Log book by Jessica Pierre https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9 en-us 2022-09-23 11:49:23 UTC 2022-12-19 13:58:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1ec-1f1e7.png feedbacks pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328304751 House, hobbies : pronounce H
Customer not client for a bar.
Future
To have 
V/F : V = vibration on the vocal chord

]]> 2022-10-05 21:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328304751 Aims pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328338528 I would like to practice English, to improve my accent and to get more confident when I speak English.
Improving my English will be benificial for interacting with my future colleagues, writing my master thesis  and also for my internship abroad. 
For the moment I am better at reading and comprehension than at speaking. ]]> 2022-10-05 22:05:58 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328338528 Activities for self-improvement : ideas and intentions pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328352404

]]> 2022-10-05 22:26:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328352404 Activities for self-improvement : ideas and intentions pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328372528 I am going to listen to some podcasts in the theme "how to be a better human"]]> 2022-10-05 22:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2328372528 Activities for self-improvement : ideas and intentions pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337496611 I am going to listen to musics in English and pay attention to lyrics. ]]> 2022-10-12 18:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337496611 Activities for self-improvement : ideas and intention pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337531247 Making research about grammatical points that I don't remember while writing. ]]> 2022-10-12 18:40:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337531247 Will vs be going to pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337543109 https://www.anglaisfacile.com/exercices/exercice-anglais-2/exercice-anglais-28816.php

I don't remember when to use them. 

Going to : the decision has been taken before talking 
will : the decision has not been taken before talking ]]> 2022-10-12 18:49:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337543109 Downton Abbey : episode 1 pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337754234 Downton Abbey is a domain where the Grantham family lives. The family comprises Lord Grantham, Lady Grantham, their son Patrick, and their daughters. The older one is named Mary. Also, maids take care of the family and run the house. There is Anna, the head housemaid, Miss O’Brien the ladyship’s maid, Mr. Carson the butler, Thomas the first footman, … and John Bates the new valet with a leg disability. 

Patrick went on a boat with Mr. Grantham‘s cousin named Mr. Crawley. Unfortunately, the boat has sunk and the men seem dead because they cannot be found. Those men are the heirs of Mr. Grantham. So, the man is in a complicated position because the fortune he got from his wife and his domain will be given to a stranger when he dies because his older daughter, a woman cannot inherit. Unless he goes against the law that forbids his daughter to inherit the fortune and the estate but there is no way to make her have the title. 

The duke came to the estate after hearing the news. He seems to have too much interest in Mary. Mr. Grantham has understood where this interest comes from and has warned the duke that Mary won't have more money. Suddenly the interest of the duke in Mary seems to have disappeared and we discover he has a relationship with Thomas. It was Thomas who has sent a telegram to the duke to inform him about the situation. Despite his loyalty to him, the duke doesn’t want to continue the relationship and he burns the letters they sent each other to be sure no one will find out.



My opinion about the episode is generally positive. I like the accent of the actors and the atmosphere of the series. But I do have some criticisms to make. The beginning was boring. The presentation of the characters was too long and the arguments between the maids were not exciting. I almost stopped watching to be honest. Finally, the episode ends with the arrival of the duke. His bad behavior is confusing. It is very interesting to watch and as I said I think that the introduction was long but it was necessary to understand. 


]]> 2022-10-12 22:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2337754234 Prononciation pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2339154562 https://www.thefreedictionary.com/]]> 2022-10-13 17:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2339154562 Activities for self-improvement : ideas and intention pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2339164694 I am going to read some interesting articles. ]]> 2022-10-13 17:18:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2339164694 Activities for self-improvement : ideas and intention pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2339170261 I am sometimes in contact with erasmus students. I will try to talk more with those who do not speak French in order to practice my English. ]]> 2022-10-13 17:22:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2339170261 Past tense (1) pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371686764 To do the homework "write a short text. Imagine yourself, 10 years into the future, looking back on your career the last ten years." I reviewed some grammar points using wallangue website and I made a summary table. 


]]> 2022-11-06 13:54:46 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371686764 Past tense (3) pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371686982 2022-11-06 13:55:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371686982 Past tense (4) pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371687242 2022-11-06 13:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371687242 Past tense (2) pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371690770 2022-11-06 14:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2371690770 Article pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2378271209 Over the years, type 2 diabetes is increasingly understood by scientists and many drugs are available to manage the disease. However, more and more people are suffering from this disease and no solution is found. The patients are also getting younger and younger. 

The causes of this seem to be economic, social and environmental. Indeed, it is difficult to find food that is low in sugar, healthy, cheap and close to everyone. 

 

Type 2 diabetes

understand

medication

young

no solution 

economic, environmental, and social causes

healthy, cheap, low in sugar food 
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/health/diabetes-prevention-diet.html

]]> 2022-11-10 08:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2378271209 Music in English pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2387043597 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6br9_xB_r-k

Birdy - keeping your head up
The music is about a lost person and helping them. The singer isn’t able to help her. She can only hold her and encourage her by telling her that she is slowly coming back to life and to keep her head up.

 Echosmith - cool kids
Music is about a person who feels different from others. She would like to be like the young people who are cool because they seem to fit in with others, with society.

Amy Macdonald - this is life
The song is about a party with music and people dancing. They also talk about men running after women and the shyer men sitting on their chairs.

Banners - someone to you
The song is about a person who is very lonely and wants to be important to someone. 

