DEPARTMENT OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES
BEGINNERS COURSE
IN
PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE
COURSE DESCRIPTION FIRST SEMESTER AFP 001 Portuguese Language and Culture I Alphabet, phonetics, greetings, family relations, friends, nationalities, days of the week, months, year, colors, numbers, profession, food, places, travel, games and furthermore vocabulary in communicative situations etc.. AFP 002 Portuguese Grammar and Structure I Sentence structure: affirmative, negative and questions; articles, nouns and adjectives, verb conjunctions, verb tenses (Real - present, perfect past, imperfect past and simple future); personal pronouns, interrogative pronouns, possessive pronouns, basic prepositions, conjunctions, basic gerundial, comparative and superlative.
SECOND SEMESTER
AFP 003 Portuguese Language and Culture II The language for communication in shopping places, restaurants, hotels and public institutions (immigration, customs, airports). Talking about plans and dreams (communicative use of the subjunctive in different situations). Useful vocabulary about: feelings, clothing, expressions and idioms, popular sayings, Brazilian’s symbols and institutions. Differences between Brazilian and European Portuguese.
AFP 004 Portuguese Grammar and Structure II Verb tenses (Subjunctive – present, future and past, and Real – Conditional Future), object pronouns, intermediate prepositions, imperative, nouns plural, advanced gerundial, participle, passive voice.
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