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- TPO 24 - Question 3 Close the Campus Coffee house I propose that the university close the campus coffeehouse. Coffeehouses are great if people actually use them, like to socialize with friends, while enjoying a cup of coffee and a snack. But students are 63
- TPO 31 - Question 4 Mental Accounting Although they may not realize it, people do not always manage their money in responsible way. In their minds, people tend to divide their money into different categories as if they were putting it into separate menta 72
- TPO 21 - Question 2 Do you agree or disagree with the following statement: Your friends are the most important influence in your life. Use details and examples to explain your opinion. 60
- TPO 20 - Question 3 Energy costs reach sky-high levels Heating prices, and the university’s heating bills, reached record-high level this year. In an effort to reduce heating costs, the university decides to lower the temperature in classroom buildings 90
- TPO 30 - Question 3 Campus Construction Should Happen During the Summer I've noticed that small construction projects on campus'like fixing sidewalks and parking lots'often take place during the regular school year, when classed are in session. I propose 63
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There are a lot of 'ehn' in the speech and so you can't finish the content on time.
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Try this pattern for Q3:
Introduction. something like '....and provide two reasons to support'. about 15-20 seconds. (content from reading)
Reason 1, blabla... about 20-25 seconds (content from lecture) //Don't spend too much/less time on the first reason
Reason 2, blabla... about 20-25 seconds (content from lecture)
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read the sample answer:
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 522.0 593.389002037 88% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 132.0 154.784114053 85% => 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: 3.95454545455 3.82920900774 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.38956122427 3.52088357496 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.23899204989 1.81998168104 123% => OK
Unique words: 77.0 93.7942973523 82% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.583333333333 0.608046397892 96% => OK
Syllable count: 166.5 185.724439919 90% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.139191650613 0.0833886788687 167% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 18.8571428571 71.3690273242 26% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 22.1773924232 24.1299301424 92% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 9.13285714286 26.8388033085 34% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 10.6134573797 8.89323425527 119% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 40.266802444 112% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.93333333333 4.20756893501 70% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.19494368442 3.23972648638 68% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.31155555556 1.51236819293 87% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.75714362517 1.0352206224 73% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 40.0 37.9022403259 106% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.67 7.22384928717 106% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.19175 0.193825474362 99% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.139658288333 0.16431695912 85% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 49.22 46.6644602851 105% => OK
Average word duration: 0.372878787879 0.304040633073 123% => OK
STD word duration: 0.227344786556 0.193491353168 117% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 22.0 8.88594704684 248% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 17.16 6.97134419552 246% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.19 3.21433808554 161% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 63.93 59.1375356415 108% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.0655 0.985625594026 108% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.625684342249 0.643888735843 97% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.06475832942 2.61565628039 79% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.20444235883 1.58604529434 76% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.56440471353 2.01333574461 78% => Need more unique words.
Average articulation rates: 0.393827606061 0.322651457988 122% => OK
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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.