Year 7

Practise Translation: The Monkey King

Year 7

Practise Translation: The Monkey King

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will practise the nominative plural by translating a fable about a royal monkey who always has the same two questions for visitors to his kingdom.

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6 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following are plural?
Correct answer: amici, feminae, canes
amicus, femina, canis
Q2.
2. Which THREE of the following nouns are plurals?
Correct answer: filiae
filiam
Correct answer: horti
hortus
urbem
Correct answer: urbes
Q3.
3. Which TWO of the following nouns are accusative?
filiae
Correct answer: filiam
horti
hortus
Correct answer: urbem
urbes
Q4.
4. What does 'amici puerum salutant' mean?
The friend greets the boy.
Correct answer: The friends greet the boy.
Q5.
5. What does 'puella amicam salutat' mean?
Correct answer: The girl greets the friend.
The girls greet the friend.
Q6.
6. Which of these Latin sentences means 'The old men enter the house'?
Correct answer: senes villam intrant.
senex villam intrat.

7 Questions

Q1.
Which of the following are singular?
cives
Correct answer: civis
prima
primae
simii
simius
Q2.
Which of the following are plural?
Correct answer: cives
civis
prima
Correct answer: primae
Correct answer: simii
simius
Q3.
Which TWO of the following nouns are accusative?
amica
amicae
Correct answer: civem
civis
Correct answer: simium
Q4.
What does 'iuvenis civem salutant' mean?
Correct answer: The young man greets the citizen.
The young men greet the citizen.
Q5.
What does 'cives amicum salutant' mean?
The citizen greets the friend.
Correct answer: The citizens greet the friend.
Q6.
Which of these Latin sentences means 'The king greets the first citizen'?
primus rex civem salutat.
Correct answer: rex primum civem salutat.
Q7.
What is the moral of the fable of the monkey king?
Correct answer: Always lie to people in power.
It doesn't matter what you say to people in power.
Never lie to people in power.