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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #50975 Medium Pygmy
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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:

The term pygmy usually refers to a few groups of short-statured people in equatorial rain forest regions in Africa. The existence of distinct populations of such people presented scientists with the opportunity to study the mechanisms by which typical human growth patterns have become altered there. And they discovered that two groups became small in two different ways. The study is in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers collected data on some 500 members of a west African ethnic group called the Baka. They discovered that Baka infants have a similar size range to most other infants, but have a low growth rate during their first two years, which produces a lasting effect. This mechanism seems to be different from that of the east African groups called the Efé and Sua. These peoples have slow prenatal growth, so that the infants are born smaller. The researchers say that the Baka population appears to have split from the Efé and Sua some 20,000 years ago.
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Printed "damaged", the speaker says "short statured"

Explanation: Listen for "short-statured people". Click "damaged" on the page. The words start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "reportorial", the speaker says "equatorial"

Explanation: You will hear "in equatorial rain forest". The printed word "reportorial" is on the page. Both words end the same way, so follow the full sound of the word.

Printed "legitimate", the speaker says "different"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "two different ways". You see "legitimate" in the text, but it starts with a different letter from the spoken word.

Printed "priestesses", the speaker says "researchers"

Explanation: Listen again to "The researchers collected". You will find "priestesses" in the print, but its first letter does not match the spoken word.

Printed "flavourful", the speaker says "prenatal"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "slow prenatal growth". The page shows "flavourful" instead. The printed and spoken words start with different letters.

"Nature" matches the audio

Explanation: "The study is in the journal Nature Communications" contains a well known name. It looks like a trick, but the speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"Baka" matches the audio

Explanation: "members of a west African ethnic group called the Baka" has a short name that can seem odd. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

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