Unit 18
Factory tour
Prepositions of place
1. Listening
A Plant Manager is showing some visitors around an electronic assembly plant that makes printed circuit boards. As you listen, match each object with the phrase describing its location. The first one has been done for you.
Listening task
Right. Basically there are three parts of the plant-the supply are, the assembly area and the despatch area.
So let’s start here in the supply area. The raw materials come by truck and are off-loaded onto a conveyor. The conveyor takes them into the supply room. As you can see, this room is divided into three storage areas. On the shelves we store the electronic components. Stacked up against the wall are the boards and between the boards and the shelves we store the chemicals used in the process.
Right, let’s go through into the assembly area. In this first part, the boards are cut into shape. There is one passing through the cutter now and then holes are drilled into the board... the boards come out of the drilling machine and then the components are inserted into the holes. If we go across to the other side, you’ll see the boards coming off a conveyor.
So the assembled boards then go into the despatch area, which is behind this door. The boards are sorted according to their type and size over here-on this big table. Then they are stacked in front of this table here. And finally they are packed in boxes ready for despatch.
Supply area
Object
1. raw materials
2. conveyor
3. components
4. boards
5. chemicals
Location phrase
a. takes them into supply room
b. stacked against the wall
c. off-loaded onto a conveyor
e. stored between the boards and shelves
f. stored on shelves.
Assembly area
Object
6. boards
7. holes
8. boards
9. components
10. boards
Location phrase
f. come out of drilling machine
g. inserted into boards
h. pass through a cutter
i. come off a conveyor
j. drilled into boards
Despatch area
Object
11. assembled boards
12. despatch area
13.boards
14. boards
15. boards
Location phrase
k. stacked in front of table
m. Go into despatch area
n. Packed in boxes
o. behind this door
2. Presentation
Notice how the following prepositions are used to refer to place:
请见附图18
3. Controlled practice
Complete the following sentences with an appropriate preposition.
1. London lies ___________ the River Thames.
2. I’ll meet you _______ the airport. (i.e. the terminal building)
3. I’ll meet you _______ the airport. (i.e. that point on the map)
4. (looking at a map) I can’t find Tweedale Street at all. It must be _________ the map.
5. Cologne is _________ Bonn and Dusseldorf.
6. We walked _________ the main hall to the conference room.
7. My car is parked ______ _______ _______ the building.
8. Where’s Peter? He just walked ________ ________ the office.
9. Come _______ my office. We can talk in private there.
10. On a clear day, you can see _______ the Channel _______ France.
11. Now I remember the bridge. It’s ______ the River Avon
12. Exhausted after the meeting, he dropped his briefcase ________ the desk.
13. He put the document _________ the safe.
14. I took the letter ________ ________ the filing cabinet.
15. The ship sails _________ Hamburg __________ Stockholm.
16. The tunnel will built 100 metres ________ sea level.
课文注释及词汇讲解
* basically 基本地
e.g. Basically there are three parts of the plant—the supply area, the assembly area and the despatch area.
工厂基本由三个部分组成——供货区、装配区和发货区。
* off-load 卸货[与unload同义]
e.g. The raw materials come by truck and are off-loaded onto a conveyor.
原材料由卡车运来，然后卸到传送带上。
* storage 储存
e.g. storage area 存货区
In this plant, 500 bales of cotton are in the warehouse.
该厂库内存有500包棉花。
store 储存
e.g. The finished goods are stored in the warehouse.
成品储存在仓库里。
* stack 堆起来
e.g. The boards are stacked up against the wall.
板子靠墙堆着。
* chemicals 化学品[注意：用复数形式]
* process 过程
in the process of ...在……的过程中
e.g. ... between the boards and shelves we store the chemicals used in the process |
