Scheme of Work

Academic Skills Centre
Foreign Languages Centre
Brazilian Portuguese 1B
2016/17
Tutor’s name:
Contact email:
Office Hour:
Ana Bertolossi
[email protected]
Tuesdays: 10am to 11am
Wessex House Room: 7.8
Revision
Week 1
07/02
Week 2
14/02
Revision
Plans for the weekend
Invitations
Numbers from 100 to 500
Prepositions, regular and irregular
routine verbs, telling the time, past
time hobbies, demonstrative
pronouns, using verbs ESTAR X
SER etc.
Use of irregular verbs: poder, querer
(including conditional forms)
Use if verb IR – future meaning
Week 3
21/02
Revision
What are you doing? – talking about the “now”.
Desde & Há – expressões de tempo em relação ao presente.
Present continuous
The interrogative pronouns
Use of time expressions: “desde…”
and “há”
Week 4
28/02
Revision
At the restaurant - Types of restaurant
The menu
Ordering/offering food: verbos:
aceitar, convidar, pedir
Expression: estar com vontade de…
Week 5
07/03
Revision
At the restaurant -continuation
Expressing opinion: eu acho que …
Modal verbs: dever/ter que,
de/precisar, precisar de
Regular & irregular comparatives: é
mais ... do que ...
Week 6
14/03
Revision
At the Hotel - Types of hotel
How to make a reservation
Mid of term feedback form
Week 7
21/03
Revision
At the hotel - How to complain/give suggestions
Assessed coursework: reading and listening. Writing
coursework - will be done at home (deadline: week 9)
Verbo: preferir
Pronomes indefinidos variáveis e
invariáveis: algum X alguém
Revision
Festas Religiosas no Brasil
Assessed coursework: speaking – part 1
Verbos FAZER & ESTAR +
vocabulário de clima
Revision
Months of the year
Talking about the four seasons
Deadline for writing assessment
Assessed coursework: speaking – part 2
Use of adjective/adverb: “tão/tanto”
Week 8
28/03
Week 9
04/04
Easter Holidays – 2 weeks
Week 10
25/04
Week 11
02/05
Revision
Giving directions
Regular and irregular verbs in the
imperative form
Revision
Afro-brazilian culture talk - TBC
End of term feedback form
Suggested book: Gramatica Ativa - Versao Brasileira: Book 1 ISBN-13: 978-9727579310
Please note the course might be subject to slight variations.