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Year 7 · French · controlled beta

My plans: aller + infinitive

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Year 7 · Vocabulary and grammar · original lesson pack

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State a near-future plan with aller and an infinitive

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Learning outcomes

  • Choose singular present forms of aller
  • Leave the following action verb in the infinitive
  • Distinguish a plan from a current action

Vocabulary: je vais = I am going · tu vas = you are going · il/elle va = he/she is going · je vais visiter = I am going to visit · demain = tomorrow

Retrieve previous learning

What is an infinitive?

Check: An infinitive is the dictionary form, such as visiter, used after the conjugated aller in this plan structure.

Learn the concept

French can describe a near-future intention with a present form of aller plus an infinitive: ‘Je vais visiter le musée demain’. Vais identifies je; visiter remains unchanged. For tu use vas; for il or elle use va. The time word demain supports the future reading but the two-verb construction already expresses the intended action.

Compare ‘Je visite le musée’ (I visit/am visiting) with ‘Je vais visiter le musée’ (I am going to visit). Only aller is conjugated. ‘Je vais visite’ is incorrect because visite is not the required infinitive. Do not confuse ‘je vais au musée’ (I am going to the museum) with a two-verb action plan.

Worked model

  1. Choose the subject elle, so aller becomes va.
  2. Select the activity infinitive lire, not conjugated lit.
  3. Add a time cue: ‘Elle va lire demain’.

Guided practice

Translate ‘You are going to visit the museum tomorrow’ addressing one person.

Hint: Tu requires vas; visiter remains the infinitive.

Check the guided answer

‘Tu vas visiter le musée demain.’ Vas agrees with tu and visiter keeps its infinitive form.

Independent practice

Write your own response to every question before viewing the model answers. Your writing stays in this page session; this activity does not submit, store or grade it. Avoid including private information.

Independent listening practice

Play the short French passage and answer the listening questions. You may replay it. Browser speech is synthetic practice audio; a teacher should also check listening with a natural speaker. The transcript and answer guide appear after you submit an attempt.

Teacher observed practical evidence

Speak the passage without the visible transcript. Then ask the pupil to state a new plan aloud and distinguish it from a current action.

  • Distinguishes present from plan when heard
  • States a new plan intelligibly
  • Answers a spoken question about another person's plan
Find and correct a misconception

“Both verbs in aller plus an action must change for the subject.”

Correction: Aller changes for the subject; the following action verb remains an infinitive.

Extend and reflect

Write one plan each for je, tu and elle using different infinitives.

Guidance: Underline vais, vas and va; circle each unchanged infinitive.

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Where this lesson could lead · French GCSE → Daskerel Education and Workforce Development

This lesson practises: Choose singular present forms of aller. French communication can support international learning, services and workplace collaboration.

  1. Next school subject: French GCSE. Check the subject and examination board that fit your school.
  2. Later DASKEREL learning: Daskerel Education and Workforce Development. Explore further study and build evidence from practical work.
  3. Later credential exploration: No subject-specific professional credential is mapped from this lesson. Explore the credential catalogue after choosing a later specialism.
  4. Example career direction: Learning Support Practitioner. Explore organisations and local support.

This is an exploratory route, not a promise of admission, a qualification, certification eligibility or employment. Years 7–9 learning is an early foundation; any later credential may require substantial study, experience or local approval.

Year 7 · Writing · original lesson pack

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Say what people are not going to do

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Learning outcomes

  • Negate conjugated aller in a two-verb plan
  • Keep the action infinitive unchanged
  • Contrast a rejected plan with an intended one

Vocabulary: je ne vais pas visiter = I am not going to visit · tu ne vas pas lire = you are not going to read · elle ne va pas sortir = she is not going to go out · mais = but

Retrieve previous learning

Build ‘she is going to read’.

Check: ‘Elle va lire.’ Va agrees with elle; lire is the infinitive.

