Jobs, Careers and Future Plans
Master Jobs, Careers and Future Plans for GCSE French with this free worksheet and full mark scheme — Foundation and Higher exam-style practice with worked answers for AQA GCSE French (8652). This topic covers types of work, ambitions and plans for the future.
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Topic overview
Talking about jobs and future plans combines vocabulary with three tenses, which is what makes it valuable in speaking tasks.
The key grammar point is that no article is used with a job after être: elle est médecin, il est professeur. Adding une here is wrong. But with c'est the article returns: c'est un bon professeur.
Future plans use the near future or the conditional. Je vais travailler dans un bureau uses aller. Je voudrais devenir médecin uses the conditional and is more polite. J'espère aller à l'université uses espérer with a direct infinitive. Using all three shows range within a single answer.
Revision notes
No article with jobs
Elle est médecin. Il est professeur. Je suis étudiant.
No article follows être before a profession. But c'est brings it back: c'est un bon professeur. The rule applies only to the bare profession after être.
Expressing future plans
Je vais travailler — near future with aller.
Je voudrais devenir — conditional, more polite. J'espère aller — espérer with a direct infinitive. Using more than one structure demonstrates range.
Useful vocabulary
Un emploi, un métier, un stage, le salaire, à temps partiel, à plein temps.
Devenir means to become and takes a job with no article: je voudrais devenir médecin. Travailler comme also works: travailler comme infirmier.
Key points
- No article follows être before a job.
- Elle est médecin, not elle est une médecin.
- C'est brings the article back.
- Je vais travailler uses the near future.
- Je voudrais devenir uses the conditional.
- Devenir takes a job with no article.
Worked examples
Example 1
Translate: she is a doctor. [2 marks]
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Example 2
Translate: I would like to become a teacher. [2 marks]
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Example 3
Explain why c'est un bon professeur keeps the article. [2 marks]
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Common mistakes
Adding an article before a job.
Elle est médecin, not elle est une médecin.
Omitting the article after c'est.
C'est un bon professeur keeps un.
Using only one future structure.
Range is rewarded in speaking tasks.
Adding a preposition after espérer.
J'espère aller, not j'espère à aller.
Exam tips
- Drop the article for jobs after être.
- Restore it after c'est with an adjective.
- Use more than one future structure.
- Learn devenir alongside être for jobs.
Key terms
- Le métier
- A job or trade.
- Devenir
- To become, taking a job with no article.
- Le stage
- A work placement.
- Near future
- Aller plus an infinitive.
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