A Snow Garden & Other Stories - Mondays from 1st December

Read and discuss this collection of heart-warming Christmas stories

Highlights

• Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
• 4 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
• Discuss Christmas, families and other people's stories
• Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 4 week upper-intermediate English book club course reading and discussing Rachel Joyce's Christmas short story collection A Snow Garden and Other Stories.  Each week you read some chapters, discuss them in class and improve specific areas of vocabulary or grammar while also examining literary aspects of the novel.  Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

This book club has six stories, all loosely linked together, and all linked to Christmas.  Join us to get into the Christmas spirit in December!

A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping doesn't feel Christmassy at all. Hiding from the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit.

The Marriage Manual:  On Christmas Eve, two parents make their son’s Christmas present from a kit.

Christmas at the Airport: There's a problem in the airport, and the travellers are going nowhere...

The Boxing Day Ball: On the day after Christmas Day, Maureen Fry goes to her first dance with the local girls, against her mother's wishes. 

A Snow Garden: Two boys are staying with their divorced father.  Does anyone know how they should enjoy themselves in the Christmas holidays?

I'll Be Home for Christmas The most famous boy in the world comes home for a normal family Christmas.

Trees: Father and son mark the start of the new year.

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