Learn the concept

To deny a planned action, put ne and pas around the conjugated aller: ‘Je ne vais pas visiter le musée’. The infinitive visiter stays after pas. With tu: ‘Tu ne vas pas lire’. With elle: ‘Elle ne va pas sortir’. The location of pas shows that the planned action as a whole is denied.

Compare ‘Je ne visite pas le musée’ (I do not visit/am not visiting) with ‘Je ne vais pas visiter le musée’ (I am not going to visit). A learner must keep aller if the meaning is a future intention. Write a positive alternative if useful: ‘Elle ne va pas sortir, mais elle va lire’. Keep each clause's own subject and verb form.

Worked model

  1. Start from ‘Tu vas regarder le film’.
  2. Identify vas as the only conjugated verb.
  3. Place ne before vas and pas after: ‘Tu ne vas pas regarder le film’.

Guided practice

Negate ‘Elle va visiter le parc’ and explain where pas belongs.

Hint: Surround va, not visiter.

Check the guided answer

‘Elle ne va pas visiter le parc.’ Pas follows the conjugated va; visiter stays in the infinitive.

Independent practice

Write your own response to every question before viewing the model answers. Your writing stays in this page session; this activity does not submit, store or grade it. Avoid including private information.

Independent listening practice

Play the short French passage and answer the listening questions. You may replay it. Browser speech is synthetic practice audio; a teacher should also check listening with a natural speaker. The transcript and answer guide appear after you submit an attempt.

Teacher observed practical evidence

Read the passage with transcript hidden, then ask for a new negative plan and a positive alternative aloud. Do not count written negation as listening evidence.

  • Hears which plan is negated
  • Says a negative two-verb plan intelligibly
  • Responds to an unfamiliar spoken contrast
Find and correct a misconception

“Ne and pas surround the infinitive in a negative aller plan.”

Correction: They surround the conjugated form of aller; the following verb remains an infinitive.

Extend and reflect

Write one false and one true plan for a fictional pupil with a reason.

Guidance: Use ne … pas around the rejected plan's aller form, then an affirmative aller + infinitive for the intended plan.

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Where this lesson could lead · French GCSE → Daskerel Education and Workforce Development

This lesson practises: Negate conjugated aller in a two-verb plan. French communication can support international learning, services and workplace collaboration.

  1. Next school subject: French GCSE. Check the subject and examination board that fit your school.
  2. Later DASKEREL learning: Daskerel Education and Workforce Development. Explore further study and build evidence from practical work.
  3. Later credential exploration: No subject-specific professional credential is mapped from this lesson. Explore the credential catalogue after choosing a later specialism.
  4. Example career direction: Learning Support Practitioner. Explore organisations and local support.

This is an exploratory route, not a promise of admission, a qualification, certification eligibility or employment. Years 7–9 learning is an early foundation; any later credential may require substantial study, experience or local approval.

Year 7 · Vocabulary and grammar · original lesson pack

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Make group plans with nous allons and vous allez

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Learning outcomes

  • Use nous allons and vous allez with an infinitive to express a future plan
  • Distinguish the group speaking from the group addressed
  • Write a reasoned response to a group invitation

Vocabulary: nous allons = we are going · vous allez = you are going (plural or formal) · visiter = to visit · manger = to eat · jouer = to play · demain = tomorrow

Retrieve previous learning

What is the infinitive of the verb in ‘Je vais visiter une ville’?

Check: Visiter. Vais is the present form of aller; visiter stays in the infinitive.

Learn the concept

The near-future pattern joins present-tense aller to an infinitive: nous allons visiter, vous allez manger. Nous allons refers to the group that includes the speaker; vous allez addresses two or more people, or one person formally. The second verb names the planned action and does not change its ending to match the subject. ‘Nous allons visitons’ is therefore not the intended construction.

