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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #30158 Short Good News
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You will hear a recording. Below is a transcription of the recording. Some words in the transcription differ from what the speaker said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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Correct Transcript:

"No news is good news" may be true for most of us most of the time - after all, we don't look forward to unpleasant things happening to us - but "Bad news is good news " is true for those who work in the news media, and, I suspect, for the rest of us, at least some of the time. It is tied up with stories and our seemingly insatiable need for stories. Have you ever been gripped by a story where nothing goes wrong for the characters? There's an incident in a Kingsley Amis novel that nicely illustrates this: the main character Jake comes home to find his wife chatting to a friend about a hairdresser both women know who has moved with his family to somewhere in Africa.
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Printed "unsatisfied", the speaker says "insatiable"

Explanation: You will hear "our seemingly insatiable need". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "grasped", the speaker says "gripped"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "been gripped by a". Both words start with g and end with ed, so hear the whole word.

Printed "accident", the speaker says "incident"

Explanation: Listen again to "an incident in a". They start with different letters, but they also end with the same two letters.

Printed "illuminates", the speaker says "illustrates"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "nicely illustrates this". Both words start with the same letter. They also end with the same two letters.

"Kingsley" matches the audio

Explanation: "a Kingsley Amis novel" has a name you may not know. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"Africa" matches the audio

Explanation: "somewhere in Africa." is at the sentence end and looks familiar. The speaker says Africa exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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