0:00Hello and welcome to the
0:01HelloFrench press review, the podcast that immerses you in the news
0:05of the week to help you improve your French.
0:10On the front page for this week, from March 22 to 28, 2020,
0:14Boris Johnson, the first head of state tested positive for the coronavirus.
0:18An update on the Covid situation around the world.
0:22A cat tested positive for coronavirus in Belgium.
0:26Confinement and violence against women.
0:29An increase of 32 to 32% in France.
0:31Tunisia puts a woman on her banknotes.
0:35Switch to summer time this night from March 28 to 29.
0:40Boris Johnson tested positive for coronavirus.
0:44On Friday, the British Prime Minister
0:46was slow to take action to prevent the epidemic from spreading.
0:51He is now one of the first
0:52leaders to be officially affected by the disease.
0:56However, these symptoms remain mild.
0:58Cough and fever. Confined to his home.
1:01He continues to lead the country by videoconference to combat the crisis.
1:06Since the start of the crisis, Great Britain has recorded 578 deaths
1:11from Covid 19 and more than 11,000,500k officials, including Prince Charles.
1:17Let's continue with an update on the
1:19Covey 19 crisis around the world with more than 100,000 cases in the United States,
1:24the country has become the nation most affected in the world in Italy.
1:29Center of the crisis in Europe,
1:30nearly 1,000 deaths were recorded in 24 hours.
1:34The country thus beats a sad record with
1:37a total number of deaths exceeding 9,100 people.
1:41This week, new countries have gone into total containment.
1:45This is the case of Greece, Ireland, South Africa, Rwanda,
1:50Tunisia, Colombia and also India, which puts 1.3 billion
1:56inhabitants in confinement for three weeks.
1:59Today, nearly half of humanity is confined. Never seen.
2:03A cat tested positive for coronavirus in Belgium, infected by his master.
2:09He would have developed the symptoms, explains the Faculty of
2:12Veterinary Medicine , which took care of the domestic animal.
2:16It is therefore indeed a case of contamination from humans to animals.
2:20Authorities said it was an isolated case.
2:24The National Council for Animal Welfare
2:26reminded that pets are not vectors of the disease.
2:31They hope that this will prevent this rumor from continuing to spread.
2:34Since the start of the epidemic, the sp.a, which takes in abandoned animals,
2:39has indeed noticed a big boom in animal abandonment.
2:43With the ban on going out,
2:45domestic violence increased by 32% in one week in France.
2:50In Paris, we even go up to + 36% to try to help these women victims of violence.
2:56An alert system has therefore been set up in pharmacies.
3:00The authorities invented the mask code
3:0319 that women can tell their pharmacist.
3:06The latter can then notify the police.
3:09A woman on Tunisian banknotes this Friday,
3:13the Tunisian Central Bank has indeed put a new note into circulation.
3:19On the 10 dinar banknotes,
3:21the equivalent of 3 euros, we now find the portrait
3:24of Toury da Ben Chafiik, the first female doctor in the Maghreb,
3:28vice president of the Tunisian Red Cross.
3:31This doctor died in 2010 at the age of 100 in. This figure was chosen
3:38last year to honor Tunisian women in the scientific sector.
3:43A nice way to salute
3:45the work of doctors in this time of health crisis.
3:49On the back of the note, you can see jewelry and pottery.
3:54These illustrations honor the craftsmanship of women in Tunisia.
4:00At 2 am, it will be 3 am in France,
4:04it is the change to summer time this night of March 28 to 29.
4:08The result is an hour less sleep.
4:11It is however one of the last times that Europeans change the time.
4:15In 2018, the European Commission organized a large online consultation
4:20where 84 of Europeans voted for the end of the time change.
4:26Each state could then choose by 2021 whether it prefers to stay in summer time
4:32or winter time from March 2021.
4:36France should therefore stay all year round on time. summer.
4:41Thanks for listening to this podcast. Hope you liked it.
4:44I will now explain the key words, the important words of the week.
4:51First of all,
4:52we said that the British Prime Minister has tested positive.
4:58When we say that someone has tested positive, it means that they have taken
5:02a test to detect a substance in their body
5:07when they are tested positive, it means that the test has
5:11shown that this substance is well present in our body.
5:16So you can test positive
5:17for a disease, but also, for example, for a drug.
5:22We have said that he was slow to take
5:25action when something is delayed.
5:29It means that it takes time to do it. We hang around.
5:35We talked about the epidemic, no epidemic, so here the
5:39Coeli 19 epidemic is a disease that is spreading, that is spreading.
