Portuguese Language Stucture - Pre-Intermediate Level B1

Teaching Methods

The course covers different thematic areas and resorts to dynamic strategies and methods based on constant interaction aiming to deepen the study of the structures of the language.

Learning Outcomes

To acquiring the vocabulary and grammar structures needed to communicate fluently in most situations of everyday life.

The syllabus of this course combines the description and systematization of some grammar topics with the presentation of thematic areas intended to deepen specific lexical and semantic fields and which can also lead to metalinguistic reflection.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Thematic areas: Language learning and travel. Getting to know Portugal.

Grammar:

1. Word classes (morphosyntactic and semantic pragmatic aspects)
1.1. Verbs: simple and compound tenses of the indicative and past participle (paradigms of regular and main irregular verb inflection). Infinitive mode and introduction to the present conjunctive

1.2. Verbal periphrases with an auxiliary verb in the infinitive;
1.3. Nouns and adjectives: number; gender; degree (more complex cases);
1.4. Pronouns (personal, possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative);
1.5. Prepositions and prepositional phrases (location in time and space);

2. Word formation: derivation.
3. Simple sentence; negative, interrogative, passive constructions;
4. Complex sentences: causal, temporal, final, completive and relative subordinates with explicit antecedent.
5. Deictic and discursive placement; textual and argumentative connectors; conversational "politeness"

Head Lecturer(s)

Catarina Isabel de Almeida Pereira da Silva

Sara Topete de Oliveira Pita

Assessment Methods

Assessement
There is no assessment, but attendance is registered.: 100.0%

Bibliography

DICIONÁRIOS  /  DICTIONARIES

Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa (2013). Porto: Porto Editora.

Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa Contemporânea (2001). Lisboa: Editorial Verbo.

Dicionário Houaiss da Língua Portuguesa (2002-2003). Lisboa: Círculo de Leitores.

 

GRAMÁTICAS / Grammars

Arruda, Lígia (2012). Gramática de Português Língua Não Materna. Porto: Porto Editora

Coelho, Luísa; Casteleiro, João; Oliveira, Carla (2007). Gramática Aplicada. Português Língua Estrangeira. B2 e C1. Lisboa: Texto Editores.

Cunha, Celso; Cintra, Lindley (1984). Nova Gramática do Português Contemporâneo. Lisboa: Edições João Sá da Costa.

Raposo, Eduardo B. Paiva et al. (orgs.) (2013), Gramática do Português. Lisboa: FCG