NorthStar Listening and Speaking High-Intermediate w/CD by Kim Sanabria
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NorthStar Listening and Speaking High-Intermediate w/CD
NorthStar Listening and Speaking High-Intermediate w/CD
Summary
Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series 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.
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NorthStar Listening and Speaking High-Intermediate w/CD Summary
Table of Contents
Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 For News Resisters, No News Is Good News
Theme: Media
Listening One: News Resisters
A radio new report
Listening Two: CornCam
A report on an unusual website
Vocabulary: Context clues, synonyms, idiomatic expressions, descriptive adjectives,
dictionary work, word definitions
Grammar: Passive voice
Unit 2 The Achilles Heel
Theme: Overcoming Obstacles
Listening One: Dreams of Flying and overcoming Obstacles
A college application essay
Listening Two: The Achilles Track Club Climbs Mount Kilimanjaro
A television news report
Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions, figurative language
Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives
Unit 3 Early to Bed, Early to Rise...
Theme: Medicine
Listening One: Teen Sleep Needs
A radio news report
Listening Two: Get Back in Bed
A conversation with a doctor
Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions
Grammar: Present unreal conditionals
Unit 4 The Eye of the Storm
Theme: Natural Disasters
Listening One: Preparing for a Hurricane
A radio news report
Listening Two: Hurricane Hunters
A radio news report
Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions, synonyms, word forms
Grammar: Adjective clauses
Unit 5 You Will Be This Land
Theme: Conservation
Listening One: Interview with a Medicine Priest
A conversation with a Cherokee spiritual leader
Listening Two: "Ndakinna" - A Poem
An Abenaki poem
Vocabulary: Word definitions, synonyms, context clues, word forms
Grammar: Advisability in the past - past modals
Unit 6 It's Better to Give Than to Receive
Theme: Philanthropy
Listening One: Oseola McCarty
A report on the life of a philanthropist
Listening Two: Please Donate or Volunteer
Two public service announcements
Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions, synonyms
Grammar: Tag questions
Unit 7 Emotional Intelligence
Theme: Education
Listening One: Can You Learn EQ?
A psychology radio program
Listening Two: Test Your EQ
An emotional intelligence test
Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, idiomatic expressions
Grammar: Direct and indirect speech
Unit 8 Goodbye to the Sit-Down Meal
Theme: Food
Listening One: French Sandwiches
A radio news report
Listening Two: Food in a Bowl
A conversation about food trends
Vocabulary: Context clues, synonyms, definitions, figurative meanings of words, vocabulary classification, idiomatic expressions
Grammar: Phrasal verbs
Unit 9 Finding a Niche: The Lives of Young Immigrants
Theme: Immigration
Listening One: A World within a School
A radio news report
Listening Two: The Words Escape Me
A song
Vocabulary: Context clues, synonyms, definitions, idiomatic expressions
Grammar: Present and past - contrasting verb tenses
Unit 10 Technology: A Blessing or a Curse?
Theme: Technology
Listening One: Noise in the City
A radio news report
Listening Two: Technology Talk
A talk radio show
Vocabulary: Synonyms, word definitions, context clues, descriptive adjectives
Grammar: Future perfect and future progressive
Student Activities
Grammar Book References
Audioscript
The Phonetic Alphabet
Additional information
CIN0131439103G
9780131439108
0131439103
NorthStar Listening and Speaking High-Intermediate w/CD by Kim Sanabria
Used - Good
Hardback
Pearson Education (US)
2003-08-05
255
N/A
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