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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 - How do you make a good first impression?
Reading 1: Small Talk: A Big Deal
Critical Thinking Strategy: Identifying a causal chain
Reading Skill: Identifying main ideas and supporting details
Reading 2: 21st Century Job Interviews
Work with the Video: Advice on a Good First Impression
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary to identify word forms
Writing Skill: Organizing and developing a paragraph
Grammar: Real conditionals: present and future
Unit Assignment: Write a "how to" paragraph

UNIT 2 NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE - What makes food attractive?
Reading 1: Knowing Your Tastes
Critical Thinking Strategy: Making inferences
Reading Skill: Previewing a text
Reading 2: Eating with Our Eyes
Work with the Video: Soul Food
Vocabulary Skill: Use of context to understand words
Writing Skill: Using descriptive adjectives
Grammar: Use and placement of adjectives
Unit Assignment: Write a descriptive paragraph

UNIT 3 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY - How has technology affected our lives?
Reading 1: Cars Can Think
Critical Thinking Strategy: Identifying advantages and disadvantages
Reading Skill: Taking notes
Reading 2: Classroom without Walls
Work with the Video: How Algorithms Changed the World
Vocabulary Skill: Synonyms
Writing Skill: Writing a summary and a personal response
Grammar: Parallel structure
Unit Assignment: Write a summary and a personal response paragraph

UNIT 4 MARKETING - Does advertising help or harm us?
Reading 1: Can Targeted Ads Change You?
Reading Skill: Distinguishing facts from opinions
Reading 2: In Defense of Advertising
Critical Thinking Strategy: Using a Venn diagram
Work with the Video: How Tech Companies Monetize Data
Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes
Writing Skill: Writing an opinion essay
Grammar: Compound sentences
Unit Assignment: Write an opinion essay

UNIT 5 PSYCHOLOGY - How do people overcome obstacles?
Reading 1: How People Learn to Become Resilient
Critical Thinking Strategy: Justifying your opinion of a text
Reading Skill: Using referents to understand contract
Reading 2: The Climb of My Life
Work with the Video: Shona Regains Her Confidence
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary to find the correct meaning
Writing Skill: Writing a narrative essay
Grammar: Shifts between past and present time frames
Unit Assignment: Write a narrative essay

UNIT 6 NEUROLOGY - Are you a good decision maker?
Reading 1: The Lazy Brain
Reading Skill: Using a graphic organizer
Reading 2: Problem-Solvers: Which One Are You?
Critical Thinking Strategy: Classifying Information
Work with the Video: Intuition
Vocabulary Skill: Phrasal Verbs
Writing Skill: Stating reasons and giving examples
Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives
Unit Assignment: Write an analysis essay with reasons and examples

UNIT 7 ECONOMICS - Can a business earn money while making a difference?
Reading 1: FEED Projects: How a Bag Can Feed Children in Many Ways
Reading Skill: Using a timeline
Reading 2: A New Business Model: Do Well While Doing Good
Critical Thinking Strategy: Adding details to support statements
Work with the Video: Ecotourism
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with verbs
Writing Skill: Writing a cause/effect essay
Grammar: Complex sentences
Unit Assignment: Write a cause/effect essay

UNIT 8 BEHAVIORAL STUDIES - What does it take to be successful?
Reading 1: Fast Cars, Big Money
Reading Skill: Scanning a text
Reading 2: Practice Makes... Pain?
Critical Thinking Strategy: Identifying problems and solutions
Work with the Video: Sports Scholarships in the USA
Vocabulary Skill: Collocations with adjectives + prepositions
Writing Skill: Writing an argumentative essay
Grammar: Sentence fragments
Unit Assignment: Write an argumentative essay

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation

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