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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #48666 Medium Migration 2
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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:

Want to know the route humans took when they first migrated from Africa into Europe? Seems that they might have marked the path. Not like Hansel and Gretel, who consciously left bread crumbs. Ancient humans ate as they trekked. And they appear to have chucked aside the packaging for some of their slimy sustenance: snails. Conventional wisdom has been that humans initially travelled from Africa to the Near East, then up around the Mediterranean through Lebanon before heading into Europe some 40 to 50,000 years ago. But recently, some scientists have theorized that humans made it to Europe first and then headed east. Now there's more support for the old view that humans traveled through the Levant on the way to Europe-in the form of the shells of edible marine snails. The study is in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers evaluated shells from an archeological site dated to the Upper pileolythic in Lebanon.
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Printed "valiantly", the speaker says "consciously"

Explanation: You will hear "who consciously left bread". The printed word and the spoken word start with different letters, so listen from the start.

Printed "unbalanced", the speaker says "travelled"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "that humans initially travelled". The printed word "unbalanced" does not make sense in the sentence, and the words start with different letters.

Printed "tiredness", the speaker says "scientists"

Explanation: Listen again to "some scientists have theorized". They start with different letters, and the printed word ends differently from the spoken word.

Printed "corruptible", the speaker says "archeological"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "Researchers evaluated shells from an archeological site". Both words start with different letters, and the printed word "corruptible" makes no sense here.

Printed "thrombolytic", the speaker says "pileolythic"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "dated to the Upper pileolythic in". The words start with different letters, but both end with the same last two letters.

"snails" matches the audio

Explanation: "slimy sustenance: snails" may look odd in text, as it is a rare food example. The speaker does say this exactly, so do not click it.

"Lebanon" matches the audio

Explanation: "through Lebanon before heading" has a place name that can look tricky. It is spoken the same as printed, so do not click it.

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