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ADVANCED LEVEL (C1)

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The aim of the programming we propose here is to achieve knowledge.

gradual oral and written mastery of the Portuguese language up to a level commensurate with
C1.
The University Center for Distance Languages (CUID) of UNED provides the
possibility of taking four classical levels in the teaching of Portuguese as
second language and foreign language:

A2 (Basic)
B1 (Intermediate)
B2 (Advanced)
C1 (Superior)

The advanced level (C1) of the CUID constitutes a course for maturation and expansion of the
advanced level (B2) contents correspond to the level of proficient user
of effective operational proficiency (C1) of the Common European Framework of Reference for
Languages, defined as follows:

It is capable of understanding a wide variety of extensive texts and with a certain level of
requirement, as well as recognizing implicit meanings in them. Knows how to express oneself in a way
fluid and spontaneous without very evident signs of effort to find the expression
suitable. It can make flexible and effective use of the language for social purposes,
academics and professionals. It can produce clear, well-structured texts and
detailed on topics of some complexity, demonstrating a correct use of the
mechanisms of organization, articulation, and cohesion of the text.

The starting point and theoretical framework is based on the considerations

established by the Council for Cultural Cooperation of the Council of Europe on
the learning of modern languages.

Therefore, the complexity will be greater both at the lexical level and at the grammatical and syntactic level.
in order to achieve a higher level of competence and performance, where the student
can make flexible and effective use of the language for social purposes.

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Level C1 completes the previous three in terms of communication skills.

oral and written.

The student, upon finishing the course, will be able to effectively use the standard language.
in communicative situations that require formal or informal language.

Similarly, they will be able to write, appropriately and correctly, texts related to
work and social environment, and will be able to understand written texts on general interest topics,
literary and specific for dissemination.

The objectives for the higher level, defined by the Common European Framework of Reference
Reference for the Languages is summarized in the following:

Be able to understand the main ideas of simple and complex texts,

that deal with both concrete and abstract themes, even if they are about
technical nature and are not within their field of expertise.
2. To be able to express oneself fluently and spontaneously without very obvious signs.
effort to find the right expression.
3. To be able to make flexible and effective use of the language for social purposes,
academics and professionals.
4. To be able to produce clear, well-structured, and detailed texts on topics of
certain complexity, showing a correct use of the mechanisms of
organization and articulation of the text.

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3. CONTENTS

The basic general contents:

COMMUNICATIVE AND INTERCULTURAL CONTENT

Cultural and linguistic diversity;

Linguistic variation (geographical, regional varieties of Portuguese);
New orthographic agreement (implications);
Globalization;
Technology and Communication;
Feelings and opinions;
Employment/professional life;
Companies and commerce;
Economics/Financial world;
Current news;
Arts, culture, and entertainment;
History;
Natural world/Nature;
Travels and vacations;
Health and sports;
Accounts of the social and cultural history of a community or of an era, that
they involve the study and knowledge of specific linguistic-cultural areas;
Excerpts from literary works that promote the development of language
more abstract and metaphorical.
Texts in accordance with presentation and registration conventions.
Writing of different textual typologies.
Notes on the essential of a class, lecture, seminar, or even from sources
of written information.

GRAMMATICAL CONTENT

Discourse articulators.
Linguistic implications.
Development of lexical knowledge and some aesthetic aspects in
use of language.
Improvement of textual structuring mechanisms in the components of
grammatical cohesion (interphrastic, temporal, referential, and lexical) and coherence.
common idiomatic expressions
Colloquialisms

Verbs:

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 - Review of the verb tenses already learned in the Subjunctive (Present, Imperfect,
Future);
Introduction of new verb tenses: Compound tenses of the Indicative
(Perfect Compound Past and Future Compound); Conditional and Gerund
(simple and compound)
- Verbal periphrases with Infinitive and Gerund (temporal and aspectual values)
the periphrases)

Names: revision of the most complex cases and some compounds

Adjectives: review of the most complex cases
Pronouns: review: personal (mesoclisis, incomplete contraction), possessive,
demonstratives, interrogatives, indefinites (negative phrases);
Review of relative pronouns; usage limitations of the series THE/WHICH; WHAT
vs.
Prepositions and prepositional phrases: consolidation of all
Sentence structure: the structure of the simple sentence, agreement (subject/verb in
GN complexes), the structure of the complex sentence and connectors
Coordinating conjunctions and phrases: all in all classes

copulative: not only... but also...

- adversativa: porém, todavia, contudo, no entanto, apesar disso, ainda assim...
either... or, neither... nor...
- conclusive: therefore, for what, consequently, consequently...

