INTRODUCTION TO LATIN 2013-2014

Coursebook
P.V. Jones and K.C. Sidwell, Reading Latin: Text (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
P.V. Jones and K.C. Sidwell, Reading Latin: Vocabulary, Grammar and
Exercises (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

General Reading
J. Morwood, A Latin Grammar (Oxford University Press, 1999)
Kennedys Revised Latin Primer (Longman, 1965)
J. Morwood, The Pocket Oxford Latin Dictionary (Oxford University Press, 2005)
N. Goldman and L. Szymanski, English Grammar for Students of Latin (2004)

Assessment
One three-hour examination at the end of the year (100% of the mark).

Course Content
This is a provisional schedule. Changes may occur depending on class progress.

Week 1: Introduction on Latin Language. The alphabet and pronunciation. Grammatical

terms, links with English grammar, terminology, word order, translation techniques etc.
sum: Introduction and meaning

Week 2: Text 1A (Reading Latin)

The verbs in Latin (person, number, tense, mood, voice: the paradigm)
Conjugation: stem and endings.
Present Indicative active, first and second conjugation: amo, habeo

Week 3: Text 1A (Reading Latin)

Nouns: number and gender: masculine, feminine, neuter; singular and plural.
Declensions.
Cases.
First Declension Feminine nouns: serua
Second Declension Feminine nouns: seruus
Prepositions: what are they?

Week 4: Text 1B (Reading Latin)

Second Declension neuter nouns: bellum
Second Declension irregular nouns: deus
Third Declension consonant stems (fur), i-stems (aedis) and other stems.

Week 5: Text 1B (Reading Latin)

Adjectives: what are they? Agreement. First/second declension adjectives.
Apposition.

Week 6: Text 1C (Reading Latin)

Present imperative active first and second conjugation: amo, habeo
Irregular verbs: present indicative and imperative of eo
Possessive adjectives (meus, tuus) and personal pronouns (ego, tu).

Week 7: Text 1C (Reading Latin)

Present indicative and imperative, third and fourth conjugation: dico, audio
Second declension masculine nouns in er (puer), in r (uir).
Other first/second declension adjectives: miser, pulcher

Week 8: Text 1D (Reading Latin)

Interrogative pronouns: quis, quid
Present indicative active of irregular verbs: capio, uolo, fero
Regular and irregular present imperatives active (all conjugations)
Third declension neuter nouns: nomen, onus
Questions in ne
quid + genitive

Week 9: Text 1E (Reading Latin)

Regular and irregular present infinitive active to... (all conjugations)
Personal pronouns: nos, uester
First/second declension possessive adjectives: noster, uester
Third declension adjectives: omnis, ingens, audax, diues, celer, acer

Week 10: Text tbc

The dative case: usage and meaning.
The ablative of desctiption.

Week 11: In-class practice test.

Week 12: Text 2A (Reading Latin)

Future indicative active (all conjugations).
Irregular futures: sum, eo
Present and future indicative: possum, nolo, malo

Week 13: Text 2A (Reading Latin)

Cardinal numbers (1-10, 100-1000)
Fourth declension nouns: manus, domus, genu, cornu
Fifth declension nouns: res, dies

Week 14: Text 2B (Reading Latin)

Present indicative, imperative, infinitive deponent (all conjugations).
noli + infinitive.

Week 15: Text 2C (Reading Latin)

Third declension neuter noun: caput
Special first/second declension adjectives: nullus, alter
Demonstratives: hic/haec/hoc, ille/illa/illud, is/ea/id

Week 16: Text 2D (Reading Latin)

Perfect indicative active I ed, I have ed (all conjugations, regular and irregular)
Ablative of time.

Week 17: Text 2D (Reading Latin)

Future indicative deponent (all conjugations)
Perfect indicative deponent (all conjugations)
Perfect participle.

Week 18: Text 2E (Reading Latin)

Comparative and superlative adjectives (regular and irregular).
Comparative and superlative adverbs (regular and irregular).

Week 19: Text 2E (Reading Latin)

Reflexive pronoun se.
Possessive adjective suus.
Semi-deponents.

Week 20: tba

Week 21: Text 3A (Reading Latin)

Future participles, active and deponent.
Perfect participles, active verbs.
Ablative of agent/means/instrument.
idem, nemo
nonne

Week 22: Text 3B

Recap uses of cases.

Week 23-Week 24: Translation practice and revision.