Latin Metre

To be able to read and analyse any Latin Literature, you need to be able to understand if not use latin metre so for todays (almost) contextual lesson/powerpoint we have (drum roll please)
An introduction to Latin Metre
So hopefull this will serve as an introduction, so that we can go on to look at some texts.

Note: from now on the posts may be a little more mixed, but will mostly include contextual information and of course some literature on the way.
The literature texts we will be looking at will be Pliny the Elder, Sempronia, Clodia and some others- which I havent decided about yet- sooo....
Until next time!

Some More Exercises

Ok firstly I must start with an apology for not posting for over a week. That was due to a number of factors, including the most momentuous snow in England for 18 years, which has distracted me for nearly a week XD. See below :)

But I realise that you are eager to get some more Latin practice in so today I have another series of online exercises that will help you to practice, and they self correct, which is great in itself :)

Note: I am suggesting these exercises since when I was taught it, my teacher never gave me enough practice. 

So below are the links for the different Sections:

Main Site: Interactive Latin

Nouns

Verbs

Adjectives

New Year slightly different topic

So, Hope that everyone had a great Christmas and New Year, 

Just before christmas we looked at the grammar, moving on we will now look at tenses and todays tense is... (the suspense :]) the present tense of course, since the grammar also involved a lot of this.

And here is the explanatory worksheet:

Present Tense

 

Ready for some Adjectives?

Sorry for taking so long for this next post... I don't really have an excuse so, lets just get on with learning some MORE Latin :)
The topic today is Adjectives.
FOr some peculiar reason I only have a sheet for Adjectives of Comparison and Thirds declension Adjectives. But no worries, there will be help on the other declensions later
For now here are the sheets that can keep you busy
3rd Declension
Comparative Adjectives
Comparative Adjectives 2
All the sheets (zipped Folder)

And there may soon be mocks coming up- don't worry!!! :)

Declensions

Ok, so since I haven't got any suggestions about the order in which to take things, I will be carrying on in my slightly haphazard way of doing things.
So todays topic is declensions - the inflection of nouns to change the meaning of the whole sentence. As always here are some sheets:
Declensions
1st Declension
2nd Declension
3rd Declension
4th Declension
5th Declension
1st and 2nd Declensions
1st, 2nd and 3rd Declensions
Finally if you want them all:
All Sheets (zipped folder)

Conjugations- my nightmare

So sadly it is time to get to business- verbs that follow the same roots/inflections are called Conjugations and there are 4 main conjugations- so here are the explanatory notes.
Conjugations
1st and 2nd Conjugations
3rd Conjugation
4th Conjugation
All 4 Sheets (zipped folder)

Cases

Grammar, whatever the language it is necessary, and in Latin especially the sentence won't make sense if you don't know what cases the words are in.
There are 2 sheets on cases (theres so much to say about them) and an excercise sheet as well-
Case Use
Case Use 2
Case Exercise
All 3 sheets (zipped folder)

Participles

Another important part of Latin is the participles, often in English we overlook them but they are essential in being able to read or write Latin.
As always I have a sheet for this, which explains it nearly as well as my teacher...
Participles