Course Overview

Portuguese Level 1 is a Beginners Portuguese course for students who have never studied the Portuguese language before. If you’re unsure of your level then check our levels chart.

Our Portuguese language classes take place at our school in Covent Garden with a qualified, experienced teacher and fellow students. Evening language classes at IH London are dynamic and interactive as the emphasis is on spoken communication, which is achieved through lots of group work and role-plays. At the same time, there is systematic work on grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation, so that you can improve on all aspects of the language. Your teacher speaks in the target language throughout, so that you can refine your comprehension and listening skills. 

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. 

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 

Cultural aspects

– Types of coffees and most popular snacks in Portugal and Brazil 

Course Information 

• Average class size: 8 (maximum 14) 
• Students must be 18+ years old 
• Existing language ability: this is a course for complete beginners 
• Classes will take place at our school in Covent Garden (16 Stukeley Street, Holborn, London WC2B 5LQ) 

Class Schedule 

• The classes are 2 hours per week 
• The course runs for 6 weeks 
• The course takes place on weekday evenings 18:30 – 20:30 
• The possible study options for this course are as follow: 

Thursdays: 13th January – 17th February 2022

Mondays: 21st February – 28th March 2022

Tuesdays: 5th April – 17th May 2022*

Wednesdays: 25th May – 29th June 2022

Thursdays: 18th August – 22nd September 2022

Mondays: 26th September – 31st October 2022

Tuesdays: 8th November – 13th December 2022

*Due to the Easter holiday there is a break in the course on the 19th of April. The course still consists of 6 lessons however.  

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