Product Description
Street Smart Brazil offers personalized Celpe-Bras prep classes designed specifically to help you get ready for this challenging exam.
What is the Celpe-Bras Exam?
Organized by the Ministry of Education in cooperation with the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Celpe-Bras exam is the only official proficiency certification in Brazilian Portuguese as a foreign language.
The exam tests for the following language levels: Intermediário, Intermediário Superior, Avançado, and Avançado Superior.
Celpe-Bras is not a multiple-choice test. It is a challenging exam that will evaluate your writing, reading, listening, and speaking skills. The exam consists of:
- Writing, reading, and listening comprehension: You will write four texts, two based on readings and two based on listening skills (one with audio and one with video).
- Speaking (20 minutes): Conversations about general interest topics based on pictures and headlines.
For information on exam application, dates, and location, please visit the exam’s website.
The Street Smart Brazil Methodology
The classes are 100% in Portuguese.
During each meeting with your Street Smart Brazil Portuguese teacher, you will practice and develop your speaking skills. We use materials from previous Celpe-Bras tests together with our exclusive handouts to keep your speaking practice focused on the Celpe-Bras exam.
Following each session, you will have a writing assignment for homework. These essay exercises are based on previous Celpe-Bras exams. They use texts, audios, and videos and ask you to write about the topic, just like you will have to do in the exam. Your teacher will check your writing and help you understand how to correct mistakes and improve your writing.
Our text correction methodology follows the most modern language learning principles and techniques. The way we correct your written assignments provides great learning and allows you to improve your Portuguese.
Requirements to Enroll in our Celpe-Bras Prep Course
Intermediate level is required to enroll in this program. You need to be conversational in Portuguese. If you are working to achieve intermediate Portuguese skills, please refer to our regular Portuguese lessons.
Disclaimer
Though we have used our best efforts in preparing and executing this program, we make no representations or warranties with respect to the actual Celpe-Bras examination and specifically disclaim any implied warranties with respect to your performance in the actual test. Evaluation criteria used by Celpe-Bras is not publicly available. Celpe-Bras is not a multiple-choice test. It will require you to write several essays and prove your oral competency to discuss ideas and opinions in Portuguese. Street Smart Brazil shall not be liable for your test results. With that said, our clients do great on the test 🙂