Galicia PAU Portuguese - Second Foreign Language study plan
Galicia PAU Portuguese - Second Foreign Language · Give each week a clear focus.
8 weeks · About 7 hours per week
Reading comprehension of written texts in Portuguese & Use of Portuguese language: grammar, vocabulary and orthography
Read two 350-450 word Portuguese expository texts (one news article, one opinion column) and annotate every unknown lexical item
Identify and label the main idea and two supporting arguments in each text, writing the labels in Portuguese
Build a personal vocabulary list of 60 items drawn from the readings, grouped by word class
Review Portuguese noun-gender and article agreement rules and correct 20 self-written faulty sentences
Read one short text aloud daily for 10 minutes to stabilise pronunciation and rhythm
Your checkpoint
A reading log with two annotated texts, a 60-item vocabulary list and 20 corrected agreement sentences
Reading comprehension of written texts in Portuguese & Use of Portuguese language: grammar, vocabulary and orthography
Complete six timed reading tasks (12 minutes each) on 300-word texts, answering true/false and multiple-choice items without dictionaries
Practise inferring meaning of unknown words from context in 15 sentences and justify each inference in one line
Drill present, preterite (perfeito and imperfeito) and future tenses by transforming a 200-word narrative into three tense variants
Write 10 sentences contrasting perfeito and imperfeito usage correctly
Summarise one 400-word text in exactly 60 words in Portuguese
Your checkpoint
Six completed timed reading sets with scores recorded plus a 60-word summary and a tense-transformation sheet
Reading comprehension of written texts in Portuguese & Use of Portuguese language: grammar, vocabulary and orthography
Work through four longer texts (500+ words) and answer open-ended comprehension questions in full Portuguese sentences
Master the personal infinitive and the future subjunctive by rewriting 15 sentences that require them
Practise pronoun placement (proclisis, enclisis, mesoclisis) in 20 constructed sentences
Identify cohesive devices (connectors such as portanto, contudo, além disso) in three texts and reuse each in an original sentence
Speed-read one text per day for five days, noting completion time
Your checkpoint
Four answered comprehension sets, a 20-sentence pronoun-placement sheet and a connector usage list with original examples
Written production: composition on a given topic & Use of Portuguese language: grammar, vocabulary and orthography
Write three 180-220 word opinion compositions on set prompts under 35-minute time limits
Apply a fixed planning routine (brainstorm, outline, draft, revise) to every composition and keep the outlines as evidence
Self-edit each composition against a checklist covering agreement, tense consistency, spelling and accentuation
Learn and correctly deploy 15 discourse markers suited to argumentative writing
Rewrite the weakest composition after feedback, cutting at least 10% of its length without losing content
Your checkpoint
A portfolio of three timed compositions, their outlines, self-edit checklists and one full rewrite
Written production: composition on a given topic & Reading comprehension of written texts in Portuguese
Write two 200-word formal texts (a letter of complaint and a short article) using appropriate register
Complete three exam-style integrated tasks that require reading a text and then writing a response to it
Expand range by practising relative clauses, passive voice and impersonal constructions in 20 sentences
Proofread two peers' or model texts and list every error type found
Reduce recurring errors by keeping an error log and re-testing the top five error categories
Your checkpoint
Two formal texts, three integrated reading-to-writing tasks and a categorised error log with re-test results
Sociocultural and intercultural knowledge of Portuguese-speaking countries & Listening comprehension (where included in the exam structure)
Build a fact sheet on five Lusophone countries (Portugal, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde) covering geography, music, literature and one current issue each
Compare Brazilian and European Portuguese vocabulary and grammar differences in a 20-item table
Listen to six short audio clips (news, interview, song) and transcribe key information and numbers
Answer 20 listening comprehension questions in exam format, checking answers against transcripts
Write a 120-word text explaining one cultural topic from the fact sheet
Your checkpoint
A five-country fact sheet, a 20-item PT/BR contrast table, six listening transcripts with answers and one cultural text
Reading comprehension of written texts in Portuguese & Use of Portuguese language: grammar, vocabulary and orthography & Written production: composition on a given topic
Sit one full mock exam under timed conditions and mark it against the official weighting
Analyse every lost mark and classify it as lexical, grammatical, comprehension or time-management
Re-drill the two weakest grammar areas with 30 targeted sentences each
Write two more timed compositions and compare scores against week 4
Rehearse skimming and scanning strategies on three unseen texts to recover time
Your checkpoint
A marked mock exam with an error-classification table and two new scored compositions
Reading comprehension of written texts in Portuguese & Use of Portuguese language: grammar, vocabulary and orthography & Written production: composition on a given topic & Sociocultural and intercultural knowledge of Portuguese-speaking countries & Listening comprehension (where included in the exam structure)
Sit two further full mock exams on alternate days and record section-by-section scores
Review only the personal error log and vocabulary list, avoiding new material
Practise a 5-minute planning routine for compositions and apply it twice
Consolidate the cultural fact sheet into 20 flashcard-style prompts and self-test
Finalise a one-page exam-day strategy covering timing, question order and checking
Your checkpoint
Two marked mock exams with a score-trend chart, a consolidated one-page strategy sheet and completed cultural self-test
Milestones
Week 2: Score at least 60% on the six timed reading sets and correctly justify at least 10 of 15 context inferences
Week 4: Produce three compositions within 35 minutes each, with no more than five errors per 100 words on the self-edit checklist
Week 6: Recall at least 15 facts from the five-country fact sheet unaided and answer 14 of 20 listening questions correctly
Week 7: Achieve at least 65% overall on the first full mock exam, with no section below 50%
Week 8: Reach at least 70% overall on the final mock exams and show a rising score trend across the three mocks