Reading of the short story "A Beleza Total" ("The Total Beauty") by the Brazilian modernist writer and poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade. In this episode, we work on textual interpretation and vocabulary, with the indication of tenses for some of the verbs contained in the text. Practice your listening and (why not) your reading as well by grabbing a copy of this modernist text (easily found on Google) while listening to this special episode. Verb tenses mentioned in the vocabulary section: * Pretérito Perfeito * Pretérito Imperfeito * Pretérito-mais-que-perfeito Target audience: Portuguese Students from B1 Level Length: ~6 minutes Music used in the podcast Song: Brazilian Sunsets, by Ketsa Source: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Ketsa/ Free to use with attribution