French language Q&A Forum

Don’t you just use le weekend? Do the french say “le fin de semaine”? 

I am doing a writing challenge titled "its not my fault" where there was a translation required of "and my students are very creative"  My response of "et mes étudiants peuvent ..." had "étudiants" crossed out and replaced with "élèves". I would appreciate knowing the rationale for this please?

Bonjour à tous,

In translating the idea of the time it takes to do something, are mettre and prendre interchangeable?  Or are there specific situations for the use of each ? 

Thanks in advance. 

Is there any logic why jusque is sometimes followed by à and sometimes not? Like here it's jusque-là but otherwise you've got something like jusqu'à maintenant...?