Oral Matura

As part of their Matura exams, students will either have an English or a French oral exam.
If the class is allocated the English oral exam, the students will be able to choose novels or plays that they will prepare in individual study time.

There are certain rules and restrictions that are explained more closely in class. Here you can find an example of a reading list, where students then choose four works in accordance with the requirements given by the English department.

 

Reading List

 

Novels

 

Abraham, Pearl. The Romance Reader. 1995.

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. 1959.

Adams, Douglas. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. 1979.

Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women. 1868.

Atwood, Margret. A Handmaid’s Tale

Austen, Jane. Sense and Sensibility. 1811.

Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice. 1813.

Austen, Jane. Mansfield Park. 1814.

Austen, Jane. Emma. 1816.

Austen, Jane. Persuasion. 1818.

Austen, Jane. Northanger Abbey. 1818.

Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 541. 1950.

Brontë, Anne. Agnes Grey. 1847.

Brontë, Anne. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. 1849.

Brontë, Charlotte. Jane Eyre. 1847.

Brontë, Charlotte. Shirley. 1849.

Brontë, Charlotte. Villette. 1853.

Brontë, Charlotte. The Professor. 1857.

Brontë, Emily. Wuthering Heights. 1847.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. A Little Princess. 1905.

Burnett, Frances Hodgson. The Secret Garden. 1909.

Burney, Frances. Evelina: Or The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance into the World. 1778.

Capote, Truman. Breakfast at Tiffany´s. 1958

Carroll, Lewis. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. 1865.

Cormier, Robert. After the First Death. 1992.

Cormier, Robert. Tenderness. 1997.

Conan Doyle, Arthur. A Study in Scarlet. 1887.

Conan Doyle, Arthur. The Hound of the Baskervilles. 1902.

Chevalier, Tracy. Girl With a Pearl Earring. 1999.

Defoe, Daniel. Robinson Crusoe. 1719.

Dickens, Charles. A Christmas Carol. 1843.

Dickens, Charles. David Copperfield. 1849-50.

Dirie, Waris. Desert Flower. 1998.

Du Maurier, Daphne. Rebecca. 1938.

Edgeworth, Maria. Castle Rackrent. 1800.

Edgeworth, Maria. Belinda. 1801.

Edgeworth, Maria. The Absentee. 1812.

Emecheta, Buchi. The Bride Price. 1976

Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Great Gatsby. 1926

Forster, E.M. A Room with a View. 1908.

Forster, E.M. Howard’s End. 1910.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Mary Barton. 1848.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Cranford. 1851-3.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. North and South. 1854-5.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Sylvia’s Lovers. 1863.

Gaskell, Elizabeth. Wives and Daughters. 1865.

Golding, William. Lord of the Flies. 1954.

Greene, Graham. The Third Man. 1949.

Greene, Graham. The Quiet American. 1955.

Guterson, David. Snow Falling on Cedars. 1994.

Haddon, Mark. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. 2003.

Hardy, Thomas. Under the Greenwood Tree. 1872.

Hardy, Thomas. Far from the Madding Crowd. 1874.

Hardy, Thomas. The Mayor of Casterbridge. 1886.

Hardy, Thomas. The Woodlanders. 1887.

Hardy, Thomas. Tess of the d’Urbervilles. 1891.

Hardy, Thomas. Jude the Obscure. 1895.

Hedges, Peter. What’s Eating Gilbert Grape. 1991.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Old Man and the Sea. 1952.

Higgins, Colin. Harold and Maude. 1971.

Hornby, Nick. About a Boy. 1998.

Hornby, Nick. A Long Way Down. 2005.

Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner. 2003.

Hosseini, Khaled. A Thousand Splendid Suns. 2007.

Hosseini, Khaled. And the Mountains Echoed. 2015.

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. 1932.

Irving, John. The World According to Garp. 1978.

Irving, John. The Hotel New Hamshire. 1981.

Irving, John. The Cider House Rules. 1985.

Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany. 1989.

Irving, John. A Widow for One Year. 1998.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go.2005.

Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Buried Giant. 2015

Ishiguro, Kazuo. The Remains of the Day.1989.

James, Henry. Daisy Miller. 1878.

Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. 1963.

Kidd, Sue Monk. The Secret Life of Bees. 2001.

Kinkaid, Jamaica. Lucy. 1990.

Kleinbaum, N.H. Dead Poets Society. 1989.

