React Interact

This popular topic-based conversation text offers readers the chance to express their ideas, opinions, and values in English, while concurrently expanding their knowledge of grammar and vocabulary. Organized by theme and communicative function, React Interactstimulates conversation and lively classroom discussion with high-interest topics and thought-provoking questions.

To the Teacher

vii

To the Student

xi

Acknowledgments

xiii

Photo Credits

xv

Section 1: EMOTIONS

Feelings

2

(6)

Pronunciation: -ed and -ing Adjectives

3

(2)

Opinion Survey: Feelings

5

(1)

Reading Reaction: An Embarrassing Situation

5

(1)

Written Reaction

6

(2)

Picture Gallery

8

(6)

Pronunciation: Superlatives

10

(1)

Reading Reaction: Wrap It Up

11

(1)

Opinion Survey: The Role of Art

12

(1)

Written Reaction

13

(1)

Love Is Blind

14

(7)

Pronunciation: a, of, and to

16

(1)

Opinion Survey: Marriage

17

(1)

Reading Reaction: Marriage Customs

17

(2)

Written Reaction

19

(2)

Section 2: FANTASY

Desert Dilemma

21

(6)

Reading Reaction: Dangerous Sports

23

(2)

Opinion Survey: Dangerous Sports

25

(1)

Pronunciation: Syllables and Stress

25

(1)

Written Reaction

26

(1)

The Murder of the Earl of Hereford

27

(6)

Reading Reaction: What She Did for Love

29

(1)

Opinion Survey: The Upper Class

30

(1)

Pronunciation: Stress in Noun Phrases

31

(1)

Written Reaction

31

(2)

The Jewels Are Missing!

33

(7)

Reading Reaction: Grandma's Safe

35

(2)

Opinion Survey: What Do You Value?

37

(1)

Pronunciation: Even More on Stress

38

(1)

Written Reaction

38

(2)

Section 3: WORK

Slow Business

40

(6)

Reading Reaction: Workers of the World

42

(1)

Pronunciation: Will

43

(1)

Opinion Survey: A Day's Work

44

(1)

Written Reaction

44

(2)

Making a Living

46

(6)

Opinion Survey: Job Expectations

48

(1)

Reading Reaction: What Is Sexism?

49

(2)

Pronunciation: Do you

51

(1)

Written Reaction

51

(1)

Hot Lines!

52

(7)

Opinion Survey: Workers and Management

56

(1)

Reading Reaction: A Working Woman

56

(2)

Pronunciation: Personal Pronouns

58

(1)

Written Reaction

58

(1)

Section 4: ENVIRONMENT

Progress?

59

(7)

Pronunciation: Have to and has to

61

(1)

Opinion Survey: Progress?

62

(1)

Reading Reaction: Is This Progress?

62

(2)

Written Reaction

64

(2)

Illegal Alien

66

(8)

Reading Reaction: Incident at Midnight

69

(2)

Opinion Survey: UFOs and Aliens

71

(1)

Pronunciation: Acronyms

72

(1)

Written Reaction

73

(1)

Energy Crisis

74

(6)

Opinion Survey: Energy and the Environment

76

(1)

Reading Reaction: Energy for the Future

77

(2)

Pronunciation: Stress in Superlatives

79

(1)

Written Reaction

79

(1)

Section 5: LIFE CHOICES

Those Golden Years

80

(8)

Opinion Survey: Aging and Retirement

84

(1)

Reading Reaction: The Best Is Yet to Be

84

(2)

Pronunciation: Stress and Intronation in Adjective Phrases

86

(1)

Written Reaction

87

(1)

A Home for Little Sarah

88

(8)

Reading Reaction: Interracial Adoption

92

(2)

Opinion Survey: Adoption

94

(1)

Pronunciation: Contractions with would

94

(1)

Written Reaction

95

(1)

Life

96

(7)

Reading Reaction: Dr. Death

98

(3)

Opinion Survey: Life Support

101

(1)

Pronunciation: Contractions with should

101

(1)

Written Reaction

102

(1)

Section 6: SOCIAL PROBLEMS

After-School Job

103

(7)

Reading Reaction: My First Job

105

(2)

Opinion Survey: Education and Teenagers

107

(1)

Pronunciation: Did you and want you

108

(1)

Written Reaction

109

(1)

Higher Education

110

(7)

Opinion Survey: Higher Education

112

(1)

Reading Reaction: ``Dear Mama'' letter

113

(2)

Pronunciation: Intonation in if Clauses

115

(1)

Written Reaction

115

(2)

Peer Pressure

117

(6)

Reading Reaction: Wake Up America!

119

(2)

Opinion Survey: Gun Control

121

(1)

Pronunciation: Past Tense -ed

121

(1)

Written Reaction

122

(1)

Section 7: RELATIONSHIPS

The Breadwinner

123

(7)

Reading Reaction: The Breadwinner in the Typical American Family

125

(3)

Opinion Survey: Marriage Responsibilities

128

(1)

Pronunication: Possessive's

128

(1)

Written Reaction

129

(1)

On My Own

130

(7)

Reading Reaction: What's Wrong with Young People Today?

132

(1)

Pronunciation: Going to

133

(1)

Opinion Survey: Young People Today

134

(1)

Written Reaction

134

(3)

Answer Key

137

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