Tanka−Most−Baker: Front Matter Interactions 1: © The McGraw−Hill

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Interactions 1
Listening/Speaking
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Listening/Speaking, 4th
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Interactions 1 Listening/Speaking
Boost your students’ academic success!
Interactions Mosaic, 4th edition is the newly revised five-level, four-skill comprehensive ESL/EFL
series designed to prepare students for academic content. The themes are integrated across proficiency
levels and the levels are articulated across skill strands. The series combines communicative activities
with skill-building exercises to boost students’ academic success.

Interactions Mosaic, 4th edition features

■ updated content
■ five videos of authentic news broadcasts
■ expansion opportunities through the Website
■ new audio programs for the listening/speaking and reading books
■ an appealing fresh design
■ user-friendly instructor’s manuals with placement tests and chapter quizzes

Chapter 6
Cultures of
the World
In This Chapter gives students IN THIS CHAPTER

a preview of the upcoming material. Using Language: Apologizing

Listening: Listening to a Lecture about Customs
Speaking: Talking about Customs
Discussing Cultural Differences

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Did You Know? sparks students’

94 Interactions 1 Listening/Speaking interest and activates their prior knowledge
of the topic.
Did You Know?
■ Originally more than 300 Native American (or American Indian)
languages were spoken in North America. By now most of these
languages have died out. Part 1 Listening to Conversations
■ In some cultures a man may have more than one wife. There are also a
few cultures where a woman may have more than one husband. Examples presents an introductory conversation
are the Nair people of India and in some areas of Tibet.
■ A “taboo” is an action that is strictly forbidden in a certain culture. For and focuses on the rhythm and intonation
example, among Jews and Muslims, it is taboo to eat pork. For Muslims
it is also taboo to drink alcohol. of natural language through stress and
reduction activities.
PART 1 Listening to Conversations
Before You Listen activates students’
Before You Listen prior knowledge through prelistening
questions and a vocabulary preview.

Pairwork encourages peer teaching

and correction.

Chapter 7 Health 121

1 Prelistening Questions. Before you listen, talk about travel with a partner.
1. Which countries have you visited? When? Tell your partner a little about your Listen
traveling experience.
2. How do you feel when you travel to a new place, meet new people, and
3 Listening for Main Ideas.
Barbara is at the university health
experience new customs? Circle the words that describe you. Explain or give service. Listen to her conversation
examples of your feelings. with her doctor. As you listen,
excited careful afraid shy nervous answer these questions.
energetic homesick worried interested curious 1. What is wrong with Barbara?
3. Do you know the expression “When in Rome, do as the Romans do?” Tell 2. What does the doctor tell her
about a time when you followed this advice. to do?

4 Taking Notes on Specific Information. Listen to the conversation again. This

time, take notes in the chart provided.

Barbara’s complaints Doctor’s advice

1. 1.

2. 2.

Listen guides students to listen for both 3. 3.

main ideas and specific information. 4. 4.

5. 5.

6. 6.
Note Taking Strategies, such as writing
key words, categorizing, and outlining, are
After You Listen
taught in Part 2 Recalling Main Ideas. 5 Summarizing Main Ideas. Use past-tense verbs to summarize Barbara’s visit to
the doctor. Include her symptoms and the doctor’s advice.
Example
Barbara went to the doctor because she woke up with a terrible headache.
After You Listen reinforces students’ She told the doctor . . .

understanding of the conversation through 6 Vocabulary Review.

1. Look back at Activity 2. Which symptoms did you have the last time you had
comprehension questions and a vocabulary the flu or a cold?
2. How often do you take pain pills such as aspirin?
review. 3. Some people hate to take medicine of any kind. How about you?

Groupwork maximizes opportunities

for discussion and negotiation.

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Chapter 3 Living to Eat or Eating to Live? 49 Test-taking strategies vital

2 Using Context Clues. You will hear four conversations about eating places.
for success on standardized tests are
1. Listen to each conversation. Then listen to the question. practiced throughout Part 3 Focused
2. Stop the tape after the question and circle the letter of the best answer.
3. In the Clues column, write the words that helped you choose your answer. Listening and Speaking.
4. Start the tape again. Listen to the next part of the conversation to hear the
correct answer.

Answers Clues
1. a. coffee shop
b. cafeteria Using Language practices
c. nice restaurant

2. a. fast-food place
valuable communication tasks and
b. diner
c. expensive restaurant
functions, such as making small talk,
3. a. cafeteria
b. coffeehouse
giving reasons, and expressing
c. fast-food place
opinions. This section includes both
4. a. nice restaurant
b. cafeteria listening and speaking activities.
c. fast-food place

Using Language

Ordering in a Restaurant
In the United States, you can order dinner a la carte, which means you pay
separately for each item. You can order a complete dinner, which includes a main
course (meat or a vegetarian dish), soup or salad, and side dishes (rice, potatoes,
or vegetables) for one price. Drinks and dessert are usually separate.

