NorthStar Reading and Writing Intermediate w/CD

by Sardinas, Carolyn DuPaquier; Barton, Laurie

• ISBN13: 9780131846753
• ISBN10: 0131846752
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Package w/Audio
• Copyright: 2003-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson ESL

Summary

Explore fascinating content while building language competence and critical thinking skills. The best-selling NorthStar series 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.

Table of Contents

Scope and Sequence

The World of Advertising

Theme: Advertising

Reading One: Advertising All Over the World

A magazine article

Reading Two: Changing World Markers

An excerpt from a speech

Vocabulary: Word definitions, context clues, synonyms, idioms

Grammar: Contrast simple present and present progressive

Going to Extremes: Sports and Obsession

Theme: Extreme Sports

Reading One: Interview with Tony Hawk

An interview with a professional skateboarder

Reading Two: High School Star Hospitalized for Eating Disorder

A newspaper report

Vocabulary: Context clues, word forms, synonyms, vocabulary categorization

Grammar: Modals of ability

Miracle Cure?

Theme: Fraud

Reading One: A Miracle Cure?

A magazine article

Reading Two: The Organic HeathCenter

An advertisement

Vocabulary: Word definitions, context clues, prefixes and suffixes

Grammar: Superlative adjectives

The Metamorphosis

Theme: Storytelling

Reading One: The Metamorphosis

An abridged story

Reading Two: Ungeziefer

A critique of the story

Vocabulary: Word definitions, synonyms, context clues, comparison and contrast of word meaning and usage

Grammar: Infinitives of purpose, relative pronouns

Speaking of Gender

Theme: Language

Reading One: Different Ways of Talking

An article

Reading Two: Speaking of Gender

An interview with a linguist

Vocabulary: Synonyms, context clues, vocabulary classification

Grammar: Using modals for requests

Ecotourism

Theme: Tourism

Reading One: Tourists in a Fragile Land

An opinion essay

Reading Two: A Travel Journal

An account of a trop to Antarctica

Vocabulary: Paraphrasing meaning, context clues, word associations, Analogies, synonyms and antonyms

Grammar: Past progressive and simple past

What's So Funny About That?

Theme: Humor

Reading One: The Story of I Love Lucy

An autobiographical account

Reading Two: Cosby: A Different kind of Family Show

A TV show review

Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions, suffixes, word forms, vocabulary classification

Grammar: Non-clauses with wh- words

Always In Fashion

Theme: Fashion

Reading One: The Search for Beauty

A passage on plastic surgery

Reading Two: My Wife Wants to Look Younger

An excerpt from a journal

Vocabulary: Word definitions, word association

Grammar: Describing the past with used to

Crime and Punishment

Theme: Punishment

Reading One: Life in Prison Is Still Life: Why Should a Killer Live?

Why Do We Kill People to Show That Killing People Is Wrong?

Two newspaper op-ed articles

Vocabulary: Context clues, word definitions, abstract nouns, appropriate word usage

Grammar: Contrast: present perfect and present perfect progressive

Finding a Spouse

Theme: Marriage

Reading One: Finding a Spouse

An anthropological article

Reading Two: What's Wrong With Tradition?

A letter to the editor

Vocabulary: Word definitions, analogies, synonyms and antonyms, word forms

Grammar: Articles: Definite and indefinite

Grammar Book References

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