Modern Foreign Languages Department- Fishguard High School - Pembrokeshire.

YRS 7/11 FRENCH

The future tense

The calendar
Directions and places
Family and myself
Food and drinks
Numbers
School and time
Shopping
World of work
Further Education
The GCSE exam

GRAMMAR:

Why bother?
Tenses
The infinitive
The present
The past
The future tense
The negative
Personal pronouns
To be /
to have (present)

WHAT IS IT?

The future tense enables you to talk or write about things which happen  in the future.

There are 2 basic future tenses.  One is simply made by To Go in the present + infinitive.  Click here for more details

The other tense is described below.  When you write at GCSE, you can use the tense you want (Aller + infinitive is often seen as the easiest).  But you must at least recognise both when reading, listening  or speaking


HOW DO YOU DO IT?

For -er and -ir verbs, keep the ending and add (in order):
ai,as,a,ons,ez,ont

Example

TO SPEAK 
                        PARLER

I WILL SPEAK                             Je parl
erai
YOU WILL SPEAK                       Tu parleras
HE / SHE/ WE WILL SPEAK        Il / elle / on parlera
WE WILL SPEAK                         Nous parlerons
YOU WILL SPEAK                       Vous parlerez
THEY WILL SPEAK                      Ils / elles parleront



For other verbs you will need your dictionary

If you don't understand what je,tu,il,elle, nous ,vous, ils, elles mean, or if you don't understand why there are 2 ways of saying YOU, two ways of saying WE, two ways of saying, then  CLICK HERE!


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