Exercises.

1. Answer the following questions.

2. Have you ever been at a plant?

3. When did you visit the plant?

4. What did you see at the plant?

5. How many shops are there at the plant?

6. What are they?

7. Is the production of the metal casting an important process of the metal-working industry?

8. Is casting a simple operation?

9. What does this process consist in?

10. What is the equipment of the forge shop?

11. In what shop are the ingots forged into parts?

12. What lathes did you see at the plant?

13. What do they do in the assembling shop?

14. Did you see any automatic and semi-automatic machines at the plant?

2. Write out from the text all the words naming the parts of the equipment you saw at the plant. Learn them.

3. Retell Pete’s part of the dialogue in the form of a narration in the first person. Additional vocabulary Склад підприємства

Set-up of a plant

Дільниця – bay

контроль – inspection

пакування та відвантаження – packing and dispatch

комплектація – delivery

контора, заводоуправління – office block

відділи – administrative departments

технолог – production engineer

працівники збуту – sales personnel

бути відповідальним за – be liable to

склад – store house, stock

їдальня на фірмі – canteen

побутові приміщення – welfare rooms

стоянка – parking area

дочірнє підприємство – subsidiary factory

представник фірми – representative

група експертів – a team of experts

рекламно-видавнича діяльність – promotion

контрольний пакет акцій – controlling interest

в нашому розпорядженні необхідна сировина – raw materials are fully available

оволодіти методами обробки металів – to master the material handling

вводити в експлуатацію – to commission

готові до комерційної експлуатації – ready for commercial operation

інструкція з експлуатації – maintenance and operation instructions

технічні норми – engineering standard

провести ознайомчу екскурсію на заводі – to take smb. round the mill

станок – machine

гвинторізний – screw cutting

кромкостругальний – edger

металорізальний – metal-cutting

свердлувальний – drilling

токарний – lathe

шліфувальний – grinding

почасова оплата – pay of the hour

Text 1

The beginning of civilization is the beginning of engineering and technology.

Basically, the role of engineer has not changed through the centuries. His job is to take knowledge and make practical use of it. He uses scientific theory to design useful products.

Outstanding characteristics of engineers through the centuries have been a willingness to work and creativity.

Another characteristic associated with engineers is the ability to see ahead. The engineer must have a fertile imagination, must be creative, and must be ready to accept new ideas.

But besides it, good engineer must have strong engineering background, he must be industrious well-organized , educated in exact sciences and modern technologies. He must be professional and responsible.

Whether an engineer lived at the time of construction of pyramids or has only recently graduated in nuclear engineering, these characteristics have been an important part of his intellect.