02 Chapter Ecce Romani: linking verbs, complements, 3rd person verb endings, plural nouns

Pre-Reading Questions

Open your textbooks to pages 6 and 7 and to spend two minutes looking at the picture, reading the "In This Chapter" box and the title of the story, and looking very quickly at the vocabulary list. Then ask the following questions:

a.  Whom do you see in the picture?

b.  What are the girls doing?

c.  What is the setting of the picture?

d.  What do you see under the tree?

e.  While studying Chapter 1 we talked about nouns, adjectives, and verbs.

On what are we going to focus in this chapter?

f.   Who can give me an English sentence with a subject, a linking verb, and a complement?

g.  All the verbs in the story in Chapter 1 ended with the letter t; Two verbs in the vocabulary list for Chapter 2 end with the letters nt.  What does this mean about these verbs?

h. What plural noun do you see in the vocabulary first? 

Chapter 2 Audio
Vocabulary
Story Read Quickly
Story Read with Pauses

Questions about the story. Answer in Latin using the sentences in the story.

Quizlet Vocabulary 02 Ecce Romani


02 Ecce Pre-reading derivatives

Agenda Friday September 7

Words of the day (WOD)
transitive verb (TV) a verb that has a direct object, that transfers an action to a noun (the direct object)
intransitive verb (IV) a verb that does not have a direct object
linking verb (LV) a verb that links a subject to a description of that object (noun or adjective)
complement (C) the description of what the verb links to the subject. If it is a noun or adjective, it is in the same form, the subject or nominative form, as the subject.

Finish before lunch: Crossword on Vocabulary for Ecce Romani II.

Page 8 Ecce Romani Textbook, Grammar Guided Instruction

Guided instruction: Identify subjects, verbs, linking verbs and complements in the story (below) Play audio of story.

Pre-reading questions. Guided instruction

Open your textbooks to pages 6 and 7 and to spend two minutes looking at the picture, reading the "In This Chapter" box and the title of the story, and looking very quickly at the vocabulary list. Then ask the following questions:

a.  Whom do you see in the picture?

b. What are the girls doing?

c. What is the setting of the picture?

d. What do you see under the tree


e. While studying Chapter 1 we talked about nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  On what are we going to focus in this chapter?


f.  Give an English sentence with a subject, a linking verb, and a complement? (See page 8 in textbook, included below.


g. All the verbs in the story in Chapter 1 ended with the letter t; Two verbs in the vocabulary list for Chapter 2 end with the letters nt.  What does this mean about these verbs?


Write in your notes:
Verbs from chapter I

habitat (he/she/it) lives, is living,does live
sedet (he/she/it) sits, is sitting, does sit
est (he/she/it) is
legit (he/she/it) reads, is reading, does read
scribit (he/she/it) writes, is writing, does write
facit (he/she/it does, makes, is making, is doing what does...do?

Verbs from chapter II

ambulant they walk
sedent they sit

-t ending = singular (s/he it)
-nt ending = plural (they)

h. What plural noun do you see in the vocabulary first? The ending -a is singular. The ending -ae is plural.

Audio for Story Chapter II (read without pauses)
Audio for Story Chapter II (read with pauses)
Audio for Story Chapter II Vocabulary

Responde Latine (questions on the story). Guided instruction

Quis est? Quid facit Cornelia?

Quis est? Quid facit ·Flavia?

Cur Cornelia non iam ambulat?

Quid facit Cornelia?

Quid facit Flavia, puella strenua?

Cur Flavia quoque sedet?

Quid facit Cornelia sub arbore?

Quid facit Flavia sub arbore?

Quid puellae tandem faciunt?

Cur ... ?  Why?

Quid facit....? What is ______ doing?

Quid faciunt ...?  What are (they/plural noun) doing?

Independent work (use the vocabulary list)/Homework

Read A Roman Family, pp. 10-11. Then answer the questions here - Pearson online culture 02 Ecce Romani