"With new note-taking skills, an extended writing syllabus and authentic video in every unit, Q Second Edition equips students for academic success better than ever.

Q Second Edition helps students to measure their progress, with clearly stated unit objectives that motivate students to achieve their language learning goals.

And the online content, seamlessly integrated into the Student Book, allows teachers to truly implement blended learning into the classroom." (Publisher's Website)

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Unit 1: MARKETING
Q: Why does something become popular?
Unit Video: Colors in Business
Reading 1: Unusual Ideas to Make a Buzz
Reading Skill: Identifying the main idea of a paragraph
Reading 2: How do you decide?
Vocabulary Skill: Word families
Writing Skill: Writing a descriptive paragraph
Grammar: Present continuous
Unit Assignment: Write a descriptive paragraph

Unit 2: PSYCHOLOGY
Q: How do colors affect the way we feel?
Reading 1: How colors make us think and fell
Reading Skill: Getting meaning from context
Reading 2: The importance of color in business
Unit Video: Pantone Color Company
Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes
Writing Skill: Brainstorming
Grammar: Future with will
Unit Assignment: Write a proposal for business

Unit 3: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
Q: What does it mean to be polite?
Reading 1: Being polite from culture to culture
Reading Skill: Identifying supporting details
Reading 2: Answers to all your travel questions
Unit Video: Cell Phone Politeness in Japan
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes
Writing Skill: Supporting your main idea with examples
Grammar: Subject-verb agreement
Unit Assignment: Write a paragraph with supporting examples

Unit 4: SOCIOLOGY
Q: What makes a competition unfair?
Reading 1: Money and sports

Reading Skill: Taking notes
Reading 2: The fastest man on no legs
Unit Video: Under Armour Speed Skating Uniforms
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Writing Skill: Writing an opinion paragraph
Grammar: Modals
Unit Assignment: Write an opinion paragraph

Unit 5: BUSINESS
Q: What makes a family business successful
Unit Video: Zippers
Reading 1: Family unity builds success
Reading Skill: Skimming
Reading 2: The challenge of running a family business
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Writing Skill: Unity in a paragraph
Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives
Unit Assignment: Write a plan for a family business

Unit 6: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Q: Do you prefer to get help from a person or machine?
Unit Video: Robot Waiters
Reading 1: Memo to restaurant servers
Reading Skill: Identifying the author's purpose
Reading 2: I hate machines!
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Writing Skill: Describing a process
Grammar: Infinitives of purpose
Unit Assignment: Write a paragraph describing a process

Unit 7: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Q: Is it better to save what you have or buy new things?
Reading 1: Think before you toss
Reading Skill: Identifying fact and opinion
Reading 2: In praise of a throwaway society
Unit Video: One Man's Thrash, Another's Treasure
Vocabulary Skill: Phrasal Verbs
Writing Skill: Using sentence variety
Grammar: Simple past and past continuous
Unit Assignment: Write an opinion paragraph

Unit 8: PUBLIC HEALTH
Q: How can we prevent diseases?
Reading 1: Flu FAQ
Reading Skill: Synthesizing information
Reading 2: Watching Over the Health of Millions
Unit Video: Avian Bird Flu Fears
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations
Writing Skill: Writing an explanatory paragraph
Grammar: Adverbs of manner and degree
Unit Assignment: Create an FAQ page

High-Beginner to Low-Intermediate (A2-B1) ESL students.