NorthStar Listening and Speaking, Advanced - Softcover

Preiss, Sherry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0201755742 ISBN 13: 9780201755749

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2003

Synopsis

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 10: Television and Freedom of Expression

• Listening One (0:37)
• Listening for Main Ideas 1 (0:49)
• Listening for Main Ideas 2 (1:04)
• Listening for Main Ideas 3 (1:15)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:28)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:16)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 3 (0:19)
• Listening Two (2:30)
• Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (1:21)

About this title

From the Back Cover:

W>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 10: Television and Freedom of Expression

• Listening One (0:37)
• Listening for Main Ideas 1 (0:49)
• Listening for Main Ideas 2 (1:04)
• Listening for Main Ideas 3 (1:15)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:28)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:16)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 3 (0:19)
• Listening Two (2:30)
• Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (1:21)

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0201755742
• ISBN 13: 9780201755749
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 288