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 |
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| 2019-10-30 | Lee Shyu | 51.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-01-25 | mgrajapt | 84.33 | Check this speaking |
| 2020-08-06 | kkch | Check this speaking | |
| 2016-08-20 | mgrajapt | 70.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2017-12-04 | lamiskhoury | 80.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 636.0 593.389002037 107% => OK
No of words: 154.0 154.784114053 99% => 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: 4.12987012987 3.82920900774 108% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.52273666998 3.52088357496 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.94302381395 1.81998168104 107% => OK
Unique words: 107.0 93.7942973523 114% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.694805194805 0.608046397892 114% => OK
Syllable count: 198.0 185.724439919 107% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20224032587 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0904126319925 0.0833886788687 108% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 3.0 3.90020366599 77% => OK
Average paragraph length: 51.3333333333 71.3690273242 72% => OK
STD paragraph length: 15.1510909032 24.1299301424 63% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 16.0866666667 26.8388033085 60% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 4.78658077917 8.89323425527 54% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 24.0 40.266802444 60% => Need more acoustic sentences. Maybe the speech rate is too fast.
Average acoustic sentence length: 6.41666666667 4.20756893501 153% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 4.10199815808 3.23972648638 127% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.94583333333 1.51236819293 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 1.19184002236 1.0352206224 115% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 23.0 37.9022403259 61% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 4.87 7.22384928717 67% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.211739130435 0.193825474362 109% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.167634493024 0.16431695912 102% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 40.26 46.6644602851 86% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.261428571429 0.304040633073 86% => OK
STD word duration: 0.16858628594 0.193491353168 87% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 8.88594704684 23% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.23 6.97134419552 32% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.32 3.21433808554 41% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 48.26 59.1375356415 82% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.804333333333 0.985625594026 82% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.476585163697 0.643888735843 74% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.19104848736 2.61565628039 122% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.21715706589 1.58604529434 140% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.65772478887 2.01333574461 132% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.275224642857 0.322651457988 85% => OK
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Rates: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.