"Il va falloir faire le ménage avant de partir."
Translation:It is going to be necessary to do the housework before leaving.
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Agreed. English is more likely to specific pronouns ("we are going to have to do housework before we leave") or use the passive voice ("the housework will have to be done before leaving/we leave").
But as a teaching strategy it does show how the French sentence is constructed.
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Thanks. Like you, I'm here to learn French more than comment on making English more elegant. This is an impersonal sentence in active voice using falloir. The construction is complex and specific. The English translation should reflect it fairly to help us learn the lesson.
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Falloir is only used with the impersonal pronoun "it." Check out a French verb conjugation page, and you will see this.
Devoir is conjugated with personal pronouns. In your example, "Il va devoir faire le ménage avant de partir."
I agree the comments. I wrote "The houswork needs to be done before leaving." That sounds like the meaning intended by the French sentence, not their version of English which is indeed awkward.
This sounds like a sentence written by Google translate. "The housework will have to be done before we/ they go out", depending on context, or "We/ you/ they will have to do the housework before going out"
