Part 1 covers the basics: the main declensions, a range of active tenses, and a vocabulary of 275 Greek words to be learned. Pupil confidence is built up by constant consolidation of the material covered. After the preliminaries, each chapter concentrates on stories with one source or subject: Aesop, the Odyssey, and Alexander the Great. Part 1 is self-contained, with its own reference section.

JOHN TAYLOR is Head of Classics at Tonbridge School, Kent. He is the author of Greek to GCSE, Greek Beyond GCSE, Essential GCSE Latin and (with Stephen Anderson) Greek Unseen Translation.