Latin Beyond GCSE

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Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. However, in spite of the imperfections, there is no other book that I know of with the same aims, objectives and (most importantly) examinations-oriented content as this one. It also seems a pity (though this is a criticism of the prescription rather than of the author) that students are asked to scan a couple of lines without commenting on some metrical effect that they have uncovered, such as a spondaic line or an effectively delayed main caesura. This is the old crossword-puzzle approach and can be made to work as a pencil-and-paper exercise: in addition students can be told to identify as short a vowel followed by another vowel in the same word and not forming a diphthong. My only criticism would be that the practice passages at the end of the AS section are often harder than the actual AS papers themselves.

The arrangement of the contents of the sections on the gerund and gerundive give undue prominence to the gerundive of obligation.

We also use them to help detect unauthorized access or activity that violate our terms of service, as well as to analyze site traffic and performance for our own site improvement efforts. But the goal must be for students to start at the beginning of the line and do the scansion (in their heads, eventually) as they proceed, which is entirely possible if they (i) know the scheme of the meter, (ii) are able to distinguish open and closed syllables and are aware that the latter are long, and (iii) can trust their pronunciation (most of the time) to identify vowels in open syllables as long or short. The next section introduces the translation and scansion of verse, and includes passages for unseen translation and comprehension at A-level standard in both prose and verse. It is important to note that it is concerned only with language requirements; the prescription at both AS and A2 level also includes the study of prose and verse set texts. Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics.

Instead, what we have as far as the content is concerned is the first edition revised only to the extent of certain additions and removals needed to bring it into line with the new OCR specifications (for AS from 2017 (so of limited usefulness for 2017 candidates), for A level from 2018). John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and is now Lecturer in Classics at Manchester University, UK. There are four parts: Ovid elegiacs, Ovid hexameters, Caesar and Livy (the first and third of these are prescribed for this purpose in 2010-12 and the second and fourth in 2013-2015).In fact the tenses used are exactly the same as those for subordinate clauses in indirect speech, which such a table (see point 9) would show at a glance. P. 41: Would the Romans really have said amo currere for “I like running”, given as an example of an infinitive as direct object? To take just a few examples, the subjunctive was used routinely (especially in temporal clauses) instead of and as well as the indicative (and vice versa) in several constructions. The book provides a significant number of equally significant improvements, and the new edition is about 100 pages longer than the original.

Excellently presented, good explanations of principles of grammar, followed by well set-out exercises and passages of Latin prose for translation. A well designed guide to Latin after GCSE with lots of exercises; Latin into English and English into Latin.

The book’s discussion of syllable division (which is the key to the “two-consonant” rule) is a little muddled: it is surely not true that pulchrum must divide pulch-rum rather than pul-chrum (p. For those not familiar with the English system, GCSE is the General Certificate of Secondary Education, previously known as O Level; it is based on an examination taken at the end of the last year of general education, known variously as the Fifth Form or Year 11, in practice normally at age sixteen. Also, there is no section on comparative clauses, though for some reason this may not be included in the specifications. What is presented here is a more distant view, written by one who taught in an English school at this level for a decade forty years ago and has since been involved in the development of Latin language teaching at school and university level in New Zealand.