ENGLISH FOR AUTOMATION

ENGINEERING
Compiler: PhD.TRAN,Thi Minh Dung
Lecturer: PhD. NGUYEN, Thi Kim Truc
 • Knowledge of
Automation
• Vocabularies specialized
OUTCOMES
for Automation
Engineering
• Some hard and soft skills
 Learning Mid-term Final exam Present at
Activities Exam class
Quiz on
Vocab
Project A “+” to
Assignments Written test
Presentation exams
Homework

ASSESSMENT PLAN • Students can join in groups to deal with

learning activities, such as brief
presentations every month as well as the
Project presentation as a final exam.
• Brief presentations on the topics, relating
to Specialty of Engineering.
• Quiz on Vocab are taken for every 2-week.
• Assignments are announced by Lecturer
during the lessons in class. Pay attention to
the Slides.
 UNIT 1: ENGINEERING, WHAT IS IT
ALL ABOUT?

Reference: Unit 1 - Oxford English Electrical And Mechanical Engineering

TUNING-IN
 TASK 1

Hãy viết tên kỹ sư cho các ngành kỹ thuật và liệt kê

những lĩnh vực có liên quan đến ngành kỹ thuật này?

Ví du: kĩ sư xây dựng cầu đường liên quan đến xây dựng
cầu, đường, sân bay, ….
danh từ, động từ
 EXAMPLE

1. Civil engineering
2. Bridge
3. Road
4. Cement
5. Constructor 5 minutes to
complete this
6. …..
example
 IT’S YOUR TURN

• Build your own vocabulary notebook

• Write down the words, phrases, sentences that are gorgeous to you
• It’s necessary to take the “Quiz on Vocab”
Đọc đoạn text sau và xác định có bao nhiêu nhánh được đề cập đến.

Engineering is largely a practical activity. It is about putting ideas

into action. Civil engineering is concerned with making bridges,
roads, airports, etc. Mechanical engineering deals with the design and
manufacture of tools and machines. Electrical engineering is about
the generation and distribution of electricity and its many
applications. Electronic engineering is concerned with developing
components and equipment for communications, computing, and so
on.
Mechanical engineering includes marine, automobile, aeronautical,
heating, ventilating, and others. Electrical engineering includes
electricity generating, electrical installation, lighting, etc. Mining and
medical engineering belong partly to mechanical and partly to
electrical.
 TASK 2

Điền vào chỗ trong trong sơ đồ sau

 TASK 3

Nhìn những hình ảnh sau đây, và dự đoán

đây là những ngành kĩ sư nào?
Đọc đoạn text sau và liên hệ với những hình phía trước
• 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
life-preserving products.
• Building services: electrical engineers provide all the services we need in
our homes and 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.
• Automation engineering is the integration of standard engineering fields.
Automatic control of various control system for operating various systems or
machines to reduce human efforts & time to increase accuracy. Automation
engineers are experts who have the knowledge and ability to design, create,
develop and manage systems, for example, factory automation, process
automation and warehouse automation. Automation engineers can design,
program, simulate and test automated machinery and processes. Automation
engineers usually are employed in industries such as the energy sector in
plants, car manufacturing facilities or food processing plants and robots.
Automation engineers are responsible for detailed design specifications and
other documents in their creations
SKILLS TRAINING
VOCABULARY BUILDER
 VERBS:

• Be concerned with:
có liên quan với
• To deal with: thỏa
thuận với
• To belong partly to:
phụ thuộc phần nào vào
NOUNS Nghe và đánh dấu nhấn đúng
cho mỗi từ
1. Machinery: máy móc
2. Mechanical: thuộc về cơ
khí
3. Machine: máy móc
4. Install: lắp đặt
5. Installation:
6. Electricity:
7. Electrical
8. Electronics
9. Aeronautical: hàng không
10.Ventilation:
Learning Activities:
1.Đặt câu với các từ vựng trên
2.Tìm từ đồng nghĩa
Speaking activities

Mỗi nhóm sẽ thực hành hội thoại trong nhóm, đọc, hiểu,
tự điều chỉnh cách phát âm cho đúng. Sau đó sẽ cử đại
diện lên thể hiện lại đoạn hội thoại này.
Vocabulary
1. Automation: the use of 1. white collar: công việc văn phòng
machines to do work that = a job you do at an office rather
people do or used to do than a factory
2. Susceptible: nhạy cảm, dễ bị ảnh 2. artificial intelligence (AI): trí tuệ
hưởng bởi nhân tạo
3. = to likely to be affected by = a computer’s ability to copy
4. manual dexterity: thủ công intelligent human behaviour
khéo léo 3. keeping your fingers crossed:
= good with your hands nắm trong lòng bàn tay
5. cognitive labour: lao động trí hoping that things are going to
thức turn out the way you want them
= using your mind to perform to
a task
6. noggin
= head (informal)
Will robots take our jobs?