5:47We just used the verb to propagate. So when a disease spreads,
5:52it means it spreads, it will affect more people.
5:59We talked about the symptom, no symptom, it's the way we are
6:03going to show a disease has manifested in our body.
6:08It is thanks to a symptom that we realize that we have a disease.
6:13We said that these symptoms were
6:15mild, which means that they are not very
6:17important, quite weak, not very heavy. We talked about confinement and
6:26being confined, so confinement or being confused when you are confined.
6:32It means that we have to stay locked up at home, that we cannot go out.
6:36We have to stay inside.
6:40We used the verb to fight when fighting something.
6:45For example, a disease means that we are fighting against this disease.
6:49We are in opposition to l. We said that Italy broke
6:56a record when you beat something or someone,
7:00that means you have the upper hand over that thing or over someone that you win.
7:05We are above. We have said that Italy has broken a sad record.
7:13A record. This is something that had never been achieved before.
7:17This is the best performance that has been made so far.
7:22Here, they say it's a sad record. So it's the reverse of happy.
7:25This is a situation is not cheerful, it is painful. There is sadness.
7:31We also used the verb counted.
7:35When we count a number of patients, for example, that means we are counting.
7:40We assess the number of cases,
7:42the number of people where it can also be identified objects.
7:49We talked about a cat,
7:51a cat is a pet that a lot of people are going to have in their homes.
7:56It's a feline. We talked about the master,
8:01the master of a pet or a cat of a dog.
8:05This is the person who owns the pet.
8:09We also talked about the domestic animal and the pet.
8:13So it's the same thing. It's a cat, a dog.
8:16It is an animal that is no longer wild. He lives with one person.
8:20He was adopted by a master.
8:23Be careful, we say an animal, but animals in the plural.
8:28We talked about a bank note.
8:30A banknote is money that is printed on paper.
8:34It is a liquid payment method.
8:36We have said that animals are not vectors of the disease.
8:41When someone is a vector of something,
8:44it means that he transmits this thing, that he causes it to other people.
8:50We talked about a rumor, a rumor. It is something that is told.
8:54We don't know if this is true. We don't really have any proof.
8:57It's gossip. We talked about a boom boom. It's sudden growth.
9:03It is a rise that comes from a sudden glin.
9:05There has been a boom in pet abandonment.
9:08It means that there have been many more.
9:12So, we just used the verb to abandon. When you give up something
9:17from someone or an animal, you don't want it anymore.
9:21So we leave him alone. We also talked about domestic violence.
9:26So in a relationship,
9:27it's when one of the two people hits low, the other person.
9:33So one of the two people is violent
9:36with the other or both people can be also violent with each other.
9:40We talked about the authorities, the authorities and the government.
9:45These are the people who lead. They are the ones who have the power,
9:49who make decisions for the people. We talked about the pharmacy.
9:54A pharmacy is a store,
9:57a shop where you go to look for drugs to treat yourself
10:01or hygiene products, for example, such as soap, skin creams.
10:06We talked about a code that women could tell the pharmacist.
10:10No code, it's a kind of password. We talked about the portrait,
10:15so a portrait is the image of someone.
10:18It is the representation of a person.
10:21So it can be in the form of a drawing, a photo, a painting.
10:25If we were talking about the portrait on the banknotes
10:28, we talked about the first doctor of the Maghreb.
10:31So a doctor is a doctor. It is the person who heals us, who heals us.
10:36When you are sick,
10:37we also talked about the representation of jewelry on your banknotes.
10:43A jewel is a small object that you put on yourself to decorate.
10:47It is for example a bracelet,
10:49earrings, a necklace or a jewel, can be in gold, in silver.
10:54But we can also talk about
10:56costume jewelry , jewelry that is not very valuable.
11:00We also said there was pottery on the banknotes. So pottery
11:04is a way of making objects with terracotta.
11:08So, we make these objects by hand.
11:10Usually it's going to be dishes, plates, bowls, cups.
11:15We talked about crafts.
11:18Craftsmanship is all of the craftsmen who are the people who work with
11:22their hands, who have manual know-how.
11:25For example, it helps people who make pottery, who make jewelry.
11:29It could be a shoemaker,
11:30a chocolate maker, a heating engineer, a watchmaker or even a baker.
11:36In the current Aiseau, the time change, we talked about sleep.
11:40Sleep is sleeping. It's when we are lying in a bed, we sleep, we rest.
11:46Finally, we talked about the consultation
11:49to say that the European Commission was going to consult the population.
11:54So, when we ask
11:56someone or several people for their opinion that we want to know what they think,
12:00this consultation will generally help managers to make a decision.