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Brazilian Portuguese grammar book. This book is divided in four short books/chapters. Book 1 -Present Tense (first steps), Book 2 -Present Tense (foundation), Book 3 -Present, Present Continuous, Immediate Future, Simple Future and The Imperative form. Book 4 -Simple Past Tense. It is designed to help students to achieve an intermediate level in 4-6 months with a 1h lesson a week, if used by a teacher. Students using 'DIA A DIA' will be able to hold basic conversation using past, present and future. This book has been carefully prepared to help foreign students to learn the most used tenses in day to day situations, in an easy, fast and fun way. The book itself is a tool that will help teachers during their Portuguese language classes. It was developed over the past 13 years, addressing the needs and difficulties encountered by those who wish to learn the Portuguese language. The complete series, including other tenses and the use of the subjunctive, has 15 short books. ' DIA A DIA ' includes the first four short books needed to introduce the student to Portuguese and enable them to use the language with ease and efficiency. The teacher can use this book in many ways in order to speed up the student's learning process. It is necessary, however, for the addition of more information not included in the books, so the teacher can use their own intuition and give extra information according to their region in Brazil and also according to their students' needs. A simple example would be the case of the first pages of pronouns and verb ' TO BE ', which are presented in the correct manner but where during my classes I also explain the use of colloquial Portuguese: 'ce' instead of 'você', 'tô' instead of 'estou' the omission of 'Eu' and 'Nós' and the difference in the pronunciation of R and S in Rio and São Paulo . Should this book be used without the help of a teacher or from a native Portuguese speaker, the student should have some idea of the sound of the language or use other resources to help them, since at this time this book is not accompanied by audio

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Author:   Edinaldo do Espirito Santo
Publisher:   CreateSpace
Imprint:   CreateSpace
Dimensions:   Width: 21.60cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 27.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9781493639588

ISBN 10:   1493639587
Pages:   124
Publication Date:   31 October 2013
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Language:   Portuguese

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The Author: Edinaldo do Espírito Santo was born in São Paulo - Brazil in April, 1970. He got a degree in Languages in 1994, but started teaching Portuguese and English at the age of 23 in 1993. In 1996 he went to the USA to study at Florida International University and in 1998 he came to England for the first time, living in London for five months. He came back to England in 2000, where he did several teaching training courses, such as the City & Guilds 7307 stage 1, the OCR Diploma for teaching languages to foreigners, the Health & Safety awareness certificate course, amongst others. He started teaching Portuguese in London in October 2000, when he worked at International House in Green Park. From 2001 he taught for several colleges around London such as North Kingston Centre, Cranford Adult Education and Lambeth College, to mention a few and has worked and works for big organizations as translator, proof-reader, interpreter or teacher for their employees. 'Foreign & Commonwealth Office, The French Embassy, Total, Flamingo, Aldelia, Gramafilm, BBC, Petrobrás, The Brazilian Defence Forces and many others. In june 2011, at the age of 41, he founded his own company called London Lessons Ltd, where he teaches Brazilian Portuguese to English and foreigners. Apart from teaching at his classroom in Shepherds Bush - West 12, he also conducts the OCR GCSE oral exams in Portuguese for several secondary schools around London. He also prepares students for the OCR GCSE and A level exams in Portuguese and the CELPE-Bras.

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