Lie Detector Tests at Airports

B1 – Intermediate

When passing immigration at airports, immigration officers ask to see your passport and travel documents. They also ask questions about your trip.

In some European countries, they are trying a computer-generated border officer.

Find out more about the computerized border guards.

https://breakingnewsenglish.com/1811/181105-lie-detector-tests-1.html

Discussion Questions:
1. What do you think about using a lie detector machine at the airports?
2. What do you think are the good and bad things about using this technology?
3. Talk about your experience/s with immigration at airports.

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4 replies on “Lie Detector Tests at Airports”

1. What do you think about using a lie detector machine at the airports?
If the purpose is to protect against terrorism or criminals, I agree, but if the purpose is to prevent the movement of people who need work to live, I disagree.

2. What do you think are the good and bad things about using this technology?
I think this technology will be more objective, but it may also be that the system does not detect the real emotional situation of the person and their decision is wrong.
3. Talk about your experience/s with immigration at airports.
Personally I have not had any problem, I have had anecdotes but not relevant.

Well done writing your responses. Keep up the good job!

See how you can revise this sentence to improve it:

Personally I have not had any problem, I have had anecdotes but not relevant.

Personally, I have not had any problems with the immigration at airports., I have had some anecdotes, but they are not that relevant.

Until your next entry!

1. What do you think about using a lie detector machine at the airports?

The use of this techniques could help to prevent the incoming migration to the countries with bad intentions with high success rate.

2. What do you think are the good and bad things about using this technology?

Good ones: (if it works fine)
Could save time in security airports queues.
Could prevent national security risky

Bad ones: (if does not as it should)
Could fail and then could point or suspect to innocents.
Not everyone would know how to respond appropriately , so then can cause large queues.

3. Talk about your experience/s with immigration at airports.
I only passed this situation for three and always was a police officer who made me the questions.

Great job consistently practicing your writing skills through this exercise.

Here are better word choices for this sentence so it can be improved a bit:

I only passed this situation for three and always was a police officer who made me the questions.

I only experienced this situation for three times and they were always with was a police officer who asked me a few questions.

Until your next entries!

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