The professor proposes two solutions to the problem the woman describes. Briefly summarize the problem. Then state which solution you recommend and explain why.
1. Now listen to a conversation between a professor and a student.
2. Hi, Sara.
3. Uh, to what do I owe the pleasure of this office visit?
4. It's my study group, Professor Wilson.
5. We are not getting much studying done.And, you know, not all of us did very well on your last quiz.
6. Hmm... What's the problem?
7. Well, we've all become good friends and we joke around a lot instead of studying.
8. Hmm... Sara, let me ask you this.
9. When do you meet?
10. Every Friday afternoon.
11. Have you thought about changing to another day?
12. By the time Friday afternoon rolls around, all of you are probably exhausted, and um, all you want to do is relax and um, unwind.
13. It's hard to stay focused at the very end of the week.
14. Good point!
15. Although things have gotten so out of hand that I'm not sure changing days would help.
16. And we'd lose one or two people if we change days.
17. Friday afternoon is the only time everyone is available.
18. But it's worth considering.
19. OK.
20. But, just a second, another possibility is, does your group have a leader?
21. No.
22. Well, if you had a leader that would help enormously.
23. Someone to set an agenda in advance, email it to everyone before the meeting, and then make sure when you meet that you stay focused on your goals.
24. And since you seem to be concerned enough about the problem to have come see me, I think that someone might be you.
25. I guess I could take on that role, but it sounds like work.
26. You don't have to do it for the whole semester, Sara.
27. You can start it off and then perhaps someone else can take over.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-07-09 | Elena Cristina | 66.00 | Check this speaking |
| 2018-08-28 | chandr | 81.00 | Check this speaking |
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Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 693.0 599.738853503 116% => OK
No of words: 180.0 158.596602972 113% => OK
Chars per words: 3.85 3.77925476217 102% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.66284150148 3.54123138178 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 1.87223870748 1.79916674678 104% => OK
Unique words: 113.0 95.8789808917 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.627777777778 0.607024082132 103% => OK
Syllable count: 225.0 189.005732484 119% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.19129511677 109% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.08599695586 0.0831539838537 103% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 2.0 4.29936305732 47% => OK
Average paragraph length: 90.0 70.8089261375 127% => OK
STD paragraph length: 9.0 23.6022091992 38% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 28.14 25.9380837976 108% => OK
STD paragraph duration: 2.8 8.54438981162 33% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 33.0 40.7070063694 81% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 5.45454545455 4.24305496596 129% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 3.97790038338 3.29867071766 121% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.61424242424 1.4825078846 109% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.920098908725 1.02222390891 90% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 34.0 38.0 89% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 8.24 7.14643312102 115% => OK
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.242352941176 0.189447223375 128% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.204076958142 0.156783300276 130% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 44.45 46.7170700637 95% => OK
Average word duration: 0.246944444444 0.297490414073 83% => OK
STD word duration: 0.135396935885 0.186336302485 73% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 2.0 7.29723991507 27% => Good job, the lower, the better.
Total_disfluencies_duration: 1.41 5.7916985138 24% => Good job. The lower, the better.
Total acoustic noise duration: 1.39 3.38276008493 41% => OK
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.28 59.3491295117 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.938 0.989152158528 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.604122245913 0.642608181899 94% => OK
Rate of speech: 3.19829424307 2.6701766005 120% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 2.00781805259 1.61481078811 124% => OK
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.54218222722 2.05366198651 124% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.226234733333 0.327712499341 69% => It may have issues on recording quality or you may have pronounciation issues.
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Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.