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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #3675 Short Plastics
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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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Correct Transcript:

Soft plastics are the scrunchable bread wrapper, typical wrappings that you'd get on pre-packaged foods. It's also used in a lot of industrial purposes like wrapping pallets. The soft plastics we knew would be something that we could quickly get to the bottom of and replicate the performance characteristics that we see in our high-value bitumens that we use to construct or to add to our asphalt. So we'd been looking at all different types of plastics and we were having some troubles trying to get the performance characteristics out of traditional PETs and harder plastics. And so we knew that these soft plastics didn't really have much of an outlet and were being collected in a clean source through supermarket collection schemes, and so we thought we've got a very ready source that seems to be not doing a lot. And we worked with some of our existing partners to come up with Reconophalt.
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Printed "covering", the speaker says "wrapping"

Explanation: The speaker says "like wrapping pallets", not "covering". The two words start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "style", the speaker says "replicate"

Explanation: Listen for "replicate the performance characteristics". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, and the spoken word is much longer.

Printed "treasures", the speaker says "troubles"

Explanation: You will hear "having some troubles trying". Both start with the same letter and end the same way.

Printed "gathered", the speaker says "collected"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "being collected in a clean". The first letters differ, so wait for the full word before you decide.

Printed "change", the speaker says "source"

Explanation: Listen again to "a very ready source that". The printed and spoken words start with different letters and end differently, so trust your ears.

"PETs" matches the audio

Explanation: "out of traditional PETs and harder plastics" looks technical and tricky. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"Reconophalt" matches the audio

Explanation: "to come up with Reconophalt" looks like an odd name. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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