Professional Career in Food Industry. Tutorial

cultures. Some cultures even consume blood, sometimes in the form of blood sausage. Some cultures and people do not consume meat or animal food products for cultural, dietary, health, ethical, or ideological reasons. Vegetarians (or Vegans) do not consume any “animal” foods.

(Selected and adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food)

UNIT 3. WHAT DO FOOD ENGINEERS DO?

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

1.Vocabulary study. Check if you read these words correctly: techniques, efficiently, additives, schedules, responsibility, profiles

2.Explain the meaning of the nouns: research, responsibility, goods,

goal, profile, duty, safety, satisfaction, skill, training, realm, staff

3.Translate the following verbs into Russian: to perform, to adapt (to), to focus (on), to investigate, to ensure, to utilize, to monitor, to relate (to), to improve

4.Explain the phrases from the text: to put into practice, to have a

hand (into), to make a career, practical ability, career promotion, job conditions, computer skills, promotion prospects

5.Translate into Russian the words formed by conversion: aim – to aim, supply – to supply, contrast – to contrast, focus – to focus, package – to package, help – to help, plan – to plan

6.Translate the compound words into Russian: flash-frozen, freeze-

dried, decision-making

7. Make a list of professional terms with their translation into Russian:

Food engineering, Food Scientists, Food Technologists, food production industry, processing, packaging techniques, food quality, food additives, longevity, flash-frozen product, freeze-dried product, nutritional content, canned products, manufacturing plant, storage systems, transport trucks, machinery

8. Make a list of terms used in food production management with their translations into Russian:

plan production schedules, retail management, hotel and catering management, logistics management, purchasing management, production manager, assistant manager production, purchasing manager, production director

Text reading and comprehension. Read and translate the following text orally.

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TEXT: WHAT DO FOOD ENGINEERS DO?

1.The grocery store. The store shelves are lined with a vast array of, canned, bagged, and boxed products that make food preparation quick and easy. And it is all thanks to Food Engineers, one group of professionals who create and test foods, and bring them to market.

As a Food Engineer, you work in a field of science that overlaps with the work of Food Scientists and Food Technologists. All of you share the goal of producing a safe and plentiful food supply for the world – both now and for the future. While Food Scientists perform research, evaluate nutritional content, and create theories about products and techniques, Food Technologists aim to adapt those theories and put them into practice. In contrast, your responsibility as a Food Engineer is to focus on packaging techniques, processing, and improving food quality.

You find ways to package goods so that they remain fresh and safe for a longer period. That might mean creating a bag for lettuce, a box for tomatoes, or a glass jar for baby food. Outside of the packaging realm, you investigate food additives and processing techniques that serve the same goal of longevity. For example, Food Engineers certainly had a hand in creating flash-frozen meats and freeze-dried bananas.

Food engineering is a vast field that include everything: from machines used in the manufacturing plant to storage systems on transport trucks. Who knows, you just might meet that goal of ending world hunger!

(Selected and adapted from http://www.insidejobs.com/careers/food-engineer)

2.Imagine that you are planning to make a career in food production industry. Thus, the information from the “Prospects Occupational Profiles in manufacturing and production” would be of great help to you.

… After getting a degree in science or engineering during the fouryear study at the university you can plan your career of Production Manager in Food Industry. Having this profile, you can try to get a job at a large manufacturing company. You will be the manager of the production process. You will be able to plan production schedules; ensure that machinery, staff and materials are efficiently utilized. Your duty will be to monitor health & safety, and environmental problems. It is important that there are other jobs related to this sphere: retail management, hotel and catering management, logistics management, purchasing management.

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The satisfaction of this work is in seeing finished products that you have created. This work will need the following skills: planning and organizing co-operating, decision-making, practical ability.

Development of computer skills is necessary for career promotion in this work – from assistant manager to manager and then to production director. About job conditions, further training, and promotion prospects you can learn from the production manager of the manufacturing company.

(Selected and adapted from

https:// www.kent.ac.uk/careers/workin/production.htm)

ASSIGNMENTS

1. Speaking activity. Give a short answer to the question:

What is the difference between Food Scientists and Food Technologists?