Subordinate conjunctions and phrases:

causal (revision)
conditional: if, in case, in the case of, as long as, unless, except if...
- concessiva: embora, ainda que, apesar de, mesmo que…
- final: para que, a fim de que, a fim de…
- temporal: enquanto, no momento em que, ao mesmo tempo que, antes que,
before, when, after, as soon as...
- completive: that, if (with inquiry or communication verbs, doubt-inducing or
negatives

Direct speech vs. indirect speech

Sociolinguistic and pragmatic-textual aspects
Forms of address in Portugal / use of courtesy formulas
Mechanisms of textual cohesion
Article, adjectives, pronouns, adverbs and adverbial phrases and prepositions;
Prepositional governance;
Tenses and verb moods (especially of the subjunctive);
Verbal periphrases with Infinitive and Gerund (temporal and aspectual values of
paraphrases
Past participle (regular and irregular forms);
Gerund (simple and compound)
Coordination and subordination constructions.

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The specific program contents are:

I. Written comprehension and composition

1.1. Reading Comprehension

Development of reading, comprehension, analysis, and discussion skills

texts of varying complexity, such as:

1. press articles;
2. letters, instructions, articles, and reports;
3. stories of the social and cultural history of a community or a time, that
involve the study and knowledge of specific linguistic-cultural areas;
4. excerpts from literary works that promote the development of a language
more abstract and metaphorical.

1.2. Written Expression

Development of different written expression skills through production

de:

1. reactive texts to requests for products and services;

2. texts, according to presentation and recording conventions;
3. requirements, minutes, instructions, reports and letters of different types, such as,
example, requests for information, submission of complaints and applications;
4. notes on the essentials of a class, a conference, a seminar, or
still of written information sources, which may be useful for later
writing of compositions or longer texts of an academic nature or
professional.

II. Grammatical and lexical consolidation

2.1. Structural Competence

Development of lexical knowledge and some aesthetic aspects in usage of the

language and improvement of textual structuring mechanisms, in the components of
grammatical cohesion (inter-phrase, temporal, referential and lexical) and coherence, through
written exercises that test proper usage:

of verb moods and tenses and of nominal forms;

2. of the correspondence between gerund phrases/infinitive phrases/participial phrases and
conjunctions of equivalent meaning;
3. the constructions of coordination (with opposition, negation, ellipsis, and processes
) emphatic) and the constructions of subordination (complement clauses, conditional,
causal, concessive, final, temporal, comparative, and consecutive)
4. the verbal, nominal, and adjectival regencies;

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people, events, and various situations.

III. Oral communication

Understanding of the Oral

Improvement of listening comprehension through listening exercises of:

1. informal conversations and discussions on a variety of topics

2. television and radio texts, namely debates and interviews about the
socio-political, cultural and economic current affairs;
3. films and short films

2. Oral Expression

Improvement of speech rhythm and oral expression through:

1. informal dialogues about everyday topics that develop skills

of students to react appropriately to unexpected questions and criticisms and
submit requests for clarifications or information;
clear exposition of themes or explanation of complex issues;
3. debates on specific themes that involve the reasoned defense of a
point of view, the demonstration of a thesis or the justification of an opinion.

4. BIBLIOGRAPHY

Basic bibliography

In the online mode of this course, the student must access the Virtual Campus of
CUID where you will have teaching material prepared by the tutor teacher.

To deepen your knowledge, you can consult the supplementary bibliography.

Supplementary bibliography

The following books, which correspond to the advanced level (C1), are proposed as
supplement for all those students who wish to expand their knowledge or
they need to make use of reference works. Likewise, these books can serve the
professor to extract theory, texts, or exercises that complement the course books.

ADRAGÃO, J. Victor, Moura, V. Grace and Estrela, Edite (1995), New Agreement
Orthographic, Lisbon, Text Publisher.

COIMBRA, I. and MATA COIMBRA, O. (2005): Active Grammar 2. Lisbon, LIDEL

CUNHA, C. and L. F. Lindley Cintra (1995), Grammar of Contemporary Portuguese

Lisbon, Sá da Costa,

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SWORD. F. (2005):Phonetics Manual. Lisbon, LIDEL.

HENRIQUES, T. S. and Freitas, F., What is the doubt?. Lisbon, LIDEL.

LEMOS, H. (2005): Practice Portuguese (Intermediate). Lisbon, LIDEL.

MONTEIRO, D. and PESSOA, B. (2006): Practical Guide to Portuguese Verbs. Lisbon,

LIDEL.

The First Global Village

Let's Go Continue!

