TY  - BOOK
AU  - McVeigh,Joe
AU  - Bixby, Jennifer
TI  - Q : Skills for Success 2: Reading and Writing (2nd ed.) 
SN  - 9780194818704 (Student book)
AV  - PE1128 .S33 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - English language
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Foreign speakers
KW  - Textbooks for foreign speakers
KW  - Conversation and phrase books
KW  - Rhetoric
KW  - A2-B1 (CEFR)
KW  - High-beginner to intermediate
KW  - A2 (CEFR)
KW  - High-Beginner
KW  - Low-Intermediate
N1  - "With new note-taking skills, an extended writing syllabus and authentic video in every unit, Q Second Edition equips students for academic success better than ever.; Q Second Edition helps students to measure their progress, with clearly stated unit objectives that motivate students to achieve their language learning goals.; And the online content, seamlessly integrated into the Student Book, allows teachers to truly implement blended learning into the classroom." (Publisher's Website); TABLE OF CONTENTS; Unit 1: MARKETING
; Q: Why does something become popular?
; Unit Video: Colors in Business
; Reading 1: Unusual Ideas to Make a Buzz
; Reading Skill: Identifying the main idea of a paragraph
; Reading 2: How do you decide?
; Vocabulary Skill: Word families
; Writing Skill: Writing a descriptive paragraph
; Grammar: Present continuous
; Unit Assignment: Write a descriptive paragraph; Unit 2: PSYCHOLOGY
; Q: How do colors affect the way we feel?
; Reading 1: How colors make us think and fell
; Reading Skill: Getting meaning from context
; Reading 2: The importance of color in business
; Unit Video: Pantone Color Company
; Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes
; Writing Skill: Brainstorming
; Grammar: Future with will
; Unit Assignment: Write a proposal for business; Unit 3: SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY
; Q: 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
; Unit Video: Cell Phone Politeness in Japan
; Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes
; Writing Skill: Supporting your main idea with examples
; Grammar: Subject-verb agreement
; Unit Assignment: Write a paragraph with supporting examples; Unit 4: SOCIOLOGY
; Q: What makes a competition unfair?
; Reading 1: Money and sports

; Reading Skill: Taking notes
; Reading 2: The fastest man on no legs
; Unit Video: Under Armour Speed Skating Uniforms
; Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary
; Writing Skill: Writing an opinion paragraph
; Grammar: Modals
; Unit Assignment: Write an opinion paragraph; Unit 5: BUSINESS
; Q: What makes a family business successful
; Unit Video: Zippers
; Reading 1: Family unity builds success
; Reading Skill: Skimming
; Reading 2: The challenge of running a family business
; 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: INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
; Q: Do you prefer to get help from a person or machine?
; Unit Video: Robot Waiters
; Reading 1: Memo to restaurant servers
; Reading Skill: Identifying the author's purpose
; Reading 2: I hate machines!
; 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 STUDIES
; Q: Is it better to save what you have or buy new things?
; Reading 1: Think before you toss
; Reading Skill: Identifying fact and opinion
; Reading 2: In praise of a throwaway society
; Unit Video: One Man's Thrash, Another's Treasure
; Vocabulary Skill: Phrasal Verbs
; Writing Skill: Using sentence variety
; Grammar: Simple past and past continuous
; Unit Assignment: Write an opinion paragraph; Unit 8: PUBLIC HEALTH
; Q: How can we prevent diseases?
; Reading 1: Flu FAQ
; Reading Skill: Synthesizing information
; Reading 2: Watching Over the Health of Millions
; Unit Video: Avian Bird Flu Fears
; Vocabulary Skill: Collocations
; Writing Skill: Writing an explanatory paragraph
; Grammar: Adverbs of manner and degree
; Unit Assignment: Create an FAQ page; High-Beginner to Low-Intermediate (A2-B1) ESL students
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