UNIT 7. Session 5

 

 ANDALUCIAN INDUSTRIES

List different industries that can be found in Andalucía. What famous brands do you know? 10'

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Read about the following industries in Andalucía and match elements of their machinery with the different texts. 10'

SEVILLA 

Airbus Defence & Space has just celebrated the first ten years of its San Pablo Sur factory in Seville with a festive open day for employees and their families. Through various recreational and informative activities, such as augmented reality games, access to the interior of aircraft, and a spectacular air show, it has managed to showcase the exciting work that lies behind the engineering and manufacture of aircraft. This is an industrial sector that directly and indirectly creates a significant number of highly skilled jobs, which has major benefits for the regional and national community.

Airbus DS has three factories in Seville, a present-day reflection of an aeronautical manufacturing tradition that dates back to the very origin of aviation.

Seville, along with a dozen other cities around the world, forms part of a select group of facilities that have the means to design, assemble and test a complete aircraft. These facilities have been here since practically the origin of aviation thanks to historical companies like Hispano Aviación and CASA. Current companies, such as Alestis and Airbus Defence & Space, have inherited their experience and knowledge.

Airbus has a total of three plants around the city of Seville: Tablada and San Pablo, which is divided into North and South. To learn about the origin and history of these factories we must go back more than a century, to the neighbourhood of Tablada, the birthplace of aeronautics in Seville.

ALMERIA 

The Background

Cosentino are a family-owned business, much like Ian Dunn Woodwork & Design. Their journey began in 1940 with Eduarda and Eduardo Cosentino, quarrying small amounts of marble in Macael (Almeria, Spain). Not long after, the second generation of the family joined – Francisco, Eduardo and Jose Martinez-Cosentino – opening a small warehouse in Barcelona, Spain, stocking the Macael Marble.

1980

2010

2014

During the ‘80s, Cosentino expanded over Europe and quickly realised they had no limitations. They diverted away from Macael Marble and became innovators with Silestone in the ‘90s. Without fail they have continued to release ground breaking materials:
 
- ECO – recycled surface
 
- SENSA – granite surface with anti stain protection
 
- DEKTON – ultra-compact surface

GRANADA 

At the end of the 16th century is when the sugar cane production was at its peak, becoming single crop farming in the area with more than 10,000 marjales (the local unit of measure equivalent to 5,280,000 m2). The effect of this sugar cane production was clearly seen in the landscape and organisation of the crops, where the subsistence crops were set aside. The consequence of getting wood for the factories was even worst for the landscape.
During the 18th century, the traditional sugar cane manufacturing process went into crisis which led to an incredible transformation of the agricultural plain and an important redistribution of the lands. As a consequence, almost the whole sugar cane crops disappeared and were replaced at the beginning of 1800 by cotton crops.
At the end of the 40s, the sugar cane manufacture came back thanks to the up-dating of  the machinery with the use of the steam as the main force to make the mills work, the evaporation in a vacuum and the boiling processes as well as the use of turbines to purge. The whole development and use of these methods made the productivity grow and resulted in the return of the sugar cane production as single crop farming in the agricultural plain.

Look at the following pieces of machinery with their details and match them to the corresponding industry. 

Used to grind sugar cane 

Its Result is molasses 

Year: 1759

Location: countryside of coastal Granada (Motril)

Look for more information HERE

Historical airplain

Used during war period 

Built in Sevilla

Look for more information HERE 

Company Airbus 

Marble sculpture 

Location: Olula del Río Almeria

Made in the 20th C 

Represents the founder of  museum of the Spanish Marble 

Look for more information HERE 

Now, with the information you have, chose one of the pictures and write their informational panel in order to present them into an exhibition of the different industries present in Andalucía. 

Remember to use the passive voice and the structures learnt in this unit. 

Graded version. Look at the following completed example. 

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RECALLING 

Fill in the gap in this complex passive structures. 

Turn the following numerical expressions into numbers and vice versa. 

Five eights :

seventy-two per cent :

sixteen eighty-four :

two hundred miles per hour :

1578:

24%:

1/2:

7/9:

120 km/h :