[B-Greek] THE GENEOLOGIES: Drills
Louis Sorenson
llsorenson at hotmail.com
Fri Jan 7 17:03:12 EST 2011
Hello all,
καλὸν νεὸν ἔτος! KALON NEON ETOS!
Shirley Rollinson wrote......> Yassas Marke!
> Re-wiring the English brain (or any brain) for a foreign language, particularly with adults,
> is a problem which those of us who teach Beginning Greek face over and over again.
> It may be that some of the members of B-Greek are looking for a bit of help with this,
> so, for what it's worth, here are my two denarii :
> Drillling this way takes the average student about 2 weeks to get the brain re-wired or at least weaned from English word-order.
> In our first week (while still consolidating the Alphabet), we read (aloud) and
> translate?Matth. chapter 1 - "The Begats" (with digressions about some of the people,
> and about how Greeks heard and wrote Hebrew names in their own aural/verbal idiom)
> As a spin-off from The Begats - they will never confuse GENNAW and GINOMAI
> when they meet a GEN- stem.??? 2 "nu"s = "begat" gets wired into the brain pretty fast.
I have created a lesson based on reading the geneologies, along with drills on τίς TIS, ποῦ POU, πότε POTE.
I think it could be used as an introduction to aorists, definitely a good askesis for working with names,
and a good workout for the singular of the article and use with names (which are highlighted
according to declineable/indeclineable). Anyone is free to give it a try. (If you find any errors, let me know).
It can be found at http://www.letsreadgreek.org/resources/ntreadings
Louis Sorenson
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