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.

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).

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 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