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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #43552 Short Christian State
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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:

It was a dark autumn night. The old banker was pacing from corner to corner of his study, recalling to his mind the party he gave in the autumn fifteen years before. There were many clever people at the party and much interesting conversation. They talked among other things of capital punishment. The guests, among them not few scholars and journalists, for the most part, disapproved of capital punishment. They found it obsolete as a means of punishment, unfitted to a Christian State and immoral. Some of them thought that capital punishment should be replaced universally by life-imprisonment.
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Printed "disk", the speaker says "dark"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "dark autumn night". The first letter is the same, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "facing", the speaker says "pacing"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "pacing from corner". The words start with different letters, so focus on the first sound.

Printed "along", the speaker says "among"

Explanation: The speaker says "among other things" not "along". Both words start the same and end the same, so follow the full word.

Printed "meaning", the speaker says "means"

Explanation: Listen for "means of punishment". The spoken word is much shorter, so check the length you hear.

Printed "captain", the speaker says "capital"

Explanation: You will hear "capital punishment should be". The printed word looks different at the middle, so listen for that middle sound.

"autumn" matches the audio

Explanation: "the autumn fifteen years" has a common word that may catch your eye. It is exactly as the speaker says, do not click it.

"punishment" matches the audio

Explanation: "of capital punishment" sits near changed words and may look odd. The speaker says "punishment" exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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