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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #4019 Short Outhouse
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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:

I'm five years old, and I am very proud. My father has just built the best outhouse in our little village in Ukraine. Inside, it's a smelly, gaping hole in the ground, but outside, it's pearly white formica and it literally gleams in the sun. This makes me feel so proud, so important, that I appoint myself the leader of my little group of friends and I devise missions for us. So we prowl from house to house looking for flies captured in spider webs and we set them free. Four years earlier, when I was one, after the Chernobyl accident, the rain came down black, and my sister's hair fell out in clumps, and I spent nine months in the hospital. There were no visitors allowed, so my mother bribed a hospital worker. She acquired a nurse's uniform, and she snuck in every night to sit by my side. Five years later, an unexpected silver lining. Thanks to Chernobyl, we get asylum in the U.S.
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Printed "greenhouse", the speaker says "outhouse"

Explanation: Listen for "built the best outhouse". On the page it says "greenhouse", not the word you hear. They start with different letters, so listen from the first sound.

Printed "basically", the speaker says "literally"

Explanation: You will hear "it literally gleams in". What is printed is "basically", not the spoken word. The first letters are different, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "ruptured", the speaker says "captured"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "flies captured in spider". The text shows "ruptured" instead. The words start with different letters, so focus on the beginning.

Printed "followed", the speaker says "allowed"

Explanation: Listen again to "no visitors allowed". The printed word on the page is "followed". Both words end with the same two letters, so listen to the start.

Printed "perfected", the speaker says "unexpected"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "an unexpected silver lining". The page shows "perfected" instead. The spoken word has more letters, so it is longer in the text.

"formica" matches the audio

Explanation: "pearly white formica and it" may look like a strange material in the text. The speaker says these words exactly, so do not click them.

"Chernobyl" matches the audio

Explanation: "after the Chernobyl accident, the" might catch your eye as a rare name. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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