Portuguese - Beginners University of Oxford

Overview

What you will study

To help develop your fluency in the language, the Portuguese - Beginners course offered by University of Oxford will focus primarily on speaking and listening skills, but will also include practice in reading and writing. You will have plenty of opportunities to practise the target language through hands-on collaborative class activities such as conversations and role-plays.

Course objectives:

• To help students develop the language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing for very basic routine communication in the target language.

• To enable students to use a range of high frequency vocabulary and grammar structures for very basic routine interaction in the target language.

• To equip students with an initial appreciation of the culture and civilisation of the country (or countries) in which the target language is spoken.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• use very simple phrases and utterances to provide basic personal information, such as name, address, family members and nationality;

• interact in a simple way using a very basic range of language in routine everyday contexts;

• understand the gist of very short, simple written texts and audio/video excerpts containing the highest frequency vocabulary items and basic grammar structures;

• produce simple phrases and very short texts using basic structures and vocabulary items.