The picture comes from – Creative Commons by fhcosta3. It is an iconic bird in Brazil, found in other parts of the Americas as well. The bird in the book cover is a blue and yellow macaw (arara canindé). The title of the book bate-papo means ‘chit-chat’ in Portuguese. Bate-Papo has been developed with the collaboration of volunteers and has been written with the goal of facilitating the teaching of Portuguese without the cost of traditional textbooks.Ĭlick here for the workbook available on Canvas Commons. We also incorporated pod-casts from another open education resource, Língua da Gente, developed by Orlando Kelm from the University of Texas, at Austin. Bate-Papo focuses on interactive activities, for a grammar reference we linked parts of the text to the open e-book Português para Principiantes, hosted by PressBooks at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Some of the book content derived from unrehearsed conversations following a prompt (greeting each other, for example). This e-book emphasizes meaningful communicative activities for a classroom setting, focusing on everyday language in Brazilian Portuguese. Occasionally, we highlight main differences between Brazilian Portuguese, Portuguese spoken in Africa and Asia, and European Portuguese. The main focus of this edition is on Brazilian Portuguese. Although this material was developed for university students, we hope that most of its content is also applicable to high school students, adolescents, and adults learning Portuguese, including immigrants in Brazil. We also took into consideration speakers of Spanish by highlighting some key similarities and differences between the two languages. This book was developed having in mind university students who speak English as their first language. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
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