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.