Continue to learn Portuguese through a fast, interesting and practical approach. Learn to talk about the past, compare people and things, talk about daily routines, express ongoing actions in the past, learn to give instructions and use interrogative pronouns to ask questions.
Learn both European and Brazilian Portuguese, and expand your area of interest with specifically designed workbooks for European or Brazilian Portuguese.
Required Textbook (Used for Portuguese I-V)
“Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language,” Second Edition
(A print copy of the textbook can be purchased separately, but the current edition is not yet available in print.)
This course can be applied to the following certificate:
Portuguese Language Certificate
Course Outline/Topics
Portuguese III covers lessons 7, 8, & 9 in the textbook.
Lição 7:
Estruturas
Indicating for whom an action takes place: Indirect object nouns and pronouns
Talking about the past: Some irregular preterits
Expressing ongoing actions and descriptions in the past: The imperfect
Imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs
Narrating in the past: The preterit and the imperfect
Mais um passo: Há/Faz meaning ago
Lição 8:
Estruturas
Comparing people and things: Comparisons of inequality
Comparing people and things: Comparisons of equality
Comparing people and things: The superlative
Emphasizing or clarifying information: Pronouns after prepositions
Talking about daily routine: Reflexive verbs and pronouns
Lição 9:
Estruturas
Stating impersonal information: Se as impersonal subject
Talking about the past: More on the preterit and the imperfect
Asking questions: More on interrogative pronouns
Giving instructions: Commands
Prerequisites
Portuguese II or equivalent experience.
Instructor
Torrey Lauer has traveled throughout Western Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico and Costa Rica, but it was Madrid, Spain, that captivated him. His short time studying abroad in Madrid further fueled his desire to learn more, which lead and culminated in an… read more
Notes
This is a noncredit enrichment program. Progress and courses completed in UWM’s School of Continuing Education Languages program are marked by Continuing Education Units. CEUs are not transferable to college or university transcripts.