"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: SOCIOLOGY
Q: Are first impressions accurate?
Note-taking Skill: Using notes to summarize a lecture
Listening 1: The psychology of first impressions
Listening Skill: Making inferences
Listening 2: Book review of Blink by Malcolm Gladwell
Unit Video: Rosemary Haefner on Interview Mistakes
Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes
Grammar: Auxiliary verbs do, be, have
Pronunciation: Contractions with auxiliary verbs
Speaking Skill: Taking conversational turns
Unit Assignment: Give a short talk

Unit 2: NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE
Q: What’s more important: taste or nutrition?
Listening 1: You are what you eat
Listening Skill: Taking notes on causes and effects
Listening 2: Food tasters
Unit Video: Body and Brain Fuel
Vocabulary Skill: Adjective-noun collocations
Grammar: Quantifiers with count/noncount nouns
Pronunciation: Links with /j/ and /w/
Speaking Skill: Giving advice
Unit Assignment: Conduct a class survey

Unit 3: PSYCHOLOGY
Q: Is change good or bad?
Listening 1: Changing expectations
Listening Skill: Listening for time markers
Listening 2: An interview with Barbara Ehrenreich
Unit Video: Recession Gives New Opportunities
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Grammar: Tag questions
Pronunciation: Intonation in tag questions
Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving reasons
Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion

Unit 4: MARKETING
Q: How can advertisers change our behaviour?
Unit Video: Innovative Marketing
Listening 1: Advertising techniques
Listening Skill: Identifying fact and opinion
Listening 2: Advertising ethics and standards
Vocabulary Skill: Context clues to identify meaning
Grammar: Modals expressing attitude
Pronunciation: Intonation in questions
Speaking Skill: Giving and supporting your opinions
Note-talking Skill: Using a mind map to note opinions
Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion

Unit 5: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Q: What risks are good to take?
Note-taking Skill: Separating risks and outcomes using a chart
Listening 1: Write Your Own Success Story
Listening Skill: Identifying amounts; cardinal and ordinal numbers
Listening 2: Science on the Edge
Unit Video: Mt. Nyiragongo
Vocabulary Skill: Word families
Grammar: Past perfect
Pronunciation: Contraction of had...
Speaking Skill: Giving a short presentation
Unit Assignment: Give a short presentation

Unit 6: PHILOSOPHY
Q: Are we responsible for the world we live in?
Unit Video: TOMS Shoes
Listening 1: Corporate social responsibility
Listening Skill: Inferring a speaker's attitude
LIstening 2: Personal responsibility
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives as the objects of verbs
Pronunciation: Stress on important words
Speaking Skill: Leading a group discussion
Note-taking Skill: Building an outline to take notes on a discussion
Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion

Unit 7: ECONOMICS
Q: Can money buy happiness?
Listening 1: Sudden wealth
Listening 2: Happiness breeds success...and money!
Unit Video: Microloans Help Poor
Vocabulary Skill: Idioms
Grammar: Types of sentences
Pronunciation: Intonation in different types of sentences
Speaking Skill: Agreeing and disagreeing
Note-taking Skill: Taking and organizing notes from a discussion
Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion

Unit 8: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Q: What can we learn from success and failure?
Unit Video: Blind Drag Racer Has Message of Positive Thinking
Listening 1: Chasing your Dreams
Listening Skill: Listening for examples
Listening 2: The benefits of Failure
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes
Grammar: Simple past and present perfect
Pronunciation: Varying intonation to maintain interest
Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving clarification
Note-taking Skills: Taking notes with examples
Unit Assignment: Take part in a pair discussion

Intermediate ESL students.