英語表現演習3 (金): Components & assemblies processes・部品と製造の工程

Hello!

How are you? Today let's slow down and focus a little more on components and assemblies (部品と製造) - this time by putting them together in talking about processes (工程). 

Look at the picture above. It looks crazy, doesn't it? It's an illustration by a famous 20th century American inventor, engineer, cartoonist, and sculptor named Rube Goldberg. He loved to invent machines with complex processes for doing simple things as a kind of engineering education. 

Here's a video showing a reproduction of another of Rube Goldberg's machines:

Activity 
Now that you have seen the video, now look at the picture at the top of the post and say what the process is. What do you think the man is trying to do with this "machine"? 

Homework

Now look at the following vocabulary of the things in the picture at the top:

A. Eating spoon
B. Spoon string
C. Cracker spoon
D. Cracker
E. Parrot
F. Bird feeder
G. Bird seed holder
H. Bucket
I.  Bucket string
J.  Small safe
K. Rocket
L.  Sickle
M. Sickle string
N. Napkin (from a clock)

In your notebooks, now write out the process as much as you can, using the vocabulary. Bring it next week and let's share how the process works. 

See you then! Take care!

Image: Screenshot of reproduction of illustration taken from https://wonderopolis.org/wonder/what-is-a-rube-goldberg-machine
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