Northstar Focus on Listening and Speaking

Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-sellingNorthStarseries, 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 linksNorthStar, Second Edition, to two leading grammar series:Focus on Grammarand 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 6:From Sadness to Strength Listening One: Introducing the Topic (0:42) Listening for Main Ideas (2:28) Listening Between the Lines: Excerpt 1 (0:53) Listening Between the Lines: Excerpt 2 (0:25) Listening Between the Lines: Excerpt 3 (0:31) Listening Two: Expanding the Topic (1:49) Reviewing Language: Exercise 1 (1:05) Reviewing Language: Exercise 3 (1:06)Barton, Laurie is the author of 'Northstar Focus on Listening and Speaking' with ISBN 9780201619805 and ISBN 0201619806.