TY - BOOK AU - Craven,Miles AU - Sherman, Kristin Donnalley TI - Q : Skills for Success 3: Listening and Speaking (2nd ed.) SN - 9780194819046 (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 - B1 (CEFR) KW - 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: SOCIOLOGY ; Q: Are first impressions accurate? ; Note-taking Skill: Using notes to summarize a lecture ; Listening 1: The psychology of first impressions ; Listening Skill: Making inferences ; Listening 2: Book review of Blink by Malcolm Gladwell ; Unit Video: Rosemary Haefner on Interview Mistakes ; Vocabulary Skill: Suffixes ; Grammar: Auxiliary verbs do, be, have ; Pronunciation: Contractions with auxiliary verbs ; Speaking Skill: Taking conversational turns ; Unit Assignment: Give a short talk; Unit 2: NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE ; Q: What’s more important: taste or nutrition? ; Listening 1: You are what you eat ; Listening Skill: Taking notes on causes and effects ; Listening 2: Food tasters ; Unit Video: Body and Brain Fuel ; Vocabulary Skill: Adjective-noun collocations ; Grammar: Quantifiers with count/noncount nouns ; Pronunciation: Links with /j/ and /w ; Speaking Skill: Giving advice ; Unit Assignment: Conduct a class survey; Unit 3: PSYCHOLOGY ; Q: Is change good or bad? ; Listening 1: Changing expectations ; Listening Skill: Listening for time markers ; Listening 2: An interview with Barbara Ehrenreich ; Unit Video: Recession Gives New Opportunities ; Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary ; Grammar: Tag questions ; Pronunciation: Intonation in tag questions ; Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving reasons ; Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion; Unit 4: MARKETING ; Q: How can advertisers change our behaviour? ; Unit Video: Innovative Marketing ; Listening 1: Advertising techniques ; Listening Skill: Identifying fact and opinion ; Listening 2: Advertising ethics and standards ; Vocabulary Skill: Context clues to identify meaning ; Grammar: Modals expressing attitude ; Pronunciation: Intonation in questions ; Speaking Skill: Giving and supporting your opinions ; Note-talking Skill: Using a mind map to note opinions ; Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion; Unit 5: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE ; Q: What risks are good to take? ; Note-taking Skill: Separating risks and outcomes using a chart ; Listening 1: Write Your Own Success Story ; Listening Skill: Identifying amounts; cardinal and ordinal numbers ; Listening 2: Science on the Edge ; Unit Video: Mt. Nyiragongo ; Vocabulary Skill: Word families ; Grammar: Past perfect ; Pronunciation: Contraction of had ; Speaking Skill: Giving a short presentation ; Unit Assignment: Give a short presentation; Unit 6: PHILOSOPHY ; Q: Are we responsible for the world we live in? ; Unit Video: TOMS Shoes ; Listening 1: Corporate social responsibility ; Listening Skill: Inferring a speaker's attitude ; LIstening 2: Personal responsibility ; Vocabulary Skill: Using the dictionary ; Grammar: Gerunds and infinitives as the objects of verbs ; Pronunciation: Stress on important words ; Speaking Skill: Leading a group discussion ; Note-taking Skill: Building an outline to take notes on a discussion ; Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion; Unit 7: ECONOMICS ; Q: Can money buy happiness? ; Listening 1: Sudden wealth ; Listening 2: Happiness breeds success...and money! ; Unit Video: Microloans Help Poor ; Vocabulary Skill: Idioms ; Grammar: Types of sentences ; Pronunciation: Intonation in different types of sentences ; Speaking Skill: Agreeing and disagreeing ; Note-taking Skill: Taking and organizing notes from a discussion ; Unit Assignment: Take part in a group discussion; Unit 8: BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE ; Q: What can we learn from success and failure? ; Unit Video: Blind Drag Racer Has Message of Positive Thinking ; Listening 1: Chasing your Dreams ; Listening Skill: Listening for examples ; Listening 2: The benefits of Failure ; Vocabulary Skill: Prefixes ; Grammar: Simple past and present perfect ; Pronunciation: Varying intonation to maintain interest ; Speaking Skill: Asking for and giving clarification ; Note-taking Skills: Taking notes with examples ; Unit Assignment: Take part in a pair discussion; Intermediate ESL students UR - https://www.oupcanada.com/catalog/9780194819046.html ER -