Bixby, Jennifer
Q : Skills for Success Intro : Reading and Writing (3rd ed.) / Reading and writing. Intro. Jennifer Bixby and Joe McVeigh. - 3rd ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. - xi, 166 p. : ill. (colour), maps (colour) ; 26 cm. - Q : Skills for Success .
Cover title.
Critical Thinking: The unique central approach of the Q: Skills for Success series has been further enhanced in the Third Edition. New features help you analyze, synthesize, and develop your ideas.
Unit question: The thought-provoking unit questions engage you with the topic and provide a critical thinking framework for the unit.
Critical Thinking Strategy with video: Each unit includes a Critical Thinking Strategy with activities to give you step-by-step guidance in critical analysis of texts. An accompanying instructional video [...] provides extra support and examples.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Blue activity headings integrate verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy to help you see how each activity develops critical thinking skills.
Analysis: You can discuss your opinion of each listening text and analyze how it changes your perspective on the unit question. Three types of Video:
Unit Video: The unit videos include high-interest documentaries and reports on a wide variety of subjects, all linked to the unit topic and question. "Work with Video" pages guide you in watching, understanding, and discussing the unit videos. The activities help you see the connection to the Unit Question and the other texts in the unit. In some units, one of the main listening texts is a video.
Critical Thinking Video: Narrated by the Q series authors, these short videos give you further instruction on the Critical Thinking Strategy of each unit using engaging images and graphics. You can use them to gain a deeper understanding of the Critical Thinking Strategy.
Skills Video: These instructional videos provide illustrated explanations of skills and grammar points in the Student Book. They can be viewed in class or assigned for a flipped classroom, for homework, or for review. One skill video is available for every unit. Vocabulary: A research-based vocabulary program focuses on the words you need to know academically and professionally. The vocabulary syllabus in Q: Skills for Success is correlated to the CEFR and linked to two word lists: the Oxford 5000 and the OPAL (Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon)
The Oxford 5000 is an expanded core word list for advanced learners of English. As well as the Oxford 3000 core list, the Oxford 5000 includes an additional 2,000 words, guiding learners at B2-C1 level on the most useful, high-level words to learn.
The OPAL is a collection of four word lists that provide an essential guide to the most important words and phrases to know for academic English. The word lists are based on the Oxford Corpus of Academic English and the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The OPAL includes both spoken and written academic English and both individual words and longer phrases. Academic Language tips in the Student Book give information about how words and phrases from the OPAL are used and offer help with features such as collocations and phrases. Extensive Reading is a program of reading for pleasure at a level that matches your language ability. There are many benefits to Extensive Reading:
It helps you to become a better reader in general; it helps to increase your reading speed; it can improve your reading comprehension; it increases your vocabulary range; it can help you improve your grammar and writing skills; it's great for motivation to read something that is interesting for its own sake. Each unit if Q: Skills for Success Third Edition has been aligned to an Oxford Graded Reader based on the appropriate topic and level of language proficiency. The first chapter of each recommended graded reader can be downloaded from IQ Online Resources." (Introduction, pp. iv-vii) CONTENTS Welcome to Q: Skills for Success Third Edition
What is iQ Online?
UNIT 1 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - What kind of person are you?
Reading: What kind of person are you?
Building Vocabulary: Using descriptive adjectives
Reading Skill: Identifying topics and main ideas
Work with the Video: Twins
Critical Thinking Strategy: Generating ideas with listing
Writing Skill: Writing simple sentences
Grammar: Present of be; Simple present affirmative statements
Unit Assignment: Write sentences to describe yourself
UNIT 2 EDUCATION - Can students learn in different ways?
Reading : Unusual Schools
Building Vocabulary: Recognizing word families
Reading Skill: Scanning for names, dates, and times
Critical Thinking Strategy: Comparing and contrasting
Work with the Video: Millfield School
Writing Skill: Editing for capitalization and punctuation
Grammar: Simple present
Unit Assignment: Give information about a school
UNIT 3 CULTURAL STUDIES - When do we eat special foods?
Reading: Celebrating with Food
Reading Skill Review: Scanning for information
Building Vocabulary: Using the dictionary
Work with the Video: Chinese New Year
Grammar: Adjectives and adverbs
Writing Skill: Writing complete sentences
Unit Assignment: Describe the people, food, and activities at a celebration
Critical Thinking Strategy: Choosing a writing topic
UNIT 4 SOCIOLOGY - How do you have fun?
Reading: No Money? Have Fun Anyway!
