UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
Evening Courses
Latin Level 4
Prerequisite for entry:
The course is appropriate for those who have attended Latin Level 3+ or have
a GCSE.
Term duration:
10 x 2-hour classes
Aims and Objectives:
The course aims to develop students’ knowledge of Classical Latin from
a level comparable to that achieved at the end of Latin 3+ to a point where
they will have mastered the Latin grammar and several of the regular
syntactic constructions and be able to read continuous texts written in Latin.
By the end of the course, the students are expected to have reached a level
equivalent to the end of chapter 30 of Lingua Latina Pars 1, Familia Romana.
Material to be covered:
GRAMMAR:
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Nouns:
a. First Declension (terra, -ae)
b. Second Declension (dominus, -i, puer, -i, ager, -i, 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 tenses of the active indicative of all conjugations: present,
imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
b. The tenses of the passive indicative of all conjugations: present,
imperfect, future, perfect, pluperfect, future perfect
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c. The active and passive imperative of all conjugations
d. The active infinitives of all conjugations, passive present infinitive of
all conjugations
e. The active and passive participles of all conjugations
f. The supine of all conjugations
g. The gerund of all conjugations
h. The deponent verbs: present indicative, imperative, infinitive, and
participle
i. The verbs sum, possum and eo: all tenses of the present active
indicative and their infinitives
SYNTAX:
The prepositions included in chapters 1-30.
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
g. Subject Infinitive
h. Impersonal Verbs and their grammatical structure
Ablative of Cause
Ablative of Manner
Ablative of Means
Ablative of Measure of Difference
Ablative of Price
Ablative of Personal Agent
Ablative of Respect
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Dative of Reference
Predicative Dative
Genitive of Possession & Dative of Possessor
Genitive of Value
Partitive Genitive
Specific Verbs followed by the Genitive, Dative or Ablative
Expressions of Time and Place
Participles: Ablative Absolute
Final Clauses
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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