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Read the text “The Mini Story”. The three paragraphs are from the newspaper article and one is from a fashion magazine. Which one?



 

 

THE MINI STORY A. There are 2,500 employees at the plant and working environment is good. The car assembly line is designed ergonomically to be easy to use and comfortable for the operators. For example, the car is raised, lowered, and turned through 90 degrees so the workers can do their jobs comfortably and easily. Old-fashioned, noisy, compressed-air tools have been replaced with quieter and more accurate electric tools. B.The first Mini was first made in 1959 and since then over five million people have owned one. BMW, a German car manufacturer, now owns the Mini and the newest model is being manufactured at an advanced production system in Oxford, England. C. During the 1990s approximately £500 million was spent to change an old Oxford car factory into a state-of-the-art manufacturing plant. The Oxford plant now produces around 100,000 Minis a year. D. In Britain in the 1960s the only really cool car was the Mini. Everybody wanted one. It starred in advertisements and films and was as famous as the Beatles or the Rolling Stones. Anyone who was young, rich, famous, and fashionable had to be photographed sitting on, in, or just near one. And anyone who was poor, unknown, and not very fashionable wanted one too. There were small and cheap and suited the mood of the post-war generation who had more money and freedom than their parents had ever had.  

* (the text is from: “Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 9, pg.10, ex.2)

 

Now read the text again and put the paragraphs from the newspaper article in the correct order.

3. Find the following expressions in the text:

- … условия труда…;

- … для легкого использования…;

- … удобно и легко…;

- … производитель авто…;

- … в год…;

- … также … как…;

- … соответствовали духу послевоенного времени… .

4. Find words in the text that mean:

1. employees who work on machines (paragraph A)
2. factory (paragraph C)
3. very modern (a phrase, paragraph C)
4. working conditions (paragraph A)
5. where the cars are put together (two words, paragraph A)

* (“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 9, pg.10, ex.4)

5. Read the text again and answer the questions (1 – 5) below:

 

1. When was the first Mini made?
2. Why is the Mini factory in Oxford special?
3. How many new Minis are made each year?
4. How many people work at the Mini factory?
5. Why is the new factory better for the workers?

* (“Engineering” Workshop by Lindsey White, OUP; Unit 9, pg.10, ex.5)

 

6. Remember the Passive Voice. Find examples of Passive in the text and complete the table:

  Simple Continuous Perfect
Present
Past
Future        

7. Match the phrases from columns A, B, C to make sentences about the Mini car plant:

 

  A B C
The car is designed through 90 degrees.
Old fashioned tools   was made to change old factory into a modern plant.
Near £500 million is being manufactured ergonomically.
The newest model was spent in 1959.
Assembly line have been replaced in Oxford, England.
The first Mini is raised, lowered, turned with more accurate electronic tools.

 







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