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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #50984 Short El Niño
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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:

Parts of the planet warm and cool during El Niho and La Nifia. And infectious diseases also wax and wane in step with the climate cycle. Take malaria shown to spike in northern Venezuela during cool, La Niha conditions. Or flu pandemics, which often follow months after La Niha sets in. Now researchers have linked another public health risk to El Niho climate cycling: poisonous viper bites. Their study area was Costa Rica where health centers keep rigorous records on snakebites. They compared nine years of those snakebite records including some 6,500 bites to climate data over the same period. And they found that snakebites were two to three times as prevalent in the hottest and coldest years of the El Niho climate cycle. Sounds counterintuitive, right you might expect the climate extremes to have opposite effects. But the researchers say in hot, dry years, plant productivity peaks, driving an increase in the number of rodents.
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Printed "acacias", the speaker says "diseases"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "And infectious diseases also". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so listen to the whole word.

Printed "vaporise", the speaker says "snakebites"

Explanation: Listen again to "that snakebites were two". The printed word does not make sense in the sentence, so trust your ears.

Printed "retrieve", the speaker says "increase"

Explanation: In the audio you hear "driving an increase in". The printed and spoken words start with different letters, so listen carefully to the full word.

"Venezuela" matches the audio

Explanation: "spike in northern Venezuela during" looks like an odd name, so it may catch your eye. The speaker says it exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"Costa" matches the audio

Explanation: "study area was Costa Rica where" has a country name you might doubt. The audio matches the page, so do not click it.

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