Latin at The Westgate School Year 8 Latin

Latin at The Westgate School • Year 8 Latin as option 2 nd language , 1 hour per week, missing PE, CLC Book I Stages 1 -7 • Year 9 2 hours per week, CLC Books I – II • Year 10 2 hours per week, CLC Book III, from January alternate lessons of language and set texts. • Year 11 2 hours per week, alternate lang. (CLC selections Books IV and V) and lit. (WJEC Certificate set texts). 1

Vocabulary • • • Online WJEC Stage by stage lists Games Kinaesthetic Testing

Online • • • Adapt it to be a competitive activity Mini-boards WJEC selection option to create a specific list English to Latin Pupils in charge, choose words, operate board …

WJEC pages on CLC for general vocabulary testing Main http: //www. cambridgescp. com/Upage. php? p=pe^WJEC^intro Level 2 vocabulary http: //www. cambridgescp. com/Upage. php? p=pe^level 2^unit 21 http: //www. cambridgescp. com/singles/wjec /voc. html? u 21. t

statim subito cotidie igitur tandem simulac priusquam tamen enim nisi antequam semper Feathers are gentler on interactive boards! 5

Focus on endings: odd one out recitavi recitabat recito ambulat vidit sedent spectabat discesserunt agunt dicis sum es habitas puer servus dominus puellae actores senes gladiatores canis femina miles villam puer mare naves navigabat nautae Choose an odd one out and give a reason. There may be more than one strong answer. Accept anything pupils can justify. Pupils then set their own challenge to partner/class. 6

cape murem Give 1 minute to write in Latin as many as they can: family, animals, house words, places, jobs, people, women, cases, adjectives, Latin words ending it/erunt etc Guess the keyword (chosen from a particular text or page): 10 questions (yes/no answers only), hangman, anagram, sky-write, lipread, mime Punctuate: inpictura. Herculemmagnumfustemtenetetleonemverberat

SERIOUS Tests Have a stock of test sheets nomen: dies: I II IV V VI VIII IX X

ranae – hopping along cuniculi – leaps and bounds aquilae – flying high

facio, facere, feci, factus – to do/to make 1. Stand deliver 2. Six-pack verbs facio facimus facitis facit faciunt 3. quid disparuit?

Drill 3 rd person sing. /plural of key verbs thoroughly: ‘What did he do? ’ misit dedit dixit duxit constituit sustulit iter fecit cepit potuit maluit venit advenit rediit interfecit voluit progressus est conatus est locutus est cape murem ‘What did they do? ’ miserunt dederunt dixerunt duxerunt constituerunt sustulerunt iter fecerunt ceperunt potuerunt maluerunt venerunt advenerunt redierunt interfecerunt voluerunt progressi sunt conati sunt locuti sunt 11

More practice with confusing pairs of verbs … 1. 2. Trips and traps … amitto-ere-amisi-amissum : lose mitto-ere-misi-missum : send 3. debeo, debere, debui : must/owe 4. do, dare, dedi, datus : give 5. 6. constituo-ere-constitui-constitutum : decide consisto-ere-constiti : stop, halt 7. 8. oppugno : attack pugno : fight. 9. reddo-reddere-reddidi-reditum : give back 10. redeo-redire-redii-reditum : go back. 11. cogo-cogere-coegi-coactum : force 12. cogito-cogitare-cogitavi-cogitatum : think. 12

VILE VERBS These all begin with A… AAArrrggghhh! 1. adiuvo, are 1. help 2. amitto, ere 2. lose 3. aperio, ire 3. open 4. aufero, erre 4. steal, take away 5. audio, ire 5. hear, listen 6. ago, ere 6. act, do 7. appareo, ere 7. appear 8. advenio, ire 8. arrive 9. accuso, are 9. accuse 10. aperio, ire 10. open 13