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34. Would you like to take a long vacation or several short vacations in a year?
Explain why
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-02-12 | juliettepeng | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-24 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user juliettepeng
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- Some students prefer to live on campus in a dormitory. Others prefer to live in an apartment or house off campus. Which do you prefer? Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion 66
- (Question type: Task 2)You will now be asked to give your opinion about a familiar topic. After you hear the question, you will have 15 seconds to prepare your response and 45 seconds to speak.Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? Why or 60
- Your friend went straight to work after high school and skipped university. But now ten years later, he decides to go to university. Please talk about at least one challenge he will face when he goes touniversity at an elder age. 70
- TPO 33 - Question 1A friend of yours wants to go to university next year but cannot decide on a major field of study. What advice would you give your friend to help make this decision? 60
- Students often like to study with others in a group. What do you think are the benefits of group study? Give at least one benefit. Explain your reasons. 63
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 472.0 444.711560045 106% => OK
No of words: 124.0 116.580246914 106% => OK
Chars per words: 3.8064516129 3.81502700369 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.33699396548 3.28032121604 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.03864842701 1.8723322822 109% => OK
Unique words: 83.0 76.076318743 109% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.66935483871 0.655143326166 102% => OK
Syllable count: 159.3 141.574747475 113% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.21358024691 107% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.198253959789 0.0738818816272 268% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 12.0 3.20202020202 375% => Need less acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 10.3333333333 60.3232687746 17% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.61523198888 17.3634065801 50% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 4.58666666667 22.9064221017 20% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.42859381606 6.49597621602 53% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 31.0 31.1548821549 100% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.0 4.0588447711 99% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.13152544504 3.18357895611 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.60741935484 1.46810986539 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.91896494279 1.01537252472 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 18.0 28.6644219978 63% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.42 5.28593714927 121% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.356666666667 0.187982170178 190% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.337391958015 0.154715141812 218% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.78 35.408047138 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.328870967742 0.306236595465 107% => OK
STD word duration: 0.182814949967 0.198589292138 92% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 13.0 6.3164983165 206% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 9.0 5.14435465769 175% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 6.29 2.80480359147 224% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 55.04 45.0716498316 122% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.22311111111 1.00159221848 122% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.327034883721 0.637764685501 51% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.25290697674 2.58495923209 87% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.50799418605 1.68816559523 89% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.03531142717 2.15290372801 95% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.5391335 0.343871460585 157% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
Rates: 50.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 15.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.