If you are sitting at a desk, driving a taxi or answering the phone, stop for a
moment and ask: could a robot or machine do this job better? The answer,
unfortunately for you, might well be yes. These days more and more jobs are
done more efficiently by a machine. Listen to Neil and Finn's conversation and
learn new vocabulary.

The question

What makes a job more likely to be done by robots? Is it if a job involves…

a) manipulating small objects?

b) working in open spaces?

c) social and emotional skills?

 NOUNS

Danh từ được tạo thành từ động từ có thể gọi tên một người hoặc một
thiết bị (device) thông qua suffixes –or hoặc –er. Và chúng có thể mô tả
một hoạt động bằng cách thay hậu tố thành –tion. Nhận biết các danh từ
này có thể giúp ta phân biệt được 2 loại danh từ và nhận dạng chúng
bằng thành phần gốc của động từ
Learning Activities:
1.Dịch sang tiếng Việt
 COUNTABLE AND UNCOUNTABLE
NOUNS

Để biết được rằng một danh từ có thể đếm được, chúng ta cần phải làm
rõ nó có một “biên giới” cụ thể hay không và có thể được nhìn như một
vật riêng biệt. Nó có một điểm đầu và điểm cuối cụ thể hay không?
Ví dụ:
Computer – the noun ‘computer’ is a separate entity that can be counted
 The modulated data are coded in (2.3). One (piece of) data that
Data.
we have acquired…
 UNCOUNTABLE NOUNS

Nouns that cannot be counted do not have clear boundaries. They have no clear
parts that can be separated or enclosed. They are all part of the whole without
any obvious limits. These uncountable nouns are usually concepts, abstract ideas,
qualities, substances or emotions.
Ví dụ:
intelligence safety caution equipment information evidence
Safety – the noun ‘safety’ cannot be thought of as having clear boundaries or
limits.
If the noun is uncountable then it has no plural form
Safeties must also be taken into account when handling the cables.

Khi nào thì countable? Khi nào thì uncountable?

Tùy thuộc vào ý muốn sử dụng của tác giả và ngữ cảnh.
• The plan for the daily operations was initially drawn up on paper.
• I had a number of papers that needed to be submitted before the end of
term.

• Experience plays a large part in being able to assess the requirements of

the system.
• We then surveyed the experiences of the users.
 CHÚ Ý

Một số tác giả thường lựa chọn sử dụng số nhiều (plural nouns),
trong khi, uncountable form thích hợp trong ngữ cảnh hơn.

Ví dụ:
1. This may well lead to misunderstandings (misunderstanding) and
conflicts (conflict).
2. All the network interfaces here will require protection.
The grid protections are transmission line, busbar and backup.
 COMPOUND NOUNS

The next stage is to use this network block.

This interface will not permit any user traffic to….
There would be no power flow through this line after faults (fault)
isolation.
 READING SKILL

1. SKIMMING: đọc lướt lấy ý chính

Dùng mắt đọc lướt qua toàn bộ bài khóa để lấy ý chính và nội dung bao
quát của bài
Khi nào thì dùng Skimming?
• Để xem ý nghĩa của bài đọc
• Xác định từ khóa chính
• Xem có cần đọc đoạn này không
Các bước skimming:
➢ Đọc chủ đề của bài
➢ Đọc đoạn giới thiệu hoặc khái quát
➢ Đọc trọn đoạn đầu của bài khóa
➢ Đọc các câu phụ đề nếu có, và tìm mối tương quan giữa chúng
➢ Đọc câu đầu tiên của các đoạn còn lại:
❖ Ý chính của mỗi đoạn thường nằm ở câu đầu tiên
❖ Nếu tác giả bắt đầu bằng câu hỏi, một lời dẫn, thì có thể ý chính nằm ở
câu cuối
➢ Đọc sâu hơn vào bài khóa và chú ý:
❖ Từ đặt câu hỏi: who, what, when, why, how
❖ Danh từ riêng
❖ Các từ khác biệt, (viết hoa, …)
❖ Liệt kê
❖ Tính từ số lượng (best, most, worst,…)
❖ Những dấu hiệu đánh máy: nghiêng, đậm, gạch chân, …..
➢ Đọc toàn bộ đoạn cuối
Cách làm

