Someone filled out the Latin email subscription form with the email field blank, which means I can't send you the Latin emails. So, if you didn't get a Latin email yesterday or today, that means you are not on the list; just use the form again. I edited the form so an email address is required. Hopefully that will prevent this email snafu in future. :-)For the next two weeks, we'll be reviewing the vocabulary and proverbs from the past 6 weeks. A friend asked me to find a way to integrate practicing the actual vocabulary forms and English definitions into the review, and I think I have found a way to do that. I'm using a Slideshow! Slideshows are a great way to quiz because it gives you control, allowing you to move forward or backwards based on what you need to repeat.
So, I've made a slideshow which reviews 15 of the proverbs, and the vocabulary is part of the review. The 15 proverbs are divided into 3 sets. Each set starts with 5 slides to read and review... and remember: READ OUT LOUD. Reading out loud is the only way to learn the Greek stress patterns! Then, there are slides with blanks you can use to quiz yourself. You quiz yourself by writing down your answers or filling in the blanks orally. Each proverb has two slides with blanks so you can quiz yourself on both halves of each proverb.
I hope this Slideshow will help you to do the kind of review that is best for you:
- You can quiz yourself just on the vocabulary.
- You can quiz yourself just on the proverbs.
- Or you can quiz yourself on both!
Also, I'm a big believer in flashcards. You could use this slideshow to prompt you to make flashcards for the proverbs if you have not done that already.
- For vocabulary cards, put the dictionary form and part of speech on one side, and then put the additional forms of the word and English definition on the other side; that way you can quiz yourself both on the forms and on the definitions.
- For proverb cards, divide the proverb in half (almost every proverb has a good halfway point), and write one half on one side and the other half on the other side; that way you can quiz yourself without any English — just Greek!
There are some more tips and suggestions in the Slideshow; here is a link to the Slideshow, and here is a link so you can make a copy of the Slideshow for yourself. If you have your own copy, you can delete cards as you complete them, creating new decks of the proverbs you like best, want to review, etc. etc.
And here's a random proverb too:
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