NorthStar
Second Edition

Reading and Writing, Intermediate
 
1   THE WORLD OF ADVERTISING
  Theme: Advertising
Reading One: Advertising All Over the World
Reading Two: Changing World Markets
Grammar: Contrast—Simple Present Tense and Present Progressive
Style: Paragraph Development
 
2   GOING TO EXTREMES: SPORTS AND OBSESSION
  Theme: Extreme Sports
Reading One: Interview with Tony Hawk
Reading Two: High School Star Hospitalized with Eating Disorder
Grammar: Modals of Ability
Style: Writing a Factual Report
 
3   MIRACLE CURE?
  Theme: Fraud
Reading One: A Miracle Cure?
Reading Two: The Organic Health Center
Grammar: Adjectives—Superlatives
Style: Summary Writing
 
4   THE METAMORPHOSIS
  Theme: Storytelling
Reading One: The Metamorphosis
Reading Two: Ungeziefer
Grammar: Infinitives of Purpose; Relative Pronouns
Style: Paraphrasing
 
5   SPEAKING OF GENDER
  Theme: Language
Reading One: Different Ways of Talking
Reading Two: Speaking of Gender
Grammar: Using Modals for Requests
Style: Comparing and Contrasting
 
6   ECOTOURISM
  Theme: Tourism
Reading One: Tourists in a Fragile Land
Reading Two: A Travel Journal
Grammar: Past Progressive and Simple Past
Style: Writing an Opinion Essay
 
7   WHAT'S SO FUNNY ABOUT THAT?
  Theme: Humor
Reading One: The Story of "I Love Lucy"
Reading Two: Cosby: A Different Kind of Family Show
Grammar: Noun Clauses with Wh- Words
Style: Parallel Structure
8   ALWAYS IN FASHION
  Theme: Fashion
Reading One: The Search for Beauty
Reading Two: My Wife Wants to Look Younger
Grammar: Describing the Past with Used to
Style: Cause and Effect
 
9   CRIME AND PUNISHMENT
  Theme: Punishment
Reading One:

Two Points of View (op-ed articles):

Life in Prison is Still Life: Why Should a Killer Live?;

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

Reading Two: Graphs
Grammar: Contrast—Present Perfect and Present Perfect Progressive
Style: Sentence Variety
 
10   FINDING A SPOUSE
  Theme: Marriage
Reading One: Finding a Spouse
Reading Two: What's Wrong with Tradition?
Grammar: Articles—Definite and Indefinite
Style: Using Related Word Forms for Cohesions
 
Grammar Book References