Regular Portuguese Lessons

This text book is accompanied by a work book and an audio CD. All the materials are included.
We also offer an electronic (monolingual) Portuguese dictionary.

Bilingual dictionaries are bought by the students.

Celp 1    (1^st Level)

Contents:

1^st Unit

Greetings,  days of the week,  months of the year,  the alphabet.

Affirmative,  negative and interrogative sentences.

Definite and indefinite articles.

Nouns and adjectives

Verbs

Simple Present

Personal Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns

Nationalities

There is/there are

Family

Professions

Breakfast

Meals

Regular verbs and some irregular verbs in the Simple present tense of the indicative mode

2^nd Unit

Review: Simple Present and Simple Past tenses

The time

Ordinal Numbers

Possessive adjectives and Reflexives Prepositions + Articles

Reflexives

Conjunctions

Preterito Perfeito (One of the Simple past tenses)

Possessive pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns

Conjunctions

Vegetables and Fruits

Meat

Before, After, Now

Desserts

Fish

Public buildings

Regular verbs and some irregular verbs in the Simple past tense (Preterito Perfeito) perfect preterite of the indicative mode.

3^rd Unit

Seasons of the year

The weather

Separation of syllables

Imperfeito of indicative mode (the other simple past tense) similar to (used to + verb infinitive) in English

Gerund

Comparative and superlative

Games

Hobbies

Well known adjectives

Marital status

Sports

Regular and some irregular verbs

The Imperfect preterite of the indicative mode

Tools:

Together with the text-book, we also work with different tools such as audio CD, Music, Movies, and CD-ROMs

Methodology:

Our methodology is based in Communication and we apply the “Notion and Function” and “Communicative and Natural” approaches.

Testing and Completion:
 

At the end of every Level we give a test covering all the areas the student has already studied along the length of the course.

We also offer a report showing the score and the progress obtained by the students. 

A Certificate of Completion is also awarded.