The Remains Of The Day - Tuesdays or Thursdays from 4th/6th November

The Remains Of The Day - Tuesdays or Thursdays from 4th/6th November

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Read and discuss Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize winning masterpiece  

Highlights

  • Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
  • 6 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
  • Discuss this novel of class, change and the question of what it means to live a life
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 6 week advanced English book club course reading and discussing British author Kazuo Ishiguro's The Remains Of The Day.  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 Remains of the Day is a modern day classic.  It won the Booker Prize, and later Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his work.  This is both beautiful and haunting, the story of a life spent in the 1920s and 1930s in a Great English House.  The main protagonist, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, is one of the great contemporary literary characters.  In the summer of 1956, he starts a quiet holiday that will lead him into the countryside and into his past . . .

'A triumph. This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, absurd and ultimately very moving.', Sunday Times

'A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.', New York Times Book Review

Geoff says:

"This book is often listed as one of the best novels of the last 25 years.  It is interesting not only for its cultural elements, but also for its philosophical questioning of what it means to live a life."  

The book
  • Genre: Literary fiction; historical fiction; romance
  • Language: British English 
  • Suitable for: people familiar with reading in English - Advanced
  • Text:  Original text 
  • Length: 272 pages  Average weekly read: 54 pages
Dates & time
  • Every Tuesday from 4th November-9th December
  • 13.00 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 12.00 (UTC+0/GMT+0) London, UK, Portugal
  • 9.00 Brazil BRT (São Paolo)
  • 15.00 Turkey, Saudi Arabia
  • 21.00 Japan, South Korea

or

  • Every Thursday from 6th November-11th December
  • 17.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 16.30 (UTC/GMT) London, UK, Portugal
  • 18.30 Greece, Ukraine
  • 19.30 Turkey, Saudi Arabia
  • 11.30 EST (New York/Boston)
Age  18+
Class size  Maximum 8 participants
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

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