The Thursday Murder Club 5: The Impossible Fortune - Mondays from 3rd November

The Thursday Murder Club 5: The Impossible Fortune - Mondays from 3rd November

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Read and discuss this just released fifth Thursday Murder Club - funny, very British, and full of interesting idioms and expressions 

Highlights

  • Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
  • 7 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
  • Read this funny murder mystery to develop your understanding of colloquial English
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week English book club course using the most recent Thursday Murder Club mystery, The Impossible Fortune.  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

The four friends in a retirement community are busy; Elizabeth is grieving, Ron has his family to deal with, Ibrahim is giving therapy, and Joyce is wedding planning. But meeting a wedding guest in fear of their life changes everything - can the Thursday Murder Club discover what the criminal is after, avoid personal danger, and prevent a murder?  Another exciting adventure awaits for the elderly friends.

Geoff says:

"The original Thursday Murder Club novel is now out as a movie on Netflix, but this is the latest, just published novel!  As with the others, it is both touching and funny, and full of British English idioms and colloquialisms."

Only 8 places available.  Click Add to Cart to reserve your place.

The book
  • Genre: Murder mystery
  • Language: British English; Modern
  • Suitable for people new to reading in English - from Upper-Intermediate upwards 
  • Text: Original - with a lot of idioms & colloquialisms
  • Length: Average - average weekly read 75 pages
Dates & time
  • Mondays from 3rd November-15th December
  • Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome and most EU 19.30 CET
  • London, UK 18.30 (UTC/GMT)
  • Greece   20.30
  • Saudi Arabia, Turkey  21.30
  • 13.30 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 confidently speak and debate with others
  • To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing
  • To eradicate errors in grammar and pronunciation 
  • To develop and extend areas of high level vocabulary
  • To be immersed in the natural patterns of English syntax
  • To gain a deeper understanding of cultural issues
  • To perfect & enhance your English through summarising
Your teacher
  • Geoff Hardy-Gould, BSc, MBA, CTEFLA, DTEFLA. 
  • Over 20 years' experience of UK language schools. 
  • Speaker at:  2025 Literature SIG Conference; 2024 IATEFL Conference; 2023 IATEFL TechLit! Exploring crossovers between technology and literature; 2022 Extensive Reading Foundation; 2021 TESOL Italia