IV Communicative skills

1. Read the dialogues and reproduce them:

1)

A. Hi, Oleg. Nice to meet you. You know I am a first-year student of the University.

B. Hi, Max. I’m pleased to see you here too. What field are you going to specialize in?

A. You see, it’s industrial electronics. But I have rather superficial knowledge about my future speciality. I’ve heard it to be a very perspective and dynamic technology.

B. Yes, you are quite right. Electronic techniques are applied in many fields, including industry, communication, defence and entertaining.

A. And how electronics deals with automation, I wonder.

B. Oh, it makes a great contribution to automation. Electronic computers have provided the bases for the construction of automated lines, automated units, shops and whole plants…

A. And tools with programmed control robots and manipulators. I remember professor Burmistenko to speak about this in his lecture. Would you help me to understand the difference between electronics and industrial electronics, Oleg?

B. With pleasure. You see, electronics is a science which studies the properties of electrons, the laws of their motion and transmission of various kinds of energy.

Industrial electronics deals with the technology of design, construction of electronic devices.

A. Oh, I see you are a well-trained student. By the way, what year are you in?

B. I am in my fourth year. Industrial electronics is my future speciality too. Electronics has penetrated into all spheres of human activity from household appliances to artificial intelligence. And my aim is to make my own contribution to its development.

A. I wish you great success in your studies, Oleg.

B. The same to you.