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Evening Language Courses: Lessons take place once a week over 10 weeks and last 1.5 hours each.
Intensive Evening Language Courses: Lessons take place once a week over 5 weeks and last 3 hours each.
Saturday Language Courses & Evening Fast-track Language Courses: Lessons take place once a week over 5
weeks and last 3 hours each.
Summer Fast-track Language Courses: Lessons take place twice a week over 2.5 weeks and last 3 hours each.
Summer Intensive Language Courses: Lessons take place 5 times a week and last 3 hours each.
Course outline
Part 1
Topics
First contact, names, nationality
Address
Profession
Numbers up to 100
Meeting other people, leisure activities
The time
Means of transport
Functions
Greetings, asking and giving personal information
Introducing someone
Spelling names
Suggesting and inviting
Asking for and telling the time
Asking how to get to places with certain means of transport using prepositions: de/a
Asking questions with the appropriate interrogative pronouns
Grammar
Verb to be
Verbs ending in ar
Substantive – masculine and feminine
Possessive pronouns: Seu/Sua
Prepositions: em + article
Verbs: ir, poder and ter
Immediate future tense
Demonstrative pronouns
Interrogative pronouns
Part 2
Topics
At the restaurant
Bar, invitations
Hotel reservations and complaints
Orientation in the city
Traffic
Numbers up to one billion
Grammar
Verbs ending in “er”
Verb: gostar de
Irregular verb: estar
Verb: querer
Contrasting: ser and estar
Prepositions: de + article
Verbs ending in “ir”
Verbs: fazer and preferir
Gerund
Imperative
Possessive pronouns: dele, dela…
Comparing: “mais”
Part 3
Topics
Houses/flats
At the estate agent
Decorating
Housing
Daily routine
The Brazilian calendar
Brazilian poetry and art
Functions
Describing people and things
Expressing likes and dislikes
Comparing things
Locating objects
Talking about the past
Talking about daily activities
Grammar
Verbs ending in ar, er, ir (past tense)
Comparative with more, less, as…as
Prepositions of places
Past tense of irregular verbs: ser/ir/estar/ter/dar/fazer/querer/poder
Personal pronouns: o, a, lo, la, etc...
Adverbial phrases of time
Learning resources
Textbook and exercise book
Novo Avenida Brasil 1 Curso básico de Português para estrangeiros by Emma Eberlein and Lutz
Rohrmann. Exercise and text book are combined. ISBN-10: 8512545208
For a list of bookshops where you may be able to purchase text books please see our web page:
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mlc/about/facilities/shops.aspx
Independent study
Research indicates that successful language learners revise new material and review their progress on a regular
basis. The Language Resources Centre (LRC), situated in room K-1.072 in level minus one of the Strand
Building, houses a wide collection of learning material including text and grammar books, magazines and
newspapers, CDs, DVDs, and self-access e-learning language programmes.
During term time the LRC facilitates free speaking practice sessions as well as a range of workshops on language
learning. For a list of topics and all dates and times, including the opening hours of the LRC, please go to the
website: http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/mlc/lrc/LRCindex.aspx