COURSE SYLLABUS: BEGINNER PORTUGUESE
Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina
Partner Institution: Universidad de Belgrano
Course Title (English): Beginner Portuguese
Course Title (Spanish): Portugués Básico
Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester
Instructional in: Portuguese & Spanish
Classroom Contact Hours: 60 contact hours
College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours
College Credit (Quarter Units): 4.5 quarter units
Prerequisites: Intermediate II Spanish Level if taught in Spanish
Local Department: Programa de estudios argentinos y latinoamericanos (PEAL)
Course Code: PORT 120
Course Description
The course is intended to introduce students to the basic knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese, in order to achieve a satisfactory performance both orally and writing. In line with this objective, we will deal with diverse lexical and grammatical contents and carry out didactic activities so that the students can perform properly in communicative situations at a beginning level.
Course Evaluation
Attending 75% of class is required to be allowed to take the final exam. The attendance record system is electronic. The professor will also keep a manual record of the attendance; since this is a part of the course final grade (see also Grading Policy below). Lack of punctuality (being late for over ten minutes or leaving the class earlier) will be considered half an absence. In case of not attending to a lesson, it is the students´ responsibility to contact their classmates or professor to find out and do any assigned homework for the following class. Students are expected to participate actively in classes and to carry out an oral presentation accompanied by a written text (the subject and date for this will be agreed with the professor during the course). During the semester, the students will have homework and assignments for each class to be done in due course. The professor will decide upon accepting or rejecting assignments beyond the set timeline.
Participation and attendance 15 %
Oral presentation 10 %
Midterm exam (written) 20 %
Integrated final exam (oral and written) 40 %
Projects/reports/homework 15 %
For a better understanding of how your grade will transfer to the European or North American system, consult the comparison table in the student manual of the Orientation Kit (p.9).
Program Schedule
Week | Content |
1 | Course introduction. Introduction to phonology. Students present themselves. The alphabet. Verbs ser/estar/tener |
2 | Greetings. Expressions of politeness. Introductions. Personal information. Days of the week. Months. Articles. Personal pronouns. Affirmative and negative responses. |
3 | Possessive pronouns. Demonstrative pronouns. Family. Prepositions and contractions. Regular and irregular verbs of the present indicative. |
4 | Colors. Numbers. Regular verbs. Gostar de. Professions. |
5 | Breakfast. Meals. Interrogative pronouns. Pronominal verbs. Routine. |
6 | Hours. Ordinal numbers. Fruits and vegetables. Perfect preterit: regular and irregular verbs. |
7 | Perfect preterit. Conjugations. Time indicators. Telephone. Deserts. Public establishments. Irregular verbs. |
8 | Seasons. Climate. Moons. Imperfect preterit. Games. Hobbies. Expressions: é que. Comparatives and superlatives. |
9 | Review and questions about the midterm. Written midterm. |
10 | Gerund. Commercial establishments. Imperfect preterit. Sports. Brazilian Money. Shopping expressions. Ways to make payments. |
11 | Tonic syllables. Atonic syllables. Types of phrases. Present future. Frequent adverbs. |
12 | Immediate future. Flowers. Commemorative dates. Animals. Review of verb tenses. |
13 | Aves. Future. Tell the class about your life. Written production. Movie. |
14 | Dialogues. Oral elaboration of daily situations. Review for the final exam. |
15 | Final written integrated exam. Final oral integrated exam. Turn in written exams and final grades |
Bibliography (Text and Materials)
Required:
- Bem-Vindo! A língua portuguesa no mundo da comunicação. Editora SBS
Suggested Course Materials
- Diccionario OCEANO (español – portugués) - Editorial LOSADA OCEANO.
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