Interactions Access: A Listening/Speaking Book

This is a beginning-level listening and speaking book designed to precede Interactions I. It follows the same philosophy and approach of the other listening and speaking books in the Interactions/Mosaic program. This book uses lively, natural language from a variety of contexts. Listening materials include formal and informal conversations, interviews, lectures, announcements, and recorded messages. Speaking activities include role-play, small-group activities and classroom discussions. Listening strategies include making predictions, taking notes, drawing inferences, and listening for stressed words, reductions and intonation. A cassette tape program with an instructor's key is also available.