Here is a list of questions and answers that are frequently used in restaurants.
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Server’s questions Customer’s responses
Are you ready to order? Ordering:
May I take your order? I’ll have (the beans and rice). 2 Role-Play. Dr. Straithead, a psychologist, has many interesting patients. One of
Do you want (an appetizer)? I’d like (a steak). them is Mr. Robert Rich. He comes to Dr. Straithead’s office every Wednesday to talk
Would you like (soup) or (salad)? I’ll try (the egg rolls). about his very unusual problem: he recently became a millionaire. His family is
Do you prefer (french fries) or (a baked potato)? May I please have (a glass of wine)? worried because he is gambling a lot of his money away.
What would you like (to drink)? With a partner, prepare a role-play, taking the roles of Dr. Straithead and Mr.
Asking for information: Rich or one of Dr. Straithead’s other patients:
Do you have (tofu)?
Jessica Bashful, who is very shy at parties and at work
What kind of (salad dressing) do you have?
Patrick D. Playboy, who cannot stay with just one girlfriend
Does that come with (a vegetable)?
Henry Hater, who is jealous of his very successful sister
Cross-Cultural Note Wanda Workhorse, who works 20 hours a day and doesn’t know how to relax
* A “dish” in this context is a serving of cooked food, not a container. A psychologist is an
advisor or a counselor
who helps people with
their personal
problems. People from
some cultures
sometimes think that
only “crazy” people
visit psychologists.
However, in the United
States and Canada,
many people feel
comfortable getting
Role-plays simulate situations that use advice from
professionals who are

a variety of language functions to increase specially trained to

help them.

and enhance students’ fluency. Talk It Over

In small groups, read the following statements about smoking. Then say if you
agree or disagree with each statement, and give reasons for your opinion.

Cross-Cultural Notes give students Some Facts About Smoking

new perspectives on various cultures. ■ Tobacco kills nearly 10,000 people
worldwide every day.
■ There are around 1.1 billion smokers
in the world.
■ Worldwide, about 6 trillion cigarettes
are smoked each day.
■ Globally, approximately 47% of men
Talk It Over provides students with and 12% of women smoke.
■ Tobacco is the cause of about
25 different diseases.
■ Smoking is declining in developed countries,
but it is increasing in developing nations.
By 2020, only 15% of the world’s smokers
will live in developed countries.

authentic speaking opportunities, such Source: Cancer Council, http://www.nswcc.org.au/pages/health/schpubl/smokefacts/facts1.htm

as interviews, surveys, and debates.

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Part 4 Listening and Speaking

190 Interactions 1 Listening/Speaking in the Real World offers a variety
of practical listening and speaking
PART 4 Listening and Speaking
in the Real World activities, including role-plays,
presentations, small-group discussions,
Technology and pairwork.
1 Prelistening Discussion. Before you listen, answer these questions with a partner.
1. Are you good at learning to use new machines?
2. When you buy a new machine or device, do you usually
a. read the instruction manual?
b. ask someone to teach you how to use it?
c. figure out how to use it by yourself?
Real-life listening connects the
3. The following verbs are often used in machine instruction manuals. Learn
their meanings before listening to Activity 2.
classroom to real life through real-world
set = adjust I have to set my alarm clock for 7:00 A.M. situations, understanding of context, and
tomorrow morning.
press = push = hit Press the button on the elevator, please. test-taking opportunities.
enter = input = type Enter your secret password on the computer.
flashing = blinking The light of the police car behind me is flashing. I
have to stop.

2 Following Instructions. Listen to Jennifer explain how to set a VCR clock. Look
at the picture of the VCR panel.
1. Follow the eight steps in Jennifer’s instructions.
2. Write the number of each step over the button that Peter should push. 110 Interactions 1 Listening/Speaking

Video Activities: Chinese New Year

Before You Watch. Discuss these questions in small groups.
1. Have you ever seen a Chinese New Year celebration? Describe this
Video news broadcasts immerse experience.
2. Talk about your New Year celebration last year. Where were you? Who
students in authentic language, complete was with you? How did you celebrate? Was it a happy time for you?

Watch. Write answers to these questions.

with scaffolding and follow-up activities
1. In which season is the Chinese New Year? ___________________________
to reinforce listening and speaking skills. 2. Who is the blond woman? _________________________________________
3. Which Chinese customs did you see in the video? ____________________
_________________________________________________________________
Watch Again.
1. How is the man going to celebrate the Chinese New Year? Place a check
next to the things he says.
_____ eat

Don’t forget to check out the new Interactions Mosaic Website at

www.mhcontemporary.com/interactionsmosaic.

