Course Overview

Online Portuguese Levels 1&2 is a Beginners Portuguese course for students who have never studied the Portuguese language before. This is an intensive Portuguese course allowing you to take two Portuguese levels in 10 weeks and progress more quickly. If you’re unsure of your level then check our levels chart.

Our Online Portuguese language classes take place via Zoom with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. The interactive lessons emulate our face-to-face classes, and via teacher screen-sharing, students are able to experience a live classroom environment. From vocabulary activities and covering grammar points on the white board, to listening exercises, file sharing and ‘break-out rooms’ to practise speaking with classmates, students can learn without leaving the comfort of their homes. Take a look at an example of one of our online classes in this video.

Course Content

Communicative aims

–Greeting someone and responding to greetings 

-Making and understanding formal and informal introductions  

-Giving information about yourself and someone else, nationality, birthday, occupation 

–Asking, accepting and declining offers of food and drink when ordering in a café

– Greeting and introducing yourself to a colleague giving personal details

– Describing people’s appearance and personality 

– Giving, asking for, and understanding information about hobbies and interests stating when,

   where, with whom, and how often you do things 

– Exploring typical fruits and food in a street food market in Portuguese speaking countries 

Linguistic aims

– The alphabet 

– Personal and interrogative pronouns 

– Definite / indefinite articles – o(s), a(s), um (uns), uma (umas)  

– Nouns and adjectives – gender agreement 

– Numbers from 0 to 101 

– Simple Present tense of regular verbs pertinent to topics 

– Singular and plural – basic rules 

– Vocabulary for food and drinks 

– Adjectives to describe people and food  

– Comparatives – Gosto mais de… / menos de … 

– Days of the week, months and seasons 

– Structure of questions and interrogative pronouns – Quantos, Quantas, qual, etc. 

– Introduction of some regular and irregular verbs in the Present Tense.  

– Singular and Plural – words that finish in ‘s’ 

Cultural aspects

– Types of coffees, most popular snacks in Portugal and Brazil, street food markets in Portuguese speaking countries

Course Information 

• Average class size: 8 (maximum 12) 
• Students must be 18+ years old 
• Existing language ability: this is a course for complete beginners 
• Classes will take place via Zoom

Class Schedule 

• The classes are 2.5 hours per week 
• The course runs for 10 weeks 
• The course takes place on Sundays 10:30 – 13:00 
• The possible study options for this course are as follow: 

6th February – 10th April 2022

8th May – 17th July 2022*

31st July – 2nd October 2022

16th October – 18th December 2022

*Due to the Bank Holidays there are no classes on 5th June. The course still consists of 10 classes however, spread over 11 weeks.

What do you need for an online class?

To get the most from this course you will need:

• A reliable internet connection
• A desktop computer, laptop, tablet or smartphone
• A web camera on or attached to the device you are using
• An integrated microphone in the device you are using or an attached headset
• The day before your course, you will be sent via email all the details you need to connect to the IH London Zoom classroom

This language course includes:

• Access to our Moodle platform to download lesson summaries, notes and resources
• Support and advice from Portuguese language teachers
• Portuguese language study tips