Sand Castle - Movie Talk

Once again, like my previous blog post, this may only relate to the teachers in the Latin community, but I hope that other language teachers may find it useful.

So like I stated in my previous blog post, in teaching upper level Latin, we find ourselves having to address some very specific vocabulary, especially words related to war, empire, and imperialism. I shared my Royal Madness movie talk with you which introduced a number of war vocabulary words, and here is another one which addresses many of these words: Sand Castle.

Target words

arma - weapons

gens/gentem - nation

imperium - empire

procul - far away

acies - battle line

delere - to destroy

occupare - to occupy

cancer - crab

dux - leader

eques - cavalry man

English script

Latin script

Observations

1. Another great movie talk which lends itself towards lots of vocabulary repetitions.
2. As a Latin teacher who has to deal with very specific words such as cavalry, battle line, leader, and weapons, finding this animated short was a godsend!