Welcome
To the VESL Student:
WELCOME!
The VESL teachers and staff hope you enjoy these materials. We are very happy to have you as a student! We want to help you learn the English that you need to become a good machine shop worker.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS COURSE:
Directions: Read the material below and do the activity.
In this course you will learn:
- The English language you need to communicate on the job as a machinist.
- The things that machinists do.
- The names of machines, parts on the machines, and what machines can do.
- The names of a machinist’s hand tools and measuring tools and what they can do.
- Ways to get more information, if you don’t understand when the teacher or supervisor tells you to do something.
- Practical methods for reading machinists’ books and other reading materials.
- The mathematics that you will need as a machinist.
In this course you will not learn:
- How to operate the different machines.
(You will learn to use the machines later in the shop class.)
- All the technical things you need to know as a machinist. (Your job now is to learn as much basic language as possible so you will understand your skills teacher and the other students in the machine shop.)
QUICK QUIZ: Tell which of these skills you will be learning in this VESL course.
In this VESL course for machinists, I will learn:
