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63. Some believe that a city should keep its old buildings. Others think some
new buildings are needed to replace the old buildings. What’s your opinion?
Explain why.
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This speaking topic by users
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-03-02 | Peyman Safapour | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-05 | Paola | Check this speaking | |
| 2019-09-20 | Seema Modak | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-11-07 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-11-06 | mgrajapt | 10.00 | Check this speaking |
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Speakings by user Seema Modak
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- TPO 21-Q6Using points and examples from the talk, describe the two changes that occurred after machines began to be used for manufacturing goods. 66
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- tpo 23 Q6Using the example of the Venus flytrap and the sundew, describe two ways that carnivorous plants get their nutrients. 90
- TPO 04 - Question 4Verbal and Nonverbal CommunicationWhen we speak with other people face-to-face the nonverbal signals we give—our facial expressions, hand gestures, body movements, and tone of voice—often communicate as much as, or more than, the wo 66
- TPO6 Q6Using points and examples from the talk, explain the difference between active and passive attention. 66
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 473.0 444.711560045 106% => OK
No of words: 136.0 116.580246914 117% => OK
Chars per words: 3.47794117647 3.81502700369 91% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.41495297035 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.566970249 1.8723322822 84% => OK
Unique words: 90.0 76.076318743 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.661764705882 0.655143326166 101% => OK
Syllable count: 150.3 141.574747475 106% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.21358024691 91% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0271016277991 0.0738818816272 37% => 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: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 68.5 60.3232687746 114% => OK
STD paragraph length: 17.5 17.3634065801 101% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 25.615 22.9064221017 112% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 5.575 6.49597621602 86% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 45.0 31.1548821549 144% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 3.02222222222 4.0588447711 74% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.09219596372 3.18357895611 66% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.10733333333 1.46810986539 75% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.712040573126 1.01537252472 70% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 45.0 28.6644219978 157% => It means the content is not pronounced smoothly or it is pronounced slowly. It is word by word.
Total acoustic silence duration: 6.31 5.28593714927 119% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.140222222222 0.187982170178 75% => Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.298860717384 0.154715141812 193% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.83 35.408047138 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.300220588235 0.306236595465 98% => OK
STD word duration: 0.170257015541 0.198589292138 86% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 10.0 6.3164983165 158% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.18 5.14435465769 140% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.93 2.80480359147 69% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 51.23 45.0716498316 114% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.13844444444 1.00159221848 114% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.878391567441 0.637764685501 138% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.65469451493 2.58495923209 103% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.75678313488 1.68816559523 104% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.20426157237 2.15290372801 102% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.341870602941 0.343871460585 99% => OK
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Maybe the speech is too long. It should be in 45 seconds.
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.