Dystopian stories in European Portuguese
6 stories from A1 to C1
Dystopias at every level from A1 to C1. At A1, in a city where everyone has a number instead of a name, a girl called 7-F finds a red flower growing through a crack in the pavement. At A2, fifteen-year-old Marco secretly reads a book he found under a floorboard in his late grandfather's house, in a country where books were burned ten years ago.
At B1, Carla must cross the concrete border that has divided her city for twenty years to reach her dying mother. At B2, an engineer finds a flaw in the AI system that runs his city, and a woman keeps fifty thousand books in a secret underground library in 2087. At C1, a technician at a clinic that erases traumatic memories finds a client who was erased against their will.
They give you plenty to think about, and to talk about, in Portuguese: freedom, memory and who gets to control them. Start with O Número.
Each story page shows the opening in Portuguese with the English under every paragraph, and a glossary of key words. The whole story is in the reader, with audio for every sentence and tap-to-translate on every word.
A1 — Beginner
All A1 stories →A2 — Elementary
All A2 stories →B1 — Intermediate
All B1 stories →B2 — Upper Intermediate
All B2 stories →- B213 minA Última BibliotecaEm 2087, num futuro distópico, a Dra. Elena Martinez guarda os últimos livros numa biblioteca subterrânea secreta e luta para salvar o conhecimento humano do apagamento imposto pelas empresas e pelos algoritmos.
- B27 minO SistemaPaulo é engenheiro do sistema de IA que controla a cidade. Descobre uma falha que poderia libertar os cidadãos.