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. 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 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 Web activities.