Male student Carrie, how come I always see you eating in the cafeteria lately? Didn’t you tell me you had a kitchen in your dorm and you were gonna start to . . .
Female student Uh-huh . . . and I was gonna start cooking my own meals there.
Male student So you changed your mind?
Female student It’s not that. The kitchen’s just always a mess. It’s filthy—dirty dishes everywhere, the trash is overflowing. Nobody ever cleans up so it’s gotten really disgusting.
Male student We had that problem in my dorm last year. We ended up making a schedule. Maybe you should try something like that.
Female student What do you mean a schedule?
Male student Well, people had to sign up to use the kitchen. Then whoever used it that day was responsible for cleaning it up.
Female student So you mean if the kitchen’s a mess on Tuesday, you just check and see who used it on Monday? Track ’em down and make ’em clean up the mess?
Male student Uh-huh. It kinda works . . . as long as people sign up like they’re supposed to.
Female student Well, I was wondering if we could just pay to have someone clean the place, maybe once a week or something. If everybody chipped in a few dollars, we could hire someone to clean the whole kitchen area.
Male student Wow. That’d be great if you could find someone. You mean like a student or something?
Female student Yeah. As long as it’s not too expensive.
Male student You should check out the bulletin board in the student center. I’ve seen notes from students looking for different jobs—even cleaning jobs.
Female student Good idea. And I’ll see what the other people in my dorm wanna do.
Male student Well, good luck. I hope it works out.
Narrator Briefly summarize the problem the speakers are discussing. Then state which of the two solutions from the conversation you would recommend. Explain the reasons for your recommendation.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-10-30 | kap | 50.00 | Check this speaking |
- Talk about a city or town you have visited in the past. Explain what you liked most about the city and why. Include specific reasons and examples in your response. 90
- Some people have one career throughout their lives. Other people do different kinds of work at different points in their lives. Which do you think is better? Explain why. 60
- We are happy to announce that Professor Fox will be filling the vacant Dean of Students position. Strong organizational skills are important for this position. Professor Fox has demonstrated such skills in her role as Head of the Philosophy Department, wh 50
- We are happy to announce that Professor Fox will be filling the vacant Dean of Students position. Strong organizational skills are important for this position. Professor Fox has demonstrated such skills in her role as Head of the Philosophy Department, wh 65
- Narrator Now listen to a conversation between two students on campus.Male student Hi . . . good morning. Could you help me with something?Female student Um. Maybe. What’s up?Male student Well, I’m a first-year student.Female student Everything going O 55
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 396.0 599.738853503 66% => Need more words or more difficult words.
No of words: 110.0 158.596602972 69% => 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: 3.6 3.77925476217 95% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.23853184046 3.54123138178 91% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.60227111541 1.79916674678 89% => OK
Unique words: 65.0 95.8789808917 68% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.590909090909 0.607024082132 97% => OK
Syllable count: 121.5 189.005732484 64% => The syllable count is low.
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.1 1.19129511677 92% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0809464508095 0.0831539838537 97% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 6.0 4.29936305732 140% => OK
Average paragraph length: 18.3333333333 70.8089261375 26% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 8.03464719546 23.6022091992 34% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 7.47 25.9380837976 29% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 4.33701894547 8.54438981162 51% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 41.0 40.7070063694 101% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 2.68292682927 4.24305496596 63% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 1.56857904301 3.29867071766 48% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.00780487805 1.4825078846 68% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.514864472791 1.02222390891 50% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 36.0 38.0 95% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 5.62 7.14643312102 79% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.156111111111 0.189447223375 82% => OK
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.148010468432 0.156783300276 94% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 33.56 46.7170700637 72% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.305090909091 0.297490414073 103% => OK
STD word duration: 0.187992966283 0.186336302485 101% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 5.0 7.29723991507 69% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 4.51 5.7916985138 78% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 4.06 3.38276008493 120% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 44.82 59.3491295117 76% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.747 0.989152158528 76% => Some seconds left. Need to talk more.
Rate of silence: 0.803212851406 0.642608181899 125% => Less acoustic silences wanted.
Rate of speech: 2.45426149041 2.6701766005 92% => Need to bring more content.
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.45024542615 1.61481078811 90% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 1.936829559 2.05366198651 94% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.296079009091 0.327712499341 90% => OK
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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.