"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: Extreme Sports
Sports and Obsession

Reading
Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Recognize quotations and reported speech
Organize information using a Venn diagram
Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing
Create an outline answering Wh-questions to gather information
Write a paragraph with a topic sentence, supporting details and a conclusion
Identity the audience and add important details to clarify information
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions
Task: Write a one-paragraph news report
My English Lab: Writing Skill Practice and Writing Task

Inference
Infer the writer's degree of certainty

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Recognize and use word forms
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
Recognize and use "can, could, and be able to" to express ability in the present, past, future, and present perfect
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: Danny Parks, BMX Pro, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2, Unit I Achievement Test

Unit 2: Fraud
The Consequences of Fraud

Reading
Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to understand chronology
Identify detailed examples
Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing
Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to understand chronology Identify detailed examples
Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Inference
Infer comparisons

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Recognize and understand synonyms
Recognize and use word forms
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
distinguish between and use the simple past and past progressive
Recognize and use when and while
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: Unhappy Returns, NBC News, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2, Unit 2 Achievement Test

Unit 3: Space
Exploring the Red Planet

Reading
Make and confirm predictions Identify the main ideas
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Analyze problems and solutions
Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing Evaluate pros and cons
Use an outline to organize a paragraph with a main idea, supporting details and a conclusion
Identify and use parallel structure in academic writing
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions
Task: Write a paragraph about the pros and cons of building a colony on Mars
My English Lab: Writing Skill Practice and Writing Task

Inference
Understand inferred meaning (degrees of difficulty) in a text

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Use knowledge of academic vocabulary to formulate collocations
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
Recognize and express purpose with an infinitive after verbs or after a verb and in order to
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: Life in Space, ABC News, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2 Unit 3 Achievement Test

Unit 4: Language
Language and Power

Reading
Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Recognize opinions and supporting examples
Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing
Organize idea using chart
Use an outline to write a paragraph
Recognize and use transition of contrast
Use transitions of contrast to introduce a counter-argument
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions
Task: Write a point-by-point contrast paragraph with supporting examples
My English Lab: Writing Skill Practice and Writing Task

Inference
Infer the meaning of proverbs

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Recognize and understand antonyms
Recognize and use word forms (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs)
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
Recognize and make comparisons with adverbs
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: Gender and Communication, Insight Media, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2, Unit 4 Achievement Test

Unit 5: Careers
Careers of the Future

Reading
Predict content from a title and subheading in a reading
Identify the main ideas
Recognize details paraphrased from a reading
Scan a text to locate specific information
Categorize information from two texts
My English Lab: Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing
Organize ideas using an outline
Evaluate the structure, format, and content of a cover letter (introduction, supporting points, conclusion)
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions
Task: Write a cover letter with appropriate content and format
My English Lab: Writing Skill Practice and Writing Task

Inference
Infer author's tone and irony in a reading

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Recognize and use word forms (nouns and adjectives)
Recognize and use synonyms
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
Recognize and use future time clauses and expressions
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: Dream Jobs, ABC News, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2, Unit 5 Achievement Test

Unit 6: Tourism
What is ecotourism?

Reading
Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Follow chronological sequences in a reading
Categorize information from 2 texts
My English Lab: Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing
Organize ideas and complete an outline Identity a thesis statement, topic sentences, and supporting details in a text
Evaluate effective supporting details
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions
Task: Writing an opinions essay with an introduction, body, and conclusion
My English Lab: Writing Skill Practice and Writing Task

Inference
Infer writer`s view on probability

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Identity relationships between words (synonyms, antonyms, cause/effects, degree)
Use familiar words to form collocations
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
Recognize and use because and even though in main and dependent clauses
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: The Benefits of Ecotourism, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2, Unit 6 Achievement Test

Unit 7: Marriage
Finding a Spouse

Reading
Make and confirm predictions
Identify the main ideas
Identify different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Recognize and understand metaphors in a reading
My English Lab: Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing
Complete a summary
Write a descriptive paragraph
Organize information into logical groups
Use transition words to show degree of importance
Use related word forms to add cohesion to paragraphs
Edit and revise writing for content, language and conventions
My English Lab: Writing Skill Practice and Writing Task

Inference
Infer a writer's meaning by comparing two or more pieces of information

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Identify relationships between words (synonyms, antonyms, cause/effect, degree)
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
distinguish between uses of and use definite/indefinite articles (a/an/the)
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: Couples protects Themselves with Postnup, ABC News, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2, Unit 7 Achievement Test

Unit 8: Is Our Climate Changing?

Reading Predict content from a title and subheading in a reading
Identity the main ideas
Identity different types of supporting details
Scan a text to locate specific information
Analyze information in a chart
Identity cohesive devises of contrast
Understand and complete a causal chain
My English Lab: Vocabulary and Reading Skill Practice

Writing
Summarize cause and effect relationships
Organize ideas using a causal chain
Use cause-and-effect transitions to connect ideas
Write an explanatory paragraph
Edit and revise writing for content, language, and conventions
Task: Write Skill Practice and Writing Task

Inference
Infer the author's purpose

Vocabulary
Infer word meaning from context
Use familiar words to form collocations
My English Lab: Vocabulary Practice

Grammar
Recognize and use may, might, and could to express future possibility
My English Lab: Grammar Practice

Video
My English Lab: Living the Real Simple Life, ABC News, Video Activity

Assessments
My English Lab: Check What You Know, Checkpoints 1 and 2, Unit 8 Achievement Test

Grammar Book References

Unit Word List

Credits.

The Phonetic Alphabet

Level: Intermediate