可商議

Aims and Objectives

The aim of the course is to give students an opportunity to revise their survival skills and acquire more sophisticated ways of dealing with practical matters. This includes revision and consolidation of vocabulary, grammar, morphology, syntax and phonetics.

Students should be able to communicate in and understand Portuguese on many practical everyday matters related to various aspects of Brazilian culture. Cultural awareness will be developed.

Main topics / themes to be covered

- Body parts, health, sport, physical description, Brazilian art;

- Work, human rights, life in the old times, holiday, ordinal numbers, women's situation in the job market;

- Clothes, social meaning of clothes, invitations, intercultural differences;

- Family, celebrations, immigration to Brazil;

-Tourism and tourists, pollution, ecology;

- Regions of Brazil, stereotypes, influences in Brazilian culture, traditions.

Linguistic Structures

Grammar:

- Verb: ver, ter que, adjectives, superlative, plural;

- Imperfect tense: 1st case: Routines in the past;

- Imperfect tense: 2nd case: Description in the past;

- Imperfect tense: 3rd case: two actions in the past;

- Imperfect tense: 4th case: two simultaneous action in the past;

- Perfect X imperfect tenses;

- Verbs: por / vestir, contracting ir / vir, simple future;

- Irregular verbs: levar / trazer / saber / conhecer /dizer, plus-Perfect compoud/simple, Futuro do pretérito;

- Pretérito perfeito composto do indicativo, adverbs ending in: mente, indefinite pronouns: alguem, algum, nada, double negativo, aumentativo, diminutive;

- Passive voice with "ser", double participle, indefinite pronouns.