Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language, 2nd edition

For courses in elementary Portuguese.

Contemporary Portuguese language, the way you want to teach it

Ponto de Encontro: Portuguese as a World Language is the 1st Portuguese language textbook that works for instructors whether they choose to teach Brazilian or European Portuguese. Culture-based sections throughout develop students' listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, providing authentic, meaningful environments for skill-development in each area. Coverage of essential vocabulary and grammatical structures is reinforced by targeted practice with vocabulary and proper grammar usage.

The 2nd Edition of this best-selling text is completely updated to reflect the 1990 Acordo Ortográfico (spelling reform), ensuring students learn how to accurately read and write in Portuguese today.

Hallmark features of this title

• Works for instructors teaching Brazilian or European Portuguese and helps students understand how they differ.
• Teaches effective communication in spoken and written Portuguese with a variety of guided and open-ended activities.
• Integrates culture and cultural exchange, providing an array of insights into the cultural, social and political realities of the Portuguese-speaking world.
• Presents grammatical structures as a means to effective communication.
• Builds vocabulary seamlessly with exercises throughout that reinforce vocabulary and proper grammatical usage in real-world situations.
• Develops listening, speaking, reading and writing skills with culture-based sections that create authentic, meaningful environments for skill-development in each area.

New and updated features of this title

• NEW: Completely updated to reflect the 1990 Acordo Ortográfico (spelling reform), ensuring students learn how to accurately read and write in Portuguese today.
• NEW: The text's photography program presents a wide range of imagery that highlights the diversity of the Portuguese speaking world.
• NEW: All readings have been thoroughly reviewed, and in many cases revised, to reflect changes in society and the most recent cultural data available (such as new census figures).
• NEW: Vamos analisar exercises in the “Estruturas” section precede each formal grammar explanation and introduce students to new grammar structures in a contextualized manner.
• NEW: A Projeto final section in each chapter reviews the chapter's featured vocabulary and grammatical structures in the context of a meaningful, task-oriented goal that students must communicate in Portuguese to achieve. Each assignment takes students through a series of interconnected, real-world tasks, such as the various stages of planning a party.