Newsletter: A Bright Future

A Bright Future

This week, we’re looking into our crystal ball and projecting ourselves into a beautiful future (Here’s to unwavering hope!), thanks to the precious French future tense! 🔮

Here’s the first little tip to remember how to conjugate regular verbs in Le Futur Simple: the “future” endings are added to the full infinitive form of the verb 😊

Alors, sans plus attendre, let’s look forward to exploring the promising French Kwiziq content we’ve selected for you! 😎

À la française – Mini Podcast Edition

Idiomatic Expression

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Learn a hilarious French expression with the second installment of our new fun format to learn French expressions. For each new expression, you get its meaning, some useful in-context examples and… a fun mini podcast to fully learn it!

This week, enjoy learning that when pigs fly in English, in French hens get…teeth!

“quand les poules auront des dents”

À la française – French expressions : “Quand les poules auront des dents”

Bonne découverte !

French Building Blocks

French Future tense – B1 Level

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Little Adèle has big plans for her future! See for yourself in the following dialogue, packed with verbs in Le Futur Simple:

“- Adèle, qu’est-ce que tu feras quand tu seras grande ?
– Quand je serai grande, j’habiterai dans un grand château.
– Est-ce que tu auras un mari et des enfants dans ce château ?
– Non, je partagerai mon palais avec ma meilleure amie, Lila la licorne ! Mais tu pourras venir nous voir.
– Merci, je viendrai avec plaisir !”

To learn more and/or refresh your memory on this topic, here’s a personalised Notebook, full of related Kwiziq lessons, to test yourself against!

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Let’s fill in some blanks!

Le Futur Simple – B1 Level

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Discover what your future holds – while practising your future tense conjugations – with this prediction-filled fill-in-the-blank exercise:

Horoscope de l’année

Hurray for Weekend Workout Friday!

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French writing challenges and dictees

Friday is Weekend Workout day – a special treat just for our Premium subscribers, with fresh dictations and writing challenges to boost your listening and writing skills.

This week’s theme is Plans & Organisation.

Here’s a little taster for free: At the beach (level A1)

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Bonne semaine à tous et à jeudi prochain !

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Aurélie Drouard

Head of French

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Aurélie Drouard

Aurélie is our resident French Expert. She has created most of the wonderful content you see on the site and is usually the person answering your tricky help questions. She comes from a small village near Chartres in Central France, country of cereal fields and not much else. She left (in a hurry) to study English at the world-famous Sorbonne in Paris, before leaving France in 2007 to experience the “London lifestyle” - and never looked back! She's worked as a professional French teacher, translator and linguist in the UK since.  She loves to share her love of languages and is a self-professed cinema and literature geek!