VENTURA, M.H. and CASEIRO, M.M. (2006): Practical Guide to Verbs with
Prepositions. Lisbon, LIDEL.

VENTURA, H. and SALIMOV, P. (2015): Portuguese Again - Second Book according to the New
Orthographic Agreement. Lisbon, LIDEL

METHODOLOGY

This course is taught through the ALF platform, where the virtual classroom is located.
of the subject, and the interactive teaching material created by the tutor that works the
four communication skills (reading, writing, speaking, and listening).

To successfully complete the Higher Level of Portuguese (C1), the student must work
the content that appears in the learning method developed by the team
teacher at CUID. It is a method whose structure adapts perfectly to the
blended or virtual learning modality.

The method is organized into 12 units that will be implemented as

the course will go on. There will be an evaluation test after every six
units.

It has been prepared by the tutor and is intended for students who have completed
the Advanced Level (B2) can continue to deepen their knowledge
acquired grammatical skills, while expanding their communicative abilities in language
Portuguese. Always taking into account the competencies and capabilities marked by the
CEFR for level C1.

In each lesson, texts related to topics such as daily activity are presented.
work environment or that of society; completely current texts that contribute both the
vocabulary and the most commonly used expressions like the specific terms of the
different lexical fields in which the story subject of each lesson is contextualized.
All communicative situations implicitly or explicitly include elements

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cultural references to the Portuguese-speaking countries that the student confronts
and expands their knowledge, very useful in the experiences and life events they may have
with native Portuguese speakers.

Grammatical issues arise from the texts of each lesson, and this method invites
constantly to the student –who already has sufficient knowledge acquired in
the previous courses - to remember the structures and to deduce and systematize on their own
the relevant rules. However, at the end of each lesson, a comprehensive
grammatical scheme that the student can refer to in order to verify if their deductions
previous ones have been correct and with examples for students studying Portuguese
with the self-learning modality.

This method contains a large number of exercises - vocabulary, comprehension

reading, grammar, listening comprehension, and text analysis and production - related
with the topics addressed previously.

The relationship between exercises and the part of the text to which they correspond is perfectly
indicated, which facilitates the constant use of both parts and their optimal utilization.
Likewise, in another section, the solutions to all the proposed exercises appear in
the unity, which enables self-correction and personal control over progress in
learning.

Since it is a virtual course, it is important to highlight the fact that the methodology is
different from that of other face-to-face or blended methodology courses. In the
online methodology, the student has the ability to adapt their study pace to
their particular circumstances, which endow the teaching-learning process with
more flexibility but, at the same time, requires extra effort on the part of the
student at the time of organizing their study time.

The educational activities have been organized so that the learning is gradual to the
throughout the course. The reading comprehension activities have been designed so that the
students can self-correct. On the contrary, the Production activities, both oral
as written, they are designed to be corrected by the tutor based on the
conversation suggestions that the teaching staff makes available to you on the Platform
Virtual ALF.

In the online modality, students have the support of their virtual tutor, and with the
communication and learning resources of the teaching platform of UNED, moreover
of the activities offered by the teaching material. In the virtual classroom, the students
you will find teaching materials and a model exam test, links to others
materials on the Web and other educational documents of interest. The Online Tutor (TEL)
he will resolve his students' doubts and will correct the non-self-assessable tasks that
propose in this course.

Among the resources offered by the platform, the forum stands out, divided into
didactic modules where students make contact with their classmates and their
tutor professor.

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Communication will be conducted entirely through the virtual classroom.

It is the student's responsibility to stay informed about important events (dates of the
oral exams, evaluative tests, etc.) through it.

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Types of test

The final assessment will be based on the results of the two following exams along with
the results of the evaluation tests:

The written exam lasts two hours and takes place on the dates
officials at the corresponding associated center. It consists of two parts: in the
First, the understanding of a text as well as knowledge will be measured.
grammatical aspects and vocabulary. The second part will be written expression
and the goal is to demonstrate communicative capacity in a broader way, in
Two compositions of approximately 500 words between the two.
Oral exam that encompasses both comprehension and oral expression.
the student must carry out an oral comprehension exercise and another of expression
oral through a monologue and two dialogues to demonstrate that he is capable of
talk about the topics specific to this level with the lexical and grammatical repertoire
syntactic, and fluency typical of a higher level. This exam will be carried out by the
student on the ALF platform through the E-oral application. (Check website
conference in the virtual course) and, in special cases, you can contact the
secretariat of your associated center to schedule an appointment with a tutor.

