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Hello, I was wondering if anyone could give me advice, or let me know of a website or forum, to recommend good Business English Textbooks?

I have to choose a textbook from the OUP catalogue which doesn`t give me much information. I used Business Venture last year and didn`t like it very much. Business Objectives: International Edition looks good but I can`t seem to find anyone who has ever used it.

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks!

Market Leader

I really like International Express Elementary. I haven't seen the other International Express books, but this is really enjoyable to use, has a good focus on skills such as telephoning, and emailing, and deals with grammar very well. The workbook is also excellent, giving plenty of practice to students. I haven't seen the teacher's guide.
Market Leader assumes that the students are high-flying business people, or people with an academic interest in business, which is great for certain groups of students, but for office workers who don't have a business degree/aren't interested in high finance, cashflow, brand management etc. then I would recommend International Express.
In a related matter I put a question on the Market Leader discussion forum (http://forums.longman.com/DB_Topics.aspx?fid=8) back in October and there has been no response from Longman. I can't believe that they have nobody moderating/monitoring the discussion forums.
Finally, I have the teacher's guide for Market Leader Upper Intermediate and think that it is very good (despite a few errors). There are lots of newspaper articles at the back, complete with exercises. Perfect for homework, broadening vocabulary etc.

For an almost complete overview of available coursebooks, here are some links to get you started:

http://www.cambridge.com.mx/mexico/prof ... ourses.php

http://www.businessenglishonline.net/books.htm

http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator ... 77,00.html

http://www.cambridge.org/elt/catalogue/ ... asp?cid=10

BTW: looking through my archives, I found that I have worked successfully with the OUP Business Objectives and Business Opportunities series, with adults in middle management in Thailand.

Here also is a link to the complete CUP catalogue:
http://www.cambridge.org/elt/catalogue/ ... asp?cid=10