Northstar: Focus on Listening and Speaking (Advanced)

By Sherry Preiss

Advanced Level NorthStar is an innovative five-level, integrated-skills series for learners of English as a Second Language or English as a Foreign Language. The series is divided into two strands:... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201571773
• ISBN13: 9780201571776
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.0" x 9.9"

Customer Reviews

Authentic Listening and Critical Thinking for ESL Students

I have used this book with accompanying tape with my upper-intermediate and advanced ESL students and it has been a hit. (This is NOT baby-pre-school reading level. I would put it more at about 7th or 8th grade...) They use authentic interviews from National Public Radio for the listening segments. The exercises are fairly good, particularly in the area of conversation. Some of the listening comphrehension exercises could be better-written though. The audio segments are rather long and divided into only 2 parts. I'm a big fan of the entire North Star Focus on Listening and Speaking Series (It's in 4 parts--basic, intermediate, upper-intermediate, advanced.). The topics are always interesting to students, and the units are arranged according to grammar function. This book works in conjunction with the North Star Focus on Reading and Writing, as well as the Focus on Grammar series.