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Há uma pausa durante a sessão no novo horário.

Há uma pausa durante a sessão no novo horário.
There is a break during the session in the new schedule.
From Lesson 111:Time prepositions (desde, até, durante)·Portuguese (Portugal)

Questions & Answers about Há uma pausa durante a sessão no novo horário.

Does durante ever combine with words like "the" in the way other prepositions do?
No. In this sentence, you see durante followed by the article a (the) to make durante a sessão. Unlike prepositions such as em or de, durante never merges or contracts with articles. It always stays as a completely separate word.
Why does the sentence use no before novo horário?
The word no is a mandatory contraction. It combines the preposition em (in) with the masculine singular article o (the). Even though English separates "in" and "the", Portuguese requires them to merge into no before a masculine phrase like novo horário.
I learned that adjectives go after the noun. Why is it novo horário instead of horário novo?
You are right that most descriptive adjectives go after the noun in Portuguese. However, a small group of very common adjectives, including novo (new), bom (good), and velho (old), frequently come right before the noun. Both ways can be understood, but putting novo first sounds very natural here.
Why is Há used to mean "There is"?
Há comes from the verb haver and is the standard way to say "there is" or "there are" in Portuguese. You cannot translate "there is" word-for-word using the verb for "to be"; instead, you use this fixed word. It stays exactly the same whether you are talking about one break (uma pausa) or several.

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