This text and translation into English accompanies an illustrated podcast in European Portuguese was created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language.

This illustrated podcast in European Portuguese was created by Will Masters, a student of Applied Languages at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio Casting and Production in the Language Learning Curriculum’. The recording presents a refelction on the student's first experiences of Portugal, and of learning Portuguese. The podcast can be used as a learning resource in several different ways: as a focus for discussion or aural comprehension by students of the Portuguese language.

An cloze exercise in Word format testing the student's knowledge of the formal imperative or command form in Portuguese, conjugated in exactly the same way as the present subjunctive tense. This is embedded in a series of sentences giving advice on how to get on in the world of employment. This document can be adapted for a class-based activity: once they have mastered this particular grammar point, the students complete the sentences below by converting the infinitive form in brackets to the formal imperative.

Three photographs of the waterfront in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. The photographs also illustrate one of the six bridges linking Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia on the other side of the Rio Douro.

Three photographs of the waterfront in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. The photographs also illustrate one of the six bridges linking Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia on the other side of the Rio Douro.

Three photographs of the waterfront in the northern Portuguese city of Porto, designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. The photographs also illustrate one of the six bridges linking Porto to Vila Nova de Gaia on the other side of the Rio Douro.

Photographs of the pelourinho, a carved stone pillory erected in public town or village spaces in Portugal between the 13th and 18th centuries. Originally they were used to handcuff or publicly punish criminals; later, they becme general symbols of justic

Interactive web-based exercise in Portuguese which requires the learner to convert nouns and adjectives linked with information technology and the internet in the singular form to the plural.

Interactive web-based cloze exercise in Portuguese which comines a brief account of the benefits of the Internet with practice of the personal or inflected infinitive.

Matching exercise in Portuguese which requires the learner to match various professions with their places of employment.

Interactive web-based cloze exercise in Portuguese which combines a brief account of the way changing technologies are changing the concept of the work-place with relevant vocuabulary practice.

Interactive web-based cloze exercise in Portuguese which combines a brief account of the changing status of women in employment with practice of the perfect continuous tense (the auxiliary verb ter in the present tense plus the past participle).

Interactive web-based exercise requiring the learner to match well-known proverbs and sayings in Portuguese with their English equivalents.

Vocabulary and language exercise testing knowledge of irregular plurals in Portuguese, embedded in some sentences about contemporary Portugal and globalisation.

Language exercise which combines practice in the past preterite, or perfect tense in Portguese, with an account of the events leading up to the Revolução dos Cravos on the eve of April 25, 1974, when the Estado Novo was finally overthrown.

Vocabulary exercise which matches verbs in Portuguese with their corresponding nouns.

Language exercise which combines various perspectives on the nature of democracy offered by representatives of the Portguese parliament on the occasion of the anniversary of the Revolução dos Cravos on April 25 2001, with practice of the absolute superl

This text in Portuguese and its English translation accompanies the illustrated podcast in Portuguese 'Preconceitos do Brasil' created by James Letts, a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University

This illustrated podcast in Portuguese was created by James Letts, a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student Audio

This text in Portuguese accompanies the illustrated podcast 'O papel do sacrifício no Candomblé' and was created and researched by Emilia Kroprowska ,a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University

This text in Portuguese accompanies the podcast 'O papel dos orixás no Candomblé' and was created by Emilia Kropowska, a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a

This illustrated podcast in Portuguese was created by Emilia Kropowska, a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled 'The Role of Student Au

This illustrated podcast in Portuguese was created by Emilia Kroprowska ,a student of Spanish and Latin American Studies at the School of Languages and Area Studies, University of Portsmouth, as a part of a research project entitled ‘The Role of Student

Interactive web-based quiz testing knowledge of nature vocabulary in Portuguese: animal, bird and reptile species.

Interactive web-based quiz testing knowledge of nature vocabulary in Portuguese by classifying individual animals, birds, insects and fish according to their type.

Interactive web-based multiple-choice exercise matching traditional rhyming proverbs in Portuguese.

Interactive web-based gap-fill cloze exercise testing the knowlege of the past participle and the passive voice used with ser and estar in Portuguese, accompanied by a text describing the discovery of a gallery of Paleolithic art in the Vale do Rio Côa i

Interactive web-based multiple-choice exercise which tests knowledge of food vocabulary in Portuguese by matching individual food items such as chocolate and yogurt with the raw ingredients they are made of.

Interactive web-based exercise in the form of a crossword which tests knowledge of the names of spices in Portuguese: pepper, saffron, clove.

Interactive web-based exercise in Portuguese which tests knowledge of food vocabulary by matching famous national and regional dishes in Portugal with their respective ingredients.

Interactive, web-based multiple-choice exercise testing knowledge of individual vocabulary items in Portuguese to do with food: meat, vegetables, fruit, herbs and shell-fish.

Interactive web-based gap-fill cloze exercise in the form of a recipe, testing the formal command form in Portguese, or imperative.

Interactive web-based exercise in European and Brazilian Portuguese matching vitamins and minerals with the foods containing these nutrients

Interactive web-based exercise matching synonyms of words associated with stress-busting tranquillity, relaxation and peace.

Interactive web-based exercise in European and Brazilian Portuguese which matches nouns associated with the causes of stress in conemporary society with their corresponding verbs.

Interactive web-based exercise matching synonyms and individual vocabulary items associated with the causes of stress in today's society.

Gap-fill interactive cloze exercise in European Portuguese which combines practice in the formation of the personal or inflected infinitive with suggestions on relieving stress and relaxation in contemporary society.

An interactive web-based gap fill cloze exercise in European Portuguese inviting learners of Portuguese to match individual vocabulary items with longer sentences describing stress-causing phenomena in contemporary life.