NOVA Information Management School

Portuguese

Code

200103

Academic unit

NOVA Information Management School

Credits

4.0

Teacher in charge

Teaching language

Portuguese. If there are Erasmus students, classes will be taught in English

Objectives

Can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.

Prerequisites

Class participation: use of the grammar and vocabulary, simulating day life situations.Homework assignments: systematize rules and practice the reading and writing.
Final exam: evaluation of reading comprehension and writing, basic grammar and vocabulary and conversation.

Subject matter

Themes and lexical contents: -Presentations
 -Job
 -Nationality: countries and places;
 -Numbers
 -Treatment formalities
 -Family
 -Weather
 -Colours
 -Time
 -Meals
 -Daily rotine
 -House and home
 -Days of the week, months, seasons of the year
 -Shopping
 -Education
 -Services
 -Free time
 -Holidays
 -Places
 -Health
Linguistic contents:
 -Fonetics
 -Afirmative, negative and interrogative sentences.
 -Possessiv pronous
 - Definite and indefinit articles.
 -Numbers.
 -Agreement of the adjetive with the name.
 -Feminin and plural formation.
 -Verbs: Present of Indicative.
 -Periphrastical conjugations:
oestar a + Infinitivo;
oir + Infinitivo ;
ohaver de + Infinitivo.
 -Prepositions.
 -há vs. desde.
 -Personal Pronouns
 -Adverbs
 -Adjectives.
 -Conjunctions.
 -Accentuation and spelling.
 

Bibliography

Malcata, H.(2011). Guia Prático de Fonética Acentuação e Pontuação, Lidel.; Olga Coimbra e Isabel Coimbra, Gramática Ativa 1, 2ª ed., Lisboa, Lidel, 2000; (2007) Dicionário Ilustrado Português Língua Não Materna, Porto Editora; Helena Lemos, Praticar em Português ¿ Level Elementar, Lisboa, Lidel, 2001.; Leonete Carmo, Olá! Como está? ¿ Livro de textos, Lisboa, Lidel, 2000.

Teaching method

Writen documents, audio, images

Evaluation method

Class participation:  30%
Homework assignments: 20%
Final exam:  50%

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