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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #45639 Short Gauss
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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
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Correct Transcript:

And I want to say that Wilson who died over 30 years ago, began his career before modern lit was taught and analyzed in the universities, as he said at one time and I think a piece about Christian golfs Gauss's I called him Gauss as my father in his generation at Princeton a year or two after Wilson called him. When Wilson was studying there that the latest daring writers to get into the curriculum were widths of the 90s and maybe Gauss had his reputation as a bohemian romantic because he had known Oscar in Paris, but there was no modern lit Wilson came then from a different world and he became the focal point of a broad mainstream American cultural that thought that modern literature and wanted modern literature to be able to be read and appreciated by ordinary people,they were not modernists in an abstract sense and certainly some of them like TS Eliot and Faulkner were too difficult for some of their writings to be read by ordinary people.
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Printed "lived", the speaker says "died"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "Wilson who died over". The printed word "lived" is on the page. Both words start with different letters, though they end the same, so listen to the start.

Printed "40", the speaker says "30"

Explanation: The speaker says "died over 30 years ago", not "40". Both numbers are short, so listen to the full number to catch which one is said.

Printed "died", the speaker says "said"

Explanation: Listen for "as he said at one". On the page it says "died", but the audio has a different word. These two words start with different letters and have different meanings, so trust the audio.

Printed "literary", the speaker says "cultural"

Explanation: You will hear "broad mainstream American cultural". The printed word "literary" is on the page. The words start with different letters and mean different things, so follow the sound.

"Gauss's" matches the audio

Explanation: "Christian golfs Gauss's I called him" looks odd on the page. The speaker actually says the same phrase, so do not click it.

"Princeton" matches the audio

Explanation: "his generation at Princeton a year" has a place name that may seem tricky. The speaker reads it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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