Listening log Date: December 23,2021 Title: Christmas Traditions Time

Listening log


Date: December 23,2021
Title: Christmas Traditions
Time: 18: 20
It is Jack’s podcast which is about Christmas Traditions in the past, Christmas Traditions in the UK and the USA. Christmas day is the biggest holiday in the USA and the UK. In this day people get their family together and exchange gifts for their close people. Jack was UK citizen but now he lives in the USA. The USA people cook Turkey on Thanksgiving Day, but the UK people cook it at Christmas day, it is a traditional food for them.The US people tend to have a ham or some type of beef for Christmas. When Jack was young and he used to go to carol singing.Then he older his friend and him used to go to house to house for hours during the evening.They knock on somebody’s door and he or she open door, they start singing a Christmas carol and their neighbors bring some money out to them.Schools in both the US and the UK breakup for Christmas.They take a break for Christmas.During the Christmas Eve pupils stay at home and watch movies.In Jack’s childhood there were 5 channels on TV but most of them played Christmas movies.Then Jack said some Christmas movies such as Elf , Santa Claus and others.Most children wake up and they’ll find their stocking which is sock filled with small presents and they can open up present on their own.Christmas dinner is the biggest part . They cook types of meat.Everyone in the UK has a Turkey for their Sunday roast.


Date: February 3,2022
Title: Sleep in South Korea
Time : 6:12
In this podcast about sleeping and it’s benefits and Nail and Sam talk about it and South Korean sleep are fewer than others. Sleep helps our mind and body rest and relax. South Korean people sleep fewer hours and higher stress and depression.Sleepnesses is bad for our health.Many things can stop us sleeping.Then , we can listen Se Woong Koo report that their workers to be contactable all the time.In South Korea most of people have not time for relax and having reat. After that,we listen Doctor Lee’s report which is about the effect of this and how even trying to take medication to help sleep has its problems.At the end of podcast they said new vocabularies related to this podcast
Agitated – get worried or upset
Enroach- gradually take over
Go out like a bright – go to sleep very quickly.
Date: September 1, 2022
Title: Do emojis make language better?
Time: 6:23

The podcast is about emojis.There is a conversation between Neil and Sam .They said about emojis are part of our communication. They’ve been around for more than 20 years , but are these colourful faces helping to bring people together or contributing to illiteracy? We know that emojis were invented in 1999 in Japan for the first internet -enabled mobile phones. The name “emoji” comes from the combination of two Japanese words which picture and character. Some people show their reaction and emotion in chatting .I think it is better way to know their reaction for your word.Emojis are important for making as more effective communicators in the digital ages.We use emojis to start relationship.People use more it tent to be lucky in love and having more success in terms of dating.In the end of podcast they said new vocabularies.

Date: February 10,2022
Name: Do our pets care about us?
Time: 6:21

There is a conversation between Nail and Sam . At the beginning of podcast they told about “Lassie” which children’s TV show.Nail thinks pets know when their human owners feel afraid or in danger. Then , we can listen Dr Karen Kiestand who is antrozoologiest designed is experiment to test whether our pets really do care about us. He hurt agony leg and his dog shows its reaction and his cat look with wide eyes. We know dogs are our best friend.After that, they see pets pretend their human owners from hurting and check reaction of their dogs and cats. They also feel human distress and they show it in a different way.

Antrozoologiest – the scientific study of people
Agony -extreme physical pain
Anthropomorphize- treat an animal as if it were human in appearance or behaviour.