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9. Most schools support extra-curricular activities, such as clubs and sports teams.Some schools pay for these activities, some require that students pay, and someuse a mix of school funds and student payments. Which do you think is preferable,and why?
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| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-19 | Kumari Soni | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-14 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-05-25 | DubinchukEugene | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-01-14 | brk1 | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
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- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement?Students are more influenced by their teachers than by their friends. 66
- 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 s 90
- TPO 20 The woman expresses her opinion about the plan described in the article. State her opinion and explain the reasons she gives for holding that opinion.
- Some people feel they perform better when they have to finish by a strict time. Others feel they do better work if they do not have time pressure. Which best describes you? Explain why. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 535.0 444.711560045 120% => OK
No of words: 133.0 116.580246914 114% => OK
Chars per words: 4.02255639098 3.81502700369 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.39596269041 3.28032121604 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.89762877524 1.8723322822 101% => OK
Unique words: 92.0 76.076318743 121% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.691729323308 0.655143326166 106% => OK
Syllable count: 164.7 141.574747475 116% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.2 1.21358024691 99% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0642876972911 0.0738818816272 87% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.20202020202 62% => OK
Average paragraph length: 66.5 60.3232687746 110% => OK
STD paragraph length: 2.5 17.3634065801 14% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 25.46 22.9064221017 111% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 1.78 6.49597621602 27% => The duration of acoustic paragraphs keeps same.
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 30.0 31.1548821549 96% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.43333333333 4.0588447711 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.1164438423 3.18357895611 98% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.63033333333 1.46810986539 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.9872705922 1.01537252472 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 31.0 28.6644219978 108% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 7.04 5.28593714927 133% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.227096774194 0.187982170178 121% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.120755512754 0.154715141812 78% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.63 35.408047138 115% => OK
Average word duration: 0.305488721805 0.306236595465 100% => OK
STD word duration: 0.176849905204 0.198589292138 89% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 11.0 6.3164983165 174% => It may have 'ehn' in the speaking, or it has hesitations or overlapping speeches.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 7.94 5.14435465769 154% => Somehow the hesitation is serious.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.58 2.80480359147 56% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 50.92 45.0716498316 113% => Need to finish the speech on time.
Compare to expected duration: 1.13155555556 1.00159221848 113% => It is over the expected time.
Rate of silence: 0.60879811469 0.637764685501 95% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.61194029851 2.58495923209 101% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.80675569521 1.68816559523 107% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.26433669702 2.15290372801 105% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.367081037594 0.343871460585 107% => 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.