We will cover the Cambridge Latin Course stages 1-18.

The detailed sylabus follows:

week 1

Latin as an Indoeuropean language, pronunciation, basic terminology, the terms "conjugation" and "declension".

CLC stages 1+2+3 (VERB: present tense, 3 sg., NOUN: nom. and acc. sg.)

homereading in English: Caecilius, Metella, Houses of Pompeii, Daily life, The town of Pompeii

week 2

CLC stages 4+5 (VERB: present tense, 1+2 sg., 3. pl. NOUN: nom. pl.)

homereading in English: The forum, The theatre et Pompeii

week 3

CLC stages 6+7 (VERB: perfect and imperfect tense, 3 sg.+pl., 3. pl. NOUN: nom. pl.)

homereading in English: Slaves and Freedmen, Roman beliefs about life after death

week 4

CLC stages 8 (NOUN: acc. pl., ADJ: superlatives)

homereading in English: Gladiators, Animal hunts,, The riot at Pompeii

week 5

CLC stage 9 (VERB: 1+2 sg., NOUN: dative case, personal pronouns)

homereading in English: The baths

week 6

CLC stages 10+11 (VERB: complete present tense + esse /to be/, questions)

homereading in English: Schools, Local government and elections

week 7

CLC stage 12 (VERB: complete imperfect and perfect tenses)

homereading in English: The destruction and excavation of Pompeii

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week 8

CLC stage 13 (VERB: infinitive act., possum /can/, volo /want/, 3. pl. NOUN: nom. pl.)

homereading in English: Britannia and its farms, The slaves, Salvius

week 9

CLC stage 14 (ADJECTIVES – revision)

homereading in English: The Romans in Britain

week 10

CLC stage 15 (VERB: imperfect of possum, relative clause)

homereading in English: Cogidubnus

week 11

CLC stage 16 (VERB: pluperfect tense)

homereading in English: The palace at Fishbourne

week 12

CLC stage 17 (NOUN: genitive case)

homereading in English: Alexandria

week 13

CLC stage 18 (ADJECTIVES + NOUNS: revision)

homereading in English: Glassmaking in Alexandria, Egypt