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Topic: automation grammar: past perfect tense

1. Read and memorize the following words and word combinations:

automation

-aвтоматизаці

research

-дослідження

prominent

-видатний

productivity of the labour

-продуктивність праці

prospects are breath taking

-захоплюючі дух перспективи

replacement

-заміна, перестановка

foreseeable future

-передбачене майбутнє

thermonuclear reaction

-термоядерна реакція

incalculable stores

-незличенні запаси

century

-вік

thermal and hydropower plants

-теплові і гидроелектростанції

cybernetics

-кiбернетика

overall effect

-загальний eфект

release

-звільняти,полегшувати

growth

-ріст,зростання

pave the way

-прокладати дорогу

in turn

-в свою чергу

2. Read and translate the text: Automation

We live in the age of very interesting achievements of science and engineering. This is the age of space researches, the age of atomic energy, the age when electronics and automation occupy the most prominent place.

Automation reached the highest stage in the development of technology.

Modern man comes less and less in contact with nature. He lives more and more in an artificial world of his own making – the world of technological devices that greatly increase the productivity of his labour. And the prospects ahead are more breath-taking still. Transplantation of the organs of the human body and their replacement with artificial organs, general use of teaching machines and flights of earthlings to other planets are a matter of the foreseeable future. It is believed that controlled thermonuclear reaction which will release incalculable stores of energy will become possible before the century is out.

Now the automated machines can do work of hundreds of individual workers. Automation is very effective in continuous cycle production and operation of thermal and hydropower plants.

Application of automation and cybernetics to production increases greatly the labour productivity, makes it possible to release vast amounts of labour power from inefficient small-scale production branches. Automation not only makes labour productive but radically changes its nature.

The mechanization of house work is also important. The overall effect of the process is the release of millions of women for highly productive labour. Automatic equipment frees man from a number of difficult and dangerous production processes.

By accelerating the growth of labour productivity, automation paves the way to shorter working hours, and this in turn provides conditions stimulating the creative activity and intellectual development of the individual.