]]> 2022-11-16 17:49:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2387043597 Discussion with an erasmus student pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2387103482 I talked with an erasmus student. She comes from Ireland. We introduced ourselves. She talked about what she liked in Belgium and the lenght of her stay. She also told me about the trips she plans to make during the weekends (Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Maastricht). ]]> 2022-11-16 18:27:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2387103482 Downton Abbey : episode 2 pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2391642124 This episode focuses on the arrival of the new heir to the estate. This young man is unusual. He works and does not want to be served by maids. So when he inherits the estate, he doesn't want to stop working and would like to have days off. His behavior brings a lot of criticism. 
Mary could marry him to solve the problem but she doesn't seem to want to.
The lord finally talks with the heir. He clarifies that everyone has a role to play in the estate and that he would not like the staff to be fired. The heir then understood and started to let the maids serve him. ]]> 2022-11-20 19:36:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2391642124 Read a book in English pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2423394733 This is the story of a woman called Anna who works in a restaurant and got fired by her boss in exchange for a large sum of money. She could have used the money to pay her debts but seeing her two daughters unhappy and no longer talking to her, she decides to use it to travel. Lily, the youngest, is being bullied at school and Chloe, a teenager who always chooses the wrong boyfriends. So they go on a camping-car trip to Scandinavia. During this trip, they went from town to town. Their relationships improved and they met a lot of people, including a man who became the mother's partner. He has a young autistic boy who became Lily's friend. 
I really liked this book because I found the characters very nice. Lily made me laugh several times with her little jokes. I also really enjoyed their journey. It's an experience I would like to live one day. Also, it was an easy-to-read book, ideal to relax.]]> 2022-12-16 21:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2423394733 Article pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424012968 Group A Streptococcus is a bacterium that has caused the death of several children in England.  The bacteria can cause sore throats, skin rashes, and scarlet fever, ... This is not very serious but the bacteria can also enter the bloodstream and cause death by inducing, for example, necrotising pneumonia or toxic shock syndrome.
The bacteria are transmitted through coughing and contact with a wound even if the person transmitting the bacteria is not ill. However, transmission is more important when the person is ill.
Antibiotics are used against this bacteria. 


]]> 2022-12-18 13:19:12 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424012968 Article pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424064902 There is a fentanyl epidemic in the United States. More and more people are dying from taking the drug. It is so common that people have become accustomed to hearing that a friend's or colleague's son or daughter has died because of it. Fentanyl is 100 times more powerful than morphine and the effect is very fast. Many people have been found dead with the needle still stuck in their skin.
Many people use it without knowing it. The drug is cheap and easy to get. Many dealers mix it with other drugs without knowing how much fentanyl they have put in.
The authorities fighting it with Naloxone. This is a product that reverses overdoses of the drug. They also distribute strips to detect the substance. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/12/us/fentanyl-overdose-deaths.html]]> 2022-12-18 15:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424064902 Podcast : How to find gratitude everyday pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424211935 It is advisable to change your habits. But the problem is that we forget to tell people that it's complicated and that it brings emotional discomfort to stop unhealthy habits and for healthy ones. So people tend to stop and think that they have done something wrong if they don't know it.
Also, the person says that having a deep connection with someone doesn't mean you're going to spend your whole life with them. People are there to teach us lessons.
Finally, we need to improve our listening skills by repeating the last word they said and trying to understand the meaning behind what people say.
Also, we need to be more compassionate towards ourselves, to learn to put things into perspective when we have not achieved all our tasks. 

The podcast was interesting. It challenges my way of seeing things. I have indeed tried to change my habits several times and failed, then stopped because it was exhausting. I didn't realize that this was part of the process. 
I think that this way of looking at relationships avoids a lot of disappointment and helps with the acceptance of a relationship ends.  
However, I didn't understand the connection with finding more gratitude. It should have been explained more clearly.]]> 2022-12-18 21:04:52 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424211935 Podcast : how humility and bravery can help your career pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424216837 The speaker advises us to talk to new people or old friends because those around us tend to have the same information as we do. They advise us to go through our social networks and to contact people that we haven't spoken to for a while.
Also, if there's something you want, you have to fight for it because you don't want to be the person who didn't dare in 30 years. However, you must not forget to have a second plan in case it doesn't work.
You have to keep in mind that a successful career is not only about achieving a lot but also about being nice to the people around you because a talented and nice person is the dream person to work with.

The podcast is interesting and motivating but I find that in real life it is very awkward to contact someone you haven't been in touch with for a long time. 

]]> 2022-12-18 21:21:09 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424216837 Podcast : how to be a better steward of the environment pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424218778 It is advisable to start a compost but it attracts rats.
Another person is trying to raise awareness by giving lectures. They try to get people to live in connection with nature. For this, he talks about the food that is given by nature. He says that this is a way to interest everyone.
Also, you have to use technology to inform people. For example, there is a platform that raises awareness among children. They encourage them to record the time of sunrise and sunset with their parents so they can see the cycle of life.
A climate activist says that it's good to recycle and take secondhand, but it's not enough. People need to be more engaged and become climate activists too. 
The podcast was interesting but I found that there is a lack of concrete advice. For example, they talk about the rat problem but they don't say how to fight against rats in the compost. ]]> 2022-12-18 21:25:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424218778 Downton abbey : episode 3 pierrejessica https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424222908 Gwen, the housekeeper, is hiding a typewriter and is taking typing and stenography classes.
His manager has told Mr. Carson that she has a typewriter. She then defends herself, explaining that she would like to become a secretary. This creates tension in the group of maids. 
The one with the limp leg goes to buy a prosthesis to be like the others but it causes him a lot of pain. 

I stopped watching the episode because I find the series too boring. This series is about following the life of a family. Nothing exciting or surprising happens.]]> 2022-12-18 21:40:05 UTC https://padlet.com/pierrejessica/31pgm5kzo4w3hvg9/wish/2424222908