1. Wednesday August 4th,
2010
Msc Carmen Maria Barbosa

2. •High –intermediate to advanced communicative series.
•Designed for 60 to 90 instructional hours
•KEY ELEMENTS:
•Two page lesson is designed for one class session and
begins with a clearly stated communicative goal and
ends with free communicative practice.
•* Each lesson integrates all four skills with a focus on
conversation, grammar, reading or listening
•* Keeps the pace of a class session lived and varied
•High –intermediate to advanced communicative series.
•Designed for 60 to 90 instructional hours
•KEY ELEMENTS:
•Two page lesson is designed for one class session and
begins with a clearly stated communicative goal and
ends with free communicative practice.
•* Each lesson integrates all four skills with a focus on
conversation, grammar, reading or listening
•* Keeps the pace of a class session lived and varied

3. Dealing confirmation of Progress
Summit students conclude each class a
culminating productive activity that
demonstrates their ability to use new
vocabulary, grammar, word skills and
social language in order to perform the
communication goal of the lesson.

4.  Exposes students to authentic, natural, corpus-
informed English
 All Conversation Snapshots and Sound bites
feature the language people really use
 Full range of social and functional communicative
needs as well as a wealth of conversation
strategies are presented through practical model
conversations applied to the learner's own life’s
experience

5.  UNIT GOALS : Clearly state the
communication goals of the unit
 Topic Preview: Previews the content of the
unit, builds schema and develops academic
skills.
 Sound Bites: Presents a snapshot of
authentic conversation language for
observation.

6.  In Other Words: Provides practice inferring
meaning and idioms from context.
 Starting Point: Accesses prior knowledge and gets
students talking.
 Communication Goal : Assures students of what
they’ll achieve in a two-page lesson.
 Conversation Snapshot: Provides a memorable
and practical model of social language and
essential conversational strategies ( Ss CD-Rom)
 Vocabulary: Presentations include words, phrases
and collocations. Opportunity to use the
vocabulary always follows.
 Personalization: frequent opportunities are
provided to apply new language to student’s own
lives.

7. Conversation Focus:
Conversation Starter: Students apply the
conversation strategies in free discussion and
role plays.
Students apply conversation strategies and
new vocabulary.
Pronunciation booster: Promotes accurate
pronunciation of spoken English.

8.  Grammar Snapshot: Illustrates grammar in context and provokes
interest in the topic of the lesson. (Ss Cd Rom)
 Grammar Booster: Gives additional explanations, charts, and
reviews as well as more practice. ( Book G1 )
 Grammar Exchange: Offers students an opportunity to engage in
discussion using the target grammar
 Grammar charts: Clear presenations address form, meaning and
use.

9.  Vocabulary: Presentation includes words, phrases, and
collocations. Opportunities to use the vocabulary always
follows.
 Discussion builder: Step and step discussion activities
ensure succesful discussion for all learners.
 Listening Comprenhension: Intensive and
 extensive practice provokes lively discussions.
 Models: Frequent student speaking models get discussion
started

10.  Reading Warm-up: Builds expectations for better reading
comprehension
 Reading: Substantive readings builds academic skills and provide
information for interesting discussions.
 Reading Authenticity: All readings come from authentic sources and
build students’ confidence and ability to approach academic
content.
 Comprehension Exercises : Build academic and critical thinking
skills and promote discussion

11.  Writing: Complete writing syllabus builds key skills
 Writing Models: Make expectations clear.
 Step by Step Process Approach: helps students
generate ideas and builds the habit of editing their
own work.
 Checkpoint: Integrated skills checkpoints permit
students to consolidate, review and confirm what
they’ve learned

12.  Workbook :an 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.
 Video TV Materials : Summit TV includes real TV documentaries and
authentic unrehearsed interviews are accompanied by Activity
Worksheets and Teaching notes.
 Class Audio Program contains listening comprehension activities,
rhythm and intonation practice, recorded readings and targeted
pronunciation activities that focus on accurate and comprehensible
pronunciation. To prepare students to communicate with a variety of
speakers, regional and non-native accents are included.