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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #49125 Medium McCarthy
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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:

Lost in the coverage of the so-called climategate email controversy is a key point about the IPCCs track record of climate change estimates. James McCarthy is on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School Center for Health and the Global Environment. He spoke February 21st at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Diego: "If you were to go back and map the IPCC projection for sea level rise and temperature in 1990, look at it in 1995, look at it in 2000. In retrospect you would find that they were conservative. So we talk about errors. If you were to do two ledgers—here are IPCC overestimates, here are IPCC underestimate —over the 20 or so years that these assessments have been running, the underestimate ledger would be much larger than the overestimate. Even with glitches—clearly erroneous editing or sloppy editing that led to these erroneous statements that got us in trouble recently."
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Printed "triumvirate", the speaker says "coverage"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "Lost in the coverage of". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so listen to the start of the word.

Printed "playmate", the speaker says "climategate"

Explanation: The speaker says "the so-called climategate email", not "playmate". They start with different letters, and both end the same, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "symposiums", the speaker says "erroneous"

Explanation: Listen for "clearly erroneous editing". They begin with different letters, so listen to the start.

Printed "bifurcations", the speaker says "statements"

Explanation: You will hear "erroneous statements that got". They start with different letters, so listen to the start.

"IPCCs" matches the audio

Explanation: "the IPCCs track record" looks technical and may trick you. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"Harvard" matches the audio

Explanation: "the Harvard Medical School Center" has a familiar name, which may confuse you. The speaker says those words exactly, so do not click them.

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