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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #4039 Short Anthropology
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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:

And if you go back through the history of physical anthropology, which we now call ourselves biological anthropologists to distance ourselves from that history, we as a discipline have a lot to answer for. Because we were the ones who measured crania, measured skulls, to try to come up with, we called it the Caucasoid, and the Negroid and the Mongoloid types, right, this ideal specimen of a cranium that fit these perfect measurements. And that was the type. And we tried to fit in then every other person into one of these categories, and that really influenced eugenics. “We still have that notion, are you this group, are you that group, when in reality we’re mixtures, most of us are very mixed. We have lots of ancestry from lots of populations. So if we can stop thinking of these categories as these fixed entities, we’ll get somewhere.”
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Printed "geological", the speaker says "biological"

Explanation: The speaker says "call ourselves biological", not "geological". They start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "themselves", the speaker says "ourselves"

Explanation: Listen for "call ourselves biological anthropologists". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so follow the full word you hear.

Printed "alright", the speaker says "right"

Explanation: You will hear "right, this ideal specimen". The two words begin with different letters, so listen to the start of the word.

Printed "each", the speaker says "every"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "every other person into". Both words start with the same letter, so wait for the whole word to tell them apart.

Printed "fixtures", the speaker says "mixtures"

Explanation: Listen again to "we're mixtures, most of us". The printed word starts with a different letter, so pay attention to the first letter you hear.

Printed "heaps", the speaker says "lots"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "lots of ancestry". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so trust the word you hear.

Printed "everywhere", the speaker says "somewhere"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "we'll get somewhere". They start with different letters, but share the same ending letters, so follow the full word you hear.

"crania" matches the audio

Explanation: "measured crania, measured skulls" may look unusual to you. The speaker actually says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"Caucasoid" matches the audio

Explanation: "we called it the Caucasoid, and" looks like a rare label on the page. It is spoken exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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