📖LearnModule 6 · Lesson 6 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, first halfUnit 2 · Work, school and the future
Les métiers — the working world
Module 6 of the free French course (CEFR B1, first half), lesson 6 of 30: The Independent band talks about real life, and real life works: le médecin, l'infirmier, la journaliste. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 6.
The words
French
English
Say it
le métier
the job
luh may-TYAY
le médecin
the doctor
luh mayd-SA(n)
l'infirmiermasculine — the article elides to l'
the nurse (m)
la(n)-feer-MYAY
la journaliste
the journalist (f)
lah zhoor-nah-LEEST
l'ingénieurmasculine — the article elides to l'
the engineer
la(n)-zhay-NYUHR
le vendeur
the salesman
luh vah(n)-DUHR
la vendeuse
the saleswoman
lah vah(n)-DUHZ
travailler
to work
trah-vah-YAY
Respellings follow the course’s say-it key; the stressed syllable is in capitals. Print this lesson’s flashcards (PDF) — the words on the front, the English and respelling on the back.
Hear the words
Each word is read twice — say it back in the gap. Computer-generated voice; credits on the course page.
La règle · The rule
The Independent band talks about real life, and real life works: le médecin, l'infirmier, la journaliste, l'ingénieur. Notice the pairs — le vendeur, la vendeuse: many job words carry their gender in the ending.
Et aussi · And also
Ma mère est médecin. Mon oncle travaille dans un bureau. French drops the article after être with jobs: elle est journaliste, not une journaliste.
Attention · Watch out
After être a job takes no article: elle est journaliste, never elle est une journaliste. Add one only with an adjective: c'est une bonne journaliste.
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with le métier.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write two sentences of your own that get the watch-out line right, then the two practice pages of workbook lesson 6 in Module 6 are the written half of this page.
This free course is the reading half. The writing half — write-in lessons, daily practice pages with built-in review, self-checks and a full answer key — is the companion workbook series, The French Ladder: one workbook per module, fifteen in all, released band by band with the Basic band (Modules 1–5) first.
Keep these words
Turn this lesson’s words into flashcards, then space your reviews — the two habits the research behind our study guides backs hardest.