• Task 1: The two bar charts below show the proportion of 14-16 year-old students studying a foreign language in an English speaking country, and the top three foreign languages. Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features, and make comparisons where relevant.
The bar charts illustrate the percentage of male and female foreign language learners aged 14 to 16 in an English speaking country and the three most popular foreign languages in 1984 and 2007.
Overall, in both two years, the proportion of female learners overwhelmed that of male learners and French was the most prevalent language. Moreover, the figure for all categories of student and language followed a downward trend, except for Spanish.
It is substantial that nearly half of 14-16 year-old girls studied a foreign language in 1984 before falling to 40 percent in 2007. In addition, the figure for male students did not show any significant changes around 30 percent between 1984 and 2007.
Regarding the top three languages, there was a remarkable disparity that 50 percent of students studied French whereas only a quarter chose German in 1984. However, the percentage of French and German did not show that in 2004, with 25% and 15%, respectively. Interestingly, only Spanish gained more popularity in 2007 with 10 percent, twice as much as the figure in 1984.
- Task 2 Studies show that many criminals have a low level of education For this reason people believe that the best way to reduce crime is to educate people in prison so they can get a job when leaving prison Do you agree or disagree 89
- Task 2 Directors of large organizations earn much higher salaries than ordinary employees do Some people think it is necessary but others are of the opinion that it is unfair Discuss both views and give your own opinions 73
- Task 1 The chart below shows the percentage of the day working adults spent doing different activities in a particular country in 1958 and in 2008 Summarise the information by selecting and reporting the main features and make comparisons where relevant 61
- Task 2 The best way to teach children to cooperate is through team sports at school to what extent do you agree or disagree 56
- Task 2 Research indicates that nowadays some consumers are much less influenced by advertising than in the past What do you think are the reasons for this Do you think this is a positive or negative development Give reasons for your answer and include any 78
Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, moreover, regarding, whereas, except for, in addition
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 0.0 1.00243902439 0% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 6.8 118% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 5.0 5.60731707317 89% => OK
Preposition: 26.0 33.7804878049 77% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 901.0 965.302439024 93% => OK
No of words: 177.0 196.424390244 90% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.09039548023 4.92477711251 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.64748333727 3.73543355544 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.6992763396 2.65546596893 102% => OK
Unique words: 104.0 106.607317073 98% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.587570621469 0.547539520022 107% => OK
syllable_count: 253.8 283.868780488 89% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.45097560976 96% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 1.53170731707 65% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.33902439024 115% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.07073170732 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 3.36585365854 149% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 22.4926829268 98% => OK
Sentence length SD: 27.8152386292 43.030603864 65% => OK
Chars per sentence: 112.625 112.824112599 100% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.125 22.9334400587 96% => OK
Discourse Markers: 8.25 5.23603664747 158% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 3.70975609756 162% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 1.13902439024 88% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.09268292683 24% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.276880647762 0.215688989381 128% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113519976946 0.103423049105 110% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.125440828254 0.0843802449381 149% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.180939722024 0.15604864568 116% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.131435857741 0.0819641961636 160% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.2329268293 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 66.07 61.2550243902 108% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.5 10.3012195122 92% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.24 11.4140731707 107% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.39 8.06136585366 104% => OK
difficult_words: 41.0 40.7170731707 101% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.4329268293 92% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.9970731707 98% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.0658536585 99% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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