CBF 2:11 | Talking about going to do something
Coffee Break French
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4.6 • 4.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2009
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
In this lesson, we learn how to say 'going to do something' in French. This is a useful way of talking about the immediate future. Please note that lesson 11 of Season 2 was originally known as lesson 51 of Coffee Break French. We have renumbered the lessons of each season as lessons 1-40 to make things more simple for our listeners.
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| 0:00.0 | ... |
| 0:09.0 | Bonjour tout le monde et bienvenue à Coffee Break French. |
| 0:11.4 | Welcome back to Coffee Break French. |
| 0:13.8 | Now this is lesson 51, |
| 0:16.0 | and in this lesson we're going to be using |
| 0:17.8 | one of the verbs that we've studied previously |
| 0:20.2 | and that's the verb allé, |
| 0:22.0 | and combining that with the infinitive |
| 0:24.6 | to create the immediate future tense. |
| 0:27.6 | So I am going to do something. |
| 0:29.6 | Je vais faire quelque chose. |
| 0:32.4 | So I hope you enjoy this lesson of Coffee Break French. |
| 0:46.6 | Now I was actually about to start by saying |
| 0:49.2 | today we're going to be learning about |
| 0:51.8 | a particular piece of grammar, |
| 0:53.6 | and I realised that in saying that |
| 0:55.8 | I was actually explaining the bit of grammar |
| 0:57.6 | that we're going to be learning. |
| 0:59.4 | Because today we're talking about |
| 1:00.8 | going to do something. |
| 1:02.2 | I'm going to learn about this piece of grammar. |
| 1:05.6 | We are going to visit the cinema. |
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