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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #4018 Short Octopuses
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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
Result:

Correct Transcript:

Octopuses use tools, as well as do most apes and they recognize human faces. How do we celebrate the ape-like intelligence of this invertebrate? Mostly boiled. If a grouper chases a fish into a crevice in the coral, it will sometimes go to where it knows a moray eel is sleeping and it will signal to the moray, "Follow me," and the moray will understand that signal. The moray may go into the crevice and get the fish, but the fish may bolt and the gouper may get it. This is an ancient partnership that we have just recently found out about. How do we celebrate that ancient partnership? Mostly fried. A pattern is emerging and it says a lot more about us than it does about them.
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Printed "restore", the speaker says "recognize"

Explanation: The speaker says "recognize human faces", not "restore". Both words start with the same letter, so wait for the whole word before you click.

Printed "weeping", the speaker says "sleeping"

Explanation: Listen for "is sleeping and it". The words begin with different letters, so listen to the first sound to tell them apart.

Printed "device", the speaker says "crevice"

Explanation: You will hear "into the crevice". Both words end the same way, so listen to the start.

Printed "creeper", the speaker says "gouper"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "the gouper may get". The printed word starts with a different letter, so pay attention to the first sound.

Printed "diverging", the speaker says "emerging"

Explanation: Listen again to "A pattern is emerging". The printed and spoken words end the same way, so hear the start to choose correctly.

"Octopuses" matches the audio

Explanation: "Octopuses use tools" has a rare more than one form. It looks odd, but the speaker does say it exactly, so do not click it.

"moray" matches the audio

Explanation: "signal to the moray, \"Follow me,\"" has an uncommon animal name. It may look like a trick, but the speaker says it as printed, so do not click it.

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