Le futur… e.g. I am going to go shopping. He is going to play football. We are going to watch T.V. Remember: To achieve a Level 5, you need to be able to talk about the present and the past OR the future. To achieve a Level 6, you need to be able to talk about the present, the past AND the future. This is also one of the criteria for getting an A*-C grade at GCSE.

Demain va être une journée assez longue parce que nous allons faire beaucoup. Je vais me lever à 7h15 et je vais prendre le petit déjeuner avec ma famille. Puis, mon père va aller en ville et ma mère va faire le ménage. Je vais sortir avec mon frère et nous allons jouer au foot dans le parc. Après, nous allons aller en ville et mon père va être là, donc mon père et mon frère vont faire du shopping ensemble et je vais rentrer chez moi. Ma mère va faire la cuisine et nous allons manger à une heure. Laprès-midi, mes parents vont regarder la télé et mon frère et moi allons écouter de la musique et faire de la natation avec des copains. Quest-ce que tu vas faire demain ? Pick out the following phrases in the text and write the French and English in your book: 1) Im going to have breakfast 2) My dad is going to go to town 3) My mum is going to do the housework 4) We are going to play football. 5) My dad and my brother are going to go shopping. 6) I am going to go home 7) What are you going to do tomorrow?

1) Im going to have breakfast 2) My dad is going to go to town 3) My mum is going to do the housework 4) We are going to play football. 5) My dad and my brother are going to go shopping. 6) I am going to go home 7) What are you going to do tomorrow? Je vais prendre le petit déjeuner Mon père va aller en ville Ma mère va faire le ménage Nous allons jouer au foot. Mon père et mon frère vont faire du shopping. Je vais rentrer chez moi Quest-ce que tu vas faire demain ?

The future tense uses the verb aller (to go). This is an irregular verb, so doesnt follow the rules and you have to learn it. Can you match the different parts of the verb together? Write the French and English in your book. I am going/I go You are going/You go (informal) He/She is going / He/She goes We are going/We go You are going/You go (polite/plural) They are going/They go vontallezva vais allons vas ============ Je Tu Il/Elle Nous Vous Ils/Elles vais vas va allons allez vont aller = to go

So, the future tense is rather easy… Just take the correct part of aller, depending on WHO is going to do the verb and add the INFINITIVE of the verb. The INFINITIVE is the part of the verb that comes straight from the dictionary and usually means to… In French, there are three possible endings… -er, -ir and -re e.g. jouer = to play sortir = to go out faire = to do

Try and write these sentences in the future tense in your book before clicking for the answers… 1)I am going to do shopping. 2)We are going to play basketball. 3)They are going to swim. 4)He is going to go to town. 5)You are going to listen to music (tu) 6)They are going to read a book. 7)I am going to go to bed. 8)You are going to go out with friends (vous) 9)Bradley is going to do diving. je vais faire du shopping nous allons jouer au basket ils vont nager / ils vont faire de la natation il va aller en ville tu vas écouter de la musique ils vont lire un livre je vais me coucher vous allez sortir avec des copains. Bradley va faire de la plongée