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thanks for your reply. It was helpful. I need all the advice I can get. And yes, you are right that spending all the research time makes it a nightmare. They want me to teach a basic overview of the country including history, political system, education system, interesting cities and tourist attract...

I teach in the Czech Republic and I've been asked to teach a cultural studies class on the different English speaking countries. Is there a good textbook out there? I've seen a couple of things, but they only seem to cover Britain and the USA and don't seem to be very good. I really appreciate all t...

I appreciate your taking the time to reply. We currently use New Interchange for our 15 week semester. It has 4 levels. Then we also use Pasages which was designed to follow New Interchange. It has 2 levels. Our students seem to like both. To be honest, I'm leaning away from using something differen...

Hi, I direct an English school in the Czech Republic and we use Cambridge New Interchange and Passages. They are very good and easy to teach from. They have good topics and support materials. They can be a little repetative in their topics though. We just started a business course using Longman's Ma...

Hi, I direct an English school in the Czech Republic. We currently have fall and spring semesters. We would like to be able to offer some intensive summer courses. Our normal curriculum takes us 15 weeks and 60 hours to teach. I'm concerned that if we try to do an intensive with that curriculum we w...