eslHQ - Course books

Sure Dave, no problem.

I like it as much as anything as a change from English File. EF is a good series but I'm personally a bit bored with it and I think it shows in my teaching. It's always good to have a new tool in the box.

The MOVE I'm using is for pre-intermediate level and has just 3 modules, each with 5 units. Each unit is taking me around 2 1\2 hours but I'm going quite slowly as the previous book was English File Elementary and this one is quite a jump in level.
However, the class seem to like it and it's pretty thorough. It focuses a lot on completing gaps in sentences with target language and then changing the sentence so it's true for each individual. It's a good way to remember stuff.(This is something you find a lot in the Inside Out series (awful) also published by Macmillan.)

The book I'm using for the beginner groups is Straightforward and that too is nice. There are 3 lessons to each Unit, plus a review, Grammar reference, active wordlist and communication activities. Each lesson comes with an additional activity in the teacher's book and very good teacher notes. There are plenty of tips and ideas, not useful only for new teachers but a good way to refresh older ones too. There are a lot of opportunities for the students to reproduce the target language in nice ittle dialogues and the listenings aren't too easy as to make them a bit silly. On the whole, but after only 3 lessons, it seems to be a good short beginner book, after which you'd need to follow an elementary course as the jump to pre-intermediate would be too great.

Hope that helps.

here's the link to the macmillan site if you'd like to take a closer look

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/default.aspx?id=324

http://www.macmillanenglish.com/default.aspx?id=2695