A scene of peaceful domestic life in a small Roman home. This passage introduces prepositions with the ablative case (in, sub, cum, sine), helping learners describe simple locations and relationships. Includes household vocabulary and practice sentences.
Reading Passage 3: A touching story of loyalty between a boy and his faithful dog. Learners practise the verb sum, esse and adjective agreement in simple descriptive sentences. Includes vocabulary on animals, household life, and body parts, with translation and grammar exercises.
Reading Passage 2: Agricola in horto
Language cannot be poured into pupils like water into vessels. It must grow from desire, aptitude, and exposure. The universal instinct fades with age; what remains is intellect and will. Without honesty about this, schools merely pretend to teach what few will ever learn.
Across Europe, the act of knowing the citizen has become a test of power.
These three essays trace how identity moved from the census to the classroom, from the passport to the algorithm. Germany counts precisely; Britain hesitates to count at all. Yet both reveal the same unease — that the more the state tries to know its people, the more it risks losing their trust. Counting Strangers, The British Fear of Being Known, and From Card to Code follow that uneasy journey from bureaucratic record to digital surveillance, asking what remains of freedom when knowledge itself becomes a form of control.
A study of Waugh’s estrangement, his critique of modernity, and his uneasy kinship with Orwell — two men who saw the decay of English order from opposite moral poles.
Meditation does not mean emptying the mind. It means clearing space to think — a discipline of clarity that the Western tradition saw as sacred reasoning, not blankness.
1. Puella et Avis (A1)
LATIN VERB TENSES — INDICATIVE AND SUBJUNCTIVE
Psalm 40 A psalm of David expressing compassion for the poor, personal suffering, betrayal by friends, and trust in God’s deliverance. It foreshadows the passion of Christ through the imagery of treachery and steadfast faith.