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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #50873 October Prediction Short Vocation
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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:

Now, a professor is also a member of a profession, presumably one that regards its discipline as a vocation in the full sense of the word from vocare, 'to call'. Despite some modern uses that reduce it to the mere practicalities of employment practice rather than theory, the product of training rather than education vocation is more than this. A calling is both active and passive. It implies a sense of purpose. It carries with it a duty to be vocal.
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Printed "discretion", the speaker says "discipline"

Explanation: Listen again to "regards its discipline as".
You will see "discretion" in the text.
Both words start with d, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "motivation", the speaker says "employment"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "practicalities of employment practice".
The printed word "motivation" is different on the page.
They start with different letters, so trust the sound, not the meaning.

Printed "intention", the speaker says "purpose"

Explanation: Here the speaker says "It implies a sense of purpose".
Text shows "intention", but listen to the audio.
The word you hear is much shorter, so listen for a shorter word.

Printed "guilty", the speaker says "duty"

Explanation: The speaker says "carries with it a duty", not "guilty".
The printed word "guilty" is on the page.
They end with the same letters, so listen to the start of the word.

"professor" matches the audio

Explanation: "Now, a professor is also a member" looks normal but may trick you.
The speaker says it exactly as written, so do not click it.

"vocation" matches the audio

Explanation: "vocation is more than this" sits near changed words and can look odd.
This word is spoken the same as printed, so do not click it.

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