Latin Beyond GCSE

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However, for me the book serves its particular purpose well, and I would like my criticisms to be seen in that light. Finally there is a reference section including a summary of all constructions, a comprehensive grammar, The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Latin Beyond GCSE are 9781474299886, 1474299881 and the print ISBNs are 9781474299831, 1474299830.

The present indicative with dum (‘while’) is not normally retained in oratio obliqua in the earlier part of the Classical period. For those not familiar with the English system, GCSE is the General Certificate of Secondary Education, previously known as O Level; it is based on an examination taken at the end of the last year of general education, known variously as the Fifth Form or Year 11, in practice normally at age sixteen. The explanations are well thought out, thorough and comprehensive, with a series of bullet points in smaller type adding further observations. A well designed guide to Latin after GCSE with lots of exercises; Latin into English and English into Latin. P. xii: Complement is defined as “another nominative word or phrase describing the subject”: this needs some reference to the verb “to be” and to the idea of completing.It indicates purpose or fitness (the latter was perhaps its original meaning) in certain uses of gerundival attraction, e. John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK, and is now Lecturer in Classics at Manchester University, UK. Big minus is the layout of the grammar sections: in both Chapters 1 and 2, and in the reference grammar section, it is difficult to find what one wants, or more generally to find one's way around. P. xii: Elision is defined as the “process by which the final vowel or syllable of a word is in effect knocked off”: in fact it is only the vowel which is knocked off (together with nasalizing m) leaving any preceding consonant intact.

Grammatical explanations are a sort of updated (but not updated enough) Kennedy - still a little prolix (what's with the notes-within-notes in 8pt? Unfamiliar words are again glossed; since there is no official OCR vocabulary list for A2, the criterion now for glossing is that the word does not appear in the vocabulary list in the back of the book. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.SheassureduswearenowbeyondGCSElevelandrecommendedtheJohnTaylor,butwereallyneedtheanswerkeytogetusovertrickysections.

Am not sure about all the negative things said about this seller by other people,,, because my experience was completely different, totally positive.The verse section begins with instructions on how to scan hexameters and elegiacs and provides an additional vocabulary list of 250 words which are judged useful for verse unseens ; these again are not glossed in the excerpts. Excellently presented, good explanations of principles of grammar, followed by well set-out exercises and passages of Latin prose for translation. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Again as with Latin To GCSE, there is no assistance given with how to answer the types of questions that will be set in the language papers of the exams, except for translation into Latin, which very few candidates attempt. The A2 prescription also includes continuous prose composition as an option, which the book does not attempt to cover.

To conclude, as I have said, the fact that the book does not have any obvious or natural competitor will in itself ensure healthy sales, if mainly in those parts of the UK and the rest of the world that use the OCR specifications. There is a confusion between facts and statements or implications of facts in certain constructions, e.There is more generous spacing, more helpful use of colour, and the exercises are in ‘boxes’ which allow them to stand out from the text.