Books galore

With a pile of books this deep it must be time for this season's business classes to get started. Once again, we will be getting busy in class with all manner of communicative exchanges, developing our everyday language skills and in many cases focusing on work-related topics in particular.

Outside of class, there will be plenty of reading; this time we are mixing up the readers with titles from OUP's Bookworms series, CUP's catalogue, Penguin's movie tie-ins, and newly adopted Macmillan's hot-looking red readers. I'm looking forward to a stream of good posting here. I think it's great that students of all levels and abilities can get stuck into a good book.

Avid readers and bloggers from one of my business classes, deserve a pat on the back for their hard work and imaginative use of this extensive reading opportunity. As you can see we have mostly used CUP Graded Readers this time around, supplementing our catalogue with some OUP Factfiles (the new edition ones are excellent). Students have generally really liked the titles; this group has produced a posting each on six titles over the last twenty weeks. Well done lads, proud of you!

My second group has produced fewer postings overall, but the quality of those generated has been high...and there has been a flurry of last minute postings in the last couple of days. Thank you for your hard work in and out of class; look forward to seeing/teacing you again soon.

I think we will have to choose a new series of readers, and maybe go up a level?

Jim