Reading 1

Bar Codes
Unit 3: Working Life and Technology Genre: Description

GENRE QUESTIONS

DESCRIPTION A description of something, usually from general to particular.

1.1. What is being described? – Product, technology, country, a person, etc.
1.2. Why is it being described? – for science, for educational reasons, for entertainment, etc.
1.3. How is the information organized?

COMPREHENSION QUESTIONS

1. Where can you find a bar code on an item? (1 word)

On a packet
2. What does a bar code look like? (6 words)

3. Look at the word they in line 5 “They waited for a clerk to add up the cost of their purchases” Who are they?

, supermarket customers
4. Look at the word it in line 12 “It finds the matching bar code” - What is it?

Store computer
5. Where does the computer have the price for each item? (3 words)
Memory of store computer

6. When did barcode technology become available? (1 word)

1974.
7. What kind of products does the Campbell Soup Company produce? (2 words)
canned foods

8. Where is the bar code system especially useful? (1 word)

9. Use the words in the word bank to complete the paragraph.

Word bank
store, each, price, computer, item, system, help, items, process, product

I went to the (1.) _______________ to buy a (2.) _______________. It had a low (3.) _______________. I did not

need any (4.) _______________ to find the one I wanted. (5.) _______________ of the (6.) _______________ had

the same operating (7.) _______________. They also had very fast chips that could (8.) _______________

information quickly. The (9.) _______________ I bought was a (10.) _______________ of many years of research.

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