Northstar: Listening and Speaking - Text » (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: 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)

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