Looking for course book recommendations

[tominperu]

I am a teacher in Peru teaching privately to small groups of students. I am interested to know what course books people recommend. I am using Headway at the moment, but am not sure it's the best.

The books need to be appropriate for adult learners, (Preintermediate to Advanced), with plenty of speaking, listening and pronunciation activities (that's what the student's want) but also sufficient grammar etc.

Many of the students are also interested in business English so if anyone also has information on good business English course books, that will be great.

Thanks in advance. Tom

[stromfi]

Business Options by Adrian Wallwork. It has a CD and a workbook, as well. I would say it's for students at a high-intermediate/advanced level.

[geordie]

I am teaching two groups of engineers in Japan using an excellent book -
`Quick Work` by Grant & McLarty published by Oxford. The book I am using is `Elementary` but is equally suited for pre-intermediate and intermediate level students. It has many task-based activities that are extremely useful. The grammar is cleverly introduced on `a need to know` basis.
Good luck.

[geordie]

`Quick Work` mentioned above is a business English textbook.
An excellent general English textbook is `In English Pre-Intermediate` by Peter and Karen Viney. This is a quite recent publication by Oxford and it is by far the best work that the Vineys have produced. It is suitable for students from intermediate to advanced and is very cleverly put together and is full of humour.