So you really want to learn Latin – Book lll

Description

So you really want to learn Latin

About the series

The So you really want to learn Latin series comprises of three books which take pupils from scratch up to GCSE and beyond. It is unapologetically grammatical and old-fashioned in its approach, and has consistently received rave reviews from teachers and pupils alike since its publication in 1999.

About the book

So you really want to learn Latin Book 3 is the third stage in a three-part Latin course. It takes pupils from scratch to GCSE level and beyond. It can be used in the classroom by those preparing for Latin at any level but will also be invaluable as a revision aid or as a self-teaching book.

What’s inside – Chapters

Guide to pronunciation

Introduction

Chapter 1

• Participles
• Present Participle
• Irregular participles
• Present participles and English spelling
• Vocabulary 1
• Future participle
• Perfect participle passive
• Using participles
• Hannibal and those elephants

Chapter 2

• The ablative absolute
• A word of advice
• More on ablative absolutes
• Vocabulary 2
• Hannibal runs amok in Italy

Chapter 3

• Volō, nōlō, mālō
• Prohibitions
• Double questions
• The locative case
• Vocabulary 3
• Mad cow disease?
• Vīs
• By Jove!
• The Battle of Cannae, 216 B.C.

Chapter 4

• Indirect statement
• Active tenses of the infinitive
• Passive tenses of the infinitive
• Passive indirect statements
• Ad summum montem
• Primary and historic
• Verbs of hoping, promising and threatening
• After Cannae: the Romans re-group

Chapter 5

• Present subjunctive
• Final clauses
• Imperfect subjunctive
• The sequence of tenses
• Irregular verbs in the subjunctive
• Signpost words
• The Romans triumph at Zama, 204 B.C.

Chapter 6

• Consecutive clauses
• Vocabulary 6
• Perfect subjunctive
• Uses of the perfect subjunctive
• Pluperfect subjunctive
• Temporal clauses
• Edō = I eat
• Fiō = I become
• The months
• The 3rd (and final) Punic War

Chapter 7

• Indirect Command
• More on indirect command
• The man in the moon
• Compound verbs: a note on spelling
• More about dum
• Revision of constructions
• Rome at war, home and away

Chapter 8

• Simple conditions
• Improbable conditions
• Impossible conditions
• Negative conditions
• Quam = how!
• Mīlle and mīlia
• The revolt of Spartacus, 73 B.C.

Chapter 9

• Gerunds
• Causā = for the sake of
• The gerundive constructions
• Gerundive of obligation
• Impersonal verbs
• Quis, aliquis, quisque and quisquam
• Julius Caesar

Chapter 10

• Coping with set texts: prose authors
• Coping with set texts: verse authors
• Scansion
• Scanning a hexameter line
• The caesura
• Common exceptions
• The rise of Augustus

Latin checklist

Summary of grammar

Appendix

Latin – English Vocabulary

English – Latin Vocabulary