Training activities in Portuguese A1 It equips you with the knowledge you need to communicate in Portuguese, enabling you to understand and use everyday expressions very commonly used expressions, as well as simple phrases designed to meet immediate needs. Furthermore, you will be able to to introduce oneself and, in some cases, ask for and provide basic personal information about their home address, their belongings and the people they know, as well as engage in simple conversation, provided that the person they are speaking to speaks slowly and with is transparent and willing to cooperate.
Cross-cutting
Languages
55 hours
Portuguese A1
Languages
55 hours
Introduction
Objectives
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To get a elementary level in oral and written comprehension, and in oral and written expression and interaction.
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Understanding and using everyday expressions very commonly used.
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Learning how to formulate questions and answers on personal matters.
Table of Contents
TEACHING UNIT 1. LEXICAL AND SEMANTIC CONTENT
- Basic vocabulary
- Formation of very common words: passatempo, automobile, sunflower
- Most common affixes: reler, aterrar, infelizmente, extraordinário.
- Introduction to antonyms and words with similar meanings: right/left, black/white, tall/short.
- The most common false friends: exquisite office, cheap, jump,
- Abbreviations of commonly used words: ENT specialist, cinema, car, underground.
- Verbs with very commonly used particles: andar a, haver de, ter de
- An introduction to some basic structures: asking a question, giving an answer, pausing.
TEACHING UNIT 2. GRAMMAR TOPICS
- Prayer
- Nouns and adjectives
- Determinants
- Pronouns
- Verbs
- Adverbs
- Links
TEACHING UNIT 3. SPELLING CONTENT
- The alphabet. Spelling (a, b, c, d …). New letters of the alphabet: k, w and y.
- Graphical representation of phonemes and sounds /a/, /ɛ/, /ɔ/, /ɲ/, /ʃ/,...:
- Capitalisation of proper nouns: names of people (José), places (Elvas, the Atlantic Ocean) and others: days of the week (quinta-feira), months (janeiro), nationalities (francês) and languages (espanhol).
- New Spelling Agreement (tio-avô, girassol, leem).
- Basic use of punctuation marks: full stop, colon, comma, question mark, exclamation mark, apostrophe and hyphen.
- Contractions.
- Commonly used symbols: @, €, £, $
TEACHING UNIT 4. PHONETIC, PHONOLOGICAL AND ORTHOEPTIC CONTENT
- Vowel sounds and phonemes.
- Rules on accent placement.
TEACHING UNIT 5. SOCIOLINGUISTIC AND SOCIOCULTURAL CONTENT
- Linguistic markers of social relationships, rules of politeness, stereotypes and a basic introduction to geographical and register varieties.
TEACHING UNIT 6. FUNCTIONAL CONTENT
- Assertive behaviour
- Binding acts
- Management decisions
- Phatic and solidarity-based acts
- Expressive acts
TEACHING UNIT 7. DISCURSIVE CONTENT
- An introduction to basic phrases relating to communication management
- Forms of address
- Conversational phrases for greeting people, introducing yourself, addressing someone, saying goodbye, interacting and asking for help
- The use of certain markers to structure discourse and resources to provide context in terms of space and time
- Most common connectors
- An introduction to contrasting formal and informal registers using some common phrases.
- Basic intonation and discourse punctuation.
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