"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

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Getting meaning from intonation
Recognizing compass directions
Understanding expressions and statements of location
Using the prepositions in, on, and at in addresses and locations

Speaking:
Asking for clarification
Discussing personal views on academic honesty and cheating in the U.S.
Talking about academic honesty in different countries’ education systems
Using expressions of location
Describing map locations

Critical Thinking Skills:
Interpreting a photo
Using a lecture introduction to predict content
Taking effective lecture notes using indentation, keywords, and abbreviations and symbols
Using a Venn diagram to compare and contrast
Getting meaning from context

Vocabulary Building:
Terms for academic life
Terms for writing papers and academic honesty
Expressions for making, accepting, and refusing invitations
Compass directions
Expressions of location
In, on, and at in addresses and locations

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Identifying and practicing reduced pronunciation

Language Skills: Using context clues to guess information from conversations

CHAPTER 2: City Life

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Making inferences
Listening for clues to relationships between people
Following directions

Speaking:
Using the phrase by the way
Opening and closing phone conversations
Talking about crime
Expressing frustration Learning names of professions
Requesting and giving directions
Saying you don’t understand

Critical Thinking Skills:
Predicting questions speakers will ask
Getting meaning from context
Speculating about hypothetical situations
Taking notes on statistics
Using transitions as cues for note-taking
Taking notes on an informal talk

Vocabulary Building:
Expressions for opening and closing conversations
Terms for expressing frustration
Expressions for requesting and giving directions
Names of professions
Terms for expressing lack of understanding
Using the phrase "by the way"

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Identifying and practicing reduced pronunciation

Language Skills: Using context clues to identify a speaker

CHAPTER 3: Business and Money

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Making inferences
Distinguishing between can and can’t
Distinguishing between teens and tens
Recognizing expressions of advice

Speaking:
Talking about managing money
Talking about entrepreneurs
Talking about abilities
Using the words borrow and lend
Asking for, giving, and refusing advice

Critical Thinking Skills:
Outlining a lecture
Getting meaning from context
Taking notes on a process

Vocabulary Building:
Terms for talking about money
Borrow vs. lend
Expressions for asking for, giving, accepting, and rejecting advice
Terms for talking about entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial process
Terms related to banking

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Identifying and practicing reduced pronunciation
Pronouncing can and can’t
Pronouncing teens and tens

Language Skills: Using context clues to identify banking services

CHAPTER 4: Jobs and Professions

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Making inferences
Recognizing the intonation of tag questions
Recognizing a sequence of events
Taking notes on causes and effects Creating abbreviations
Taking notes on statistics

Speaking:
Talking about jobs and careers
Apologizing and reconciling
Role-playing a job interview
Learning idioms related to housework
Talking about “men's” and “women's” jobs
Interviewing a person about his/her job
Giving a short oral report

Critical Thinking Skills:
Interpreting information in a table
Getting meaning from context
Speculating about hypothetical situations
Taking notes on a lecture
Predicting the order of a set of pictures
Using a matrix diagram to organize ideas

Vocabulary Building:
Terms related to jobs and careers
Expressions for apologizing and reconciling
Idioms related to housework
Terms signaling cause and effect

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Identifying and practicing reduced pronunciation
Asking and answering negative tag questions

Language Skills: Using context clues to guess people’s jobs

CHAPTER 5: Lifestyles Around the World

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Making inferences
Recognizing stress in two- and three-word verbs

Speaking:
Talking about single parents
Talking about changes in the American family
Asking for help and favors
Talking about numbers and percentages
Comparing lifestyles in different countries

Critical Thinking Skills:
Interpreting information in a line graph
Taking notes on a lecture
Getting meaning from context

Vocabulary building:
Two- and three-word verbs used in a conversation between neighbors
Expressions used to ask for help or a favor
Terms used to talk about changes in the American family
Expressions used to signal examples
Terms used for discussing lifestyles

