Still Life - Mondays or Tuesdays from 13th January
Still Life - Mondays or Tuesdays from 13th January
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Still Life - Mondays or Tuesdays from 13th January

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Read and discuss this beautiful story of friendship, love and truth set in London, Tuscany and Florence

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 this novel of beauty, love and art over 4 decades 
  • 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 Still Life by Sarah Winman.  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

In Italy in 1944 two strangers meet in a Tuscan villa.  Ulysses Temper is a young British soldier, Evelyn Skinner a free-thinking independent-minded 64-year-old art historian, come to rescue paintings from the war and relive her memories.  This chance meeting with Evelyn will transform Ulysses’ life – and everyone who knows him.

‘THE most beautiful book … it will stay with me a long time’ SARA COX, BBC TWO’S BETWEEN THE COVERS

Geoff says:

"This is a lovely novel, with references to the great writer EM Forster and his masterpiece "A Room With A View".  Much loved by readers, the characters of this novel stay with you for a long time."  

The book
  • Genre: Historical fiction; War fiction; Biography 
  • Language: British English 
  • Suitable for: people familiar with reading in English - Advanced
  • Text:  Original text 
  • Length: 136,473 words Weekly read: 72 pages a week
Dates & time
  • Every Monday from 13th January-24th February
  • London, UK 17.30 (UTC+0/GMT+0)
  • Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome and most EU 18.30 CET
  • Greece, Ukraine   19.30
  • Saudi Arabia, Turkey  20.30

or

  • Every Tuesday from 14th January-25th February
  • London, UK 12.00 (UTC+0/GMT+0)
  • Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome and most EU 13.00 CET
  • Greece, Ukraine   14.00
  • Saudi Arabia, Turkey  15.00
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:  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.