Use the following as the beginning: I would be very interested to hear your view on this point. What are your thoughts on this matter?

2.Ask your friend if he thinks that Food Engineers certainly had a hand in creating flash-frozen meats and freeze-dried bananas.

3.Read the list of Job Titles and point out the one, not connected with Food Industry. Choose one job title and write the duties of the specialist working at the factory producing food for children.

Cheese Maker / Chemical Engineer / Packaging Engineer / Lab Manager / Lab Supervisor / Lab Technician Manufacturing Engineer / /Nutritionist / Geochemist / Process Engineer / Plant Manager / Project Engineer / Quality Engineer / Quality Technologist / Research Engineer

4. Explain what skills are necessary to get the promotion in Food production industry. (If it is necessary, make your answer in Russian and then translate it into English).

Use the following as the beginning: I expect that you will agree with me that …/ I suppose that you will be of the same opinion that …/ I think that you will support my view that …

5. Think and say among what kind of jobs you would be searching for the position after graduating from the university:

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Food Engineer Jobs / Food Ingredient Jobs / Food Packaging Jobs / Food Safety Jobs / Food Science Jobs / Food Technologist Jobs / Food Research jobs / Provider of fresh prepared food

6.Writing activity. Write 7 sentences to answer the questions:

-Is it necessary to know English for career promotion in Food industry?

-Why is it important to have computer skills for successful work?

7.Translation practice. Translate the sentences into English:

1.Необходимо использовать современные знания и технологии

вразвитии пищевой инженерии.

2.Улучшение качества и безопасности продуктов – очень важная задача в современной технологии.

3.Планирование и организация сотрудничества на производстве описана во многих проспектах.

4.Для разработки новых упаковочных материалов необходимы особые знания.

8. Grammar point. Construct grammatically correct sentences, using Gerunds. Translate the sentences into Russian:

Example: The satisfaction of the experimental work is in (to see) finished food products. = The satisfaction of the experimental work is in seeing finished products. =Удовлетворение от экспериментальной работы в том, чтобы увидеть готовые продукты.

1.The scientists have the goal of (to produce) a safe and plentiful food supply for the world.

2.The responsibility of a Food Engineer is to focus on (to package) techniques, (to process), and (to improve) food quality.

3.(To package) food might mean (to create) a bag for lettuce.

4.Food Engineers certainly work on (to produce) flash-frozen

products.

5.The satisfaction of this work is in (to see) finished products that you have created.

6.I like (to read) literature devoted to different jobs in Food production.

9. Test-sentences. Choose the correct word to fill in the blank:

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- After your career research, you should feel ready to make your choice and

- Food Scientists _____________ research, evaluate nutritional content, and create theories about products and techniques.

a) satisfy b) perform c) analyze d) finish

10. Food Science Basics. Translate the following text in a written form using a dictionary. Make a list of words and word combinations referring to Food sphere.

Food chemistry

Food is essential to the nutrition of any human being or any form of life. If an organism has no food, it can’t live and grow. Usually we call “food” the substances that we eat. Bread, meat, milk, eggs, cereals, fruit, vegetables, fish and sea-products are accepted as food. Food give us energy, build and repair tissues, and regulate body processes. Food supply a human being with nutrients.

Food chemistry states that the chief constituents of food can be classified into six groups: proteins, fats, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, and water. It is better to say that they are not simple substances but nutrients. Proteins, fats, carbohydrates and the mineral elements like sodium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, and magnesium are macronutrients, because they are needed in relatively large amounts. Micronutrients are needed in smaller amounts. They are vitamins, essential fatty acids, and trace elements, such as zinc, iron, copper, iodine, selenium, chromium, and cobalt. Water can also be called a nutrient, as it is vital to life. As it is known, 70% of human body is water.

Each nutrient plays its particular role. Proteins are vital to the growth, repair, and maintenance of the human body. It also provides the body with energy. Fats provide a concentrated source of energy, surround and protect vital organs, preserve body heat, and protect the skeleton. Carbohydrates are an important source of energy. Vitamins regulate maintenance and growth of the body, control metabolic reactions in cells. Minerals are required for body building, control of body processes.

