GCSE Portuguese AQA

This subject is broken down into 35 topics in 4 modules:

  1. Listening 10 topics
  2. Reading 10 topics
  3. Writing 10 topics
  4. Speaking 5 topics
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Portuguese

Listening

Social activities, leisure, and daily routine

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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.

Course material for Portuguese, module Listening, topic Social activities, leisure, and daily routine

Portuguese

Reading

Health and fitness

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Health and fitness

I. Portuguese Vocabulary: Medical Terms

  • Understand terms linked to health such as saúde (health), doença (disease), medicina (medicine), médico (doctor), and hospital (hospital).
  • Be familiar with body parts in Portuguese like cabeça (head), coração (heart), braço (arm), and perna (leg).

II. Portuguese Vocabulary: Fitness and Exercise

  • Know words related to fitness and exercise including exercício (exercise), ginásio (gym), correr (to run), caminhar (to walk), and levantar pesos (lifting weights).
  • Recognise terms for different types of exercises, such as aeróbia (aerobics), ioga (yoga), pilates (pilates), and musculação (bodybuilding).

III. Discussing Health and Fitness in Portuguese

  • Practice sentences and phrases about your health and fitness routine, like Eu vou ao ginásio três vezes por semana (I go to the gym three times a week) or Ela corre todas as manhãs (She runs every morning).
  • Understand phrases relating to health, such as Como está a sua saúde? (How is your health?) or Ele está se sentindo melhor (He is feeling better).

IV. Talking About Diet in Portuguese

  • Be aware of vocabulary linked to diet and nutrition, like dieta (diet), proteína (protein), carboidrato (carbohydrate), vitaminas (vitamins) and vegetais (vegetables).
  • Know how to describe your eating habits using phrases such as Eu tento comer muitas frutas e vegetais (I try to eat a lot of fruits and vegetables) or Ele não come carne (He doesn't eat meat).

V. Expressing Opinions about Health and Fitness

  • Learn how to express your opinions about health and fitness using phrases like Eu acho que é importante se manter em forma (I think it's important to stay in shape) or Ela pensa que a dieta é importante para a saúde (She thinks diet is important for health).
  • Practice expressing how you feel after exercising using phrases such as Eu me sinto revitalizado depois do exercício (I feel revitalized after exercising) or Ela se sente cansada depois de correr (She feels tired after running).

Course material for Portuguese, module Reading, topic Health and fitness

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