The charts below show the proportions of British students at one university in England who were able to speak other languages in addition to English, in 2000 and 2010.
The pie charts illustrate the percentage of British pupils knowing other languages apart from English at a particular university in England during a period of 10 years, from 2000 to 2010.
Overall, the proportion of British students becoming more interested in other languages besides English increased over the period. Also, Spanish was by far the most popular language at that university in both years.
30% of British students were able to communicate in Spanish, which was double that of French, at 15%, followed by 10% of German-speaking students. In 2010, the proportion of pupils knowing Spanish increased moderately to 35%, while the figure for French went down slightly by 5%. Meanwhile, the percentage of German – fluent students remained unchanged at 10% in two years.
Between 2000 and 2010, the percentage of British pupils who could speak other foreign languages witnessed a small growth by 5%. The year 2010 saw a significant fall in British students speaking their mother tongue to 10%.
- The world is experiencing a dramatic increase in population, which is causing problems not only for poor, undeveloped countries, but also for industrialised and developed nations. Describe some of the problems that overpopulation causes, and suggest at le 73
- Some people think sports are important to society. Others say that it is nothing more than a leisure activity. Discuss both views and give opinion. 84
- One of the consequences of improved medical care is that people are living longer and life expectancy is increasing.Do you think the advantages of this development outweigh the disadvantages? 89
- Learning about the past has no value for those of us living in the present.To what extent do you agree or disagree? 89
- Earlier technological development brought more changes to the life of ordinary people than recent technological development do. To what extent do you agree or disagree? 73
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, besides, if, so, while, apart from
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 3.0 7.0 43% => More to be verbs wanted.
Auxiliary verbs: 1.0 1.00243902439 100% => OK
Conjunction : 1.0 6.8 15% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 4.0 3.15609756098 127% => OK
Pronoun: 3.0 5.60731707317 54% => OK
Preposition: 35.0 33.7804878049 104% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 3.97073170732 50% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 855.0 965.302439024 89% => OK
No of words: 162.0 196.424390244 82% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.27777777778 4.92477711251 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.56762134501 3.73543355544 96% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.76267499244 2.65546596893 104% => OK
Unique words: 98.0 106.607317073 92% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.604938271605 0.547539520022 110% => OK
syllable_count: 237.6 283.868780488 84% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.45097560976 103% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 0.0 1.53170731707 0% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.33902439024 138% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 1.07073170732 93% => OK
Conjunction: 0.0 0.482926829268 0% => OK
Preposition: 4.0 3.36585365854 119% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 8.0 8.94146341463 89% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 22.4926829268 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 31.5505546702 43.030603864 73% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.875 112.824112599 95% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.25 22.9334400587 88% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.0 5.23603664747 95% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 3.83414634146 104% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 1.69756097561 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 3.70975609756 135% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 0.0 1.13902439024 0% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.09268292683 73% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.418170006318 0.215688989381 194% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.169920210725 0.103423049105 164% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0787928332742 0.0843802449381 93% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.249168818616 0.15604864568 160% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0432590916467 0.0819641961636 53% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.6 13.2329268293 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 59.64 61.2550243902 97% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.51609756098 135% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.9 10.3012195122 96% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.34 11.4140731707 117% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.94 8.06136585366 98% => OK
difficult_words: 34.0 40.7170731707 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 11.5 11.4329268293 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.9970731707 91% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 11.0658536585 90% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 78.6516853933 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.0 Out of 9
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.