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Master essential language skills to build your confidence in basic Portuguese
Whether you are learning on your own with a textbook or taking a beginning class, Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese will support your study and build your confidence in your new language. Each bite-sized lesson of this proven guide focuses on essential vocabulary and key grammar concepts, illustrated with clear examples. You will then learn to communicate in authentic Portuguese: how to meet new people,engage in small talk, express ideas, and more.
More than 180 entertaining exercises will help you practice your new skills. And this second edition is also accompanied by flashcards and audio recordings, available via app, that will provide a new dimension and flexibility to your study.
Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese will help you master:
•High-frequency vocabulary •Ser vs. estar, saber vs. conhecer, ter and its uses •Sets of flashcards for all the vocabulary lists •Superlatives and comparisons: tão and tanto •Continental Portuguese and Brazilian variants •Verb tenses, sentence structure, and more
Product Details
ISBN-13: 9781260455229
Media Type: Paperback(2nd ed.)
Publisher: McGraw Hill LLC
Publication Date: 09-10-2019
Pages: 256
Product Dimensions: 8.40(w) x 10.70(h) x 0.30(d)
About the Author
Sue Tyson-Ward is a Portuguese language consultant and writer of more than twenty books on the Portuguese language, country, and people. She has lived, studied, worked, and traveled in Portugal and Brazil over the past twenty-five years. Tyson-Ward is also an examiner of Portuguese in the United Kingdom and has acted as a consultant to the BBC's acclaimed Talk Portuguese TV series. She currently teaches college in the United Kingdom.
Table of Contents
Table of 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