Resume of the video Rover South Works

The Rover car factory of the Central South region that employs 1500 persons has obtained it bests results in ten years. The sales are very high, this year the plant has produced 525000 units, the best mark in ten years.
Now the company belongs to British Aerospace and they has said that the factory is still to close in the 1990s.

The reasons of the owners of the Rover group are that the new technologies need less space, and for this reason the company now have over capacity. They said that the successful Rover 800 range production will be translated to the Cowley´s North Works.

EXERCISE page 9 computers

Answer the following questions avout the passage.

-What makes up a computer system?
The central process unit, that is divided in three parts; the control unit, the arithmetical and logic unit, and the principal memory.

-How does the Arithmetic and Logic Unit Work?
Receive command pulses by the Control unit.

-What are the differences between main memory and back-up storage?
The main memory, stores both the data being processed and the program that controls the processing, and the memory of back up storage

-Can you give some examples of back-up storage?
For example the security copies that you can put on cd´s, diskettes, etc.

-What does a front-end processor do?
It controls the flow of data between the C.P.U and fetched only when required.

-What are the different elements that surround a CPU?
Are peripheral units.

-What are I/O devices? Are the types of peripheral units
Can you give some examples? In devices are fir example keyboards, light pens, microphones… Out devices are monitors, printers… In and out devices are disc drives.

-What do the terms ``on line´´ and ``of line´´ refer to?
Work on line is when you are doing something connected to the internet, and of line is when you are not connected to it.

-What does ``data acquisition´´ mean?
Consist of editing raw data so that it can be fed into a computer in a form the computer can recognise.

-How is data outputted?
It can be outputted printing it on a screen or in a paper whit a printer.

-What is a mainframe system protected against, and why?
Is protected against the fluctuations in the voltage from the main supply, because that can be dangerous for the system.

-What else should an efficient system have?
An air conditioning system and a protection for dust.

Materials

This is the table of materials that we have studied in class :

Iron and steel

Types of composites

Natural composites
Ex: Wood. It is composed of fibres of cellulose that are set in a matrix of natural resing.

Man – made composite
Ex: Stronglass. It is composed of glass fibre and resin like the wood, but made by the men.

Resume of the information about materials of a web page.

Woods are classified into two main groups, softwoods and hardwoods. The timber that comes from the coniferous tree is known as softwood and the timber that comes from deciduous trees is known as hardwood.

EXAMPLES OF WOODS

Softwoods:
PINE - cheap wood used in the building trade and for furniture

Hardwoods:
TEAK - Contains oils which means it is resistant to decay. Is used to make garden furniture or for wood block flooring.

Other examples are mahogany and oak.

WOODS - SHAPES AND SECTIONS

For make something of wood you will need the wood as square sections, boards, moulds or dowel rods.

SMART MATERIALS-POLIMORPH SHAPING BY HAND

Polymorph is a thermoplastic material that can be shaped and reshaped any number of times. it is normally supplied as granules that look like small plastic beads. In the classroom it can be heated in hot water and when it reaches 62 degrees centigrade the granules form a mass of ‘clear’ material.
This plastic is very useful for use it in 3D modelling. It can be shaped by hand or pressed into a shape.

SMART MATERIALS-SHAPE MEMORY ALLOY (SMA)

SMA wire is sometimes called ‘Nitinol’, as it is a composed of nickel and titanium.This wire looks like ordinary wire and even has many of the same properties. It can be folded to form complex shapes quite easily and it conducts electricity. However, it is very expensive when compared to ordinary wire. However, it has properties that make it very special:
1. The wire has a memory - for example, if it is folded to form a shape and then heated above 90 degrees (centigrade) it returns to its original shape
2. If we heat the wire with a determinate shape for five minutes at 150 degrees and after we fold it in other shape, it can returns to the initial position if we put it into hot water

Vocabulary

This are words that I have know along the courses:
soft → blando
stiff → duro/rígido
brittle → brillante
aircraft → avión
aluminium foil → papel de aluminio
drill → taladro
strength → fuerza
toughness → dureza
kitchenware → equipamiento de cocina
blast → chorro
coke → coque
limestone → piedra caliza
rise → ascender
drain → desagüe
ore → mineral
melt → fundir
cast → colado
behaviour → conducta
negligible → insignificante
wrought → forjado
thick → grueso
sticky → pegajoso
hollow → hueco
weak → endeble/frágil
slide → deslizarse
chains → cadenas
oxidize → oxidar
cutlery → cubertería
brief → breve
brewery → destilería

The parts of a presentation are:

Greeting, name, position.
Ex: Good morning. My name is___. I’m the new Finance Manager.

