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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 SOCIOLOGY - What makes someone admirable?
Reading 1: We All Need a Role Model
Reading Skill: Previewing and predicting
Reading 2: Everyday Heroes
Work with the Video: Volunteer Hairdresser
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Writing Skill: Organizing and developing an essay
Critical Thinking Strategy: Ordering ideas
Grammar: Restrictive relative clauses
Unit Assignment: Write an analysis essay

UNIT 2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - How do marketers get our attention?
Reading 1: Your Guide to Generation Z


Reading Skill: Highlighting and annotating


Reading 2: This Is Why You're Addicted to Your Phone


Critical Thinking Strategy: Discussing Ideas


Work with the Video: Predictive Advertising


Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with nouns


Writing Skill: Write a descriptive essay



Grammar: Definite and indefinite articles


Unit Assignment: Write a descriptive essay

UNIT 3 DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY - What important lessons do we learn as young people?

Reading 1: The Difference Between Fighting In and Belonging, and Why It Matters


Critical Thinking Strategy: Relating to the reading


Reading Skill: Making inferences


Reading 2: Life Lessons I Learned from My Dad in 23 Years



Work with the Video: Robin Goodman on Children Who Want to Quit


Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes and suffixes


Writing Skill: Writing a narrative essay and varying sentence patterns


Grammar: Past perfect and past perfect continuous


Unit Assignment: Write a narrative essay

UNIT 4 SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY - How can science improve lives?

Reading 1: Five Innovative Technologies That Bring Energies to the Developing World


Critical Thinking Strategy: Categorizing Information


Reading Skill: Understanding comparisons and contrasts


Reading 2: This Device Pulls Water Out of Desert Air


Work with the Video: Inventions to Save the Planet


Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary to distinguish between homonyms


Writing Skill: Writing a compare and contrast essay


Grammar: Subordinators and transitions to compare and contrast

Unit Assignment: Write a compare and contrast essay

UNIT 5 NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE - Should science influence what we eat?
Reading 1: Eating Well: Less Science, More Common Sense


Reading Skill: Recognizing bias


Critical Thinking Strategy: Analyzing texts for cause and effect relationships


Reading 2: A Personalized Nutrition Company Will Use Your DNA to Tell You What to Eat


Work with the Video: Vitamin Deficiencies

Vocabulary Skill: Cause and effect collocations


Writing Skill: Writing a cause and effect essay


Grammar: Agents with the passive voice


Unit Assignment: Write a cause and effect essay

UNIT 6 EDUCATION - Does school prepare you for work?

Reading 1: From Students to Employee: A Difficult Transition


Critical Thinking Strategy: Justifying your opinions


Reading Skill: Using an outline


Reading 2: Making My First Post-College Career Decision


Work with the Video: College Graduate


Vocabulary Skill: Word Forms


Grammar: Reported speech with the present tense and shifting tenses


Writing Skill: Writing a summary


Unit Assignment: Write a summary

UNIT 7 GEOLOGY - Is discovery always a good thing?

Reading 1: Ocean Discoveries


Reading Skill: Recognizing facts and opinions


Reading 2: Alaska's Pebble Mine: Mineral vs. Nature


Work with the Video: The Wind Power Debate


Critical Thinking Strategy: Synthesizing information


Vocabulary Skill: Word roots


Writing Skill: Writing an opinion essay


Grammar: Adverb phrases of reason


Unit Assignment: Write an opinion essay

UNIT 8 ENGINEERING - Can failure lead to success? Reading 1: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse and the Lessons Learned

Critical Thinking Strategy: Hypothesizing

Reading Skill: Identifying counterarguments and refutations

Reading 2: How to Design a Student Project That Benefits the Developing World
Work with the Video: Chernobyl Disaster

Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with prepositions

Writing Skill: Writing a persuasive essay
Grammar: Adverb clauses of concession
Unit Assignment: Write a persuasive essay

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation

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