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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #35569 Short Clock
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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
Result:

Correct Transcript:

If you can read a clock, you can know the time of day. But no one knows what time itself is. We cannot see it. We cannot touch it. We cannot hear it. We know it only by the way we mark its passing. For all our success in measuring the smallest parts of time, time remains one of the great mysteries of the universe. One way to think about time is to imagine a world without time. There could be no movement because time and movement cannot be separated. A world without time could exist only as long as there were no changes. For time and change are linked. We know that time has passed when something changes.
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Printed "on", the speaker says "no"

Explanation: You will hear "no one knows what". On the page you see "on" instead of the word you hear.

Printed "a", the speaker says "of"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "one of the great mysteries". The page shows "a", so listen for the longer spoken word.

Printed "of", the speaker says "about"

Explanation: Listen again to "think about time is". The printed word says "of", but the speaker uses a longer word.

Printed "movements", the speaker says "movement"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "no movement because". Printed text has "movements", so listen to the end of the word.

Printed "couldn't", the speaker says "could"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "could exist only as". The page reads "couldn't", so wait for the word ending to differ.

"smallest" matches the audio

Explanation: "measuring the smallest parts of time" has a long word you may not know. It is spoken exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"changes" matches the audio

Explanation: In the sentence the phrase "there were no changes" is just before the error. This word looks tricky but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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