Craven, Miles <br/><br/>
Q : Skills for Success 3 :  Listening and Speaking (2nd ed.) / 
Miles Craven and Kristin Donnalley Sherman. 
 - 2nd ed. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  2015. 
 - vii, 202 p. :  ill. ;  26 cm. 
 - Q : Skills for Success .
<br/><br/>"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: SOCIOLOGY<br/>  Q: Are first impressions accurate?<br/>  Note-taking Skill: Using notes to summarize a lecture<br/>  Listening 1: The psychology of first impressions<br/>  Listening Skill: Making inferences<br/>  Listening 2: Book review of Blink by Malcolm Gladwell<br/>  Unit Video: Rosemary Haefner on Interview Mistakes<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes<br/>  Grammar: Auxiliary verbs do, be, have<br/>  Pronunciation: Contractions with auxiliary verbs<br/>  Speaking Skill: Taking conversational turns<br/>  Unit Assignment: Give a short talk Unit 2: NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE<br/>  Q: What’s more important: taste or nutrition?<br/>  Listening 1: You are what you eat<br/>  Listening Skill: Taking notes on causes and effects<br/>  Listening 2: Food tasters<br/>  Unit Video: Body and Brain Fuel<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Adjective-noun collocations<br/>  Grammar: Quantifiers with count/noncount nouns<br/>  Pronunciation: Links with /j/ and /w/<br/>  Speaking Skill: Giving advice<br/>  Unit Assignment: Conduct a class survey Unit 3: PSYCHOLOGY<br/>  Q: Is change good or bad?<br/>  Listening 1: Changing expectations<br/>  Listening Skill: Listening for time markers<br/>  Listening 2: An interview with Barbara Ehrenreich<br/>  Unit Video: Recession Gives New Opportunities<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary<br/>  Grammar: Tag questions<br/>  Pronunciation: Intonation in tag questions<br/>  Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving reasons<br/>  Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion Unit 4: MARKETING<br/>  Q: How can advertisers change our behaviour?<br/>  Unit Video: Innovative Marketing<br/>  Listening 1: Advertising techniques<br/>  Listening Skill: Identifying fact and opinion<br/>  Listening 2: Advertising ethics and standards<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Context clues to identify meaning<br/>  Grammar: Modals expressing attitude<br/>  Pronunciation: Intonation in questions<br/>  Speaking Skill: Giving and supporting your opinions<br/>  Note-talking Skill: Using a mind map to note opinions<br/>  Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion Unit 5: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE<br/>  Q: What risks are good to take?<br/>  Note-taking Skill: Separating risks and outcomes using a chart<br/>  Listening 1: Write Your Own Success Story<br/>  Listening Skill: Identifying amounts; cardinal and ordinal numbers<br/>  Listening 2: Science on the Edge<br/>  Unit Video: Mt. Nyiragongo<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Word families<br/>  Grammar: Past perfect<br/>  Pronunciation: Contraction of had...<br/>  Speaking Skill: Giving a short presentation<br/>  Unit Assignment: Give a short presentation Unit 6: PHILOSOPHY<br/>  Q: Are we responsible for the world we live in?<br/>  Unit Video: TOMS Shoes<br/>  Listening 1: Corporate social responsibility<br/>  Listening Skill: Inferring a speaker's attitude<br/>  LIstening 2: Personal responsibility<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary<br/>  Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives as the objects of verbs<br/>  Pronunciation: Stress on important words<br/>  Speaking Skill: Leading a group discussion<br/>  Note-taking Skill: Building an outline to take notes on a discussion<br/>  Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion Unit 7: ECONOMICS<br/>  Q: Can money buy happiness?<br/>  Listening 1: Sudden wealth<br/>  Listening 2: Happiness breeds success...and money!<br/>  Unit Video: Microloans Help Poor<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Idioms<br/>  Grammar: Types of sentences<br/>  Pronunciation: Intonation in different types of sentences<br/>  Speaking Skill: Agreeing and disagreeing<br/>  Note-taking Skill: Taking and organizing notes from a discussion<br/>  Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion Unit 8: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE<br/>  Q: What can we learn from success and failure?<br/>  Unit Video: Blind Drag Racer Has Message of Positive Thinking<br/>  Listening 1: Chasing your Dreams<br/>  Listening Skill: Listening for examples<br/>  Listening 2: The benefits of Failure<br/>  Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes<br/>  Grammar: Simple past and present perfect<br/>  Pronunciation: Varying intonation to maintain interest<br/>  Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving clarification<br/>  Note-taking Skills: Taking notes with examples<br/>  Unit Assignment: Take part in a pair discussion 
<br/><br/> Intermediate ESL students. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780194819046 (Student Book) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2014397293 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>English language--Study and teaching--Foreign speakers.<br/>English language--Textbooks for foreign speakers.<br/>English language--Conversation and phrase books.<br/>English language--Rhetoric.<br/>B1 (CEFR).<br/>Intermediate.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PE1128  / .S33 2015