French Mobile Phone Habits

"Les habitudes des Français vis-à-vis des téléphones portables"
French C1 writing exercise

We're taking a look at the importance of mobile phones in French people's lives.

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Some vocabulary you may want to look up before or during this exercise: "to do without [something]", "to conduct (a study)", "a respondent (survey)", "an audible alert", "to take into account", "detrimental", "to disrupt the biological clock".

Written by Qualified French Expert Aurélie Drouard HKH, Licence d'anglais LLCE
Last updated: 2023-03-13

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How the test works
You’ll practise: Mode subjonctif, Le Présent (Indicatif), Adverbe

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It would seem that, nowadays, no one can do without their mobile phone, [and this], even at night! According to a study conducted in December 2015, nine out of ten French people apparently use their cellphones, tablets or computers just before going to bed, and close to 36% apparently consult them in bed! Worse, although it's been proven that sleep must be a moment of disconnection necessary to our brains one respondent in five admits to keeping their phone on at night. Audible alerts regularly wake half of them, and 79% (of them) even answer them! And that's not taking into account the detrimental effects of blue light which disrupts our biological clocks by keeping us awake and alert.

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