French Future Tense – Irregular Verbs Worksheet

Recall the irregular future-tense stem for 21 common French verbs (e.g., être → ser-, faire → fer-, avoir → aur-).

Translate French sentences using irregular future-tense verbs into accurate English.

Construct French sentences in the future tense, correctly pairing an irregular stem with the appropriate subject ending.

Review the endings table and the 21-verb stem list together before assigning either exercise, since both exercises assume fluency with all 21 stems.

Assign Exercise 1 (French to English) before Exercise 2 (English to French), since translating into a first language is typically easier before students must generate correct French verb forms themselves.

Use the answer key's exact wording as a class discussion point where multiple natural English translations are possible (e.g., 'falloir' as 'to be necessary/must/have to/need to').

Irregular future-tense stem recall — students recall the correct irregular stem for 21 common French verbs.

Receptive translation — students translate French future-tense sentences into English.

Productive translation — students construct French future-tense sentences from English prompts, applying the correct stem and ending.

Subject-verb ending agreement — students match je/tu/il/elle/nous/vous/ils/elles to the correct future-tense ending.