The following schedule aims to provide an overview of the main grammatical issues we will encounter during the course.
All materials for the sessions will be provided on Microsoft Teams.
Each session will systematically include a series of grammar exercises, as well as the analysis and translation of Latin texts, full details below.
All classes will be taught on Wednesdays, 5-6.30pm (UK time).
Session 1 (Wednesday, 22nd Oct, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise materials from Beginner’s course (especially declensions)
Lesson: Nouns
- Course overview and aim of the lessons; useful tools
- Declensions (Number, gender and cases)
- Cases and their uses; cases and prepositions
Session 2 (Wednesday 29th October, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise material from the previous session and the use of cases
Lesson: Verbs (part 1)
- Indicative (present, imperfect and future)
- Irregular: the verbssumandpossum
Session 3 (Wednesday, 5th November, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise materials from the previous sessions (especially the first one)
Go through the grammar reference table on declensions
Lesson: Adjectives
- First/ second and third declension adjectives
- Use and formation of comparatives and superlatives
- Substantive adjectives
- Present participle
Session 4 (Wednesday, 12th November, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise verbs (present/ imperfect and future tenses)
Lesson: Verbs (part 2)
- Perfect active and passive system
- Ablative of Agent
- Irregular verbs: the case offero
- Demonstratives pronouns:hic,ille,iste,is,idem
Session 5 (Wednesday 19th November, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise materials from previous sessions
Go through cases and declensions
Lesson: Participles and its uses
- Present, perfect, future participle: forms and uses
- Absolute ablative
- Gerunds and gerundive; the gerundive of obligation
Session 6 (Wednesday 26th November, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise grammar tables on verbs in the active and passive form (indicative present, imperfect and perfect; and infinitive)
Lesson: Clause structure
- Deponent verbs: what they are and how they are used
- Relative clauses:qui, quae, quod
- Other clauses with indicative
Session 7 (Wednesday 3rd December, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise grammar tables on verbs (indicative and participles)
Revise vocabulary lists from the previous sessions
Lesson: Clauses and subjunctive (part 1)
- Subjunctive and its uses; some tenses (present and imperfect)
- Infinitive clauses
- Jussives clauses
Session 8 (Wednesday 10th December, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Revise materials from the previous lesson on clauses
Go through grammar tables on subjunctive
Lesson:Clauses and subjunctive (part 2)
- Result and purpose clauses
- Time clauses
- Cum clauses
- Interrogatives
Session 9 (Wednesday 17th Dec, 5-6.30 pm UK time)
Preparation
Go through materials from previous sessions
Lesson: Irregulars
- Irregular verbs (volo,eo,fio)
- Which differences between the Renaissance and Classical Latin? An overview
- Next steps: further learning (acquiring more vocabulary, reading more complex texts)
