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 8: Goodbye to the Sit-Down Meal
- Listening One (0:49)
- Listening for Main Ideas (3:55)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:25)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:24)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 3 (0:14)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 4 (0:13)
- Listening Two (1:39)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (1:03)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 2 (0:39)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 3 (0:32)
Synopsis
&>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 8: Goodbye to the Sit-Down Meal
- Listening One (0:49)
- Listening for Main Ideas (3:55)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:25)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:24)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 3 (0:14)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 4 (0:13)
- Listening Two (1:39)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (1:03)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 2 (0:39)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 3 (0:32)
Synopsis
&>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 8: Goodbye to the Sit-Down Meal
- Listening One (0:49)
- Listening for Main Ideas (3:55)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:25)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:24)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 3 (0:14)
- Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 4 (0:13)
- Listening Two (1:39)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (1:03)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 2 (0:39)
- Pronunciation: Exercise 3 (0:32)
Table of Contents
Unit 1 For News Resisters, No News Is Good News
Unit 2 The Achilles Heel
Unit 3 Early to Bed, Early to Rise…
Unit 4 The Eye of the Storm
Unit 5 You Will Be This Land
Unit 6 It’s Better to Give Than to Receive
Unit 7 Emotional Intelligence
Unit 8 Goodbye to the Sit-Down Meal
Unit 9 Finding a Niche: The Lives of Young Immigrants
Unit 10 Technology: A Blessing or a Curse?
Student Activities
Grammar Book References
Audioscript
The Phonetic Alphabet