Social activities, leisure, and daily routine
Social Activities
- Listen carefully to Portuguese text on different kinds of social events and gatherings. This could include birthdays, weddings, cultural events, public holidays, and more.
- Understand and be able to summarize the main points from each text or conversation.
- Familiarize yourself with Portuguese vocabulary related to social activities like festa (party), aniversário (birthday), casamento (wedding), concerto (concert) and others.
- Tune your ear to the wide range of emotions that can be expressed during social activities. These could be delight, disappointment, excitement, or boredom.
Leisure Time
- Recognize and understand dialogue about diverse leisure activities like playing sports, reading, watching TV, going to the cinema, or walking in the park.
- Acquaint yourself with specific terms relating to leisure time. This could include esportes (sports), música (music), filmes (movies), livros (books), and parque (park) among others.
- Comprehend expressions that outline people's preferences or opinions about certain leisure activities. For example, the phrase “I prefer” in Portuguese is “Eu prefiro”.
- Identify different verbs that are often used with leisure activities such as assistir (to watch), tocar (to play), ler (to read), and visitar (to visit).
Daily Routine
- Ability to interpret days of the week, seasons and times of day in Portuguese as they could form the context for a variety of daily routine scenarios.
- Familiarize yourself with commonly used vocabulary in relation to daily routines like acordar (to wake up), tomar banho (to take a shower), comer (to eat), and dormir (to sleep).
- Understand how to describe frequency of routine actions using words like sometimes às vezes, always sempre, often frequentemente, and never nunca.
- Listen for details about what someone did, or what they plan to do, as part of their daily routine. This will require a decent understanding of Portuguese verbs in both the past and future tenses.