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The immediate future

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One way of doing this is to use the immediate future (in French the futur proche).*The futur proche is usually translated into English as going + infinitive (e.g., going to eat, going to drink, going to talk).

One way of doing this is to use the immediate future (in French the futur proche).*The futur proche is usually translated into English as going + infinitive (e.g., going to eat, going to drink, going to talk).

How do I talk about things that haven’t happened yet, that are in the future, such as my summer holiday?

How do I talk about things that haven’t happened yet, that are in the future, such as my summer holiday?

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– I am going to eat

To form the immediate future, all you do is take the present tense of the verb aller (to go) and put an infinitive on the end.

To form the immediate future, all you do is take the present tense of the verb aller (to go) and put an infinitive on the end.

Aller – to goJe vaisTu vasIl / Elle vaNous allonsVous allezIls / Elles vont

Je vais

manger

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– I am not going to eat

To say you are not going to do something, put ne and pas around the present tense of the verb aller (to go) and then put the infinitive on the end.

To say you are not going to do something, put ne and pas around the present tense of the verb aller (to go) and then put the infinitive on the end.

Aller – to goJe vaisTu vasIl / Elle vaNous allonsVous allezIls / Elles vont

Je

manger

vais

ne pas

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Now fill in the gaps with the right part of aller.

Je __________ jouer au tennis.Elles __________ aller à la piscine.Mon ami __________ prendre le train.Mes parents __________ rentrer très tard.Vous __________ rester à la maison, les filles.On __________ faire de la voile.Gérard et Camille __________ arriver ensemble.Mon frère et moi __________ regarder un match de foot.Tu __________ sortir avec moi?M. Pennac __________ voyager en Belgique.

vaisvont

vavont

allezva

vontallons

vasva

Can you spot the infinitive in each sentence? Can you work out what all the sentences mean?

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The immediate future with pronouns 1

– I am going to go to bed

Aller – to goJe vaisTu vasIl / Elle vaNous allonsVous allezIls / Elles vont

Je vais

me

To form the immediate future of a reflexive verb, put the reflexive pronoun after the present tense of the verb aller (to go) but before the infinitive.

To form the immediate future of a reflexive verb, put the reflexive pronoun after the present tense of the verb aller (to go) but before the infinitive.

coucher

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– I am going to eat it

Aller – to goJe vaisTu vasIl / Elle vaNous allonsVous allezIls / Elles vont

Je vais

le

To use a direct or indirect object pronoun with the immediate future, put the pronoun after the present tense of the verb aller (to go) but before the infinitive.

To use a direct or indirect object pronoun with the immediate future, put the pronoun after the present tense of the verb aller (to go) but before the infinitive.

manger

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