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  From Sunrise to Bedtime: My Busy Day in France What does a typical busy day look like when you live in France and commute to work every morning? This is a simple but effective question to help students speak and describe their daily schedule. For many English learners, however, describing this kind of routine is not as easy as it seems. Small grammar mistakes, direct translations from French, and unnatural expressions often appear in their writing. In my teaching experience, I have noticed that students tend to make the same types of mistakes repeatedly, mainly because they translate directly from French into English. Today, the goal is to learn from these mistakes, identify the key difficulties, and understand how to improve them in a more natural way. I will present a real example of how a French student described his busy day and we will analyze it step by step and at the end of this post you will see the corrected version. 👉 Try to read the student’s text carefully and ident...