Rola Portuguese: Level 2 - Softcover

Rocha, Edward Lee; The Rola Languages Team

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1087968305 ISBN 13: 9781087968308

Publisher: Rola Corporation, 2021

Synopsis

If your goal is to continue your progress in learning the Portuguese language by building vocabulary, grammar, and speaking skills, Rola Languages' Portuguese: Level 2 book is for you!

This guided workbook was crafted with the real-life classroom experience in mind and features lessons that focus on specific areas, easy-to-follow instructions, an abundance of practice activities, and more!

In Rola's Portuguese: Level 2 book you will find:

• 6 Unique and Informative Chapters: Each chapter focuses on a set of vocabulary and grammar concepts that give you the tools to start speaking Portuguese in a practical way.
• Contextual Vocabulary: Each chapter leads with vocab introductions and translations which are also present within the readings and exercises that follow.
• Brazilian Portuguese Perspective: This book presents vocabulary, grammar, and contextual examples according to rules and patterns of Brazilian Portuguese.
• Multidisciplinary and Interactive Sections: Each chapter consists of 7 sections focused on the areas of vocabulary, grammar, readings, exercises, and review.
• Real-Life Context: Readings are incorporated throughout to provide situational context and help build comprehension skills.
• Practice Exercises: Each chapter has guided lessons to put your learning to the test and build on the skills and concepts acquired.
• Rola Resposta Rápida: Each chapter ends with a section that reviews the material and puts the concepts learned together; a cornerstone of the Rola Method.
• Answer Key: An answer key is included in the back of the book, allowing the user to check their progress along the way.

The Rola Method is a progressive teaching method that promotes fluency through repetition. With the needs of our adult students in mind, it was designed to increase retention and confidence.

Our method focuses on 3 parts and is reflected in the structure and exercises:

1. Vocabulary Building/Repetition
2. Verb Drills/Grammar
3. General Conversation/Fluency

This textbook builds on the foundation of basic vocabulary and grammatical structure of the Portuguese language established in Level 1 by including real-life examples to help contextualize concepts learned for day-to-day application. With this workbook, you will be well on your way to becoming a Portuguese speaker in no time!

About this title

About the Author

Edward Rocha is the founder and President of Rola Corporation and director of Rola Languages. He was raised bilingual in rural Texas. Ed is fluent in English and Spanish and a student of French, Portuguese, and Mandarin with nearly 20 years of language teaching experience. After privately tutoring Spanish for many years and living abroad in Argentina and Spain, he fell in love with the idea of a language school, and as an avid entrepreneur and language and communications specialist, Ed was determined to build such a community in Boston. He formalized his teaching method and thus, Rola Languages was born in 2008. Rola Languages is now a part of Rola Corporation, an international education company focused on creating a global brand with 3 education companies, through curriculum development, consulting, and partnerships. Rola promotes its system called the Rola Method, and applies it to course development and teaching in areas of language, communications, and professional development.

From the Back Cover

If your goal is to continue your progress in learning the Portuguese language by building vocabulary, grammar and speaking skills, Rola Languages' Portuguese: Level 2 book is for you! This guided workbook was crafted with the real-life classroom experience in mind and features lessons that focus on specific areas, easy to follow instructions, an abundance of practice activities and more!


Covered Topics Include:

• Key vocabulary
• Irregular present tense verbs
• Near future
• Present progressive
• Possessives
• Prepositions

From the Inside Flap

Copyright © 2021 by Rola Corporation
Cambridge, MA
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form, or by any means, stored in a database or retrieval system without the prior express written permission from the author of this book.


Contributors:
Edward Lee Rocha
Beatriz C. Dias
The Rola Languages Team

Introduction
If your goal is to jumpstart your progress in learning the Portuguese language by building vocabulary, grammar and speaking skills, Rola Languages' Portuguese: Level 2 book is for you! This guided workbook was crafted with the real-life classroom experience in mind and features lessons that focus on specific areas, easy to follow instructions, an abundance of practice activities and more!
Each chapter focuses on a set of vocabulary and grammar concepts that give you the tools to start speaking Portuguese in a practical way. Each chapter leads with vocab introductions and translations which are also present within the readings and exercises that follow. This book presents vocabulary, grammar and contextual examples according to rules and patterns of Brazilian Portuguese. Each chapter consists of 7 sections focused on the areas of vocabulary, grammar, readings, exercises and review. Readings are incorporated throughout to provide situational context and help build comprehension skills. Each chapter has guided lessons to put your learning to the test and build on the skills and concepts acquired. Each chapter ends with a section that reviews the material and puts the concepts learned together; a cornerstone of the Rola Method. An answer key is included in the back of the book, allowing the user to check
their progress along the way.

This textbook provides a solid foundation of basic vocabulary and grammatical structure
of the Portuguese language, including real-life examples to help contextualize concepts
learned for day-to-day application. With this workbook, you will be well on your way to
becoming a Portuguese speaker in no time!

Edition details

• Publisher: Rola Corporation
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1087968305
• ISBN 13: 9781087968308
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 116