This introduction covers Le futur simple et le conditionnel — Higher Tier Weapons within The simple future and the conditional for GCSE French. Revise The simple future and the conditional in Time Markers and the Three Time Frames for GCSE French with 15 exam-style questions and 15 flashcards. This topic appears regularly enough that it should still be part of a steady revision cycle. It is section 1 of 4 in this topic. Use this introduction to connect the idea to the wider topic before moving on to questions and flashcards.
🎯 Le futur simple et le conditionnel — Higher Tier Weapons
You can express the future with je vais + infinitif — and at Foundation, that is enough. But at Higher tier, the inflectional future (je mangerai) and the conditional (je mangerais) are your mark-band-5 structures. One letter separates them — -ai for certainty, -ais for "would". Master the irregular stems and the si + imperfect + conditional pattern, and you have the highest-value grammar structure on the AQA Higher paper.
Practice questions for The simple future and the conditional
Which set of endings correctly completes the simple future tense for je, tu, il/elle, nous, vous, ils/elles?
How is the conditional tense formed in French?
Quick recall flashcards
etre: future stem?
ser- (irregular). je serai (I will be), je serais (I would be).
faire: future stem?
fer- (irregular). je ferai (I will do/make), je ferais (I would do/make).