Northstar: Focus on Listening and Speaking, Basic, Second 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 5: "Celletiquette"

• Listening One (0:55)
• Listening for Main Ideas (4:30)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 1 (0:43)
• Reacting to the Listening: Exercise 1: Excerpt 2 (0:19)
• Listening Two: E-mail 1 (2:36)
• Listening Two: E-mail 2 (0:45)
• Listening Two: E-mail 3 (0:39)
• Pronunciation (0:17)
• Pronunciation: Exercise 1 (0:51)
• Pronunciation: Exercise 2 (1:09)