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NorthStar: Focus on Listening and Speaking (Student Book, Introductory Level)
NorthStar Focus on Listening and Speaking - Student Book, Introductory Level Author:Polly Merdinger, Laurie Barton 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 c... more »ritical 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)« less