Portuguese course (european) - Level A1

Describe objects and people in European Portuguese level a1 unit 2, using present tense ter, ser, estar, and regular -er and -ir verbs to describe yourself, age, nationality, and residence.

Learn essential clothing vocabulary in European Portuguese and practice cardinal numbers with items like shirts, t-shirts, shorts, skirts, dresses, swimsuits, and more, reinforced with Quizlet.

Engage in a guided listening activity that reinforces Portuguese A1 basics by analyzing a text about Fernanda's profession, nationality, family, and appearance, while translating key vocabulary and answering comprehension questions.

Match Portuguese adjectives to nouns in gender and number, using examples caro, caros, cara, and caras. Learn through explanations and activities with solutions, including pronunciation notes and article-based gender exceptions.

Learn color vocabulary in european portuguese, including branco, preto, vermelho, verde, azul, laranja, and rosa, with gender and plural note. For example, o carro é branco.

Explore color vocabulary in European Portuguese at level A1, including adjectives for height, weight, hair, and eye color. Practice color agreement and related rules through targeted exercises.

Describe people in european portuguese by detailing Joao, Miguel, and Rui and using traits like alto, magro, griselio hair, and eyes castanhos or azuis.

Expand your Portuguese vocabulary with personality words like simpatico, antipatico, timido, extrovertido, and tidy, then practice describing a friend or relative in simple sentences.

Explore the verbs ser and ficar for permanent descriptions and locations in European Portuguese, with examples like Lisbon in Portugal and Cuba in North America, and practice ser conjugation.

Explore the distinction between ser and estar through practical examples of permanent versus temporary locations, professions, and daily objects, with practice deciding ser or estar.

Learn to conjugate regular -er and -ir Portuguese verbs in the present tense by removing the final two letters and attaching the standard endings, with examples like beber and partir.

Explore common orthographic signs and punctuation in European Portuguese, including ponto, exclamação, vírgula, arroba, cedilha, and acento circunflexo, plus basic c sound rules and nasal sounds.

Explore numbers from 100 to 1000 in european Portuguese, focusing on cardinal and ordinal forms. Practice repetition with ten-number sequences and guided reading, using self-checks to measure accuracy.

Describe people in a photo using hair color, eye color, clothing, age, and accessories through a listening activity to help learners identify individuals.

Complete four unit two activities, fill in gaps, and review answers. Practice Portuguese basics on colors, weather, family, and articles, including exceptions like casa not taking an article.

Unit three introduces daily activities vocabulary and grammar, including present tense irregular verbs and movement prepositions, with shopping vocab covering bakery, zapateria, livraria, and fruit shop.

Understand the meanings of present-tense irregular Portuguese verbs and their translations, not all conjugations. Read them once or twice, and focus on regular verbs and the big four irregulars.

Explore irregular verbs in European Portuguese present tense, highlight the big four and the future use of comer with vou plus infinitive.

Practice present indicative verbs in the present tense of Portuguese, distinguishing regular and irregular forms through fill-in-the-gap activities, conjugation checks, and pronunciation focused on s and z sounds.

learn the European Portuguese basics of days, months, and seasons, including short forms for days and that months are said without articles.

Learn how to tell time in European Portuguese using the 24-hour system, with the verb ser, and practice with singular and plural forms like uma hora and duas horas.

Learn to tell time in European Portuguese using the 24-hour system, applying uma for horas and un for minutos, and practice numbers, Janeiro, and primavera.

Engage in a listening activity titled a vida de laura, validating true or false statements about laura’s life in Lisbon, and practicing corrections and vocabulary like andar and transporte publico.

Practice daily verbs through sentences about Mariana’s routine—wake up, take a bath, have breakfast, catch the bus, arrive at university, watch TV, and go to bed, with time prepositions.

Engage in the reading activity to understand the text and expand your Portuguese vocabulary, reinforcing grammar and listening skills along the way.

Explore daily verbs in Portuguese, organize common verbs into a meaningful sequence, and practice present and future tenses, including reflexive forms like acordar, levantar-se, vestir-se, and dormir.

