Latin Beyond GCSE

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Chapter Six, entitled ‘Readings’, contains the same passages as in the first edition, but laid out in a much more reader-friendly way; the reference grammar and summaries of syntax likewise contain no (perceptible) changes of substance, but are easier to read. What is presented here is a more distant view, written by one who taught in an English school at this level for a decade forty years ago and has since been involved in the development of Latin language teaching at school and university level in New Zealand. For example, the jussive subjunctive has two new examples (where there were none in the first edition): statim proficiscamur! However, for me the book serves its particular purpose well, and I would like my criticisms to be seen in that light.

p. 21), and the logic behind the various rules (why does dum take the present indicative in unlikely places? The English-Latin sentences, which are an alternative to the Cicero unseens, are of the type already met in the previous chapters.John Taylor has again put students of Latin (and their teachers) in his debt with this volume, a companion to his 'Greek Beyond GCSE' that follows the same format. Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Grammatical explanations are a sort of updated (but not updated enough) Kennedy - still a little prolix (what's with the notes-within-notes in 8pt? e. not (directly) to the literature requirements as well, therefore to half of the examinations only. The next section introduces the translation and scansion of verse, and includes passages for unseen translation and comprehension at A-level standard in both prose and verse.

It only indicates such ideas when used with the verb ‘to be’, actually expressed or omitted but to be ‘understood’.Excellently presented, good explanations of principles of grammar, followed by well set-out exercises and passages of Latin prose for translation.