■ Traditional practice and interactive activities

■ Links to student and teacher resources
■ Cultural activities
■ Focus on Testing
■ Activities from the Website are also provided on CD-ROM

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Chapter Listening Skills
1 School Life ■ Listening for main
Around the World ideas
■ Listening for specific
Page 1 information
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context
2 Experiencing ■ Listening for main
Nature ideas
■ Listening for specific
Page 19 information
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context
3 Living to Eat or ■ Listening for main
Eating to Live ideas
■ Listening for specific
Page 37 information
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context
4 In the Community ■ Listening for main
ideas
Page 57 ■ Listening for specific
information
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context
5 Home ■ Listening for main
ideas
Page 75 ■ Listening for specific
information
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context
6 Cultures of ■ Listening for main
the World ideas
■ Listening for specific
Page 93 information
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context
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Listening Tasks Using Language
■ Listening to a speech ■ Introducing yourself
by a school advisor and others
■ Taking notes on main ■ Using body language
ideas
■ Listening to telephone
messages
■ Listening to weather ■ Talking about likes and
forecasts dislikes
■ Taking notes on ■ Talking about abilities
specific information
■ Listening for
temperatures
■ Listening to advice ■ Ordering in a
about losing weight restaurant
■ Taking notes on ■ Refusing food politely
specific information
■ Following recipes
■ Listening to people talk
about shopping habits
■ Following directions ■ Describing locations
■ Getting directions on ■ Asking for and giving
the phone directions
■ Taking notes on ■ Reading a map
specific information
■ Listening to information ■ Making requests
about apartments ■ Answering requests
■ Taking notes on
specific information
■ Listening to moving
instructions
■ Listening to a lecture ■ Apologizing
about customs
■ Taking notes on
specific information
■ Following directions
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Speaking Tasks Vocabulary Pronunciation Video Topics

■ Making telephone ■ School life and ■ The -s ending ■ Exchange Students

reservations education ■ Telephone numbers

■ Storytelling ■ Weather ■ Can vs. can’t ■ Winter Storm

■ Talking about seasons
■ Describing sports
■ Talking about weather

■ Interviewing people ■ Food ■ Teens vs. tens ■ Treat Yourself Well

about food and ■ Count and noncount Campaign
shopping habits nouns
■ Comparing eating
habits
■ Talking about regional
foods

■ Describing your ■ Places in the ■ A Homeless Shelter

neighborhood community
■ Role-playing
community scenarios

■ Asking for information ■ Furniture ■ -ed endings ■ Asthma and Dust Mites
about apartments ■ Moving
■ Interviewing potential
roommates

■ Talking about customs ■ Rites of passage ■ Chinese New Year

■ Discussing cultural
differences
■ Discussing dining
customs

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Chapter Listening Skills Listening Tasks Using Language

7 Health ■ Listening for main ■ Listening to medical ■ Asking for and

ideas advice giving advice
Page 111 ■ Listening for specific ■ Taking notes on phone
information conversations
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context

8 Entertainment ■ Listening for main ■ Listening to a news ■ Expressing opinions,

and the Media ideas report agreeing, and
■ Listening for specific ■ Taking notes on disagreeing
Page 129 information specific information
■ Identifying stressed
words and reductions
■ Getting meaning from
context

9 Social Life ■ Listening for main ■ Taking notes on ■ Giving and accepting
ideas information from compliments
Page 145 ■ Listening for specific recorded phone
information messages
■ Identifying stressed
words
■ Identifying word
families
■ Getting meaning from
context

10 Customs, ■ Listening for main ■ Listening to the history ■ Making invitations

Celebrations, ideas of a holiday ■ Refusing invitations
and Holidays ■ Listening for specific ■ Taking notes on
information specific information
Page 163 ■ Identifying stressed
words
■ Identifying emphasis
■ Getting meaning from
context

11 Science and ■ Listening for main ■ Listening to a speech ■ Giving and

Technology ideas about electric cars understanding
■ Listening for specific ■ Taking notes on main instructions
Page 179 information ideas
■ Identifying stressed ■ Outlining notes
words ■ Following instructions
■ Identifying emphasis about technology
■ Getting meaning from
context

12 The Global ■ Listening for main ■ Listening to a radio ■ Bargaining

Consumer ideas show about buying a
■ Listening for specific used car
Page 193 information ■ Taking notes on main
■ Identifying stressed ideas
words ■ Outlining notes
■ Identifying emphasis
■ Getting meaning from
context

Appendix
Page 209
Tapescript
Page 213

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Speaking Tasks Vocabulary Pronunciation Video Topics

■ Discussing a stress ■ Health and sickness ■ Intonation with tag ■ Marathon Man
questionnaire questions
■ Discussing health
■ Making appointments

■ Discussing ■ News ■ Quiz Shows

advertisements ■ Types of television
■ Reading and shows
discussing a program
guide
■ Describing favorite
movies

■ Discussing ■ Entertainment ■ Intonation with ■ Online Love Story

entertainment exclamations
■ Discussing dating
customs

■ Planning a birthday ■ Holidays ■ Dropping the /h/ sound ■ Puerto Rican Day
party Parade
■ Talking about holidays
■ Discussing wedding
customs

■ Discussing technology ■ Technology ■ The American /t/ ■ Sight for the Blind
in the home

■ Returning items and ■ Shopping ■ Spoiled Kids

getting refunds
■ Inquiring about
advertisements

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