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Junior Cycle French: Future tenses

How often Future tenses comes up on the French papers, every year it was asked, and questions to try.

CL Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Future tenses, Common Level(8 marks)

Quick ones on Future tenses.

(a)How do you say 'I'm going to play football'?
  1. Je vais joue au foot
  2. Je vais jouer au foot
  3. J'ai joué au foot
(b)A forecast says « Demain, il va pleuvoir. » What does it mean?
  1. It is raining today
  2. It rained yesterday
  3. It will rain tomorrow
(c)What does « j'irai » mean?
  1. I will go
  2. I would like
  3. I went
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(a) Je vais jouer au foot

(b) It will rain tomorrow

(c) I will go

Your turn: Common Level questions on Future tenses.

Common Level

Asked on 5 of the last 5 Common Level papers, most recently in 2026. banker

Every paper, year by year

YearWhere it came up
2026Q17
2025Q17
2024Q17
2023Q18
2022Q16

Links open the State Examinations Commission’s paper for that year.

More Future tenses questions

Future tenses, 3 marks

Choose the future of voyager: « L'été prochain, je ___ en Espagne. »

  1. voyagé
  2. voyageons
  3. voyagerai
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voyagerai

Futur simple = infinitive + -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont: je voyagerai. Voyagé is the past participle and voyageons goes with nous.

Future tenses, 2 marks

« Ce week-end, nous allons faire les magasins. » What is the plan?

  1. Go shopping every weekend
  2. Go shopping this weekend
  3. Went shopping last weekend
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Go shopping this weekend

Nous allons + infinitive = we are going to. Faire les magasins = to go shopping. Ce week-end = this weekend and le week-end dernier = last weekend.

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