Designed for Spanish-speaking students with prior knowledge of the Brazilian Portuguese language, the Intermediate course teaches how to communicate minimally.
Please note that the prerequisite for Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers Intermediate is Brazilian Portuguese for Spanish Speakers Beginner or equivalent proficiency.
At the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Give commands and have a classmate execute them.
- Role-play: shop for food/clothes.
- Order food from a menu.
- Spell things out loud.
- Listen to a sentence (small dialogue) and match with the correct picture.
- Listen to a short radio broadcast and fill out "where, when, who, what, how many".
- Listen to numbers/times, write them down, and read them back to the teacher.
- Listen to biographical information and fill in the missing information.
- Read a story with false information about a picture. Correct the story.
- Read commands and respond to them.
- Read public signs/notices/schedules. Translate them into English.
- Read simple tourist brochures/advertisements/headlines. Get some basic facts.
- Match place names to pictures. (Topic: cities, rivers, provinces, capitals)
- Read the answers in a dialogue, supply the questions.
- Read a person’s mini-biography, transform it into an interview.
- Read business cards. Give info to classmates
The primary topics are:
- Family
- Greetings
- Calendar/Holidays/Seasons
- Time/Money
- Description and location of objects.
- Nationalities, countries, and languages
- Shopping (food, clothing)
- Geography of Brazil and Angola
- Weather: basic expressions
- Biographical information: e.g. name, address, place of work, occupation, nationality
- Daily activities (related to the student’s life)
- Means of transportation
The primary grammatical topics are:
- Letters and sounds
- Cognates
- Numbers: Cardinal and ordinal
- Personal pronouns
- Basic syntax
- The use of "estar","ser", “morar”
- Verb classes: -ar, -er, -ir
- Present tense of regular and irregular verbs
- Imperative
- Auxiliary verbs
- Question formation
- Articles: definite and indefinite
- Present tense of regular and irregular verbs
- Imperative
- Auxiliary verbs
- Question formation
- Articles: definite and indefinite