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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 are employers looking for?
Note-taking Skill: Writing key words and main ideas
Listening 1: Looking for a Job Critical Thinking Strategy: Comparing and contrasting
Listening Skill: Listening for key words and phrases Listening 2: The Right Skills for the Job
Work with the Video: A Career Counselor
Vocabulary Skill: Distinguishing between words with similar meanings
Grammar: Simple present and simple past
Pronunciation: Simple past -ed
Speaking Skill: Asking for repetition and clarification
Unit Assignment: Role-play a job interview

UNIT 2 COGNITIVE SCIENCE - Can we change our brains?
Note-taking Skill: Taking notes in a T-chart
Listening 1: Training the brain
Listening Skill: Listening for main ideas and details
Listening 2: Brain Food
Critical Thinking Strategy: Providing support for a suggestion
Work with the Video: How babies' brains develop
Vocabulary Skill: Words in context Grammar: Should and shouldn't; it's + adjective + infinitive
Pronunciation: The schwa /ə/ sound Speaking Skill: Presenting information from notes
Unit Assignment: Give a presentation

UNIT 3 SOCIOLOGY - What is the best kind of vacation?
Note-taking Skill: Marking important information from notes
Critical Thinking Strategy: Deciding what's important
Listening 1: Places in danger
Listening Skill: Understanding numbers and dates
Listening 2: A Helpful Vacation
Work with the Video: Tourism in Hawaii
Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes -ful and -ing
Grammar: Be going to
Pronunciation: Reduction of be going to
Speaking Skill: Introducing topics in a presentation
Unit Assignment: Plan and present a travel tour

UNIT 4 PHYSIOLOGY - Does body language tell the truth?
Listening 1 (Video): What's behind a face?
Listening Skill: Listening for specific information
Note-taking Skill: Making notes using a word web

Critical Thinking Strategy: Interpreting
Listening 2: A Helpful Vacation
Vocabulary Skill: Synonyms
Grammar: Simple present for informal narratives
Pronunciation: Simple present third-person -s/-es
Speaking Skill: Using eye contact, facial expressions, and body language
Unit Assignment: Tell a personal story or describe a scene

UNIT 5 PSYCHOLOGY - Why do we enjoy sports?
Note-taking Skill: Using numbered lists to organize information
Listening 1 (Video): Sports and Technology
Listening Skill: Listening for signal words and phrases
Listening 2: Sports in Our Lives
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Grammar: Gerunds as subjects or objects
Pronunciation: Intonation in questions
Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving opinions
Critical Thinking Strategy: Ranking
Unit Assignment: Interview a group about sports preferences

UNIT 6 MARKETING - How do we make decisions?
Note-taking Skill: Using abbreviations and symbols
Listening 1: Marketing Strategy
Critical Thinking Strategy: Making judgments
Listening Skill: Making inferences
Listening 2: The Power of a Crowd
Work with the Video: Decision Theory
Vocabulary Skill: Percentages and fractions
Grammar: Conjunctions and and but
Pronunciation: Linking consonants to vowels
Speaking Skill: Sourcing information
Unit Assignment: Report on a class survey

UNIT 7 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - Can young people change the world? Listening 1: Looking for Leaders
Critical Thinking Strategy: Generating ideas
Listening Skill: Listening for different opinions
Listening 2: Tips from a Life Coach
Work with the Video: Global Children's Climate Competition
Vocabulary Skill: Verb-noun collocations
Grammar: Imperative of be + adjective
Pronunciation: Content word stress in sentences
Note-taking Skill: Using an outline
Speaking Skill: Checking for listeners' understanding
Unit Assignment: Give instructions

UNIT 8 PSYCHOLOGY - When is it good to be afraid?
Note-taking Skill: Using the Cornell method for taking notes
Listening 1: The Science of Fear
Listening Skill: Listening for examples
Listening 2: What Are You Afraid Of?
Critical Thinking Strategy: Organizing ideas in a chart
Work with the Video: Feeling Fear
Vocabulary Skill: Idioms and expressions
Grammar: So and such with adjectives
Pronunciation: Linking vowels sounds with /w/ or /y/
Speaking Skill: Expressing emotion
Unit Assignment: Tell a personal story

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation Author 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.