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Some people prefer to learn about current events from watching television news programs . Others prefer to read about current events in newspapers or on the internet. Which do you think is better : watching the news or reading the news? Explain why.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2017-07-26 | ying.ma | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-06-05 | Elena Cristina | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-24 | vhb | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-12-23 | Bobby1987 | 90.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-11-24 | bijan54 | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
Speaking category
Speakings by user Elena Cristina
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- The man expresses his opinion of the letter writer's proposal. State his opinion and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion. 66
- Using points and examples from the talk, explain why play is important for a child’s development. 81
- Explain how the example of the television advertisement for pots and pans from the lecture illustrates the technique of refute-and-persuade. 76
- The man expresses his opinion about the proposal in the student's letter. Briefly summarize the proposal. Then state the man's opinion about the proposal and explain the reasons he gives for holding that opinion. 80
- Explain how the example of the television advertisement for pots and pans from the lecture illustrates the technique of refute-and-persuade. 81
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 302.0 444.711560045 68% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 91.0 116.580246914 78% => 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: 3.31868131868 3.81502700369 87% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.08859061939 3.28032121604 94% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.53264205465 1.8723322822 82% => OK
Unique words: 60.0 76.076318743 79% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.659340659341 0.655143326166 101% => OK
Syllable count: 97.2 141.574747475 69% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0 0.0738818816272 0% => It may have issues on recording quality or the content is not so closely related to content.
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 3.20202020202 187% => OK
Average paragraph length: 15.1666666667 60.3232687746 25% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 12.4286854583 17.3634065801 72% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.185 22.9064221017 31% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 5.42185930593 6.49597621602 83% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 49.0 31.1548821549 157% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 1.85714285714 4.0588447711 46% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.10656667034 3.18357895611 35% => The length of acoustic sentences keeps same.
Average acoustic sentences duration: 0.748571428571 1.46810986539 51% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.464358236094 1.01537252472 46% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 52.0 28.6644219978 181% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.71 5.28593714927 146% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.148269230769 0.187982170178 79% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.140858919516 0.154715141812 91% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 28.13 35.408047138 79% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.309120879121 0.306236595465 101% => OK
STD word duration: 0.22269897068 0.198589292138 112% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 8.0 6.3164983165 127% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 6.71 5.14435465769 130% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.66 2.80480359147 202% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 43.11 45.0716498316 96% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.958 1.00159221848 96% => OK
Rate of silence: 1.20621665507 0.637764685501 189% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.11087914637 2.58495923209 82% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.39178844816 1.68816559523 82% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.13295414149 2.15290372801 99% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.174453043956 0.343871460585 51% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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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.