Latin at The Westgate School Year 8 Latin as option 2nd 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). So pace must be rapid and Set texts started when they have only done Books I and II.

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^level2^unit21 http://www.cambridgescp.com/singles/wjec/voc.html?u21.t

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

Focus on endings: odd one out recitavit recitavi recitabat recitat recito ambulat vidit sedet 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.

Give 1 minute to write in Latin as many as they can: 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: inpicturaHerculemmagnumfustemtenetetleonemverberat

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

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

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

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

More practice with confusing pairs of verbs … Trips and traps … amitto-ere-amisi-amissum : mitto-ere-misi-missum : amitto-ere-amisi-amissum : lose mitto-ere-misi-missum : send debeo, debere, debui : do, dare, dedi, datus : debeo, debere, debui : must/owe do, dare, dedi, datus : give constituo-ere-constitui-constitutum : consisto-ere-constiti : constituo-ere-constitui-constitutum : decide consisto-ere-constiti : stop, halt oppugno : pugno : oppugno : attack pugno : fight. Credit the author of ‘Trips, Traps and Pitfalls’ reddo-reddere-reddidi-reditum : redeo-redire-redii-reditum : reddo-reddere-reddidi-reditum : give back redeo-redire-redii-reditum : go back. cogo-cogere-coegi-coactum : force cogito-cogitare-cogitavi-cogitatum : think. cogo-cogere-coegi-coactum : cogito-cogitare-cogitavi-cogitatum :

AAArrrggghhh! VILE VERBS These all begin with A… adiuvo, are amitto, ere aperio, ire aufero, erre audio, ire ago, ere appareo, ere advenio, ire accuso, are help lose open steal, take away hear, listen act, do appear arrive accuse AAArrrggghhh!