Learning Outcome 1: Listening and Speaking

The learner is able to listen and speak for a variety of purposes, audiences and contexts. In Latin listening with understanding to Latin texts being read aloud, and reading these aloud with correct phrasing, are indicative of mastery. The learner is able to issue or respond to simple commands and ask or answer simple questions in Latin. The learner is able to participate in Latin quizzes and word games. The learner is able to explain and elucidate a Latin text orally in his/her home language or other additional language.

We know this when the learner is able to:

1.1 demonstrate knowledge of different forms of oral communication for social purposes:

make prepared and unprepared responses, read aloud and tell a story;
give and follow directions and instructions with accuracy;
make a short prepared speech or presentation
participate in simple Latin dialogues.

1.2 demonstrate planning and research skills for oral presentations, in Latin or in the language of learning:

research a familiar topic by referring to a range of sources;
organise a range of material by choosing main ideas and relevant details or examples for support;
identify and choose appropriate vocabulary, language structures and formats;
prepare effective introductions and conclusions;
incorporate appropriate visual, audio and audio-visual aids such as charts, posters, photographs, slides, images, music, sound and electronic media.

1.3 demonstrate the skills of listening to and delivering oral presentations and / or reading aloud of Latin passages:

use familiar rhetorical devices such as rhetorical questions, pause, repetition;
use and responds effectively to voice projection, pace, eye contact, posture and gestures correctly and responds appropriately
pronounce words without distorting meaning;
demonstrate comprehension of oral texts by making summaries and/or by retelling and explaining main and supporting ideas in the language of learning;
develop confidence in situations requiring reading aloud or speaking in public;
read aloud a poem with attention to correct pronunciation, metre and prosody;
listen and respond to straightforward questions for clarification.

1.4 demonstrate critical awareness of language use in oral situations:

show by willing participation in word games and confident use of language his / her pleasure in his / her Latin studies;
understand the meaning of common fixed Latin phrases as these occur in communication;
use both an extensive and appropriate vocabulary and fixed Latin phrases accurately and confidently in daily speech;
display continued awareness of own enrichment through contact with a language that strongly influences modern communication;
recognise the relationship between language and culture;
recognise and challenge emotive and manipulative language such as in propaganda and advertising, also in the language of learning.

1.5 demonstrate confidence in literary discussion or other discussion relating to the ancient world:

discuss his / her responses to literature intelligently in conversation;
tell the stories of Graeco-Roman myths in appropriate modern idiom;
tell stories about , e.g., Roman history or the originators of useful mathematical concepts, such as Pythagoras, Euclid.

1.6 demonstrate openness to other cultures:

acknowledge that differences in cultures do not mean the superiority of one culture above another;
discuss aspects of ancient culture and society which may offer paradigms for the understanding of today's world;
describe aspects of his / her own culture which either coincide with or differ from the ancient cultures studied.

1.7 demonstrate heightened life skills in other contexts:

apply conclusions drawn from the above and aural and oral facility gained to his / her own situation;
apply knowledge acquired thus to aspects of the world around him / her, including enrichment of other learning areas in which he / she is engaged;
conduct an intelligent conversation about any of the above.