Structures of Portuguese Language B2+

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

This course will make use of a variety of texts related to the topics of the syllabus in order to address the structural aspects of the language. Students will carry out systematization exercises on all the grammatical/structural topics studied.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to develop students’ spoken and written linguistic-communicative skills and also to promote reflection on the use of language, thus enabling them to understand and produce texts with some degree of complexity, in accordance with the objectives of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages for level B2.

 

At the end of the course, students should be able to:

1. Produce fluent and well structured speech appropriate to different communication situations;

2. Understand, interpret and produce different types of written texts;

3. Use a varied lexicon and master Portuguese grammar structures.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Thematic units and related lexicon:

Leisure

Professions

Current affairs. Cultural, social, economic topics.

2. Language functioning

a) Coordinating conjunctional structures: copulative, adversative, disjunctive and conclusive;

Subordinating conjunctional structures: causative, conditional, concessive, final, temporal and consecutive.

b) Syntax:

• Structure of simple sentences: nominal group, clitics, concordance

• Structure of complex sentences (and textual cohesion): causal, temporal, conditional, concessive, relative; passive constructions; direct and indirect speech; reduced sentences.

c) Lexical semantics (word formation, denotation, connotation, polysemy, idioms, specific vocabularies), phrasal semantics (modal and aspectual values) and cohesion

d) Textual cohesion: textual discourse markers.

Head Lecturer(s)

Graça Maria de Oliveira e Silva Rio-Torto

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Final written exam (reading comprehension of a text and exercises on the grammar contents): 40.0%
Continuous assessment of tasks carried out in class, participation, homework and attendance: 60.0%

Bibliography

Acordo Ortográfico. Guia prático. Porto Editora.

ARRUDA, Lígia, Gramática de português para estrangeiros. Porto: Porto Editora, 2000.

CUNHA, Celso e Lindley CINTRA, Nova gramática do português contemporâneo, 9ª ed. ou posterior. Lisboa: Ed. João Sá da Costa (ed. de bolso: Breve gramática do português contemporâneo).

Dicionário de língua portuguesa, 7ª ed. ou edição de 2009, com Acordo Ortográfico. Porto: Porto Editora.

Dicionário de sinónimos, 2ª ed. Porto: Porto Editora, 1989.

Dicionário de verbos, 2ª ed. Porto: Porto Editora, 1989.

HENRIQUES, Teresa Sousa e Frederico de FREITAS, Qual é a dúvida? Lisboa: Ed. Lidel, 2004.

Prontuário da língua portuguesa. Para escrever correctamente. Porto: Porto Editora, 2005.

VENTURA, Maria Helena e Manuela CASEIRO, Guia prático dos verbos com preposição, 2ª ed. Lisboa: Ed. Lidel.

 

Serão fornecidos materiais de apoio às aulas. /Supporting materials will be made available to students.