UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Latin Level 3
Prerequisite for entry:
The course is appropriate for those who have attended Latin Level 2+ or have
a rusty GCSE.
Term duration:
10 x 2-hour classes
Aims and Objectives:
The aim of the course is to provide students with substantial knowledge
of Classical Latin and of the main principles of sentence construction in order
to enable them to translate 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 20 of Lingua Latina Pars I, Familia Romana.
Material to be covered:
GRAMMAR:
Nouns:
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a. First Declension (terra, -ae)
b. Second Declension (dominus, -i, puer, -i, ager, agri, donum, -i, vir, -i,
deus, -i)
c. Third Declension (ovis, -is, pastor, -is, corpus, corporis, mare, -is,
animal, -is)
d. Fourth Declension (exercitus, -us, cornu, -us)
e. Fifth Declension (res, -ei)
Adjectives:
a. First-Second Declension (bonus, -a, -um, liber, -a, -um, niger, nigra,
nigrum)
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,
and ipse, ipsa, ipsum
c. the interrogative (indefinite) pronoun quis, quis, quid and the
interrogative (indefinite) adjective qui, quae, quod
d. the relative pronoun qui, quae, quod
Special Pronoun-Adjectives: alius, alia, aliud, nullus, -a, -um, alter, -a, um, uter, utra, utrum, uterque, utraque, utrumque, and neuter, neutra,
neutrum
Verbs:
a. The present active and passive indicative and imperative of all
conjugations
b. The imperfect active and passive indicative of all conjugations
c. The future active and passive indicative of all conjugations
d. The present active and passive infinitive of all conjugations
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e. The present active participle of all conjugations
f. The verb sum in the present active indicative, imperative and
infinitive
g. The verb possum in the present active indicative and infinitive
h. The verb eo in the present active indicative, imperative and infinitive
SYNTAX:
The prepositions included in chapters 1-20.
Basic Grammatical Constructions:
a. Subject – Verb – Predicate Nominative/ Adjective
b. Subject – Verb – Direct Object
c. Subject – Verb – Direct Object (Accusative) – Indirect Object
(Dative)
d. Noun-Adjective Agreement
e. Object Infinitive
f. Complementary Infinitive
Ablative of Manner
Ablative of Means
Ablative of Measure of Difference
Ablative of Price
Ablative of Personal Agent
Dative of Reference
Genitive of Possession & Dative of Possessor
Genitive of Value
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:
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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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