a.y. 2015-2016
Class contents and exam requirements
Code 30309 – 50131
Portuguese Language – Second Language
B1 Level
Class contents and exam requirements are the same for both attending students and non-attenders
Program
Bachelor/Integrated Master of Arts in Law
Degree course
BIEM, BIEF, WBB, CLEAM, CLEF, CLEACC, CLES, CLMG
Teaching activity
 2nd year, annual course “B1*”
 3rd year, annual course “B1*” , (CLMG only)
 total classroom teaching hours 128
 courses taught in Portuguese
The course is activated if there is a sufficient number of
participants
Minimum initial
level

In order to attend the class in a productive way, students are
advised they need an A2 level (pre-intermediate)
Objective

Language skills for certification Diploma Elementar de
Português Língua Estrangeira B1 of the Instituto Camões,
Universidade de Lisboa and for Bocconi internal exam (B1
level*)
General language skills

Final Exam



Head Teacher
Bocconi internal exam (B1 level*) or an international
certification among those recognized by the University
4 credits, 2nd semester
BIEM, BIEF, CLEAM, CLEF, CLEACC, CLES, CLMG
6 credits, 2nd semester
WBB
Bianca Maria San Pietro
*Common European Framework of Reference for Languages
Set Textbooks

LEONETE CARMO, OLÁ! COMO ESTÁ?, Livro de Textos + Livro de Actividades + Caderno de
Vocabulário + CD-Audio, LIDEL, Edicões Técnicas, Lda
 CARLA OLIVEIRA, LUÍSA COELHO, GRAMÁTICA APLICADA, NÍVEIS INCIAL E ELEMENTAR A1,
A2 E B1, Texto Editores, Lda
Recommended textbooks
 LEONEL MELO ROSA, VAMOS LÁ COMEÇAR, Explicações e Exercícios de Gramática (A1+A2),
LIDEL, Lisboa
 LEONEL MELO ROSA, VAMOS LÁ COMEÇAR, Exercícios de Vocabulário (A1+A2), LIDEL,
Lisboa
1