Title / subject
Ex: I’d like to talk (to you) today about ____...

Purpose / objective
The purpose of this talk is to give you the background to...

Length
I plan to be brief.

Outline/ main parts
The subject can be looked at under the following headings:

Questions
Please interrupt me if there’s something which needs clarifying. Otherwise, there’ll be time for discussion at the end.

Reference to the audience
I can see many of you are...


There are two types of presentations:

Internal; to colleagues at a budget meeting
External: to delegates at a professional conference




Letters
Another important thing that we are studying is how to structure a letter; the most important parts are:


References
A reference is useful for filing. It tells you who wrote and signed the letter (the boss) and then who typed it (the secretary). A reference can may also include a file number and a date.

Date.

Adresse
Is the person you are writing to

Salutation.
There are two types

If we know the name of the addressee, we begin:
Dear Mr Smith
Dear Miss Hill

And we end:
Yours sincerely

If we don’t know the name of the addressee, we begin:
Dear Sir (to a man)
Dear Madam (to a woman)

And we end:
Yours faithfully

Subject of the letter
Tell us exactly what the letter is about, for example, the number of an order or invoice.

Body of the letter
It’s the part where we put the thing that we want to communicate to the person that will receive the letter.

Complementary close
It’s and introduction for sign

Signature

Senders name position
If the position of the senders in the company it’s important we have to put it.

Enclosures


This is the example of letter that I have written.

Our Ref JS/FMM
Your Ref
Restaurante``El churrasco´´

Calle Cielito Lindo 150
Buenos Aires
Argentina
Tel. 665646549998
31 March 2007

Miss Susan Brandman
Commercial director
The Kitchen Store
320, Burmingham street


Dear miss Susan

Recently I have bought the restaurant and I have check that the equipation in cutlery of it is insufficient and very old. I need knives, forks and spoons, 200 of each of them, large and small.
Last week I saw an advertisement of your shop of professional kitchen equipment.
I would ask you for a catalogue whit your products and their prizes included.
When I will have seen your catalogue and if I am interested, I would send you a letter with my order.

I hope to receive the catalogue soon.

Your Sincerely




Jorge Soler
Owner of the restaurant








Adding extra information to a text

We have this text about aluminium:
Aluminium is used to make aircraft, engine components, and many items for the kitchen.

We can add extra information to the text with comas or dashes;
Aluminium, which is light, soft, and ductile, is used to make aircraft, engine components – for example, cylinder heads – and many items for the kitchen, such as pots.

Me

My name is Fernando Muñoz Molina and I’m student of second year in industrial engineering.
I have choose English like option because the last year I liked it.
This year the lessons will be imparted by two teachers; the name of one is Gary and I don’t know him, but I think I would like him. He is the person who teaches the theory.
The other teacher is Ana she was my teacher the last year and I’m coming this year to English II because I like the way she teach.
I’m beginning this blog because Ana is pressuring me to do it.

This are the things that I have studied in my english clases

Relative clauses

Relative clauses give extra information about something. The relatives Who, Which, that, where and whose can introduce a relative clause.

Type I
That’s the man whose car broke down.
This is the woman who climbed the mountain.
The hotel that we stayed in had a lovely view.

-No commas
-Who, that → for people
-Which, that → for things

Type II
The house, which is painted white, has a large garden.
John, who speaks seven languages, will be our new tour guide.

-Commas (extra information)
-Who → for people
-Which → for things


Presentations
We had made presentations relationed with our studies. My presentation; it’s about the process for design something. In it I explain all the phases that use the designer for make something. I showed it for the rest of the class. I think that the rest of the class liked it although I think it was a bit boring because I’m not very good in talking to people.

This is my presentation: