Northstar, now in a new edition, motivates students to succeed in their academic as well as personal language goals. For each of the five levels, the two strands — Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking — provide a fully integrated approach for students and teachers.

What is Special about the New Edition?

• New Themes and Updated Content — presented in a variety of genres and in authentic materials — challenge and engage students intellectually.
• Enhanced Focus on Academic Skills, more purposeful integration of critical thinking, and an enhanced focus on academic skills such as inferencing, synthesizing, notetaking, and test taking help students develop strategies for success in the classroom and on standardized tests.
• A structured approach gives students opportunities for more extended and creative oral practice, for example, presentations, simulations, debates, speeches, public service announcements and more.
• A New Design with full color pages, more photos, illustrations, and graphic organizers fosters student engagement and makes the content come alive.

MyNorthStarLab , the easy-to-use online companion of the NorthStar series, saves time and improves student results.

Saves Time

• With automatically graded exercises for every unit of each book, instructors no longer have to create or grade homework. This gives them more time to prepare classroom lessons.
• Instructors can choose exercises and set due dates with just a few clicks. Homework for an entire semester can be set up in less than an hour.

Improves Results

• Students have more opportunities to practice English in more ways — from video exercises and audio discussion boards to vocabulary games and academic practice. These new exercises help students learn more English, more quickly.
• Immediate feedback on their performance allows students to come to class better prepared.
• If students do not pass a section of a unit test, they automatically receive new exercises targeting areas that need improvement.

The MyNorthStarLab Access Code card is also available on its own, without the Student Book.

NorthStar, now in its third edition, motivates students to achieve their academic as well as personal goals. NorthStar continues to provide an integrated approach in five levels, with two complementary strands: Reading and Writing and Listening and Speaking.

New Themes and Updated Content-presented in a variety of genres, including literature and lectures, and in authentic reading and listening selections - challenge and engage students intellectually.

Enhanced Focus on Academic Skills, such as organizing, inferencing, synthesizing, and note taking, and more purposeful integration of critical thinking activities, prepare students for success in the classroom.

A New Design with full color pages, more photos, illustrations, and graphic organizers fosters students engagement and makes the contents and activities come alive.

NorthStar is now available with MyNorthStarLab---an easy-to-use, powerful online program for students and teachers that saves time and improves results.

Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies offers a sustained content approach to help students develop the listening, note-taking, and discussion skills necessary to succeed in English-speaking academic environments. The Teacher's Manual for this title contains general teaching guidelines for the course, task by task teaching suggestions, answers for all tasks, lecture quizzes and quiz answers, and the listening script for the audio program.

This intermediate listening, note-taking, and discussion text will engage students through interviews and academic lectures on stimulating topics within the field of American Studies. Topics include American government, race relations, the history of U.S. immigration, and American values and culture. Each chapter begins with a warm-up activity, then presents two or more informal interviews, and concludes with a two-part academic lecture. Exercises that accompany the listenings develop important skills such as listening for main ideas, listening for specific information, and making inferences. In preparation for the lectures, students practice note-taking skills such as using symbols and abbreviations and organizing their notes. There are many opportunities for students to discuss content, express their personal opinions, and make presentations to the class. An Audio CD with the lecture portion of the audio program is included with the book to provide extra listening practice. The complete class audio program is available for purchase separately, on three Audio CDs. The Academic Encounters series is an excellent tool for TOEFL preparation. Academic Encounters: American Studies is the reading, study-skills, and writing companion text to the listening book described above. Each book may be used independently or the two books may be used together to form a four-skills integrated course.

Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies offers a sustained content approach to help students develop the listening, note-taking, and discussion skills necessary to succeed in English-speaking academic environments. The audio program for Academic Listening Encounters: American Studies is contained on these audio CDs. The audio program includes warm-up listening activities, informal interviews, and formal academic lectures.