Individual ESL Book Club in English

Description

Highlights

Build your confidence, skills and accuracy in this individual ESL book club in English course. Choose one of the books from the selection below. These books are shortened, simplified and adapted for learners of English as a foreign language. There are also language learning exercises and a short glossary of new words.

Each week you read about 20-30 pages, write a summary of what you have read, and then discuss what you have read with your teacher Geoff. Personalised feedback improves your grammar, vocabulary and pronunciation.

The Book Club book

Individual ESL Book Clubs are flexible and can be taken on the following simplified and shortened "graded reader" books. Contact Geoff to agree a day and time, then enrol on the course.

Intermediate (B1)

Austen, Jane - Emma (Oxford Bookworms)

Austen, Jane - Persuasion (Oxford Bookworms)

Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility (Penguin Readers)

Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights (Penguin Readers)

Christie, Agatha - Death on the Nile (Collins English Readers)

Christie, Agatha - The Body in the Library (Collins English Readers)

Conan Doyle, Arthur - Sherlock Holmes: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Oxford Bookworms)

Dickens, Charles - A Tale of Two Cities (Penguin Readers)

Dickens, Charles - David Copperfield (Penguin Readers)

Dickens, Charles - Great Expectations (Penguin Readers)

Dickens, Charles - Oliver Twist (Penguin Readers)

Hardy, Thomas - Far From The Madding Crowd (Penguin Readers)

Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Penguin Readers)

Hawkins, Paula - The Girl On The Train (Penguin Readers)

Highsmith, Patricia - The Talented Mr Ripley (Penguin Readers)

Joyce, James - Dubliners (Penguin Readers)

Joyce, Rachel - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Penguin Readers)

Le Carré, John - The Spy Who Came In From The Cold (Penguin Readers)

Shelley, Mary - Frankenstein (Penguin Readers)

Tóibín, Colm - Brooklyn (Penguin Readers)

Upper-Intermediate (B2)

Austen, Jane - Sense and Sensibility (Oxford Bookworms)

Asimov, Isaac - I, Robot (Oxford Bookworms)

Brontë, Emily - Wuthering Heights (Oxford Bookworms)

Christie, Agatha - The ABC Murders (Collins English Readers)

Christie, Agatha - Evil Under The Sun (Collins English Readers)

Collins, Wilkie - The Woman in White (Penguin Readers)

Dick, Philip K - Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (Oxford Bookworms)

Evaristo, Bernardine - Girl, Woman, Other (Penguin Readers)

Fitzgerald, F. Scott - The Great Gatsby (Oxford Bookworms)

Gyasi, Yaa - Homegoing (Penguin Readers)

Hardy, Thomas - Far From The Madding Crowd (Oxford Bookworms)

Kerouac, Jack - On the Road (Pearson English Readers)

Mansfield, Katherine - The Garden Party (Oxford Bookworms)

McEwan, Ian - The Children Act (Penguin Readers)

Melville, Herman - Moby Dick (Penguin Readers)

Orwell, George - 1984 (Penguin Readers)

Puso, Mario - The Godfather (Penguin Readers)

Smith, Zadie - White Teeth (Penguin Readers)

Stevenson, RL - The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (Pearson English Readers)

Wharton, Edith - The Age of Innocence (Oxford Bookworms)

Woolf, Virginia - Mrs Dalloway (Penguin Readers)

Upper-Intermediate + (B2+)

Austen, Jane - Pride and Prejudice (Oxford Bookworms)

Brontë, Charlotte - Jane Eyre (Oxford Bookworms)

Conan Doyle, Arthur - Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four (Oxford Bookworms)

Flaubert, Gustave - Madame Bovary (Pearson English Readers)

Gaskell, Elizabeth - North and South (Pearson English Readers)

Garland, Alex- The Beach (Pearson English Readers)

Hardy, Thomas - Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Oxford Bookworms)

Tan, Amy - The Joy Luck Club (Oxford Bookworms)

Geoff says:
"This is a great way to start reading more in English, to build your confidence, to focus on your needs and language, and to make fast progress."