Critical Thinking Strategy: Classifying
Building Vocabulary: Using verb + noun collocations
Reading Skill: Underlining and highlighting
Work with the Video: How People Have Fun
Writing Skill: Capitalizing proper nouns
Grammar: Subject and object pronouns
Unit Assignment: Write about how you have fun
UNIT 5 ARCHITECTURE - What is your favorite building?
Reading 1: My Dorm Is Cool
Reading 2: A Green House
Reading Skill Review: Underlining and highlighting
Critical Thinking Strategy: Restarting
Work with the Video: Famous Buildings in Amsterdam
Grammar: Identifying word categories
Writing Skill: Using subject-verb agreement in different sentence types
Unit Assignment: Write about your favorite building
UNIT 6 HEALTH SCIENCES - How can you change an unhealthy habit?
Reading 1: When Does a Change Become a Habit?
Reading Skill:Identifying pronoun references
Reading 2: Dr.Lee on Health
Work with the Video: A Different Kind of Journey
Building Vocabulary: Using collocations
Grammar: Modals ''can'', ''could'', and ''should''
Critical Thinking Strategy: Offering solutions
Writing Skill: Using an editing checklist
Unit Assignment: Write about how to change an unhealthy habit
UNIT 7 GLOBAL STUDIES - Is it easy to live in a different country?
Reading 1: Culture Shock in the City
Reading Skill: Building a reading fluency
Reading 2: Life in a New City
Critical Thinking Strategy: Separating fact and opinion
Work with the Video: A Different Kind of Journey
Building Vocabulary: Identifying word families
Grammar: Past of ''be''; Simple past affirmative statements
Writing Skill: Identifying fragments and complete sentences
Unit Assignment: Write about a new place
UNIT 8 TECHNOLOGY - How can technology help people?
Reading 1: Be My Eyes
Reading Skill Review: Building reading fluency
Critical Thinking Strategy: Summarizing information
Reading 2: An Extraordinary Scientist
Work with the Video: Bringing Light
Building Vocabulary: Using the dictionary
Grammar: Simple past with regular and irregular verbs
Writing Skill: Writing sentences with and
Unit Assignment: Write about how technology helps people
Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation Authors and Consultants
9780194903912 (Student book with online practice) 0194903915 (Student book with online practice)
2015373691
Reading comprehension--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
A1 (CEFR).
Beginner.
PE1128 / .G6525 2015
428.0071
Q : Skills for Success Intro : Reading and Writing (3rd ed.) / Reading and writing. Intro. Jennifer Bixby and Joe McVeigh. - 3rd ed. - New York : Oxford University Press, 2020. - xi, 166 p. : ill. (colour), maps (colour) ; 26 cm. - Q : Skills for Success .
Cover title.
Critical Thinking: The unique central approach of the Q: Skills for Success series has been further enhanced in the Third Edition. New features help you analyze, synthesize, and develop your ideas.
Unit question: The thought-provoking unit questions engage you with the topic and provide a critical thinking framework for the unit.
Critical Thinking Strategy with video: Each unit includes a Critical Thinking Strategy with activities to give you step-by-step guidance in critical analysis of texts. An accompanying instructional video [...] provides extra support and examples.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Blue activity headings integrate verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy to help you see how each activity develops critical thinking skills.
Analysis: You can discuss your opinion of each listening text and analyze how it changes your perspective on the unit question. Three types of Video:
Unit Video: The unit videos include high-interest documentaries and reports on a wide variety of subjects, all linked to the unit topic and question. "Work with Video" pages guide you in watching, understanding, and discussing the unit videos. The activities help you see the connection to the Unit Question and the other texts in the unit. In some units, one of the main listening texts is a video.
Critical Thinking Video: Narrated by the Q series authors, these short videos give you further instruction on the Critical Thinking Strategy of each unit using engaging images and graphics. You can use them to gain a deeper understanding of the Critical Thinking Strategy.
Skills Video: These instructional videos provide illustrated explanations of skills and grammar points in the Student Book. They can be viewed in class or assigned for a flipped classroom, for homework, or for review. One skill video is available for every unit. Vocabulary: A research-based vocabulary program focuses on the words you need to know academically and professionally. The vocabulary syllabus in Q: Skills for Success is correlated to the CEFR and linked to two word lists: the Oxford 5000 and the OPAL (Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon)
The Oxford 5000 is an expanded core word list for advanced learners of English. As well as the Oxford 3000 core list, the Oxford 5000 includes an additional 2,000 words, guiding learners at B2-C1 level on the most useful, high-level words to learn.
