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"With iQ online: integrated digital content".

"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.
Bloom's Taxonomy: Blue activity headings integrate verbs from Bloom's Taxonomy to help you see how each activity develops critical thinking skills.

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 BUSINESS - What makes a good leader?
Note-taking Skill: Using a chart to organize notes about main ideas
Listening 1: Leadership Isn't Just for the Boss
Listening Skill: Listening for main ideas
Listening 2: Myths of Effective Leadership
Work with the Video: A Business Decision
Vocabulary Skill: Understanding meaning from context
Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives
Pronunciation: Syllable Stress
Critical Thinking Strategy: Summarizing
Speaking Skill: Checking for understanding
Unit Assignment: Give a presentation on how to be an effective leader

UNIT 2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - How does appearance affect our success?
Listening 1: A Perfect Mess
Listening Skill: Identifying details
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes to compare and contrast
Listening 2: Color Schemes: How Colors Make You Buy
Work with the Video: Benefits of Being Messy
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary: words with multiple definitions
Grammar: Subjunctive for suggestions
Pronunciation: Unstressed syllables
Critical Thinking Strategy: Restating information
Speaking Skill: Confirming understanding
Unit Assignment: Role-play a conversation

UNIT 3 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY - What skills make someone an adult?
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes using key words and phrases
Listening 1 (Video): "Adulting" School
Listening Skill: Making predictions
Critical Thinking Strategy: Assessing predictions
Listening 2: Financial Literacy Among Young People
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary: words with similar meanings
Grammar: Phrasal Verbs
Pronunciation: Sentence stress
Speaking Skill: Giving a presentation
Unit Assignment: Give a presentation to a group

UNIT 4 SCIENCE - How do the laws of science affect our lives?
Note-taking Skill: Using a split page
Listening 1: Gravity at Work
Listening Skill: Making inferences
Listening 2 (Video): Moore's Law
Vocabulary Skill: Word forms
Critical Thinking Strategy: Distinguishing between similar words
Grammar: Present perfect and present perfect continuous
Pronunciation: Basic intonation patterns
Speaking Skill: Avoiding answering questions
Unit Assignment: Present a business plan

UNIT 5 NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE - How has science changed the food we eat?
Note-taking Skill: Editing notes after a lecture
Listening 1 (Video): Improving Farming with Flying Robots
Listening Skill: Understanding bias in a presentation
Listening 2: The Science Behind Food Cravings
Critical Thinking Strategy: Evaluating information
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and suffixes
Grammar: Comparative forms of adjectives and adverbs
Pronunciation: Common intonation patterns
Speaking Skill: Expressing interest during a conversation
Unit Assignment: Take part in a debate

UNIT 6 EDUCATION - Is one road to success better than another?
Note-taking Skill: Comparing and contrasting multiple topics
Listening 1 (Video): Failure and Success in Startups
Listening Skill: Listening for contrasting ideas
Listening 2: Interns in New York
Critical Thinking Strategy: Ranking options
Vocabulary Skill: Using a dictionary: formal and informal words
Grammar: Simple, compound, and complex sentences
Pronunciation: Highlighted words
Speaking Skill: Changing the topic
Unit Assignment: Reach a group decision

UNIT 7 ANTHROPOLOGY - How can accidental discoveries affect our lives? Listening 1: The Power of Serendipity
Listening Skill: Listening for signal words and phrases
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes on details
Listening 2: Against All Odds, Twin Girls Reunited Work with the Video: Phineas Cage
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with prepositions
Grammar: Indirect speech
Pronunciation: Linked words and vowels
Speaking Skill: Using questions to maintain listener interest
Critical Thinking Strategy: Combining ideas
Unit Assignment: Tell a story

UNIT 8 ENGINEERING - What are the consequences of progress?
Listening 1: Automation and Us
Listening Skill: Listening for causes and effects
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes on causes and effects
Listening 2: Driverless Cars
Critical Thinking Strategy: Making appraisals
Work with the Video: Driverless Trucks
Vocabulary Skill: Idioms
Grammar: Real conditionals
Pronunciation: Thought groups
Speaking Skill: Adding to another speaker's comments
Unit Assignment: Share opinions about the consequences of progress

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation

This series that helps students to think critically and succeed academically. With new note-taking skills, an extended writing syllabus and authentic video in every unit, this book equips students for academic success better than ever. This book helps students to measure their progress, with clearly stated unit objectives that motivate students to achieve their language learning goals. Seamlessly integrated online content allows teachers to truly implement blended learning into the classroom.