ACL9LL8U02 Years 7 to 8 Languages

Content descriptor develop knowledge of the vocabulary, structures and features of Latin grammatical systems to understand, translate and respond to texts

Elaborations

• • Elaboration identifying parts of speech such as nouns, verbs, adjectives and adverbs, and their functions in texts, to determine meaning by completing a quiz, for example, identifying which noun is the subject of the verb
• • Elaboration recognising noun inflections for case and number in first, second and third declensions by completing tables, for example, amicus, amicum; villa, villae, and exploring the use of cases to convey meaning
• • Elaboration recognising that nouns in Latin have gender, for example, dominus is masculine, villa is feminine, atrium is neuter
• • Elaboration exploring the concepts of verb number, person and tense, and identifying the endings of regular verbs in different persons and tenses, by highlighting appropriate part of words, for example, clamat, clamant; portavi, portavit
• • Elaboration recognising other forms of verbs, such as present infinitives and imperatives, for example, portare; clama, clamate!
• • Elaboration identifying endings of irregular verbs in different tenses and forms, for example, sum, possum, volo, nolo
• • Elaboration identifying first, second and third declension adjectives by developing charts and mind maps, for example, laeta/laetus; tristis, and exploring the concept of noun-adjective agreement

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• • Elaboration recognising the comparative and superlative degree of regular adjectives, for example, iratus, iratior, iratissimus
• • Elaboration recognising prepositional phrases, including different forms and meanings, for example, e villa, ex urbe, in villa, in villam
• • Elaboration identifying the forms of pronouns, such as personal, relative and demonstrative
• • Elaboration using Latin word order to deduce meaning in texts and interpret compound sentences using conjunctions by completing information gap activities, for example, canis intrat sed non latrat
• • Elaboration identifying cardinal 1–20 and ordinal numbers, for example, unus, primus, and Roman numerals, for example, I, V, X, L, C, M
• • Elaboration using appropriate metalanguage to describe structures and features of Latin grammatical systems, for example, declension, conjugation