An original fictional club invitation reads: ‘Demain, nous allons visiter un musée. Vous allez dessiner après la visite ?’ The first sentence states the club's plan. The second addresses a group; it is a question formed with statement order and question intonation, not a claim that any real museum is open. A response might be ‘Oui, nous allons dessiner.’ It shifts from addressed vous to speaking nous.

A time word helps distinguish a plan from a simple present activity, but the grammatical clue is aller + infinitive. ‘Nous visitons un musée’ describes visiting in the present or a scheduled event in context; ‘Nous allons visiter un musée’ explicitly expresses what the group is going to do. A teacher can ask a new question aloud, but written completion alone checks written grammar, not spontaneous group conversation.

Worked model

  1. Choose the subject for ‘We are going to play’: nous.
  2. Use the present form of aller: nous allons.
  3. Keep jouer in the infinitive: nous allons jouer.
  4. Add a future time word and relevant context: ‘Demain, nous allons jouer au parc.’

Guided practice

Translate ‘You (a group) are going to visit a museum. We are going to draw.’ Explain the subject change.

Hint: Use vous allez to address the group and nous allons for the group speaking.

Check the guided answer

‘Vous allez visiter un musée. Nous allons dessiner.’ Vous is the group addressed; nous includes the speaker. Both action verbs remain infinitives.

Independent practice

Write your own response to every question before viewing the model answers. Your writing stays in this page session; this activity does not submit, store or grade it. Avoid including private information.

Independent listening practice

Play the short French passage and answer the listening questions. You may replay it. Browser speech is synthetic practice audio; a teacher should also check listening with a natural speaker. The transcript and answer guide appear after you submit an attempt.

Teacher observed practical evidence

Present a different short spoken plan with the transcript hidden. Observe a pupil's response to a heard invitation; do not award spoken or listening attainment from written translation.

  • Distinguishes nous and vous in an unseen spoken invitation
  • Responds with a relevant new near-future sentence
  • Pronounces the new utterance intelligibly with teacher feedback
Find and correct a misconception

“The second verb takes a present ending: nous allons visitons.”

Correction: In aller + infinitive, only aller is conjugated. Write nous allons visiter.

Extend and reflect

Draft an invitation for two fictional groups with different weekend plans.

Guidance: Use nous allons and vous allez accurately, then ask a teacher to observe a spoken invitation and reply.

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Where this lesson could lead · French GCSE → Daskerel Education and Workforce Development

This lesson practises: Use nous allons and vous allez with an infinitive to express a future plan. French communication can support international learning, services and workplace collaboration.

  1. Next school subject: French GCSE. Check the subject and examination board that fit your school.
  2. Later DASKEREL learning: Daskerel Education and Workforce Development. Explore further study and build evidence from practical work.
  3. Later credential exploration: No subject-specific professional credential is mapped from this lesson. Explore the credential catalogue after choosing a later specialism.
  4. Example career direction: Learning Support Practitioner. Explore organisations and local support.

This is an exploratory route, not a promise of admission, a qualification, certification eligibility or employment. Years 7–9 learning is an early foundation; any later credential may require substantial study, experience or local approval.

Year 7 · Vocabulary and grammar · original lesson pack

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Ask when and where groups will go

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Learning outcomes

  • Place a question word before an inversion question
  • Invert only aller, not the infinitive
  • Use a hyphen between inverted verb and pronoun

Vocabulary: quand = when · où = where · vont-ils = are they going · vont-elles = are they going · allez-vous = are you going · aller + infinitive = going to do

Retrieve previous learning

Translate ‘They are going to visit’ for a mixed group, and name the infinitive.

Check: Ils vont visiter. Visiter is the infinitive after vont, the present plural form of aller.

Learn the concept

An information question begins with the information sought: quand asks when; où asks where. With inversion, place the conjugated verb before the subject pronoun and join them with a hyphen: ‘Quand allez-vous partir ?’ means ‘When are you going to leave?’ The second verb partir stays in the infinitive; ‘Quand partez-vous aller ?’ would reverse the intended jobs.

