French club: le futur simple

For the third session we were able to find a free classroom where we conducted the teaching, which was a major improvement from last time when we wasted time in search of a venue and ended up in the library, that was certainly not fit for our purposes. As the title of the entry suggests, this time we decided to focus on the future tense as our student told us that they are uncertain of its formation and uses. We chose to begin with outlining the rules concerning this tense, followed by a few examples of both regular and irregular verbs, which we asked our participant to conjugate; they did a good job of it which made us realise that our explanations must've been relatively clear and understandable.

Us explaining the simple future

After that, we agreed to return briefly to the imperfect tense that was studied during the previous session, and we made use of grammar books from the French classroom in order to assess our student's knowledge and memory of the material. I also found a sheet based upon that tense (courtesy to languagesonline), which included both rules of when to use it, as well as short exercises; I asked our pupil to complete it for next time so that we could finally be sure that they have mastered that tense and will no longer require any help with it. The sheet would also allow the student(s) to quickly revise the imperfect tense whenever needed.

The sheet on the imperfect tense

Prior to next week's lesson, we will try to negotiate with a teacher in order to be able to use their classroom every Wednesday lunchtime to carry out our activity, as that would ensure that we would have no issues with finding available space. We will continue giving out worksheets to our student(s) so that they could make better use of the information we give them during the lesson: for next week we will provide them with sheets based on the simple future tense. Even though we are experiencing some difficulty in finding more participants, we will continue attracting people's attention and we may even ask our current student to see if any of their friends or classmates may be willing to join our club.