The classes are graded, in the first term at least, following a language test you sit in your College before the teaching term begins. Additional arrangements are sometimes made by individual colleges. Paper II is taught by your College Tutor. You will also be able to attend regular conversation classes with a native speaker of Castilian. A variety of teaching methods is employed in these classes.
Most undergraduates also choose to have their own dictionary.
Most college libraries have copies of these. In the examination for this Paper you will be asked to translate into English a short passage from one of the above texts, write a literary commentary on a passage selected from another, and also write two essays on two separate texts. Paper IV traces the history of the Spanish ballad tradition from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. The examples prescribed are studied in relation to general trends in literature or thought and also to historical background. In the examination for this Paper you may choose to write either three essays, or a literary commentary on a sample ballad and two essays.