BRASA - Brazilian Students Association

PORTUGUESE WORKSHOP: Basic conversation and

Brazilian culture

Bem-vindo ao workshop de portugus da BRASA!

Welcome to the BRASAs Portuguese workshop!
The Brazilian Students Association (BRASA) at USC really appreciate your interest in
our culture and language! We have developed a series of meetings (see next page)
in which we will introduce you to Portuguese, focusing on necessities one faces
when traveling to a different country. Therefore, we are going to teach you how to
introduce yourself to people, how to ask where to go, how to order food, how to get
a hotel reservation and so on!
In order to do that, we are going to meet every Friday, from 12 to 1:30pm, at
RTC.
We created a folder on Google Drive that contains all the material you are going to
need to follow the course. We have one folder that has the course outline and one
folder to every week of work. Each of these folders contains the material that we
give to you in class, the homework and some extra material, in case you are super
interested in Portuguese!
Link to our Google Drive folder:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B9mR3w5hlHERm52MVUzM3dBUDA&authuser=0
By the way, all the assignments are Google Forms, so you just have to click on it
and answer to submit. Dont worry, we promise we will never give too much work!
We highly encourage you to do more than we suggest in class. It is hard to learn a
new language, and a daily practice helps a lot. Ask the instructors some suggestions
of books, YouTube videos, movies, texts, blogs, or anything you may consider
interesting to enhance your learning process.
In case you need assistance, do not hesitate do contact us, we will be glad to help!
Just contact us through brasausc.pt@gmail.com
Boa sorte!

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Date

Jan 23

Jan 30

Feb
06

4
5

Feb
13
Feb
20

Feb
27

Mar
06

8
9
10

Mar
13
Mar
20
Mar
27

Portuguese related topics

Brazilian culture topics

Alphabet
Basic communication
Pronouns
Verb to be ser/estar
Nationalities
Occupations
Possessive pronouns
Substantives
Male/female prepositions
Addresses
Prepositions

How is Brazil standing on the

world scenario?

Verbs present tense

Numbers
Negative
Family
Leisure activities / hobbies
Calendar vocabulary
Week days
Months
Hour
Seasons
Meeting other people
Demonstrative pronouns

Apr
03

12

Apr
10

Future tense

Food
Restaurants: practical guide
Verbs gostar and querer
Preposition de + artigo
Hotels: practical guide
How to solve service
problems
How to orientate yourself on
the city

14

Apr
24

National holidays
Cultural differences between
different parts of Brazil

Travel destinations

Spring break

11

Apr
17

Movie day

13

Study opportunities in Brazil

Formulating questions
Quem
Onde
Como

Job opportunities in Brazil

How to behave on professional

environments


15

May
01

L and aqui

Wrap-up and celebration