Synopses & Reviews
Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series (Series Editors: Frances Boyd and Carol Numrich), now in its Second Edition, offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.
Revision Features
- New and updated high-interest topics motivate students to express their own points of view.
- Expanded vocabulary and pronunciation practice ensure greater language proficiency.
- A grammar correlation chart links NorthStar, Second Edition, to two leading grammar series: Focus on Grammar and the Azar Grammar series.
- The fully integrated approach includes a teacher's manual with achievement tests, process writing activity books, audio recordings of the main reading and listening sections, a new video program, and a Companion Website (with vocabulary worksheets, video worksheets, Internet activities, and other resources).
Sample Audio
Listen to samples from the Audio CDs:
Unit 5: "Celletiquette"
- Listening One (0:55)
- Listening for Main Ideas (4:30)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:43)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:19)
- Listening Two: E-mail 1 (2:36)
- Listening Two: E-mail 2 (0:45)
- Listening Two: E-mail 3 (0:39)
- Pronunciation (0:17)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (0:51)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 2 (1:09)
Synopsis
With NorthStar, Second Edition (Series Editors: Frances Boyd and Carol Numrich), students explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series, now in its Second Edition, offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.
Sample Audio
Listen to samples from the Audio CDs:
Unit 5: "Celletiquette"
- Listening One (0:55)
- Listening for Main Ideas (4:30)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:43)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:19)
- Listening Two: E-mail 1 (2:36)
- Listening Two: E-mail 2 (0:45)
- Listening Two: E-mail 3 (0:39)
- Pronunciation (0:17)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (0:51)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 2 (1:09)
Synopsis
With NorthStar, Second Edition (Series Editors: Frances Boyd and Carol Numrich), students explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series, now in its Second Edition, offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students' imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression.
Sample Audio
Listen to samples from the Audio CDs:
Unit 5: "Celletiquette"
- Listening One (0:55)
- Listening for Main Ideas (4:30)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:43)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:19)
- Listening Two: E-mail 1 (2:36)
- Listening Two: E-mail 2 (0:45)
- Listening Two: E-mail 3 (0:39)
- Pronunciation (0:17)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (0:51)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 2 (1:09)
Table of Contents
Unit 1 Offbeat Jobs
Unit 2 A Piece of the Country in the City
Unit 3 A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned
Unit 4 At Your Service: Service Animals
Unit 5 “Celletiquette”
Unit 6 Is It Women’s Work?
Unit 7 Good-Mood Foods
Unit 8 An Ice Place to Stay
Unit 9 Staying Healthy
Unit 10 Endangered Languages
Student Activities
Grammar Book References
Audioscript
The Phonetic Alphabet