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(4)Technical contents
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Engineering Courses Materials Mechanisms Forces Electric motor Student Central heating Safety at work Young engineer Washing machine Racing bicycle Lasers Technician Refrigerator Scales Portable generator Road breaker Disc brakes Stdengineer Lawn-mower Corrosion Maglev train CAD designer Supercar Graphs Waste recycling Robotics Careers
Applying for a job
Technical syllabus
General General
Engineering materials Mechanisms Cams Statics and Dynamics Electrotechnology Electrical
Automatic systems General
General Engineering design Automaticsystems Transducers Mechanics Gear systems Mechanical technology Robotics General Fluid mechanics
Automatic systems Strain gauges Electrotechnology Power generation Pneumatics
Hgdraulics
General Process control Engineering design
Mechanical technology Corrosion Electrical machines Motor selection CAD
General General Technical plant
Robotics Stepper motors General
(5)Contents
Page
Unit 1 l o Engineering - what's it all about? Tuning-in
11 Reading lntroduction
12 Language study dealslis concerned with
1 Word study Word stress
1 Writing 14 Listening
Unit 2 Choosing a course
1 Tuning-in Reading 20 Writing
Having a purpose
Letter writing 1: requesting information
Unit 3 Engineering materials
22 Tuning-in
22 Reading Scanning tables
23 Language study Making definitions
24 Writing Adding information to a text
Unit4 26 Mechanisms
26 Tuning-in
26 Reading Scanning a text
27 Writing Ways oflinking ideas
29 Language study Dealing with technical terrrQ 29 Speaking practice
Unit 5 Forces in engineering
31 Tuning-in
31 Reading Predicting
33 Reading 2 Grammar links in texts
(6)t o o l i n g /'tu:l~l)/ n [U13, TI01 aU
manufacturing equipment required for the
manufacture of a product y a w /j3:/ n [U28, T81 angular rotation t o x i c i'toks~W adj [U9,T1] poisonous about a vertical axis
transformer/,traens'fa:ma(r)/ n [U6, T6] yield p o i n t 1'ji:ld p31nti n [U26,T7] the
a device for stepping up or down the point where the elastic limit is reached
voltage of an alternating current
t r e a d l e Itredll n [U4, T6] a linkage used to convert oscillating into rotary movement and vice versa
t u r b i n e i't3:bami n [U 17, T9] a machine which produces power when steam, gas or water is passedover the blades attached to the rotating drive output shaft
t u r b u l e n c e /'ta:bjuland n [UlZ, T6] violent or uneven movement of air turner /'t3:na(r)/ n [U29, SP (A)] a lathe
operator
u n d e r c a r r i a g e l'nnda,kiend3i n [U23, RZ] the supporting framework of a vehicle comprising wheels, axles, suspension, etc
v a p o u r l've~pa(r)/ n [U 15, TZ] a gas that can be liquefied by increasing its pressure vernieri'va:nra(r)/ n [U29, TZ] a
measuring gauge fitted with an auxiliary
scale which allows the operator to read
the main scale with an accuracy of one tenth of a division
waisting/'we~st~q/ n [U26, T7]
deformation which brings about narrowing of the section of a rod or material under tension
wave p o w e r i'wew ,paua(r)/ n [U17, T9]
a method of generating electricity by using
the movement of waves in water
workvolume/'wa:k ,volju:~II/ n [UZS,
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