"NorthStar, Fifth Edition is an integrated-skills English course that empowers adult and young adult English language learners to achieve their academic and personal goals. Current and thought-provoking topics promote language development and critical thinking skills.

Building on the success of previous editions, this new fifth edition engages and motivates students with new and updated content.

What is new in the fifth edition?
New and updated content with a new theme keeps students motivated.
The new design and imagery bring the activities to life.
Learning outcomes are created using the Global Scale of English (GSE) so students can track their progress more easily.
Every unit offers note-taking practice and writing skill development.
Scaffolded critical thinking activities are clearly marked to help students develop their academic skills.
Academic Word List words are highlighted to help students identify essential vocabulary.
New and updated activities in MyEnglishLab provide additional practice online.
ExamView Test Generator allows teachers to customize assessments.
Students can complete activities, listen to audio, and watch video on the go with the Pearson Practice English App." (Book Cover)

SCOPE AND SEQUENCE

Unit 1: SPORTS AND OBSESSION
Reading 1: An Interview with Travis Binns -- Reading 2: High School Star Hospitalized for Eating Disorder
Inference: Inferring certainty
Note-Taking: Taking notes on a key words and phrases
Reading: Recognizing quotations and reported speech
Grammar: Modals of ability
Revise: Adding information for clarity Final Writing Task: A factual report
Video: A professional BMX Biker
Assessments: Pre-Unit Diagnostic: Check What You Know -- Checkpoint 1 -- Checkpoint 2 -- Unit Achievement Test
Unit Project: Write a factual report about the life and accomplishments of an athlete

Unit 2: THE CONSEQUENCES OF FRAUD
Reading 1: Catch Me If You Can: The Frank Abagnale Story -- Reading 2: The Michelle Brown Story: Identity Theft Note-Taking:
Reading:
Grammar:
Revise:
Final Writing Task:
Video:
Assessments: Unit Project:

Unit 3: EXPLORING THE RED PLANET
Reading 1: Mars: Our New Home? -- Reading 2: Timeline for a Mission to Mars Inference:
Note-Taking:
Reading:
Grammar:
Revise:
Final Writing Task:
Video:
Assessments: Pre-Unit Diagnostic: Check What You Know -- Checkpoint 1 -- Checkpoint 2 -- Unit Achievement Test
Unit Project:

Unit 4: LANGUAGE AND POWER
Reading 1: Men, Women, and Language -- Reading 2: The Question of Global English Inference:
Note-Taking:
Reading:
Grammar:
Revise:
Final Writing Task:
Video:
Assessments: Pre-Unit Diagnostic: Check What You Know -- Checkpoint 1 -- Checkpoint 2 -- Unit Achievement Test
Unit Project:

Unit 5: CAREERS OF THE FUTURE
Reading 1: Meet Your New Boss: You -- Reading 2: Great Jobs for the Twenty-first Century
Inference: Inferring attitudes and feelings
Note-Taking: Taking notes with signposts
Reading: Using titles and headings to identify main ideas
Grammar: Simple past, present perfect, and present perfect progressive
Revise: Using figurative language

Final Writing Task: A descriptive essay
Video: The long lives of the residents of Acciaroli
Assessments: Pre-Unit Diagnostic: Check What You Know -- Checkpoint 1 -- Checkpoint 2 -- Unit Achievement Test
Unit Project: Create a job posting for a fictional job using a guide to include necessary information

Unit 6: WHAT IS ECOTOURISM?
Reading 1: Tourist in a Fragile Land -- Reading 2: A Travel Journal Inference:
Note-Taking:
Reading:
Grammar:
Revise:
Final Written Task:
Video:
Assessments: Pre-Unit Diagnostic: Check What You Know -- Checkpoint 1 -- Checkpoint 2 -- Unit Achievement Test
Unit Project:

Unit 7: CAPITAL PUNISHMENT
Reading 1: Life in Prison is Still Life: Why Should a Killer Live? / Why Do We Kill People to Show That Killing People is Wrong? -- Reading 2: Charts: Global Facts About Capital Punishment
Inference:
Note-Taking:
Reading:
Grammar:
Revise:
Final Writing Task:
Video:
Assessments: Pre-Unit Diagnostic: Check What You Know -- Checkpoint 1 -- Checkpoint 2 -- Unit Achievement Test
Unit Project:

Unit 8: IS OUR CLIMATE CHANGING?
Reading 1: Global Climate Change -- Reading 2: Solving the Problems of Climate Change
Inference: Inferring purpose
Note-Taking: Taking notes with symbols
Reading: Identifying cohesive devices of contrast
Grammar: Future modals
Revise: Using conjunctions and transitions to show cause and effect
Final Written Task: A cause-and-efffect essay
Video: Family living
Assessments: Pre-Unit Diagnostic: Check What You Know -- Checkpoint 1 -- Checkpoint 2 -- Unit Achievement Test
Unit Project: Research and create a presentation about climate change.