Programme outline 2014 -2015
Chemistry English @ University of Crete
Week 1
Induction PowerPoint presentation
Video 1: A Day without Chemistry
http://www.bytesizescience.com/index.cfm/2011/1/20/A-DayWithout-Chemistry
Video 2: Chemistry Life Hacks (Vol.1)
Reading: The scientific method (textbook)
Video 2: Scientific Method Made Easy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcavPAFiG14
Academic vocabulary: Describing research methods (handout)
Week 2
Starter Video 1: States of Matter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMbmQzV-Ezs
PowerPoint Presentation: Solids Liquids Gases
Reading: States of matter
Chemical vocabulary practice
http://www.knockhardy.org.uk/sci_htm_files/states.pdf
Academic vocabulary: 1) Facts evidence and data
2) Referring to source materials
Week 3
Reading: Chemical elements and Periodic table
Handout: What element Am I
Online course assignment
DIAGNOSTIC TEST for Proficiency/C2 holders
Week 4
Reading: The Earth and its atmosphere
Phosphorus cycle (Dictogloss)
Listening: The Carbon and the Nitrogen cycle
Academic vocabulary: Cause and effect
Week 5
Starter video 1: Laboratory safety
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aK2CKrdjbE&NR=1
Video 2: What not to do in a lab
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfqmzHXmTMY&feature=rel
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PowerPoint presentation on Lab safety
Reading: Laboratory Safety
Online course assignment
Week 6
Reading: Chemical bonding
Listening: 1) Chemical Bonding 2) Intermolecular forces
SEMINAR on How to give an effective PowerPoint
Presentation!
Academic Vocabulary in Use: Making a Presentation
Week 7
Reading: Electrochemistry, electrolysis
Listening to Electrochemistry lecture
Online course assignment
Week 8
Reading: SI & non SI Units and measurements,
reading chemical equations
Reading: Graphs and charts
Academic Vocabulary in Use: Graphs and charts
Week 9
Reading: Polymers
Making Mind maps
Smart polymers (Dictogloss)
Online course assignment
Week 10
Reading: Distillation & Fractional Distillation: process &
apparatus
Academic vocabulary: Processes and Procedures
Academic vocabulary: Satistics
Week 11
Chemmatters 2014 article On Solar Future:
http://www.acs.org/content/dam/acsorg/education/resourc
es/highschool/chemmatters/chemmatters-april2014-solar.pdf
Online course assignment
Week 12
Academic vocabulary: Describing change
Academic vocabulary: Making connections
Week 13
Student presentations
Revision: Mock TEST
Mark Scheme
End of term test 50%-80%
Compulsory-Presentations
20%
Optional-Online Assignments in Lore
30%
Instructor
Kallia Katsampoxaki-Hodgetts
Γ301 (Chemistry Building)
Email: english@chemistry.uoc.gr
Tel. 2810-545102
English Class blog
chemistryenglish.wordpress.com