Intermediate Portuguese Language

Learning outcomes of the curricular unit
- understand the basic components of a spoken sequence on issues of personal relevance
or the world of work; recognise the main ideas in oral interactions and speeches (listening);
- understand texts predominantly written in current and daily language or related to the
world of work such as media descriptions of events, simple literary texts, personal and
official correspondence (reading);
- communicate simple daily interactions or in travel situations in places where the language
is spoken, entering without prior preparation into a conversation on known issues of daily
relevance (speaking);
- articulate simple expressions so as to describe experiences and reproduce content from
texts, explaining and justifying opinions, telling a story and narrating a plot and describing
feelings and reactions (writing);

- Topics: personal information; interpersonal relationships; environments; daily news;
travelling (preferences, advantages and disadvantages).
- Communicative interactions: objectives: describing; expressing opinions, preferences,
approval, disapproval; exchanging information; expressing emotions; narration; small talk in
personal and working situations; making plans.
- Structures: regular and irregular verbs in the various present, past and future tenses;
indicatives and conjunctives; modal verbs; imperatives; articles and determiners; personal
pronouns; interrogative pronouns; comparatives and superlatives; affirmations, questions;
prepositions of time and place; dependent clauses, textual grammar, linking structures and
signposts.
- Exercise typologies: oral comprehension, written comprehension, grammar exercises,
simulations and role-plays, interactive games, negotiating, discussions/debates; different
social formats – class, individual, pair and group working.