Um concerto no parque

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More sentences on this in “Language in use”: Portuguese for music and concerts

Words

83

Sentences

19

Words per sentence

4.4

in the vocabulary

100 %

measured level

A1

Reading time

1 min

Grammar in this text

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• Há um concerto · Há sempre muita gente

  há means “there is” or “there are” and does not change: há um concerto, há sempre muita gente. há — there is →

• estás livre · Estou.

  estar for a state: estás livre? — Estou. A short answer repeats the verb instead of saying “yes”. estar — being what passes →

• Quem toca · quanto custa · Porquê

  Question words: quem (who), quanto (how much), porquê (why, at the end of a sentence). The question words →

The words from A1 up in this text

Not the hard words in general, but those at your level: 30 of the 34 of the 63 words in this text are at A1 or above. You will know everything else by the time you get here.

• a cidade

  the city, the town

  A1

• a entrada

  the entrance, the admission

  A1

• a garrafa

  the bottle

  A1

• a gente

  people, we

  A1

• a hora

  the hour, the time by the clock

  A1

• a irmã

  the sister

  A1

• a noite

  the evening, the night

  A1

• a água

  the water

  A1

• bem

  well

  A1

• cedo

  early

  A1

• chegar

  to arrive

  A1

• começar

  to begin

  A1

• custar

  to cost

  A1

• estar

  to be (for now, in a place)

  A1

• haver

  there to be

  A1

• levar

  to take along

  A1

• livre

  free, unoccupied

  A1

• meio

  half

  A1

• muito

  very, a lot

  A1

• nove

  nine

  A1

• o amigo

  the friend (male)

  A1

• o bilhete

  the ticket

  A1

• o bolo

  the cake

  A1

• o concerto

  the concert

  A2

• o lado

  the side

  A1

• o lago

  the lake

  A1

• o parque

  the park

  A1

• oito

  eight

  A1

• precisar

  to need

  A1

• quatro

  four

  A1

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Comprehension questions

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