teenage years can be used to get you into a lot of trouble well I think it
depends how serious the crime is yes yes there is a difference between what you
did and what exactly the person what I did mr. Duncan ah now you're making
you're making a mountain out of a molehill well that's what I'm trying to
say I'm just I'm trying to say that the thing you did wasn't that serious oh
look sujin when she was that's very brave
when she was at university she took part in a student's demonstration oh okay we
said in the blood for a day they gave us food it was delicious
oh is it have they agreed with your cause that's interesting so sujin says
apple when I was at universe I took part in a student's yes I'm
reading it myself there it is an English lesson so when I was at university or
when I was a university student I took part in a student's demonstration so I'm
just correcting outright I say yes Rodan that's what we're doing is here it's an
English lesson I I took part in a students demonstration I was caught by
the police like some other students we were
detained now you can say you were detained that's a great word so to be
detained means you you are held you are held against your will so you don't want
to be there you are held in place you are detained so we were detained by the
police officers for a day and they gave us food which was very delicious
so yes another word we can use is custody yes you are taken into custody
you are taken into a police station and you are held there held there you are in
custody yes there's a good joke about that mr. Duncan is that yes yes a milk
lorry and a flower lorry collided on the motorway in a serious accident the
drivers were both taken into custody custody his custard is something that
you put on here on your pudding and made from flour and eggs and milk that's a
bit of a joke obviously mr. Duncan has lost his sense of humor hilarious
oh we have some new people joining would you like to have a look there Steve I
know Steve loves the live chat oh we've got dough Haman Doh haynam is watching
in Vietnam so I am Vietnamese I am watching in Viet Nam so hello to you if
it is your first time please let me know Danny Lo is here as well hallo hello mr.
Duncan please send me a hi to Brazil hello to Brazil Brazil I believe Vietnam
I believe Steve you have some words I do some word words connected with actually
not the police but with law with the law we are talking all about the law today
yeah and one of the big questions today is have you ever been in trouble with
the law anybody told it well I only had one person so far that has admitted
being in trouble with the police mmm interesting
I expect lots of people have been caught like I have speeding when you drive a
lot of miles eventually yoga if you tend to speed
eventually you will get caught law of averages will come on to that later so
yes you'll get caught eventually and of course I've been caught a few times
by cameras speed cameras and in fact once I was stopped by the police yes so
this is something I wanted to get on to so you were stopped by the police but
also when I used to ride my motorbike I was always always if the police would
nearby when I was on the road they would often pull me over were they and asked
to see my license all right because I'd well I don't know
why was it because they couldn't see me because I yes I had a helmet on a lot of
a lot of young people tend to ride motorbikes without a license
yes so they're probably just they were doing like a spot check yes but that
probably they wouldn't need to do that now because your number plate would come
up on on a computer so it's when you were growing up
there wouldn't have had all these computer systems in the world with all
the information in a central spot yes but we used to have to carry our license
you don't carry your license anymore no so they could just take a picture of
your number plate on your car and they know all of the details about the driver
the the tax in the insurance no T instantly it's instantly very very
clever but the big question is what was your brush with the law that was it mr.
Duncan I was I was on the motorway and actually I was trying to get home I was
probably about 26 mr. Duncan and I was going 90 miles an hour when the speed
limit was 70 and I got pulled over by the police at about nine o'clock at
night what what happened to you he said he didn't give me a ticket because I was
I remember somebody telling me if you ever get stopped by the police be as
polite as possible and I was very apologetic and I just saying in fact it
was true I was in a hurry to get home to see my mother and father and it was the
road was quite empty but I was doing 90 so I got stopped so that's probably
about 120 kilometres an hour so it was well over the speed limit
but actually I've got to admit something else when I was when I was younger mr.
