What We Can Know - Tuesdays from 13th January

What We Can Know - Tuesdays from 13th January

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Read and discuss master story-teller Ian McEwan's latest best-seller: a gripping literary thriller set in the future looking back at our time   

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
  • Discuss ideas of identity, our mark left on society, of how and what we understand
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 7 week advanced English book club course reading and discussing Ian McEwan's latest novel: What We Can Know.  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 is difficult to define - it's a literary thriller, a love story and a search for a lost poem. Yet at its heart What We Can Know goes to the past, present and future and asks serious questions about identity and purpose.

It is 2119 and the low lying parts of the UK have been covered by rising seas of the environmental catastrophe. What has been lost haunts the survivors.  Tom Metcalfe, a University academic studies the archives of the early twenty-first century, amazed by the freedoms and possibilities of human life at its peak.  In his research he finds a clue to a beautiful, but lost poem.  However as details emerge of love and a brutal crime, his assumptions are destroyed about a story he thought he knew so well.

'McEwan’s most richly layered work' Sunday Times
'A gripping page-turner' 
Observer
'A daring, beautiful novel, full of wisdom and heart' Elif Shafak

Geoff says:

"Ian McEwan is one of Britain's greatest living authors.  He offers piercing insights and a rich narrative texture, writing with intelligence and charm. What We Can Know is a literary thriller set in a future world where all is not quite lost."  

The book
  • Genre: Literary fiction; thriller
  • Language: English 
  • Suitable for: people familiar with reading in English - Advanced
  • Text:  Original text 
  • Length: 111,000 words
Dates & time
  • Every Tuesday from 13th January-24th February 
  • Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome and most EU 18.30 CET
  • London, UK 17.30 (UTC+0/GMT+0)
  • Greece, Ukraine   19.30
  • Saudi Arabia, Turkey  20.30
  • 12.30 EDT Boston/New York
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.