📖LearnModule 7 · Lesson 6 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, completedUnit 2 · La santé et le corps
Chez le médecin
Module 7 of the free French course (CEFR B1, completed), lesson 6 of 30: A doctor's appointment is a B1 conversation: you have to describe something invisible. On this page: 8 words with their genders and respellings, the rule, a watch-out line, the conjugation table and the audio — the study notes behind the workbook's lesson 6.
The words
French
English
Say it
je ne me sens pas bien
I do not feel well
zhuh nuh muh sah(n) pah BYA(n)
le médecin
the doctor
luh mayd-SA(n)
la fièvre
the fever
lah FYEHVR
tousser
to cough
too-SAY
la grippe
the flu
lah GREEP
le rendez-vous
the appointment
luh rah(n)-day-VOO
la salle d'attente
the waiting room
lah sahl dah-TAH(n)T
fatigué
tired
fah-tee-GAY
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
A doctor's appointment is a B1 conversation: you have to describe something invisible, in order, to someone in a hurry. Start with the sentence every French doctor expects: je ne me sens pas bien — I do not feel well.
Et aussi · And also
Then name it. J'ai de la fièvre (I have a fever), je tousse (I am coughing), j'ai la grippe (I have the flu). The verb se sentir is reflexive: je me sens, tu te sens, il se sent.
Attention · Watch out
je ne me sens pas bien: se sentir is reflexive, so the me stays inside the ne... pas sandwich. Never je ne sens pas bien.
se sentir — the table
je me sens · tu te sens · il/elle se sent · nous nous sentons · vous vous sentez · ils/elles se sentent
Do it now — on paper
Say all 8 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the French spelling alone — begin with je ne me sens pas bien.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the French.
Write out se sentir in full from memory, every person, and check each form against the table above.
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.