TPO 10 - Question 3
Student Art Display
The university is currently considering possible locations on campus for displaying paintings and other artwork by students. I think the lobby at the entrance to the student center would be a great location. Since many students pass through the student center every day, artwork displayed in the lobby would be viewed by hundreds of people . Also, because the whole front of the building is made of glass windows, the lobby is filled with natural light. This makes it perfect for displaying artwork, which should have plenty of light to be seen and appreciated.
1. Mary, you are an art student.
2. What do you think of this letter?
3. I don't like the idea.
4. Why not?
5. Well, first of all, his first point about a lot people passing through the student center, that's true, but…
6. But?
7. But it's always really crowded with people coming and going.
8. It's not good for showing artwork.
9. Imagine you are standing there, trying to look at a painting.
10. There's gonna be like a million people walking through, people walking in front of you, blocking your view, distracting you…
11. Hm…yeah…hadn't thought of that.
12. You won't be able to appreciate the artwork, or get a good look at anything with so much going on, with so many people moving around.
13. Yeah, I see what you mean.
14. Plus, he's wrong about the windows.
15. But isn't it true that it's good for art to have lots of light?
16. In a sense, yeah, but that kind of light, all that natural light from windows?
17. That's actually not good because if it's really sunny out, it'll be way too bright.
18. If it's cloudy, it'll be way too dark.
19. Oh!
20. What you want is controlled light, consistent light, the kind you get from electric light bulbs.
21. Think about in an art museum.
22. In an art museum, you've got electric lighting, and the light is always carefully controlled, always at the same level.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-10-14 | yuantuantuan | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-07-19 | carolinaviik | 83.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-03-17 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-12-18 | paras001 | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-04-25 | Tulips | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Talk about a popular gathering place in your town where people like to go. Describe the place and explain why people enjoy going there. 90
- Talk about a famous person that you admire Explain why you respect this person 43
- Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which solution you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation. 80
- Where is your favorite place to study? Describe this place and say why it is a good place for you to study. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 757.0 593.389002037 128% => OK
No of words: 179.0 154.784114053 116% => OK
Chars per words: 4.22905027933 3.82920900774 110% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.65774358864 3.52088357496 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.06542289223 1.81998168104 113% => OK
Unique words: 114.0 93.7942973523 122% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.63687150838 0.608046397892 105% => OK
Syllable count: 234.9 185.724439919 126% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.188733935624 0.0833886788687 226% => Good job. The more, the better.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 4.0 3.90020366599 103% => OK
Average paragraph length: 45.0 71.3690273242 63% => OK
STD paragraph length: 31.1528489869 24.1299301424 129% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 14.575 26.8388033085 54% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 9.66885334463 8.89323425527 109% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 32.0 40.266802444 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.59375 4.20756893501 133% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.86607757208 3.23972648638 150% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.77125 1.51236819293 117% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.48033093851 1.0352206224 143% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 30.0 37.9022403259 79% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.12 7.22384928717 85% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.204 0.193825474362 105% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.180510387513 0.16431695912 110% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 48.17 46.6644602851 103% => OK
Average word duration: 0.269106145251 0.304040633073 89% => OK
STD word duration: 0.171250037446 0.193491353168 89% => 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: 3.77 6.97134419552 54% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.87 3.21433808554 58% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 58.3 59.1375356415 99% => OK
Compare to expected duration: 0.971666666667 0.985625594026 99% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.514579759863 0.643888735843 80% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.07032590051 2.61565628039 117% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.95540308748 1.58604529434 123% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.36661822711 2.01333574461 118% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.334777569832 0.322651457988 104% => OK
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Rates: 90.0 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 27.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.