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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #50982 Short Baby Smile
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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:

Try to get a baby to smile? It can seem close to impossible and then suddenly there it is: that elusive, seemingly joyous grin. Well it turns out those smiles aren't spontaneous they're strategic. Researchers have found that when babies smile, it's for a reason. They want whoever they're interacting with typically a parent to smile back. And they time it just so, a smile here and a smile there. The researchers call it sophisticated timing. The study is in the journal PLOS ONE. The researchers enlisted real mothers and infants and quantified their interactions, which fell into four categories. One: babies wanted to maximize the amount of time smiling at their mothers. Two: they wanted to maximize the time the mothers smiled at them. Three: they wanted to experience simultaneous smiling, and four: no smiling at all. By studying when smiles happened and what the subsequent effect was, the investigators were able to.
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Printed "teasingly", the speaker says "seemingly"

Explanation: Listen for "seemingly joyous grin". They start with different letters, so listen from the start.

Printed "shaded", the speaker says "sophisticated"

Explanation: You will hear "call it sophisticated timing". Both words start with the same letter, so wait for the middle and end.

Printed "smelliness", the speaker says "experience"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "wanted to experience simultaneous". They begin with different letters, so focus on the beginning of the word.

Printed "shadiness", the speaker says "simultaneous"

Explanation: Listen again to "experience simultaneous smiling". They share the first letter, so listen to the middle of the word.

Printed "upmarket", the speaker says "subsequent"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "what the subsequent effect". The first letters differ, so focus on the start of the word.

"PLOS" matches the audio

Explanation: "the journal PLOS ONE". PLOS looks unusual, but the speaker says it exactly as printed. Do not click it.

"mothers" matches the audio

Explanation: "smiling at their mothers." Mothers sits beside the changed phrase and may catch your eye. The speaker says mothers as printed, so do not click it.

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