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[wulfrun]

good textbook suggestions for teaching these courses?

- writing to non-english majors
- business spoken english to english majors

they're students at a good university in beijing

i'm still in britain so can source them before flying out

would be a great help if anybody could make suggestions. haven't taught a full course in business english before, and so am unsure about taking the job.

thanks

[wulfrun]

on the writing, is the focus likely to be on all aspects of their writing (grammar, style, everything else), or just mainly on style? since they're non-english majors, even though their level is apparently high for china, they're still likely to have a lot of systematic errors. so i'm thinking most of the work will be on repeated grammar errors.

[Laurence]

I once taught business English using a textbook called Market Leader (published by Longman, I think).

I thought it was quite good - sort of in the same vein as Cutting Edge/Inside Out etc. in terms of the kinds of activities it had. I found it easy to adapt, varied, it had some nicely scaffolded, rather more in-depth tasks too.

[wulfrun]

thanks. i have a pdf copy of one of the market leader books, was planning to look at it when i have chance..