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0:00Hello and welcome to the HelloFrench 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. A cat tested positive for coronavirus in Belgium.

0:26Confinement and violence against women. An increase of 32% in France.

0:31Tunisia puts a woman on her banknotes. Switch to summer time this night from March 28 to 29.

0:40Boris Johnson tested positive for coronavirus. On Friday, the British Prime Minister

0:46was slow to take action to prevent the epidemic from spreading. He is now one of the first

0:52leaders to be officially affected by the disease. However, his 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 official cases, including Prince Charles.

1:17Let's continue with an update on the

1:19Covid-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, nearly 1,000 deaths were recorded in 24 hours.

1:34The country thus beats a sad record with a total number of deaths exceeding 9,100 people.

1:41This week, new countries have gone into total confinement.

1:45This is the case of Greece, Ireland, South Africa, Rwanda,

1:50Tunisia, Colombia and also India, which puts 1.3 billion inhabitants 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. The 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 SPA, which takes in abandoned animals,

2:39has indeed noticed a big boom in animal abandonment. With 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. The authorities invented the mask code

3:0319 that women can tell their pharmacist. The 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. On the 10-dinar banknotes,

3:21the equivalent of 3 euros, we now find the portrait

3:24of Tawhida Ben Cheikh, the first female doctor in the Maghreb,

3:28vice president of the Tunisian Red Cross. This doctor died in 2010 at the age of 100.

3:36This figure was chosen last year to honor Tunisian women in the scientific sector.

3:43A nice way to salute the 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. At 2 am, it will be 3 am in France.

4:04It is the change to summer time this night of March 28 to 29. The 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. France should therefore stay all year round on summer time.

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. First 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. So you can test positive

5:17for a disease, but also, for example, for a drug. We have said that he was slow to take

5:25action. When something is delayed, it means that it takes time to do it. We hang around.

5:35We talked about the epidemic. An epidemic, so here the

5:39Covid-19 epidemic, is a disease that is spreading, that is propagating.

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. A 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. We said that these symptoms were

6:15mild, which means that they are not very important, quite weak, not very heavy.

6:23We talked about confinement and

6:26being confined. So confinement, or being confined: when you are confined,

6:32it means that we have to stay locked up at home, that we cannot go out. We have to stay inside.

6:40We used the verb to fight. When fighting something,

6:45for example a disease, it means that we are fighting against this disease.

6:49We are in opposition to it. We said that Italy broke a record. When you beat something or someone,

7:00that means you have the upper hand over that thing or over someone, that you win. We are above.

7:08We have said that Italy has broken a sad record. A record.

7:14This is something that had never been achieved before.

7:17This is the best performance that has been made so far. Here, they say it's a sad record.

7:23So it's the reverse of happy. This is a situation that is not cheerful, it is painful.

7:29There is sadness. We also used the verb to count.

7:35When we count a number of patients, for example, that means we are counting.

7:40We assess the number of cases, the number of people. It can also be used to identify objects.

7:49We talked about a cat. A 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, the master of a pet, a cat or a dog.

8:05This is the person who owns the pet. We also talked about the domestic animal and the pet.

8:13So it's the same thing. It's a cat, a dog. It is an animal that is no longer wild.

8:19He lives with one person. He was adopted by a master.

8:23Be careful, we say an animal, but animals in the plural. We talked about a banknote.

8:30A banknote is money that is printed on paper. It is a liquid payment method.

8:36We have said that animals are not vectors of the disease. When 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 is something that is told. We don't know if this is true.

8:55We don't really have any proof. It's gossip. We talked about a boom. A boom is sudden growth.

9:03It is a rise that comes suddenly. There has been a boom in pet abandonment.

9:08It means that there have been many more. So, we just used the verb to abandon.

9:15When you give up something from someone or an animal, you don't want it anymore.

9:21So we leave him alone. We also talked about domestic violence. So in a relationship,

9:27it's when one of the two people hits, low, the other person. So one of the two people is violent

9:36with the other, or both people can also be violent with each other.

9:40We talked about the authorities, the authorities and the government. These are the people who lead.

9:47They are the ones who have the power, who make decisions for the people.

9:52We talked about the pharmacy. A 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. A code, it's a kind of password.

10:13We talked about the portrait, so a portrait is the image of someone.

10:18It is the representation of a person. So it can be in the form of a drawing, a photo, a painting.

10:25If we were talking about the portrait on the banknotes,

10:28we talked about the first doctor of the Maghreb. So a doctor is a doctor.

10:33It is the person who heals us, who treats us. When 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. It is for example a bracelet,

10:49earrings, a necklace. A jewel can be in gold, in silver. But we can also talk about

10:56costume jewelry, jewelry that is not very valuable. We also said there was pottery on the banknotes.

11:03So pottery is a way of making objects with terracotta. So, we make these objects by hand.

11:10Usually it's going to be dishes, plates, bowls, cups. We 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 includes people who make pottery, who make jewelry. It could be a shoemaker,

11:30a chocolatier, a heating engineer, a watchmaker or even a baker.

11:36In the current news, on the time change, we talked about sleep. Sleep is sleeping.

11:42It's when we are lying in a bed, we sleep, we rest. Finally, we talked about the consultation

11:49to say that the European Commission was going to consult the population. So, 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.

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