     Northstar,  now in a new edition, motivates students to succeed in their academic as well as personal language goals. For each of the five levels, the two strands – Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking – provide a fully integrated approach for students and teachers.       What is Special about the New Edition?        New Themes and Updated Content – presented in a variety of genres and in authentic materials – challenge and engage students intellectually.   Enhanced Focus on Academic Skills, more purposeful integration of critical thinking, and an enhanced focus on academic skills such as inferencing, synthesizing, notetaking, and test taking help students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests.   A structured approach gives students opportunities for more extended and creative oral practice, for example, presentations, simulations, debates, speeches, public service announcements and more.   A New Design with full color pages, more photos, illustrations, and graphic organizers fosters student engagement and makes the content come alive.      MyNorthStarLab , the easy-to-use online companion of the NorthStar series, saves time and improves student results.      Saves Time   With automatically graded exercises for every unit of each book, instructors no longer have to create or grade homework. This gives them more time to prepare classroom lessons. Instructors can choose exercises and set due dates with just a few clicks. Homework for an entire semester can be set up in less than an hour.   Improves Results   Students have more opportunities to practice English in more ways – from video exercises and audio discussion boards to vocabulary games and academic practice. These new exercises help students learn more English, more quickly.  Immediate feedback on their performance allows students to come to class better prepared. If students do not pass a section of a unit test, they automatically receive new exercises targeting areas that need improvement.  The   MyNorthStarLab  Access Code card is also available on its own, without the Student Book.  

Northstar 3: Listening and Speaking, 3rd Edition, with MyNorthStarLab

Reference

Solorzano, Helen

Schmidt, Jennifer P.L.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Pearson Education ESL

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 
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<li>New and updated high-interest topics motivate students to express their own points of view. </li>
<li>Expanded vocabulary and pronunciation practice ensure greater language proficiency. </li>
<li>A grammar correlation chart links NorthStar, Second Edition, to two leading grammar series: Focus on Grammar and the Azar Grammar series. </li>
<li>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). </li> </ul> Sample Audio Listen to samples from the Audio CDs: Unit 8: Traditional or Trendy? <ul>
<li> Listening One (0:41) 
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<li> Listening for Main Ideas (3:30) </li>
<li> Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:20) </li>
<li> Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:19) </li>
<li> Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 3 (0:23) </li>
<li> Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 4 (0:30) </li>
<li> Listening Two (1:53) </li>
<li> Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (0:58) </li> </ul>

Northstar: Focus on Listening and Speaking, Intermediate Second Edition

English as a Second Language

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