A1 CEFR
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 owns. Can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help.
A1/1
Textbook:
- Olá Portugal! European Portuguese for Beginners A1- A2. Textbook with MP3-CD. Klett Publishers, 2017
- dtv.de. Workbook, bilingual. Primeiras Leituras/ First Readings in Portuguese.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Introduction, getting acquainted (formal and informal)
- Orientation in the city
- In the hotel, café and restaurant
- Family
- Daily routine
- Appearance and character
- News, Society, Fine Arts, Music and Culture
Planned Grammar Topics:
- The Portuguese Alphabet
- Nouns: genitive case, singular and plural
- Articles: definite and indefinite
Verbs:
- Common regular and irregular verbs
- ser/estar
- ir + infinitive (simple future tense)
- Reflexive verbs
- Verb tenses
- Present tense
- Perfect tense (PPS): important regular and irregular verbs
Pronouns:
- Personal pronouns
Prepositions
- Commonly used local and temporal prepositions and their merging with articles: a/em/de/para/por
Adjectives:
- Numerals from 1 to 1,000.
- Positive adjectives
Adverbs:
- Negations: também, já, ainda não/nunca.
Syntax:
- Sentence boundaries
- Intonation with questions (rising tone at the end of the sentence) + Question with interrogative pronouns
- Answer clause
Phonetics:
- Word stress and accent
- Diphthongs and nasal sounds
- Pronunciation and spelling
A1/2
Textbook:
- Olá Portugal! European Portuguese for Beginners A1- A2. Textbook with MP3-CD. Klett Publishers, 2017
- dtv.de. Workbook, bilingual. Primeiras Leituras/ First Readings in Portuguese.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- House and apartment
- Work and profession
- Health
- Traditions and customs
- Hobbies and free time
- Shopping
- Holidays and vacations
- Childhood, Biography
- News, Society, Fine Arts, Music and Culture
Planned Grammar Topics:
- Verbs:
- precisar de, ter de/que, dever
- haver de + infinitive
- andar a + infinitive
- costumar + infinitive
- Verb tenses
- Perfect tense, past tense, simple future tense, imperative verbs.
- Pronouns:
- Introduction to object pronouns
- Possessive pronouns
- Demonstrative pronouns
- Indefinite pronouns
- Particle se (+ gente)
- Prepositions
- Practicing prepositions of time and place and their merging with articles
- Merging with personal pronouns
- Adjectives:
- Numbers from 1 to 2,000,000.
- Comparative, superlative adjective forms
-Adverbs:
- há/desde
- Ending: -mente
-Syntax:
- pois/então (...)
A2 CEFR
Can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine situations requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need.
A2/1
Textbook:
- Olá Portugal! European Portuguese for Beginners A1- A2. Textbook with MP3-CD. Klett Publishers, 2017
- dtv.de. Workbook, bilingual. Primeiras Leituras/ First Readings in Portuguese.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Resume
- Information and advice for everyday life
- Media and communication
- Press, newspaper and magazine columns and text types
- Traditional and alternative medicine
- Brazil and its main cities (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bahia, Minas Gerais...)
- PALOP - African countries with Portuguese as official language
- News, Society, Fine Arts, Music and Culture
Planned Grammar Topics:
Nouns:
- Exceptions and diphtongs
- Suffixes (des-, i-, im-, in-,ir-...) and prefixes (-ada, al, -ança,-ença ...)
- Articles: definite and indefinite
Verbs:
- Focus on irregular verbs.
- Focus on ser/estar
- Verb tenses
- Irregular verbs
- Modal verbs
- Perfect tense
- Imperfect (politeness and desire) + Comparison with Conditional
- Focus on perfect (P.P.S) vs imperfect
- Irregular imperative forms
- Compound Perfect (P.P.C.).
Pronouns:
- Relative pronouns, unchangeable: que, quem, onde.
- Possessive pronouns without articles.
Conjunctions: porque, se, caso, quando, que, embora, pois, então, talvez, oxalá ...
Pronouns:
- Personal pronouns
- Dative and accusative pronouns.
Syntax: Causal, temporal, modal and conditional clauses.
Phonetics:
- Pronunciation and spelling.
- stress on the last syllable
- stress on the penultimate syllable
- silent consonants
A2/2
Textbook:
- Olá Portugal! European Portuguese for Beginners A1- A2. Textbook with MP3-CD. Klett Publishers, 2017
- dtv.de. Workbook, bilingual. Primeiras Leituras/ First Readings in Portuguese.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Sport
- Profession
- Shopping and consumption
- Traditions, religions and customs in Portugal, Brazil and PALOP
- Brazil and its most important cities (Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, Bahia, Minas Gerais...)
- PALOP - African countries with Portuguese as official language
- News, Society, Fine Arts, Music and Culture
Planned Grammar Topics:
Nouns:
- Exceptions and diphtongs
- Suffixes (des-, i-, im-, in-,ir-...) and prefixes (-ada, al, -ança,-ença ...)
