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This is the Teacher's Edition of "Working Portuguese for Beginners". Instructors should contact the publisher or distributor directly to obtain copies. "Working Portuguese" enables English speakers with no prior knowledge of Brazilian Portuguese to develop the basic communication skills and cultural knowledge needed to visit Brazil and to function in a work environment in which Portuguese is spoken. This language program presents not only all the situations and grammar normally covered in an elementary Portuguese textbook but also includes situations set in a business context in every lesson. Major features of this title include the following: twenty-four lessons, the last four concluding with a special independent project in which the student applies the language to his or her area of professional interest. Clear objectives for acquiring language skills, grammar, and cultural understanding. Lessons cover the important basics normally covered in any beginning Portuguese textbook such as introductions and greetings, counting, making travel plans, taking public transportation, and asking for directions. Lessons cover business tasks such as negotiating a contract, presenting a new product, writing a business memo-all in Brazilian Portuguese. Lessons provide dialogues and vocabulary lists for reading and listening, grammar, cultural reading, and interactive homework. Portuguese-English and English-Portuguese glossaries offer additional help with vocabulary. Course can be combined with affordable online access to self-grading exercises (available through Quia.com, $24.95 per student for 9 months of access) Student's Book. This title includes MP3 tracks of vocabulary, dialogues, and audio exercises on CD. Lessons are valuable to the classroom student as well as self-directed independent learners Teacher's Edition. This title also includes a CD-ROM with all MP3 tracks of vocabulary, dialogues, and audio exercises found on the student's disk. The CD-ROM also provides quizzes and a midterm, materials for special activities, and approximately 300 supplementary PowerPoint slides for classroom presentation Online teaching features at Quia.com. It features instructor-managed class activities and exercises; monitoring of student progress; and, customized grading options online. Students can complete exercises online, submit their answers electronically to their instructor, and receive automatic feedback. Teachers can also use Quia templates to build their own exercises or use exercises developed by other instructors to provide added help for students. Motivated self-directed learners can also access the self-grading online exercises at Quia.com (no instructor feedback will be provided). System requirements include: Student's Edition Textbook/MP3 CD (Mac and PC); CD drive on a computer or conventional CD player with MP3 capability; MP3 player, such as iTunes, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player; Speakers Teacher's Edition Textbook/CD-ROM Mac and PC; CD drive on a computer; MP3 player, such as iTunes, RealPlayer, or Windows Media Player; speakers; Adobe Acrobat Reader (available as a free download) PC; Windows XP; Microsoft Office 2000 or higher with Service Pack 3 installed (Word and PowerPoint are needed to view and edit some files) Or, to view the PowerPoints only, download Microsoft PowerPoint Viewer 2003 or higher; and, Fonts for PowerPoints - Arial Unicode (included in all editions of Office 2000/XP/2003) Mac. System requirements also include: Microsoft Word, version Office 2004 or higher; Microsoft PowerPoint, version Office 2004 or higher (Word and PowerPoint are needed to view and edit some files) or view the PowerPoints as PDFs; Fonts for PowerPoints - Arial (included in Office 2004 and higher) Interactive Exercises on Quia (Mac and PC); Computer with Internet access, preferably a high-speed connection; Java-enabled browser - Internet Explorer 6.x or higher, or Firefox 1.x or higher; the program QuickTime is needed to play audio; Speakers or headphones to hear audio; and, Microphone to record answers or responses.
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"Working Portuguese for Beginners offers . . . vocabulary, exercises, and grammatical concepts . . . in a Brazilian business context. With added ancillary materials, the text may well be suited for self-guided study . . . a welcome addition." -- Carmen Tesser
About the Author
Monica Rector is a professor of Portuguese in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Regina Santos is the assistant director of the Portuguese School at Middlebury College. Marcelo Amorim is a professor of Portuguese language and linguistics at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte in Brazil. M. Lynne Gerber is the executive director of the Center for International Business Education and Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Working Portuguese for Beginners (Working Languages) (Portuguese Edition)
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U.S.A.: Georgetown Univ Pr, 2010
ISBN 10: 1589016874
ISBN 13: 9781589016873
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Soft cover
Seller: Atticus Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Seller rating 3 out of 5 stars
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. This is Teacher's Edition, Seller Inventory # H-ONR30