Learning English Through Science.

Argumento de Learning English Through Science.

UNIT 1. Vitamin A[page 15]

text 1: Vitamins

text 2: Vitamin A

text 3: Vitamin A deficiency in the Third World

grammar: Compound nouns and noun phrases

spelling and pronunciation: ch, th, ss, -age

UNIT 2. Digestion[page 27]

text 1: The alimentary system

text 2: Factors affecting digestion

grammar: Relative clauses

spelling and pronunciation: Letter i as /i/ or /ai/

UNIT 3. Why do we eat Fat?[page 37]

text 1: The Palatability factor

text 2: Texture

text 3: Flavour

grammar: Enough and too

spelling and pronunciation: Quantitative and Partitive nouns

UNIT 4. Ascorbic Acid[page 47]

text 1: History

text 2: Clinical insight: Vitamin C and the common cold

grammar: Link-words

spelling and pronunciation: -ed pronunciation

UNIT 5. Elderly people's diseases[page 57]

text: Abstract 1

text: Abstract 2

spelling and pronunciation: Mathematical Symbols; Pronunciation of '0'

grammar: The passive

UNIT 6. Genetic Manipulation[page 69]

text: Tabacco with a dog gene used for children's diseases

grammar: Suffixes and prefixes; Phrasal verbs

spelling and pronunciation: Word-formation and word stress

UNIT 7. Toxic Chemicals???[page 79]

text 1: Saccharin

text 2: Toxicological studies

text 3: Experimental design

text 4: Solvents

grammar: Comparison and Superlatives

spelling and pronunciation: The 'silent e'

UNIT 8. Minerals: Calcium[page 89]

text 1: Structure and function of minerals

text 2: Calcium

text 3: Recommended dietary allowance

spelling and pronunciation: Foreign plurals 1

grammar: Preposition denoting location and movement

UNIT 9. History of Pharmacy[page 101]

text 1 & 2: Pharmaceutical Beginnings

text 3: The Apothecaries - their Society and its Laboratory

text 4: Apothecaries Becoming Medical Practitioners

grammar: Preposition + ing

spelling and pronunciation: Foreign plurals 2

UNIT 10. Energy[page 109]

text 1: Concept

text 2: Factors affecting the metabolic rate

grammar: The -ing form

spelling and pronunciation: Spelling recognition

UNIT 11. Photosynthesis[page 117]

text 1: Photosynthesis as the source of organic carbon

text 2: Light absorption

text 3: Photorespiration

spelling and pronunciation: Stress patterns: O o o, o O o

grammar: Position of Adverbs

Glossary[page 127]