Articles: definite and indefinite
Verbs:
- Multiple meanings with definite prepositions (dar/ficar/passar/...).
- Verb tenses
- Modal verbs
- Future tense II
- Infinitive: personal and impersonal
- Participle: regular and irregular
- Past perfect (p.m.q.p.c.)
- Subjunctive (conjuntivo=subjuntivo)
- Passive forms with ser/estar+participle
- Gerund
- estar a + meaning gerund in Brazil
- ir + gerund
Adjectives: irregular comparative and superlative forms.
Pronouns:
- Merging of dative and accusative pronouns
- Relative pronouns, changeable: o qual, a qual, cujo, cuja, ...
- Possessive pronouns without articles
Conjunctions: porque, se, caso, quando, que, embora, pois, então, talvez, oxalá ...
Syntax:
- Causal, temporal, modal and conditional clauses.
- Direct and indirect speech
- Exceptions in sentence structure of personal pronouns (negation/question/conjunctions).
Phonetics:
- Homophones and homographic words
- European and Brazilian Portuguese
- Pronunciation patterns in Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa (PALOP).
B1 CEFR
Can understand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered at work, school, leisure etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst travelling in an area where the language is spoken. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes and ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and plans.
B1/1
Texbook: Português em Foco 2 - Livro do Aluno, Textbook B1 with downloadable audio files, Lidel Publishers, 2017.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Life in the past
- Vacation season
- Healthy living
- House, apartment & facilities
- Texts from newspapers and magazines
- Consolidation of topics from previous levels.
Planned Grammar Topics:
- The imperfect: past progressive and repetitive
- Genitive case of nouns
- Composite nouns
- Present subjunctive
- Regular and irregular participles
- Past perfect II
- Personal pronouns as direct and indirect objects
- Variable and invariable relative pronouns.
B1/2
Textbook: Português em Foco 2 - Livro do Aluno, Textbook B1 with downloadable audio files, Lidel Publishers, 2017.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Travel experiences
- Health & Sports
- Media & Information
- Public services
- Texts from newspapers and magazines
- Consolidation of topics from previous levels.
Planned Grammar Topics:
- Verbs with prepositions
- Future subjective
- future subjunctive vs present subjunctive
- direct and indirect speech
- past tense
- Forming plural nouns.
B1/3
Textbook: Português em Foco 2 - Livro do Aluno, Textbook B1 with dowloadable audio files, Lidel Publishers, 2017.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Job and professional responsibilities
- Leisure & recreation time
- Society & digitization
- Environment & sustainability
- Texts from newspapers and magazines
- Consolidation of topics from previous levels.
Planned Grammar Topics:
- Modal verbs
- Impersonal infinitive
- State verbs in the passive form
- Word stress and sentence stress
- Prepositions of place, time and cause
- Compound prepositions
- Interrogative pronoun.
B2 CEFR
Can understand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialisation. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with mother-tongue speakers quite possible without strain for either party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a point of view on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
B2/1
Textbook: Português em Foco 3 - Livro do Aluno, Textbook B2 with downloadable audio files, Lidel Publishers, 2018.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Country and city life
- Portuguese as a world language
- Personalities, companies & products
- Festivals, food culture & religion
- Multicultural society
- Texts from newspapers and magazines
- Consolidation of topics from previous levels.
Planned Grammar Topics:
- Subjunctive mood in the future
- Adverb formation with -mente
- Simple and compound gerund
- ir + gerund
- Causal and infinitive clauses.
B2/2
Textbook: Português em Foco 3 - Livro do Aluno, Textbook B2 with downloadable audio files, Lidel Publishers, 2018.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Consumer society
- Portuguese education system
- Generation Z
- Beliefs & superstitions
- A journey through Portugal
- Businesses & services
- Texts from newspapers and magazines
- Expansion on the topics from previous levels.
Planned Grammar Topics:
- Double participles
- Past and present passive tense
- Word formation
- Compound subjunctive in the pluperfect tense
- Compound conditionals
- Time and concession clauses.
B2/3
Textbook: Português em Foco 3 - Livro do Aluno, Textbook B2 with downloadable audio files, Lidel Publishers, 2018.
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Speaking Topics:
- Family life
- Economy & technology
- Climate change
- Myths & legends
- Private & professional correspondence
- Foundations of Portugal
- The meaning of Saudade for the Portuguese people
- Texts from newspapers and magazines
- Consolidation of topics from previous levels.
Planned Grammar Topics:
- Conditional sentences in the subjunctive
- Direct and indirect speech
- Prefixes and suffixes in noun formation
- Brazilian Portuguese: vocabulary & orthography.
