2025

Portuguese Language

Name: Portuguese Language
Code: LLT11045M
2.5 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/65 hours
Scientific Area: Languages and Literature

Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese, French
Regime de Frequência: Presencial

Sustainable Development Goals

Learning Goals

The Portuguese Language Program (Initiation) for the students of Master TPTI essentially aims to initiate and develop a basic communicative competence in Portuguese, in order to empower students for effective learning and a practical and useful interaction with the university community and Portuguese society in general.
This program also intends, in addition, equip students with basic notions on the structure and rules of the Portuguese language in order to combine the grammatical correctness with the functional use of language (oral and written).

Contents

A - Thematic Areas
1. Life in society (personal contacts, public professions)
2. Everyday life: housing, city, dining, shopping, work, school, seasons, climate, hours.
B - Speech Acts
1. Present and introduce yourself, greet and say good-bye; information, starting and ending phone conversation
2. Find, request information, ask, say hours, shopping in stores and hotel reservations; talk about daily activities and gifts; express opinions
C - Grammar Contents
1. Grammar of the words:
- Articles
- Nouns (gender and number)
- Adjectives (gender, comparative and superlative degrees; agreement and placement)
- Pronouns (personal, demonstrative and interrogative)
- Cardinal numerals (up to thousands)
- Verbs (regular and irregular) in the present tense
- Prepositions
-. Adverbs: time, place
2. Grammar of sounds:
- Phonics (vowels / diphthongs oral and nasal consonants)
- Orthography (spelling, accents)

Teaching Methods

- Listening to recordings;
- Visioning images;
- Exercises in comprehension / oral and written expression;
- Exercises for the application of grammatical rules;
- Dialogue;
- Reading;
- Production of text (response to questionnaire, ticket informal title, dialogue, personal comment, story, anecdote ...).

Assessment

Assessment is continuous, focusing on progress observed throughout the face-to-face sessions, both in terms of oral and written skills.
Assessment will consist of attendance (75%), participation in activities, and a written exam at the end of the 10 weeks of work.
The final exam includes a written component and an oral component, with the final grade being the average of these two components.
Lasting only 10 weeks, this course does not include an exam, as it is entirely practical.

Teaching Staff

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