1. Traduisez en anglais? Je vais me marier un jour.
Seb va avoir cinq enfants.
Callie va habiter dans une grande maison
Georgia va faire le tour du monde.
Sam va être riche.
What tense are these sentences in? Can you translate them into English?

2. The Future tense – Le futur
Talking about events in the future

3. Le Futur - introduction
In French, as in English, there are three ways to discuss the future
Using the present tense with an adverb of time. e.g. ‘We meet tomorrow’
Saying what we are going to do in the immediate future, for definite plans e.g. ‘We are going to meet.’
Saying what we will do in the future, even if our plans are not definite.
e.g. ‘We will meet’

4. 1. Present + adverb of time
This is a form of the future used more in French than in English.
You must have
a present tense verb
an adverb of time
We are playing football tomorrow
Nous jouons au football demain
He is going on holiday next Tuesday
Il part en vacances mardi prochain.

5. Practice Can you translate the sentences on the left?
Je joue au tennis demain.
Il parle à sa mère lundi prochain
Elle est occupée la semaine prochaine
I am staying at home tomorrow
He is eating at yours next Saturday
I am playing tennis tomorrow
He is speaking to his mother on Monday
She is busy next week
Je reste chez moi demain
Il mange chez toi samedi prochain

6. 2. The immediate future
We use the immediate future to talk about future plans that are definitely going to happen
We can call this the ‘going to’ future
To form the going to future you need:
A subject e.g. je
A part of the verb aller e.g. vais
An infinitive e.g. manger
We can find infinitives in the …
…DICTIONARY

7. The immediate future – 2 To use this tense you must know the verb aller – to go off by heart!!Je Tu Il
Elle
Nous
Vous
Ils
Elles
vais
vas va
allons
allez
vont

8. The immediate future – practice Can you translate the sentences into English?
Je vais parler
Tu vas boire
Il va rester
Nous allons dormir
Vous allez rire
Ils vont aller
Elles vont jouer au basket
I am going to speak
You are going to drink
He is going to stay
We are going to sleep
You are going to laugh
They are going to go
They are going to play basketball

9. Practise -2 Can you translate into French?
I am going to swim
You are going to win
He is going to leave
She is going to go out
We are going to lose (perdre)
They (men) are going to ask
Je vais nager
Tu vas gagner
Il va partir
Elle va sortir
Nous allons perdre
Ils vont demander

10. Le futur – The Future tense
The third way to talk about the future expresses what we will do in the future. It is less definite.
The tense is easy to form. It uses infinitives of verbs and adds some special endings
There are, however, some important exceptions!!

11. Le futur – formation
For –er and –ir infinitives you need only add the correct ending.
For –re verbs you must take off the –e and add the same endings onto the -r

12. -er, -ir and –re verbs Je parler Tu parler Il/Elle/On parler
Nous parler
Vous parler
Ils/Elles parler
These sentences translate as … will speak ai as a
ons ez
ont

13. Exceptions to the rule!
Although the endings stay the same, you need to learn different stems for some useful verbs.
There is no rule, they need simply to be learned!

14. Exceptions aller to go avoir to have être to be faire to do
savoir to know
devoir to have to
pouvoir to be able to
ir- e.g. J’irai
aur- e.g. J’aurai
ser- e.g. Je serai
fer- e.g. Je ferai
saur- e.g. Je saurai
devr- e.g. Je devrai
pourr- e.g. Je pourrai

15. Practice – Translate the following sentences
Je sortirai
Tu choisiras
Il mangera
Elle jouera
Nous prendrons
Vous attendrez
Ils sauront
Elles feront
I will go out
You will choose
He will eat
She will play
We will take
You will wait
They will know
They will do

16. Practice – 2 Translate the following sentences
I will win (gagner)
You will dance
He will finish
She will leave
We will drink
You will say
They (men) will be
They (women) will have
Je gagnerai
Tu danseras
Il finira
Elle partira
Nous boirons
Vous direz
Ils seront
Elles auront

17. The Future – Practice Now try and translate the following sentences.
Je joue au cricket demain
Il va aller en France
Nous ferons nos devoirs
Vous mangerez des frites?
Ils vont rester chez moi
I am playing cricket tomorrow
He is going to go to France
We will do our homework
Will you eat the chips?
They are going to stay at my house

18. Practice - continued I am going to drink
Are you (a friend) swimming tomorrow?
She will play
We will like
They (men) are going to go to town
Je vais boire
Tu nages demain?
Elle jouera
Nous aimerons
Ils vont aller en ville
CONGRATULATIONS – YOU CAN NOW TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE IN FRENCH!!

19. Just a small point!
The conditional which translates as ‘would’ can be formed very simply when you know the future tense!
Instead of adding the future endings, just add the imperfect endings
Je jouerais = I would play
Il ferait = He would do
Easy isn’t it!

20. ils/elles nous tu je il/elle vous je eat a hamster go out with his/her
rabbit
be funny
be able to
sing
dance with
Your mum
travel to
Italy
‘do’
skiiing
eat a rabbit
finish
homework
go to the
swimming
pool go
to the
hospital
sing with
your uncle
lose the
match
‘do’
drama
eat a horse
have
a house
be selfish
do homework
play
tennis with
your
grandma
Win the
World cup
(la coupe
du monde)
be able to
eat a snail
drink a
cocktail
go out
with his/ her
spider
be stubborn
go to the
museum
speak
with
friends
visit the
hospital
have to buy
a present
speak to
the
teacher
take
a chance
go to the
disco
have to
Dan`ce
watch tv
with your
cousin
travel to the
USA
have to
work je
il/elle
vous je