02552 - Portuguese Language

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Intercultural and Linguistic Mediation (cod. 8059)

Learning outcomes

The student will learn the basic elements of the Portuguese language and culture. He/She will be able to understand written texts and simple oral conversations.

Course contents

This annual course will take place once a week together with the lectureship called Esercitazioni di Lingua Portoghese.

Through the use of selected texts the student will study and learn how to use the specific expressions related to the following themes:

- personal presentation;

- introducing someone, greetings;

- description of everyday life, of the family and city;

- going to the doctor (types of doctors, diseases, medicines);

- going to the restaurant;

- free time, hobbies, sports;

- projects for the future, objectives;

- expressions of joy, sadness, opinions, critics;

- travels and holidays;

- services and commerce (characteristics, possible situations).

Through several written and oral exercises there will be studied the following grammatical structures:

- indefinite pronouns;

- relative pronouns;

- personal pronouns;

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

- the Imperative form: affirmative and negative;

- comparative and superlative.

Lectureship program (Esercitazioni di Lingua Portoghese) :

This annual course will take place once a week together with the Lingua Portoghese course and attendance is compulsory.

Using particular texts, documentaries and movies, etc. in Portuguese, the student will develop various specific oral habilities and become aware of certain aspects of the Portuguese culture.

Readings/Bibliography

Mandatory material:

- Costa da Silva Ferreira, Anabela Cristina, De Portugal, em Português

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

- Mascarenhas, Lúcia, Cultura e História de Portugal Volume 1, Porto Editora, ultima ed.

- Small Portuguese-Italian dictionary, 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

-  Costa da Silva Ferreira, Anabela Cristina, Portoghese compatto, Dizionario Portoghese-Italiano / Italiano-Portoghese, Zanichelli,2017

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.

- Ferreira Anabela, Il Portogallo, tra terra e mare, Urogallo,2017

- 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 publications:

- 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

The assessment of learning takes place through a final written test of 90 minutes, and a subsequent oral exam lasting on average 15 minutes, both subject to prior registration in the online lists prepared by the secretariat.


The written test aims to ascertain the skills acquired in the context of the topics covered during the course, and will consist of a piece with 4/5 comprehension questions, several grammar completion exercises, multiple choice or transformation on the topics covered during the course , and which are indicated in the program, and a theme chosen by the teacher, with a minimum of 130 words.


The use of books, notebooks, notes, dictionaries and / or computer media is not permitted.


Evaluation grid for the written test:


30-28: in-depth knowledge of grammar, accuracy and clarity in the answers. The attribution of the praise presupposes, in addition to the previous requirements, a completeness in the answers, a clear and elegant presentation of the task, the original re-elaboration in completing the answers, and the personal contribution in the theme with the exceeding of the minimum number of words.


27-26: in-depth but less precise knowledge of the grammar contents, precision and clarity in the answers. Less elegant presentation of the task, and less reworking in the completion of the answers and in the personal contribution in the topic.


25-24: good knowledge of grammar, accuracy and clarity in the answers. The overall language is correct even if characterized by some inaccuracy, distraction and error.


23-21: sufficient knowledge of grammar and language not entirely correct. Presence of different errors in the answers, answers left blank, little bigger than the minimum required.


20-18: knowledge a little more than sufficient, even if sometimes incomplete, of the grammatical content with an incorrect and incongruent language. Presentation of the unsatisfactory task, little certainty in the answers, not very original and / or personal theme.


proof not passed: Serious gaps in the preparation related to grammatical content, with linguistic interference, typos, some parts left unfinished, theme with too many errors and confusing, incorrect and inadequate language.


The written test is evaluated through a judgment that must be positive by at least 18 points, to allow access to the oral exam. This aims to verify the acquisition of the linguistic knowledge of the oral expression provided by the course program, and consists in taking into consideration the written task and verification of the errors committed, and a brief exposure in language, and at the choice, of one of the topics of the history and Portuguese culture, so that the teacher can evaluate the personal property of language. This test is assigned 0 to 2 points.


The final grade, expressed in thirtieths, is calculated from the overall assessment of the written test and oral exam.


Students have a week to review their task to accept or reject the vote once.


The results of the written exam are made public on the School's website, before the scheduled date for the oral exam, while the oral and final grades are communicated immediately at the end of the oral examination to the student.


Students can take the oral exam in one of three appeals provided for each session, ie, June, September and February.


During the first and last lesson all the information on the exam will be given, as well as during the last lesson a simulation of the exam will be carried out, besides the publication of copies of exams passed on the teacher's page.

Teaching tools

Portuguese books, grammars, dictionaries

Web pages

Cd-roms

Dvds

Films

Videos

Office hours

See the website of Rute Maria Paulo Cadete