It is important to try to find native speakers of English to make the recordings. You can experiment with regional accents and different varieties of international English if you want to familiarize your students with them, but let the complete beginners familiarize themselves with the variety which is most useful for them in their social surroundings first e.g. educated Southern English if they are studying in Brighton (London poses a problem since host families are so multicultural) and Clintonese, Gorrish or Bush if you are giving English lessons in the White House.

Here is a ready-made materials development project for the permanent staff of English Language Schools when student bookings are low. You can save my material to the hard disk of your computers and print out gapped worksheets as and when necessary.

Alternatively, students can access the material and make printouts directly from the web during self-access sessions providing your study centre has enough computers with internet connections.

It is up to you to supply the audio-cassettes or minidisks (if you are completely up to date). The advantage of minidisks is that Chapters can be accessed as easily as you can access a track on a Compact Disk without any winding or rewinding. You can also title the chapters. Titles for each track will then be displayed in the window of your minidisk player or recorder. The advantages of the audio-cassette are low cost of cassette players and the very large user-base.