"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 - Finding the Ideal Job

Reading 1: Finding the Ideal Job

Reading 2: The Ideal Job

Reading: Make and confirm predictions
identify the main ideas in a reading
identify the main ideas in a reading
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Predict content of a reading from visuals

Writing: Organize ideas in a list
identify the topic sentence of a paragraph
Support a main idea with details and examples
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions

Inference: Infer the author's opinion

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context

Grammar: Distinguish between and use possessive and descriptive adjectives

Video: Interview with a Skydiving Instructor, Video Activity

Unit 2: Student Life - Creative Thinking

Reading 1: Can We Teach Creative Thinking in Schools?

Reading 2: Tips for Success in College: How to Be Creative

Reading: Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas in a reading
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to understand chronology
Recognize examples in a text

Writing: Organize ideas in a chart
Add information to give extra support to the reader
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions

Task: Write a paragraph telling a story with a topic sentence, supporting details, and a conclusion

Inference: Infer connections between general statements and examples

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context

Grammar: Recognize and use past tense with regular/irregular past simple forms

Video: College Students Spark Creativity in Kids, Voice of America

Unit 3: Money - Making Money

Reading 1: Making Money

Reading 2: I Made It Myself

Reading: Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas in a reading
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Follow chronological sequence
Compare information from two readings

Writing: Write sentence of comparison
Organize ideas using a cluster diagram
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions

Task: Write a well-organized paragraph with clear explanations

Inference: Infer information about situations in the future

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context
Recognize antonyms

Grammar: Recognize and use the comparative form of adjectives

Video: The History of Money

Unit 4: Etiquette - Subway Etiquette

Reading 1: A Civilized Suggestion

Reading 2: Riding the Subway in Japan

Reading: Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas in a reading
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Identify the main elements of a story (background information, conflict, climax, and resolution)
Compare and contrast information from two readings

Writing: Write responses to letters
Organize ideas in a list
Create sentences using parallel structure
Edit and redraft writing for content, language, and conventions

Task: Write an informal Web page

Inference: Infer the author's attitude

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context
Recognize word forms (nouns, verbs, adjectives)

Grammar: Recognize and use imperatives to give instructions and make polite requests

Video: How to Ask for a Date

Unit 5: Food - We Are What We Eat

Reading 1: A New Fish in Town

Reading 2: Making Sense of the American Diet

Reading: Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas in each paragraph of a reading
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Analyze advantages and disadvantages

Writing: Organize ideas using an e-chart
Support main ideas with reasons
Express contrasting ideas using but and however
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions

Inference: Infer facts

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context
Recognize and use word forms (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Grammar: Recognize and use too much/too many/too + adjective

Video: Food from the Hood

Unit 6: Heroes - The Heart of a Hero

Reading 1: What Is a Hero?

Reading 2: Book Review: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

Reading: Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas in a reading
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Follow chronological sequence in a reading

Writing: Organize ideas using a list and an outline
Add examples and explanations to give extra support to the reader
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions

Task: Write a paragraph telling a story

Inference: Infer meaning from metaphors

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context
Recognize and use word forms (nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs)

Grammar: Recognize and use time clauses in the present tense

Video: All for One, ABC News

Unit 7: Health - What's Your Medicine?

Reading 1: Leech

Reading 2: Gross Medicine

Reading: Use a title and headings to predict content
Identify the main ideas in a reading
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Take double entry notes to interact with the text

Writing: Organize ideas using a cluster diagram
Signal basic chronological sequence using time order words
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions

Task: Write a personal narrative paragraph

Inference: Use inferences to make judgments about information in a text

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context

Grammar: Recognize and use a variety of adverbs of manner

Video: Chinese Medicine

Unit 8: Endangered Cultures

Reading 1: Will Indigenous Cultures Survive?

Reading 2: The Penan

Reading: Study a map
Use a title to predict content
Identify the main ideas in a reading
Identify different types of supporting details and examples
Scan a text to locate specific information
Understand the purpose of quoted speech in a text
Support general statements in one text with examples from another text

Writing: Organize ideas using an outline
Take notes from a reading to support an opinion
Support a main ideas with reasons
Recognize and write concluding sentences
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions

Task: Write a paragraph that makes a prediction

Inference: Infer the author's attitude

Vocabulary: Infer word meaning from context

Grammar: Recognize and use be going to to make predictions
Recognize and use will to make predictions
Recognize and use the present progressive to describe future events

Video: Maori Cultures