1/ Understanding mechanical parts

For diagram completion tasks, you may need to listen and label the parts of a machine or device.

 

1.1  Look at the images below. What machine parts can you see?

 

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4

 

 

2

 

5

 

3

 

6

 

1.2  Listen to extracts A-F from different talks. Match them to pictures 1-6 and check your answers to 1.1.

At the bottom of the system there is a storage tank…
The water in the pool was becoming quite polluted so a pump…
A small spring in the centre causes the toy…
There is a very fine grille at different points…
The water passes through the pipe and…
There is a wheel on the side, which is attached to…

 

1.3 Look at the diagram completion task below.
1 Look at options A-F. How many extra answers are there?
2 Look carefully at the device. Think about how it might work.
3 Decide which verbs in the box you might hear.
spin turn pop hold wind generate wrap pull
explode push rotate hit drag activate force

 

1.4  Listen and complete the diagram.

Parts

A cooling fan
B storage
C detonator
D party starter
E motor
F winder
Questions 1-4
Write the correct letter, (A-F), next to questions 1-4 below.

 

 

1.5  Which were the distractors? Listen again and decide why these answers were wrong.

 

1.6  Which verbs from the box in 1.3 did you hear?