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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #46862 Short Commoner
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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:

Nothing in the universe is stationary. Change is perhaps the only constant. Governing classes — call them the privileged classes — have their rise, culmination and fall. The industrial era brought in its wake enormous changes in human environment and created a new class of barons and lords. This was the entrepreneurial class of industrialists, capitalists, financers and their ilk. The feudal classes of the yore suffered a slow decline. The new class perhaps was more democratic, being more dependent on the contribution of the commoner for its own progress and prosperity.
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Printed "station", the speaker says "stationary"

Explanation: Listen again to "Nothing in the universe is stationary". The printed word "station" is on the page. Both words start with s, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "termination", the speaker says "culmination"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "rise, culmination and fall". It reads "termination" on the page. They start with different letters, so listen to the start of the word.

Printed "involvement", the speaker says "environment"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "enormous changes in human environment". On the page it shows "involvement". The words start with different letters, so listen to the beginning.

Printed "entrepreneur", the speaker says "entrepreneurial"

Explanation: The speaker says "was the entrepreneurial class of", not "entrepreneur". The printed word "entrepreneur" is on the page. Both start with e, so wait for the whole word because the spoken word is much longer.

Printed "continuation", the speaker says "contribution"

Explanation: Listen for "dependent on the contribution of". You see "continuation" written there. Both start with c and end the same way, so listen to the middle of the word.

"privileged" matches the audio

Explanation: "call them the privileged classes" looks formal and may make you doubt it. It is exactly what the speaker says, so do not click it.

"financers" matches the audio

Explanation: "capitalists, financers and their ilk" has a rare word that might catch your eye. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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