Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese, Premium Second Edition
1st Edition
Published on 13. September 2019
256 pages
978-1-260-45523-6 (ISBN)
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Description
Master essentiallanguage skills to build your confidence in basic PortugueseWhether you are learningon your own with a textbook or taking a beginning class, Practice MakesPerfect: Basic Portuguese will support your study and build yourconfidence in your new language. Each bite-sized lesson of this proven guidefocuses on essential vocabulary and key grammar concepts, illustrated withclear examples. You will then learn to communicate in authentic Portuguese: howto meet new people,engage in small talk, express ideas, and more.More than 180entertaining exercises will help you practice your new skills. And this secondedition is also accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available viaapp, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study.Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese will help youmaster: High-frequency vocabulary Ser vs. estar, saber vs. conhecer, ter andits uses Sets of flashcards for all the vocabulary lists Superlatives and comparisons: tao and tanto Continental Portuguese and Brazilian variants Verb tenses, sentence structure, and more
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Content
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Subject pronouns Family
- 2 Ser (to be) Professions
- 3 Estar (to be) Moods / emotions
- 4 Regular -ar verbs: present tense Hobbies and leisure
- 5 Regular -er verbs: present tense Meals and menus
- 6 Irregular verbs, part 1: present tense The weather
- 7 Irregular verbs, part 2: present tense Politics
- 8 Regular -ir verbs: present tense Personality
- 9 Irregular -ir verbs: present tense Accidents / incidents
- 10 -ir verbs with spelling changes Transport
- 11 Ter (to have) and its uses Animals
- 12 Haver (to have, to be) and its uses The classroom
- 13 Reflexive verbs Daily routine
- 14 Ir (to go) + infinitive to express the future Days and months
- 15 Saber vs. conhecer The city center
- 16 Definite article: the The restaurant
- 17 Indefinite articles: a / an / some The hotel
- 18 Nouns Around the house
- 19 Describing things Common adjectives
- 20 Colors Clothing
- 21 Demonstratives: this and that Literature and cinema
- 22 Nonchanging demonstratives Materials
- 23 Possessives, part 1: my / your / our Technology
- 24 Possessives, part 2: his / her / their Education
- 25 Relative pronouns: that / which / who / whom / where At the beach
- 26 Making comparisons: more (than) / less (than) Describing people
- 27 Superlatives Sports
- 28 Comparisons: tão and tanto The countryside
- 29 Numbers Measurements
- 30 Telling the time
- 31 Prepositions, part 1: movement Shops
- 32 Prepositions, part 2: place Furniture
- 33 Prepositions, part 3: time Expressions of time
- 34 Prepositions + verbs / verbs + prepositions Eating and drinking
- 35 Com + pronouns Current events
- 36 Prepositions + pronouns The airport
- 37 Por Idioms with por
- 38 Para Idioms with para
- 39 Adverbs Geography and the world
- 40 Negatives School subjects
- 41 Interrogatives, part 1: how / who / when / where / what Vacations
- 42 Interrogatives, part 2: how much / how many / which (what) Crime
- 43 Direct-object pronouns Polite expressions
- 44 Indirect-object pronouns The body
- 45 Position of pronouns: When do they move? Illness
- 46 Algum and nenhum The media
- 47 Todo and outro The kitchen
- 48 Muito, pouco, and tanto Entertainment
- 49 Alguém, ninguém, tudo, and nada Languages and nationalities
- 50 Quantities and packages The supermarket
- English-Portuguese glossary
- Answer key
