Learn Portuguese: Ocean Life – Picture-Word Match for Kids

This match brings pictures and Portuguese words together. Your child sees the fish, crabs and octopuses and, beside them, a colourful set of Portuguese names still looking for their partners. They read the Portuguese vocabulary, compare it with the drawings, and link each picture with the right line. In doing so your child practises connecting the written Portuguese word to what it shows — a gentle bridge into the new language. Because no word has to be written, it is all reading and recognizing, with no stress at all. Let your child work at their own pace and reconsider as often as they wish. There is no timer and no score, only your child, the pictures, and the pleasure of every Portuguese word matched correctly.

Read and connect, with nothing to search for: your child sees the fish, crabs and octopuses as pictures and a selection of Portuguese words beside them. They read the vocabulary, decide which name belongs, and draw a line from the picture to the matching Portuguese word. So they gently practise recognizing the written Portuguese word. It is a quiet task — free to print or to play online. A line may always be drawn again, because here all that matters is the easy thinking with which your child builds Portuguese vocabulary piece by piece. Portuguese adds little marks to some letters, like the curly a in "ã", which gives the word a soft nasal sound.

Has your child had so much fun connecting? Then there is plenty more to discover! The matches about the flying things and the ones with winter things hold fresh pictures and new Portuguese words looking for their partners. And once your child is in the swing of it, a whole free collection built around the sea creatures is ready to go — free to print or simply to play online. That way learning Portuguese stays varied and gives a little fresh pleasure each day, all at your child’s own pace. Have fun reading, thinking, and connecting together!