With its fresh new look, the third edition of the Summit program helps develop confident English speakers who are able to navigate a host of social and professional situations.This two-level course provides high-intermediate learners with an integrated set of global communication skills. It delivers immediate, demonstrable results through its goal- and achievement-based pedagogy and continual recycling of language.The two levels of Summit can be used with Top Notch as the fifth and sixth books in a complete six-level series. Summit 1 covers competencies from B2 to B2 #43

Summit helps the high-intermediate learner continue to grow through a balanced development of both fluency and accuracy. Summit offers a unique conversational syllabus and extensive opportunities for discussion, debate, presentations, and projects as well as contextualized grammar review, expansion, and practice. Summit prepares students for academic study through development of word skills, reading and listening skills and strategies, and critical thinking. MyEnglishLab for Summit is a powerful online learning tool for personalized practice and assessment.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword A Better View of Motivation -- Introduction A Great Place to Work For All -- PART ONE Better for Business -- Chapter 1 More Revenue, More Profit -- Chapter 2 A New Business Frontier -- Chapter 3 How to Succeed in the New Business Frontier -- Chapter 4 Maximizing Human Potential Accelerates Performance -- PART TWO Better for People, Better for the World -- Chapter 5 When the Workplace Works For Everyone -- Chapter 6 Better Business for a Better World -- PART THREE The For All Leadership Call -- Chapter 7 Leading to a Great Place to Work For All -- Chapter 8 The For All Rocket Ship -- Notes -- Thanks -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- About Us -- Authors

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The illustrated Workbook contains exercises that provide additional practice and reinforcement of language concepts and skills from the Summit Student's Book and its Grammar Booster. A two-level high-intermediate/advanced course, Summit is the perfect next step for learners who have completed a beginning to intermediate level course. Summit develops competence and confidence in all four skills.

A two-level high-intermediate/advanced course, "Summit," by Joan Saslow and Allen Ascher, is the perfect next step for learners who have completed a beginning to intermediate-level course. "Summit" develops competence and confidence in all four skills. "Summit"'s simple instructional design has two essential, motivating features: Concise two-page multiple skills lessons are each designed for one class session. Communication activities at the end of each lesson enable students to set their own progress. Other important features: Ten essential model conversations apply a wide array of conversation strategies for confident communication. Unique step-by-step "Discussion Builders" guarantee successful, thoughtful free discourse. An intensive vocabulary syllabus builds key word skills. Comprehensive writing sections feature rhetorical skills, prewriting, and error correction. Bound-in Grammar and Pronunciation Boosters provide additional reference and practice.