Byrd, Donald R. H.

React Interact : Situations for Communication / Donald R.H. Byrd and Isis C. Clemente. - 3rd ed. - White Plains, NY : Longman, 2001. - xiii, 144 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.

Includes the Answer key.

Section 1: EMOTIONS -- UNIT 1 Feelings Pronunciation: -ed and -ing -- Adjectives Opinion -- Survey: Feelings -- Reading Reaction: An Embarrassing Situation -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 2 Picture Gallery -- Pronunciation: Superlatives -- Reading Reaction: Wrap It Up -- Opinion Survey: The Role of Art -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 3 Love is Blind -- Pronunciation: a, of, and to -- Opinion Survey: Marriage -- Reading Reaction: Marriage Customs -- Written Reaction -- Section 2: FANTASY -- UNIT 4 Desert Dilemma -- Reading Reaction: Dangerous Sports -- Opinion Survey: Dangerous Sports -- Pronunciation: Syllables and Stress -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 5 The Murder of the Earl of Hereford -- Reading Reaction: What She Did for Love -- Opinion Survey: The Upper Class -- Pronunciation: Stress in Noun Phrases -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 6 The Jewels Are Missing! Reading Reaction: Grandma's Safe -- Opinion Survey: What Do You Value? -- Pronunciation: Even More on Stress -- Written Reaction -- Section 3: WORK -- UNIT 7 Slow Business Reading Reaction: Workers of the World -- Pronunciation: Will -- Opinion Survey: A Day's Work -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 8 Making a Living Opinion Survey: Job Expectations Reading Reaction: What is Sexism? Pronunciation: Do you Written Reaction -- UNIT 9 Hot Lines! -- Opinion Survey: Workers and Management -- Reading Reaction: A Working Woman -- Pronunciation: Personal Pronouns -- Written Reaction -- Section 4: ENVIRONMENT -- UNIT 10 Progress? -- Pronunciation: Have to and has to -- Opinion Survey: Progress? -- Reading Reaction: Is This Progress? -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 11 Illegal Alien -- Reading Reaction: Incident at Midnight -- Opinion Survey: UFOs and Aliens -- Pronunciation: Acronyms -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 12 Energy Crisis -- Opinion Survey: Energy and Environment -- Reading Reaction: Energy for the Future -- Pronunciation: Stress in Superlatives -- Written Reaction -- Section 5: LIFE CHOICES -- UNIT 13 Those Golden Years -- Opinion Survey: Aging and Retirement -- Reading Reaction: The Best Is Yet to Be -- Pronunciation: Stress and Intonation in Adjective Phrases -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 14 A Home for Little Sarah -- Reading Reaction: Interracial Adoption -- Opinion Survey: Adoption -- Pronunciation: Contractions with would -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 15 Life -- Reading Reaction: Dr. Death -- Opinion Survey: Life Support -- Pronunciation: Contractions with should -- Written Reaction -- Section 6: SOCIAL PROBLEMS -- UNIT 16 After-School Job -- Reading Reaction: My First Job -- Opinion Survey: Education and Teenagers -- Pronunciation: Did you and want you -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 17 Higher Education -- Opinion Survey: Higher Education -- Reading Reaction: "Dear Mama" letter -- Pronunciation: Intonation in if Clauses -- Written Reaction -- UNIT 18 Peer Pressure -- Reading Reaction: Wake Up America! -- Opinion Survey: Gun Control -- Pronunciation: Past Tense -ed -- Written Reaction -- Section 7: RELATIONSHIPS -- UNIT 19 The Breadwinner -- Reading Reaction: The Breadwinner in the Typical American Family -- Opinion Survey: Marriage Responsibilities -- Pronunciation: Possessive's Written Reaction -- UNIT 20 On My Own -- Reading Reaction: What's Wrong with Young People Today? -- Pronunciation: Going to -- Opinion Survey: Young People Today -- Written Reaction -- Answer Key

"Where do students of English meet to react to thought-provoking topics and situations and interact in English by sharing personal opinions, values, and new ideas? In React - Interact, Intermediate and high-intermediate, students can do just that. The Third Edition of this popular topic-based conversation text gives students the opportunity to talk about themselves and their ideas while developing fluency and expanding their personal and cultural awareness." (Book Cover)

0130220574 (pbk) 9780130220578 (pbk)

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English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.
Communication--Problems, exercises, etc.

PE1128 / .B867 2001

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