Northstar : Focus on Listening and Speaking, Intermediate -Text Only » (2nd Edition)

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: Traditional or Trendy?

• Listening One (0:41)

• Listening for Main Ideas (3:30)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:20)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:19)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 3 (0:23)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 4 (0:30)
• Listening Two (1:53)
• Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (0:58)

Unit 1 Advertising on the Air

Unit 2 Pushing the Limit

Unit 3 Too Good to Be True

Unit 4 The Art of Storytelling

Unit 5 Separated by the Same Language

Unit 6 Culture and Commerce

Unit 7 Joking Around

Unit 8 Traditional or Trendy?

Unit 9 To Spank or Not to Spank?

Unit 10 Before You Say “I Do”

Student Activities

Grammar Book References

Audioscript

The Phonetic Alphabet