The document describes the key elements and structure of an English language curriculum. It is designed for intermediate to advanced students with 60-90 instructional hours. Each two-page lesson integrates the four language skills and focuses on a communicative goal, vocabulary, grammar, reading, listening, pronunciation, and free discussion. Students demonstrate their learning through culminating communicative activities. The curriculum also includes a workbook, video materials, and audio program to provide additional practice.

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.