Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series (Series Editors: Frances Boyd and Carol Numrich), now in its Second Edition, offers two strands: a reading and writing strand and a listening and speaking strand. Both strands stimulate students" imagination, encourage critical thinking, and promote personal expression. Revision Features New and updated high-interest topics motivate students to express their own points of view. Expanded vocabulary and pronunciation practice ensure greater language proficiency. A grammar correlation chart links NorthStar, Second Edition, to two leading grammar series: Focus on Grammar and the Azar Grammar series. The fully integrated approach includes a teacher"s manual with achievement tests, process writing activity books, audio recordings of the main reading and listening sections, a new video program, and a Companion Website (with vocabulary worksheets, video worksheets, Internet activities, and other resources). Sample AudioListen to samples from the Audio CDs:Unit 6: From Sadness to Strength Listening One: Introducing the Topic (0:42) Listening for Main Ideas (2:28) Listening Between the Lines: Excerpt 1 (0:53) Listening Between the Lines: Excerpt 2 (0:25) Listening Between the Lines: Excerpt 3 (0:31) Listening Two: Expanding the Topic (1:49) Reviewing Language: Exercise 1 (1:05) Reviewing Language: Exercise 3 (1:06)