Kim Sanabria Livres

Explore engaging content while enhancing language skills and critical thinking. The NorthStar series, now in its Second Edition, features two strands: reading and writing, and listening and speaking. Both strands inspire imagination, encourage critical analysis, and foster personal expression. Revision features include updated high-interest topics that motivate students to share their viewpoints. Expanded vocabulary and pronunciation practice enhance language proficiency. A grammar correlation chart connects the series to leading grammar resources, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience. The integrated approach includes a teacher's manual with achievement tests, process writing activity books, audio recordings of key reading and listening sections, a new video program, and a Companion Website offering vocabulary worksheets, video worksheets, Internet activities, and additional resources. These resources collectively support a well-rounded educational experience, making the series an effective tool for language development and critical thinking.

The Academic Encounters series uses a sustained content approach to teach skills necessary for taking academic courses in English. There are two books for each content area. Academic Listening Encounters: Life in Society engages students through interviews and academic lectures on stimulating topics from the field of sociology. Topics include culture shock, gender roles, and ways of solving crime. Students practice crucial listening skills, such as listening for main ideas and details and listening for signal words. They also practice note-taking skills, discuss content, conduct interviews, and make presentations. A Student Audio CD with the lecture portion of the audio program is included. Topics correspond with those in Academic Encounters: American Studies. The books may be used independently or together.

Clear and easy-to-follow, the NorthStar listening/speaking and reading/writing books follow the same unique unit outline. Each unit is flexible enough to customize for your individual classroom needs. And while the exercises in steps 1 to 4 are essential for comprehension of the topic, you can choose from exercises 5 to 7 or assign those activities for homework.