Skip to content

French futur simple and futur proche test answer key with scoring for French A2 (free PDF download)

Planning and booking your trip – French A2 test answer key with Zoé, the Français PDF coach

The questions are on the French Futur Simple And Futur Proche test. Take it under real conditions before reading the answer key.

Quick answer: Use the futur proche (aller + infinitive) for plans that are decided and close, and the futur simple (infinitive + -ai, -as, -a, -ons, -ez, -ont) for promises, timetables and bookings. This scoring guide gives the expected answers and the points for the 8 questions of the French A2 test on futur simple and futur proche, from futur proche to short writing, with the equivalent answers to accept.

Use this answer key to mark the test. Give the points shown for each correct form and read the scoring note when an answer is partly right. Total 20 points. Count accent and spelling mistakes only where the scoring note says so.

Level: French A2 (CEFR elementary) · Standards: CEFR A2, Spoken production

Question 1 Futur proche (2 points)

  1. Nous allons acheter les billets.
  2. Tu vas réserver l’hôtel.
  3. Madame Diallo va changer de train.
  4. Ils vont prendre un taxi.

Scoring: 0.5 per sentence; half the point if only the infinitive is wrong.

Question 2 Futur simple (3 points)

  1. nous descendrons
  2. vous choisirez
  3. je réserverai
  4. ils voyageront
  5. tu attendras
  6. elle partira

Scoring: 0.5 per form.

Question 3 Irregular stems (2 points)

  1. nous irons
  2. vous serez
  3. il viendra
  4. je pourrai

Scoring: 0.5 per form.

Question 4 Choose the tense (2 points)

  1. descendra (after dès que)
  2. va (about to happen)
  3. rentreras (after quand)
  4. vont (aller + infinitive)

Scoring: 0.5 per item.

Question 5 Read the ticket (2 points)

  1. À Lille.
  2. À 17 h 26.
  3. La voiture 6.
  4. La place 42.

Scoring: 0.5 per answer.

Question 6 Translate (3 points)

  1. Nous allons rater le train !
  2. J’achèterai deux billets aller-retour. (deux allers-retours is also accepted)
  3. Quand l’avion atterrira-t-il ? (or À quelle heure l’avion atterrira ?)

Scoring: 1 point each; deduct 0.5 for an accent or spelling error, 0.5 for a wrong tense.

Question 7 Reading: a business trip (3 points)

  1. Jeudi.
  2. Un collègue.
  3. Dès qu’il sera dans le train (au retour).

Scoring: 1 point each; accept a full sentence.

Question 8 Short writing (3 points)

Model answer: Nous allons partir vendredi soir. Nous arriverons à Québec à 21 h. Samedi, nous visiterons le Vieux-Québec.

Scoring: 1 point per sentence that is correct in tense, form and spelling; at least one futur proche and one futur simple are required for full marks.

← Back to the French Futur Simple And Futur Proche test

Suivez-nous