Course Description

Who is the course for?
The Video Course Basic 1 is ideal for beginners who want to learn Portuguese structures as a Podcast video with the main focus on speaking. However, in this course, the teacher will correct their activities and speak with the students only through the student dashboard area, homework, email, and posts. It means that if the student needs to interact live with the teacher he/she will have to purchase for Skype Lessons to practice speaking live.

P2 Course Brief

This course the student watches a video lesson, complete a homework and a quizz for practice. The teacher corrects the homework and the student skips to the next video lesson. If the student wishes to speak up the content he needs to come to a live skype lesson. This complement is very important so the entire method works. However, if the student prefers he/she can only practice the watching e writing parts and speak with friends to practice real speaking interaction.

Course Structure

  • 20 lessons (video + material included)
  • 4 reviews / assessments / certificate
  • Quizzes

Total Price: U$180.00

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Objectives:

Students will learn how to use daily life essential verbs; so they can ask for what they want, tell what they need and express their wishes.  The aim is to equip students with the basic skills to interact with Brazilians more effectively. If they alternate with speaking live with a teacher as a complement they create basic linguistic competences for an interaction with meaning, practical and functional purposes for speaking, understanding, reading, and writing.

Brief Content – Vocabulary – Competences:

Introduction and greetings
Verbs termination (ar/er/ir); regular x basic irregular
Requesting and providing personal information and directions
Making invitations and questions
Useful expressions
Home, work, food, leisure, vocabulary (others)
Numbers / Family
Acknowledgments and Cultural insights reading
Expressing preferences, desires, and doubts
Talking and asking about day-to-day activities
Talking and asking about present activities
Food / Restaurant language
Asking and telling the time

A ‘Certificate of Course Completion’ will be issued by Hello Portuguese on the completion of Basic 1

Method
The base is a mixture of audio-lingual key features and the communicative approach. However,  today’s teachers must count on the post method era along the way and as an extension. As the student makes progress we are up to date with the worldwide linguistic advances approved by the best expert linguists. They’ve got the English and the Portuguese perspective while teaching what gives them a proper sense for teaching foreigners. While explaining to a student they are aware of the cultural-linguistic equivalences and differences between at least two languages (pt/en). This makes a great difference in terms of quality and speed in second language acquisition.