slides and teaching aids

German reading tutorials [top]
This table provides the schedule and materials for the CMS German reading tutorials. "Read" and "ex" refer to chapters and exercises in April Wilson's German Quickly. Click [here] for limited-access files; [here] for extra sample exams.
for week 2 (8 Feb) read 3-4 ex 3.9, 3.14	gender articles & adjectives the April 2005 exam
for week 3 (22 Feb) read 5, 7 ex 5.12, 5.14	prepositions extra case/preposition exercise tricky sentences 1 the April 2001 exam
for week 4 (1 Mar) read 14-15 ex 14.12, 15.6	abbreviations pronouns, adverbs versus adjectives verb forms verb reconstruction the September 2003 exam
for week 5 (8 Mar) read 30-32 ex 31.7	the subjunctive subjunctive flowchart exercise extra texts 1 vocab with extra texts 1 the September 2007 exam
for week 6 (15 Mar) read 6, 22-25, 33 ex 33.4	past participles past participles exercise verb exercise word order Mark Twain the Sep 2004 exam
for week 7 (22 Mar) read 27	auxiliaries commonly used in the subjunctive the overloaded adjective construction distinguishing between positive and comparative adjectives extra text 2 vocab with extra text 2 the January 2005 exam
for week 8 (~~29 Mar~~) read 19, 27-29	modals and the passive common pitfalls 2 the September 2005 exam
for week 9 (5 Apr) read 9, 12, 13 ex 12.6	extra text 3: the September 2002 exam the January 2007 exam
Latin [top]
These are exercises I have designed to go with Collins's Primer of Ecclesiastical Latin. Feel free to use them for learning and teaching purposes, and let me know if you find any mistakes (look for missing macrons).
Units 1-2	translation and declension
Unit 3	translation, declension, and conjugation prepositions, translation, and conjugation terminology drills number and tense
Unit 4	noun and adjectival declension translation
Unit 5	principal parts; translation; first conjugation, pres. ind.
Unit 6	the four conjugations, pres. ind. translation, vocabulary, and conjugation
Unit 7	the passive conjugation and translation
Unit 8	the imperfect indicative
Unit 9	the future indicative present, imperfect, future indicative
Unit 10	the perfect indicative active the relative 1 the relative 2 the relative 3 the relative 4
Unit 11	tenses
Unit 13	the perfect passive participle and ablative absolute
Unit 14	third-declension nouns active declension third-declension gender
Unit 15	third-declension nouns
Unit 16	third-declension adjectives and present participles four noun declensions
Unit 17	ablatives in Collins units 1-17 ablatives exercise 1 ablatives exercise 2
Review 1-17	tense exercise
extra text	Audī, caelum
conference materials [top]
17 Apr 2010	slides for "'t Is the Season to be Scary: Seasonality of the Supernatural in the Sagas of Icelanders" (Ghosts and Demons: Ethereal and Material, Princeton)
11 Aug 2009	slides for "Trǫll and Ethnicity in Egils Saga" (International Saga Conference 2009, Uppsala)
10 July 2008	slides for "Shock and Awe: The Dream-women in Gísla Saga" (IMC Leeds 2008)