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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #37840 Short Flour mill
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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 named, among many rivers that make music in my memory, that dirty Water of Leith. Often and Often I desire to look upon it again; and the choice of a point of view is easy to me. It should be at a certain water-door, embowered in shrubbery. The river is their dammed back for the service of the flour-mill just below so that it lies deep and darkling, and the sand slopes into brown obscurity with a glint of gold; and it has but newly been recruited by the borrowings of the snuff-mill just above, and these, tumbling merrily in, shake the pool to its black heart, fill it with drowsy eddies, and set the curded froth of many other mills solemnly steering to and fro upon the surface. Or so it was when I was young; for change, and the masons, and the pruning-knife, have been busy; and if I could hope to repeat a cherished experience, it must be on many and impossible conditions.
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Printed "roads", the speaker says "rivers"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "many rivers that". You see "roads" on the page. Both words start with the same letter, so listen to the end of the word.

Printed "offer", the speaker says "Often"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "Often and Often". On the page it reads "offer". The first letter is the same, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "silver", the speaker says "gold"

Explanation: The speaker says "a glint of gold", not "silver". The two words start with different letters, so listen for that single word.

Printed "curdled", the speaker says "curded"

Explanation: Listen for "the curded froth". You can see "curdled" on the page. Both words end with the same letters, so hear the middle part carefully.

Printed "may", the speaker says "many"

Explanation: You will hear "many and impossible". On the page it shows "may". The spoken word is longer, so listen for the extra letter.

"Leith" matches the audio

Explanation: "that dirty Water of Leith" has a rare place name. It looks like a trick, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

"borrowings" matches the audio

Explanation: "but newly been recruited by the borrowings of the snuff-mill" has the word borrowings. It may seem odd, but the speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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