Ideal para quem estudou português Brasileiro por cerca de cinco anos e deseja consolidar seu conhecimento da língua e cultura do mundo brasileiro antes de prosseguir para o nível 5.
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To consolidate Brazilian Portuguese grammatical structures and vocabulary, and to broaden students' knowledge of Brazilian culture.
What will we cover?
Revision of different tenses (indicative and subjunctive) Discussion of different topics: media, leisure, environment, literature, culture, politics.
The topics will be discussed with students at the start of the course.
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
- be more confident in speaking Portuguese - express opinions and ideas by using a wider range of vocabulary - extract specific information when listening to dialogues and authentic audio/video material - extract detailed information from newspaper articles.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
Students should have completed 4/5 years of Portuguese.
For further details of the specific foreign language skills required for this level, please consult ourlanguages self-assessment chart.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
Our courses are characterised by spoken interaction and communication. Typical activities include pair work, group work, role plays and games. A range of resources will be used to support your learning including presentations, hand-outs, and audio-visual material. Homework is highly recommended to consolidate learning.
This course uses Google Classroom, a digital learning platform where all the teaching and learning resources can be found. Here are some answers toCommon questions about Google Classroom| City Lit
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
This course is based on the tutor's own materials.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Brazilian Portuguese 4: língua e culturaor Brazilian Portuguese 5: língua e cultura. Please enrol on the next module as soon as possible as spaces cannot be guaranteed.
Christina Baum is a Brazilian-British Portuguese and English teacher (CELTA) and a literary translator based in London. She has over 20 years’ experience in teaching and believes that effective learning means a fun experience. She teaches all levels of Portuguese (Celpe-Bras, A-Level Portuguese and literature) and English. She has been teaching at City Lit since October 2019. She is also an external examiner for the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and an oral examiner for Celpe-Bras – the Certificate of Proficiency in Portuguese for Foreigners, awarded by Brazil's Ministry of Education. Christina translates from and into Portuguese, some key translations include Pulse by Julian Barnes, Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala, and We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. She has nine years’ experience running literary festivals in South America, Europe and the Middle East. Christina holds a BA and an MFA in Creative Writing from Birkbeck, University of London, where she is currently studying for her PhD in Creative Writing.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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Please enrol on the next module as soon as possible as spaces cannot be guaranteed.</p><p>You may also wish to consider our<strong><a href="https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/languages/language-culture?p=4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">language and culture courses</a></strong><strong></strong>or<strong><a href="https://www.citylit.ac.uk/courses/languages/pronunciation-and-accents-courses" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">pronunciation and accents courses</a></strong>to expand and consolidate your learning.</p>EuropeanPortugueseconfigurable
