medical factory
A Medical Device Factory
A look at a medical devices manufacturing plant in Hanoi.
Vocabulary
| morning | afternoon | evening |
| every day | outskirts | still (2) |
| plenty | traffic | factory |
| nearby | medical | device |
| pharmaceutical | spend | build |
| plant (3) | produce | equipment |
| modern | offer | clean |
| cleanliness | critical | final |
| product | must | sterile (2) |
| almost | all | component |
| infusion | main | train |
| learn | operate (2) | repair |
| use | machine | technician |
| expert | high-tech | plastic |
| holder | bottle | system |
| head (2) | produce | madam |
| more | more than | decade |
| keep (2) | run (2) | smooth/smoothly |
| chamber | tube | join |
| tight | hospital | come |
| come out | strong | stand (2) |
| Newton | safe | quality |
| assemble | high (2) | assembly line |
| low (2) | labor | cost |
| possible | great | deal (2) |
| hand (2) | do by hand | most |
| important | flexible | fast |
| slow | meanwhile | dozen/dozens |
| different | depending | country (2) |
| order | may | look (2) |
| easy | actually | process |
| difficult | quite | certain |
| care | careful | meet (2) |
| standard | very | meet the standards |
| continue | important | practice |
| avoid | mistake | develop |
| aware | final | shop (2) |
| workshop (2) | know | well |
| provide | just (3) | like (2) |
| other | limited | just like other |
| facility | level | usually |
| in a way | industry | perform |
| role | development | human |
| resource | meal | human resources (2) |
| cafeteria | free (3) | several |
| month | pay | relative (2) |
| more | less | what’s more |
| secure | place | workplace |
| clean | shortage | applicant |
| vacancy | afraid | interview |
| there is | there are | many |
| send | CV/resume | really |
| become | scared | win |
| lottery | manufacture | useful |
| shift (2) | head (3) | tomorrow |
Video
Questions
1. Tran works on Saturdays. Yes or no?
2. Does he work in the center of Hanoi?
3. He drives for one hour to work. What do you think?
4. What is the name of the company?
5. The company manufactures medical equipment. True or false?
6. How much did B. Braun invest in the factory?
7. It is easy to contaminate the product. Is this correct or wrong?
8. Did the trainers come to Vietnam to train Tran?
9. What can Tran do? What does he know at the plant?
10. What does the machines do?
11. Who is Madam Yeoh? What does she do?
12. The product is of good quality. Yes or no? Is it important for the products to be strong?
13. How many workers assemble the product?
14. Where is the main B. Braun company located? Why did they open a plant in Vietnam?
15. What is the difference between machine made and hand made products?
16. Does the work look easy? Is the work actually easy or is it difficult?
17. Do the workers train just once, or do they have to train continually?
18. The workers train and practice at vocational or technical colleges. Yes or no?
19. Does Vietnam have lots of high level training colleges?
20. The workers buy lunch at fast food restaurants. True or false?
21. How much do the workers earn? What is their salary?
22. Many people want to work at B. Braun. Yes or no? Why?
23. Name ten things and seven activities from the video.
A. Do you work in a factory? Do your friends work in factories?
If yes, is it a domestic or foreign owned factory?
B. What does it produce?
C. Where do you eat lunch?
D. Do you and your colleagues have to train and learn new techniques at work?
