Italian 1

Year
0
Academic year
2019-2020
Code
01012100
Subject Area
Italian Linguage
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Other Languages of Instruction
Italian
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
Duration
SEMESTRIAL
ECTS Credits
6.0
Type
Compulsory
Level
1st Cycle Studies

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

 

Teaching Methods

Use of selected written and oral texts: newspaper articles, creative texts, radio or television broadcasting, audiovisual works. Dictations, Listening, Reading, Writing and Speaking exercises, guidelines in the use of a dictionary.

2 evaluation methods are used. Continuous assessment implies 75% attendance (10% of final grade), 2 tests (60%) and a work, oral presentation (10%), active participation in classes and performing ad hoc tasks (20%),. The final assessment consists of written & oral examination.

Learning Outcomes

At the end of the semester, students should be able to acquire basic colloquial and lexical competencies allowing basic interaction skills in personal, educative and public domains. Ability in performing elementary operations of analysis and transformation of linguistic structures according a lexical and morpho-syntactic plan. Introductory notions about Italian society and culture.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Pronunciation and orthography. Vowels and consonants; contrastive approach between Portuguese and Italian common phonemes, expressed by different graphemes; double consonants; interrogative, predicative and exclamative inflection.

2. Morpho-sinctactic structure. Nominal inflexion;  gender & number in regular nouns,  qualifying adjectives, demonstrative  adjectives & pronouns; interrogative adjectives & pronouns; prepositions; personal pronouns – subject form; verbal inflexion (present and passato prossimo in the indicative mood, imperative & infinitive moods); adverbs of affirmation, negation, time & place;

Simple, declarative & interrogative sentence.

The complex sentence: copulative & adversative coordination; subordination: causative, temporal & infinitive final clauses.

3. Lexicon and culture. Greetings; personal informations; free-time & social life, family, food & holidays in Italy.

4. Theme: Italy & Italians in the world.

Head Lecturer(s)

Alberto Sismondini

Assessment Methods

Final evaluation
Exam: 100.0%

Continuous evaluation
Other: 25.0%
Mini Tests: 25.0%
Frequency: 50.0%

Bibliography

A-Manual /Tutorial book

La Grassa,  M. 2011. L'Italiano all'Università 1. Roma: Edilingua

 

B-Gramáticas /Grammars

Gramática da língua italiana

Patota, G.2010. Grammatica di Riferimento dell'Italiano Contemporaneo.Novara: Garzanti

Mea, G. 2010. Gramática Prática de Italiano para Lusófonos, Porto: Porto Ed

 

C - Dicionários de Italiano -Português e de Português - Italiano/Bilingual dictionaries (Portuguese/Italian)

Mea, G. Dicionário de Italiano-Português, Dicionário de Português – Italiano, Porto, Porto Editora, vv.ed

 

D1-Dicionário monolíngue em rede/Online monolingual dictionary

Dicionário Sabatini/Colletti <http://dizionari.corriere.it/dizionario_italiano/index.shtml>

 

D2-Dicionário monolíngue em rede  / Online monolingual dictionary              

Dicionário Gabrielli                <http://dizionari.repubblica.it/?ref=rephpsbsx>

 

E-Guia em rede de verbos italianos / Italian verbs onlince resource

Site de verbos italianos <http://www.italian-verbs.com/os-verbos-italianos.htm>