26. PORTUGUESE - Code No. 019

CLASS IX

One paper                                                           3 Hours                 Marks : 100                 Suggested

                                                                                                                                                   Periods

1.    Grammar                                                                                                   20                                30

Course content

1.    Phonetics : Sound and the alphabet Accent

       Intonation patterns/Example of each kind

2.    Grammar                                                                                                   50                                50

       (i)     Articles, gender and number

       (ii)    Nouns, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns

       (iii)    Verbs : regular & irregular

       (iv)   Tenses : Present, Present Continous & Imperativie

       (v)    Expressions with ter, fazer and estar

3.    Writing Skills                                                                                            30                                60

       Making sentences with words and expressions

       Guided paragraph writing on topics of every day life situations

       Simple Dialogue writing on daily - life situations

       Description of pictures.

4.    Comprehension                                                                                        20                                25

       Comprehension of a passage from the book and answering

       questions based on the passage.

       Prescribed book :

       1.     PORTUGUES SEM FRONTEIRAS-1 (Pages 1 to 99)

               by Isabel Coimbra Liete & Olga Mata Coimbra

               Published by Lidel Edicoes Tecnicas, Lisbon 1995

CLASS X

One paper                                                           3 Hours                 Marks : 100                 Suggested

                                                                                                                                                   Periods

1.    Grammar                                                                                                   40                                60

       (i)     Past Tense (Preterito Perfeito) Immediate future Tense

               (Futuro, Proximo, Imperative, Negative)

       (ii)    Pronomial verbs

(iii)  Prepositions, conjunctions and degrees of adjective, use of tao, tanto

       (iv)   Direct and indirect object pronouns

       (v)    Use of Haver, saber and their expressions

2.    Composition                                                                                             20                                30

       1.      Guided short composition                                                                      10

               (building up a story based on given outline in about 100&125

               words or descripition of a visual in about 100-125 words)

       2.      Paragraph writing on a given topic in about 100-125 words                     10

3.    Comprehension                                                                                        20                                25

       Reading an unseen passage and answering short questions

       based on the passage.

4.    Translation                                                                                                20                                40

       Translation of passage from the Text Book from Portuguese to English/Hindi

Prescribed book :

1.     PORTUGUES SEM FRONTEIRAS-1 (Pages 100 to 200)

               (By Isabel Coimbra Liete & Olga Mata Coimbra)

               Published by Lidel Edicoes Tecnicas Limitada, Lisbon 1995

               Can be procured from-Portuguese Embassy, Cultural Centre,

               13, Sunder Nagar, New Delhi - 110003,

               Other India Bookshop, Mapusa, Goa,

               Jawahar Book Depot, Berserai, New Delhi - 110 067

               (Tel. No. 011-6102946)