III Year Lettorato Inglese

ORAL EXAM FORMAT

LCLT, LLM, LCMM and those MLC students who enrolled at university BEFORE 2007.

Do an oral exam with a lettore as part of lettorato. 

You MUST choose a news story taken from the English newspapers in the week before the exam, and bring an article on it taken from both a quality broadsheet newspaper and a popular tabloid newspaper for purposes of comparative discussion. 

Bring the newspaper articles themselves as well as a photocopy of them. Do NOT download the articles from the internet.

OPTION 2 -- LITERATURE
L.C.L.T. and L.L.M. students (NOT M.L.C.) may instead choose one of the novels from the list below to read and comment on as preparation for their oral exam:

• The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes
• The Secret Scriptures, Sebastian Barry
• Ordinary Thunderstorms, William Boyd
• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, Rachel Joyce
• Brooklyn, Colm Toìbin
• The Children Act, Ian McEwan
•  The Children’s Home, Charles Lambert

THOSE STUDENTS WHO CHOOSE THIS KIND OF EXAMINATION MUST BRING THE NOVEL TO THE EXAM

MLC students enrolled AFTER 2007
Contact Prof.ssa Hillan or Prof.ssa Tucker to set a date for your oral exam. This exam will be based on a linguistic analysis of your written  paper.
Bring proof of having passed II year lettorato (libretto giallo).