NorthStar 2 : Listening & Speaking /
Robin Mills and Laurie Frazier.
- 4th ed.
- xix, 215 pages : ill. in col. ; 26 cm.
- NorthStar .
"Building on the success of the previous editions, Northstar, Third Edition continues to engage and motivate students with new and updated contemporary topics delivered through a seamless integration of print and online components. What is special about the new edition? Blended approach with MyEnglishLab. Online activities offer support and expansion, fully blending the student book with MyEnglishLab for extra practice, ongoing assessment, and instant feedback. New and updated themes and topics. Presented in a variety of genres--including literature and lectures--and in authentic reading and listening selections, the content challenges and engages students intellectually. Explicit skills instruction.The inclusion of 2-3 explicit language skills in every unit allows students to build their language proficiency. New and revised assessments tied to learning outcomes. Online assessments allow teachers to track students' progress mastery of material and skills. A new design with thought provoking images. A compelling graphic look makes the content and activities come alive." (Book Cover) TABLE OF CONTENTS: Unit 1: Work - Offbeat Jobs Listening 1: What's My Job? Listening 2: More Offbeat Jobs Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Connect statements to specific speakers Recognize connectors that compare and contrast ideas Speaking: Express opinions Ask and answer questions about jobs, interests, and skills Express interest Express agreement and disagreement Task: Create and dramatize job interviews Inference: Identify humor from a speaker's choice of words and tone Pronunciation: Recognize syllable stress Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Grammar: Recognize and use descriptive adjectives Video: Interview with a Skydiving Instructor Unit 2: Student Life - Where Does Time Go? Listening 1: Student Success Workshop Listening 2: A Student Discussion Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Connect statements to specific speakers Recognize phrases that signal agreement and disagreement Connect information from two listenings Speaking: Express opinions Express various levels of agreement and disagreement Support opinions with examples Task: Create, give, and report on a survey about student life Inference: Infer a speaker's intention based on questions the speaker asks Pronunciation: Recognize emphasis through intonation and stress Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Use familiar words to form collocations Grammar: Recognize and use the present simple tense Video: College Students Spark Creativity in Kids, Voice of America Unit 3: Money - A Penny Saved Is a Penny Earned Listening 1: A Barter Network Listening 2: The Compact Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Interpret a timeline Recognize emphasis from intonation and stress Categorize information from two listenings Speaking: Express agreement and disagreement Compare products and services Make and respond to suggestions Task: Negotiate for goods and services Inference: Infer a speaker's attitude from intonation and stress Pronunciation: Recognize word stress in numbers and prices Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Grammar: Recognize and use comparative adjectives Video: The History of Money Unit 4: Etiquette - What Happened to Etiquette? Listening 1: Whatever Happened to Manners? Listening 2: Our Listeners Respond - Why is there a lack of manners? Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Recognize summary statements Categorize reasons from two listenings Speaking: Express opinions Summarize key information Support reasons with examples Make and respond to requests and invitations Task: Create and dramatize a situation about manners Inference: Infer contrasting ideas in statements from intonation and stress Pronunciation: Recognize rising and falling intonation in questions and statements Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Recognize and use idioms Grammar: Recognize and use can, could and would in polite requests Video: How to Ask for a Date Unit 5: Food - The Fat Tax Listening 1: The Nation Talks Listening 2: Listeners Call In Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Identify different types of supporting details Recognize language and intonation that signal clarification Speaking: Express opinions and support them with reasons Ask for and give advice Ask for and provide clarification or repetition Task: Participate in a debate about the role of government in reducing obesity Inference: Infer facts Vocabulary: Infer meaning by recognizing phrases that signal hedging Pronunciation: Recognize intonation in questions requesting clarification or repetition Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Recognize and use words for healthy foods Grammar: Recognize and use modals of possibility (may, might, could) Video: Food from the Hood Unit 6: Heroes - Everyday Heroes Listening 1: The Subway Hero Listening 2: Psychology Lecture - Altruism Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Take notes on a lecture Recognize phrases that signal the organization and ideas in a lecture Support general ideas in one listening with specific examples from a second listening Speaking: Express opinions Ask follow-up questions Recognize and use signal phrases in presentations Task: Prepare and give a presentation Inference: Infer a speaker's feelings or emotion from tone of voice and word choice Pronunciation: Recognize and pronounce the three -ed endings in the regular past tense Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Categorize words with similar meanings Grammar: Recognize and use the simple past tense Video: All for One, ABC News Unit 7: Health - Gaming Your Way to Better Health Listening 1: Gaming Your Way to Better Health Listening 2: Technology in the Classroom Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Recognize phrases and intonation that express doubt Analyze advantages and disadvantages Speaking: Express opinions Give and respond to advice Express concern Task: Prepare and present a TV commercial Inference: Infer a speaker's intended meaning from persuasive language Pronunciation: Recognize and produce reductions of modals Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Grammar: Recognize and use modals of advice and necessity (should, ought to, have to) Video: Chinese Medicine Unit 8: Endangered Cultures - Endangered Languages Listening 1: Language Loss Listening 2: My Life, My Language Listening: Make and confirm predictions Identify main ideas and details Interpret a graph Recognize phrases that identify reasons and examples Support ideas from one listening with examples from a second listening Speaking: Express opinions Agree and disagree with opinions Present and defend a position Give reasons and examples to explain general statements Task: Participate in a small-group discussion Inference: Infer a speaker's viewpoint Pronunciation: Recognize and use contractions and reductions with will and be going to Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context Recognize and use synonyms Grammar: Recognize and use the future with will and and be going to Video: Maori Cultures