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[ajstew]

If anyone has experience teaching listening and speaking and has tried numerous or a few textbooks and has decided that one text truly outshines the others, please let me know which one it was.

Before responding, you should know that I need the book for adults of 'low intermediate'.

I really want to know how the books and the activities have been received by the students. Thanks.

[Easter Clark]

I've said this before, but I'll say it again. English Firsthand is one of the best listening/speaking books I've come across for adults. I just finished a course using Book 2, and the students liked it so much, they wanted an extra four classes to go through the book again! Unfortunately, Book 2 is the last in the series of four books.

I'd recommend "English Firsthand Success," the second in the series. While I haven't personally used that book, if it's anything like the one I used, you won't regret it.

http://www.longmankorea.com/detail.aspx?ISBN=9620058143

Edit: You can pick it up at Books Libro, and, I'm sure, at any other big book store.

[bogey666]

Hey EC.

you teach the same vocational HS students that I do, except yours are smarter

I have a special after school class. 12 students... they're fairly motivated, at least most of them, and definitely better than my average lot.

would you recommend this book for them or such a class?

[chest rockwell]

The SLE series from Pagoda are fairly for supplementary activities, but I wouldn't use it as a main text.

[OiGirl]

For purely speaking and listening, I'm quite fond of English 50/50.