NorthStar Listening and Speaking, Advanced - 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 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)

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)