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 LINGUISTICS - How does language affect who we are?

Listening 1: My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey Critical Thinking Strategy: Writing a summary
Listening Skill: Making inferences
Note-taking Skill: Organizing notes in chronological order using a tiimeline
Listening 2: The Story of My Life
Work with the Video: Elderspeak
Vocabulary Skill: Negative prefixes
Grammar: Passive voice
Pronunciation: Emphatic word stress
Speaking Skill: Using figurative language
Unit Assignment: Narrate a personal experience

UNIT 2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - What is the tipping point between work and fun?
Note-taking Skill: Organizing notes in chronological ordre using a timeline
Listening 1: The 21st-Century Workplace Critical Thinking Strategy: Comparing and contrasting
Listening Skill: Listening for examples
Listening 2: The Truth about Living Off the Grid
Vocabulary Skill: Compound words
Grammar: Comparative structures
Pronunciation: Intonation with choices
Speaking Skill: Discussing preferences and alternatives
Unit Assignment: Present the work and fun aspects of an activity

UNIT 3 PSYCHOLOGY - How can the eyes deceive the mind?

Note-taking Skill: Using prior knowledge to prepare and organize notes
Listening 1: Wild Survivors
Listening Skill: Recognizing appositives that explain
Listening 2: Caught Off Guard
Critical Thinking Strategy: Extending ideas
Work with the Video: Test Your Vision
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms and suffixes
Grammar: Relative clauses
Pronunciation: Stress shifts with suffixes
Speaking Skill: Clarifying information
Unit Assignment: Give a group presentation on the uses of visual deception

UNIT 4 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS - How can we achieve global sustainability?
Note-taking Skill: Using a T-chart to take notes on problems and solutions
Listening 1: The Campaign to Humanize the Coffee Trade
Listening Skill: Listening for facts and figures
Listening 2: The UN Global Compact
Work with the Video: Tropical Rainforests
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations
Grammar: Reported speech
Pronunciation: Linking with final consonants
Speaking Skill: Citing Sources
Critical Thinking Strategy: Recognizing bias
Unit Assignment: Report on a global problem

UNIT 5 URBAN PLANNING - What should the modern city look like?

Note-taking Skill: Organizing notes into a formal outline
Listening 1: Urban Settlements and Land Use Models
Listening Skill: Recognizing organizational cues
Listening 2: Creating a More Walkable Calgary
Critical Thinking Strategy: Making predictions
Vocabulary Skill: Words with multiple meanings
Grammar: Conditionals
Pronunciation:Thoughts groups
Speaking Skill: Giving advice
Unit Assignment: Role-play a podcast on life in a city or town

Unit 6 MARKETING - What inspires innovation?
Listening 1: Innovative Ideas in Medicine
Critical Thinking Strategy: Developing and presenting new ideas
Listening Skill: Distinguishing between facts and opinions
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes on process and development
Listening 2: America's Magnet for Innovation and Investments
Work with the Video: Inventionland
Vocabulary Skill: Idioms and informal expressions
Grammar: Noun clauses
Pronunciation: Conditional modals: affirmative and negative
Speaking Skill: Using formal and informal language
Unit Assignment: Market a new idea

UNIT 7 CULTURAL STUDIES - How do people react to change?

Note-taking Skill: Using notes to summarize anecdotal evidence
Listening 1: The Reindeer People
Listening Skill: Recognizing attitudes
Listening 2: Change Is in the Making
Critical Thinking Strategy: Defending ideas
Work with the Video: China's Mass Migration
Vocabulary Skills: Phrasal verbs
Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives
Pronunciation: Consonant variations
Speaking Skill: Paraphrasing
Unit Assignment: Conduct a personal interview

UNIT 8 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES - Where should the world's energy come from?
Note-taking Skill: Organizing notes to prepare for a debate
Listening 1: Energy: What's the Least Worst Option?
Listening Skill: Listening for cause and effect
Listening 2: Tapping the Energy of the Tides
Critical Thinking Strategy: Interpreting information
Vocabulary Skill: Greek and Latin word roots
Grammar: Adverb clauses
Pronunciation: Sentence rhythm
Speaking Skill: Debating opinions
Unit Assignment: Debate the future of energy

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation