What operations could be done by robots in hazardous or uncomfortable for the human workers conditions?

 

List the materials you know which are used in engineering. Combine your list with that of your friend and say which of the materials are metals and non-mеtals.

 

Some students and their Instructor are discussing the materials that

Are used for making tools and instruments. Read to their dialogue and

Learn how to name engineering materials.

1. Julia: Is this a workshop?

Instructor: Yes, you are quite right. It is a workshop and there are many tools for your practice here. They are made of different engineering materials.

Paul: What are these materials called?

Instructor: They are called plastic, glass, wood, rubber and metal.

Michael: I think steel, iron and copper are widely used for

making tools.

Instructor: That is right. These metals are widely used for making bolts, screws, pipes, rods, nuts, wires, etc.

 

2. Paul: Look. There is a box of nuts and bolts. They are made

of steel.

Julia: And that wire is made of copper, isn't it?

Michael: Yes, it is. What about this hammer? Is it made of

copper too? Paul: No, it is not. It is made of wood and steel. The handle is

made of wood and the head is made of steel.

Julia: Michal, give me that beaker, please.

Michael: Be careful, Julia. Don't drop it. It is made of glass. Put it here on this shelf.

 

Complete the dialogues with suitable words.

1. -... a workshop?

-... and there are many....

- What are they made of?

- They....

 

2. -.... What is this box made of?

- And by the way, is its lid..., too?

- Can I have it?

 

Language Practice

Match the English phrases with the Russian equivalents.

 

Cast iron, a plastic box, a steel pipe, a copper cup, a glass vase, an iron bolt

 

Пластмасова коробка, залізний болт, скляна ваза, чугун, мідна чашка, сталева труба

 

13. Rephrase the following sentences and translate them into Ukrainian:

EXAMPLE A: This wire is made of copper. This is a cop per wire.

 

1. This rod is made of metal.

2. This handle is made of …rubber.

 

 

3. This tin is made of aluminium.

4. This beaker is made of glass.

EXAMPLE B: This is a steel blade.

This blade is made of steel.

 

1. This is a plastic cover.

2. This is a copper pipe.

3. This is a plastic ruler.

4. This is an iron knife.

 

LESSON 6

Computer.

 

1. Learn the new words and put them into your vocabularies:

characters — символи

data — дані

decision — вирішення

device — пристрій

hardware — обладнання

instruction — команда

intelligence — розум

manner — манера, спосіб

microwave — мікрохвильова

procedures — процедури, операції

purpose — мета

raw — необроблений, сирий

to come to life — оживати

to connect — поєднувати

to convert — перетворювати

to create — створювати

to evaluate — оцінювати

to refer to as — називати щось

to refine — очищати

to respond — відповідати

transmission — передача

various — різноманітні

 

Make 10 sentences with the words given above.

3. Read the text translate it in writing:

 

Computer

The term computer is used to describe a device made up of a combination of electronic and electromechanical (part electronic and part mechanical) components. Computer has no intelligence by itself and is referred to as hardware. A computer system is a combination of five elements:

• Hardware

• Software

• People

• Procedures

• Data/information

When one computer system is set up to communicate with another computer system, connectivity becomes the sixth system element. In other words, the manner in which the various individual systems are connected — for example, by phone lines, microwave transmission, or satellite — is an element of the total computer system.

Software is the term used to describe the instructions that tell the hardware how to perform a task. Without software instructions, the hardware doesn't know what to do. People, however, are the most important component of the computer system: they create the computer software instructions and respond to the procedures that those instructions present.

The basic job of the computer is the processing of information. Computers accept information in the form of instruction called a program and characters called data to perform mathematical and logical operations, and then give the results. The data is raw material while information is organized, processed, refined and useful for decision making. Computer is used to convert data into information. Computer is also used to store information in the digital form.

4. General understanding:

1) What does the term «computer» describe?

2) Is computer intelligent?

3) What are five components of computer system?

4) What is connectivity?

5) What is software? What's the difference between hardware and software?

6) Why people are the most important component of a computer system?

7) In what way terms «data» and «information» differ?

8) How does computer convert data into information?

 

5. Which of the listed below terms have Ukrainian equivalents:

computer, diskette, metal, processor, scanner, information, data, microphones, printer, modem, Internet.