Additional Text. At an Automatic Plant

Grammar. Noun.

Text Study

I. Pre-reading Exercises

1. Repeat the words in chorus:

Manufacturing, simplification, environment, dangerous, numerically, especially, signaling, agriculture, though, nevertheless, workpiece, feedback, computer-aided design, computer-aided manufacture.

2. While reading the text you will come across a number of international words. Try to guess what Ukrainian words they remind of you:

Machine, operation, control, system, automobile, product, pilot, telephone, mechanization, robot, to manipulate, function, method, principle, thermostat, magnetic, microprocessor, computer, centre.

3. Pay attention to some grammatical points:

1) The simplification of work made it possible to design and build machines that resembled the motions of the worker. 2) Industrial robots, originally designed only to perform simple tasks in environments dangerous to human workers, are now widely used to transfer, manipulate, and position both light and heavy workpieces performing all the functions of a transfer machine. 3) When using these systems a designer draws a part and indicates its dimensions with the help of a mouse, light pen, or other input device. 4) After the drawing has been completed the computer automatically gives the instructions that direct a machining centre to machine the part.

II. Reading

Read the text and be ready to find in the text the answers to the following questions:

• What were industrial robots originally designed?
• What principle is used in all automatic-control mechanisms?
• What enabled the development of computer-aided design and computer-aided manufacture technologies?