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Practice Listening: Highlight Incorrect Words ID: #52227 Short Public Parks
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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
Result:

Correct Transcript:

Those who make public parks are apt to learn too much and to injure not only the beauty, but the practical value of their creations by loading them with unnecessary and inexpensive details. From the time when landscape gardening was first practiced as a fine art to the present day, park makers have been ambitious to mend the face of nature—to dig lakes where lakes did not exist and to fill up lakes where they did tasks, to cut down natural hills and to raise artificial ones, to plant in one place and to clear in another, and generally to spend money in construction entirely out of proportion to the cost of the results obtained.
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Printed "try", the speaker says "learn"

Explanation: The speaker says "are apt to learn too", not "try". The spoken word is longer, so listen for the extra sounds.

Printed "expensive", the speaker says "inexpensive"

Explanation: Listen for "and inexpensive details". Both words end with the same letters, so listen to the start of the word.

Printed "move", the speaker says "mend"

Explanation: You will hear "ambitious to mend the face". The first letter is the same, so wait for the whole word.

Printed "present", the speaker says "tasks"

Explanation: On the recording the words are "where they did tasks". They start with different letters, so the words sound different from the start.

Printed "price", the speaker says "cost"

Explanation: Listen again to "to the cost of the results". The word you hear is shorter, so follow your ear, not the page.

"landscape" matches the audio

Explanation: "when landscape gardening" may look long or odd. It is spoken exactly as printed, so do not click it.

"lakes" matches the audio

Explanation: "to dig lakes where" repeats the word lakes, which can trick you. The speaker says it exactly, so do not click it.

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