Portuguese A2

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If the initial module of the Portuguese language course from Agile Training was your bare-bones introduction and apprenticeship into learning this amazing language, the Level A2 module is going to take things more than a handful of steps forward – really speeding up your path to fluency with Portuguese in a way that might surprise you.

Right out of the gate, Portuguese Level A2 from Agile Training is going to flood your brain with vocabulary elements that are broken down into easy to digest and effortless to remember modules and components. These vocabulary elements are going to be built around daily themes, are going to be related to your native language as much as possible, and are going to provide you with the backbone of your Portuguese fluency moving forward.

After successfully concluding the previous language module, Level A2 is going to rapidly push you further and further towards fluency with new grammar elements as well. The complexity of your new vocabulary and grammar understanding is going to increase at a gradual pace, allowing you to effortlessly graduate from the initial module to having a much firmer grasp of the Portuguese language and beginning to feel more comfortable reading, writing, and speaking in Portuguese as well.

Throughout the Portuguese Level A2 module you are going to be introduced to new grammar and vocabulary elements that rapidly expand your understanding of this language.

This is going to improve your ability to communicate in Portuguese, and while you may not have total confidence of your Portuguese skills by the time you wrap up the Level A2 component you’ll be able to write simple notes and messages, speak in simple terms of our friends and family (as well as your daily routine), and shouldn’t have any trouble whatsoever outlining exactly what you did on a daily basis in bare-bones terms, either.

The major driver of this particular module is to get you up and running with conversational Portuguese just as quickly as humanly possible. This is why there is such a heavy emphasis on the most commonly used vocabulary terms in the language, why the grammar rules you learn here are going to help you ask and answer questions, and why so much of this lesson plan revolves around every day elements that are going to be of big-time use to you when you do eventually become fluent thanks to Agile Training.

By the time you finish with the Portuguese Level A2 module, you should have a lot more confidence reading, writing, speaking, and understanding Portuguese – especially when you are interacting with native speakers.

You will not yet have complete control of the language and will not have a fully fleshed out Portuguese vocabulary, and there still will likely be a number of stumbling blocks when it comes to specific and more obscure grammar rules in this language. But at the end of the day, you’ll be a lot closer to fluency in Portuguese than you were when you first started with this Agile Training course – and your ability to integrate new Portuguese words, vocabulary elements, and grammar rules is only going to improve from here on out.

At the end of the day, the Level A2 module is going to build upon the initial foundation that you have established with the previous course work. The core tenant of the Agile Training language courses has always been about intelligent, sequential, and strategic lesson plans – and this is on full display with the Portuguese Level A2 training.

Moving forward you’re going to be able to establish a rock solid understanding of Portuguese, will be able to move quickly through conversational fluency into total fluency, and will be able to hold your own in conversations with native speakers of this language. All of that is thanks to the fundamental lessons learned in this particular module.

GENERAL Portuguese A2

SCOPE

To learn Elementary Portuguese, in all language aspects and in an efficient way.

MAIN OBJECTIVES

  • To understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance.
  • To understand and read advertisements or messages with simple, short and clear messages.
  • Communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters.
  • To describe in simple terms aspects of oneself background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
  • To write short and simple notes or messages about short term needs.

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT

  • To understand isolated sentences and expressions often related with priority matters such as family or personal information, shopping and surrounding environment.
  • Communicate in simple tasks and routines where simple and direct information exchange is needed about family and other ordinary issues
  • To describe personal training in a simple way, surrounding environment and refer to aspects related to immediate needs.

COURSE CURRICULUM

  • Vocabulary
    • Personal identification and characterization
    • Physical and personality description
    • Daily life and habits in present and past
    • Services, publicity, warnings, rules and instructions
    • Expressing feelings (state of mind and points of view)
    • Useful objects (names and functions)
    • Talk about studies and jobs, professional competences
    • The weather, weather forecast maps
    • Writing an email
    • To express a need
    • Expressions to talk about a country
    • Talk about the residence area
    • Press hot topics, different types of written texts, written messages and oral
    • Information about an event
    • Words related with media
    • Talking about cinema
    • Talk about hobbies and free time activities
    • Vocabulary about reservations and tourism
    • Going to a restaurant and giving opinion about food
    • Stores, consumer rights, Portuguese expenditures, ways of payment
    • Health, symptoms and going to the hospital
    • Talking about objectives
    • To give opinion and talk about desires
    • Agree and disagree

 

 

  • Grammar
    • Personal pronouns position
    • Personal and impersonal infinitive
    • Irregular past participle
    • Double participle
    • Past participle
    • “Pretérito imperfeito”
    • “Pretérito mais-que-perfeito compost”
    • “Pretérito perfeito composto do indicative”
    • Derived words by “prefixação” and “sufixação”
    • “Futuro imperfeito do indicative”
    • Conditional
    • “Imperfeito do indicative” and conditional
    • Reported speech
    • Passive voice
    • Comparatives and superlatives
    • Possessive and interrogative pronouns
    • Possessives without article
    • Variable and invariable relative pronouns
    • Pronominal contraction
    • Gerund
    • Collective nouns

TARGET

People who wish to develop their Portuguese for personal or professional reasons.

APPROACH AND METHODOLOGY

Face to face classes or via Skype.

At first students do a language level test of the language they intend to study. After assessing the level and understanding their needs, the course curriculum is adapted accordingly.

Classes length depend on student’s availability. During the course the teacher uses different resources always based on practice (case studies, role play, videos, audios, games, etc.).

The teacher is always bilingual or native.

EVALUATION

The evaluation is continuous, all along the course the teacher is grading the students regarding the following parameters:

  • Knowledge of the subjects
  • Vocabulary use
  • Phonetics/pronunciation
  • Progression
  • Participation/motivation
  • Homework
  • Reading comprehension
  • Listening comprehension
  • Writing
  • Grammar
  • Evaluation test

Every 20 hours, students have a written and oral test and they are evaluated regarding their knowledge and progression. At the same time, students evaluate the teacher performance.

In the end each student will receive an individual evaluation report and a certificate.

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