First day back to school

"La rentrée des classes"
French C1 writing exercise

Sabrina tells us what she'll do on her children's first day back to school.

Pay attention to the hints!

Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "the both of us ", "to rush", "to press (oranges)", "all [one] has left to do is", "to take the opportunity to [do]".

I’ll give you some sentences to translate into French

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That morning, I'll get up before everybody else and I'll go and buy croissants around the corner. Bruno will have made coffee for the both of us before I come back from the bakery We'll drink it without rushing while pressing the oranges that we'll have bought the day before so that Julie and Tom can have fresh orange juice! Once all that is ready, all we'll have left to do is wake the children up. While they get ready, I'll take this opportunity to check that they haven't forgotten anything in their school bags. After enjoying their special breakfast, they'll run to meet their friends who will be waiting for them on the street with their parents.

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