Portuguese Course - Level A1 - 40 hours

18/02/2014 to 03/04/2014

 

 

Main Goals:

Provide students with basic skills for oral and written communication in Portuguese language.

Provide linguistic and cultural knowledge for quotidian life.

  Contents:

1.         Linguistic and Communicative Skill

  ·              Greetings;

·              Formal and Informal forms of treatment;

·              Introduce yourself and other people;

·              Identify and describe persons;

·              Names, nationalities, cities, countries, numbers, professions;

·              Days of the week, months, seasons, hours, colours;

·              To approach someone to ask informations;                                                                     

·              Family and house/home vocab;

·              Daily Routine;

·              Free times/ Hobbies.

2.            Grammar 

·              The alphabet;

·              Verb to be:   ser  and   estar  - presente tense;

·              Verb to have (   ter );

·              Differences between   ser  and   estar ;

·              Regular and Irregular verbs: present tense;

·              Definite and Indefinite articles;

·              Feminine and Masculine gender;

·              Pronouns: personal, interrogative and possessive;

·              Interrogative and Negative sentences;

·              Movement and Time prepositions;

·              Costumar + Infinitivo : describe usual actions;

·              Present Continous:   estar a + infinitivo;

·              Make Requests: imperfeito de cortesia;

·              Future: ir + infinitivo.

 

Evaluation:

 

Final Test - 50%

Attendance - 25%

Homework - 15%

 

Participation - 10%