NorthStar Listening and Speaking, High-Intermediate - Softcover

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)

&>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)