Context. Task 1 uses an audio about the Fartura food festival at Jockey Club in partnership with Folha, inviting visitors on 3–4 August and highlighting gastronomic expeditions across Brazil.
What is the Task 1 audio like?
The input works as a spoken invite with accordion and percussion in the background. The speaker presents the festival pillar — expeditions — and describes the food chain from field to plate, with characters, dishes and traditions at risk of disappearing.
Key transcript excerpt
Trechos-chave da transcrição: aparecem elementos como «mapear a cadeia do alimento», «diversidade», «tamanho continental do Brasil», além de descrições de pratos como broa com requeijão moreno, frango na brasa, linguiça conservada na banha de porco e polenta feita com milho crioulo processado em moinho.
Difficulty assessment
Vocabulary
Lexis mixes everyday words (weekend, tickets, festival) with gastronomy, agriculture and tradition terms such as cadeia do alimento, autossuficiente, milho crioulo.
Pace and sentence structure
The pace is not extreme, but sentences are long, with subordination and detail. Rhetorical question chains raise processing load for Intermediate-level candidates.
Acoustic factors
Accordion and percussion create festival atmosphere but compete with the voice for learners not used to non-studio Portuguese audio.
For solid B1, the audio is demanding but feasible with transcript support. Below that level, specific lexis plus long sentences and music make comprehension much heavier.
Vocabulary map: what to extract
Instead of memorising the whole script, group vocabulary into small sets you can reuse in writing and speaking.
Original transcript (Portuguese)
Food and tradition
- broa com requeijão moreno
- frango na brasa
- sanduíche de linguiça na banha
- polenta de milho crioulo
- doce de leite de mel
Places and people
- norte de Minas
- Brasília
- Canela, no campo
- Daniel Castelli
- Ana Mantegaria
Core concepts
- cadeia do alimento
- tamanho continental do Brasil
- tradições em vias de desaparecer
- propriedade autossuficiente
- sabor bruto do milho
How to practise with this audio
Step 1 — listen without text
Listen once without the transcript to capture the gist: what is announced, where, when and why.
Step 2 — listen with transcript
Listen again with the Portuguese transcript, marking dates, places, dishes and names.
Step 3 — rebuild in your own Portuguese
Explain aloud or in writing what the festival is, who takes part and why it matters — this prepares you for a future writing task based on the same input.
Link to the written task
In the exam, audio like this typically feeds a written product — e.g. a gastronomy section article presenting the festival or a promotional text on culinary diversity.
Practice idea. After working the audio, write a short article presenting Festival Fartura for a food blog, reusing mapped vocabulary and reorganising the core facts.
Summary
2026/1 Task 1 is not impossible, but it rewards active listening, some food lexis and tolerance for long sentences. Layered work — listen, read, reorganise — turns exam input into rich study material.
