Traditionally, Latin teachers have expected students to work out the meaning of the text for themselves. Intellectually challenging this may be, but it makes progress in Latin so appallingly SLOW. At a time when students should be racing ahead and reading large amounts of Latin to improve their vocabulary and language skills, most are left at the starting post and never read enough to become fluent in the language.
The aim of these workbooks is simple: it is TO SPEED THINGS UP. They will suit teachers who wish to see their students reading Latin quickly in whole sentences and paragraphs, rather than laboriously decoding it word by word.
Thank you for sending out the workbooks. They have become an essential part of our 6th Form teaching over the last three years or so.
Please may I order Lysias, against Eratosthenes and Homer, Iliad XVI, 631-861. I’ve used your books for all my previousWhen convenient, could you kindly send me FIVE more copies of your splendid PLINY (“Ghosts”) workbook.
exams and I absolutely love them!
May I order another 20 of your Virgil workbooks for GCSE Latin? The last lot we ordered have
elicited a good deal of admiration from pupils, and two other sets are demanding their own
copies! I thought I would drop you a line and let you know that my classes are loving your workbooks. My Year 11s are cross that I had not discovered them earlier and "saved them all that work".
Thank you Mr Carter. Your AS Latin books are FANTASTIC. Merry Christmas.
Our students have found your workbooks invaluable for their set text study and
I don’t know how we’d manage without them now.
Just come into school for the GCSE results which were our best ever – thanks in no small part to your booklets!
Dear David, It's that time of year again! We love your workbooks and now cannot live without them...
Hi there,
We had our Latin Verse GCSE a few weeks ago - we had to learn Virgil.
We'd just like to say that we couldn't have done nearly as well as we did if we hadn't used your awesome study guides. We think they should be made the standard book for anyone studying Virgil at GCSE. All our classmates were jealous - they were stuck with just copies of the text and their own scribbled notes.
Thanks
[these were 2 students whose parents bought the books privately]
We have been using your booklets for Iliad I here this year and the pupils have really enjoyed it. The booklets have made a real difference – we’re at the stage now where they can look at the Greek text at the back and translate it word perfectly. Most satisfying!
Thank you very much for the copies of Pro Roscio and Met.VIII......The Upper Sixth love having the Cicero in that format which has given a real momentum and sense of progress.
My colleague has been using your
I was absolutely delighted with the books - they will save so much time in resource preparation, and they'll be ideal for pupils' independent revision. ........ ....... The structure and layout are perfect, and I have spent huge amounts of time on similar resources, so to find that these are available each year is wonderful.
The Baucis etc went down a storm last year with my set - especially for revision, & lower sixth now have requested it for their AS.
I recently met a party from a school doing distance learning, and the co-ordinator is feeling rather nervous about teaching set texts to next year's Year 10 (2008 exam). I told her that your publication was just what she needed.
My summer holiday seems longer now I'm not making out vocab lists.
Your work book on Cicero has been such a success with my upper sixth group that the lower sixth now demand a copy. Would you kindly send me 9 copies of Cicero Pro Milone.....
And let me extend my students' appreciation to you. They have found the quick start section and the running vocabulary at the bottom of the page especially helpful.
I have so enjoyed your workbook for Aeneid IV and my students have been delighted with it.
Could we have 15 more copies of the Baucis? You have made it so accessible that we have decided to start some of the prescription with the year 10's.
Cheque for Virgil texts on the way. Many thanks (my UVI have found them invaluable).
Dear David Thank you for sending the books so promptly. I thought you would like to know that my students think they are wonderful! Best wishes.
I'd also be very grateful if you let me know how to access the second part of Aeneid 10 you mentioned. It's been an enormous help so far. gratias tibi ago, amice!
Dear David, Your 'Pro Milone' text is proving to be just what we needed: thank you so much! So delighted am I that I'd now like to order all 3 GCSE texts, the AS/A2 Tacitus text, and both GCSE Greek texts.
I was SO pleased to get your circular at the comprehensive school where I teach twilight Latin, for I have A level Latin students for the first time for years, and thought 'Oh God, all that preparation!' And now here's your circular to the rescue...... Keep up the good work!
Thanks for the Tacitus. Students loved it! So 9 more copies please.
The students are finding them very helpful thanks and the lessons are much more interactive as they arrive much better prepared to tackle the original text.
I hope the cheque has arrived. The Iliad texts have gone down extremely well so far. Predictably the boys asked if they could have the same for Latin. We shall need to discuss this at a department meeting (the next is on Friday), as it would be quite an outlay, and they are fairly well on with it in another version, but I'm quite tempted.
I am enjoying using the Aeneid with my GCSE group this year, and my Lower 6 are also finding the Ovid very useful indeed......The GCSE group particularly like the space for writing grammatical and literary notes opposite the text : useful because we can go back to it and insert comments in the right place! The 6th form also like the translation of the Ovid which is more literal than the one in the textbook.
My students and I have really enjoyed using your workbooks. Please could you send me a copy of the Pliny?
Dear David, Thank you for the swift dispatch of the Amores for which I have authorised payment. The students who saw it were so impressed that they demanded one for their pro Milone studies
Many thanks for the wonderful books you sent us.
Many thanks for the Amores I books which have arrived safely....... Instant positive reaction from students.
A colleague of mine has enthused over your Virgil Aeneid X so I look forward to receiving this text.
I wanted to say how pleased I was to receive the Pliny workbook, to say how thrilled my AS student is with her workbook, and what a difference it is to our lives!