More Literary Skills for Readers - Mondays, Wednesdays or Thursdays from 7th September

Develop your literary skills through the close reading of a different literary text each week Highlights Join this course to develop your ability to comment knowledgeably on literature 7 hours of live classes to work on deepening your understanding of how the author creates character, atmosphere and drama Read a variety of literary texts and develop your literary analysis skills Correction by your native speaker English teacher as you discuss each text The Literary Skills for Readers Course Each week we analyse a different text, discussing it to help you use and improve your spoken English. Participants develop their literary analysis skills, interpreting a wide range of texts, including modern and older literary works. We explore the complexities of language and how a writer crafts a text for meaning. We examine both language features and structural devices to affect how the message is delivered. Language features might include metaphor and simile, personification, alliteration, onomatopoeia, the rule of 3, and use of the senses. Structural devices could include variations to sentence structures, change of tempo, repetition or listing, change of time or shifts in focus, the narrative perspective, and uses of dialogue. The course enables you to comment incisively on books and literature. The 7 week course includes the following extracts: Extract Author The Old Man and The Sea Ernest Hemingway Life of Pi Yann Martel The Grass is Singing Doris Lessing The Silent Land Graham Joyce Half Of A Yellow Sun Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche The Glass House Eve Chase The Mill HE Bates Geoff says: "This course is a great way to develop your skills of noticing language and understanding how the author has created characters, atmosphere and drama. It is different to other book club courses as there will be less reading each week - the text we analyse will be an extract of just over one page." Dates & time 7 Mondays from 7th September-19th October 13.00 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU) 12.00 (UTC+1/GMT+1) London, UK, Portugal 08.00 Brazil BRT (São Paolo) 14.00 Turkey, Saudi Arabia 20.00 Japan, South Korea or 7 Wednesdays from 9th September-21st October 15.00 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU) 14.00 (UTC+1/GMT+1) London, UK, Portugal 16.00 Turkey, Saudi Arabia 09.00 EST (Boston/New York) 10.00 Brasília BRT, (UTC -3:00) or 7 Thursdays from 10th September-22nd October 18.30 CET (Paris, Berlin, Madrid, Rome & most EU) 17.30 (UTC+1/GMT+1) London, UK, Portugal 19.30 Turkey, Saudi Arabia 12.30 EST (Boston/New York) 13.30 Brasília BRT, (UTC -3:00) Age 16+ Online class size Maximum 8 participants, on Zoom. What you learn To develop your ability to comment on literature To analyse contemporary and classic literary texts To understand how an author creates mood, tempo and emotion To confidently speak and interact with others To overcome any gaps by paraphrasing or rephrasing To develop and extend areas of high level vocabulary To gain a deeper understanding of cultural issues Your teacher Geoff Hardy-Gould, BSc, MBA, CTEFLA, DTEFLA. Over 20 years' experience of UK language schools. Speaker at: 2026 IATEFL Conference; 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.