React-Interact SITUATIONS for COMMUNICATION THIRD EDITION Donald R. H. Byrd Isis C. ClementeContents To the Teacher To the Student Acknowledgments Photo Credits Section 1: EMOTIONS Unit 1: Feelings 2 Pronunciation: -ed and -ing Adjectives 3 * Opinion Survey: Feelings 5 ® Reading Reaction: An Embarrassing Situation 5 * Written Reaction 6 Unit 2: Picture Gallery 8 Pronunciation: Superlatives 10 * Reading Reaction: Wrap It Up 11 * Opinion Survey: The Role of Art 12 * Written Reaction 13 Unit 3: Love Is Blind 14 Pronunciation: a, of, and to 16 * Opinion Survey: Marriage 17 Reading Reaction: Marriage Customs 17 ¢ Written Reaction 19 Section 2: FANTASY Unit 4: Desert Dilemma 21 Reading Reaction: Dangerous Sports 23. * Opinion Survey: Dangerous Sports 25 * Pronunciation: Syllables and Stress 25 © Written Reaction 26 Unit 5: The Murder of the Earl of Hereford 27 Reading Reaction: What She Did for Love 29 * Opinion Survey: The Upper Class 30 © Pronunciation: Stress in Noun Phrases 31 © Written Reaction 31 Unit 6: The Jewels Are Missing! 33 Reading Reaction: Grandma's Safe 35 * Opinion Survey: What Do You Value? 37. * Pronunciation: Even More on Stress 38 © Written Reaction 38Contents Section 3: WORK Unit 7: Slow Business 40 Reading Reaction: Workers of the World 42 * Pronunciation: Will 43. * Opinion Survey: A Day’s Work 44 © Written Reaction 44 Unit 8: Making a Living 46 Opinion Survey: Job Expectations 48 * Reading Reaction: What Is Sexism? 49 © Pronunciation: Do you 51 * Written Reaction 51 Unit 9: Hot Lines! 52 Opinion Survey: Workers and Management 56 * Reading Reaction: A Working Woman 56 * Pronunciation: Personal Pronouns 58 * Written Reaction 58 Section 4: ENVIRONMENT Unit 10: Progress? 59 Pronunciation: Have to and has to 61 * Opinion Survey: Progress? 62. * Reading Reaction: Is This Progress? 62 * Written Reaction 64 Unit 11: Illegal Alien 66 Reading Reaction: Incident at Midnight 69 * Opinion Survey: UFOs and Aliens 71 * Pronunciation: Acronyms 72 * Written Reaction 73 Unit 12: Energy Crisis 74 Opinion Survey: Energy and the Environment 76 * Reading Reaction: Energy for the Future 77 * Pronunciation: Stress in Superlatives 79 © Written Reaction 79 Section 5: LIFE CHOICES Unit 13: Those Golden Years 80 Opinion Survey: Aging and Retirement 84 * Reading Reaction: The Best Is Yet to Be 84 * Pronunciation: Stress and Intonation in Adjective Phrases 86 * Written Reaction 87 Unit 14: A Home for Little Sarah 8B Reading Reaction: Interracial Adoption 92 * Opinion Survey: Adoption 94 * Pronunciation: Contractions with would 94 * Written Reaction 95 Unit 15: Life 96 Reading Reaction: Dr. Death 98 * Opinion Survey: Life Support 101 * Pronunciation: Contractions with should 101 * Written Reaction 102