Practice two activities to expand vocabulary: conjugate selected verbs and identify opposites of adjectives, then review Laura's weekly routine sentences about visiting museums and library conversations.

Explore reflexive verbs and their conjugation, learn plural and feminine formation rules, and distinguish between noun, verb, and adjective through reading activities and key vocabulary.

Explore reflexive verbs and their Portuguese conjugation, including pronoun use and how they differ from transitive verbs. Use eu pinto me todos os dias to show actions done to oneself.

Learn European Portuguese reflexive verbs and pronoun placement, usually after the verb, with magic words flipping pronouns before the verb; contrasts with Spanish and French, and notes level A1 progress.

Engage in a 12-question unit on a healthy life that drills Portuguese verb conjugation and adverbs like nunca, sempre, frequentemente, and raramente.

Learn the main Portuguese plural rule at A1: add an s; study special endings for z and o, and note that accents are level B2 and not required at A1.

Explore the differences among verb, noun, and adjective forms in Portuguese, including the verb amar, the noun amore, and the adjective amoroso, with simple examples.

Learn to form the feminine in European Portuguese by turning masculine -o nouns into -a, with aluna from aluno and gata from gato, plus a look at special rules.

Compare Lisbon and London using criteria like weather, cost, people, transport, safety, and culture; Lisbon emerges as the best city to live.

Engage in a listening activity that expands European Portuguese A1 vocabulary by matching animal names—gato, caracol, coelho, vaca, golfinho, papagaio, elefante—to descriptions and practice spelling.

Engage with unit four’s final lesson by completing two homework activities. Practice basic dialogues, pronoun flip, and meeting Antonio, Mariana, and Pedro in European Portuguese.

Unit five introduction covers family relations and housing, and introduces grammar topics like the present continuous (star plus infinitive), possessive pronouns, and adjective degrees and comparisons.

learn the present continuous in european portuguese with estar + a + infinitive, and distinguish it from routine present tense. use agora to signal actions happening now and complete texts.

Learn how european Portuguese uses possessive pronouns by matching gender and number with the noun, choosing informal tu or formal usted, and forming singular and plural possessives.

Explore possessive pronouns in European Portuguese through a practice activity, using examples like minha casa and meus pais, and learn formal vs informal usage and article placement.

Practice possessive pronouns in European Portuguese through an activity, learning when to use informal vos and formal forms, and why an article precedes possessives in European Portuguese.

Expand your european portuguese vocabulary with survival kit words for house types, rooms, and furniture. Include cozinha, sala de jantar, quarto, casa de banho, and mobiliario.

Explore family relations through Portuguese vocabulary, including husband, wife, parents, grandparents, and in-laws, and learn masculine and feminine forms via a family-connection activity.

Explore how adjectives, adverbs, and pronouns agree with gender and number in Portuguese. Learn muito for very, mal for adverbs, and muitas for many, with adverbs remaining invariable.

Master Portuguese comparatives using mais/menos and as patterns to express superiority, equality, and inferiority, with practical examples comparing people and animals, and noting exceptions with melhor, pior, and maior.

Practice European Portuguese unit five lesson ten on comparatives through two fill-in-the-gap activities in two tables, using structures carried over from lesson nine to compare people and objects.

Practice listening to match Portuguese sentences with adjectives such as triste, satisfied, and furious, and review the present continuous using estar a + verb forms from unit five lesson 11.

Explore how Portuguese uses verbs with everyday expressions, comparing word-by-word translation with English, and learn key verbs like tomar, ganhar, perder, dar, virar, tirar, passar, and partir through practical examples.

Practice listening to European Portuguese job vocabulary, including journalist, advogado, flight attendant, medico, student, engineer, professor, policia, and waitress.

Listen to three hotel descriptions in Lisbon and decide which option fits a family trip, a business stay, or a German students’ night out; practice travel vocabulary.

Master when to use the present tense versus the present continuous. Learn how to form comparatives through two homework activities.

Learn unit six of European Portuguese A1: master adverbs of place, demonstratives, prepositions for locations, and phrases for cafe ordering, health, body, and talking to a doctor.

