The Word is Murder - Mondays/Wednesdays from 12th/14th January

The Word is Murder - Mondays/Wednesdays from 12th/14th January

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Read and discuss this classic detective novel - a whodunnit in the style of Agatha Christie, with characters in the style of Sherlock Holmes

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
  • Follow the clues, identify the suspects, work out the murderer...      
  • 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 Word is Murder.  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

A woman walks into a funeral director's and arranges her own funeral.  But then, does she arrange her own murder? What are the secrets and clues that are at the heart of this mystery?  

Anthony Horowitz is a prize winning British screenwriter and writer.  This is the first in a new series of gripping, tightly plotted detective stories starring the clever Daniel Hawthorne, and his writing partner, "Anthony Horowitz".  

'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times
‘An absolutely wonderful writer’ Richard Osman
'Raises the game-playing to Olympic level' Guardian Books of the Year

 Geoff says:

"This is a Sherlock Holmes type mystery in the style of an Agatha Christie whodunnit.  Full of twists and turns within a brilliant plot."


The book
  • Genre: Detective fiction; Whodunnit
  • Language: British English; Modern
  • Suitable for: people new to reading in English - Upper Intermediate
  • Text: Original 
  • Length: Average weekly read:  64 pages
Dates & time
  • Mondays from 12th January-23rd February
  • 19.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 18.30 (UTC+0/GMT+0) London, UK, Portugal
  • 20.30 Greece, Ukraine
  • 21.30 Turkey, Saudi Arabia
  • 13.30 EDT Boston/New York

or

  • Wednesdays from 14th January-25th February
  • Dec13.00 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU)
  • 12.00 (UTC+0/GMT+0) London, UK, Portugal
  • 14.00 Greece, Ukraine
  • 15.00 Turkey, Saudi Arabia
  • 20.00 Singapore, Taiwan 
  • 21.00 Japan, South Korea
Age 18+
Online class size Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom, using break-out rooms for increased speaking and discussion
What you learn
  • To express your ideas clearly, concisely & accurately
  • To improve specific areas of grammar and vocabulary
  • To stop making repeated errors and mistakes  
  • To summarise arguments, highlighting significant points
  • To develop discussions with related comments & feedback
  • To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing
  • To socialise fluently and spontaneously 
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 above to reserve your place.