<p><em>For courses in elementary Portuguese.</em><strong><br></strong></p><p><strong>Contemporary Portuguese language - The way you want to teach it<em><br></em></strong><em><strong>Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language&nbsp;</strong></em>is the first Portuguese language textbook that allows the instructor to choose to teach either Brazilian or European Portuguese. The <strong>2nd edition</strong> of this best-selling text is completely updated&nbsp;to reflect the 1990 <em>Acordo Ortográfico</em> (spelling reform),&nbsp;ensuring students learn how to accurately&nbsp;read and write in Portuguese today.</p><div><p><a href="https://wps.pearsoned.com/ml_ponto_de_encontro_2e/">Access resources</a> to accompany&nbsp;<strong><em>Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language</em>, 2nd Edition</strong>.</p></div>

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<p><strong>IN THIS SECTION:</strong></p>
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<li><strong>BRIEF</strong></li>
<li><strong>COMPREHENSIVE</strong></li>
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<h2>1.) BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:</h2>
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<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o preliminar: Primeiros passos</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 1: A universidade</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 2: Entre amigos</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 3: Horas de lazer</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 4: A fam&#x00ED;lia</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 5: A casa</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 6: A roupa e as compras</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 7: O tempo e os passatempos</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 8: Festas e tradi&#x00E7;&#x00F5;es</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 9: O trabalho e os neg&#x00F3;cios</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 10: A comida</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 11: A sa&#x00FA;de e os m&#x00E9;dicos</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 12: As f&#x00E9;rias e as viagens</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 13: O meio ambiente</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 14: A sociedade</li>
<li>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 15: A ci&#x00EA;ncia e a tecnologia</li>
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<div class="c-header-numbers-with-list_container"><h2>2.) COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:</h2>
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<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 1: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Talking about people: Subject pronouns</li>
<li>Talking about academic life and daily occurrences: Present tense of regular -ar verbs</li>
<li>Specifying gender and number: Articles and nouns</li>
<li>Contractions of a, de, and em with articles</li>
<li>Expressing location and states of being: Present tense of estar</li>
<li>Asking and answering questions: Interrogative words</li>
<li>Mais um passo: Some regular -er and -ir verbs</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 2: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Describing people, places, and things: Adjectives</li>
<li>Identifying and describing; expressing origin, possession, location of events, and time: Present tense of ser</li>
<li>Expressing inherent qualities and changeable conditions: Ser and estar with adjectives</li>
<li>Expressing ownership: Possessive adjectives</li>
<li>Mais um passo: Some idiomatic expressions with estar</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 3: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Talking about daily life: Present tense of regular -er and -ir verbs</li>
<li>Expressing movement [or habits? conferir como ficou resolvido]: Present tense of ir</li>
<li>Expressing future action: Ir + infinitive [and other structures? conferir como ficou na vers&#x00E3;o definitiva]</li>
<li>Expressing age, possession, and obligation: Ter and ter que + infinitive</li>
<li>Talking about quantity: Numbers above 100</li>
<li>Mais um passo: Some uses of por and para</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 4: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Expressing opinions, plans, preferences, and feelings: Present tense of stem changing verbs </li>
<li>Expressing when, where, or how an action occurs: Adverbs</li>
<li>Talking about daily activities: Present tense of fazer, dizer, trazer, sair, and p&#x00F4;r</li>
<li>Expressing how long something has been going on: Faz/h&#x00E1; with expressions of time</li>
<li>Mais um passo: The preterir tense of regular verbs and of ir</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 5: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Expressing ongoing actions: Present progressive</li>
<li>Describing physical and emotional states: Expressions with ter, estar com, and ficar com</li>
<li>Pointing out and identifying people and things: Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns</li>
<li>Learning useful verbs: Present tense of dar, ler, ver, and vir</li>
<li>Stating what you know: Saber and conhecer</li>
<li>Mais um passo: Some reflexive verbs and pronouns</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 6: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Talking about the past: Preterit tense of regular verbs</li>
<li>Talking about the past: Preterit of ir and ser</li>
<li>Indicating the object of an action: Direct object nouns and pronouns</li>
<li>Reinforcing inquiries: Tag questions</li>
<li>Mais um passo: Some more uses of por and para</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 7: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Indicating for whom an action takes place: Indirect object nouns and pronouns</li>
<li>Talking about the past: Some irregular preterits</li>
<li>Expressing ongoing actions and descriptions in the past: The imperfect</li>
<li>Imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs</li>
<li>Narrating in the past: The preterit and the imperfect</li>
<li>Mais um passo: H&#x00E1;/Faz meaning ago</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 8: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Comparing people and things: Comparisons of inequality</li>
<li>Comparing people and things: Comparisons of equality</li>
<li>Comparing people and things: The superlative</li>
<li>Emphasizing or clarifying information: Pronouns after prepositions</li>
<li>Talking about daily routine: Reflexive verbs and pronouns</li>
</ul></li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 9: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Stating impersonal information: Se as impersonal subject</li>
<li>Talking about the past: More on the preterit and the imperfect</li>
<li>Asking questions: More on interrogative pronouns</li>
<li>Giving instructions: Commands</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 10: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Expressing subjective attitudes: Introduction to the present subjunctive</li>
<li>Talking about expectations: The subjunctive used to express wishes and hope</li>
<li>Expressing doubt and uncertainty: The subjunctive with verbs and expressions of doubt</li>
<li>Telling people what to do: More on commands</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 11: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Expressing emotions, opinions, and attitudes: The subjunctive with expressions of emotion</li>
<li>Suggesting that someone and the speaker do something: The equivalents of the English let&#x2019;s</li>
<li>Expressing movement, time, and action: Por and para (review)</li>
<li>Using prepositions to express a range of meanings: Additional uses of por and para</li>
<li>Referring to people and things: Relative pronouns</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 12: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Expressing affirmation and negation: Affirmative and negative expressions</li>
<li>Talking about things that may not exist: The indicative and the subjunctive in adjective clauses</li>
<li>Making qualified statements: The subjunctive in adverbial clauses</li>
<li>Expressing wishes, recommendations, and conditions in the past: The past subjunctive</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 13: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Planning the future: The future tense</li>
<li>Hypothesizing about the future: The future subjunctive </li>
<li>Hypothesizing about what might happen: The conditional</li>
<li>Expressing reciprocity: Reciprocal verbs and pronouns</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 14: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Talking about results of actions: The past participle</li>
<li>Emphasizing facts resulting from actions: The passive voice</li>
<li>Talking about the recent past: The present perfect</li>
<li>Talking about the past from a past perspective: The past perfect</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Li&#x00E7;&#x00E3;o 15: Estruturas</strong>
<ul>
<li>Expressing actions: Uses of the impersonal infinitive</li>
<li>Personalizing the expression of actions: The personal infinitive</li>
<li>Hypothesizing about the present and the future: Present and future if-clause sentences</li>
<li>Expressing subjective attitudes: Diminutives and augmentatives</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><strong>Expans&#x00E3;o gramatical: More on direct object pronouns</strong>
<ul>
<li>Contractions of direct and indirect object pronouns</li>
<li>Object pronouns with future and conditional verb forms</li>
<li>The present perfect subjunctive</li>
<li>The conditional perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive</li>
<li>If-clause sentences with the perfect tenses</li>
<li>The future perfect and the future perfect subjunctive</li>
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<p><strong><em>Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language </em></strong>provides engaging instruction in both Brazilian and European Portuguese. Updated to reflect the 1990 Acordo Ortográfico (spelling reform), the text ensures that you learn how to accurately read and write in Portuguese today.</p>

<p> <strong>IN THIS SECTION:</strong> <ol><li><strong>BRIEF</strong></li><li><strong>COMPREHENSIVE</strong></li></ol> <h2>1.) BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:</h2> <ul><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o preliminar: Primeiros passos</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 1: A universidade</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 2: Entre amigos</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 3: Horas de lazer</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 4: A fam&iacute;lia</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 5: A casa</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 6: A roupa e as compras</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 7: O tempo e os passatempos</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 8: Festas e tradi&ccedil;&otilde;es</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 9: O trabalho e os neg&oacute;cios</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 10: A comida</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 11: A sa&uacute;de e os m&eacute;dicos</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 12: As f&eacute;rias e as viagens</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 13: O meio ambiente</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 14: A sociedade</li><li>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 15: A ci&ecirc;ncia e a tecnologia</li></ul></p><p><h2>2.) COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:</h2> <ul><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 1: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Talking about people: Subject pronouns</li><li>Talking about academic life and daily occurrences: Present tense of regular -ar verbs</li><li>Specifying gender and number: Articles and nouns</li><li>Contractions of a, de, and em with articles</li><li>Expressing location and states of being: Present tense of estar</li><li>Asking and answering questions: Interrogative words</li><li>Mais um passo: Some regular -er and -ir verbs</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 2: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Describing people, places, and things: Adjectives</li><li>Identifying and describing; expressing origin, possession, location of events, and time: Present tense of ser</li><li>Expressing inherent qualities and changeable conditions: Ser and estar with adjectives</li><li>Expressing ownership: Possessive adjectives</li><li>Mais um passo: Some idiomatic expressions with estar</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 3: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Talking about daily life: Present tense of regular -er and -ir verbs</li><li>Expressing movement [or habits? conferir como ficou resolvido]: Present tense of ir</li><li>Expressing future action: Ir + infinitive [and other structures? conferir como ficou na vers&atilde;o definitiva]</li><li>Expressing age, possession, and obligation: Ter and ter que + infinitive</li><li>Talking about quantity: Numbers above 100</li><li>Mais um passo: Some uses of por and para</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 4: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Expressing