English for Electrical and Mechanical Engineering

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Electrical and Mechanical

Engineering

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Technical contents

Page Unit Topic

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

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

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

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