Start of Y9 Latin refresher

Start of Y9 Latin refresher

The aim of this little presentation...

• To refresh your memories and improve your confidence. remember: you know more than you think!

• To fill in the gaps of your grammar

• New language acquisition!

Firstly... What do we call this (in the middle!)?

Multiple Choice

Is the little'un... ?

• puer

• puella

• infans

• iuvenis

Multiple Choice

The last video introduces us to where we're headed next in Pompeii. What is the name given to such a venue?

• culinae

• cubiculum

• tabernae

• thermae

Some basic grammar

A refresher

Multiple Choice

The subject of a sentence (i.e. the person or thing PERFORMING the action of the verb) goes into which 'case' in Latin (and other languages, for that matter...)?

• NOMINATIVE

• ACCUSATIVE

• DATIVE

• IMPERFECT

Multiple Choice

Which of the following NOUN endings CANNOT be a Nominative?

• -a

• -us

• -er

• -as

In this picture, the woman is painting the wall.

• The woman is the SUBJECT (nominative ending)

• The wall is the OBJECT (accusative ending)

Multiple Choice

Which of the following sentences CANNOT describe what is going on in this picture?

• femina murum pingit

• murus feminam pingit

• pingit femina murum

• murum pingit femina

We have learned these so far (though you may have forgotten them)

• Remember how the endings of the nouns change according to what job they are doing in the sentence

• In pairs (without shouting the answer and speaking quietly), can you agree upon a translation for the simple sentence?

VERBS ('doing' words)

A recap

Here is a regular verb. In all European languages, verb ENDINGS change according to who is (or was, or will be) doing what

• STEM (doesn't change and contains the meaning or action)

• ENDING (does change according to person and tense)

Multiple Choice

What is the only correct translation of this verb?

currimus

• you run/ are running

• I run/ am running

• we run/ are running

• they run/ are running

The IMPERFECT tense

• One of 2 past tenses we have covered so far

• Deals with ongoing or incomplete actions in the past

Multiple Choice

Best translation of...

gladiator bestiam pugnabat

• The gladiator was fighting the beast

• The gladiator fought the beast

• The beast is fighting the gladiator

• The beast fought with the gladiator

The PERFECT tense

• The other past tense ending verb we have covered

• Deals with completed action ('per-fect' means 'done through')

• Remember to look out for V S U SS X at the end of the stem (the bit of the verb that doesn't change)

• BUT: the above rule doesn't always work: e.g. vidi = I saw.... no V S U SS X at work there...

Multiple Choice

Best translation of...

leo et servus ferociter pugnaverunt

• The lion was attacking the slave fiercely

• The lion and the slave are fighting ferociously

• The lion and the slave were fighting ferociously

• The lion and the slave fought ferociously