Question: Summarise the points made in the lecture,being sure to explain how they cast doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
In the united state employees typically work five days a week for eight hours each day. However, many employees wnat to work four-day week
The article introduces the topic of a 4-day workweek. Specifically, the writer discusses the benefits of a 4-day work week to both employers and employees against the 5-day work week. The lecturer in the listening passage disagrees. He believes that a 4-day workweek is not as beneficial as the writer presents it to be and he attacks each of the claim made in the reading.
First, in the reading passage, the writer begins by stating that a 4-day work week will alleviate some considerable expenses for the average employee. In the listening passage, the lecturer refutes this point by saying that on average, a worker drives 30 miles to work daily and spends an average of about 15 to 20 dollars on gas totaling about 850 in a year and that this amount is not enough to justify such a dramatic business change.
Second, the writer also claims that reducing the number of working days will lower the operating cost of most businesses. Again, the professor believes that there are flaws in the writer’s logic. He holds that the claim of the writer is a misguided conception and that the business can lose up to 20% of its business by going from a 5-day work week to a 4-day work week. He says that although the business will be open for an extra 2 hours later each day, potential customers might not be willing to do business during that extra time and they would rather go home.
Last, the writer posits that a 4-day work week will improve the ability of employees to spend time with their families. However, the professor says that this will not significantly increase the number of time spent by employees with their families. He further says that employees who have younger children enrolled in daycare will have to keep their children for a longer time at the daycare since they will be working 2 hours extra on the 4 days of work and also older children will have to go to school on that 5th day of no work. So this will in no way improve the number of time employees spend with their families.
To sum up, both the author and the speaker have conflicting views about changing to a 4-day workweek. They will have trouble finding some common ground on this issue.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, first, however, if, second, so, as to, to sum up
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 8.0 10.4613686534 76% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 5.04856512141 257% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 8.0 7.30242825607 110% => OK
Relative clauses : 15.0 12.0772626932 124% => OK
Pronoun: 33.0 22.412803532 147% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 57.0 30.3222958057 188% => OK
Nominalization: 1.0 5.01324503311 20% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1788.0 1373.03311258 130% => OK
No of words: 389.0 270.72406181 144% => Less content wanted.
Chars per words: 4.59640102828 5.08290768461 90% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.44106776838 4.04702891845 110% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.41210844024 2.5805825403 93% => OK
Unique words: 178.0 145.348785872 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.457583547558 0.540411800872 85% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 531.0 419.366225166 127% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.55342163355 90% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 3.25607064018 154% => OK
Article: 10.0 8.23620309051 121% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 1.51434878587 0% => OK
Preposition: 3.0 2.5761589404 116% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 13.0662251656 122% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 21.2450331126 113% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.3631465099 49.2860985944 141% => OK
Chars per sentence: 111.75 110.228320801 101% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.3125 21.698381199 112% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.375 7.06452816374 48% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.09492273731 122% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 4.19205298013 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 3.0 4.33554083885 69% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.27373068433 117% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.258367166514 0.272083759551 95% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0933912585188 0.0996497079465 94% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0572404241649 0.0662205650399 86% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.148368429632 0.162205337803 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0688181357599 0.0443174109184 155% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.4 13.3589403974 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.04 53.8541721854 119% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 5.55761589404 56% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.3 11.0289183223 93% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.7 12.2367328918 79% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.51 8.42419426049 89% => OK
difficult_words: 66.0 63.6247240618 104% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.7273730684 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 10.498013245 110% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 11.2008830022 71% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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