Latin to GCSE 1

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Henry Cullen (Head of Classics, St Albans High School for Girls, UK) Dr John Taylor (Lecturer in Classics, University of Manchester, previously Tonbridge School, UK)

Latin to GCSE 1

Henry Cullen (Head of Classics, St Albans High School for Girls, UK), Dr John Taylor (Lecturer in Classics, University of Manchester, previously Tonbridge School, UK)

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Bloomsbury
07 April 2016

Educational: Languages other than English; Latin

A companion to Bloomsbury’s popular two-volume Greek to GCSE, this is the first course for Latin students that directly reflects the curriculum in a clear, concise and accessible way. Enhanced by colour artwork and text features, the books support the new OCR specification for Latin (first teaching 2016) as well as meeting the needs of later students, both at university and beyond.

Written by two experienced school teachers, one also an examiner, the course is based on a keen understanding of what pupils find difficult, concentrating on the essentials and on the explanation of principles in both accidence and syntax: minor irregularities are postponed and subordinated so that the need for rote learning is reduced. User-friendly, it also gives pupils a firm foundation for further study.

Part 1 covers the basics and is self-contained, with its own reference section. It outlines the main declensions, a range of active tenses and a vocabulary of 275 Latin words to be learned. Pupil confidence is built up by constant consolidation of the material covered. After the preliminaries, each chapter concentrates on stories with one source or subject: the Fall of Troy, the journeys of Aeneas, the founding of Rome and the early kings, providing an excellent introduction to Roman culture alongside the language study.

By: Henry Cullen (Head of Classics St Albans High School for Girls UK), Dr John Taylor (Lecturer in Classics, University of Manchester, previously Tonbridge School, UK)
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 170mm, Width: 244mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 480g
ISBN: 9781780934402
ISBN 10: 1780934408
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 07 April 2016
Audience: Primary & secondary/elementary & high school , Educational: Primary & Secondary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Henry Cullen teaches Classics at Winchester College, UK. John Taylor was for many years Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, UK. He is an experienced examiner of Ancient Greek and the author of the widely used textbooks Essential GCSE Latin; Latin Beyond GCSE; Greek to GCSE; and (with Stephen Anderson) Greek Unseen Translation and Writing Greek.

Reviews for Latin to GCSE 1

I particularly enjoyed the respect the authors show for the intelligence of the students ... Whilst this text book is a useful and much-needed aid when trying to get one’s head around the new specification for the first time, it provides much more than that. * Journal of Classics Teaching *