The OPAL is a collection of four word lists that provide an essential guide to the most important words and phrases to know for academic English. The word lists are based on the Oxford Corpus of Academic English and the British Academic Spoken English corpus. The OPAL includes both spoken and written academic English and both individual words and longer phrases. Academic Language tips in the Student Book give information about how words and phrases from the OPAL are used and offer help with features such as collocations and phrases. Extensive Reading is a program of reading for pleasure at a level that matches your language ability. There are many benefits to Extensive Reading:
It helps you to become a better reader in general; it helps to increase your reading speed; it can improve your reading comprehension; it increases your vocabulary range; it can help you improve your grammar and writing skills; it's great for motivation to read something that is interesting for its own sake. Each unit if Q: Skills for Success Third Edition has been aligned to an Oxford Graded Reader based on the appropriate topic and level of language proficiency. The first chapter of each recommended graded reader can be downloaded from IQ Online Resources." (Introduction, pp. iv-vii) CONTENTS Welcome to Q: Skills for Success Third Edition
What is iQ Online?
UNIT 1 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - What kind of person are you?
Reading: What kind of person are you?
Building Vocabulary: Using descriptive adjectives
Reading Skill: Identifying topics and main ideas
Work with the Video: Twins
Critical Thinking Strategy: Generating ideas with listing
Writing Skill: Writing simple sentences
Grammar: Present of be; Simple present affirmative statements
Unit Assignment: Write sentences to describe yourself
UNIT 2 EDUCATION - Can students learn in different ways?
Reading : Unusual Schools
Building Vocabulary: Recognizing word families
Reading Skill: Scanning for names, dates, and times
Critical Thinking Strategy: Comparing and contrasting
Work with the Video: Millfield School
Writing Skill: Editing for capitalization and punctuation
Grammar: Simple present
Unit Assignment: Give information about a school
UNIT 3 CULTURAL STUDIES - When do we eat special foods?
Reading: Celebrating with Food
Reading Skill Review: Scanning for information
Building Vocabulary: Using the dictionary
Work with the Video: Chinese New Year
Grammar: Adjectives and adverbs
Writing Skill: Writing complete sentences
Unit Assignment: Describe the people, food, and activities at a celebration
Critical Thinking Strategy: Choosing a writing topic
UNIT 4 SOCIOLOGY - How do you have fun?
Reading: No Money? Have Fun Anyway!
Critical Thinking Strategy: Classifying
Building Vocabulary: Using verb + noun collocations
Reading Skill: Underlining and highlighting
Work with the Video: How People Have Fun
Writing Skill: Capitalizing proper nouns
Grammar: Subject and object pronouns
Unit Assignment: Write about how you have fun
UNIT 5 ARCHITECTURE - What is your favorite building?
Reading 1: My Dorm Is Cool
Reading 2: A Green House
Reading Skill Review: Underlining and highlighting
Critical Thinking Strategy: Restarting
Work with the Video: Famous Buildings in Amsterdam
Grammar: Identifying word categories
Writing Skill: Using subject-verb agreement in different sentence types
Unit Assignment: Write about your favorite building
UNIT 6 HEALTH SCIENCES - How can you change an unhealthy habit?
Reading 1: When Does a Change Become a Habit?
Reading Skill:Identifying pronoun references
Reading 2: Dr.Lee on Health
Work with the Video: A Different Kind of Journey
Building Vocabulary: Using collocations
Grammar: Modals ''can'', ''could'', and ''should''
Critical Thinking Strategy: Offering solutions
Writing Skill: Using an editing checklist
Unit Assignment: Write about how to change an unhealthy habit
UNIT 7 GLOBAL STUDIES - Is it easy to live in a different country?
Reading 1: Culture Shock in the City
Reading Skill: Building a reading fluency
Reading 2: Life in a New City
Critical Thinking Strategy: Separating fact and opinion
Work with the Video: A Different Kind of Journey
Building Vocabulary: Identifying word families
Grammar: Past of ''be''; Simple past affirmative statements
Writing Skill: Identifying fragments and complete sentences
Unit Assignment: Write about a new place
UNIT 8 TECHNOLOGY - How can technology help people?
Reading 1: Be My Eyes
Reading Skill Review: Building reading fluency
Critical Thinking Strategy: Summarizing information
Reading 2: An Extraordinary Scientist
Work with the Video: Bringing Light
Building Vocabulary: Using the dictionary
Grammar: Simple past with regular and irregular verbs
Writing Skill: Writing sentences with and
Unit Assignment: Write about how technology helps people
Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation Authors and Consultants
9780194903912 (Student book with online practice) 0194903915 (Student book with online practice)
2015373691
Reading comprehension--Problems, exercises, etc.
English language--Rhetoric--Problems, exercises, etc.
A1 (CEFR).
Beginner.
PE1128 / .G6525 2015
428.0071