C1 CEFR
Can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognise implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled use of organisational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
C1/1 + C1/2 + C1/3
Textbook: No specific textbooks are required. In addition to the material provided by the instructor, the following teaching materials are recommended:
- Isabel Coimbra, Olga M. Coimbra. Gramática Ativa 2. Lidel Publishers (for levels B1+B2+C1 according to CEFR)
- Portuguese Conversation Book. Pois é. Schmetterling Publishers. 1st edition 2013
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Discussion Topics:
- Portuguese and Brazilian culture and the cultures of lusophone countries
- Education and sports
- Work and health
- People from the lusophone world
- Portugal and Brazil today and in the future
- Gastronomy and Tourism
- Literature/music/visual arts/films from Portugal, Brazil and the lusophone world.
- Literature: Luís Vaz de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, José Luís Peixoto, Chico Buarque, Erico Veríssimo, Clarice Lispector, Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa, among others.
- Rubrics and texts from newspapers and magazines
- Consolidation of topics from the previous levels
- Idioms and proverbs.
Conversation Objectives: The focus is placed on advanced speaking skills. Content is expressed spontaneously, clearly and in a differentiated manner. Complicated context is expected to be quickly mastered by the students and reproduced using comprehensive vocabulary.
Planned Grammar Grammar:
- Consolidation and repetition of the most important grammar topics of B1 and B2
- Review of the topics thematically arranged in Gramática Ativa 2, Units 1-20
- Present subjunctive and imperfect with "if".
- Subjunctive with conjunctions, phrases, adverbs and circumstantial determiners
- Present subjunctive and future tense (concession clauses and repetition of the verb)
Verbs:
- Review of "ir + vir" as auxiliary verbs, periphrases, the gerund with preposition "a" + infintive (Ex.34)
- The pronoun position in sentences with verbs in the future tense and conditional phrases (Ex.25)
- dar/ficar/passar+ preposition (Ex.31)
- Derivatives of fazer/pedir/ver/vir (Ex.32)
Additional content:
- Review of "se" as pronoun + passive + conjunction (Ex.35)
- Sentence stress and emphasis of certain expressions (Ex.36)
- Rules of graphic accents (Ex.42)
- Expansion and variegated use of the dative and accusative pronouns in European and Brazilian Portuguese
- Differences in vocabulary and sentence structure between European Portuguese and the Portuguese of Brazil and other lusophone countries.
C2 CEFR
Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read. Can summarise information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and explanations in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in the most complex situations.
C2/1 + C2/2 + C2/3
Textbook: No specific textbooks are required. In addition to the material provided by the instructor, the following teaching materials are recommended:
- Isabel Coimbra, Olga M. Coimbra. Gramática Ativa 2. Lidel Publishers (for levels B1+B2+C1 according to CEFR)
- Portuguese Conversation Book. Pois é. Schmetterling Publishers. 1st edition 2013
Information regarding the current textbook for your course is available in the course booking instructions.
Discussion Topics:
- Portuguese and Brazilian culture and the cultures of lusophone countries
- Education and sports
- Work and health
- People from the lusophone world
- Portugal and Brazil today and in the future
- Gastronomy and Tourism
- Literature/music/visual arts/films from Portugal, Brazil and the lusophone world.
- Literature: Luís Vaz de Camões, Fernando Pessoa, José Saramago, José Luís Peixoto, Chico Buarque, Erico Veríssimo, Clarice Lispector, Mia Couto, José Eduardo Agualusa, among others.
- Rubrics and texts from newspapers and magazines
- Consolidation of topics from the previous levels
- Idioms and proverbs.
Conversation Objectives: The focus is placed on advanced speaking skills. Content is expressed spontaneously, clearly and in a differentiated manner. Complicated context is expected to be quickly mastered by the students and reproduced using comprehensive vocabulary.
Planned Grammar:
- Consolidation and repetition of the most important grammar topics covered in B1+ B2 + C1
- Review of the subjunctive sentences as thematically arranged in Gramática Ativa 2, Units 1-20
- The subjunctive future tense with „if“
- Pretérito Composto and Futuro Perfeito do Conjuntivo
- Compound past perfect tense
- Present subjunctive and past subjunctive (oxalá, tomara, Deus queira que, quem me dera que)
- Perfect subjunctive vs. past perfect subjunctive: sentences expressing wishes and desires (Ex.21)
- Consolidation and use of specific tenses:
- Simple and compound past perfect indicative (Ex.22)
- Second Conditional (Ex.24)
Additional content:
- Reivew of the intermediate position of the pronoun in sentences with verbs in the future tense and conditional forms (Ex.25).
- Derivatives of the verbs pôr + ter (Ex.33)
- The verbs acabar, começar, conseguir + prepositions
- Use of synoyms, antonyms, homonyms, homophones, homographs, paronims (Ex.37)
- Linking words and phrases (Ex. 38 and 39)
- Prefixes and suffixes (Ex.40)
- Punctuation marks (Ex.43)
