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Welcome to English as a Second Language Podcast number 1,035 – Using a Self- Checkout Machine.

This is English as a Second Language Podcast episode 1,035. I’m your host, Dr. Jeff McQuillan, coming to you from the Center for Educational Development in beautiful Los Angeles, California.

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This episode is a dialogue between Claudia and Raul about buying things from the store without ever really talking to anyone. Let’s get started.

Claudia: We’re done, right? Let’s get in this cashier line.

Raul: No need. This store has self-checkout machines.

Claudia: I don’t know. I think it would be easier going through a cashier line.

Raul: Using the self-checkout will be much quicker. Let me show you. All you have to do is scan the bar codes on each grocery item.

Claudia: There are no bar codes