Top Notch is a dynamic 4-level course for international communication, sets a new standard using the natural language that people really speak. With a rock-solid approach, Top Notch provides students with an opportunity to confirm their own progress at the end of every easy-to-teach lesson.
Joan Saslow is the author of a number of textbook series for adults and young adults, including Ready to Go, Workplace Plus, and Literacy Plus. She was also the Series Director of True Colors: An EFL Course for Real Communication, and of True Voices, an EFL video course. Ms. Saslow’s special interest is in distinguishing the needs of the EFL and ESL learner and creating materials appropriate for each. Ms. Saslow has taught in Chile and the United States in a variety of programs, including binational centers, academic programs, intensive language programs, and workplace programs. Ms. Saslow has been an editor, a teacher-trainer, a language learner, and a frequent speaker at gatherings of English teachers throughout the world.
Allen Ascher, formerly Director of the International English Language Institute at Hunter College, has been a teacher, teacher-trainer, author, and publisher. He has taught in language and teacher-training programs in both China and the United States. Mr. Ascher has an MA in Applied Linguistics from Ohio University. Mr. Ascher is author of Think About Editing: A Grammar Editing Guide for ESL Writers. As a publisher, he played a key role in the creation of some of the most widely used materials for adults. Mr. Ascher has provided lively workshops for teachers throughout the United States, Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.
Content book: vocabulary, vocabulary booster, conversation strategies and grammar (to be, nouns, there is/are, questions, this/that, adverbs, adjectives, singular/plural, modals, tenses, reading/writing/spelling, time/date, likes/dislikes, weather and much
more! Including tape scipt for audio files.
Content CD-ROM: interactive workbook (fill in, true/false, sentence scramble, multiple choice), games and puzzles (spelling, crossword, quiz show), Top Notch Pop (Songs / Karakoke), speaking practice (role play, play/record)
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Read carefully please to download the right items:
You can choose between:
A) DOWNLOAD STUDENT'S BOOK / TEACHER'S BOOK / AUDIO
normal + size reduced version
B) DOWNLOAD MULTI-MEDIA CD-ROM
NRG + EXE version
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INFO
Full description:
http://eltcatalogue.pearsoned-ema.com/Course.asp?Callingpage=Search&CourseID=PK&SearchTerm=Top notch
Student's and Teacher's activities:
http://wps.pearsonlongman.com/topnotchfund/
A) SAMPLE BOOK/AUDIO
(of reduced OGG format audio) 150 kb
http://rapidshare.com/files/168353243/SAMPLE-tno1.ogg
(of size reduced PDF)
A) DOWNLOAD BOOKS/AUDIO
STUDENT'S BOOK
---original version (PDF in RAR, 30.93MB)
http://rapidshare.com/files/175334939/tnfb.rar
or
http://www.zshare.net/download/530457777769f13c/
---size reduced version (PDF in RAR 3.20, 8.6 MB) by Pumukl
http://rapidshare.com/files/168390859/tno1-bl.rar
TEACHER'S BOOK added 25.1.09
---original version
(PDF, 1 file, 214 MB) by Thai 1 On
http://ifile.it/gqxmyeu/top_notch_teachers_book.pdf
or
(PDF in RAR 3.20, 194 MB, splitted into 3 parts 72/72/50 MB) by Pumukl
http://rapidshare.com/files/189653289/tno0-tbo.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/189668228/tno0-tbo.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/189678927/tno0-tbo.part3.rar corrected!
---size reduced version (1 PDF in RAR, 45 MB) by Pumukl
http://rapidshare.com/files/190342496/tno0-tbl.rar
AUDIO
---original version (MP3 in RAR, 44 khz/128 kbps, 33.68MB)
http://rapidshare.com/files/175332927/tnfacd.rar
or
http://www.zshare.net/download/5304611393843db7/
---size reduced version (format OGG, 8.5 MB) by Pumukl
http://rapidshare.com/files/168354427/tno1-al.rar
B) SAMPLE MULTI-MEDIA CD-ROM
B) DOWNLOAD MULTI-MEDIA CD-ROM
1) NRG VERSION (NRG in RAR, 270 MB, splitted into 3 parts) by Esbee
(has to be mounted first before running)
http://rapidshare.com/files/167502648/Top_Notch.part1.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/167552395/Top_Notch.part2.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/167565092/Top_Notch.part3.rar
or
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=H0FED3KZ
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6LQ0JHG4
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=6NYSR0PL
or
http://w14.easy-share.com/1702571541.html
http://w14.easy-share.com/1702571975.html
http://w15.easy-share.com/1702572061.html
2) EXE VERSION (EXE in RAR, 85 MB, 1 file) by Pumukl
(just unrar and run "Top_Notch.exe") See technical note below!
http://rapidshare.com/files/175349276/tn0RU-e.rar
SOFTWARE (for NRG version)
For using NRG files you need special software. Either burn with "Nero" or mount the file for example by using "Alcohol". A full version can be found in the HELP section. For details on using that software and NRG files please refer to Google-how to open NRG files
TECHNICAL NOTE
Minimum System Requirements:
Windows:
Windows 98, Intel Pentium processor 300 MHz, 64 MB RAM
Windows 2000/XP: Intel Pentium processor minimum 400 MHz, 128 MB RAM
Macintosh
MacOS OSX, PowerPC processor 300 MHz, 64 MB free RAM minimum
- This disk can be played as an interactive CD-ROM or as an audio CD - you have to use the NRG version, if you want to use this CD as an Audio CD in your CD player!
- For the exercises -as shown in the SAMPLE above- you can use the EXE-version.
