About the Course

Top Notch (and Summit)

Joan Saslow and Allen Ascher

Top Notch (with Summit) is an award-winning best-selling six-level communicative course for adults and young adults. The course begins at absolute beginner level and ends at an advanced level. To see objective measures of the six levels of this course, click on Correlations to standards, tests, and Longman English Interactive.

Top Notch and Summit are the recipients, respectively, of the 2006 and 2007 DISTINGUISHED ACHIEVEMENT AWARD given by the Association of Educational Publishers. The course was cited for:

  • Content
  • Creativity
  • Originality
  • Educational value
  • Ease of use

Top Notch (and Summit) prepare students to interact successfully with both native and non-native speakers of English. Other distinguishing features of the course are:

  • Concise two-page integrated skills lessons, each designed for one class session
  • Clear communication goals for every lesson
  • Confirmation of student’s progress at the end of each class session
  • Practical content designed for the real communicative needs of today’s student
  • Two beginning-level texts: Top Notch Fundamentals for true beginners and Top Notch 1 for false beginners
  • An unparalleled array of supplementary materials to provide the flexibility needed for any teaching situation
Click on Summit for additional information about the high-intermediate and advanced levels of the Top Notch and Summit course.