2024
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
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).
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)
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 ...).
- Oral Evaluation (continuous assessment) - 50% of final grade;
- Writing Assessment (test) - 50% of the final grade.
- 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 ...).
- Oral Evaluation (continuous assessment) - 50% of final grade;
- Writing Assessment (test) - 50% of the final grade.
Teaching Staff (2023/2024 )
- Maria Filomena Candeias Gonçalves [responsible]
