Anglais Flashcards

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Télétravailler (3)

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Remote work(ing)
Working from home
Telework

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2
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Travailler “en présentiel” (2)

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In person work(ing)
Working on site

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3
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Equilibre vie personnelle - vie professionnelle

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Work-life balance

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4
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Le trajet entre le travail et la maison

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The commute
To commute
Commuters

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5
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Déposer les enfants à l’école
Aller chercher les enfants à l’école

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To drop off the kids
To pick up the kids

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6
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Les avantages et les inconvénients

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The advantages VS the disadvantages / downsides / drawbacks

The pros and the cons (utilisés pour lister)

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7
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Chamboulement

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Disruption
The disrupt

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8
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Advantages of Remote Work(ing) (6)

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  • Employees feel more free
  • Saves time
  • Prevent form negative in-person workplace environment
  • Better for environment
  • Cost savings for employers
  • Rise of profuctivity
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Downsides of Remote Work(ing) (3)

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  • widen existing disparities,
  • polarized society
  • prevent from benefits of social interactions
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10
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What employers want about remote working VS what employees want

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Employers mostly want employees back to the office
VS
Employees might prefer to find another job than having to work fully in-person

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11
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Ideas and opinion about remote work(ing)(5)

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  • Suggests to recognize the reality of the new labor market and adapt
    => try hybrid schedules and explore different approaches
  • There’s work to do with people at the office to resolve this pbm instead of hiding women and minorities at home
  • Front-line workers* and blue collar workers can’t work from home => don’t have the same flexbility in their schedules
    *maybe want to work with people and not through a screen
  • some employers raise/increase wages/salaries to encourage people to go back to the office
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Downsides of commuting (2, 8)

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  • Takes a lot of time ; is getting longer and longer every year
  • Depending on the type of transport it can be really bad for both mental and physical health
    => commuting increases : obesity, stress, anxiety, depression, high blood pressure, high divorce rate, neck and back pbms, shorter life spans
    => the mode of transportation change the way commuting impacts you
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13
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Advantages of commuting (4)

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  • Not necessarily wasted time (when you’re not driving) : do things we won’t do otherwise
  • Alone time
  • Work done (extension of the workday)
  • Cut off with your work => separate your worklife and personal life
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14
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Who are digital nomads (2) and the biggest advantage of being a digital nomads (1)

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  • People that work fully online to be able to work from everywhere
  • Love to travel all around the world
  • Amazing opportunity to travel more, to have more time to discover new places and cultures, and not from a tourist POV but a resident one
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Drawbacks of digital nomads’ lifestyle (6)

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  • Requires some material and technical adaptations
  • Ecological impact (planes)
  • Isolation / loneliness
  • Need to be even more organized (can leed to burnout)
  • It is expensive
  • ‘home boy”
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16
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Un scientifique, une étude scientifique

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A scientist
A scientific study

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17
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Une expérience, expérimenter (3)

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Experiment (expérience scientifique)
Experience (expérience vécue)
To experience something (connaitre, ressentir, vivre…)

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18
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Mener une recherche/étude

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To conduct / carry out research

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19
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Education, éduquer

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Upbringing (l’éducation parentale, l’éducation que l’on reçoit à la maison)

Education (éducation reçue à l’école)

Parenting / to bring up a child / ro rear a child / to raise a child (élever un enfant)

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20
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Débat entre l’inné et l’acquis

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Nature vs nurture debate

21
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Trouble mental

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A psychological disorder

22
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Diagnostic, diagnostiquer

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Diagnosis (le diagnostic)
To diagnose (diagnostiquer)

23
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La génétique, génétique (adj)

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Genetics (nom)
Genetic (adj)

24
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Sensibiliser

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To raise awareness about apbm / to make people (more) aware of a pbm

25
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Discrimination
Etre discriminé

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Discrimination
To be discriminated AGAINST something

26
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Un cabinet privé

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A privet practice

27
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Présumer, supposer

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Assume, assumption
To assume

28
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Efficace

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Effective / Efficient

29
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Conseil, conseiller

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Advice (noun), To advise (verb)

30
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Une question très importante
Un nombre important de chats
Un taux de chômage important
Un risque important

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An important question (intellectual value, c’est la valeur qu’on y attache)
A large number
A higher unemployment rate
A geat risk

31
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Je suis d’accord

A

I agree with

32
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Selon moi, selon l’auteur

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We use “according to” in reference to seomeone else, often an authority figure, or a reputable source
For oneself, say : in my opinion, in my view, to me, as far as i’m concerned

33
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Le texte parle de…

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The text is about / deals with…

34
Q

Préciser

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To indicate / to specify / To say

“Precise” is an adjective : a precise answer, you should be more precise

35
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Je m’intéresse à qqch

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I am interested in smthg

36
Q

En fait

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Actually

Actuellement = at the moment
Actuel = present
ex : mon job actuel = my present job

37
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D’un côté, de l’autre
Au contraire

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On the one hand, on the other (hand)
In contrast

=> on the contrary is more rhetorical and rarely used in scientific english

38
Q

A la troisième personne du singulier au présent…

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On met un “s” à la fin

39
Q

Les adjectifs sont…

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invariables

40
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Mots indénombrables

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Information, advice, evidence, research, furniture, luggage, software…

For singular or plural → piece(s) of, bit(s) of, word(s) of (advice), some

This research is very interesting (= singular and plural)

41
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De plus, en outre, par ailleurs (connecteur logique addition) (6)

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  • Besides (en outre, du reste, d’ailleurs)
  • Furthermore (de plus)
  • Moreover (de plus)
  • By the way (soit dit en passant)
  • Not only… but also… (non seulment… mais aussi…)
  • Then (ensuite)
42
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Pour, afin que (connecteur logique but) (6)

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  • For (pour)
  • In order to (afin de)
  • So that (de sorte que)
  • So as to (+ verb) (afin de)
  • For this purpose (à cet effet)
  • To this end (à cet effet)
43
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Parce que, à cause de (connecteur logique cause) (8)

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  • Because (parce que)
  • Because of (à cause de)
  • As (comme)
  • Thanks to (grâce à)
  • For (car)
  • due to (dû au fait que)
  • on account of (étant donné que)
  • given that (étant donné que)
44
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Comme si (connecteur logique comparaison) (4)

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  • As though (comme si)
  • As if (comme si)
  • As well as (de même que)
  • In comparison (par comparaison)
45
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Bien que, malgré (connecteur logique concession) (7)

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  • Although (bien que)
  • Though (bien que)
  • Even though (même si)
  • In spite of + nom (malgré)
  • Despite + nom (malgré)
  • All the same (malgré tout)
  • Still (quoi qu’il en soit)
46
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Alors que, cependant (connecteur logique opposition) (8)

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  • Instead of (au lieu de)
  • Nevertheless (néanmoins)
  • However (cependant)
  • Whereas (tandis que, alors que)
  • Notwithstanding (néanmoins)
  • Yet (pourtant)
  • Conversely (inversement)
  • On the one hand… on the other (hand)… (d’un côté… de l’autre…)
47
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A condition que, sinon (connecteur logique condition) (6)

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  • As far as (dans la mesure où)
  • As long as (tant que)
  • Provided that (à condition que)
  • Unless (à moins que)
  • Otherwise (autrement)
  • Else (sinon)
48
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Par conséquent, de sorte que (connecteur logique conséquence) (7)

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  • So that (de sorte que)
  • So much that (à tel point que)
  • Consequently (par conséquent)
  • As a result (en conséquence)
  • Therefore (par conséquent)
  • Thus (ainsi)
  • Hence (d’où)