"Interactions/Mosaic, 6th edition prepares students for college life through intensive skill development, extensive vocabulary work, and modern content.

Interactions Level 1 Reading Student Book, 6th edition includes 10 chapters (3 brand new for this edition) and teaches the skills and vocabulary that students need for success in university courses." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1 - Academic Life Around the World

Reading Selections:
The Higher Learning of Community Living
Reasons Not to Live in Shared Housing Situations

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Recognizing the topic, main idea, and supporting details in a paragraph
Understanding reasons why not, or negative advice
Recognizing reading structure in a textbook
Getting meanings from context: definitions and italics

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Synthesizing and discussing ideas from a reading
Summarizing a reading
Predicting the content of a reading
Analyzing Internet information on campus community living situations

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from context
Identifying words with the same or similar meanings
Focusing on high-frequency words

Language Skills: Stating preferences and identifying reasons for preferences

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Summarizing

Chapter 2 - Experiencing Nature

Reading Selections:
The Powerful Influence of Weather
Global Climate Changes

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Identifying cause and effect
Recognizing reading structure: titles and paragraph topics
Identifying main ideas
Recognizing supporting details

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Distinguishing between beliefs and scientific facts
Summarizing information in a paragraph
Synthesizing and discussing ideas from the reading

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from contexts, from parentheses, and words with similar meanings
Recognizing words with the same or similar meanings
Matching vocabulary items with examples

Language Skills:
Understanding weather reports; comparing weather conditions
Stating and explaining opinions

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Finding main ideas and vocabulary clusters

Chapter 3 - Living to Eat, or Eating to Live?

Reading Selections:
Global Diet Choices
Facts About Food

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Recognizing reading structure: main-idea questions for paragraph topics
Recognizing one- or two-sentence statements of the main idea
Recognizing topics and main ideas
Recognizing supporting details
Matching paragraph titles with topics

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Evaluating and comparing advice and opinions about food
Choosing titles and recognizing topic sentences
Summarizing paragraphs

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from context: italics and punctuation clues
Recognizing vocabulary categories

Language Skills:
Making diet choices based on personal preferences and culture
Finding and following recipes

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Understanding schematic tables

Chapter 4 - In the Community

Reading Selections:
What Makes A (Virtual) Community?
Communities in Real-Life Locations

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Identifying paragraph and whole reading topics
Identifying main ideas by asking questions
Using punctuation to recognize supporting details
Skimming for topics and main ideas

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Paraphrasing information
Making connections using virtual meeting places

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from context: finding illustrations of words
Recognizing words with similar meanings and meaning categories
Recognizing nouns and verbs
Finding definitions of vocabulary items

Language Skills: Understanding the organization of real-life communities and locations

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Answering negative fact questions

Chapter 5 - Home

Reading Selections:
At Home in World History
A Short History of…

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Recognizing topics and main ideas in readings about history
Using a timeline to take notes on time and time order
Skimming to find time and place in history

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Summarizing historical information and ideas
Researching and evaluating historical information online

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from context: punctuation and phrase clues
Recognizing words with similar and opposite meanings
Recognizing nouns and adjectives

Language Skills: Researching and discussing family housing in different cultures

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Understanding definitions and explanations

Chapter 6 - Cultures of the World

Reading Selections:
Cross-Cultural Conversation
Clues to World Cultures

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Understanding reading structure: conversation in paragraph form
Recognizing important details: opinions
Understanding anecdotes

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Interpreting and discussing anecdotes
Summarizing an anecdote

Vocabulary Building:
Understanding new vocabulary in context
Recognizing nouns, verbs, and adjectives
Understanding adverbs of manner

Language Skills:
Recognizing and discussing cultural attitudes and customs
Researching and reporting on unfamiliar cultures

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Practicing vocabulary questions

Chapter 7 – Health

Reading Selections:
The Secrets of a Very Long Life
Claims to Amazing Health

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Recognizing reading structure using a mind map
Understanding the main idea
Understanding facts and opinions Recognizing details after punctuation, numbers, and connecting words

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Choosing information to complete a mind map
Summarizing using a mind map

Vocabulary Building:
Figuring out new or difficult vocabulary
Identifying synonyms
Identifying parts of speech from suffixes
Choosing word forms with suffixes

Language Skills:
Giving advice about health
Evaluating and agreeing or disagreeing with health tips

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Practicing for timed reactions

Chapter 8 - Entertainment and the Media

Reading Selections:
How the Visual Media Affect People
Stories from the Screen

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Recognizing reading structure: using an outline
Understanding the point and recognizing supporting details
Classifying stories and putting their events in order

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Completing an outline with reading material
Evaluating the advantages and disadvantages of the media
Classifying different types of stories
Summarizing a story

Vocabulary Building:
Understanding suffixes (nouns, adverbs, adjectives)
Understanding word families

Language Skills:
Retelling a story plot
Discussing and justifying media choices
Persuading others to watch a particular show

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Focusing on comparison and contrast

Chapter 9 - Social Life

Reading Selections:
Meeting the Perfect Mate: Part 1
Meeting the Perfect Mate: Part 2

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Recognizing the structure of written conversations
Understanding left-out words and references
Reading for literal meaning and inferences

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Summarizing stories by identifying pros and cons
Interpreting proverbs

Vocabulary Building:
Understanding negative prefixes
Figuring out vocabulary from prefixes and suffixes
Recognizing words with similar meanings

Language Skills:
Discussing and comparing proverbs
Researching poems, quotes, and proverbs

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Understanding inferences and points of view in readings

Chapter 10 - Sports

Reading Selections:
The Ancient vs. the Modern Olympics
Issues in Competitive Sports in the World Today

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Recognizing reading structure: similarities and differences
Organizing supporting details using a Venn diagram

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Comparing and contrasting the ancient and modern Olympics
Classifying supporting details
Recognizing point of view
Distinguishing opinion from fact Summarizing opinions

Vocabulary Building:
Understanding and working with prefixes, stems, and suffixes
Identifying antonyms

Language Skills:
Researching and supporting points of view on competitive sports
Convincing others to understand a point of view

Focus on Testing (TOEFL*iBT): Taking notes and recognizing contrasts in reading passages