The dining hall at the southern end of the campus will be redesigned for the fall semester, with the cafeteria to be replaced by a new food court. This remodeled dining area will include restaurants, cafes, and a convenience store where students can buy school supplies. The restaurants will be varied, specializing in international food, vegetarian dishes, and handmade sandwiches, all made to order at the request of the individual diners. The food court will be open by the end of the first week of the spring semester, giving students more food choices on campus in the coming calendar year.
Script:
Narrator: Now listen to two students discussing the announcement.
Female student: Did ya hear about the new food court on South Campus?
Male student: Yeah. [DISAPPOINTED] Man, it’s too bad they’re getting get rid of the cafeteria.
Female student: [SURPRISED] What—Why? Won’t it be good to have a few more options?
Male student: I dunno… I don’t feel like this really gives us more choices. The cafeteria already had dishes from other countries. They had vegetarian options and customizable sandwiches, too. It’s not like the quality of this new food court’s ingredients is going to be much better than what we’ve had—I bet it’ll all be from the same source, even.
Female student: You think? I mean, yeah, if they don’t even change their supplier, the offerings probably won’t be all that different.
Male student: Exactly, just pricier.
Female student: Wait, why’s that?
Male student: Oh, uh… The cafeteria was “all you can eat.” You’d get as much food as you wanted for a flat price. But at a food court, you’ve gotta order individual meals. That ends up costing more.
Female student: [CHUCKLES] You’ve always liked to load up a big plate, huh.
Male student: You’ve got that right. If I have to buy four meals every day, it’s gonna be hard on my wallet.
Narrator: 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-08-03 | Enas Al lami | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-12 | brk1 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 697.0 593.389002037 117% => OK
No of words: 170.0 154.784114053 110% => OK
Chars per words: 4.1 3.82920900774 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.61087313685 3.52088357496 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.95733913019 1.81998168104 108% => OK
Unique words: 106.0 93.7942973523 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.623529411765 0.608046397892 103% => OK
Syllable count: 218.7 185.724439919 118% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.156388119113 0.0833886788687 188% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 3.90020366599 179% => OK
Average paragraph length: 24.2857142857 71.3690273242 34% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.5438008106 24.1299301424 52% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.22714285714 26.8388033085 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 3.82147583415 8.89323425527 43% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 35.0 40.266802444 87% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.85714285714 4.20756893501 115% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.24360262811 3.23972648638 131% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.55457142857 1.51236819293 103% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.38238581106 1.0352206224 134% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 33.0 37.9022403259 87% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.91 7.22384928717 82% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.179090909091 0.193825474362 92% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.146481225115 0.16431695912 89% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 47.26 46.6644602851 101% => OK
Average word duration: 0.278 0.304040633073 91% => OK
STD word duration: 0.158936169207 0.193491353168 82% => 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: 3.17 6.97134419552 45% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 2.31 3.21433808554 72% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 57.59 59.1375356415 97% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.959833333333 0.985625594026 97% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.573016148637 0.643888735843 89% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.95190137177 2.61565628039 113% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.84059732592 1.58604529434 116% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.24291155311 2.01333574461 111% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.404514870588 0.322651457988 125% => 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.