Đặt câu hỏi:

1. Tìm chủ đề của bài đọc
2. Xác định đối tượng của bài
3. Xác định ý chính của bài
4. Xác định thông tin chính của tác giả
5. Xác định thông tin cơ bản của tác giả
6. Tìm thông tin có thể làm tiêu đề chính
7. Tìm mục tiêu chính của tác giả
Cách làm:
1. Đọc các dòng đầu tiên của mỗi đoạn văn
2. Tìm ý chung nhất trong dòng đầu tiên và tìm mối liên quan giữa chúng
3. Trong quá trình đọc chú ý đến những từ khóa được lặp đi lặp lại
4. Thường làm câu hỏi nyfy cuối cùng sau khi đã trả lời các câu hỏi chi tiết
trước
5. Đọc lướt nhanh toàn bài để kiểm tra xem đã tìm đúng nội dung chính
6. Loại các phương án chắc chắn sai, thông thường các ý chính thì sẽ không
quá chung chung, không quá chi tiết và cũng khong thể không được nhắc
đến trong bài
7. Chọn phương án đúng nhất trong các phương án còn lại
Learning Activities:
1.Đọc đoạn văn và take-note
 JOB LOSS FEARS FROM AUTOMATION
OVERBLOWN

About 14 per cent of jobs in OECD countries are ‘highly automatable’, the rich country
think-tank concludes in one of the first significant pieces of research that examines the
differences in the tasks being done by similar workers. The research suggests far fewer
jobs are at risk of disappearing than previous estimates from Carl Frey and Michael
Osborne, two academics at the University of Oxford, which found that 47 per cent of US
jobs were at risk from ‘computerisation’. Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and
robotics have led policymakers and economists to worry about the risk of widespread
unemployment as machines displace workers. But the research found that most jobs
will be difficult to automate as they require the ability to effectively negotiate complex
social relationships, creativity and complex reasoning or the ability to carry out physical
tasks in an unstructured work environment, all of which are much harder for machines
to do.
While previous research has also examined these barriers to automation, the OECD
uses new data which accounts for differences between workers with the same job
title. Stefano Scarpetta, director employment, labour and social affairs at the OECD,
gave the example of the difference between a car mechanic working on a production
line in a large plant compared with one working in an independent garage. The latter
may be harder to automate fully but aspects of the job could still change. The report
shows that worries about “massive technological unemployment” are to some
extent overblown, he said. Instead the risks are of “further polarization of the labour
market” between highly paid workers and other jobs that may be “relatively low
paid and not particularly interesting.” “The risk of automation is highly concentrated
on the low skilled,” he said, “some people may slide further down the skill
distribution.” Jobs in English-speaking countries, Scandinavian countries and the
Netherlands are the least likely to be automated, the report finds, while jobs in
Germany, Japan and southern and eastern Europe were the most at risk
The difference between these economies is not primarily because of bigger
manufacturing sectors, the report says, but because jobs are already done in
different ways. “Within the same occupations, the frequency of perception and
manipulation tasks as well as cognitive and social intelligence tasks varies,” the
researchers wrote, adding that this may reflect that some countries have already
adopted labour saving technologies and jobs have already adapted. While the
proportion of jobs at risk is far lower than other published estimates this is still a
large number of people — about 66 million across the 32 countries that
participated in the study — and many among this group will find it hard to retrain.
For the US alone 13 million jobs could be lost, the research said. “As job losses are
unlikely to be distributed equally across the country, this would amount to several
times the disruption in local economies caused by the 1950s decline of the car
industry in Detroit, where changes in technology and increased automation, among
other factors, caused massive job losses.”
Jobs which are most at risk of automation are those which require the least
amount of education, particularly food preparation, cleaners and manual workers
in mining, construction and manufacturing. “In parallel, the large share of workers
whose jobs are likely to change quite significantly as a result of automation calls for
countries to strengthen their adult learning policies to prepare their workforce for
the changes in job requirements they are likely to face,” the report said.
GRAMMAR EXERCISES
 PRESENT PASSIVE

Passive voice is very common in Science English. This is because

this structure can convey the core nature of science, that is the
objectivity. Therefore, passive voice commonly used in
statements of scientific phenomena, descriptions of operating
processes or experiments, or the uses of electric devices, etc.
RELATIVE CLAUSES