OLGA MATA COIMBRA, ISABEL COIMBRA, GRAMÁTICA ATIVA 1 (A1+A2+B1), LIDEL, Edicões
Técnicas, Lda
We would like to remind all students that the Language Centre provides information and counseling
regarding language study. Students can find various material for preparation in internationally recognized
certificates by the University and Bocconi internal exam at the language laboratory (multimedial library)
and online (visit: www.unibocconi.eu/languagecenter, in Language Laboratory).
Resources
Materials prepared by professors
Self-study programme
Past exams
Extra teaching materials
Language tutors
Office Hours for Bocconi teachers
International certificates recognized
Classroom activities & skills
Teaching intends to promote the acquisition of general language skills.
In particular, the following will be treated through topics covered in the textbook:
 development of writing, reading, listening and speaking skills required to interact at an
intermediate level (B1):
o
understand the main points of familiar situations and interact fluently in comprehensible
Portuguese
o
understand written and oral texts of general and professional language
o
ability to write a simple text
o
report information and briefly explain the reasons for holding a personal opinion
 mock exam simulation for internal examination and for international certificates (DEPLE Diploma Elementar de Português Língua Estrangeira B1 of Instituto Camões and Universidade de
Lisboa, which the textbook prepares to)
 grammar revision
Self-study Activities & Skills
Learning a language and effective preparation for the exam require regular attendance of lessons and
constant effort also in terms of autonomous study.
For this purpose, a series of activities to be done in the textbook (see adopted and suggested texts) and the
self-study modules available on the e-learning platform have been included in the table below . In the
Libraries students can also find the material provided by the teacher in the classroom and some previous
exam papers .
It is suggested to dedicate 3-5 hours weekly for independent study.
Topics/Units
Unidade
introdutória
Grammar/Skills
O alfabeto
Acento gráfico e acento tónico
Self-Study
(see set textbooks)
L.T*.: pp.19-23
L.A.**: pp.9
2
Âmbito da
lusofonia
Unidade 0
Identificação e
Apresentação
Formas de
saudação e
despedida
Unidade 1
Família
Países
Alimentação
Tempos livres
Unidade 2
Tempo
cronológico
Numerais
ordinais
Vida social
Unidade 3
Atividades do
quotidiano
Orientação no
espaço
Serviços públicos
Unidade 4
Descrição física
Tempo
meteorolgico
Unidade 5
Atividades
lúdicas
A casa
Unidade 6
Comércio e
Serviços
Ditongos e outros sons específicos do português
CD/unidade 0
Substantivo/adjetivo - género e número
Artigos definidos e indefinidos
Verbos em -AR no infinitivo (Pres. do Indicativo) /
Revisões
Frase afirmativa/interrogativa/negativa
Expressões interrogativas
Preposições de tempo
Expressar surpresa
Pedir um favor
Certificar-se
Agradecer
Verbos em -ER no infinitivo (Pres. do Indicativo) /
Revisões
Determinantes possessivos
Artigos definidos + nome de lugar
Preposições de movimento (contração com o artigo
definido)
Cumprimentar/despedir-se
Expressar concordância
Reforçar uma declaração
Verbos em -IR no infinitivo (Pres. do Indicativo) /
Revisões
Perífrases verbais: “Ir + Infinitivo”; “Precisar de +
Infinitivo”, “Começar a + Infinitivo”, “Dever+ infinitivo”
Expressar satisfação/probabilidade/preferência
CD/unidade 1
L.T.: pp.33-44
L.A.: pp. 11-17
Gram. Apl.***. unid.1,
p.10, unid. 4. p.16, unid.
43, p.94
Verbos reflexos (presente do indicativo)
Posição do pronome reflexo na frase
Pretérito Perfeito Simples do Indicativo dos verbos
regulares em –AR / -ER / - IR no infinitivo
Pronome complemento “lhe / lhes”
Pronomes Indefinidos
Orientar-se no espaço e no tempo
Fazer um pedido
Adjetivo: concordância, posição na frase
Advébios de intensidade/Graus dos advérbios
Pretérito Imperfeito do Indicativo dos verbos regulares
em –AR / -ER / - IR no infinitivo
Imperativo afirmativo
Inquirir e r5esponder sobre dados pessoais
“Estar a + Infinitivo ou Gerúndio”
Locuções prepositivas
Preposição “com” + pronomes pessoais
Iniciar e concluir uma conversa telefónica
CD/unidade 4
L.T.: pp.69-79
L.A.: pp. 35-52
Gram. Apl. unid. 6, p.20,
unid. 7, p.22, unid. 39,
p.86, unid. 41, p.90,
unid. 34, p.76
Pretérito Imperfeito do Indicativo com valor de
cortesia
Pronomes e Determinantes demonstrativos
CD/unidade 2
L.T.: pp.45-55
L.A.: pp. 19-26
Gram. Apl. unid. 2, p.12
, unid. 5, p.18, unid.40,
p.88
CD/unidade 3
L.T.: pp.57-67
L.A.: pp. 27-34
Gram. Apl. unid. 3, p.14
, unid. 23, p.54
CD/unidade 5
L.T.: pp.81-95
L.A.: pp. 53-61
Gram. Apl. unid. 9, p.26,
unid. 10, p.28, unid. 36,
p.80, unid. 37, p.82
CD/unidade 6
L.T.: pp.97-106
L.A.: pp. 63-72
Gram. Apl. unid. 24,
p.56, unid. 35, p. 78
CD/unidade 7
L.T.: pp.107-116
L.A: pp. 73-84
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Unidade 7
Projetos de
viagem
Unidade 8
Viajar
Comportamento
s e referências
culturais
Unidade 9
Lugares públicos
No restaurante
Unidade 10
Ao telefone
Fórmulas sociais
Unidade 11
Fazer compras
Atividades
económicas
Unidade 12
Medicina e
saúde
Variantes lexicais
Portugal/Brasil
Unidade 13
Passado e
Presente
Sociedade e
atualidade
Descrições
(pessoas e
lugares)
Unidade 14
Cuidados com a
saúde
Natureza e
Ambiente
Unidade 15
