The following material has been created during the three years of teaching English for Chemists at the Department of Chemistry of the Faculty of Science at the University Mentouri of Constantine 1, and is therefore designed to meet the needs of this course.
The main motivation was the lack of appropriate materials, especially as the groups generally comprise students , belonging to License of Master levels, with a very diverse level of English. This diversity therefore became the main criterion determining both the form and the content of this text.
In the multiple units that provide material for a one semester course, the emphasis is put on teaching the students vocabulary and terminology in chemistry, which is introduced via authentic texts, depending on the topic of each unit.
Students are encouraged to learn the meaning of new chemical words in context of environmental, organic and pharmaceutical topics. Grammar and vocabulary skills are included too, with the aim of demonstrating and explaining English rules by means of examples taken directly from the texts.
We hope that this material, the preparation of which has been a challenging as well as enjoyable experience will be useful for future teachers and the students of this course....
- Enseignant: Lotfi BELKHIRI