Duncan what nothing mr. Duncan when I was younger I had a
friend it was a very very naughty and I think lots of people you you have you
mr. Duncan used to steal apples I think children always do this when you're a
certain age children you you eating you'd sort of get excited and know what
to do different things it sounds like get excited now are you
getting excited I had a friend and they Eid used to lead me astray he was very
naughty and he used to say oh come on let's go let's go and Nick things from
the shops steal stealing so we used to we used to sometimes do
it was very naughty and if it got caught once mr. Duncan we actually got caught
so that's my brush with the law I can't believe the ticking off I find
this incredible I remember years ago when you first told me this and I was
really shocked my my mouth was was open my jaw my jaw dropped I think I was only
about 13 at the time for routine something like that so when you were 13
years old you used to go with your friend and you used to go into the shops
and you'd you'd steal things just just as a joke this is a bit as a date was
more like a dare but let's see it was a dare actually right see what you can get
you know we didn't realize the consequences of what we were doing we
were very we were young at the time anyway we got caught and we got a severe
telling off I can tell you and the police gave us a gritty good talking-to
and that that was like that actually that maybe you see maybe I could have if
we hadn't have been caught I could have been on I've been going down a path of a
life of crime alive I don't think I would have happened no because it was
just like a bit of a prank so the story I'm trying to wrap this up move on move
on no there's nothing there's nothing but there is but this is a very good
story why it's a good story because there is a moral to the story don't
steal don't steal and also it puts you on the right Road well I suppose it
might have done yes as you see because I didn't I didn't do anything naughty and
haven't done anything naughty so you that day so since you were 13 you've
done nothing illegal no nothing so you have stopped at all as you have stopped
me you have stopped shoplifting you no longer shoplift you have to keep
saying that word mr. Duncan it was just a childhood prank and anyway you've got
to push the boundaries a bit you know find out what you can get away with what
you can't get away with you know you can't lead a boring life you told me
that you found it very no harm was done you said it was very
exciting I can't remember mister don't just remember by the way does your
mother know about this I'm gonna I'm gonna steal this pen mr. Duncan I like
this pen I'm having it it's mine does your mother know I'm having this peg as
well it's mine does your mother know that you were arrested by the police
when you weren't arrested by the police it wasn't that it was it was it was
let's just say I was grounded for a few days for being a bit of a naughty boy
naughty mr. Steve I can't believe this well it wasn't nothing particularly
serious no armed no no harm done no unless of course you are the poor
shopkeeper oh they make enough money
Cory says TSI was yes yes but I'm a reformed character this is it but that's
the point the point it's a positive story in the fact that you learnt your
lesson well yes so you you were going you were going off the straight you were
going into something a little shady shady illegal something naughty but by
by being caught by the police they they took you away and they had a word as a
you see if I if I had not been caught or if I might have thought you see but I
could have said to myself ah now next time yeah I'm going to be more careful
and I could develop new ways of becoming undetectable by the police and I could
have actually become a high level criminal maybe I could have gone into
bank robbing yes ah sir and don't a sophisticated crime nurse a cyber crime
it could have been a drug lord I exactly I could have been worth millions now it
would never have happened it was you know I was always a very well behaved
chattering thank you very much for your honesty well you just outed me mr.
