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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #49096 Long Climate Change
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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:

That embracing the transformation can bring growth, jobs and better quality lives. The flow of capital tells its own story: last year for the first time more was invested in renewable forms of energy than producing electricity from fossil fuels." So while gleeful anarchists like Oklahoma Senator James Inhofe go to Copenhagen to try to sabotage the proceedings, the worldwide array of newspapers attempts to remind the conference participants and the people they represent to keep their eye on the ball—the ball in this case being an oblate spheroid with almost seven billion human inhabitants and a fever that desperately needs to be treated. As the Guardian's editor in chief, Alan Rusbridger, said, "Newspapers have never done anything like this before but they have never had to cover a story like this before."
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Printed "wilfully", the speaker says "electricity"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "producing electricity from". The printed word starts with a different letter, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "progressed", the speaker says "represent"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "the people they represent". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so follow the sound, not the page.

Printed "wing", the speaker says "anything"

Explanation: The speaker says "done anything like this", not "wing". The two words end the same way, so listen to the start of the word.

"Copenhagen" matches the audio

Explanation: "go to Copenhagen to try" has a place name that looks rare. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"Rusbridger" matches the audio

Explanation: "Alan Rusbridger, said" shows a name that might seem odd. The speaker says the name exactly, so do not click it.

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