Latin Beyond GCSE

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But the learner — or teacher — would not be aware of any of this from Taylor's book, or from any other course book. Again as with Latin To GCSE, there is no assistance given with how to answer the types of questions that will be set in the language papers of the exams, except for translation into Latin, which very few candidates attempt. Completely new are extended prose composition passages for A2, together with very useful guidance on how to approach continuous prose, as opposed to the sentences earlier in the book. This is true even if the title states it includes any access cards, study guides, lab manuals, CDs, etc. Latin Beyond GCSE covers all the linguistic requirements for the OCR AS-level in Latin, and the grammar for A2.

For those not familiar with the English system, GCSE is the General Certificate of Secondary Education, previously known as O Level; it is based on an examination taken at the end of the last year of general education, known variously as the Fifth Form or Year 11, in practice normally at age sixteen. Classical Latin is more of a mosaic than a monolith, and interacting with, not discrete from, other varieties and registers. It offers a comprehensive survey of Latin grammar in a more engaging way than the traditional grammar book, and it provides plenty of exercises to reinforce the grammar that has been learned and give practice in applying it. John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and is now Lecturer in Greek and Latin Language at Manchester University, UK. The English-Latin sentences, which are an alternative to the Cicero unseens, are of the type already met in the previous chapters.He is the author of City in Common: Culture and Community in Buenos Aires (SUNY, 2016), and the co-editor of Comics and Memory in Latin America (Pittsburgh University Press, 2017; also available in Spanish as Cómics y memoria en América Latina (Cátedra, 2019)) and Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America (ILAS, 2019). The visual presentation of the book, however, has certainly been looked at afresh: the new edition is no longer in monochrome, has illustrations, and is formatted similarly to Latin To GCSE and the new edition of Greek To GCSE. The first part of the book introduces new constructions and the translation of sentences from English to Latin, with practice passages for unseen translation at AS standard. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I happen to be one of three quite elderly ladies working without a teacher and we are finding this book invaluable.

Excellently presented, good explanations of principles of grammar, followed by well set-out exercises and passages of Latin prose for translation. Now having done the exam, I have moved on to John Taylor's "Latin Beyond GCSE" which appears to be equally informative and gradually moves on from GCSE to a higher level, with plenty of unseen passages for translation. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. It would come better last, and after gerundival attraction, which itself seems to follow on naturally from an account of the uses of the gerund — it is used as an alternative to the gerund with transitive verbs and deponent verbs that take the ablative. One question which may interest BMCR readers is to what extent the teaching of Latin in the upper forms of English schools has changed over this period, and in particular how the predominance of reading-based introductory course books (following the example of the Cambridge Latin Course) has affected the rigor with which the subject (and particularly the grammar) is taught at the higher levels.

P. xi: Aspect is defined as “the expression of type of time”: it is, rather, an aspect of the action of the verb, unrelated to time. 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. As a mature learner I needed something to get me from GCSE level (or O-level in my case) to a more advanced stage. Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics.