NorthStar: Focus On Listening And Speaking (Student Book, Introductory Level)

NorthStar: Focus on Listening and Speaking (Student Book, Introductory Level)

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 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)