B2
Portuguese B2: Fluent
The effort goes out of listening here. A talk, a discussion, a newspaper piece in your own field all get through without constant checking back.
Speaking brings a choice that was not there before: the same thing can now be put several ways, and they differ in how polite they sound, how certain, how formal.
Tenses and if-sentences7
The past
1The future
2Conditions
4B2Second conditional: se tivesse« If I were » extended to every verb — and the main clause has two right answers.B2Conditions without seOnly se takes the future subjunctive; the others take the present one.B2Mixed conditionsThe condition is in the past and the consequence is now — English mixes them too.B2Wishes and regretsThere is no verb for « I wish »: two phrases do the work, and one is Arabic.
Verbs: ser, estar, subjunctive4
Can, want, must
1The subjunctive (conjuntivo)
2Verb + infinitive
1Sentence structure4
Subordinate clauses
1Reported speech
3Word lists at level B2
Lists: 60 · words: 2756
- Giving a text its structure
- Arguing and objecting
- Precise adjectives
- Organising the work
- Business and the economy
- Law and the courts
- How a news story is made
- The state and its institutions
- Data, security, network
- At the doctor’s and in hospital
- School, university, training
- Feelings, more precisely
- Building and property
- Planning a city and its traffic
- Energy and raw materials
- Psychology and learning
- History and sources
- Statistics and figures
- Farming and food
- Trade and logistics
- Kitchen technique
- Biology and ecology
- Physics and forces
- Chemistry and materials
Reading texts at level B2
- A casa junto à falésia
- O homem da guitarra
- A reunião de condomínio
- O risco na porta
- A música do casamento
- A festa da Rita
- A fatura da eletricidade
Sentences from this level’s topics
Tenho estudado português todas as noites.I have been studying Portuguese every evening.
Não atende — estará numa reunião.He is not picking up — he must be in a meeting.
Quando chegares, já teremos jantado.By the time you arrive we will already have had dinner.
Queria falar consigo um momento.I would like a word with you.