UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Latin Level 1
Prerequisite for entry:
For complete beginners or those who have had only very little contact with
the language.
Term duration:
10 x 2-hour classes
Aims and Objectives:
The aim of the course is to provide students with basic knowledge of
Classical Latin and of the main principles of sentence construction in order to
enable them to translate simple passages of Latin prose into English. By the
end of the course, the students are expected to have reached a level
equivalent to the end of chapter 5 of Lingua Latina Pars I, Familia Romana.
Material to be covered:
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Latin Alphabet
Syllabic Division
Accentuation
GRAMMAR:
Nouns:
a. First Declension (terra, -ae)
b. Second Declension (dominus, -i, puer, -i, ager, -i, donum, -i, vir, -i,
deus, -i)
First-Second Declension Adjectives (bonus, -a, -um, liber, -a, -um, niger,
-a, -um)
Numerals: unus, una, unum, duo, duae, duo, tres, tria
Pronouns: the demonstrative pronoun is, ea, id, the interrogative
(indefinite) pronoun quis, quis, quid, and the interrogative (indefinite)
adjective qui, quae, quod.
Verbs:
a. The verb sum in the active present indicative.
b. The active present indicative and imperative of all conjugations.
SYNTAX:
Basic Uses of the Cases.
Prepositions: ad, ante, apud circum, in, inter, per, post, and prope.
Basic Grammatical Constructions:
a. Subject – Verb – Predicate Nominative/ Adjective
b. Subject – Verb – Direct Object
c. Noun-Adjective Agreement
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Learning Resources:
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Coursebook: Hans Ørberg (2006) Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, Pars I Familia
Romana
Workbook: Hans Ørberg (2005) Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata, Pars I Exercitia
Latina I, Newburyport
Handouts
Note: There is a wide range of Latin language learning materials in the SelfAccess Centre:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/clie/learning-resources/sac.
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