Building Blocks 3
Describing people and days. Personality, comparisons, how you feel, what you are doing, and telling the time.
Level A213 lessons, plus a welcome and a final quiz
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- Welcome to Portuguese Building Blocks 3What Building Blocks 3 covers over its 13 lessons: personality, comparisons, daily routines, and talking about plans.not finished
- Describing Personality TraitsSimpático, extrovertido, tímido, responsável. Personality adjectives and their opposites, discussed over two job candidates.not finished
- Core TraitsNovo, velho, grande, pequeno, bonito, feio. Core descriptive adjectives with 'ser', practised on a house and on two teachers.not finished
- Making ComparisonsMais interessante do que, tão simpático como. The three degrees of comparison in Portuguese, worked through with books and flowers.not finished
- Irregular AdjectivesMaior, menor, melhor, pior. The irregular comparative and superlative forms of 'grande', 'pequeno', 'bom' and 'mau'.not finished
- Traits and StatesEle é casado, ela está cansada. 'Ser' for lasting traits and status against 'estar' for moods, including adjectives that shift meaning between them.not finished
- I am hungry!Estou com fome, tenho fome. Two ways to say you're hungry, thirsty, sleepy or afraid, using 'estar com' or 'ter' plus a noun.not finished
- What are you doing?Estou a estudar, eles estão a comer. The present continuous, built from 'estar' plus 'a' plus the infinitive.not finished
- Let's go!Vou, vais, vamos. The present tense of 'ir' used as a shortcut to the future, plus vocabulary for how you get there.not finished
- Daily Conversations - Conjugating -er and -ir VerbsA restaurant owner's dialogue built around 'beber' and 'abrir', showing how regular -er and -ir verbs conjugate in the present.not finished
- Do you work on Saturdays?Segunda-feira, sábado, domingo. The days of the week and the prepositions 'a' and 'em' that pin an action to one of them.not finished
- What time is it?Que horas são? É uma hora, são duas horas. Asking and telling the time, down to the quarter and half hour.not finished
- What Time Do You Wake Up?Acordar, tomar banho, adormecer. Daily routine verbs, plus the irregular presents of 'fazer', 'ver' and 'ler'.not finished
- Talking About Daily RoutinesEu costumo, tu costumas. The verb 'costumar' for habitual actions, paired with time expressions like 'até' and 'por volta de'.not finished
- Building Blocks 3 Final QuizThe wrap-up quiz for Building Blocks 3: 20 questions on personality, comparisons and daily routines, 70% needed to pass.not finished