For a group described by ils or elles, the present form is vont. ‘Où vont-ils jouer ?’ asks where a male or mixed group is going to play; ‘Quand vont-elles visiter le musée ?’ asks when a female group is going to visit the museum. Use the pronoun supplied by the context, not one guessed from names. The question word and accent in où matter: ou without an accent means ‘or’.

Original fictional timetable: ‘Groupe A : lundi, visiter un musée. Groupe B : samedi, jouer au parc.’ Ask ‘Quand vont-ils visiter le musée ?’ if Groupe A is explicitly a mixed group. Answer ‘Ils vont visiter le musée lundi.’ A written timetable exercise checks reading, question form and writing; an unseen spoken timetable and response would separately check listening and speech.

Worked model

  1. Begin with ‘Ils vont visiter le musée lundi’.
  2. Choose quand to ask for the day.
  3. Invert only vont and ils, adding a hyphen: ‘Quand vont-ils visiter le musée ?’.
  4. Answer using the timetable, not a guessed date: ‘Ils vont visiter le musée lundi.’

Guided practice

A female group plans to play at the park tomorrow. Ask where they are going to play, then answer.

Hint: Use où and vont-elles, leaving jouer as an infinitive.

Check the guided answer

‘Où vont-elles jouer demain ? — Elles vont jouer au parc demain.’ Où asks for a place, vont-elles has a hyphen, and jouer stays in the infinitive.

Independent practice

Write your own response to every question before viewing the model answers. Your writing stays in this page session; this activity does not submit, store or grade it. Avoid including private information.

Independent listening practice

Play the short French passage and answer the listening questions. You may replay it. Browser speech is synthetic practice audio; a teacher should also check listening with a natural speaker. The transcript and answer guide appear after you submit an attempt.

Teacher observed practical evidence

A teacher should read a new group plan with the timetable hidden and observe the learner asking and answering at least one new information question. Written punctuation cannot establish question intonation.

  • Identifies time and place after hearing an unseen group plan
  • Asks a relevant where or when question aloud
  • Answers using the heard detail rather than a memorised model
Find and correct a misconception

“An inverted future-plan question needs both verbs inverted or conjugated.”

Correction: Invert only the conjugated aller form with the pronoun; the action verb remains infinitive: Où vont-ils jouer ?

Extend and reflect

Write two questions to compare fictional weekend plans of two named groups.

Guidance: State each group's pronoun rather than inferring it, and choose quand or où according to the missing information.

Take the end-of-unit check
Where this lesson could lead · French GCSE → Daskerel Education and Workforce Development

This lesson practises: Place a question word before an inversion question. French communication can support international learning, services and workplace collaboration.

  1. Next school subject: French GCSE. Check the subject and examination board that fit your school.
  2. Later DASKEREL learning: Daskerel Education and Workforce Development. Explore further study and build evidence from practical work.
  3. Later credential exploration: No subject-specific professional credential is mapped from this lesson. Explore the credential catalogue after choosing a later specialism.
  4. Example career direction: Learning Support Practitioner. Explore organisations and local support.

This is an exploratory route, not a promise of admission, a qualification, certification eligibility or employment. Years 7–9 learning is an early foundation; any later credential may require substantial study, experience or local approval.

Original DASKEREL written unit check · controlled beta

Near-future plans and questions: written check

Original beta written check of aller + infinitive, group persons and inversion. Spoken turn-taking and understanding an unseen plan require a teacher. Other current Oak lessons may be absent from the older export. Checks the singular aller forms, unchanged infinitives and negative placement. Checked against the public unit sequence; qualified academic review is still required. Attempt each question before opening its model reasoning. This is editorial practice, not a validated school test or a verified attainment result.

Independent practice

Write your own response to every question before viewing the model answers. Your writing stays in this page session; this activity does not submit, store or grade it. Avoid including private information.

Written self-checks are editorial practice. Practical and performance competence needs observation; qualified academic and accessibility review remain pending.