A Snow Garden & Other Stories - Mondays from 1st December
A Snow Garden & Other Stories - Mondays from 1st December
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A Snow Garden & Other Stories - Mondays from 1st December

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Read and discuss this collection of heart-warming Christmas stories

Highlights

  • Join this book club and gain extra motivation to read in English
  • 4 hours of live classes to help you develop fluent speaking in English
  • Discuss Christmas, families and other people's stories
  • Be corrected by an expert English teacher to remove errors and mistakes

Practise and develop your English online in this 4 week upper-intermediate English book club course reading and discussing Rachel Joyce's Christmas short story collection A Snow Garden and Other Stories.  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 club has six stories, all loosely linked together, and all linked to Christmas.  Join us to get into the Christmas spirit in December!

A Faraway Smell of Lemon: The School Term has ended. It is almost Christmas but Binny, out last-minute shopping doesn't feel Christmassy at all. Hiding from the rain she finds herself in the sort of shop she would never normally visit.

The Marriage Manual:  On Christmas Eve, two parents make their son’s Christmas present from a kit.

Christmas at the Airport: There's a problem in the airport, and the travellers are going nowhere...

The Boxing Day Ball: On the day after Christmas Day, Maureen Fry goes to her first dance with the local girls, against her mother's wishes. 

A Snow Garden: Two boys are staying with their divorced father.  Does anyone know how they should enjoy themselves in the Christmas holidays?

I'll Be Home for Christmas The most famous boy in the world comes home for a normal family Christmas.

Trees: Father and son mark the start of the new year.

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Geoff says:

"Rachel Joyce is the writer of the much loved "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry".  This collection of stories is similarly heart-warming, and poignant.  Each story has a link to Christmas, and to everyday humanity."  

The book
  • Genre: short stories; domestic fiction; Christmas stories
  • Language: British English 
  • Suitable for: people new to reading in English - Upper Intermediate
  • Text:  Original text 
  • Weekly read: 70 pages a week
Dates & time
  • Every Monday from 1st December-22nd December 
  • 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 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 to reserve your place.