"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