[susan53]

I have one who is not only a near native speaker, she's also a completely autonomous learner who gets through an incredible amount of work outside the lesson, including watching satellite TV and DVDs in English constantly. Finding stuff which will challenge her is very, very difficult. She's already passed proficiency and is way beyond most coursebooks, so I end up pulling stuff off the net and developing lessons around it - which is very time consuming.

On the suggestion of another teacher, who has also been teaching her recently, she's considering doing an Open University course. The idea is that we'll use the lessons as language tutorials based around the course requirements, for example to help her polish the written assignments. It might be the best solution ...