Year 7

Practise Translation: The Tame Birds and the Wild Birds

Year 7

Practise Translation: The Tame Birds and the Wild Birds

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Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will practise the nominative and accusative plural by translating a fable about freedom and friendship.

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9 Questions

Q1.
Singular accusatives end in which of the following?

Correct answer: -m
-s

Q2.
2. Singular or plural: amicum?

Plural
Correct answer: Singular

Q3.
3. Singular or plural: amicos?

Correct answer: Plural
Singular

Q4.
4. Singular or plural: feminas?

Correct answer: Plural
Singular

Q5.
5. Nominative or accusative: canem?

Correct answer: Accusative
Both
Nominative

Q6.
6. Nominative or accusative: filii?

Accusative
Both
Correct answer: Nominative

Q7.
7. Nominative or accusative: canes?

Accusative
Correct answer: Both
Nominative

Q8.
8. Tick the THREE correct boxes for puellas.

Correct answer: Accusative
Nominative
Correct answer: Plural
Singular
Translation: girl
Correct answer: Translation: girls

Q9.
9. What does the following Latin sentence mean: filiae amicam salutant.

Correct answer: The daughters greet the friend.
The daughters greet the friends.

9 Questions

Q1.
Singular or plural: dominos?

Correct answer: Plural
Singular

Q2.
Singular or plural: dominus?

Plural
Correct answer: Singular

Q3.
Singular or plural: aves?

Correct answer: Plural
Singular

Q4.
Nominative or accusative: amica?

Accusative
Both
Correct answer: Nominative

Q5.
Nominative or accusative: dominum?

Correct answer: Accusative
Both
Nominative

Q6.
Nominative or accusative: aves?

Accusative
Correct answer: Both
Nominative

Q7.
Tick the THREE correct boxes for amicae.

Accusative
Correct answer: Nominative
Correct answer: Plural
Singular
Translation: friend
Correct answer: Translation: friends

Q8.
What does the following Latin sentence mean: avem iratam habeo.

Correct answer: I have an angry bird.
I have angry birds.

Q9.
What is the moral of the fable of the tame birds and the wild birds?

It doesn't matter whom you choose.
Correct answer: Side with the powerful over your friends.
Your friends are more important than anybody else.