Future tense\near-future2

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• Learning Objectives
• To build on what we know about infinitives to
  talk about the future

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You will be successful if you can say at
least THREE things that you are GOING to do!
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Can you remember

• Found in the dictionary
• Ends in ER, IR or RE
• Means in English to do something

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The Future

• Je vais
• I am going

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What do we need?

• an

INFINITIVE!!
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building blocks

• our red building blocks?

faire de la natation
jouer au football
aller en ville
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So the future

• . is just
• Je vais INFINITIVE!
• How easy is that?!
• If you can get that folks, youve cracked todays
  lesson and everything else is just a bonus!!

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We already know loads of infinitives remember?
faire de la natation
jouer au football
jouer au rugby
aller à la campagne
faire des randonnées
faire du shopping
any more????
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Quest-ce que tu vas faire?
je vais
faire de la natation
aller en ville
faire du vélo
visiter les musées
jouer au football
aller à la campagne
aller au stade
jouer au tennis
jouer au rugby
écouter de la musique
jouer au volley
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building the future

• On their own, the blocks are pretty useless. But
  if we combine them with MORE blocks, we can build
  something meaningful. One brick on its own is
  useless lots of bricks together make a wall
  lets add some more bricks!

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making it more interesting

• To make our sentence more interesting we could
  add EVEN MORE building blocks to tell us when in
  the future we are going to do something Lets
  take a closer look

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time phrases

• Lets make these blocks blue

demain (tomorrow)
la semaine prochaine (next week)
ce soir (this evening)
dans cinq minutes (in 5 minutes
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some examples
tomorrow
I am going
to play football
demain
je vais
jouer au football
in five minutes
I am going
to go to the cinema
dans cinq minutes
je vais
aller au cinéma
can you see how we are gradually building up our
wall to make a really good sentence?? all we have
to do is keep adding those blocks ?
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if youre feeling REALLY clever

• You could add one of these super duper YELLOW
  building blocks after your BLUE one

après avoir mangé
after eating
après avoir joué au foot
after playing football
to extend your sentence wall even further. Have a
go!
demain
après avoir mangé
je vais
jouer au football
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Remember BLUE YELLOW GREEN RED
lundi
mardi
mercredi
jeudi
vendredi
samedi
après avoir mangé
après avoir joué au foot
dimanche
demain (tomorrow)
faire de la natation
je vais
jouer au rugby
faire du vélo
dans deux heures (in 2 hours)
visiter les musées
aller à la campagne
aller en ville
aller au stade
dans cinq minutes (in 5 minutes)
écouter de la musique
jouer au volley
jouer au football
ce soir (this evening)
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You will be successful if you can say at
least THREE things that you are GOING to do!
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Vous avez compris???

• Oui, je comprends!
• Presque.
• Aucune idée