"Interactions/Mosaic prepares students for university classes by fully integrating every aspect of student life. Based on 28 years of classroom-tested best practices, the new and revised content, fresh modern look, and new online component make this the perfect series for contemporary classrooms." (Publisher's Website)

CONTENTS:

Chapter 1 - Education and Student Life

Reading Selections:
The Secrets of Success in School
Challenges of the First Year of College

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topics and vocabulary
Identifying the main ideas
Understanding reading structure
Skimming for the topic and main idea

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Organizing information using a T-chart and Venn diagram
Summarizing a paragraph
Finding information about schools online

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from context: punctuation, other sentences, logic
Focusing on the Academic Word List
Recognizing word meanings
Identifying words and phrases that work together

Language Skills:
Understanding pronoun reference
Discussing educational systems in different cultures
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Focusing on question types

Chapter 2 - City Life

Reading Selections:
A City That's Doing Something Right
Sick-Building Syndrome

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Identifying the main idea
Identifying supporting details
Predicting the content of a reading Skimming for the topic and the main idea
Scanning

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Organizing details using a graphic organizer
Making inferences
Summarizing a paragraph
Understanding contrast

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from context: examples, opposites, and connecting words
Understanding the meaning of italics in readings
Focusing on the Academic Word List
Understanding and looking up parts of speech in a dictionary

Language Skills:
Understanding pronoun reference
Interviewing students about city life
Discussing some problems and solutions in big cities
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Getting meaning of vocabulary from context

Chapter 3 - Business and Money

Reading Selections:
Banking on Poor Women
Consumerism and the Human Brain

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Identifying the main idea and details
Understanding conclusions
Skimming for the topic and the main ideas
Paying attention to phrases

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Identifying problems and solutions
Organizing ideas using a Venn diagram
Comparing and contrasting
Making inferences
Understanding irony
Analyzing advertisements
Summarizing a paragraph

Vocabulary Building:
Getting meaning from context (e.g. and i.e.)
Using parts of speech to understand vocabulary
Using suffixes to identify parts of speech
Recognizing synonyms Focusing on the Academic Word List

Language Skills:
Understanding pronoun reference
Discussing social problems and solutions
Analyzing advertisements
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Focusing on implications and inferences

Chapter 4 - Jobs and Professions

Reading Selections:
Changing Career Trends
Looking for Work in the 21st Century

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Identifying cause and effect
Organizing cause and effect using a graphic organizer
Summarizing a paragraph
Understanding proverbs and quotations

Vocabulary Building:
Using the prefix over-
Focusing on the Academic Word List
Understanding adjective and noun phrases
Understanding and creating compound words

Language Skills:
Understanding pronoun reference
Discussing proverbs and quotations
Identifying challenges and changes within today’s work world
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Increasing reading speed: left-to-right eye movement

Chapter 5 - Lifestyles Around the World

Reading Selections:
The Science of Happiness
Happiness and the Home

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Previewing the reading
Identifying the main idea
Identifying acronyms
Getting meaning from context
Marking text when you read

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Interpreting source material from the Internet
Studying for exams: organizing information Understanding italics
Summarizing a paragraph

Vocabulary Building:
Focusing on the Academic Word List
Analyzing prefixes and suffixes
Understanding dictionary entries: words with single and multiple meanings

Language Skills:
Discussing happiness and how it is measured
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Focusing on vocabulary questions

Chapter 6 - Global Connections

Reading Selections:
Globalization and Food
Life in a Fishbowl: Globalization and Reality TV

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Previewing the reading
Identifying main ideas
Skimming for main ideas

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Understanding the literal and figurative meanings of words
Organizing information using an outline
Summarizing in writing
Understanding inferences

Vocabulary Building:
Understanding idioms and figurative language
Focusing on the Academic Word List
Focusing on expressions and idioms
Using participles as adjectives

Language Skills:
Stating and explaining opinions
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Identifying inferences

Chapter 7 - Language and Communication

Reading Selections:
If We Could Talk with Animals...
“Parentese”

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Previewing the reading
Identifying the main ideas
Identifying details
Getting meaning from context
Understanding italics and quotation marks
Skimming for main ideas

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Categorizing
Interpreting a photograph
Identifying details and analyzing material using graphic organizers
Identifying inferences
Distinguishing facts from assumptions
Summarizing a paragraph

Vocabulary Building:
Understanding words with multiple meanings
Focusing on the Academic Word List
Working with prefixes and suffixes
Understanding words in phrases
Making a vocabulary log

Language Skills:
Discussing the nature/nurture question
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Focusing on comprehension questions about details

Chapter 8 - Tastes and Preferences

Reading Selections:
The Silk Road: Art and Archaeology
Fashion: The Art of the Body

Reading Skills and Strategies:

Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Previewing the reading
Getting meaning from context
Recognizing summaries in a reading
Identifying main ideas by analyzing details

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Organizing information using an outline
Identifying and making inferences
Summarizing a paragraph

Vocabulary Building:
Recognizing words with similar meanings
Understanding general and specific words
Understanding connotations
Focusing on the Academic Word List

Language Skills:
Discussing ideas on art and beauty
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Focusing on basic comprehension questions

Chapter 9 - New Frontiers

Reading Selections:
The Human Brain – New Discoveries
Personality: Nature or Nurture?

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Previewing the reading
Identifying the main ideas by analyzing details
Skimming for main ideas

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Analyzing diagrams and photographs
Distinguishing facts from assumptions
Synthesizing and applying information from a reading
Categorizing
Making inferences
Summarizing a paragraph

Vocabulary Building:
Matching words with similar meanings
Putting words into categories
Analyzing word roots and affixes
Focusing on the Academic Word List

Language Skills:
Expressing opinions based on facts
Identifying similarities and differences among family members
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Getting meaning from context

Chapter 10 - Ceremonies

Reading Selections:
Rites of Passage
New Days, New Ways: Changing Rites of Passage

Reading Skills and Strategies:
Previewing the topic and vocabulary
Previewing the reading
Identifying the main ideas and writing summaries of each paragraph in a reading
Understanding chronology: scanning for time words
Understanding symbols

Critical-Thinking Skills:
Making inferences
Comparing and contrasting
Using a graphic organizer to organize and analyze information
Distinguishing facts from opinions
Summarizing a whole reading

Vocabulary Building:
Determining categories
Analyzing word roots and affixes
Focusing on the Academic Word List

Language Skills:
Applying information in the reading to personal situations
Conducting a survey on traditional and non-traditional weddings
Writing a paragraph

Focus on Testing TOEFL iBT: Identifying main idea patterns