John Taylor

Latin Beyond GCSE (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Latin Beyond GCSE covers all the linguistic requirements for the OCR AS and A Level in Latin. It aims to bring students to a point where they can tackle original Latin texts with confidence. Although designed as a continuation of Latin to GCSE, it is self-contained and can be used independently.

This new edition is brought in line with the new OCR specifications and benefits from a completely redesigned layout, with added colour and images. The answer key is available on a companion website. The first part of the book introduces new constructions and the translation of sentences from English to Latin, with reading passages at AS standard. The next sections provide translation and comprehension passages at AS and A-level, including verse unseens, scansion, and a list of 300 common poetic words. Next come longer unadapted extracts from a range of authors. Finally there is a reference section including a summary of all constructions, a comprehensive grammar, and a general vocabulary of about 1200 Latin words.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781474299893
• Artikelnr.: 47401403

Autorenporträt

John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and now teaches Classics at Manchester University, UK. He is author of Greek to GCSE (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2016) and Greek Beyond GCSE (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), co-author of Writing Greek (Bloomsbury Academic, 2011) and Greek Stories (new edition, Bloomsbury Academic, 2017), and also author or co-author of a number of Latin textbooks.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface List of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Map of the Roman Empire Chapter 1 Use of cases
Verb tenses
Adjectives, adverbs, comparatives and superlatives
Direct questions
Relative clauses
More complex relative clauses
Connecting relative
Prepositions, prefixes and compounds
Present subjunctive
Jussive subjunctive
Wishes for the future
Potential subjunctive
Deliberative questions
Purpose clauses
Sequence of tenses (1)
Direct commands
Indirect commands
Verbs of fearing
Perfect subjunctive
Result clauses
Indirect questions
Sequence of tenses (2)
Periphrastic future (and future-in-the-past) subjunctive Chapter 2 Principal parts and the supine
Indirect statement
Future passive infinitive
Participles
Ablative absolute
Impersonal verbs and impersonal passive
Time clauses
Time clauses implying purpose or proviso
Cum clauses
Inverted cum clauses
Causal clauses
Concessive clauses
Paired and co-ordinated words
Conjunctions (1): connecting
Conjunctions (2): subordinating Chapter 3 Predicative dative
Gerunds and gerundives
The gerund
The gerundive
Gerundive looking like a gerund ('impersonal neuter gerundive of obligation')
Gerund changed into gerundive ('gerundival attraction')
Conditional sentences
Conditionals (1): open or unknown
Conditionals (2): closed or remote
Wishes and fears for the present and past
Use of quin and quominus, and verbs of preventing
Conventions of extended narrative
Extended indirect speech ('oratio obliqua')
Subordinate clauses in indirect speech
Open or unknown conditionals in indirect statement
Closed or remote conditionals in indirect statement Chapter 4: AS-level practice passages and sentences Unseen translation passages Comprehension passages Translating from English to Latin English to Latin sentences Chapter 5: A-level practice passages Unseen prose translation passages: Livy Translating verse Scansion 300 common words for verse unseens Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, elegiacs Unseen verse translation passages: Ovid, hexameters Comprehension passages Translating into continuous Latin prose Prose composition passages Chapter 6: Readings 1: Nepos on Alcibiades and Athens 2: Curtius on Alexander and Porus 3: Livy on Horatius Cocles and on Mucius Scaevola (i) Horatius Cocles (ii) Mucius Scaevola 4: Cicero on how brave men despise death 5: Tacitus on the Great Fire of Rome Summaries of syntax Reference Grammar Nouns Adjectives Adverbs Numerals Pronouns Prepositions Verbs Important irregular principal parts Appendices 1: Words easily confused 2: Words with more than one meaning 3: Pronunciation 4: Roman names 5: Roman dates and times 6: Roman money, weights and measures 7: Roman rulers 8: Roman authors Summaries of syntax Reference grammar Appendices Glossary of grammar terms English to Latin vocabulary Latin to English vocabulary Index