Latin Beyond GCSE

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The visual presentation of the book, however, has certainly been looked at afresh: the new edition is no longer in monochrome, has illustrations, and is formatted similarly to Latin To GCSE and the new edition of Greek To GCSE. Tosavemehavingtohanditineachtimetogetmarked,doesanyonehaveacopyoftheanswerstoLatin,BeyondGCSEbyJohnTaylor?

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.Despite lack of funding and institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social and cultural issues.

Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the expanding worlds of Latin American comics. The first edition already had many useful features tied to the previous OCR specifications (more so than the parallel Greek Beyond GCSE), which thankfully have been retained, where appropriate, in this new edition. It is important to note that it is concerned only with language requirements; the prescription at both AS and A2 level also includes the study of prose and verse set texts.

Comics are being used as essential tools in debates about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and political disenfranchisement. cover the whole gamut of syntax, beginning with the use of cases and tenses and ending with conditional clauses in indirect speech. Useful easy practice sentences followed by unseen passages which become progressively longer and more challenging as the students progress. I used John Taylor's "Essential GCSE Latin" constantly whilst studying for the exam and found it the most useful of all my Latin books.

p. 21), and the logic behind the various rules (why does dum take the present indicative in unlikely places? As a mature learner I needed something to get me from GCSE level (or O-level in my case) to a more advanced stage. It is possible, I suppose, that such assistance will be given in the form of supplementary online materials. The next section introduces the translation and scansion of verse, and includes passages for unseen translation and comprehension at A2 standard in both prose and verse. This is the old crossword-puzzle approach and can be made to work as a pencil-and-paper exercise: in addition students can be told to identify as short a vowel followed by another vowel in the same word and not forming a diphthong.urges “close attention to detail in getting the form and ending of every word correct” and recommends the looking up and rechecking of every word except the most common.

The account of the tenses of the subjunctive used in indirect questions and their correlation with tenses of the indicative in the direct questions is unclear, incomplete and in places incorrect.The book provides a significant number of equally significant improvements, and the new edition is about 100 pages longer than the original. P. 163: “the ablative is … a bit of a ragbag”: it might be helpful to point out that it is an amalgamation of three Indo-European cases. 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. Finally there is a reference section including a summary of all constructions, a comprehensive grammar, and a vocabulary of 1000 Latin words (with an additional list of 250 common poetic words for verse passages). It has tonnes of examples for the different types of translation, comprehension, grammar and composition sections on the GCSE 9-1 language paper.