02552 - Portuguese Language

Academic Year 2014/2015

Course contents

This annual course will be done once a week together with the lecturer course called Esercitazioni di Lingua Portoghese.

Using some useful texts the student will learn and study to know how to use it, in some of this specific themes:

- personal presentation;

- how to introduce someone;

- personal day life description, own family and town;

- lets go to the doctor! (kind of doctor, diseases, medicines);

- free time, hobbies, sports;

- future projects of personal aims;

- expressions of joy, sadness, opinions, critics;

- travels and holidays;

- several kind of commerce (characteristics, what to buy and how to pay).

Also with some several exercises written and verbal, the grammatical structures to study are the following ones:

- the indefinite pronouns;

- the relative pronouns;

- the personal pronouns;

- the verbal forms: Pretérito Perfeito Composto, Imperfeito, Condicional, Futuro;

- the Imperative form: affirmative and negative;

- the Gerundio form.

Lecturer programm (Esercitazioni di Lingua Portoghese):

This annual course will be done once a week together with the Lingua Portoghese course, obbligatory.

Using some useful songs, documentaries and movies in portuguese or with subtitles also in portuguese, the student will developed some specific oral themes.

Readings/Bibliography

Obbligatory reading:

- Coimbra, Olga Matos e Leite, Isabel Coimbra, Novo Português Sem Fronteiras 1, Lidel, Lisboa, last edition.

- Coimbra, Olga Matos e Leite, Isabel Coimbra, Gramática Ativa I - 3ªed., Lidel, Lisboa, last edition.

- Block of copies made by the teacher (that will be announced at the beginning of the courses).

- small dictionary portuguese - italian, for instance ed. Zanichelli, Bologna.

Bibliography for individual study:

- Malcata, Hermínia, Guia Prático de Fonética, Acentuação e Pontuação, ed. Lidel, 2008, com cd.

- Dicionário Porto Editora

- Mea, Giuseppe, Dizionario Portoghese-Italiano / Italiano-Portoghese, Zanichelli/Porto Editora,(2 vols. bilingue)

Other recommended reading:

- Lanciani, Giulia e Tavani, Giuseppe, Grammatica Portoghese, CEA, Milano, 1993

- Abreu, Maria Helena e Murteira, Rita Benamor, Grammatica del Portoghese Moderno, Zanichelli, Bologna, 1994

- Cunha, Celso e Cintra, Lindley, Gramática do Português Contemporâneo, ed. Sá da Costa, Lisboa, 1985

- Ventura, Helena– Caseiro, Manuela, Guia prático de verbos com preposições, ed. Lidel, Lisboa.

- Scribedit, a cura di, Parole per viaggiare Portoghese e Brasiliano, Bologna, ed. Zanichelli, 2012

Also in the Ruffilli library of Forlì you can find this portuguese pubblications:

- JORNAL DE LETRAS ARTES E IDEIAS

- LER : LIVROS & LEITORES

- PALAVRAS (revista da APP)

Teaching methods

Personal lessons, several exercises in class and as homework.

Assessment methods

Final examination of the Lingua Portoghese course:

Final written and oral examination.

The final written examination will be composed by one text with comprehension questions; several grammatical exercises to fill, change or multiple choice; one composition.

The oral examination will be composed by an interview in portuguese with the teacher.

Teaching tools

Portuguese books, grammars, dictionary, exercise book prepared by the teacher

Cd rom

Dvd

Cassettes

Film video

Office hours

See the website of Anabela Cristina Costa Da Silva Ferreira