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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 MARKETING - Why does something become popular?
Reading 1: Unusual Ideas to Make a Buzz
Reading Skill: Identifying the main idea of a paragraph
Reading 2: How Do You Decide?
Critical Thinking Strategy: Putting ideas in order Work with the Video: Starbucks Coffee Shops
Vocabulary Skill: Word families
Writing Skill: Writing a descriptive paragraph
Grammar: Present continuous
Unit Assignment: Write a descriptive paragraph

UNIT 2 PSYCHOLOGY - How do colors affect our behavior?
Reading 1: What Colors Do You Like to Wear?


Reading Skill: Getting meaning from context


Reading 2: The importance of Color in Business


Critical Thinking Strategy: Restarting


Work with the Video: Pantone Color of the Year


Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes


Writing Skill: Brainstorming

Grammar: Future with will


Unit Assignment: Write a proposal for a business

UNIT 3 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY - What does it mean to be polite?

Reading 1: Being Polite from Culture to Culture


Reading Skill: Identifying supporting details


Reading 2: Answers to All Your Travel Questions
Work with the Video: Mobile Phone Manners


Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes


Writing Skill: Supporting your main idea with examples


Grammar: Subject-verb agreement


Unit Assignment: Write a paragraph with supporting examples

Critical Thinking Strategy: Organizing ideas with a rough outline

UNIT 4 TECHNOLOGY - How can technology improve performance?
Reading 1: Virtual Reality for Medical Students
Reading Skill: Taking notes
Reading 2: The Technology Advantage
Work with the Video: What is GPS?
Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
Writing Skill: Writing an opinion paragraph
Grammar: Organizing ideas with a graphic organizer
Unit Assignment: Modals Critical Thinking Strategy: Write an opinion paragraph

UNIT 5 BUSINESS - What makes a family business successful?
Reading 1: A Successful Family Business


Reading Skill: Skimming


Reading 2: The Challenge of Running a Family Business


Work with the Video: A Family Business


Critical Thinking Strategy: Drawing conclusions


Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary


Writing Skill: Unity in a paragraph


Grammar: Comparative and superlative adjectives


Unit Assignment: Write a plan for a family business

UNIT 6 BRAIN SCIENCE - How can you learn faster and better?

Reading 1: You Can Read Faster and Better


Reading Skill: Identifying the author's purpose


Critical Thinking Strategy: Prediction topics and ideas


Reading 2: Brain Secrets of the Most Successful Students

Work with the Video: Functions of the Brain


Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary


Writing Skill: Describing a process


Grammar: Infinitives of purpose


Unit Assignment: Write a paragraph describing a process

UNIT 7 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE - Do cities need nature?

Reading 1: Take a nature break


Reading Skill: Identifying claims and support


Reading 2: Naturally Urban


Work with the Video: Growing Cities


Vocabulary Skill: Phrasal Verbs


Grammar: Simple past and past continuous


Writing Skill: Using sentence variety


Unit Assignment: Write an opinion paragraph
Critical Thinking Strategy: Analyzing and evaluating ideas

UNIT 8 PUBLIC HEALTH - How can we prevent diseases? Reading 1: University Health Center: Cold News

Reading Skill: Synthesizing information

Reading 2: Preventing Disease Around the World Critical Thinking Strategy: Summarizing main ideas

Work with the Video: Science Experiments

Vocabulary Skill: Collocations

Writing Skill: Writing an explanatory paragraph
Grammar: Adverbs of manner and degree
Unit Assignment: Write an explanatory paragraph about an illness

Vocabulary List and CEFR Correlation Authors and Consultants

Authors and Consultants