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Pre-reading questions:
- Do you like going to other countries?
- What kind of technology do you use the most?
Vocabulary:
- transfer /trans-FUR/
[verb] to move someone or something from one place, vehicle, person, or group to another
Let me transfer the files to your phone.
- scanner /SKAN-er/
[noun] a device for making images of the inside of the body or for reading information into a computer system
I use photo scanner for my project.
- attach /uh-TACH/
[verb] to fasten or join one thing to something else
She attached a new external camera to her laptop.
- immigration /im-i-GREY-shuhn/
[noun] the process of examining your passport and other documents to make certain that you can be allowed to enter the country
You have to pass the immigration first before getting a boarding pass.
- ease /eez/
[verb] to make or become less severe, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc.
Online application eases the process of getting a passport.
Japan will begin to use facial recognition technology for departing foreign visitors this 2019. The new system will be available at Haneda airport in Tokyo before transferring to other big airports including Chiba, Osaka, Fukuoka, Aichi, Hokkaido, and Okinawa prefectures. Foreigners have to place their passports over an electronic scanner and stand close to a camera attached to the immigration counters for facial scanning. The system will then identify if the passport photo matches the photo taken at the counter. The immigration officials hope that the new technology will ease the process at the airports.
True or False:
- Japan will not use facial recognition system for departing foreign visitors.
- The new system will be available first in Narita airport.
- New Chitose Airport in Sapporo is one of the airports mentioned to use facial recognition technology.
- Foreigners have to place their passports over a facial scanner.
- The immigration officials hope that the new technology will make the process easier.
Vocabulary Check:
[verb] to move someone or something from one place, vehicle, person, or group to another
Let me transfer the files to your phone.
[noun] a device for making images of the inside of the body or for reading information into a computer system
I use photo scanner for my project.
[verb] to fasten or join one thing to something else
She attached a new external camera to her laptop.
[noun] the process of examining your passport and other documents to make certain that you can be allowed to enter the country
You have to pass the immigration first before getting a boarding pass.
[verb] to make or become less severe, difficult, unpleasant, painful, etc.
Online application eases the process of getting a passport.
Complete the sentences by using the words in the box.
| ease | attach | transfer | scanner | immigration |
- Please _______ the money to my bank account.
- You need to _______ your headset to your laptop.
- The bar code _______ are new.
- He took 5 minutes at the _______ counter.
- The medicine _______ the pain.