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Food coloring is added to change the color of any food substance. It is mainly for sensory analysis purposes. It can be used to simulate the natural color of a product as perceived by the customer.

Flavor in food is important in how food smells and tastes to the consumer, especially in sensory analysis. Some of these products occur naturally like salt and sugar, but flavor chemists (called a "flavorist") develop many of these flavors for food products.

Food additives are substances added to food for preserving flavors, or improving taste or appearance. These are generally listed by "E number".

(Selected and adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_chemistry)

UNIT 4. NECESSARY EDUCATION TO MAKE A CAREER IN FOOD INDUSTRY

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

1.Vocabulary study. Check if you read these words correctly: emergence, philanthropist, commercialized, facilitating, specializing, dynamite

2.Explain the meaning of the nouns: decade, witness, tendency,

innovation, creator, preserver, inventor

3.Translate the following verbs into Russian: to agree, to dream, to gain, to recall, to implement, to belong (to), to develop, to specialize (in), to facilitate, to promote

4.Explain the phrases from the text: deep knowledge, good training,

future-oriented education, research-based knowledge, applied research, to underline the idea

Text reading and comprehension. Read and translate the following text orally. Use a dictionary if necessary.

TEXT: WHAT EDUCATION IS NECESSARY TO MAKE A

CAREER IN FOOD INDUSTRY?

“Practice is the best of all instructors” – these words belong to the Latin writer Publilius Syrus. We can’t but agree with these words but now to become a qualified and experienced engineer you need deep knowledge and good training. Thus, a young person dreaming about successful career should first of all get future-oriented education in the field chosen.

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The scientists point out that the developments in science and technology have led in the last few decades to the emergence of “knowledge-based” societies in which the central capital is knowledge. We remember the winged words of Francis Bacon – “Knowledge is power”. Nowadays we are the witnesses of great advances in science and technology, with tendency to innovations in all spheres of life.

The word “education” itself gains a new meaning of ”research-based knowledge” with extensive use of computers. Education becomes the central point towards the “knowledge-based” society because it is the human being who is the creator, the preserver and in some cases the destroyer of knowledge. To make analogy, just recall the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel, engineer, inventor, businessman, and philanthropist. He is known for inventing dynamite, which can be used both for the benefit of a man and at the same time, it can bring evil as a deathly weapon capable of destroying mankind.

At present “technology-based knowledge” becomes of special significance for future-oriented education. The results of applied research are implemented and further commercialized at the pilot plants, business incubators, innovation testing grounds, and technology transfer centres. They are extremely important in Food Engineering and Food Technology.

An increasingly crucial role in societal development belongs to the universities. They are called “knowledge generators”, centers of innovation and service centers for the community, facilitating and promoting rapid changes and intensive development of the society. New educational programs based on the latest achievements in science and engineering underline the idea that a new technology should be developed into industrial technology and a system of excellent management.

The recent reports of sociologists say that it is high time to think about higher education in such spheres as medicine, computer technologies, building industry, and food production industry. One of the centers of higher education in Volga Region in Russian Federation is Kazan National Research Technological University (KNRTU). It trains highly-qualified specialists in food production and biotechnology at the Institute of Food Engineering and Biotechnology. The university has different departments specializing in Industrial Biotechnology, Food Production Technology, Meats and Diary Foods Technologies, Food from animal and plant material, Food Biotechnology, Food Production Equipment, Food Engineering at Small Enterprises.

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Publilius Syrus (85–43 B.C.).– a Syrian who was brought as a slave to Italy, but by his wit and talent he won the favor of his master, who freed and educated him. He is famous for his genuine 700 verses in poetry and many witty sayings.

Francis Bacon (1561-1626) – an English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, and the author of many books. He is considered to be the father of scientific method of acquiring natural knowledge.

ASSIGNMENTS

1. Speaking activity. Give a short answer to the question:

What idea is underlined in new educational programs based on the latest achievements in science and engineering?

