Participles

Gerundive Activity

Can you identify these artifacts from everyday life? Machina means something with moving parts.

The following gerundive constructions are actually artifacts from everyday life TODAY!

Alternate ways to use this material:

1. Translate the phrases individually
2. Group activity: Contest between two or more groups to see which group has the highest percentage correct
3. Quick response game... Family Feud style perhaps

1. res ad fumum sentiendum
2. machina ad residua cenarum destruendam
3. locus ad lignum igne cremandum
4. machina ad aquam bibendo calefaciendam
5. machina ad cibum undis parvissimis coquendum
6. machina singula ad musicam audiendam
7. vehiculum ad multos homines per viam quattuor aut sex rotis movendas
8. machina ad portam carri loci aperiendam
9. machina ad vestimenta purganda
10. machina ad pondera hominum monstranda
11. machina ad homines excitandos
12. machina ad frutas in sucum convertendas
13. machina ad vehicula in via coercenda
14. machina ad cibos frigore conservandos
15. domo relicto, machina ad mandata vocantium recipienda
16. machina ad barbam faciei removendam
17. machina ad pecuniam dandam (casu = by chance)
18. machina ad herbam caedendam
19. machina ad capillos siccandos
20. machina occulta ad sermones hostium audiendos
21. machina ad nives tollendas (tolendas = removendas)
22. machina ad literras scriptas ipsas statim mittendas
23. machina ad plures homines viis ferreis movendos
24. machina ad homines capiendos in area ab una urbe ad alteram urbem
25. machine ad hominem monendum quod aliquis eius carrum capere temptat

Answer Key - Check your work.

Gratias: Tom Hayes, William Hall H.S. for the idea!

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