Conversations · Lesson 13

Pharmacies: finding medicine, allergies, dosage

風邪薬かぜぐすりはありますか。

Find cold medicine and painkillers; tell the pharmacist your symptoms, allergies and other medicines; follow how often and when to take it; get prescriptions.

Practise Paid

In this lesson

  1. 01Main dialogue: buying cold medicine at a drugstore
  2. 02Finding medicine: names and questions
  3. 03Explaining your symptoms, allergies and other medicines
  4. 04How to take it: understanding dosage
  5. 05Collecting prescription medicine
  6. 06Pharmacies in Japan

Practice

  • Match each medicine to its meaning
  • How would you reply, and what should you do?
  • Match each phrase to its situation
  • Which sentence says what you want?
  • Choose the phrase for each blank
  • Change to a polite way of speaking to the pharmacist
  • Put the dialogue in order

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