TPO 43 - Question 3
University Makes Changes to Orientation Program
Madison University is making a change to the orientation program for first-year students. In the past, as part of orientation, new, incoming students could go on a two-day hiking and camping trip together with other incoming students on the weekend before classes begin. In order to encourage more students to take advantage of the opportunity to get to know one another in an informal setting, the university will now offer a choice of activities: students will be able to either go hiking or participate in organized group games on campus. Additionally, these activities will last one day only, not two, a change many students had requested.
The man expresses his opinion about the change described in the article. Briefly summarize the change Then state his opinion about the change and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-19 | Numfon Weidinger | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-02-21 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-24 | mahsa92 | 60.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-18 | Mennatallah | 85.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-16 | Aftab1 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
- When going on vacations, some people prefer to go camping in tents, others prefer to stay in hotels. Which do you think is better? 76
- Some people prefer to work for a large company. Other prefer to work for a small company. Which would you prefer? Use specific reasons and details to support your choice. 66
- Some people like to shop in large grocery stores and department stores. Other people prefer to shop in small specialty stores or shops. Which do you prefer? Explain why. 78
- S1 Which one of the following qualities do you think is the most important for a university student: highly-motivated, hard-working or intelligent? 76
- TPO 27 - Question 1Talk about a popular actor, musician, or artist whose work you do not admire. Explain why you do not like this person’s work. Use specific details and reasons in your response. 50
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 493.0 593.389002037 83% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 135.0 154.784114053 87% => More words wanted. You may: choose simpler words or speak faster or remove hesitations or remove long pauses, and fully use the time, do NOT save one or two seconds.
Chars per words: 3.65185185185 3.82920900774 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.4086580994 3.52088357496 97% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.5314893188 1.81998168104 84% => OK
Unique words: 80.0 93.7942973523 85% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.592592592593 0.608046397892 97% => OK
Syllable count: 155.7 185.724439919 84% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.20224032587 100% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.16520123585 0.0833886788687 198% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 67.5 71.3690273242 95% => OK
STD paragraph length: 8.5 24.1299301424 35% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 29.715 26.8388033085 111% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 3.545 8.89323425527 40% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 63.0 40.266802444 156% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.14285714286 4.20756893501 51% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.54156324345 3.23972648638 48% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.83126984127 1.51236819293 55% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.503550858274 1.0352206224 49% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 63.0 37.9022403259 166% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 13.19 7.22384928717 183% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.209365079365 0.193825474362 108% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.167605669259 0.16431695912 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 38.33 46.6644602851 82% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.283925925926 0.304040633073 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.147648713713 0.193491353168 76% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.88594704684 45% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.93 6.97134419552 42% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.71 3.21433808554 178% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 59.43 59.1375356415 100% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.9905 0.985625594026 100% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.06007067138 0.643888735843 165% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.2715800101 2.61565628039 87% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.34612148746 1.58604529434 85% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.087138012 2.01333574461 104% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.400099237037 0.322651457988 124% => OK
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Rates: 60.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 18.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.