Origin of Species - Marvel EDU

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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #49087 Short Origin of Species

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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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November 24th marks the 150th anniversary of the publication of Darwin's Origin of Species. On November 19th, a guy named Ray Comfort, who does not accept evolution, will celebrate the fact that when copyrights expire and works enter the public domain you're free to do with them what you will. Thus Comfort will be distributing his own edition of Darwin's masterwork, with a new introduction. This is roughly the equivalent of me fingerpainting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel so as to improve the work. According to the folks at the National Center for Science Education, the NCSE„ who monitor efforts to interfere with evolution education in public schools, Comfort in his intro repeats numerous familiar antievolution claims. For example, that there's a lack of transitional fossils and that the second law of thermodynamics makes evolution impossible. These assertions have been disproved more often than the chant 'Yankees suck".

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Printed "recta", the speaker says "November"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "On November 19th". The printed word starts with a different letter, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "centralize", the speaker says "copyrights"

Explanation: Listen again to "when copyrights expire". Both words start with the same first letter, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "automating", the speaker says "fingerpainting"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "me fingerpainting on the". The printed and spoken words end the same, but the spoken word is much longer.

Printed "groomsmen", the speaker says "antievolution"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "familiar antievolution claims". The two words start with different letters, so follow the sound, not the page.

"Origin" matches the audio

Explanation: "Darwin's Origin of Species" may look formal, but the speaker says it exactly as printed. Do not click it.

"Sistine" matches the audio

Explanation: "ceiling of the Sistine Chapel" looks like a big name, but it matches the audio exactly. Do not click it.

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