Learn how to place a polite order in a cafe in European Portuguese, using present tense verbs like quero and the phrases for asking for coffee, water, and pastries.

Learn to make an order (fazer um pedido) in Portuguese, use imperatives, discuss ordering beef and cooking levels, and practice restaurant phrases like pedir a conta and reservar a mesa.

Explore place adverbs and demonstrative pronouns in European Portuguese, focusing on aqui, aí, ali and isto, isso, aquilo; learn how these invariable words distinguish location relative to speaker and listener.

Explore variable demonstrative pronouns in European Portuguese, using gender, number, and proximity to indicate this pen, that cat, or those items, with practical examples and exercises.

Participate in a listening comprehension activity that covers vocabulary from the list and uses descriptions of animals and monuments, plus a Portuguese x pronunciation exercise.

Explore the phonetics of the letter x in European Portuguese, recognizing sounds like sh, s, z, cs, and h, with tips to focus on sound recognition over memorized rules.

Master European Portuguese location phrases for objects and people, using positions like on, under, near, and far, and practice asking for information to navigate by bus or metro in Lisbon.

Learn locuções prepositivas de lugar in European Portuguese, including in front of, next to, behind, under, between, on top of, and inside the pocket, with examples like bank and hospital.

Learn locuções prepositivas de lugar ii by describing room objects with in front of, next to, on top of, and near, using ficar or ser for permanent descriptions.

Learn european portuguese health vocabulary, including body parts, illnesses, and states like saudável and estar adiantado, with symptoms such as dor de cabeça, dor de estômago, tosse, and febre.

Expose learners to health and body vocabulary through a doctor visit scenario, diagnosing throat inflammation and prescribing antibiotics and pills to take three times daily.

Explore Portuguese physical state expressions and phonetics, using estar with adjective or estar com, ter with dor, and dever to express should or must; includes doctor-patient dialogue.

Boost your European Portuguese listening skills with unit six, lesson 14, a comprehension oral activity and vocabulary practice. Listen to Sonia's text, fill gaps, and decide which candidate matches best.

Master the Portuguese verb haver, meaning to be or to exist, and use there is or there are in real examples with image differences.

Learn about Portugal's carnation revolution of April 25, 1974, a peaceful coup that ended dictatorship, promoted democracy, and expanded freedoms including political expression and decolonization.

Learn to give and ask for directions in Portuguese, and describe a sequence of past actions with the simple past, routines using costumar plus infinitive, and time expressions.

Master european portuguese movement and orientation vocabulary, including go straight, turn left or right, cross the road, and give directions to the metro using de and a.

Explore the costumo + infinitivo structure to describe daily routines, with examples and practice questions based on Antonio's day from morning to night.

Explore the Portuguese simple past (preterite) at level A1, focusing on conjugating regular verbs, recognizing endings, and handling the big four irregulars ser, star, ter, and ere.

Master the simple past in European Portuguese by reading a daily routine, identifying verbs, and practicing regular past conjugations through Renata’s day.

Explore the big four irregular verbs in Portuguese—ser, estar, ir, and ter—and learn their present and simple past conjugations, plus strategies for choosing the right tense.

Irregular verbs II (pps) in unit seven, focusing on simple past and preterite conjugations, listening to correct forms, and practicing key verbs like trazer, fazer, querer, ver, poder, and saber.

Practice European Portuguese phonetics of the o vowel across four sounds, identify the o sound in lines, and apply present, past, and future tenses with daily sentence exercises.

Consolidate the verb haver and its use as a time expression, mastering present-tense conjugation and the 'there is' or 'there are' meaning, for and since usages in European Portuguese A1.

unit seven, lesson ten, covers two activities on course verbs, one in preterite simple and the other mixing present and past tenses, with vocabulary expansion through time expressions.

Read a reading activity about Fernando Pessoa, a poet with many lives, to practice comprehension and expand your Portuguese vocabulary as you finish unit seven.

After level one, decide with an experienced teacher whether to move to A2 or take an A2 preparation course. Emphasize small-group conversation to solidify present, past, and future tenses.