Here's a practice activity pertaining to the perfect tense:

Try conjugating these verbs in the perfect tense, remembering these personal endings:

-ī    -imus
-istī    -istis
-it    -ērunt


mittō, mittere, mīsī, missus - to send
sum, esse, fuī, futūrus - to be
iubeō, iubēre, iussī, iussus - to order

For the answers, click here.

Homework for Thursday:

1) study for the quiz! Check yesterday's blog entry for the new verbs; remember that you are still responsible for the verbs you learned for the last quiz.

2) finish your rough draft of the chapter 20 translation. Leave spaces if there are constructions that are difficult for you - we will go over this on Thursday!

Today we practiced translating chapter 19 without the book and reviewed chapter 19 vocabulary. I handed quite a bit of work back. Tuesday and Thursday you will have some time to work on translations you haven't completed - if you have a large backlog you will need to do some at home!!

This Thursday there will be another verb quiz. You will need to know the principal parts of all the verbs from the last quiz PLUS:

neco, necare
maneo, manere (with a macron)
iubeo, iubere (with a macron)
iacio, iacere
duco, ducere
peto, petere
custodio, custodire
dormio, dormire
volo, velle
nolo, nolle

Homework for Tuesday: spend at least 20 minutes on the translation of the chapter 20 story.

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! After a wonderful dinner, planting about 100 tulip bulbs and removing a (live) squirrel from the crawl space behind my bedroom closet, I am ready to think about the lovely Latin language again.

Here is a practice for the principal parts of verbs from Unit Three: click here. Click here for the answers.

For practice translating and using different verb tenses, click here. Click here for the answers.

Noun Case Review

Many of you are successfully learning the noun and adjective declensions, but have a hard time identifying the case and its purpose in sentences. Here is a review exercise for you:

Translate, then give the case and purpose of the italicized nouns:

1. Omnēs arborēs silvae sunt magnae.

2. Dāvus īrātus baculum arripit et Getam baculō verberat.

3. Iter est longum et Sextus sedēre nōn iam vult.

4. Toga Mārcī est sordida et Aurēlia eum reprehendit.

5. "Cavē, scelestī," magnā vōce exclāmat.

6. "Nēmō meam caupōnam reprehendit," exclāmit brevī rīsū caupō. (rīsus, rīsūs is a 4th declension noun meaning laugh/smile - rīsū is the ablative case)

7.  Iter Rōmam Cornēlius saepe faciēbat.

8. Cornēlia est puella Rōmana, quae in villā rūsticā aestāte habitat.

9. Nōmen meae sororis est Iūlia.

10. Brevī tempore Mārcus et Sextus ad caupōnam adveniunt.

Click here for the answers.

There is no homework during the Thanksgiving Break! However, I would strongly encourage you to keep up with your Latin because December will be a busy month. You have a long list of principal parts to learn (click here for the list) and they are not easy to learn at the last minute.

Suggestions for learning principal parts:
1) make flashcards, similar to the ones we used in class
2) use quia (look for the Unit Three folder)
3) practice saying them aloud
4) practice writing them
5) learn them in groups:
       the -avi group
       the -ivi group
       the -ui group

etc.

Remember, there will be a quiz on Thursday on certain verbs and their principal parts (see previous post and your class notes). The final draft of the translation for chapter 19 is also due on Thursday.

If you would like to review irregular verb conjugations, both present and imperfect tenses, I've put all the quia.com exercises together in one folder, "Latin II Irregular Verbs".