Written test

The written test will last for two hours and consists of the
next tests:

1. Lexico-grammatical test: answer questions, true or false,

multiple choice, fill in the gaps, etc. about grammatical content,
lexicon, of cultural aspects or of any other topic addressed during the
course.

2. Reading comprehension test: starting from a text of content

adapted to the level, understanding will be demonstrated through
activities such as: answering questions, true or false, selection of
response, etc.

3. Written expression test: two essays (maximum 500 words) on

proposed topics. The topics will be chosen from those covered during the course.
Textual coherence and cohesion, grammatical correctness will be valued.
orthographic and syntactic and lexical adequacy.

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to assist during the written test development.

Summary
Tests: two, oral and written.
Dates: June (regular call), and September (extraordinary call).
For the written test, two options of day and time are given, from which the
student can choose freely (they appear in the exam calendar of the
UNED and on the CUID website.
For the oral exam, they have a wide range of dates (several weeks) that
the CUID will be communicated on the web.

Place:
Written test:Associated centers where UNED exams are held
All extensions are exam centers; it is the student's responsibility.
check your associated center well in advance if you need to travel
to some other for taking the written test; in Madrid, students are assigned to
the area centers by last names; the CUID is not responsible for this organization,
and recommends using the first of the two optional dates offered.
Oral test: E-oral application (can be run from any PC, not
it works for Mac or Linux).The student will have access to practice exams.
to check the functioning of the application before the evaluation period
real. If you do not have the proper equipment, you can go to your center.
partner and request assistance (always with sufficient advance notice).
Structure of the tests and grades:
Written exam Oral exam

Understanding Expression Understanding Expression e

reader and use writing auditory oral interaction
of the tongue

No. of texts 2 2 2 -

Number of questions 20 - 20 -

Maximum 5 5 5 5
rating

Minimum for 2.5 3 2.5 3

approve

Value of accuracy 0.25 - 0.25 -

Value of the error -0.08 - . -

PASS / FAIL

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Certification: CUID students will be able to obtain it for free and online.
certificate with your grades in each of the four skills mentioned.

Reviews: To request a review of the exam grade, the following will apply
Regulations for Exam Review of the UNED:

When: 7 calendar days after the publication of the grades

How: through the established form, it is the regulation (accessible from the web.
from the CUID), motivatedly (if the comprehension test is not passed, it does not proceed
the review, as the test is considered from that moment as NO
APTA) and sending the application by email to the coordinator or
subject coordinator.
Requests submitted after the deadline or sent by a means other than the specified one will not be attended to.
here.

To ensure quality in the evaluation processes, the oral exams of the CUID
they must be recorded; the UNED commits to not disseminating those recordings or giving them
use something other than student performance evaluation. Enrollment in this
course implies the acceptance of this condition

Evaluation Criteria

To pass the course, students will have an ordinary call in

June and another extraordinary one in September. The students will have to
obtain the minimum indicated in each of the different parts that make up the
two tests to pass the course. The grade of the oral test in case it is
In June, it will be possible to defer to September if the student does not pass.
written part and vice versa.
The readability of the exam is a basic condition for its assessment. If it has
illegible handwriting write slowly or in capital letters, but make yourself understood.
Writings that do not adhere to the proposed topic and do not comply will be penalized.
the established number of words.
IMPORTANT: it is necessary to pass BOTH exams (written and oral) to
overcome level C1. Students who in the ordinary call of June
only one of the two exams (written or oral) will be presented.
to the exam that they have failed, and in the case of not showing up to one of them, they
you will be able to review that pending exam in the extraordinary call for
September.
The CUID grading computer system only offers the grade in
terms of PASS / FAIL, therefore there is no possibility of obtaining
numerical rating.

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 6. TUTORING

Students enrolled in the online mode will have available the

advising and tutoring from the following professors:

The online tutor professor will answer any questions that arise through the forum.
emerging and will offer teaching materials and complementary activities. A
Through chat and video conferencing, students will be able to stay in contact.
between each other, thus facilitating the practice of the language and the relationship between
partners in a virtual space.

The network support tutor (TAR), who assists the students

enrolled students addressing the questions they raise about the content
grammatical aspects related to the course and proposing tasks (essays, debates,
videoconferences) through the Student Forum, which is located in the Campus
Virtual (accessible only to students enrolled in each level).

The coordinator, who from the Central Headquarters of the CUID, and through the phone or
of the email, will also answer the possible questions from the students
regarding the contents, materials, and organization of the course (tutorials,
exams, dates, virtual campus, etc.) in general.

Currently, the coordinator's office hours are: Friday, from 10:30 to 11:30 hours.
The contact phone number is: 913 989 437

The email address is:mafcameirasollari@[Link]

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