1. Welcome What do you expect from the course?
What have you heard about the course?

2. Let me see… Everything we do in the classroom is based on what we believe about teaching and learning. Do you agree with the following statements?
The most important person in the classroom is the student.
The responsibility for learning lies with the teacher.
There is not one right way to teach or learn anything.
Learning is a serious business.
Mistakes are good.
The teacher’s job is to teach the subject.
You should leave your private life outside the classroom.
It is essential to teach grammar to language learners.
The teacher should know all the answers.

3. Material(s) English for Chemistry textbook and handouts.
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4. Handouts In-class provision of extra material or else…
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5. What’s your certified level?B1 B2 C1 C2
Do you feel that these certificates reflect your
actual level of competency? If not, please
explain.

6. Module description C1-C2
Topics
Vocabulary (Technical/Academic)
Listening
Grammar

7. Foundation Course: English for Chemistry 1 Unit Outline
The Scientific method
The Earth and atmosphere
Matter and energy
Chemical elements
Periodic table
Laboratory Safety
Distillation
Greenhouse effect
Electrochemistry, electrolysis
Units and measurements
Graphs and charts
Chemical bonding
Effective Presentation Skills

8. Assessment Final exam 60% 1 essay 20%
1 oral presentation (without report) 20%
NB. All parts are compulsory.
If you fail one, you fail all.

9. Test Format Why are Mock tests sessions important?
SECTION A: READING COMPREHENSION
SECTION B: TECHNICAL/ACADEMIC VOCABULARY
SECTION C: GRAMMAR
SECTION D: WRITING

10. Coursework (500 words or more / Plagiarism means 0)
Write an essay discussing the benefits or threats of Fluorine, Fluorides and Fluoridation. Justify your answers with literature/resources after 1990.
Write an essay discussing the role of Chemistry in preventing soil contamination in the last 20 years.
Evaluate existing VOCs control strategies in Europe in the last 20 years.

11. Using the library
Short-loan section is really convenient.

12. Using the internet Thorny issues: Plagiarism and paraphrasing.
Quotations
Footnotes
Bibliography/References

13. UOC Facilities
Sign up for internet/library use seminar
Dates/times

14. Are you left or right handed?
How does that relate to Chemistry?

15. Put the following words in order so that they make sense.
This is due to
an asymmetric carbon atom
is a type of molecule that
lacks an internal plane of symmetry
the presence of
mirror image
chiral molecule
and has a non-superimposable

16. Are you left or right handed?
A chiral molecule is a type of molecule that lacks an internal plane of symmetry and has a non-superimposable mirror image. The feature that is most often the cause of chirality in molecules is the presence of an asymmetric carbon atom.[1][2]
The term chiral (pronounced /ˈkaɪrəl/) in general is used to describe an object that is non-superposable on its mirror image. Achiral (not chiral) objects are objects that are identical to their mirror image. Human hands are perhaps the most universally recognized example of chirality: The left hand is a non-superposable mirror image of the right hand; no matter how the two hands are oriented, it is impossible for all the major features of both hands to coincide. This difference in symmetry becomes obvious if someone attempts to shake the right hand of a person using his left hand, or if a left-handed glove is placed on a right hand. The term chirality is derived from the Greek word for hand, χειρ (cheir). It is a mathematical approach to the concept of "handedness".
In chemistry, chirality usually refers to molecules. Two mirror images of a chiral molecule are called enantiomers or optical isomers. Pairs of enantiomers are often designated as "right-" and "left-handed."

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19. What is your motto in life?

20. Our motto The essence of intelligence is
skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience.
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