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Practice Listening: Fill in the Blanks (Type In) ID: #33480 Short Social Harm
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You will hear a recording. Type the missing words in each blank.
* Fill in the missing words into the blank fields
Social  harm  originates  out  of  a  series  of    within  criminology  about  the  narrowness  of  the  definition  of  crime,  that  essentially,  focuses  on  individual  acts  of  harm,  things  like  inter-personal  violence,  theft,  so  on  and  so  forth.  So  the  idea  of  social  harm    was  to  expand  that  notion  of  harm  to  encompass  the  harms  that  organisations  and  nation  states  cause.  But  latterly  the  idea  of  social  harm  really  now  transcends  criminology  so  there  are  a  group  of    who  think  that—and  I  would  include  myself  there—that  actually  there's  something  to  social  harm  that  could  be  very  useful  in  terms  of  trying  to  understand  the  harms  that    within  society,  to  produce  an  objective  and  well-rounded  analyses  of  harm.

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Correct answer: debated

Explanation: You hear "a series of debated". It comes after "series of", so you need a word for things argued and it ends in ed.

Meaning: "debated" means argued about.

Wrong options:

  • debatted: It adds an extra "t". The right spelling is "debated". Every letter must be correct to get the mark.
  • debates: "debates" is a close word, but it ends in "s". The speaker says "debated", which ends in "d".
Correct answer: originally

Explanation: Listen for "social harm originally was". You need a word that tells when, so the word ends in ly.

Meaning: "originally" means at first.

Wrong options:

  • orginally: It leaves out the "i". Check the letters: "originally". A small spelling mistake loses the mark.
  • original: "original" is missing the ending. The speaker says "originally", with "ly" at the end.
Correct answer: writers

Explanation: On the recording you hear "a group of writers who". It comes after "group of", so you need more than one and add s at the end.

Meaning: "writers" means people who write.

Wrong options:

  • writters: It adds an extra "t". Write "writers". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
  • writer: "writer" has no "s" at the end. The speaker says "writers", so write the "s".
Correct answer: occur

Explanation: Listen again to "harms that occur within society". After "that" you need an action word, and watch that it has two r's.

Meaning: "occur" means happen.

Wrong options:

  • ocur: It leaves out the "c". Write "occur". Only the exact spelling gets the mark.
  • occurs: "occurs" has an extra "s" at the end. The speaker says "occur", with no "s".

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