Portuguese Language - Beginners Level

Language Centre - University of Oxford

Entry Level: A1 (Common European Framework for Languages)

This course is aimed at Portuguese-beginners students. It aims to enable students to learn to communicate in Portuguese effectively and accurately and, as such, it particularly focuses on the development of oral and aural skills in real life contexts. Students will also develop some knowledge of Portuguese culture and history, as well as of the specificities of different Portuguese variants.

There will be plenty of opportunities for the students to practice oral and listening skills.

The program and aims of the course will be adjusted to the particular needs and level of the group.

Learning outcomes

By the end of the academic year, students should be able to:

 Introduce themselves and others.  Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type or related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment).  Describe in simple terms aspects of their background and immediate environment.  Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.  Understand short aural passages and conversations.  Read and understand short written texts in the target Language.  Write short texts of increasing length.

Functions Vocabulary will be developed in the areas listed below:  Provide and ask for personal, general or professional information  Ask questions, make bookings and requests  Express themselves in different shops  Provide different kinds of descriptions (people, personality, places, etc.)  Give and ask for instructions  Talk about routines and everyday activities  Talk about past events and routines  Talk about their plans  Give an opinion  Agree or disagree with

Course book

Robert Kuzka e José Pascoal, Passaporte para Português - 1 (Lisbon: Lidel)

Course material will be provided by the tutor. Materials and reference grammars in Portuguese are available in the Language Centre Library and in the Language Centre Weblearn site, under the heading ‘Portuguese’.