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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 SOCIOLOGY - 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: A Review of Books about First Impressions
Critical Thinking Strategy: Comparing and contrasting
Work with the Video: 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 - Why do we change the foods we eat?
Listening 1 (Video): A Billion Pounds of Spices
Critical Thinking Strategy: Predicting topics or ideas
Listening Skill: Listening for causes and effects
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes on causes and effects
Listening 2: A World of Food
Vocabulary Skill: Adjective-noun collocations
Grammar: Quantifiers with count and noncount nouns
Pronunciation: Links with /j/ and /w/
Speaking Skill: Giving advice
Unit Assignment: Conduct a class survey

UNIT 3 PSYCHOLOGY - In what ways is change good or bad?
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes about events
Listening 1: Shaped by Change, Promoting Change
Listening Skill: Listening for time markers
Listening 2: An Interview with Barbara Ehrenreich
Critical Thinking Strategy: Summarizing information you hear
Work with the Video: Recession Gives New Opportunities
Vocabulary Skill: Using a word web
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 - How does advertising affect our behavior?
Listening 1: Targeting Children with Advertising
Listening Skill: Identifying fact and opinion
Listening 2: The Influence of Online Ads
Critical Thinking Strategy: Evaluating the truthfulness of claims
Work with the Video: Social Media Marketing
Vocabulary Skill: Using contexts clues to identify meaning
Grammar: Modals expressing attitude
Pronunciation: Intonations in questions
Speaking Skill: Giving and supporting your opinions
Note-taking Skill: Using a mind map to note opinions
Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion

UNIT 5 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - Does taking risks change our lives?
Note-taking Skill: Separating risks and outcomes using a chart
Listening Skill: Listening for different kinds of numbers
Listening 1: A Lifetime of Risks
Critical Thinking Strategy: Evaluate the strength and relevance of evidence
Listening 2: Science on the Edge
Work with the Video: The Voyage of Magellan
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 NEUROLOGY - Will artificial intelligence ever be as smart as humans?
Listening 1: What Kind of "Smart" is AI?

Listening Skill: Inferring a speaker's attitude

Listening 2: Asking the Right Questions about AI

Critical Thinking Strategy: Justifying claims
Work with the Video: Alan Turing
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 - Can money buy happiness? Listening 1: Sudden Wealth
Listening Skill: Listening for signposts
Listening 2: Happiness Breeds Success...and Money!
Critical Thinking Strategy: Choosing between two or more options
Work with the Video: Two Brothers
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 - What can we learn from success and failure?
Listening 1: Learning from Failure
Listening Skill: Listening for examples
Critical Thinking Strategy: Paraphrasing
Listening 2: An Interview with Mohannad Abu-dayyah
Work with the Video: Hurricane Katrina
Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes
Grammar: Simple past and present perfect
Pronunciation: Varying intonation to maintain interest
Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving clarification
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes with examples
Unit Assignment: Take part in a pair discussion

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation

Authors and Consultants

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.