opinions, plans, preferences, and feelings: Present tense of stem changing verbs</li><li>Expressing when, where, or how an action occurs: Adverbs</li><li>Talking about daily activities: Present tense of fazer, dizer, trazer, sair, and p&ocirc;r</li><li>Expressing how long something has been going on: Faz/h&aacute; with expressions of time</li><li>Mais um passo: The preterir tense of regular verbs and of ir</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 5: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Expressing ongoing actions: Present progressive</li><li>Describing physical and emotional states: Expressions with ter, estar com, and ficar com</li><li>Pointing out and identifying people and things: Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns</li><li>Learning useful verbs: Present tense of dar, ler, ver, and vir</li><li>Stating what you know: Saber and conhecer</li><li>Mais um passo: Some reflexive verbs and pronouns</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 6: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Talking about the past: Preterit tense of regular verbs</li><li>Talking about the past: Preterit of ir and ser</li><li>Indicating the object of an action: Direct object nouns and pronouns</li><li>Reinforcing inquiries: Tag questions</li><li>Mais um passo: Some more uses of por and para</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 7: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Indicating for whom an action takes place: Indirect object nouns and pronouns</li><li>Talking about the past: Some irregular preterits</li><li>Expressing ongoing actions and descriptions in the past: The imperfect</li><li>Imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs</li><li>Narrating in the past: The preterit and the imperfect</li><li>Mais um passo: H&aacute;/Faz meaning ago</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 8: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Comparing people and things: Comparisons of inequality</li><li>Comparing people and things: Comparisons of equality</li><li>Comparing people and things: The superlative</li><li>Emphasizing or clarifying information: Pronouns after prepositions</li><li>Talking about daily routine: Reflexive verbs and pronouns</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 9: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Stating impersonal information: Se as impersonal subject</li><li>Talking about the past: More on the preterit and the imperfect</li><li>Asking questions: More on interrogative pronouns</li><li>Giving instructions: Commands</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 10: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Expressing subjective attitudes: Introduction to the present subjunctive</li><li>Talking about expectations: The subjunctive used to express wishes and hope</li><li>Expressing doubt and uncertainty: The subjunctive with verbs and expressions of doubt</li><li>Telling people what to do: More on commands</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 11: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Expressing emotions, opinions, and attitudes: The subjunctive with expressions of emotion</li><li>Suggesting that someone and the speaker do something: The equivalents of the English let&rsquo;s</li><li>Expressing movement, time, and action: Por and para (review)</li><li>Using prepositions to express a range of meanings: Additional uses of por and para</li><li>Referring to people and things: Relative pronouns</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 12: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Expressing affirmation and negation: Affirmative and negative expressions</li><li>Talking about things that may not exist: The indicative and the subjunctive in adjective clauses</li><li>Making qualified statements: The subjunctive in adverbial clauses</li><li>Expressing wishes, recommendations, and conditions in the past: The past subjunctive</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 13: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Planning the future: The future tense</li><li>Hypothesizing about the future: The future subjunctive</li><li>Hypothesizing about what might happen: The conditional</li><li>Expressing reciprocity: Reciprocal verbs and pronouns</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 14: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Talking about results of actions: The past participle</li><li>Emphasizing facts resulting from actions: The passive voice</li><li>Talking about the recent past: The present perfect</li><li>Talking about the past from a past perspective: The past perfect</li></ul></li><li><strong>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 15: Estruturas</strong> <ul><li>Expressing actions: Uses of the impersonal infinitive</li><li>Personalizing the expression of actions: The personal infinitive</li><li>Hypothesizing about the present and the future: Present and future if-clause sentences</li><li>Expressing subjective attitudes: Diminutives and augmentatives</li></ul></li><li><strong>Expans&atilde;o gramatical: More on direct object pronouns</strong> <ul><li>Contractions of direct and indirect object pronouns</li><li>Object pronouns with future and conditional verb forms</li><li>The present perfect subjunctive</li><li>The conditional perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive</li><li>If-clause sentences with the perfect tenses</li><li>The future perfect and the future perfect subjunctive</li></ul></li></ul></p> 

<p>For courses in elementary Portuguese.</p> <h3>Contemporary Portuguese language, the way you want to teach it</h3> <p><cite><strong>Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language</strong></cite> is the 1st Portuguese language textbook that works for instructors whether they choose to teach Brazilian or European Portuguese. Culture-based sections throughout develop students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, providing authentic, meaningful environments for skill-development in each area. Coverage of essential vocabulary and grammatical structures is reinforced by targeted practice with vocabulary and proper grammar usage.</p> <p>The <strong>2nd Edition</strong> of this best-selling text is completely updated to reflect the 1990 Acordo Ortográfico (spelling reform), ensuring students learn how to accurately read and write in Portuguese today.</p>

<div class="c-no-headers-number-list_container"> <ul> <li>Lição preliminar: Primeiros passos</li> </ul> <ol> <li>A universidade</li> <li>Entre amigos</li> <li>Horas de lazer</li> <li>A família</li> <li>A casa</li> <li>A roupa e as compras</li> <li>O tempo e os passatempos</li> <li>Festas e tradições</li> <li>O trabalho e os negócios</li> <li>A comida</li> <li>A saúde e os médicos</li> <li>As férias e as viagens</li> <li>O meio ambiente</li> <li>A sociedade</li> <li>A ciência e a tecnologia</li> </ol> </div>

