Syllabus

1. Thematic contents

1.1. Personal identification and description.

1.2. Social formulas: differences between formal and informal treatment.

1.3. Family and parental ties.

1.4. Housing: the house and its divisions.

1.5. Shopping and leisure.

1.6. Location of people and objects.

1.7. Health and personal care.

1.8. Public services.

2. Grammatical contents

2.1. The Portuguese spelling: graphemes and phonemes.

2.2. Determinants and pronouns (e.g. personal, interrogative, possessive, demonstrative, reflexive)

2.3. The names: bending gender and number.

2.4. Adjectives: bending gender, number and degree.

2.5. Regular and irregular verbs: indicative: present, imperfect and past tense; imperative.

2.6. Expression of the near future: verb “ir” + infinitive.

2.7. Complex verbal structures: verb “ser” + infinitive; verb “costumar” + infinitive, “ter que/de” + infinitive; verb “dever” + infinitive.

2.8. Adverbs of place, time and way.

2.9. Prepositions of time and place.

Syllabus

1. Intro to Azorean Culture/Literature

2. The first dwellers – Discovery, Settlement, and Development of the Archipelago.

3. Ponta Delgada – Urban Development and Administration Organization.

4. Economic Development and Cultural Development

a. Economic growth, agricultural cycles and urban development in the Romantic Period. 2 The End of an Era – Republicanism and Social structure (Antero de Quental – Selected Readings)

b. Industrial and Agricultural Development

c. The State and the Church – Political and Religious Structures (Vitorino Nemésio – Selected Readings)

d. Transatlantic relationships – Terra Nostra

e. Towards Autonomy (Natália Correia – Selected Readings)

f. From the Island to the World – Emigration as a vehicle of social advancement. (João de Melo – Selected Readings)

g. Traditional Celebrations – Saint Peter