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April A Book Worm (Quick Class)
Language English
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Book Worm (Quick Class)

25min
1,200 P
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Do you love to read? Or, are you struggling to understand English text? Either way, this is a great class for you! (25 minutes)
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*** This is class is a quick class. It has been shortened to 25 minutes for busy people! :)

As a teacher for five years, I can tell you with certainty that the strongest students in the class are ALWAYS the students who read the most. This works with ESL, too!

 

Reading is such a great way to study English for a few reasons. First, you can see the information, so you can visualize the organization of the sentences and the spelling of the words. Second, you can slow down your mind and really process the language. Sometimes we need a bit more time to properly store this information in our brains! Reading gives you much more time! Third, written English and spoken English are often very different. Written English is available in many forms (i.e., expository, descriptive, narrative, and persuasive), so you have access to many forms of the English language (i.e., scholarly, comical, thrilling, romantic, informative, etc.).

 

"Book Worm" is a reading comprehension class. We will agree on a reading selection BEFORE  class and both of us will read it. Then we will discuss the meaning of the selection, unfamiliar English phrases, and vocabulary. I will ask you many questions about the literary elements, too. These might be questions about the setting, author's purpose, characters, or perspectives.

 

Contact me today, and we will pick our reading selection!

 

Levels: Intermediate, Advanced-Intermediate, Advanced

Language Skills: Reading comprehension, speaking, vocabulary, grammar, syntax, writing styles, slang


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BOOK LIST

*Updated 5/27/2014

 

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- INTERMEDIATE-

FREE pdf versions available

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Chicken Soup for the Soul

Canfield, Jack and Hansen, Mark V.

480 Pages

 

A collection of short (only 1-3 pages each), inspirational, true stories from native speakers' lives.

**Highly recommended for students who are new to reading classes or who are very busy

 

The Giver (Newberry Award winner)

Lowry, Lois

192 Pages

 

Jonas becomes the receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.

            Book Series: Gathering Blue, Messenger, Son

            **This is my favorite book series!

 

The Great Gatsby

Ftizgerald, F. Scott

182 Pages

 

An American classic. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire, Jay Gatsby, and his passion for the beautiful Daisy Buchana during the Roaring Twenties.

 

Charlotte's Web (Newberry Honor Book)

White, E. B.

184 Pages

 

Wilber, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help.

 

 

Fahrenheit 451 (American Academy of Arts and Letters Award)

Bradbury, Ray

 

The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and "firemen" burn any that are found. It speaks of the repercussions of censorship in our society.

 

 The Pearl

Steinbeck, John

96 Pages

 

Another classic novel. It is the story of a man and his wife who find a giant pearl and their town's greed for it.

 

Hatchet  (Newberry Award winner)

Paulsen, Gary

192 Pages

 

After a plane crash, a thirteen-year-old boy spends fifty-four days along in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother.

 

Anne of Green Gables

Montgomery, Lucy

224 Pages

 

Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an impression on everyone around her. 

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- ADVANCED -

English translations of Japanese books

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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

Murakami, Haruki

192 Pages

 

Filled with insightful quotes and telling Murakami’s own story from the time in 1982, when having sold his jazz bar to start writing full time, he also took up running. Murakami has since run many marathons across the world and given us this book that is in equal parts funny, insightful as well as philosophical.

 

Kafka On The Shore

Murakami, Haruki

480 Pages

 

Telling the story of two people – Kafka Tamura who is looking for his mother and sister and an aging man Nakata who has lived through the horrors of the atomic bomb attacks, this book features talking cats, fishes who fall out of the sky during rain showers and a satisfying end to it all.

 

1Q84

Murakami, Haruki

1184 Pages

 

This book, set in Tokyo in the year 1984, will have you turning all of its 950-odd pages to discover the story of Aomame and Tengo.

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Still Foolin' 'Em

Crystal, Billy '

288 Pages

(FREE pdf version available)

 

Autobiography of American comedian and actor Billy Crystal. Hilarious and heartfelt observations on aging from one of America’s favorite comedians as he turns 65, and a look back at a remarkable career.

Orange is the New Black

Kerman, Piper

352 Pages

 

Piper Kerman was sent to prison for a ten-year-old crime, where she learns the prison codes of behavior and arbitrary hierarchies, where a practical joke is as common as an unprovoked fight, and where the uneasy relationship between prisoner and jailer is constantly and unpredictably recalibrated.

 

Running with Scissors

Burroughs, Augusten

320 Pages

 

A memoir (true story) of telling the story of Burroughs's bizarre childhood life after his mother, a chain-smoking aspiring poet, sent him to live with her psychiatrist.

 

The Glass Castle

Walls, Jeannette

304 Pages

(FREE pdf version available)

 

The memoir (true story) recounts Walls' and her siblings' unconventional, poverty-stricken upbringing at the hands of their deeply dysfunctional parents.

 

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