2025/2026

Английский язык для специальных целей. Химия - 3

Статус: Факультатив

Кто читает: Школа иностранных языков

Где читается: Школа иностранных языков

Когда читается: 1-3 модуль

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Захарова Анна Викторовна

Язык: английский

Course Syllabus

Abstract

The course "English for Specific Purposes. Chemistry-3" focuses on the professional language and competences that are required for successful communication in the field of Chemistry. The course is aimed at developing language proficiency to the 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 descriptions of complex processes and perform adequately in other academic and professional contexts. The course covers a number of topics varying from the periodic system of elements to chemical reactions. The main English-learning objectives are the development of professional vocabulary as well as reading, listening, writing and speaking skills. This course is originally designed for the students of the B2+ CEFR level (HSE Scale 60-69) aspiring to excel in English for professional purposes. Within the course, students are supposed to complete home assignments and take tests of various formats, which may include but are not limited to lexical-grammar tests, reading tests, listening tests, writing tests, speaking tests.

Learning Objectives

• Improve students’ command of English for professional and academic communication in the area of inorganic chemistry
• Develop language skills consistent with the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), B2+ level (HSE Scale 60-69)
• Expand specific vocabulary that will help students express the chemistry-matter content in English and use what they learn in the classroom right away in their studies
• Facilitate students’ performance in academic and professional contexts by developing listening, reading, writing and speaking skills

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

• Classroom Written Assessment
  Classroom Written Assessment refers to written tasks and tests given to students in class. Classroom written assessment includes minimum 1 reading test, minimum 1 listening test, minimum 1 vocabulary and grammar test and minimum 1 written work (review). The test tasks can be of different types.
• Classroom Oral Assessment
  Classroom Oral Assessment refers to oral tasks that are offered to students in the classroom. The tasks include min. 1 presentation and min. 1 dialogue.
• Home Assignment
  Home assignment includes varied types of tasks, oral and/or written, that are assigned to students for independent completion and submission. Students do the tasks at home and submit them in class.
• Final Assessment
  Final assessment equals to the interim exam which is held in the form of a written test. It aims to check whether the student demonstrates the acquisition of the set learning objectives. Time limit: 80 minutes. Tasks complexity: B2. Exam structure: 1). Listening (L): Listen to the text and complete tasks 1-10. Max. 10 points 2). Reading (R): Read the text and complete tasks 1-10. Max. 10 points 3). Writing (W) Write a review/report. The task is checked against the criteria. The grading formula: L*0,3+R*0,3 +W*0,4 = 10

Interim Assessment

• 2025/2026 3rd module
  0.2 * Classroom Oral Assessment + 0.25 * Classroom Written Assessment + 0.3 * Final Assessment + 0.25 * Home Assignment

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

• A student's introduction to English grammar, Huddleston, R., 2015
• 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.

Recommended Additional Bibliography

• Inorganic chemistry, Housecroft, C. E., 2018
• Presentation skills : the essential guide for students, McCarthy, P., 2002

Authors

• ZAKHAROVA ANNA VIKTOROVNA