Krakauer, Jon. Into the Wild. 1996.

Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird. 1960

Lee, Harper. Go Set A Watchman. 2015

Lessing, Doris. The Fifth Child. 1988.

Lewis, C.S. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe. 1950.

Lewis, C.S. The Great Divorce. 1945.

Lowry, Lois. The Giver. 1993.

Mc Court, Frank. Angela´s Ashes. 1996.

McEwan, Ian. Atonement. 2001.

McEwan, Ian. Nutshell. 2016.

McEwan, Ian. The Child Act. 2014.

MacLaverty, Bernard. Lamb 1980.

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eyes. 1970.

Orczy, Baroness. The Scarlet Pimpernel. 1905.

Orwell, George. Animal Farm. 1945.

Orwell, George. 1984. 1949.

Otsuka, Julie. The Buddha in the Attic. 2011

Paterson, Katherine. Jacob have I loved. 1980.

Paton, Alan. Cry, the Beloved Country. 1948.

Pilkington, Doris, Nugi Garimara. Rabbit-Proof Fence. 2002.

Rhys, Jean. Wide Sargasso Sea. 1966.

Rosen, Jonathan. Eve’s Apple. 1997.

Sachar, Louis. Holes. 1998.

Salinger, J.D. The Catcher in the Rye. 1951.

Sallis, Eva. Hiam 1998.

Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. 1818.

Smith, Dodie. I Capture the Castle. 1948.

Steinbeck, John. Of Mice and Men. 1937.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Treasure Island. 1883.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.1886.

Stevenson, Robert Louis. St. Ives. 1897.

Stoker, Bram. Dracula. 1897.

Tolkien, J.R.R. The Hobbit. 1937.

Twain, Mark. The Prince and the Pauper. 1881.

Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. 1884.

Updike, John. Rabbit Run. 1960.

Updike, John. Rabbit Redux. 1971.

Updike, John. Rabbit Is Rich. 1981.

Updike, John. Rabbit At Rest. 1990.

Vreeland, Susan. Girl in Hyacinth Blue. 1999.

Webb, Charles. The Graduate. 1963.

Wells, H.G. Time Machine. 1895.

 

Plays

Ayckbourn, Alan. Invisible Friends. 1989

Carr, Marina. By the Bog of Cats. 1998.

Carr, Marina. Portia Coughlan. 1998.

Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. 1991.

Clark, Brian. Whose Life Is It Anyway? 1978.

Higgins, Tony. Wednesday’s Child. 1986.

Letts, Tracy. August: Osage County. 2007.

Miller, Arthur. The Crucible. 1953.

Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman. 1949.

Pinter, Harold. The Homecoming. 1965.

Priestley, J.B. An Inspector Calls. 1947

Rattigan, Terence. The Winslow Boy. 1946.

Russell, Willy. Educating Rita. 1986.

Russell, Willy. Shirley Valentine. 1990.

Shaffer, Peter. Equus. 1973.

Shaffer, Peter. Amadeus. 1980.

Shakespeare, William. Taming of the Shrew. 1592.

Shakespeare, William. Romeo and Juliet. 1595.

Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. 1596.

Shakespeare, William. A Midsummernight’s Dream. 1596.

Shakespeare, William. Much Ado About Nothing. 1598.

Shakespeare, William. Othello. 1603.

Shakespeare, William. The Tempest. 1611.

Shaw, G.B. Pygmalion. 1916.

Shaw, G.B. Mrs Warren’s Profession. 1894.

Stoppard, Tom. Arcadia. 1988.

Uhry, Alfred. Driving Miss Daisy. 1987.

Wilde, Oscar. Lady Windermere’s Fan. 1892.

Wilde, Oscar. A Woman of No Importance. 1893.

Wilde, Oscar. An Ideal Husband. 1895.

Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. 1895.

Wilder, Thornton. Our Town. 1938.

Williams, Tennessee. The Glass Menagerie. 1945

Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. 1948.

 

Short Story Collections                                                                                                       

 

Gilman, Charlotte Perkins. Short Stories.

Hemingway, Ernest. The Snows of Kilimanjaro. 1939.

Joyce, James. Dubliners. 1914.

Lessing, Doris. 9 African Stories. 1968.

Mac Laverty, Bernard. Walking the Dog. 1994.

Maugham, Somerset. Short Stories.

Paley, Grace. The Little Disturbances of Man. 1959.

Singer, I. B. Passion. 1970.