This paper, as the title Semantic field and uses of the verbs colocar, botar and pôr in Brazilian Portuguese: a contribution to PL2E teaching suggests, investigates the semantic field of the verbs colocar, botar and pôr, taking into account the uses native speakers of Brazilian Portuguese do of such verbs in different contexts of speech. The present investigation is inserted in a functionalist perspective, which means to extract the structure of the language from the observation of a real verbal interaction. We choose the theoretic model of the Functional Discourse Grammar, developed by Hengeveld, for it adopts a model of the language system inserted in a theory of verbal interaction whose goal is to describe the functioning rules of the language in use. This makes possible to organize the language analysis in different levels that unfold until the level of the discourse. In such context of investigation, our aim is to observe in which linguistic contexts speakers of Brazilian Portuguese choose each of these verbs. Our goal with this investigation is not only to help describe the structures in which such verbs appear in real utterings of this language, but also to expose how the Brazilian speaker, when organizing his speech in order to express that which he wants to communicate, effectively uses these verbs. From this investigation, we hope to be able to help elaborating some learning conditions that might capacitate the foreign student of Brazilian Portuguese capable of communicating with as little noise as possible. Mainly, it is our intent to enable them to notice the different verbal choices made by native speakers so much so that they can correctly interpret that which they hear and read. Moreover, it is my whish to help them make lexical choices similar to the ones the native speaker would do.