Plans and postcards

For plans and intentions, this module prefers the futur proche: present aller + infinitive. It is simple and very common in everyday French. Example: Je vais écrire à Anna.

You can use it for near future plans and predictions: Le concert va commencer à huit heures, Je vais acheter un timbre demain, Nous allons regarder les photos ensemble. This is easier at A1 than the full future tense.

The postcard at the end uses very simple letter language: Chère Anna, then short past sentences, then a future plan, and finally Salut ! Bien à toi. These are useful chunks.

Je voudrais is also common in French, but here it is a polite chunk for requests, not a future form.

If you see a more advanced fixed expression in a real letter, learn it as a whole chunk. But for this course, short clear models are enough.

• Je vais écrire à Anna ce soir.I’m going to write to Anna tonight.

• Nous allons regarder les photos ensemble.We are going to look at the photos together.

• Demain, je vais acheter un timbre.Tomorrow I’m going to buy a stamp.

• Le concert va commencer à huit heures.The concert is going to start at eight o’clock.

• Zoé va chanter avec les enfants.Zoé is going to sing with the children.

• Thomas ne va pas danser... peut-être.Thomas is not going to dance... maybe.

• Chère Anna,Dear Anna,

• Bien à toi, LukasYours, Lukas / Lena

  Bien à toi, LenaYours, Lukas / Lena