2.Ask your friend why at present “technology-based knowledge” becomes of special significance for future-oriented education.

3.Explain what Francis Bacon’s statement “Knowledge is power” means. Give a proving example from your life in a written form.

4.How can you explain the phrases from the text: future-oriented education, “knowledge-based” societies, ”research-based knowledge”, “technology-based knowledge

5.Give arguments to prove the idea that the mostly required specialists are in such spheres as medicine, computer technologies, building industry, and food production industry.

6.Writing activity. Write 5 sentences to answer the question: What are business incubators for?

Use the following as the beginning:

To my mind… /It seems to me that … /In my opinion… /I should say that…/ I believe that…

7.Translation practice. Translate the sentences into English:

1.Большие достижения в науке и технике невозможны без знаний, основанных на исследовании.

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2.Именно человек выступает в обществе как создатель, хранитель, а иногда и как разрушитель знаний.

3.Пример изобретения динамита А. Нобелем показывает, как открытие может быть не только на пользу человека, но и принести ему вред.

8. Grammar point. Construct grammatically correct sentences, using Infinitives. Translate them into Russian:

Example: _________ a qualified and experienced engineer you need a good training. (becoming / having become / to become) = To become a qualified and experienced engineer you need a good training. / Чтобы стать квалифицированным и опытным инженером, вам необходима хорошая хорошая подготовка.

1.The task of research engineers is ___________many centers of innovation in Food Engineering. (create / to create / being created).

2.Business incubators and innovation testing grounds ____________are part of “knowledge-based” societies. (developed, to be developed, having developed).

3.In future the universities ____________an important role in societal development. (play / are said to play / shall play)

9.Test-sentences. Choose the correct word to fill in the blank:

-When you have decided what to do about your future ______, you should think where to get education and work experience.

a) self-evaluation b) suggestions c) career d) knowledge

- Do you think that choosing ________ is more difficult for young people

10. Food Science Basics. Translate the following text in a written form using a dictionary. Make a list of words and word combinations referring to Food sphere.

Nutrition

Nutrition is the science that interprets the interaction of nutrients and other substances in food in relation to maintenance, growth, reproduction, health and disease of an organism. It includes food intake, absorption, assimilation, biosynthesis, catabolism and excretion.

The diet of an organism is what it eats, which is largely determined by the availability, the processing and palatability of foods. A healthy diet includes preparation of food and storage methods that preserve

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nutrients from oxidation, heat or leaching, and that reduce risk of foodborne illness.

The list of nutrients that people are known to require is, in the words of Marion Nestle, "almost certainly incomplete". As of 2014, nutrients are thought to be of two types: macronutrients, which are needed in relatively large amounts, and micronutrients, which are needed in smaller quantities. A type of carbohydrate, dietary fiber, i.e. non-digestible material such as cellulose, is required, for both mechanical and biochemical reasons, although the exact reasons remain unclear. Other micronutrients include antioxidants and phytochemicals, which are said to influence (or protect) some body systems. Their necessity is not as well established as in the case of, for instance, vitamins.

Most foods contain a mix of some or all of the nutrient types, together with other substances, such as toxins of various sorts. Some nutrients can be stored internally (e.g. the fat-soluble vitamins), while others are required more or less continuously. Poor health can be caused by a lack of required nutrients or, in extreme cases, too much of a required nutrient. For example, both salt and water (both absolutely required) will cause illness or even death in excessive amount.

(Selected and adapted from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nutrition)

UNIT 5. BASIC AND HIGHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

1.Vocabulary study. Check if you read these words correctly: interview, practice, literacy, equivalent, to exceed, to receive

2.Explain the meaning of the nouns: citizen, native-speaker,

3.Translate the following verbs into Russian: to exceed, to split, to receive, to apply (for), to include, to specialize (in)

4.Explain the phrases from the text: a second-year student, a longstanding tradition, high-quality education, an initial vocational school, to apply for entrance, university level degree

Text reading and comprehension. Read and translate the following text-dialogue orally. Use a dictionary if necessary.

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