📖LearnModule 7 · Lesson 6 of 30Independent User · CEFR B1, completedUnit 2 · La salud y el cuerpo
En el consultorio — at the doctor's
Module 7 of the free Spanish course (CEFR B1, completed), lesson 6 of 30: A doctor's appointment is a B1 conversation: you describe something invisible, in order. On this page: 9 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 QR.
The words
Spanish
English
Say it
no me siento bien
I do not feel well
noh meh SYEHN-toh byehn
yo me siento mal
I feel bad
yoh meh SYEHN-toh mahl
el médico
the doctor
ehl MEH-dee-koh
la fiebre
the fever
lah FYEH-breh
toser
to cough
toh-SEHR
la gripe
the flu
lah GREE-peh
la cita
the appointment
lah SEE-tah
la sala de espera
the waiting room
lah SAH-lah deh ehs-PEH-rah
cansado
tired (m)
kahn-SAH-doh
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.
La regla · The rule
A doctor's appointment is a B1 conversation: you describe something invisible, in order, to someone in a hurry. Start with the sentence every doctor expects: no me siento bien — I do not feel well. Sentirse is reflexive: me siento, te sientes, se siente.
Y también · And also
Then name it. Tengo fiebre (I have a fever), toso mucho (I cough a lot), tengo gripe (I have the flu), estoy cansado (I am tired). The doctor answers in the subjunctive you just learned: quiero que hagas reposo — I want you to rest.
Ojo · Watch out
no me siento bien: sentirse is reflexive, so the me stays and the no goes first. Never no siento bien. And fever is something you HAVE: tengo fiebre, never soy fiebre.
sentirse, presente — the table
yo me siento · tú te sientes · él/ella/usted se siente · nosotros nos sentimos · ustedes se sienten · ellos/ellas se sienten
hacer, presente de subjuntivo — the table
yo haga · tú hagas · él/ella/usted haga · nosotros hagamos · ustedes hagan · ellos/ellas hagan
Do it now — on paper
Say all 9 words aloud twice from the respelling, then once from the Spanish spelling alone — begin with no me siento bien.
Copy every word with its accents on paper; then cover the English column and write each meaning back from the Spanish.
Write out sentirse, presente and hacer, presente de subjuntivo 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 Spanish 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.