I have O'level Latin. QED.
Post Christmas Informal Lunch - Wednesday 28th December
- Thread starter Rubber_Man
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Our Latin teacher was legendary throughout the school.
He would stand in front of his victim (we had proper old fashioned desks with lids) and check that they knew their verb endings. When they (inevitably) did not, he would slam the desk lid up and down whilst shouting "bam, bas, bat, bamus, batis, bant, the imperfect tense is the noisy tense, come on, wake up".
After marking homework he would throw exercise books back across the classroom frisbee style whilst remembering in detail who had done what wrong - one classic to my pal was "you've not put any full stops at the end of your sentences so you obviously want to do some more, do the next exercise and hand it in by lunchtime".
Still, what did the Romans ever do for us?
He would stand in front of his victim (we had proper old fashioned desks with lids) and check that they knew their verb endings. When they (inevitably) did not, he would slam the desk lid up and down whilst shouting "bam, bas, bat, bamus, batis, bant, the imperfect tense is the noisy tense, come on, wake up".
After marking homework he would throw exercise books back across the classroom frisbee style whilst remembering in detail who had done what wrong - one classic to my pal was "you've not put any full stops at the end of your sentences so you obviously want to do some more, do the next exercise and hand it in by lunchtime".
Still, what did the Romans ever do for us?
vitesse
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Seem to scuttle the odd cruise ship.[8|]-we also had a fantastic latin teacher-he did the Times Ximenes crossword in 5 minutes whilst we did a 100 question off the cuff test-also got books & board dusters thrown at underperforming individuals-he played the french horn in the school orchestra-good player & whilst deadly if mistakes made,once done with was very friendly & helpful & would talk off the cuff about all & everything.
I think we all got much higher marks in Latin than in the science subjects those of us chose to study after 'O' levels.
I think we all got much higher marks in Latin than in the science subjects those of us chose to study after 'O' levels.
The legendry 540 will take some beating methinks....
however, I'm particularly proud of my O level in european studies which regrettably was less to with how to chat up a french barmaid and more to do with the Berlin wall and the Marshall plan......
Musically, I cant help but jamie was on.............[
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however, I'm particularly proud of my O level in european studies which regrettably was less to with how to chat up a french barmaid and more to do with the Berlin wall and the Marshall plan......
Musically, I cant help but jamie was on.............[
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Jamie's not playing out tonight. His Mum won't let him because he's been naughty. Either that or he's working abroad somewhere, I forget which.
See you later.
]Jamie's not playing out tonight. His Mum won't let him because he's been naughty. Either that or he's working abroad somewhere, I forget which.
See you later.
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