This is a module designed for students who completed Portuguese Beginners A1 Part 1 or have completed a short introductory course in Portuguese language. This module aims to provide you with a very basic range of simple expressions about personal details and needs of a concrete type.

This module is the second part of the preparation for CEFR A1.

• Understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type.
• Introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has.
• Interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

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All courses on the Languages for All programme are delivered on a hybrid mode, mixing face-to-face and virtual teaching. You will be expected to actively participate in role-plays, interactive activities and group discussions. Course material is accessible on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment, Learning Central, and should be cross-platform compatible.

18 contact hours – 2 hours per week of interactive language workshops.

Intellectual Skills:

• Enhanced cognitive skills leading to innovation, creativity and problem solving.
• Critical analysis applied to discourse, texts, images and events.
• Advanced listening and reading skills: the ability to scan complex texts (including audio) for gist, to synthesise information and focus on salient points.

Discipline Specific (including practical) Skills:

• Recognise familiar words and very basic phrases concerning myself, my family and immediate concrete surroundings when people speak slowly and clearly.
• Understand familiar names, words and very simple sentences;
• Interact in a simple way provided the other person is prepared to repeat or rephrase things at a slower rate of speech; ask and answer simple questions in areas of immediate need or on very familiar topics.
•  Write in short and simple sentences.

Transferable Skills:

• Ability to learn additional languages for personal/employment reasons.
• Awareness of and sensitivity to diversity based on culture.
• Ability to navigate and mediate between more than one culture to interpret meaning and intent beyond the purely linguistic.
• Heightened literacy, textual analysis and oracy in mother tongue.
• Presentation skills.
• Ability to work cooperatively, as a member of a team or with a partner.
• Problem solving and the ability to look at things from multiple perspectives

Written class test (30%) and course work (30%).  

Oral and aural continuous assessment (40%).  

• Accommodation (how to answer an advert, describe objects, as well as months and seasons of the year);
• Transport (how to use public transports, taxi and buy tickets);
• Travel to Portugal (understand timetables, explain where you want to go);  

Português em foco  by Luisa Coelho and Carla Oliveira  Lidel   Level A1/A2, 2015, (Units 5- 7)

ISBN: 9789727578917

Essential Portuguese Grammar - Dover Language Guides Essential Grammar (Paperback) Alexander da R. Prista

Modern Brazilian Portuguese Grammar: A Practical Guide by John Whitlam , 2010