ESOL Book Club - Beeston Library - Adult Learning

• Are you learning English as a second language?

• Do you love books and want to improve your English reading skills?

• Do you want to meet new people?

If so, this course is for you. For ESOL learners at Entry 2 level or higher, this course is designed to be a fun way to improve English language skills, as all learners read the same book together, and meet every week to discuss it in detail. The book will be of an appropriate level for ESOL learners, and the books will be provided. The course will be held once a week at Beeston library. You will meet new people, improve your reading skills, practise your English-speaking skills when we discuss the story, the characters, and the topics included in the book, and you will increase your English vocabulary as you learn new words, phrases and expressions used in the book. This course aims to improve your spoken English skills and your confidence in using these to help you to progress onto other ESOL courses.

If you receive certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our funding page for further information.

Residency in England

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must be living in England permanently and live outside of the devolved areas listed below or live within the East Midlands Combined County Authority (EMCCA) devolved area (Nottinghamshire, Derbyshire).

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 

• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough

• Greater London

• Greater Manchester

• Liverpool City Region

• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland

• Tees Valley

• West of England

• West Midlands

• West Yorkshire

Residency Eligibility – other criteria

If you are living in the UK on a visa we will require evidence of this in order to be funded for the course, you can upload this evidence when you apply for the course. (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

Some exceptions may apply for example

• Your visa expiry date must be beyond the end of your course

• Asylum seekers must have lived in the UK for 6 months or longer while their claim is being considered by the Home Office

• You are receiving local authority support under section 23C or section 23CA of the Children Act 1989 or the Care Act 2014

Any learner who is not funded full cost fees would apply to these courses.