Teacher Discussion Forums

I've got my first official uni class tomorrow evening and I"ve got 54 sophomores. They won't have texts yet, so I was wondering what a good idea to use up 40-60 minutes would be. Something that would get them talking (or trying to) is ideal. I'm thinking their level is about pre-intermediate. thanks...

I'm teaching a TOEFL course and want to supplement it with a text to get students talking seperately from the testing prepping. Any ideas on a good one. This guys are intermediate at best. Thanks...

I'm teaching a toefl prep course and I've decided to use Northstar's toefl series to build basic skills, but I'd also like for the students to buy a toefl guidebook (ie, longman's, McGraw-Hill). What's the best one to use? I only want a text about the ibt test, so texts about the paper and computer ...

I've just been hired by a uni in Taiwan to teach an 8 hour a week toefl course to students at about the lower intermediate level to pass the test. Any ideas or places i can look to get ideas? I'm fairly familar with the test, but I've got to come up with some sort of syllabus for the course and it f...