Duncan I thought you wanted to talk about it so
you didn't want to mention that on the live stream not particularly mr. Jenkin
heretic have I done bad you have a natural penance you later
Oh look forward to that don't wait so yes a moral lesson I think so
don't steal don't be a thief Dimas 31 says can you turn the globe
around so that you can see Russia oh okay which globe okay it doesn't go
round very easily there it is are you sure there's Russia yes Russia Russia
see it yes it's green it's the tilt of the earth means that you can't actually
see it that clearly is Lithuania on there where your your lovely watch comes
from oh you watch on you haven't got your Vostok watch on today I've got my
watch on because I forgot I was rushing most of Europe watch which I bought you
for your birthday present I was Russian leave you I was rushing around Russian
talking of which do you want to sell your 20 minutes ago mister I've got all
these words do you want to see our names in Russian go on there it is which is
which so the first one is me okay no okay the dashing it actually yes
that's Russian for Duncan so that that is Duncan so that basically says Duncan
right and the other one is you that say Steve it says Steven Steven Deven yes
most about corn today no mister vodka is not here because he
wrote tea centers that lovely video yes in pronouncing the Russian alphabet
that's it so there it is so well I I researched this last night so there we
go so Duncan and Steven in Russian ts is laughing saying
destroying tree branches is a crime I think what you did was far worse than
what I did really yes destroying a tree branch is a serious crime
so you think damaging a tree is worse than stealing from someone's business
yes exactly okay then if you say so come on 20 minutes mr. Duncan I've got all
these words to go through we've got 20 minutes left and then mr. Steve and
myself will go so let's have a look what if you got Steve first one are you above
the law above the law that means somebody who thinks that they they
operate outside the normal laws of society uh-huh a common expression that
is used if somebody is very rich or let's say say they're a policeman or
they've got lots of money and then they break the law a high profile or a
celebrity you can use the expression that nobody is above the law in other
words it doesn't matter your status in society how much money you have or
whether you you know what your job is if you commit a crime you must be punished
according to the law of the land which is for everybody there are no exceptions
but sometimes some people think that they are above the law and the laws
don't apply to them and they can do what they like and we often see this
sometimes people used to when we had the banking crisis then say that a lot of
the a lot of the banking companies thought that they brought above the law
because they would do whatever they liked and just got away with it
and I think it's probably true to say that the more money you've got the less
likely you are to go to prison for a crime because you can pay people off you
can you can do all sorts of things if you've got lots of money so sometimes
people will say that rich people think that are above the law they can do what
they like can I think they do often get away with
it because you can pay people off if you've got lots of many kinds yes we
said that we could say that the person will flout the law flap the law so that
they flout the law they think that the law doesn't apply to them because they
are special they think because they have lots of money they don't have to obey
the rules and this happens a lot in society it can be used sometimes not
necessarily referring to sort of crimes like like murder and theft and things
like that it can be you can use it flippantly
yeah that's raised flippantly so do you think you're above the law yes it might
be to do with your workplace and and things that happen at work and the
opposite of course is no one is above the law I said that I said that so
that's it yes I didn't say I didn't say you didn't say it take the law into your
own hands if someone takes the law into their own
hands it means that they don't follow the normal procedures involved in in
prosecuting somebody so if you think so for example somebody murders your wife
for example and that and you decide that the police are taking too long to solve
this crime you think you know who it is and you go out there and you go and kill
somebody the person you think has murdered your wife and so you take the
law into your own hands so instead of waiting for the police to get the
evidence together and take them to court and prosecute them then you take the law
into you you decide you become the judge and the jury and the executioner and you
decide that you're going to take care of this yourself of course this itself is a
crime and because unless you collect the evidence you could be completely wrong
yes well this is the problem people take revenge on somebody who they think has
done something and it's not them and then they end up committing a serious
crime themselves and end up in prison and in a civilized society you have to
let the law take its process otherwise we will be living in fact the laws of
the jungle well it'll be lawless lawless society
yet so to take the law in your own house you take something into your own hands
you you you act as if you are the police yes you act as if the law is yours of
course sometimes sometimes somebody is guilty of a crime but they can't get
enough evidence together to prosecute them and which sometimes happens because
