Intermediate Portuguese

A Grammar and Workbook
1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-415-63322-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 348 g

Reihe: Routledge Grammar Workbooks

Intermediate Portuguese: A Grammar and Workbook is an accessible reference grammar presenting twenty-two individual grammar points in realistic contexts with practise exercises in each unit designed to reinforce and consolidate learning.

This comprehensive volume takes a grammatical approach which encourages students to familiarise themselves with the grammar points in each unit, using a wide variety of contemporary vocabulary that can be applied to different settings such as work, shopping, tourism, business, education and socialising.

Key features include:

- grammar exercises and a full answer key

- frequent comparative references to English grammar

- a list of key vocabulary at the end of each unit

- a glossary of grammatical terms

Providing readers with the essential tools to express themselves in a wide variety of situations, Intermediate Portuguese is an essential resource for students with beginner to intermediate knowledge of the language and is suitable for both class-based learning and independent study.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sousa, Cristina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fremdsprachenerwerb und -didaktik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

Unit 1 Relative pronouns

Unit 2 The future tense

Unit 3 The conditional tense

Unit 4 The subjunctive mood

Unit 5 The past (or imperfect) subjunctive

Unit 6 The future subjunctive

Unit 7 The infinitive and personal infinitive

Unit 8 The present participle

Unit 9 The passive voice and the past participle

Unit 10 Verb ‘haver’

Unit 11 Impersonal and unipersonal verbs

Unit 12 Commands and the imperative mood

Unit 13 Direct and reported speech

Unit 14 Conjunctions

Unit 15 Prepositions

Unit 16 Perfect tenses in the indicative mood

Unit 17 Perfect tenses in the subjunctive mood

Unit 18 Compound infinitive and present participle

Unit 19 Using 'gente/a gente', 'ainda/já', 'tão/tanto', 'tudo/todo'

Unit 20 Auxiliary verbs

Unit 21 Versatile verbs

Unit 22 Revision

Glossary

Key to exercises

Über Autor(innen)

Cristina Sousa holds a PhD in literary translation. She is a translator, proofreader and copywriter and she has lectured in Portuguese Studies at various universities in the UK.