JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School
Latin & Greek Resources
This is the 'Learning Resources Page' where you'll find some helpful links to useful Latin & Greek resources that'll help you prepare for the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School. You'll also find the Course Timetable for 2026 here, as soon as it has been prepared.
We will be updating this page with new resources when they become available, so please check back regularly.
If you click on the image, you'll be re-directed to the Open University's Open Learn platform where you'll find the free course - 'Getting Started on Classical Latin'.
This taster course has been developed for complete beginners and it'll help you get to grips with the very basics of Latin.
You don't have to do any preparatory work ahead of the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School, but if you have the time you might find this course useful.
If you click on the image, you'll be re-directed to the Open University's Open Learn platform where you'll find the free course - 'Getting Started on Ancient Greek'.
This taster course has been developed for complete beginners and it'll help you get to grips with the very basics of Greek, including the all important, Greek alphabet.
Although you don't need to do any preparatory work ahead of the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School, we would recommend that you take some time to learn the Ancient Greek alphabet.
Course Text Books
For the Beginner's and Post-Beginner's Latin & Greek groups at the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School, we use the Latin to GCSE Book 1, (Cullen & Taylor), & Greek to GCSE Book 1, (Taylor), as our core texts.
Tutors will plan your work around these workbooks, but they will also use other resources to complement the exercises in the core texts, so there will be plenty of variation in what you study over the week!
In the weeks leading up to the Summer School, your tutor will get in touch with you to give you more information about what you'll be covering. Please bring your own copy of the text book to Durham with you.
For the Intermediate Latin 1 & Intermediate Greek 1 groups at the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School, we use the Latin to GCSE Book 2, (Cullen & Taylor), & Greek to GCSE Book 2, (Taylor), as our core texts.
Tutors will plan your work around these workbooks, but they will also use other resources to complement the exercises in the core texts, so there will be plenty of variation in what you study over the week!
In the weeks leading up to the Summer School, your tutor will get in touch with you to give you more information about what you'll be covering. Please bring your own copy of the text book to Durham with you.
For the Intermediate Latin 2 & Intermediate Greek 2 groups at the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School, we use the Latin Beyond GCSE, (Taylor), & Greek Beyond GCSE, (Taylor), as our core texts.
Tutors will plan your work around these workbooks, but they will also use other resources to complement the exercises in the core texts, so there will be plenty of variation in what you study over the week!
In the weeks leading up to the Summer School, your tutor will get in touch with you to give you more information about what you'll be covering. Please bring your own copy of the text book to Durham with you.
From Intermediate to Higher
To take your Latin and Greek further after Intermediate Level, you might like to have a look at these additional text books. These texts would be an ideal starting point to help students gain valuable reading experience and bridge the gap between Intermediate 2 and the Higher level groups at the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School. You absolutely don't need to bring any of these additional books with you to the Summer School, but they are well worth getting hold of if you can, as they are ideal for developing your language skills and consolidating key material.
Higher & Advanced Groups
For the Higher and Advanced Latin and Greek groups at the JACT Durham Greek & Latin Summer School, tutors prepare texts and running vocabularies that target the different needs of students. At Higher, this means a vocabulary list of words that are likely to be unfamiliar to A level students. At Advanced, this means an introduction to the texts in their contexts and vocabulary support for unusual or especially difficult words and phrases. These will be circulated as PDFs to students on these courses ahead of the summer school, as well as as hardcopies during the week.