11. my future

Module 11 Summary

In Module 11, you learned how to talk about future plans, life milestones, reading, saying, writing, impersonal expressions, and the future tense.

You began by using aller + infinitive, the futur proche, to talk about future plans. You practiced sentences such as Je vais voyager, Je vais étudier demain, Nous allons visiter Paris, and Je vais chercher un appartement. You also learned future time expressions such as demain, bientôt, la semaine prochaine, l’année prochaine, plus tard, and dans le futur.

You then learned how to ask whether people like what they do with expressions such as Tu aimes ce que tu fais ?, Tu aimes ton travail ?, and Tu aimes tes cours ? You practiced answering with J’aime ce que je fais, Je n’aime pas ce que je fais, and giving reasons with parce que.

You expanded your vocabulary for life’s major milestones, including naître, grandir, obtenir un diplôme, commencer l’université, trouver un travail, déménager, se fiancer, se marier, avoir des enfants, and prendre sa retraite. You practiced sentences such as Je suis né(e) à Calgary, J’ai grandi à Beijing, J’ai commencé l’université, and Un jour, je vais déménager.

In the grammar sections, you studied the irregular verbs lire, dire, and écrire. You learned forms such as je lis, nous lisons, je dis, vous dites, j’écris, and nous écrivons, and practiced their past participles: lu, dit, and écrit.

You also learned the impersonal use of il in expressions such as il faut, il ne faut pas, il est important de, il fait froid, il y a, and il est temps de. These expressions help you talk about necessity, rules, weather, existence, and timing.

Finally, you learned the futur simple, used to say what will happen. You practiced regular future forms such as je parlerai, tu réussiras, nous étudierons, and ils finiront, as well as irregular stems such as ser-, aur-, ir-, fer-, viendr-, verr-, pourr-, voudr-, and devr-.

By the end of Module 11, you should be able to talk about future plans, ask about someone’s work or studies, describe major life milestones, use lire, dire, and écrire, recognize impersonal il, and form the futur simple with regular and irregular verbs.

Module 12 will build on these skills by helping you ask for and give directions, talk about city living, use connaître, compare adverbs and nouns, give commands, and use object pronouns in more advanced ways.