the process means you have to be guilty if you're found guilty so you have to be
proved you know a reasonable doubt yes you have to be found guilty so there has
to be evidence there has to be proof that you did that thing exactly so take
the law into your own hands can backfire on usually do bad you give out your own
punishment at your own punishment yes here's another one a law unto him or
herself huh if you if somebody describes you as
somebody who is a law unto unto himself or herself it means you're a bit of a
maverick it means that you don't necessarily not necessarily talking
about legal law here we're not talking about somebody who would go out and
commit crimes if he's described somebody's a law unto themselves it's
more about it work for example if they don't necessarily follow all the rules
of society it doesn't mean they're literally committing crimes it means
that they follow their own path they do things their own way so we can describe
somebody at work for example as if you're trying to if you're in for
example I'm in sales and and the company might say to you right this year we want
you to sell this this this and this this is what we want you to do you work if it
could not be sales it could be anything and this is what we want you to achieve
at the end of the year and this is how we think you should do it but somebody
who's a law unto themselves will just go off and do it their own way often
they're not punished because they often do achieve results in something but they
do it their own way yeah it's actually very successful it's actually very
similar it's similar to the the one you had earlier so you're making up your own
rulz you are well that one's a bit different
yes but it's kind of similar as well because you're you're making your own
rules you're going against the things that you should do and you're doing
things your own way yes so that's not not exactly the same I know but that's
referring to actual crimes yes whereas this isn't isn't necessarily
referring to a crime that's it it's referring to just the way you do things
in everyday life it doesn't mean you're gonna commit a crime no that's it just
generally you you do things your own way you do things your own way that's right
another one to get on the wrong side of the law get on the wrong side of the law
means that you've you've committed a crime and the police arrests you and
you've done something bad you're on the wrong side of the law so you're in the
bad diet that one's fairly self-explanatory I think it's an
interesting term just before we'll be just taking a break from that we can
have law in order terms and he's a good one the long arm of the law and you know
I haven't already got that one mr. Duncan well I just guessed you you you
hadn't I I just guessed so the long arm of the law so this
relates to the power held by those with authority such as the police and those
with the power of authorities so they can use the laws of the land to tell
people what to do the long arm of the law yes and it often refers to the fact
that you you can't escape justice yes it means that that that authorities will go
after you for a long time so that the the the police that the the law is
coming you know you can't escape the law it means there's always the fingers of
the police and authorities out there to get you yes so you can't escape that's
it the asset the long arm of the law for
example if you committed a crime in this country and then you went and moved
abroad somewhere you still might be caught mmm because wherever you go
then justice can be found that's all we search for you if you've committed a bad
crime yes you can be hunted down lay down the law I'm going to lay down the
law now this is ready in sort of domestic situations or at work it's the
law of the household so for example if you if you went out if you were a
teenager living at home and you kept being laid back you have your parents
call you smoking and taking drugs and you were staying out late and drinking a
lot your parents might lay down the law to you in other words tell you what
remind you how you could need to conduct yourself if you're going to live in live
in your parents house they'd sit down to you and and lay down the law they give
you a good telling off so they tell you what the rules are and the things you
must obey so telling off really you lay down the law you might be in a
relationship as well so your wife might lay down the law to you I want you home
you've got to be home for tea at five o'clock she's laying down the law to you
I'm making the tea and you've got to be here ready for it a nagging wife
well not nagging but you know that's phrase that's laid right so here's
another one Oh possession is nine points of the law is an expression that we hear
from time to time possession is nine points of the law so what does that mean
it means that if you actually own something if you actually got something
even if it really isn't yours you can then in when you go to court
says say you borrowed something say you borrowed something from somebody and
then a book for example or a watch and you'd had it for a long time and then
the person that owned it suddenly wanted it back it could be a car it could be
could be anything or a sofa and then that person wanted it back you could you
could actually claim that it was yours if you went to court you could say well
I've got it therefore it's mine and unless you can really prove prove that
it's yours chances are that your successfully keep it so unless
you stolen it that's different we're not talking about
theft but possession is nine is nine points of the law there used to be nine
