4. A) Name some of the areas in which engineers work. What kind of engineers work in the areas which you have mentioned?

b) Read the following texts to check your answers to task 4a).

Transport: Cars, trains, ships and planes are all products of mechanical engineering. Mechanical engineers are also involved in support services such as roads, rail track, harbours, and bridges.

Food processing: Mechanical engineers design, develop and, make the machines and the processing equipment for harvesting, preparing and preserving the foods and drinks that fill the supermarkets.

Medical engineering: Body scanners, X-ray machines, life-support systems, and other high-tech equipment result from mechanical and electrical engineers combining with medical experts to convert ideas into life-saving and preserving products.

Building services: electrical engineers provide all the services we need in our homes places of work, including lighting, heating, ventilation, air-conditioning, refrigeration, and lifts. Energy and power: Electrical engineers are concerned with the production and distribution of electricity to homes, offices, industry, hospitals, colleges and schools, and the installation and maintenance of the equipment involved in these processes.

c) What are different types of engineers or different branches of engineering concerned with? Answer this question using the information from texts 4b) and the pattern:

Pattern:

A	B
mechanical	machines

1. Mechanical engineering deals with machines.

2. Mechanical engineers deal with machines.

3. Mechanical engineering is concerned with machines.

4. Mechanical engineers are concerned with machines.

5. Machines are the concern of mechanical engineers.

A		B
1 marine		A air-conditioning
2 aeronautical		B roads and bridges
3 heating and ventilating		C body scanners
4 electricity generating		D cables and swithchgear
5 automobile		E communications and equipment
6 civil		F ships
7 electronic		G planes
8 electrical installation	H cars and trucks
9 medical	I power stations

d) What is civil engineering concerned with? Read the texts about civil engineering and find the answer to this question. Before reading do tasks to the texts. (See unit II)

Unit II Civil Engineering

Task 1. In pairs answer the following questions.

1. What are different types of engineers concerned with?

2. What are different branches of engineering concerned with?

Task 2. Look up the words in a dictionary find their pronunciation and read them aloud.

mechanism
principle
architecture
material
construction
mechanics
economics
thermodynamics
communication
utilization
fortification
atomic

Task 3. Learn the new words and phrases.

in a more extended sense	в более широком смысле
the former..., the latter...	имеется в виду из двух упомянутых)..., тогда как последний... (из двух упомянутых)
Here are some fields of civil engineering	Вот некоторые области строительства
appliance	приспособление, прибор
to apply	применять, использовать
to apply to	употреблять
branch	ветвь; филиал; отрасль
to concern with	касаться, относиться; интересовать
to conflict with nature	противоречить природе, бороться с природой
to deal with	иметь дело с чем-либо, кем-либо.
to divide into	делить, делить на группы, разделять
to distinguish from	отличать
to execute	выполнять
harbour	гавань
to lead to	вести к
to protect oneself against	защищаться от чего-л.
to sustain	поддерживать; выдерживать

Task 4. Translate the following words and phrases into Russian.

designing
constructing,
utilization of the materials
art of executing
to consider
application of science

Task 5. Make up your own sentences using the words and phrases from tasks 3, 4, 5

Task 6. Read and translate each part of the text using a dictionary.