Below you will find the full transcript and audio recording for the dictation lesson about “Disaster Management”.
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Audio Recording
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Transcript
Strengthening community capacity to prevent and cope with the impact of disasters is a valuable way to save lives and better protect livelihoods as well as prevent such shocks from crippling development within the poorest countries. Early warning and early action are more cost effective than traditional disaster responses and save more lives per pound spent. In other words, public money has four times as much humanitarian impact if spending on preparation and risk reduction rather than on relief items.
Review
It is important that you check what type of errors you are making having completed this lesson.
- Punctuation – did you overuse commas or did you miss them out? Did you notice when sentences ended and a new one began?
- Spelling – did you spell all words correctly?
- Grammar – below are three common grammar mistakes:
- articles (a/the = , the impact, the poorest countries
- plural nouns (livelihoods,
- verb agreement (is /are save/ saves)
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