points of the law powers oh so it was nine-tenths of the law
oh yes or nine-tenths yeah nine points or 9/10 that's always the expression I'm
familiar with so nine points of law or nine-tenths it means you've got a strong
legal case for owning something if you've actually got it yes so for
example another example would be if you've got a family heirloom if you've
got a watch handy down to the family and say for example I had it my sister said
that oh but my father said I could have it but you could but that you could go
to court say but I've got it so you know it's my it's mine I've got it she hasn't
got it and the law would probably come down on your side because if you
actually possess that thing then you probably sir is yours so how does it
work when you steal something well that's different we're not talking about
if I steal my neighbor's bike and then I'm riding around on it and then my
neighbor says I want my bike back I can say no it's mine i I've nine nine-tenths
of the law well yeah we're going to have to mercy
no because then they can prove that you stole it so yes that's it the law of the
jungle five minutes all these in the law of the jungle it's an expression that
actually comes from Rudyard Kipling's book of Jungle Book okay but it's not
used in the same way so it means really survival of the fittest or survival of
the strongest that's how we use it in society now it describes a situation
where people who are strong and do not care about other people are the most
successful so that's what it's that's what it's describing so for example if
you work on the stock market's if you're working banks if you're if you
have a drug pusher then in those situations it's the law of the jungle
the fittest survive the strongest without care for anybody else which
actually is not how the expression was used
the book itself in rudyard kipling i did the younger book I don't think Rudyard
Kipling was referring to drug pushers well he was referred there actually was
a law and you weren't supposed to go that the animals in the jungle weren't
supposed to were supposed to abide by certain rules but the way it was it's
used in society now it's very differently it literally is you know in
business in if you're it could be in business yes but if you are involved in
drugs then if you're selling drugs I mean that that's you know it's the law
of the jungle and certain certain areas of certain towns there's there are
lawless where there's no no the police won't even go into I don't remember I
don't remember reading Jungle Book I don't remember a scene in Jungle Book
where Baloo was standing on a street corner selling crack cocaine I've just
thought about different examples of crimes good law of averages the law of
averages the eye this is an idea that no one result will happen all the time okay
even if that result is unlikely so the law of averages we use that expression a
lot so the law of averages says that if I toss a coin in half 50% of the time
it'll come up heads 50% of the time says it'll come up tails that's the law of
averages if I do it enough times but if I only did it say two or three times it
might come up tails might come up the same way three times in a row but I
advocate out over a locked a lot of times and it eventually will come out
50/50 so the more you do something that that law of average will even out it
will even out so for example if you're not very good at playing football or
even if you just play football and you haven't scored a goal for a long time
but you have score goals in the past someone might say to you well don't
worry carry on playing the law of averages says that you will score a goal
eventually hmm if you just keep doing you might might only score one goal in
every ten games that might be your average so if you don't score any for
nine games then it might be twenty games and then you
and he scored two goals yes the law of averages may be something you will
eventually do it given enough time yes so that that's actually a good way of
also explaining that the the proverb about never giving up so try and try
again so the more you try to do something the more you endeavor the more
you pursue something that the more you do it then the greater the chance is
that you will succeed yes it you might say oh yes that's it yes oh that's it
giving enough time then that something will eventually happen no wrong result
will happen all the time I like it the law of diminishing returns okay that's a
complicated that's quite complicated we'll add image intro this is the idea
that any measurement of a result like I put you're doing a project might be a
product it could be an organization mm-hmm will eventually begin to flatten
over time as more effort and time and money is put into it so when you're
doing something then you have to have it you put in a certain amount of effort to
get a result and at first the more effort you put in you get more results
coming out but then eventually it flattens out the curve flattens out and
the more effort you put in it doesn't necessarily getting you any greater
returns in fact you could end up getting less returns so for example you're
training to be a to be a runner or training in tennis or or training for
anything you'll put a lot of effort in and you'll get better and better and
better and then eventually if you want to get a little bit better you've got to
put much more effort in to get even a small amount of of change to improve
anymore it's the law of diminishing returns it's the same when a car if
you're trying to get a car to go faster and faster and faster most cars will get
