Workbook for Wheelock’s Latin, 3rd Edition, Revised

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Make learning Latin faster and easier with this essential companion to the esteemed classic introductory textbook, Wheelock’s Latin. Reflecting the trend toward more active use of classroom Latin, this supplemental workbook focuses on listening and speaking skills to help students new to the language master its basics.Workbook for Wheelock’s Latin offers forty lessons presented in an easy-to-read, clear layout. Each chapter begins with a detailed set of objectives (intellegenda) and continues with a series of questions designed to focus directly on newly introduced grammar (grammatica), as well as:

Transformation drills, word and phrase translations, and other exercises to test and sharpen skills;

Word Power sections that focus on vocabulary and derivatives;

Reading comprehension questions and sentences for translation practice;

Perforated pages for written homework assignments, including space for the student’s name, class, and date.

When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock’s Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; at least one reviewer predicted that the book “might well become the standard text” for introducing students to elementary Latin. Now, decades later, that prediction has certainly proved accurate.

Workbook for Wheelock’s Latin is an essential companion to the classic introductory textbook. Designed to supplement the course of study in Wheelock’s Latin, 7th Edition, each of the forty chapters in this newly updated edition features:   

Transformation drills, word and phrase translations, and other exercises to test and sharpen the student’s skills

“Word Power” sections that focus on vocabulary and derivatives

Reading comprehension questions and sentences for translation practice

Perforated pages for hand-in homework assignments and space for the student’s name and date

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