<p><em><strong>Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language</strong></em> is the best-selling Portuguese textbook designed to help you learn either Brazilian or European Portuguese and understand how they differ. Extensive culture-based sections throughout create authentic environments for practical skill-development in each area: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Instruction seamlessly paired with practice will reinforce your learning, build your vocabulary, and strengthen your understanding of grammatical structures.</p> <p>The <strong>2nd Edition</strong> has been completely updated to reflect the 1990 Acordo Ortográfico (spelling reform), ensuring that you learn how to read and write Portuguese accurately for today's world. Other updates include a helpful new grammar feature, as well as engaging new exercises that feature task-oriented communication.</p>

<B>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">IN THIS SECTION:</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">1.) BRIEF</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">2.) COMPREHENSIVE</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">  <HR>  &nbsp;   <P style="MARGIN: 0px"></P><U>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">1.) BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"></U></B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o preliminar: Primeiros passos</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 1:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A universidade</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 2:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Entre amigos</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 3:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Horas de lazer</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 4:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A fam&iacute;lia</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 5:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A casa</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 6:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; A roupa e as compras</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 7:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O tempo e os passatempos</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 8:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Festas e tradi&ccedil;&otilde;es</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 9:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O trabalho e os neg&oacute;cios</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 10:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A comida</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 11:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A sa&uacute;de e os m&eacute;dicos</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 12:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;As f&eacute;rias e as viagens</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 13:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;O meio ambiente</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 14:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A sociedade</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 15:&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A ci&ecirc;ncia e a tecnologia</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">  <HR>  <B><U><B>2.) </B></U></B><U><B>COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:   <P style="MARGIN: 0px"></P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"></B></U><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 1: <BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about people: Subject pronouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about academic life and daily occurrences:&nbsp; Present tense of regular -ar verbs<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Specifying gender and number: Articles and nouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contractions of a, de, and em with articles<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing location and states of being: Present tense of estar<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Asking and answering questions: Interrogative words<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mais um passo: Some regular -er and -ir verbs</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 2: <BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Describing people, places, and things: Adjectives<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Identifying and describing; expressing origin, possession, location of events, and time: Present tense of&nbsp; ser<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing inherent qualities and changeable conditions: Ser and estar with adjectives<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing ownership: Possessive adjectives<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mais um passo: Some idiomatic expressions with estar</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 3: <BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about daily life: Present tense of regular -er and -ir verbs<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing movement [or habits? conferir como ficou resolvido]: Present tense of ir<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing future action: Ir + infinitive [and other structures? conferir como ficou na vers&atilde;o definitiva]<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing age, possession, and obligation: Ter and ter que + infinitive<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about quantity: Numbers above 100<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mais um passo: Some uses of por and para</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 4: <BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing opinions, plans, preferences, and feelings: Present tense of stem changing verbs&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing when, where, or how an action occurs: Adverbs<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about daily activities: Present tense of fazer, dizer, trazer, sair, and p&ocirc;r<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing how long something has been going on: Faz/h&aacute; with expressions of time<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mais um passo: The preterir tense of regular verbs and of ir</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 5:<BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing ongoing actions: Present progressive<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Describing physical and emotional states: Expressions with ter, estar com, and ficar com<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Pointing out and identifying people and things: Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Learning useful verbs: Present tense of dar, ler, ver, and vir<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stating what you know: Saber and conhecer<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mais um passo: Some reflexive verbs and pronouns</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 6: <BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about the past: Preterit tense of regular verbs<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about the past: Preterit of ir and ser<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indicating the object of an action: Direct object nouns and pronouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Reinforcing inquiries: Tag questions<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mais um passo: Some more uses of por and para</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 7: <BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Indicating for whom an action takes place: Indirect object nouns and pronouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about the past: Some irregular preterits<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing ongoing actions and descriptions in the past: The imperfect<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Narrating in the past: The preterit and the imperfect<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Mais um passo: H&aacute;/Faz meaning ago</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 8: <BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Comparing people and things: Comparisons of inequality<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Comparing people and things: Comparisons of equality<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Comparing people and things: The superlative<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Emphasizing or clarifying information: Pronouns after prepositions<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about daily routine: Reflexive verbs and pronouns</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 9:<BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Stating impersonal information: Se as impersonal subject<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about the past: More on the preterit and the imperfect<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Asking questions: More on interrogative pronouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Giving instructions: Commands</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 10:<BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing subjective attitudes: Introduction to the present subjunctive<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about expectations: The subjunctive used to express wishes and hope<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing doubt and uncertainty: The subjunctive with verbs and expressions of doubt<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Telling people what to do: More on commands</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 11:<BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing emotions, opinions, and attitudes: The subjunctive with expressions of emotion<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Suggesting that someone and the speaker do something: The equivalents of the English let&rsquo;s<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing movement, time, and action: Por and para (review)<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Using prepositions to express a range of meanings: Additional uses of por and para<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Referring to people and things: Relative pronouns</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 12:</B></P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing affirmation and negation: Affirmative and negative expressions<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about things that may not exist: The indicative and the subjunctive in adjective clauses<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Making qualified statements: The subjunctive in adverbial clauses<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing wishes, recommendations, and conditions in the past: The past subjunctive</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 13:<BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Planning the future: The future tense<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hypothesizing about the future: The future subjunctive&nbsp;<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hypothesizing about what might happen: The conditional<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing reciprocity: Reciprocal verbs and pronouns</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 14:<BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about results of actions: The past participle<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Emphasizing facts resulting from actions: The passive voice<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about the recent past: The present perfect<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Talking about the past from a past perspective: The past perfect</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Li&ccedil;&atilde;o 15:<BR></B>Estruturas<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing actions: Uses of the impersonal infinitive<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Personalizing the expression of actions: The personal infinitive<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Hypothesizing about the present and the future: Present and future if-clause sentences<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Expressing subjective attitudes: Diminutives and augmentatives</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px">&nbsp;</P>  <P style="MARGIN: 0px"><B>Expans&atilde;o gramatical:<BR></B>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;More on direct object pronouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Contractions of direct and indirect object pronouns<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Object pronouns with future and conditional verb forms<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The present perfect subjunctive<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The conditional perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;If-clause sentences with the perfect tenses<BR>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;The future perfect and the future perfect subjunctive</P>

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