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.
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Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 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
Unit 2 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
Unit 3 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
Unit 4 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
Unit 5 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
Unit 6 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
Unit 7 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
Unit 8 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
Unit 9 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
Unit 10 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
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