IN THIS SECTION:

1. BRIEF
2. COMPREHENSIVE

• Lição preliminar: Primeiros passos
• Lição 1: A universidade
• Lição 2: Entre amigos
• Lição 3: Horas de lazer
• Lição 4: A família
• Lição 5: A casa
• Lição 6: A roupa e as compras
• Lição 7: O tempo e os passatempos
• Lição 8: Festas e tradições
• Lição 9: O trabalho e os negócios
• Lição 10: A comida
• Lição 11: A saúde e os médicos
• Lição 12: As férias e as viagens
• Lição 13: O meio ambiente
• Lição 14: A sociedade
• Lição 15: A ciência e a tecnologia

• Lição 1: Estruturas
  • Talking about people: Subject pronouns
  • Talking about academic life and daily occurrences: Present tense of regular -ar verbs
  • Specifying gender and number: Articles and nouns
  • Contractions of a, de, and em with articles
  • Expressing location and states of being: Present tense of estar
  • Asking and answering questions: Interrogative words
  • Mais um passo: Some regular -er and -ir verbs
• Lição 2: Estruturas
  • Describing people, places, and things: Adjectives
  • Identifying and describing; expressing origin, possession, location of events, and time: Present tense of ser
  • Expressing inherent qualities and changeable conditions: Ser and estar with adjectives
  • Expressing ownership: Possessive adjectives
  • Mais um passo: Some idiomatic expressions with estar
• Lição 3: Estruturas
  • Talking about daily life: Present tense of regular -er and -ir verbs
  • Expressing movement [or habits? conferir como ficou resolvido]: Present tense of ir
  • Expressing future action: Ir + infinitive [and other structures? conferir como ficou na versão definitiva]
  • Expressing age, possession, and obligation: Ter and ter que + infinitive
  • Talking about quantity: Numbers above 100
  • Mais um passo: Some uses of por and para
• Lição 4: Estruturas
  • Expressing opinions, plans, preferences, and feelings: Present tense of stem changing verbs
  • Expressing when, where, or how an action occurs: Adverbs
  • Talking about daily activities: Present tense of fazer, dizer, trazer, sair, and pôr
  • Expressing how long something has been going on: Faz/há with expressions of time
  • Mais um passo: The preterir tense of regular verbs and of ir
• Lição 5: Estruturas
  • Expressing ongoing actions: Present progressive
  • Describing physical and emotional states: Expressions with ter, estar com, and ficar com
  • Pointing out and identifying people and things: Demonstrative adjectives and pronouns
  • Learning useful verbs: Present tense of dar, ler, ver, and vir
  • Stating what you know: Saber and conhecer
  • Mais um passo: Some reflexive verbs and pronouns
• Lição 6: Estruturas
  • Talking about the past: Preterit tense of regular verbs
  • Talking about the past: Preterit of ir and ser
  • Indicating the object of an action: Direct object nouns and pronouns
  • Reinforcing inquiries: Tag questions
  • Mais um passo: Some more uses of por and para
• Lição 7: Estruturas
  • Indicating for whom an action takes place: Indirect object nouns and pronouns
  • Talking about the past: Some irregular preterits
  • Expressing ongoing actions and descriptions in the past: The imperfect
  • Imperfect tense of regular and irregular verbs
  • Narrating in the past: The preterit and the imperfect
  • Mais um passo: Há/Faz meaning ago
• Lição 8: Estruturas
  • Comparing people and things: Comparisons of inequality
  • Comparing people and things: Comparisons of equality
  • Comparing people and things: The superlative
  • Emphasizing or clarifying information: Pronouns after prepositions
  • Talking about daily routine: Reflexive verbs and pronouns
• Lição 9: Estruturas
  • Stating impersonal information: Se as impersonal subject
  • Talking about the past: More on the preterit and the imperfect
  • Asking questions: More on interrogative pronouns
  • Giving instructions: Commands
• Lição 10: Estruturas
  • Expressing subjective attitudes: Introduction to the present subjunctive
  • Talking about expectations: The subjunctive used to express wishes and hope
  • Expressing doubt and uncertainty: The subjunctive with verbs and expressions of doubt
  • Telling people what to do: More on commands
• Lição 11: Estruturas
  • Expressing emotions, opinions, and attitudes: The subjunctive with expressions of emotion
  • Suggesting that someone and the speaker do something: The equivalents of the English let’s
  • Expressing movement, time, and action: Por and para (review)
  • Using prepositions to express a range of meanings: Additional uses of por and para
  • Referring to people and things: Relative pronouns
• Lição 12: Estruturas
  • Expressing affirmation and negation: Affirmative and negative expressions
  • Talking about things that may not exist: The indicative and the subjunctive in adjective clauses
  • Making qualified statements: The subjunctive in adverbial clauses
  • Expressing wishes, recommendations, and conditions in the past: The past subjunctive
• Lição 13: Estruturas
  • Planning the future: The future tense
  • Hypothesizing about the future: The future subjunctive
  • Hypothesizing about what might happen: The conditional
  • Expressing reciprocity: Reciprocal verbs and pronouns
• Lição 14: Estruturas
  • Talking about results of actions: The past participle
  • Emphasizing facts resulting from actions: The passive voice
  • Talking about the recent past: The present perfect
  • Talking about the past from a past perspective: The past perfect
• Lição 15: Estruturas
  • Expressing actions: Uses of the impersonal infinitive
  • Personalizing the expression of actions: The personal infinitive
  • Hypothesizing about the present and the future: Present and future if-clause sentences
  • Expressing subjective attitudes: Diminutives and augmentatives
• Expansão gramatical: More on direct object pronouns
  • Contractions of direct and indirect object pronouns
  • Object pronouns with future and conditional verb forms
  • The present perfect subjunctive
  • The conditional perfect and the pluperfect subjunctive
  • If-clause sentences with the perfect tenses
  • The future perfect and the future perfect subjunctive