UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Latin Level 2
Prerequisite for entry:
For beginners and those who have had 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 13 of Lingua Latina Pars I, Familia Romana.
Material to be covered:
GRAMMAR:
Nouns:
a. First Declension (terra, -ae)
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b. Second Declension (dominus, -i, puer, -i, ager, -i, donum, -i, vir, -i,
deus, -i)
c. Third Declension (ovis, -is, pastor, -is, corpus, -is, mare, -is, animal, -is)
d. Fourth Declension (exercitus, -us, cornu, -us)
Adjectives:
a. First-Second Declension (bonus, -a, -um, liber, -a, -um, niger, -a, -um)
b. Third Declension (brevis, -is, -e, celer, -is, -re, acer, acris, acre, audax,
audacis)
c. Possessive Adjectives
d. Comparative & Superlative Degrees of the Adjectives
Numerals: unus, una, unum, duo, duae, duo, tres, tria
Pronouns:
a. the personal pronoun: ego, tu, se
b. the demonstrative pronouns is, ea, id, hic haec, hoc, ille, illa, illud,
ipse, ipsa, ipsum
c.
the
interrogative
(indefinite)
pronoun
quis,
quis,
quid
and
interrogative (indefinite) adjective qui, quae, quod
d. the relative pronoun qui, quae, quod
Verbs:
a. The present active and passive indicative and imperative of all
conjugations
b. The verb sum in the present active indicative, imperative and
infinitive
c. The verb possum in the present active indicative and infinitive
d. The verb eo in the present active indicative, imperative and infinitive
SYNTAX:
Prepositions: ad, ante, apud, circum, in, inter, per, post, prope, sub and
supra.
Basic Grammatical Constructions:
a. Subject – Verb – Predicate Nominative/ Adjective
b. Subject – Verb – Direct Object
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c. Subject – Verb – Direct Object (Accusative) – Indirect Object
(Dative)
d. Noun-Adjective Agreement
e. Object Infinitive
f. Complementary Infinitive
Ablative of Means
Ablative of Price
Ablative of Personal Agent
Genitive of Possession & Dative of Possessor
Partitive Genitive
How to express location when using the names of cities
Num and none
tantus…quantus = tam magnus…quam
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Learning Resources:
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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