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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #37710 Short Spring
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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:

I have an old, brown carved box; the lid is broken and tied with a string. In it, I keep little squares of paper, with here inside, and a little picture which hung over my brother's bed when we were children, and other things as small. I have in it a rose. Other women also have such boxes where they keep such trifles, but no one has my rose. When my eye is dim, and my heart grows faint, and my faith in woman flickers, and her present is an agony to me, and her future a despair, the scent of that dead rose, withered for twelve years, comes back to me. I know there will be spring; as surely as the birds know it when they see above the snow two tiny, quivering green leaves. Spring cannot fail us.
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Printed "a", the speaker says "an"

Explanation: Listen for "an old, brown carved". Both words start with the same letter, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "her", the speaker says "here"

Explanation: You will hear "with here inside". The words start with the same letter, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "has", the speaker says "have"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "also have such boxes". The printed and spoken words start the same, so listen to the end.

Printed "past", the speaker says "present"

Explanation: Listen again to "her present is an agony". The spoken word is much longer than the printed one, so listen for a longer word.

Printed "us", the speaker says "me"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "comes back to me". The first letters are different, so the words begin with different sounds.

Printed "where", the speaker says "when"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "know it when they see". Both words start with the same letter, so listen to the whole word.

"brown" matches the audio

Explanation: "old, brown carved box" may look odd or rare. It is exactly what the speaker says, so do not click it.

"rose" matches the audio

Explanation: "I have in it a rose" might seem repeated or small. The speaker does say it as printed, so do not click it.

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