Festas e
Preposições “em, de, a” + demonstrativos
O nome: plural regular e irregular
Diminutivos
Inquirir e responder sobre preços
Oferecer ajuda
Pedir e dar permissão
Formação da dupla negativa
Perífrase verbais: “Acabar de + Infinitivo”
Preposições – “para / por”
Imperativo afirmativo e negativo
Expressar alívio/impaciência/incerteza
Tempos simples do Indicativo dos verbos regulares em
–AR / -ER / - IR no infinitivo
Pronomes pessoais complemento direto e indireto
Expressar indiferença/probabilidade
Pretérito perfeito simples do Indicativo dos verbos ir,
ser, trazer, pôr, vir, ver, fazer, dar
Provérbios e expressões idiomáticas
Expressar desapontamento/pesar/resignação
Pretérito perfeito simples do Indicativo dos verbos ter,
estar, querer, dizer, poder, saber e ler
Conjugação pronominal: alterações gráficas do verbo
Expressar emoções e sentimentos
Futuro do indicativo (verbos regulares, irregulares e
reflexos) Condicional
Perífrase verbal: “Haver de + Infinitivo”
Expressar contentamento/dúvida/indecisão/opinião
(concordância/negação)
Oferecer colaboração
Imperativo afirmativo e negativo dos verbos regulares e
irregulares
Transformação do discurso direto em discurso indireto
Inquirir sobre estados de saúde
Expressar dor/indisposição
Dar instruções econselhos
Pretérito Imperfeito do Indicativo + Condicional
Pretérito Imperfeito do Indicativo vs Pretérito Perfeito
Simples do Indicativo
Espressões de tempo (“antigamente, noutros tempos,
naquele tempo, dantes ...”)
Pedir e responder a pedidos de informação sobre
pessoas, lugares e factos no passado
Pretérito perfeito composto do Indicativo; Pretérito
Mais-Perfeito composto do Indicativo; Particípio
Passado (regular/irregular/duplo)
Expressar aprovação/irritação/intenção/obrigação
Presente do conjuntivo
Gram. Apl. unid. 11,
p.30, unid. 12, p.32,
unid. 29, p.66
CD/unidade 8
L.T.: pp.117-125
L.A.: pp. 85-104
Gram. Apl. unid. 25,
p.58,
CD/unidade 9
L.T.: pp.127-135
L.A.: pp. 105-114
Gram. Apl. unid. 26,
p.60, unid. 27, p.62
CD/unidade 10
L.T.: pp.137-147
L.A.: pp. 115-123
Gram. Apl. unid. 28,
p.64, unid. 29, p.66
CD/unidade 11
L.T.: pp.149-155
L.A.: pp. 125-133
Gram. Apl. unid. 8, p.24,
unid. 33, p.74
CD/unidade 12
L.T.: pp.157-164
L.A.: pp. 135-156
Gram. Apl. unid. 15,
p.38, unid.16, p.40
CD-audio/unidade 13
L.T.: pp.165-175
L.A.: pp. 157-165
Gram. Apl. unid. 17,
p.42, unid. 19, p.46
CD/unidade 14
L.T.: pp.177-185
L.A.: pp. 167-177
Gram. Apl. unid. 18,
p.44, unid. 30, p.68
CD/unidade 15
L.T.: pp.187-195
L.A.: pp. 179-188
Gram. Apl. unid. 31,
p.70
CD/unidade 16
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Atividades
culturais e
desportivas
Unidade 16
Atualidade:
aspetos sociais e
económicos
Unidade 17
Cartas formais e
informais
Unidade 18
Turismo,
Viagens, Turismo
responsável
lendas e
tradições
Presente do indicativo de “crer” e “valer”
Voz ativa vs Voz Passiva
Expressar um desejo/vontade/receio/pesar/
Fazer uma sugestão
L.T.: pp.197-206
L.A.: pp. 189-207 Gram.
Apl. unid. 20, p. 48,
unid. 21, p.50
Imperfeito do conjuntivo dos verbos regulares e
irregulares
Do discurso direto ao discurso indireto
Condicional dos verbos regulares e irregulares
Expressar compaixão/possibilidade
Formular uma hipótese
Pedir uma opinião
Futuro do Conjuntivo dos verbos regulares e irregulares
CD/unidade 17
L.T.: pp.207-216
L.A.: pp. 209-219
Gram. Apl. unid. 38,
p.84, unid. 32, p. 72
Infinitivo Pessoal
Uso do Infinitivo Pessoal e do Conjuntivo
Perífrases verbais: "Haver de" + Infinitivo; “Ter de”;
“Estar + Gerúndio”
Expressar
suposição/apreciação/surpresa/prazer/irritação/permis
são
Gerúndio
Pronomes relativos
Expressar ansiedade/aplauso/satisfação
Felicitar/brindar
CD/unidade 18
L.T.: pp.217-226
L.A.: pp. 221-230
CD/unidade 19
L.T.: pp.227-234
L.A.: pp. 231-241
Gram. Apl. unid. 41,
p.90
Unidade 19
A casa
CD/unidade 20
Tradições e
L.T.: pp.235-239
progresso
L.A.: pp. 243-260
tecnológico
Unidade 20
* L.T. = Livro de Textos; **L.A.= Livro de Atividades; *** Gram. Apl. =Gramática Aplicada
Exam content and description
The exam is scored out of a maximum of 30 points, which will go into the calculation of your grade point
average, and evaluates your ability to:
 understand fairly long and complex listening passages, making notes and reworking the information
heard
 write structured texts of various types according to instructions
 oral interaction: presentation and discussion
 demonstrate your knowledge of the language, by correctly using a range of vocabulary and
grammatical structures
Exam Terms
The exam consists of two compulsory parts: a written test and an oral test.
In order to sit for exams, both written and oral, it is necessary to enroll for the exam through Punto Blu.
Both tests must be successful for the exam to be recorded.
For the written test:
 the written test can be taken again before sitting for the oral test
 the handing in of the exam paper makes the previous written exam taken null
For the oral test:
 it can only be taken if the written test has been successful (minimum mark: 18/30)
 it can only be taken within the validity terms of the written test (see section Written Exam, Validity)
 it involves the preparation of the content and any materials as indicated in the program (see section
Oral exam, Test)
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
