Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Portuguese, Premium Second Edition

by Sue Tyson-Ward

Overview

Master essentiallanguage skills to build your confidence in basic Portuguese

Whether 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: tão and tanto
• Continental Portuguese and Brazilian variants
• Verb tenses, sentence structure, and more

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781260455236
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	09/13/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	34 MB
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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

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