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Unit 3

Text Study. Automation and Labour.

Additional Text. Automated Production Lines.

Grammar. Conjunctions.

Text Study

I. Pre-reading Exercises

1. Repeat the words in chorus:

Knowledge, nowadays, scientific, to appear, throughout the world, qualitatively, to discharge, physiological, comprehensively, to lighten, designing, to require.

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

Principal, technological, progress, form, production, decade, control, publication, integrate, minimum, communication, radical, machine, function, mechanism, agent, regulation, intellectual, physiological, system, transport, organization, microprocessors.

3. Pay attention to some grammatical points:

1) Automatic control was recognized to be a new, progressive, independent branch of science and engineering. 2) Today one cannot imagine technical progress without automation. 3) Emphasis should be made that automation is not a mere extension of mechanization. 4) All the hydro-power plants in the country have been completely automated. 5) Modern means of automation make it possible to link up in a single complex the whole technological chain. 6) Needless to say, comprehensive automation calls for material inputs and time. 7) We consider the FMS to be the future of the automated factory.

II. Reading

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

· What is “AUTOMATION”?

· What are the consequences of automation?

· What are the possibilities of modern means of automation?