Portuguese Language Stucture - Pre-Intermediate Level B1

Recommended Prerequisites

A2 level in Portuguese

Teaching Methods

Since this course unit aims to support the development of the skills specified in the unit “Oral and Written Communication”, the "focus on form" approach uses oral and written stimuli, as well as opportunities for language use, to develop an explicit study of the grammatical structures and vocabulary related to the subject fields of the syllabus.

Learning Outcomes

According to the general goals set for level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFRL), after completing this course unit, students should be able to:

- interact with other speakers in various contexts, in the private and public spheres, namely in educational and professional contexts, demonstrating discourse and practical skills to handle efficiently, with a degree of autonomy, different types of speakers, in common situations of everyday life;

- produce structured and coherent statements on subjects of their interest;

- use with a certain degree of correction a set of grammar structures and forms associated to relatively familiar and predictable situations.

Thus, the goal is to work on lexical and grammar contents necessary for producing and understanding fluent, clear and coherent statements related to the majority of situations that an independent user may encounter in everyday life, both orally and in writing.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Subjects
•environment
•education
•leisure
•jobs and occupations
•citizenship
•Portugal and its culture
•current events

Grammar content
1. Word classes (formal and semantic aspects)
•Verb: compound tenses of the indicative mood; present subjunctive, imperative (affirmative and negative); personal infinitive simple; double past participle; periphrases
•Noun and adjective: special cases
•Quantifier
•Determiner: omission
•Pronoun: personal (contractions of indirect and direct objects), possessive, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative
•Adverb: special cases
•Preposition

2. Syntax
•Agreement
•Unmarked vs. marked syntactic orders;
•Passive sentences
•Coordinate and subordinate sentences using the indicative, infinitive, and subjunctive moods (causal; temporal; final; complement; conditional; relative with an explicit antecedent)

3.
Vocabulary
•Word formation
•Semantic relations
•Collocations

Head Lecturer(s)

Catarina Isabel de Almeida Pereira da Silva

Maria Carmen de Castro Duarte de Frias e Gouveia

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Mini Tests: 100.0%

Bibliography

Em cada edição poderá vir a ser adotado um manual e/ou poderão ser disponibilizados materiais aos alunos.

Outro material (gramáticas e dicionários):

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

COELHO, Luísa; João CASTELEIRO; Carla OLIVEIRA (2007). Gramática Aplicada. Português Língua Estrangeira. A1, A2 e B1. Lisboa : Texto Editores.

COIMBRA, Isabel; Olga Mata COIMBRA (2011) Gramática Ativa 1. Lisboa: Lidel.

Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa. Col. Dicionários Editora. Porto Editora.

Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa [em linha]. Porto: Porto Editora, 2003-2018. Disponível na Internet: https://www.infopedia.pt/dicionarios/lingua-portuguesa.