Portuguese Language Course B1

The Portuguese language B1 course develops communication in personal, professional and educational situations and encourages cultural exchange in a positive way.

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About the Portuguese B1 Course

Course aimed at providing participants with the skills to understand and produce simple, coherent discourse on subjects that are familiar to them or of personal interest, in different areas (personal, professional and educational).

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Portuguese Language Course B1

Course Content

Unit 1: Personal and professional life (12:30)

Daily life: habits; going out; free time; transport; shopping; travel…
Describing and characterising people: physical and psychological description; qualities and faults; feelings; clothing…
Describing events: meetings; going out…
The professional world: daily life; activities; qualifications; professional training; difficulties and opportunities

Unit 2: Leisure activities (12h30)

Literature
Performing arts
Cinema
Music
Painting
Traditional cultural activities: fado; folklore…
Traditional recipes
Legends
Popular festivals
Portuguese idioms and proverbs
Healthy behaviours, lifestyles and leisure time

Unit 3: Interculturality – Portugal and countries of origin (12h30)

Different ways of life
Physical and human geography: regions; major cities; regional differences
History of Portugal: important facts
Gastronomy

Unit 4: Current affairs (12h30)

Healthcare system: hospital, health centre, doctor’s office, health card, user fee, hospitalisation, making an appointment, emergency room…
Education system: public school, nursery school, daycare, compulsory education, passing/failing, enrolment, vocational training, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, tuition fees…
Political system: President, Prime Minister, elections, local government, parliament, member of parliament, voter registration card.

Unit 5: Attitudes and citizenship (12h30)

Attitudes at mealtimes; respect for elders; gift-giving; waiting your turn; punctuality; forms of address…
Formal ways of greeting and saying goodbye
Conventions of conversation and behaviour
Respect for traffic rules
Complaints

Unit 6: Dreams and ambitions (12h30)

Life stories
Finding work
Having a stable job
Starting a family
Reuniting the family
(Re)starting a business
Returning to education
Having quality of life
Travelling and having lots of friends

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Tuition Fee

Includes

Certificate
Educational Support
Administrative Support
Support Materials

375€ 75 hours

Training team

Portuguese language courses

Inês Gama

Master's degree in Portuguese as a Foreign Language and Second Language and bachelor's degree in Portuguese with a Minor in Modern Languages from the Faculty of Arts of the University of Coimbra. Completed an internship in teaching Portuguese as a foreign language (PLE) at Jagiellonian University in Krakow (Poland). Worked as a Portuguese language lecturer at the University Institute of Lisbon (Iscte). Currently works as a Portuguese linguistics consultant on the website Ciberdúvidas da Língua Portuguesa, owned by Iscte, and as a Portuguese language teacher at the Language and Culture Center of the Polytechnic Institute of Lisbon (CLiC-IPL). Also collaborated with the Lisbon City Foundation as a Portuguese language trainer for migrant communities.

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Manuela Sol González

PhD candidate in Portuguese as a Foreign Language, attended a master's degree in Language Management and a bachelor's degree in Letters with a focus on linguistics. Specialized in conference interpretation technique, she has extensive experience in the field of education and training, as a Portuguese teacher, and also conducts contrastive studies between Spanish and Portuguese. She was a simultaneous and consecutive interpreter at the Youth Olympic Games, promoted by UN Women Brazil, as well as conducted several workshops as an interpreter at an international level. She was granted a scholarship by the Camões Institute in Lisbon to specialize in Portuguese language and culture, and currently holds a research scholarship, also awarded by the Camões Institute in Lisbon, to conduct research on languages and migrations, focusing on the Ukrainian community residing in Lisbon and their relationship with the Portuguese language.

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Ivan Clemente

Master's degree in Clinical Psychology and certified trainer. He worked as a psychologist and technical director in a children's and youth home, and as a socio-cultural animator in a home for people with disabilities. In Maputo, he was a trainer and coordinated a large training project, working with some of the largest companies in the country. As well as Mozambique and Portugal, he also lived in the Netherlands and India. In India, he began teaching English as a volunteer in several social projects, including an orphanage and a community centre for Tibetan refugees. On his return to Lisbon, he devoted himself to teaching Portuguese to foreigners as well as English, and this is now his main occupation. He has also been an English-Portuguese and English-Portuguese translator for over 20 years.

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Mara Ferreira

Bachelor's degree in Basic Education, with a specialization in Portuguese-French in the field of Pedagogy. An experienced teacher in the area of Portuguese as a foreign language, has been a member of the Pedagogical Training Scholarship Program CCP (Pedagogical Competence Certification) since 2004. Has extensive experience as a trainer in Language and Communication, French/Portuguese Language, and Language Didactics. In the scope of EFA (Education and Adult Training) and RVCC (Recognition, Validation, and Certification of Competences) courses, she has served as a coordinator and social mediator in groups and classes. She was a guest speaker at the "Cultural Diversity" seminar, promoted by the ACAS Association (Luso-Cape Verdean Association of Sintra). She participated in a pioneering literacy project in partnership with the K’Cidade Association and the Islamic Association of Tapada das Mercês. Additionally, she contributes to the creation of Portuguese Language learning materials as a trainer for the Portuguese as a Foreign Language course at levels A1 and A2 at the CPR (Portuguese Refugee Center).

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Nuno Paulino

Ph.D. candidate in Linguistics with a thesis on Language Acquisition and Bilingualism in language groups such as Portuguese, Guinea-Bissau Creole, and Cape Verdean Creole. Holds a Master's degree in Portuguese Linguistics, specializing in linguistic variation, and a Bachelor's degree in Modern Languages with a minor in English, Portuguese, and Spanish. He serves as a Portuguese as a foreign language instructor at the Institute of Portuguese Language and Culture at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Lisbon (ICLP) and as an examiner at the Center for Evaluation and Certification of Portuguese as a Foreign Language (CAPLE). Since 2022, works as a copy editor at the JPL (Journal of Portuguese Linguistics) and has several scientific publications in the field of Linguistics.

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Sílvia Mendes

Master’s degree in Portuguese as a Second and Foreign Language, as well as being a certified trainer, she has been teaching Portuguese as a foreign language since 2018. With teaching experience in Portugal and abroad, she has taught in countries such as Timor-Leste and Ethiopia. She was a trainer of Portuguese language teachers in Guinea-Bissau, as part of the PRECASE project by Camões – Institute for Cooperation and Language, I.P. Alongside teaching, she has a keen interest in research in areas such as innovative pedagogical methodologies, the gamification of teaching, and the use of Artificial Intelligence in language teaching/learning. She herself has been a learner of foreign languages for a long time.

Portuguese Language Course B1

About the Portuguese B1 Course