Meet Sara, a fourteen-year-old from a family with roots in Lisbon who now calls Porto home. This short text introduces her family, her hobbies, and the kind of person she is, useful vocabulary for describing people you know.
What you’ll learn
- describing where someone lives and where they are from
- ser and ter in the present tense
- free time activities in Portuguese
Texto
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A Sara é uma menina de 14 anos.Sara is a fourteen-year-old girl. Ela vive no Porto, mas a família dela é de Lisboa.She lives in Porto, but her family is from Lisbon. A mãe da Sara tem uma casa nos Anjos, mas agora eles vivem perto do Palácio de Cristal.Sara's mother has a house in Anjos, but now they live near the Palácio de Cristal. Nos tempos livres a Sara pratica ballet.In her free time, Sara does ballet. Ela também gosta de jogar futebol e de ler.She also likes playing football and reading.
Na casa da Sara há muitos livros e muitos brinquedos.In Sara's house there are many books and many toys. Ela é uma menina feliz, inteligente e sonhadora.She is a happy, intelligent, dreamy girl.
Vocabulário
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- o sonho
- the dream
- há
- there is, there are
- brincar
- to play
- os brinquedos
- the toys
- jogar
- to play (a sport or game)
- dela
- of her, hers (contraction of de + ela)
- o livro
- the book
- livre
- free
Perguntas
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