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MEC Offers A Series Of Free Online English Courses With Certificate For Students; Enrollment Open On The Aprenda Mais Platform.
The Ministry of Education, through the Aprenda Mais platform, offers a complete and free track of English courses with digital certificate.
The classes identified as 2025B are taught by the Federal Institute of Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS), fully online, with a workload of 30 hours per course, basic level, and certificate issued within 5 days of registration.
The programs are available for high school and higher education students, with completion by January 31, 2026.
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How Free Courses Work
Participation is simple: the student accesses the Aprenda Mais platform, chooses the area of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, and selects the desired English module.
The classes do not include tutoring, which provides flexibility in pacing, and only require reading comprehension in Portuguese and equipment with audio and video.
The certificate is issued by the platform itself after the completion and fulfillment of the requirements, respecting the minimum time frame provided in the course environment.
English Track 1 To 6: First Steps And Review
The sequence starts with English 1, which covers personal identification and characterization and location in time and space, content suited for those starting from scratch or revisiting the basics.
English 2 advances to means of transportation, family, as well as routine and habits at home.
In English 3, the focus is on routine, food, shopping list, and clothing, consolidating everyday vocabulary.
English 4 introduces weather conditions, present simple and present continuous, sports and leisure, likes and preferences, skills, adverbs of manner, parts of the house and furniture, in addition to modals can and may and possessive pronouns.
In English 5, topics include restaurant, food and drinks, health and the human body, and leisure.
English 6 comprises adjectives, travel, and a review of previous modules, preparing the student for content on verb tenses in the past and future.
All these classes have 30 hours, no tutoring methodology, and certificate issued within a minimum of 5 days after registration.
From English 7 To 10: Verb Tenses And Essential Connectors
The next stage works with broader verbal structures.
English 7 covers future (going to and will), modal verbs, as well as past continuous and simple past.
In English 8, past simple, past continuous, and present perfect simple are introduced, with vocabulary related to extreme sports, funeral services, and academic environment.
English 9 deepens the use of present continuous, modals can and could, adjectives ending in -ed and -ing, as well as should, must, and have to.
English 10 focuses on connectors for argumentation, such as however, although, even though, despite, and in spite of, in addition to so, therefore, because (of), and due to, also addressing relative clauses and contrasts between present continuous and going to, using be able to.
From English 11 To 13: Pronunciation, Narratives, And Conditionals
The track progresses in English 11 with movie genres, film professionals, types of stories, and stages of life, as well as pronunciation topics such as variations of the, object pronouns, and to be.
The course also covers past perfect simple and its contractions, as well as use, get used, and used to.
In English 12, the content includes causative sentences, tag questions, and indirect questions.
English 13 encompasses zero, first, second, and third conditional, along with uses of would and could, with vocabulary related to the music industry, television media, and healthy habits.
All maintain the same structure: 30 hours, no tutoring, basic level, certificate issued within 5 days, with a completion deadline of January 31, 2026.
English Applied To Events: Language For The Job Market
In addition to the sequential track, the platform offers English Applied To Events, designed for students and professionals working in event organization.
The program addresses the relevance of the language in the daily operations of the field, practical situations, and references to countries, maintaining the same format as the others: 30 hours, no tutoring, basic level, and certificate issued within a minimum of 5 days.
Target Audience And Technical Requirements
The courses are aimed at high school and higher education students.
Among the requirements, the platform indicates reading comprehension in Portuguese and equipment with audio and video capabilities.
In some modules, IFRS details the need for internet access and PDF reader, maintaining instruction language in Portuguese and English.
As the classes are of basic level, there is no requirement for prior knowledge of the foreign language.
Certification And Deadlines For Completion
The certificate issuance occurs through the platform after the completion of the mandatory activities and adherence to the minimum time frame of 5 days from registration.
Each course remains available for study until January 31, 2026, deadline established on the pages for classes 2025B.
The model allows students to organize their schedules, fulfill the 30-hour workload, and finish within the period.
Enrollment Open On The Aprenda Mais Platform
To get started, the path is to access the Aprenda Mais platform, select the area of Languages, Linguistics and Literature, and then the course of interest in the IFRS English track. Enrollment is free, and navigation occurs in the MEC’s own virtual environment.
In institutional pages of IFRS, there are cross-references pointing both to Aprenda Mais and IFRS Moodle, reinforcing the public and free offering of the content.
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