Year 8

Practise Translation: Aeneas Leaves

Year 8

Practise Translation: Aeneas Leaves

Lesson details

Key learning points

  1. In this lesson, we will practise relative clauses by translating the final part of Dido and Aeneas' story. This lesson covers suicide. If this is a sensitive topic for you, we recommend checking with a trusted adult before starting or doing the lesson with a trusted adult nearby.

Content guidance

  • Contains conflict or violence.
  • Contains subject matter which individuals may find upsetting.

Supervision

Adult supervision suggested

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10 Questions

Q1.
What is the relative clause in the following sentence: 'The man, whom I found, took my dog.'
man
whom
Correct answer: whom I found
Q2.
What is the antecedent in the following sentence: 'The man, whom I found, took my dog.'
Correct answer: man
whom
whom I found
Q3.
What is the relative pronoun in the following sentence: 'The man, whom I found, took my dog.'
man
Correct answer: whom
whom I found
Q4.
What is the grammatical definition of 'whom'?
the neuter form of 'who'
Correct answer: the object form of 'who'
the plural form of 'who'
Q5.
Which of these is correct English?
Correct answer: Aeneas, who escaped Troy, founded Rome.
Aeneas, whom escaped Troy, founded Rome.
Q6.
Which of these is correct English?
Dido, who Aeneas loved, was a Carthaginian queen.
Correct answer: Dido, whom Aeneas loved, was a Carthaginian queen.
Q7.
How do you translate the following pronouns: quem, quam, quos, quas?
who, which
Correct answer: whom, which
Q8.
What THREE things can quam mean?
because
Correct answer: than
Correct answer: which
who
Correct answer: whom
Q9.
What does the following sentence mean: rex, quem cives salutant, sedet?
The king, who greets the citizens, is sitting.
Correct answer: The king, whom the citizens greet, is sitting.
Q10.
What does the following sentence mean: cena, quam paras, est mala?
The dinner, which prepares you, is bad.
Correct answer: The dinner, which you prepare, is bad.
The dinner, whom you prepare, is bad.

10 Questions

Q1.
In the sentence: 'Aeneas, whom Dido loved, left Carthage for Italy.' Is 'Aeneas' a relative clause, a relative pronoun or an antecedent?
Correct answer: antecedent
relative clause
relative pronoun
Q2.
In the sentence: 'Aeneas, whom Dido loved, left Carthage for Italy.' Is 'whom' a relative clause, a relative pronoun or an antecedent?
antecedent
relative clause
Correct answer: relative pronoun
Q3.
In the sentence: 'Aeneas, whom Dido loved, left Carthage for Italy.' Is 'whom Dido loved' a relative clause, a relative pronoun or an antecedent?
antecedent
Correct answer: relative clause
relative pronoun
Q4.
What is the grammatical definition of 'whom'?
the neuter form of 'who'
Correct answer: the object form of 'who'
the plural form of 'who'
Q5.
Which of these is correct English?
Anchises, who Aeneas saw in his dreams, warned him to leave Carthage.
Correct answer: Anchises, whom Aeneas saw in his dreams, warned him to leave Carthage.
Q6.
What TWO things can quem mean?
because
than
Correct answer: which
who
Correct answer: whom
Q7.
What THREE things can quam mean?
because
Correct answer: than
Correct answer: which
who
Correct answer: whom
Q8.
What does the following sentence mean: pater, qui me servavit, timet?
Correct answer: The father, who saved me, is afraid.
The father, whom I saved, is afraid.
Q9.
What does the following sentence mean: nuntius, quem ego misi, advenit?
The messenger, who sent me, arrived.
Correct answer: The messenger, whom I sent, arrived.
Q10.
Why did Aeneas leave Dido?
Carthage was a hostile place.
He did not love her.
Correct answer: It was his duty and destiny.
She did not love him.