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Identifying and practicing the dropped h in unstressed words
Pronouncing linked phrases

Language skills: Using context clues to guess people's lifestyles

CHAPTER 6: Global Connections

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Taking notes on similarities and differences
Identifying blended consonants
Listening to a phone survey

Speaking:
Talking about taking courses online
Asking for help and permission, and information questions
Interrupting politely
Talking about body language customs in different cultures
Discussing pros and cons in different situations
Talking about different ways to travel
Conducting a phone survey

Critical Thinking Skills:
Interpreting body language in photos
Taking effective notes on a lecture to put into an outline
Getting meaning from context
Using a chart to conduct a phone survey with your classmates

Vocabulary Building:
Expressions for interrupting
Expressions signalling similarity and difference
Expressions used in phone surveys

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Identifying intonation patterns
Pronouncing names and sentences with blended consonants

Language Skills: Using context clues to guess about ways to travel

CHAPTER 7: Language and Communication

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Making inferences
Understanding statements with rising intonation
Identifying correct spellings in a spelling bee

Speaking:
Discussing the meaning of friendship
Comparing American and British English
Contradicting politely
Talking about stereotypes
Using interjections
Using expressions for guessing

Critical Thinking Skills:
Getting meaning from context
Taking notes on classifications

Vocabulary Building:
Terms used to talk about friendship vs. friendliness
Terms used for talking about languages and dialects
Examples of vocabulary differences between American and British English
Interjections
Expressions for guessing
Slang expressions

Pronunciation: Identifying and practicing stressed words

Language Skills: Using context clues to guess about language and communication

CHAPTER 8: Tastes and Preferences

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Making inferences
Understanding reduced questions
Distinguishing between present and past yes/no questions
Understanding comparisons of people
Recognizing paraphrases

Speaking:
Talking about likes and dislikes
Giving an impromptu speech
Comparing the characteristics of generations
Talking about fabs
Expressing approval and disapproval
Describing your ideal partner

Critical Thinking Skills:
Getting meaning from context
Speculating about hypothetical situations
Evaluating people's positive and negative qualities
Interpreting the language of personal ads
Taking notes in columns
Predicting note organization

Vocabulary Building:
Expressions for likes and dislikes
Expressions of approval and disapproval
Terms signaling paraphrases
Ways to say that something is popular

Pronunciation: Identifying and practicing stressed words

Language Skills:
Using context clues to identify people's tastes and preferences
Using intonation to identify feelings

CHAPTER 9: New Frontiers

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Recognizing persuasive language
Distinguishing between -ed endings
Following a journey on a map

Speaking:
Talking about "smart houses"
Introducing surprising information
Giving a persuasive speech
Talking about new inventions and technological trends
Expressing interest or surprise
Talking about personal discoveries

Critical Thinking Skills:
Getting meaning from context
Taking notes and outlining based on a lecture
Recognizing signposts in a speech or lecture

Vocabulary Building:
Terms for talking about home efficiency
Terms for technological advancements
Expressions for persuasive language
Terms for talking about voyages and discoveries
Expressions that signal surprise

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Pronouncing the th sound
Pronouncing -ed endings

Language Skills: Recognizing signal words to guess the correct answer

CHAPTER 10: Ceremonies

Listening:
Listening for main ideas and details
Making inferences
Recognizing the meaning of affirmative tag questions
Taking notes on wedding preferences

Speaking:
Using expressions to offer, accept, or decline help
Talking about water in ceremonies around the world
Asking and answering affirmative tag questions
Offering congratulations and sympathy

Critical Thinking Skills:
Getting meaning from context
Recognizing digressions in a lecture
Comparing celebrations across cultures

Vocabulary Building:
Expressions to offer, accept, or decline help
Terms to express congratulations and sympathy
Expressions signaling digressions in a lecture
Terms related to ceremonies

Pronunciation:
Identifying and practicing stressed words
Using correct stress in compound phrases

Language Skills: Using context clues to identify ceremonies