This is a course designed to familiarize the students with Portuguese language and Brazilian culture. The focus of the course is on communication, therefore, vocabulary, grammar, phonology, comprehension and production are explored in context to enable the students to participate in social interactions that require the use of Portuguese.

Understand and use everyday expressions (greeting, polite phrases...)

- Ask and answer questions on familiar topics (name, nationality, daily activities, leisure time...)

- Participate in simple social interactions using basic sentences (introduce yourself, talk about your family, talk about your routine...)

opic 1: Introduction

First words: the alphabet, greetings, personal information. 

Meeting the colleagues: personal information, interrogative pronouns. Talking about my family: possessive pronouns, family members, personal traits.

Topic 2: The routine

My routine 1: Brazilian habits, daily activities, simple present. 

My routine 2: daily activities, weather, seasons, time adverbs, present continuous.

Topic 3: Discovering Brazil

Getting to know Brazil: Brazilian regions, intangible heritage, major touristic attractions, quantifiers, verbs and prepositions.

Coimbra, Isabel; Coimbra, Olga M. (2012) Gramática Ativa 1. 2ª ed. Lisboa: Lidel Edições Técnicas.

Ferraz, Andrea; Pinheiro, Isabel M. (2020) Samba!: curso de língua portuguesa para estrangeiros. 1ª ed. Belo Horizonte: Autêntica.

The course is taught through interactive lectures that encourage students to actively participate in class discussions and activities.

Students are also encouraged to engage in independent study outside class through videos and exercises available on the Open eClass platform.

• Use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in teaching.

• Support for the learning process through the Open eClass platform.

• Students may use AI tools to revise and improve their own written work. However, they must write an initial draft themselves before using AI to make revisions.

Written assignments, an oral examination, quizzes, and exercises on the Open eClass platform.