it brings the mark of the written part up to date to define the final grade (see section Oral Exam, Final
grade)
Written Exam
First part
Objective
Test
Second part
Objective
Test
Duration
Dictionary
Validity
Listening to brief messages and announcements, surveys, radio broadcasts
Check candidates' ability to:
- identify the subject , the communicative function and the point of view
expressed in a brief listening passage
- writing skills in terms of content organization and reporting of the information
contained in a brief listening passage
1. Sentence and/or table completion, true/false questions, multiple choice
10/30
answers
5/30
2. Writing a brief article based on the last passage
Reading comprehension of one or more authentic texts, possibly also containing
graphs, tables, images
Checking candidates’:
- ability to understand written texts;
- ability to write structured texts, according to instructions and format given
1. True/false questions, multiple choice answers, opened and/or
5/30
closed questions
10/30
2. Writing a text (e-mail, letter) following instructions
120 minutes
Bilingual dictionary can be used
it is valid for the 3 subsequent oral exams, and it is also valid for the subsequent 12
months but there is a penalty that must be paid (see Oral Exam, Validity)
Oral Exam
Objective
Introduce and discuss the topic submitted, answering questions asked by the
examiner
Skill
Presentation and discussion
Test
It will mainly focus on the discussion of one recent article (550/650 words), from
the Portuguese press, in its original form or copy, on one of the macro-topics
specified in the course program, and its submission plan.
It is indispensable that the above-mentioned items are prepared thoroughly for
the oral exam and students are advised to prepare themselves well in advance of
the date. Details on how to prepare for the exam are to be found online in the
library for each language (Bocconi e-learning platform) or at:
http://www.unibocconi.eu/languagecenter in Self-Study > Online materials
Duration
15 minutes
Dictionary
Dictionaries are not allowed
The oral exam can only be taken once you have passed the written exam. Students
will be assessed in terms of their practical ability to communicate. During the oral
Final grade
exam marks can be added to or subtracted from the written exam result in the
following way:
 by +3 or -3, if the oral exam is passed within the 3 oral exams subsequent
to the written exam;
 by +1 or -3, if the oral exam is passed after the first 3 subsequent oral
exams, but still by 12 months subsequent to the written exam
As an alternative to the Bocconi exam, students may choose to register one of the international
certifications recognized by the University. The achieved result is converted into a number grade out of a
possible thirty and is registered in the student's academic record.
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Additional Points
The assessment of language skills depends both on the result of the final exam and on marks awarded
during the year:
1.
Positive participation in the course and completion of self-study activities
2.
Partial Exam
3.
The exam passed the first time it is taken
Points are registered at the same time the oral exam is passed
1. Positive participation in the course and completion of self-study activities
Objective
To encourage constant and active improvement in the language
Maximum points
 1 thirtieth for attending at least 75% of the classroom lessons and for
awardable
completing the self-study program as indicated by the teacher
Assignment of points
Defined by professor at the end of the course on the basis of quality of
work performed and respected due dates as indicated by the professor in
the classroom and also online
Validity
From June to the January immediately following the course. These months
are included
2. Partial Exam
Objective
Test
Duration
Dictionary
Maximum points
awardable
Assignment of points
Validity
Note
To assess language learning progress
Skills:
- Grammar – Grammar exercises in the following formats: multiple
choice answers, sentence completion, sentence transformation
- Vocabulary exercises in the following formats: sentence completion,
cloze test, multiple choice answers and possibly a short writing
60 minutes
Dictionaries are not allowed
 1 thirtieth is awarded on the condition that students pass their final
written and oral exam within the first or second scheduled exam
session
The final grade is expressed by “pass” or “fail”; the extra points will be
awarded in case of positive result (“pass”)
From June to the July immediately following the course. These months are
included
The exam is open to all students enrolled, both attending and nonattending students. It is held once each academic year in January after the
end of first semester classes (see general exams calendar for exact date).
Students must enrol at the Punto Blu
3. The exam passed the first time it is taken
Objective
Reward students who sit for the exam only when really well prepared
Maximum points
awardable
Assignment of points

1 thirtieth
The attribution of points is automatic when the student enrolls for and
hands in the written exam for the first time; passes it (minimum score
18/30) and takes the oral exam on the first date immediately available
after the written exam.
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