Task4 TPO1 You will now read a short passage. You will have 45-50 Seconds to read and then listen to a talk on the same topic. You will then be asked a question about them. Assume you are in a real IBT test, after you hear the question, you will have 30 seconds to prepare your response and 60 seconds to speak.
Reading Groupthink
One process by which groups may make bad or irrational decisions is known as groupthink. Individual members of a group attempt to conform their opinions to what they believe to be the group consensus even though the result may be negative. These include the desire to be like, fear of losing a job, or even not wanting to be the one employee delaying a decision that seems inevitable. These kinds of implicit pressures to conform lead group members to ultimately make decisions that each by himself or herself, might normally not make."
Listening
Question Explain groupthink and its effects using the example of the computer company.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-04 | Rasna James | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-06-08 | Enas Al lami | 76.67 | Check this speaking |
- Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other people do different kinds of work at different points in their lives. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 63
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- Using the example from the lecture, explain the use of image advertising to sell products. 82
- TPO 2 Q3 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 805.0 592.248995984 136% => OK
No of words: 218.0 155.574297189 140% => OK
Chars per words: 3.69266055046 3.80514564318 97% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.84250218741 3.525876923 109% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.72994174065 1.79077849142 97% => OK
Unique words: 119.0 93.7148594378 127% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.545871559633 0.604071249207 90% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
Syllable count: 250.2 185.844578313 135% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19417670683 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0582436163497 0.0650381309087 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 1.0 4.35341365462 23% => Need more acoustic paragraphs.
Average paragraph length: 218.0 68.503853103 318% => The average paragraph length is high.
STD paragraph length: 0.0 21.3332995233 0% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 63.11 25.9943957902 243% => Need to control the rhythm of the speech
STD paragraph duration: 0.0 7.84667146824 0% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 40.0 42.0642570281 95% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.45 4.02192344571 136% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.5384468709 3.1217529195 145% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.52425 1.45093177766 105% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.00352849362 0.99851816184 101% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 42.0 39.0421686747 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.12 7.12997991968 100% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.169523809524 0.185688545393 91% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.13458848003 0.155154303396 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 51.3 47.1480722892 109% => OK
Average word duration: 0.235321100917 0.305395592593 77% => Maybe the speed rate is very high.
STD word duration: 0.133794781973 0.189427763521 71% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 7.94979919679 50% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.58 6.2937751004 41% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.04 3.39508032129 60% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 63.11 59.7592369478 106% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.05183333333 0.995987282463 106% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.665504674378 0.656000678711 101% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.45428616701 2.60215298798 133% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.8855965774 1.56821927147 120% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.31968810916 1.99336655568 116% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.274292119266 0.317803793328 86% => OK
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It may have duplicated content. Need to use the words more efficiently.
Rates: 66.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.