At the end of each week, I will prepare some flashcards and games at Quia.com that you can use for review. Quia is an old (VERY old) website, but it's very quick and easy for me to use to create these activities. You will be able to find all the Quia materials at my Quia homepage. Specifically for this week, you will find:
Each item consists of 3 activities: Flashcards for practice, plus two games to play — Matching and Concentration.
Since this is the first week of Quia, I'll provide some suggestions here about how to use these activities:
Flashcards. The flashcard deck randomizes each time you (re)load the activity. To flip a card to the other side, just click on the card. To flip the whole deck (changing which side is the prompt), use the "side on top: A - B" option below the deck. If you want to practice the card some more later, click the "try again later" link in the lower right-hand corner of the card.
Matching. The Matching game loads 8 pairs at random; the items in each pair are a different color. Click on the matching items to clear the deck.
Concentration. The Concentration game is much harder! You pick 2 cards at a time to reveal; if they don't match, they are turned back over again, and you pick 2 more cards. You need to remember where the cards are. If playing this game with a 4x4 square is too hard, you can change the settings to make the board 4x3 (6 pairs).
Here are some notes about the contents of each set:
Greek Proverbs. This is NOT a translation drill. Instead, each card contains half of a proverb so that you can get some help in memorizing the Greek proverbs... while looking at nothing but the Greek! To see the English translation, you can go back to the original blog post; there's an alphabetized list of proverbs below so that you can look up a specific proverb. And remember: READ OUT LOUD. That is how you will really learn the Greek: with your ears, not your eyes.
Greek Vocab. This is a translation drill, showing just the dictionary form of the Greek word on one side of the card with the English definition on the other side. You may or may not want to read the English out loud as you practice, but you should definitely READ THE GREEK OUT LOUD. That is the only way to really learn the Greek words.
Greek Vocab (with parts). This is a translation drill that you can also use to practice Greek word formation: the nouns and adjectives show the nominative and genitive forms, while the verbs show the present, future, and aorist forms. So, when you look at the English language prompt, you can challenge yourself to supply the different parts of the nouns, adjectives, and verbs.
I hope you will enjoy using these materials! As more and more nouns and adjectives and verbs accumulate, I'll be able to do review sets focused on specific parts of speech.
If you want to review the posts, here they are: Group 1 - Group 2 - Group 3 - Group 4 - Group 5 - Group 6.
Below is the list of all the proverbs, alphabetized and linked back to the blog post so that you can access the English translation and commentary as needed. Five proverbs per day really do add up: that's a lot of Greek! Greek that means something :-)
- Ἅμαξα τὸν βοῦν ἕλκει.
- Ἀνάγκῃ δ' οὐδὲ θεοὶ μάχονται.
- Ἀνεῳγμέναι Μουσῶν θύραι.
- Ἀπὸ μηχανῆς θεός.
- Ἀρχὴ ἥμισυ παντός.
- Γλαῦκας εἰς Ἀθήνας.
- Γνῶθι σεαυτόν.
- Γόρδιος δεσμός.
- Δίκη δίκην τίκτει, καὶ βλάβη βλάβην.
- Εἷς ἀνὴρ οὐ πάνθ᾽ ὁρᾷ.
- Ἐλέφας μῦν οὐχ ἁλίσκει.
- Ἐν νυκτὶ βουλή.
- Ἓν οἶδα — ὅτι οὐδὲν οἶδα.
- Ἐν οἴνῳ ἀλήθεια.
- Ἐξ ὄνυχος τὸν λέοντα.
- Καιρὸν γνῶθι.
- Λίθον ἕψεις.
- Μέγα βιβλίον μέγα κακόν.
- Μεγάλη πόλις, μεγάλη ἐρημία.
- Μετὰ πόλεμον, ἡ συμμαχία.
- Μὴ παιδὶ μάχαιραν.
- Μὴ πῦρ ἐπὶ πῦρ.
- Μηδὲν ἄγαν.
- Οἱ διψῶντες σιωπῇ πίνουσι.
- Πάντα ῥεῖ.
- Πολλαῖς πληγαῖς δρῦς δαμάζεται.
- Τύχη δ' ἀρετῆς ἀναίτιος.
- Τῶν ὤτων ἔχω τὸν λύκον.
- Ὕπνος δὲ πάσης ἐστὶν ὑγιεία νόσου.
- Χαλεπὰ τὰ καλά.
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