ACL9LL8E03 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor develop and apply strategies to interpret and translate Latin texts to convey meaning in English

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• • Elaboration developing skills to infer meaning from textual cues, for example, titles, headings, images and captions
• • Elaboration determining the general sense of texts through initial holistic reading by identifying familiar people, vocabulary, places or topics, to contextualise new vocabulary
• • Elaboration using knowledge of high-frequency words in familiar and unfamiliar contexts and knowledge of Latin-derived English words to deduce the meaning of unknown Latin words, for example, clamor, exclamare; puer in cubiculo dormit
• • Elaboration reading sentences in Latin and using visual cues to infer meaning, such as Latin word order, capitalisation of proper nouns, modern punctuation and conjunctions
• • Elaboration listening to simple sentences in Latin and using aural cues to identify meaning, such as tone, inflection, emphasis and signpost words, for example, ecce, olim, cur; ubi, euge, eheu
• • Elaboration identifying and explaining the function of inflected forms, for example, puella canem vocat (subject+object+verb) and recognising irregular forms such as est, sunt
• • Elaboration translating Latin into fluent and idiomatic English, for example, by including the definite or indefinite article in the translation and determining appropriate word order in English

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• • Elaboration discussing effective strategies to translate and the merits of different translations of the same text, for example, clamabat (she was shouting, she used to shout, she began to shout)
• • Elaboration developing skills in using dictionaries and electronic translation tools to consider multiple meanings of vocabulary and make appropriate selections according to context, for example, peti, ago, de
• • Elaboration discussing social, contextual and cultural references embedded in texts and how they should be translated, for example, dominus, servus
• • Elaboration collaborating with peers to interpret and build meaning in texts, and develop and edit joint translations, using a range of digital tools
• • Elaboration using methods to build knowledge of vocabulary, such as the use of ICT, developing lists of unfamiliar words, mnemonics
• • Elaboration developing own and class lists of frequently used vocabulary related to texts and topics, such as daily life in Ancient Rome, for example, tandem, tamen; thermae, caldarium; magister, ludus