Portuguese · For teachers
Every Portuguese printable, chapter by chapter
The whole Portuguese curriculum in one place, mapped to its 10 chapters and 327 lessons. Each lesson lists its downloads inline - worksheets with answer keys, infographics and PDFs - and each chapter's words fold out into their own per-word printable sets, so you can open and print any sheet for a class without hunting through the site.
Chapter 1 · Foundations
Chapter page →- How Brazilian Portuguese worksIntroduction
Familiar Romance grammar and a sound system that is anything but. Why reading runs so far ahead of listening, and what to do about it.
Oi for anyone, olá a touch more formal, and bom dia, boa tarde or boa noite by the clock: the hellos you can use on day one, before any grammar.
Tudo bem? and its answer, tchau and até amanhã, obrigado or obrigada by who is speaking, and com licença before against desculpa after.
Two ways to say your name, two ways to ask, muito prazer, and a whole first conversation with a new neighbour.
The tilde, the cedilla and three accents, none of them decoration. Each one changes the word, and the nasal vowels have no English equivalent at all.
- Words 1-10Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 1-10
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 11-20Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 11-20
- Ser and estar: sou and estouGrammar
Portuguese splits to be in two. Eu sou says what you are; eu estou says where you are and how you are right now. The present of both, and which one each job takes.
Permanent against temporary works for a month and then leaks. The line that holds: ser names what something is, estar describes the state it is in.
- Words 21-30Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 21-30
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 31-40Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 31-40
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- O, a, um, uma: the articlesGrammar
The has four forms and a has four, and each matches its noun, never the speaker: o carro, a casa, uns livros.
Brazil usually says meu carro with no article, and a job after ser drops um: sou estudante, ele é médico. Add an adjective and um comes back.
- Words 41-50Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 41-50
Nearly every verb ends in -ar, -er or -ir (pôr is the famous odd one out), and each family takes a predictable set of present-tense endings: drop the ending, add the person's.
The verbs you need first are the ones that break the pattern, mostly in the eu form. Plus tem against têm, told apart in writing by a hat.
- Words 51-60Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 51-60
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 61-70Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 61-70
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Words 71-80Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 71-80
One word, one place: não goes straight in front of the verb, with no helper verb. With two verbs, it goes before the first.
Nada or nunca after the verb keeps não in place; nunca before the verb does the job alone. And a no answer often says não twice.
- Words 81-90Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 81-90
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Words 91-100Vocabulary
10 words · ranks 91-100
- Read: Quem fala à noite?Graded-reader story
Every night someone talks at home, and nobody owns up. Written entirely inside this chapter's hundred words.
- The number house: de zero a noveVocabulary
10 words · Zero to nine in one sitting, the digits every price, age and phone number is built from. Watch um and dois: they turn into uma and duas before a feminine noun.
- Word Bubbles review sessionReview games
Pop the words you just met by matching each one to its meaning. A couple of rounds and the batch is yours.
- Number house two: the teensVocabulary
10 words · Dez to dezenove, the Brazilian way: dezesseis, dezessete, dezenove. Fourteen is quatorze or catorze; both are right. Portugal writes dezasseis, dezassete and dezanove.
- Crossword review sessionReview games
Cross the words you just met, clued in English. Slower than a drill, and it sticks harder.
- Number house three: the tens and cemVocabulary
9 words · Vinte to noventa and cem. Everything in between is joined with e: vinte e um, noventa e nove. Watch cem, which becomes cento the moment anything follows it.
Zero to ninety-nine in a handful of rules: learn zero to fifteen and the tens, then join the parts with e. Cem, cento and duas come next.
- Cem or cento, dois or duasGrammar
A hundred is cem on its own and cento the moment more follows. And one and two agree with their noun: uma casa, duas casas, vinte e uma casas.
- E, mas, ouThemed review
The connectives and time words that carry most of a Brazilian sentence, grouped by the job they do rather than by their dictionary glosses.
- Vovô never talks at nightConversation
Ten lines with Vovô, late at night, about nothing at all.
- Arcade reviewReview games
Replay this chapter's words as games - a different kind of repetition, and it counts.
Word printables
Per-word sheets128 words · a worksheet, infographic and listicle each
