In English we have written 'to play', 'play' or 'playing' - but look at the French translations. In each case we just use 'jouer' - the infinitive of the verb 'play'. The infinitive is just the dictionary form of the verb, without any conjugation.
Je veux jouer au tennis.
Je vaisjouer au tennis.
Je peux jouer au tennis.
Je dois jouer au tennis.
J'aimejouer au tennis.
In each case the main verb is the one in italics (I want, I am going etc.) and the second verb is just the infinitive. This is a rule which is always true.
Write a list of all the things you are NOT going to do this year - make it a like a new year's resolution list.
Remember to put NE....PAS round the MAIN verb, NOT the infinitive.
If it's something you have done in the past, but are NO LONGER going to do it, use NE......PLUS instead of ne....pas.
Do an information exchange activity about what you are going to do next week - ask your teacher about how to organise this.
Make an illustrated timeline of your future life - what are you going to do in each year? e.g. En 2018 je vais aller à l'université au Canada. En 2020 je vais travailler dans un bureau.
Write and record a dialogue at a fortune teller. You might want to start like this:
Think of different places, and write sentences about what you CAN do, what you CAN'T do, what you MUST do and what you MUSTN'T do. Show your groups of sentences to a partner or the teacher, who must guess the place.
Example:
On ne doit pas fumer. On doit acheter un billet. On peut manger et boire. On peut aller aux toilettes. On ne peut pas crier. On ne peut pas sortir. On peut dormir. On ne doit pas apporter trop de liquide. On doit attacher sa ceinture quelquefois. On peut se promener la plupart du temps.
Où est-ce qu'on est?
Write a list of 10 things you know how to do and 10 things you don't know how to do. To be positive about life, you can say ne....pas encore to mean 'not yet'.
e.g. je sais jouer du piano, mais je ne sais pas encore jouer de la guitare. e.g. je sais nager, mais je ne sais pas encore faire de la plongée sous marine.
Take some inspiration from the football video above. Write and perform a dialogue between a parent and a child. The child WANTS to do something but CAN'T because s/he MUST do something else etc. etc. Use POUVOIR, VOULOIR, DEVOIR plus infinitive as much as possible.
Ask your teacher why we often call aller, pouvoir, vouloir, devoir BOOT VERBS. Write these verbs out with boots.
The verb 'savoir' can mean 'to know how to'. It's nearly a boot verb, but not quite: