LATIN A LEVEL & LATIN AS LEVEL COURSES
A Level Latin & AS Level Latin Courses
Latin may be a dead language in the sense that it is taught to be read and not spoken, but its study is very much alive at Westminster Tutors. Indeed, a significant portion of the English language has roots and influences from Latin, and the study of Latin grammar enables students to understand English grammar. In addition to language learning, our students also benefit from reading great classics of Latin literature, such as Cicero, Ovid and Virgil.
Course outline
AS level
Component 01
Language
- Vocabulary and linguistic structures
- Accidence and syntax
Component 02
Literature
- One prose set text
- One verse set text
- Literature in translation
A level
Component 01
Unseen Translation
- Vocabulary and linguistic structures
- Livy and Ovid (hexameters and elegiacs)
Component 02
Prose Composition or Comprehension
- Translating unseen material from English into Latin
- Comprehension and translation
- Syntax and accidence
Component 03
Prose Literature
- Two prose set texts
- Literature in translation
Component 04
Verse Literature
- Two verse set texts
- Literature in translation
Assesment
AS level
Component 01
- 80 marks
- 1 hour 30 minutes written paper
- 50% of total AS level
Component 02
- 80 marks
- 2 hours written paper
- 50% of total AS level
A level
- 100 marks
- 1 hour 45 minutes written paper
- 33% of total A level
Component 02
- 50 marks
- 1 hour 15 minutes written paper
- 17% of total A level
Component 03
- 75 marks
- 2 hours written paper
- 25% of total A level
Component 04
- 75 marks
- 2 hours written paper
- 25% of total A level
Set Texts
Prose Literature
Learners study one prose set text from Group 1 and one prose set text from Group 2:
- Group 1
- Cicero, Pro Cluentio, taken from Murder at Larinum, 1-7 & 10-11
- Tacitus, Annals IV, 1-4 (… non adversus habebatur), 7-12, 39-41
- Group 2
- Cicero, Pro Cluentio, taken from Murder at Larinum, 27-32 & 35-37
- Tacitus, Annals IV, 52-54, 57-60, 67-71, 74-75
- Livy, Book 1, 53-54, 56 (haec agenti …)-60
Verse Literature
Learners study one verse set text from Group 3 and one verse set text from Group 4:
- Group 3
- Virgil, Aeneid Book XII 1-106, 614-727
- Catullus, poems 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 17, 40, 70, 76, 85, 88, 89, 91, 107
- Group 4
- Virgil, Aeneid Book XII 728-952
- Catullus, poems 1, 34, 62 & 64 lines 124-264
- Ovid, Heroides I lines 1-68, VII lines 1-140
Specification
Teachers
BA (Oxford), PhD candidate
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