Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey - Thursdays from 9th May
Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey - Thursdays from 9th May
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Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey - Thursdays from 9th May

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Read and discuss Jane Austen's first novel - a most amusing satirical classic! 

Highlights

  • Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
  • 5 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
  • Study this classic Austen novel and increase your knowledge of the gothic
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 5 week advanced book club course using the classic Jane Austen novel Northanger Abbey.  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

Northanger Abbey is the first novel by Jane Austen, one of Britain's most loved novelists. Catherine Morland, seventeen, has left her village for the first time and is living in the town of Bath.   She goes to dances, the theatre, and talks to her new friends Isabella Thorpe and Eleanor Tilney, who lives at Northanger Abbey and has a rather attractive brother... Catherine learns some lessons about life - about friends, about money, and of course, about love.  

Geoff says:

"This is Jane Austen's first novel.  Our heroine loves books and is always reading the scary popular "gothic" stories of the time - which makes for many funny moments.  We read the original text of Northanger Abbey, which is relatively short (approx 77000 words)."

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The Book

  • Genre: classic 
  • Language: British English
  • Suitable for: Anyone used to reading in English
  • Level: Advanced
  • Text: Original 
  • 77,000 words (average weekly read: 51 pages) 

Date & Time

  • Thursdays from 9th May- 6th June
  • 13.00 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 12.00 (UTC+1/GMT+1) London, UK, Portugal
  • 14.00 Greece, Ukraine
  • 14.00 Turkey, Saudi Arabia
  • 19.00 Singapore, Taiwan 
  • 20.00 Japan, South Korea

or

  • 17.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU);
  • 16.30 (UTC+1/GMT+1) London, UK, Portugal
  • 18.30 CET Turkey, Greece, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia, 
  • 11.30 EDT Boston/New York
Age  18+

Online class size

Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion

What you learn

  • To eradicate errors in grammar and pronunciation 
  • To develop and extend areas of high level vocabulary
  • To use natural patterns of English grammar & syntax
  • To gain a deeper understanding of cultural issues
  • To polish & enhance my English through summarising
  • To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing
  • To confidently connect with and debate with others
Your teacher
  • Geoff Hardy-Gould, BSc, MBA, CTEFLA, DTEFLA. 
  • Over 20 years' experience of UK language schools. 
  • Speaker at:  2024 IATEFL Conference; 2023 IATEFL TechLit! Exploring crossovers between technology and literature; 2022 Extensive Reading Foundation; 2021 TESOL Italia