Key learning points

1. The French [g] has two sounds: soft before the letters e, i and y and hard before other letters.
2. We use 'aller' in the present tense followed by an infinitive to talk about future plans.
3. 'They' has two different pronouns in French: 'ils' for a male or mixed gender group and 'elles' for a female group.
4. Questions about future plans follow the normal patterns for closed (yes/no) and information questions.
5. When forming inversion questions for future plans, only 'aller' and the pronoun swap e.g. Vont-ils venir ?

Keywords

• [j/soft g] - sound-symbol correspondence like the [j] in 'jour' or the [soft g] sound in 'génial'

• Ils vont - French verb meaning 'they (m) go' or 'they are going'

• Elles vont - French verb meaning 'they (f) go' or 'they are going'

• Inversion question - when the subject pronoun and the verb switch place to form a question

Common misconception