Mills, Robin
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
9780133382136 (Student book) 0133382133 (Student book)
2013050427
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Spoken English--Problems, exercises, etc.
Listening--Problems, exercises, etc.
PE1128 / .M444 2015
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
9780133382136 (Student book) 0133382133 (Student book)
2013050427
English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
English language--Spoken English--Problems, exercises, etc.
Listening--Problems, exercises, etc.
PE1128 / .M444 2015