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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #3670 Short Fossils explosion
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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(s) said. Please click on the words that are different.
* Click on the words that are different from what you hear
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The story of these fossils was popularized by Stephen Jay Gould's book wonderful life in 1989. So this really caught the public eye and these weird and wonderful creatures became more known to people in the public and you know the research community is still really focused on the Cambrian explosion at the moment. Fossils from the period of the cambrian explosion happened found all over the world. One of the most famous sites where they were first found is the Burgess Shale which is located in the Rocky Mountains in Canada. The fossils there are fantastic and really different from what you normally think of from a fossil normally you think of say bones or teeth really hard things. The fossils of the Burgess Shale are completely soft bodied. So you get all of these soft things preserved which you don't normally see you get skin, eyes. You can get tiny little spines, little hairs. You can even see internal structures so sometimess we get the gut with the last meal still in place in the stomach. So this is really exceptional preservation really really outstanding.
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Printed "beautiful", the speaker says "wonderful"

Explanation: You will hear "these weird and wonderful creatures". They start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "situated", the speaker says "located"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "located in the Rocky Mountains". They start with different letters, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "superb", the speaker says "fantastic"

Explanation: Listen again to "are fantastic and really". The spoken word is much longer, and they end differently.

Printed "engraved", the speaker says "preserved"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "soft things preserved which". The printed word 'engraved' does not make sense here, so trust the audio.

Printed "accepted", the speaker says "exceptional"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "really exceptional preservation". The spoken word is much longer, so wait for the whole word.

"fossils" matches the audio

Explanation: "The story of these fossils was popularized" has a common word next to famous names. It is exactly what the speaker says, so do not click it.

"sometimess" matches the audio

Explanation: "so sometimess we get the gut with" looks like a typo and may trick you. The speaker actually says it, so do not click it.

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