Campus Dining Club Announced
Starting this year, the university dining hall will be transformed into The Campus Dining Club for one week at the end of each semester. During the last week of each semester, the dining hall will feature special meals prepared by the university's culinary arts students. The school feels that this will give students who are studying cooking and food preparation valuable experience that will help them later, when they pursue careers. The university has announced that it will charge a small additional fee for these dinners in order to pay for the special gourmet food ingredients that will be required.
1. Did you see that article?
2. Yeah, and it sounds like a great idea.
3. It's really good for the students in that program.
4. Don't they cook in class anyway?
5. Well, yeah, they do.
6. But my cousin was in the program a few years ago, and she said that it's very different to cook for a lot people in that kind of atmosphere than to cook for classmates.
7. Why is that?
8. Well, in class, you can take your time, but cooking for more people there is more pressure.
9. I mean you are in a rush, people are waiting, and it might be easy to make a mistake with all that stress.
10. Then they'll think you are a bad chef right?
11. Absolutely.
12. So, OK, its good practice.
13. But what about the extra cost?
14. Well, look at it this way.
15. You've eaten at some of the fancier restaurants in town right?
16. Well, there are some great places to eat around here.
17. Well, these students, they'll be making fantastic meals and it's gonna be cheaper than going out to one of those restaurants.
18. Much cheaper actually.
19. So, you know, it would be worth it.
20. The meal will be as good as the ones in those expensive restaurants.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-08-12 | chandr | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2019-10-30 | Lee Shyu | 56.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2016-10-05 | mgrajapt | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-11-25 | testtaker_dan | Check this speaking | |
| 2017-01-26 | mgrajapt | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
- A friend of yours is looking for a new place to live and has asked for your advice. What do you think is the most important characteristic of a good neighborhood? Use details and examples to explain your answer. 66
- There can be several advantages to spending time living in another country. Talk about one advantage and explain how living in another country provides that advantage. Use details and examples in your response. 83
- Talk about a book you have read that was important to you for some reason. Explain why the book was important to you. Give specific details and examples to explain your answer. 80
- Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? It is important to learn about other cultures. Use details and examples to explain your opinion. 90
- Talk about a teacher who had a positive influence on you. Describe this person and explain why he/she was so influential to you. 83
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 497.0 593.389002037 84% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 115.0 154.784114053 74% => 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: 4.32173913043 3.82920900774 113% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.27472217062 3.52088357496 93% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.35371242781 1.81998168104 129% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 93.7942973523 87% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.713043478261 0.608046397892 117% => OK
Syllable count: 162.0 185.724439919 87% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.20224032587 116% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0440374032855 0.0833886788687 53% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 3.90020366599 51% => OK
Average paragraph length: 57.5 71.3690273242 81% => OK
STD paragraph length: 47.5 24.1299301424 197% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 17.955 26.8388033085 67% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 14.855 8.89323425527 167% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 17.0 40.266802444 42% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.76470588235 4.20756893501 161% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.86922402037 3.23972648638 150% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.97411764706 1.51236819293 131% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.18041397934 1.0352206224 114% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 20.0 37.9022403259 53% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.38 7.22384928717 61% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.219 0.193825474362 113% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.194110793105 0.16431695912 118% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 28.8 46.6644602851 62% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.250434782609 0.304040633073 82% => OK
STD word duration: 0.143819883153 0.193491353168 74% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 1.0 8.88594704684 11% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 0.69 6.97134419552 10% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.35 3.21433808554 42% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 35.91 59.1375356415 61% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.5985 0.985625594026 61% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.556947925369 0.643888735843 86% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.20245057087 2.61565628039 122% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.28348649401 1.58604529434 144% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.84722222222 2.01333574461 141% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.325951686957 0.322651457988 101% => OK
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The speech is either too short or too long. It should be in 60 seconds.
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.