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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #48652 Medium Music training
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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:

Are smarter people drawn to music, theater and dance? Or does arts training in childhood change the brain in positive ways? In 2004, the philanthropic Dana foundation created a consortium of neuroscientists from seven universities to address those questions. On March 4, the group relist a report, Learning, Arts, and the Brain, available at dana.org. Some of the findings: An interest in performing arts helps develop sustained attention spans, which can improve other areas of cognition. Links exist between training in music and the ability to manipulate information in both shorterm and long-term memory. Music training also appears to improve kids' capacity for geometric representation, as well as the acquisition of reading skills. Acting classes lead to improved memory, via better language skills.
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Printed "raking", the speaker says "training"

Explanation: You will hear "arts training in". They start with different letters, and both words end the same way.

Printed "whiteboard", the speaker says "childhood"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "training in childhood". They start with different letters, and they end differently.

Printed "observation", the speaker says "foundation"

Explanation: Listen again to "Dana foundation created". The printed word starts with a different letter, and both end the same two letters.

Printed "refereed", the speaker says "relist"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "group relist a". Both words start with the same letter, and the spoken word is much shorter.

Printed "blockade", the speaker says "sustained"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "develop sustained attention spans". The printed word makes no sense here, and they start with different letters.

Printed "mortem", the speaker says "shorterm"

Explanation: The speaker says "in both shorterm and long-term" not "mortem". The words start with different letters, and the spoken word is longer.

"Learning" matches the audio

Explanation: "Learning, Arts, and the Brain," is the printed title that may look like a trick. It is exactly what the speaker says, so do not click it.

"geometric" matches the audio

Explanation: "capacity for geometric representation" has a technical printed word that may confuse you. It is exactly what the speaker says, so do not click it.

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