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Hi Fred First I’d like to say congratulations on your decision. Go for it! I would say that you have a fair bit of work ahead of you, but don’t despair. For now, before you ‘write’ your own syllabus, try the following. 1 You need to find a set of books that you will be workin...

Emile

Thanks very much for the tips. I’m gonna try the Readers Digest site to see what’s on offer. Do you work only with general English, or do you do some ESP?

Many thanks for your tips

GaryWolf

emile Thanks for your response. It just takes a long time to write your own material. I agree with the professional development comment. You say you write your own material. Where do you get the input material from? ie, the reading or listening that you develop into ESL material? How does copyright ...

Sorry for not saying in the above post. The reason I posted this question here is because if I do have problems then the alternative is to write my own material for each lesson, which is not practical. This is supposed to be how you supply material for ESP students.

Any help welcome

G Wolf

Can anyone tell me what the copyright implications of photocopying different lessons from different published books are? If I have a student and photocopy seven lessons from four different books for the student to use, will I get into trouble? Isn’t this how you use material in ESP? Surely the...