2022/2023

Английский язык для специальных целей. Химия - 3

Статус: Факультатив

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 1-3 модуль

Охват аудитории: для всех кампусов НИУ ВШЭ

Преподаватели: Захарова Анна Викторовна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 52

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course “English for Chemists” focuses on the professional language and competences required for successful communication in the field of chemistry. The course aims to develop language proficiency to a level that enables students to listen to lectures on specific chemistry-related issues, participate in classroom discussions, make presentations, write reviews of academic articles, and describe complex processes, as well as perform adequately in other academic and professional contexts. The course covers a number of topics, ranging from the periodic system of elements to chemical reactions. Primary attention is given to the development of professional vocabulary, as well as reading, listening, writing, and speaking skills. This course is specifically designed for students of the upper-intermediate level (HSE Scale: 60-69) aspiring to excel in English for professional purposes. Within the course, students are expected to complete home assignments and take tests in various formats, including but not limited to lexical-grammar, reading, listening, writing, and speaking tests.

Learning Objectives

• To improve students’ command of English for professional and academic communication in the field of inorganic chemistry.

Expected Learning Outcomes

• Understand the main ideas and certain details of relatively complex speech; understand dialogues and polylogues on both familiar and unfamiliar topics; read a variety of relatively complex texts on familiar and unfamiliar topics; use basic reading techniques, skimming & scanning (predicting, understanding main ideas, understanding details).
• Produce monologues (descriptive/informative); write down notes for later reference; communicate spontaneously their opinions and reactions, providing explanations and examples, and invite others to join in; participate in debates (debate on abstract and/or complex topics)
• Understand academic and professional presentations which are linguistically complex; use basic listening techniques (predicting, understanding main ideas and details); participate in conversations and discussions on a range of topics
• Understand text structure; understand lectures; following extended speech and complex lines of arguments; give clear and detailed talks on a wide range of topics, expanding ideas with relevant examples, evidence, or arguments; write clear, well-structured texts on a variety of subjects expanding points of view, developing arguments, synthesising and evaluating information (graph descriptons and reviews)
• Make a presentation; give reasons in support or against a particular point of view, give the advantages and disadvantages of various opinions; participate in conversations and discussions on a range of topics in different contexts with good command of grammar and vocabulary; write clear and detailed lengthy texts summarizing the main ideas and selecting appropriate supporting details

Course Contents

• Introduction to Chemistry
• Matter: its properties and measurement
• The structure of the atom
• The organization of the elements
• Chemical reactions

Assessment Elements

• Written assessment
  Written assessment includes minimum 1 reading test, minimum 1 listening test, minimum 1 vocabulary and grammar test and minimum 1 written work (a review). The test tasks can be of different types. If necessary the number of tests and works can be increased by a course instructor.
• Oral assessment
  Oral assessment includes minimum 1 presentation & further discussion and minimum 1 dialogue.
• Independent work
  Independent work includes activities that students do at home, in the classroom and online. If necessary the number of activities can be increased by a course instructor.
• Final Assessment
  The exam consists of 3 parts: Listening (30%), Reading (30%) and Writing (40%) respectively in the total mark for the exam. 0 points in case of cheating. Time limit: 80 minutes online/offline. Tasks complexity: В2. Grading formula: L*0,3+R*0,3 +W*0,4 = 10

Interim Assessment

• 2022/2023 3rd module
  0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Independent work + 0.25 * Written assessment + 0.2 * Oral assessment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• Inorganic chemistry, Housecroft, C. E., 2018

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Presentation skills : the essential guide for students, McCarthy, P., 2002
• Андреева Е.Ю. - A Comprehensive Grammar of Contemporary English in Higher Education Studies - 978-5-16-020949-4 - ИНФРА-М - 2025 - https://znanium.ru/catalog/product/2206802 - 2206802 - ZNANIUM
• Милеева, М. Н. Химия в вопросах и тестах. Chemistry in questions and tests : учебное пособие / М. Н. Милеева. — 3-е изд., стер. — Москва : ФЛИНТА, 2018. — 200 с. — ISBN 978-5-9765-1585-7. — Текст : электронный // Лань : электронно-библиотечная система. — URL: https://e.lanbook.com/book/115870 (дата обращения: 00.00.0000). — Режим доступа: для авториз. пользователей.

Authors

• Zakharova Anna Viktorovna