look and go up to 50 or even 100 miles an hour now but to go to 200 miles an
hour you've got to you've got to that the higher the speed the more
energy and effort you have to put in to go faster and faster because there's
resistance and all sorts of things like that take place if you do homework
you're trying to learn English for example you might say well our study ten
minutes a day fine but if you studied 20 minutes a day you'll you'll probably get
twice as good if you study an hour a day you'll probably get three times as good
but if you start to do it two hours three hours four hours you you won't get
that much better because you can only do so much put so much effort into it the
law of diminishing returns there's an optimal point of effort for any task and
if you go over that you have to put a lot more energy into it
yeah to get even a small increase in the result I think learning is a good way of
expressing that as well so yes that's why it takes such a long time to learn a
subject so if you want to be a doctor you might have to go to university or to
study for seven years and that's because it takes a long time
the more knowledge you gather then the longer it will take to actually succeed
or to learn everything that's involved yes a bit like learning English that's
it so I mean another example would be because they everyone gets homework at
school but if you you would think that if you give a student twice as much
homework they would they would get twice as good but it's not necessarily case
because then it becomes stressful and they can end up being worse off here's
another one Carrodus has already beat beating me there to the post with an
expression Murphy's Law which in the UK we use the phrase sods law but they are
one and the same do you want to put that up mr. Duncan so anything that can go
wrong anything you go wrong will go wrong Murphy's Law oh yes I like that
it's pretty cool they used Murphy's Law that's the expression they use in
America but in the UK we use the ferret phrase sods law the same thing and it
basically means it's a bit of a humorous expression really that means if
something can go wrong it probably will yes and we use that expression either
before doing something or or even after it's gone yeah a good example of course
tomorrow I want to go outside to do some filming I really want to I've planned to
do some lovely filming outside yes you do a lot of planning for this and then I
go outside to start filming and then it's it begins to rain and I think oh
that's south sods law Murphy's Law they just went wrong right at the point when
you wanted to do something you could be going on holiday and you've got to catch
a flight from an airport and then you missed the flight because on the way
there's a traffic jam and you think oh every day I come up this road it's
perfectly all right but the the time I decide to go on holiday sods law there's
an accident and I'm late that's it so if something can go wrong it probably will
quite probably just at the point you don't want it to quite often if you're
in a hurry to do something you you will often find that Murphy's Law or sods law
will come into play which time for us to go after an excuse for not preparing
properly it's because if you were doing a doing an important project at work
then you would try to take an account of all the things that could go wrong - so
the sods law murphy's law wouldn't apply it's time to go mr. Duncan he wouldn't
be Elish those words I feel that's a bit of a rush no it wasn't that's perfect
your your tempo your timing was perfect so don't worry before we go we're going
to have a look at the mystery idiom there it is now on your screen and I got
this one even Steve got it and and you know that's saying something
needle-in-a-haystack the meaning well this is an expression that means
something is hard to find a situation where something is hard to find can be
described as being like looking for a needle in a haystack
something that is hard to find is a needle in a haystack and that's it
another mystery idiom coming next week don't forget we have our special series
of lessons about grammar a new lesson will be appearing on Wednesday how's
your grammar a guide to the English language that will be coming on
Wednesday and we have some new lessons coming during October it is the first of
October tomorrow it is we will be back next Sunday just on the screen now you
will see the time live English every Sunday from 2 p.m. UK time and that is
it we're done we are done I'm going to dust my hands because another live
stream has come to an end thanks a lot Steve for your company Thank You mr.
Duncan thanks for your special where in the world is mr. Steve where will I be
next week ah that's the big question where in the world will mr. Steve be
next week all will be revealed all I can say Steve is stay away from the shops we
will see you later I'm going to make a tea cake and a cup of tea right now mr.
Duncan that sounds like a good idea thank you very much to blue thunder
Irene Belarusian sack thank you to Vitesse thanks a lot for
your company and that is it we are completely out of time thank you Steve
Thank You mr. Duncan you may say your goodbyes bye-bye everybody and look
forward to seeing you all next week and I will see you next week as well this is
mr. Duncan in the birthplace of English saying thank you very much for watching
me say hello to you live a big hello once again
to Tias it's very nice to see you on the live chat glad to see that you are okay
and of course you know what's coming next yes you do ta ta for now?
ta ta for now 8-)
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