1. Hey Sarah, when did your play open?
2. The one you wrote and are directing?
3. In one week
4. And how is it coming along?
5. Well, the rehearsals have been going on pretty well.
6. There is just one problem.
7. What's that?
8. We have a guy named Bill playing one of the supporting roles, one of the minor characters.
9. OK?
10. And he just can't remember his lines.
11. All the other actors have their parts memorized except Bill.
12. We will be in the middle of rehearsing a big scene and he will forget what he is supposed to say next.
13. I thought he'd eventually improve, but now I am not sure he'll be ready for opening tonight.
14. Oh, no, that's not good.
15. What can you do at this point?
16. Well, I could replace him.
17. There are other actors on campus, actors who could play the part.
18. Yeah, since it's such a minor role, another actor could probably learn the part in time.
19. That's true.
20. It's just that I don't know how he'd feel about that.
21. Removing him from the play could hurt his feelings and he was really looking forward to being in it.
22. I see.
23. Well, could you, I mean maybe another thing you could do is spend time with him after rehearsals.
24. You know, work with him to help him learn and remember his lines.
25. Yeah, I could do that.
26. But there are other parts of the production I try to take care of after rehearsals so it'd take away from other things that I need to do before opening night.
1. Back in the 18th century in a time known as the industrial revolution, some countries, well, English, in particular, started using new technology like steamed powered machines to produce goods and the use of these machines brought about some significant changes.
2. Let's go over two main changes that occurred.
3. One change was that the center of production moved from homes to factories.
4. Let's take fabric or clock as an example, historically, for a very long time; people had made cloth by hand in their homes, earning a little money from their home-based cloth production.
5. But then these new steamed-powered machines for weaving clothe were invented and placed in factories and these machines could weave cloth much more quickly and efficiently so there wasn't any reason to keep making cloth slowly in homes when it could be made fasters on factory machines.
6. Thus the majority of cloth production shifted from home-based businesses to factory production.
7. Another result of the new technology is that cities started forming around factories.
8. Like let's say there was a cloth factory that was built in a certain small village.
9. Now of course the factory needed workers to operate the machines used in cloth production.
10. So the factory would hire a lot rural workers who would then move from the countryside to the village.
11. So instead of being spread out all over the countryside, the workers started to congregate in the village with the factory.
12. As a result, the village got bigger and bigger and eventually grew into a city.
| Post dates | Users | rates | Contents |
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| 2018-10-10 | chandr | 68.00 | Check this speaking |
- Who is your best friend? Describe this person and say why he/she is your best friend. 80
- Talk about a skill or ability that you consider especially important for a student to have. Use details and examples to explain your answer. 50
- Think of a book that you have not read but are interested in reading. Explain why the book was important to you. Give specific details and examples to explain your answer. 66
- Using points and examples from the talk, explain the difference between active and passive attention. 90
- Using the points and examples from the talk, explain how substitute goods and complement goods influence demand for a particular product. 90
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 571.0 578.828451883 99% => OK
No of words: 139.0 151.265690377 92% => 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: 4.10791366906 3.82278263415 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 3.43363162301 3.50058242952 98% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.16143653098 1.80425224433 120% => OK
Unique words: 82.0 92.4686192469 89% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.589928057554 0.61298525976 96% => OK
Syllable count: 181.8 182.283891213 100% => OK
Avg_syllables_per_word: 1.3 1.20543933054 108% => OK
Performance on coherence:
Topic speech coherence ratio: 0.0808120626786 0.0839705835288 96% => OK
Acoustic performance on paragraphs:
How many acoustic paragraphs: 7.0 4.47071129707 157% => OK
Average paragraph length: 20.0 65.8948926009 30% => The average paragraph length is low.
STD paragraph length: 25.3433564132 19.7758100068 128% => OK
Average paragraph duration: 8.1 25.5208953607 32% => The speaking content is not well organized.
STD paragraph duration: 8.73943770666 7.49434385956 117% => OK
Acoustic performance on sentences:
How many acoustic sentences: 34.0 42.9832635983 79% => OK
Average acoustic sentence length: 4.08823529412 3.78147595546 108% => OK
STD acoustic sentence length: 2.76923908703 2.94285465224 94% => OK
Average acoustic sentences duration: 1.55382352941 1.39386743896 111% => OK
STD acoustic sentences duration: 0.894361470238 0.967747756167 92% => OK
Acoustic performance on acoustic silence:(An acoustic silence means a little pause between two or more words)
How many acoustic silence: 25.0 40.4456066946 62% => OK
Total acoustic silence duration: 9.29 7.59280334728 122% => It may have a lot of silences or every silence is too long.
Average acoustic silence duration: 0.3716 0.19053887516 195% => Maybe the pauses are too long.
STD acoustic silence duration: 0.482548899077 0.157467062838 306% => The duration of acoustic silence changes often. It may have hesitations.
Acoustic performance on acoustic words:
Total word duration: 39.83 46.3453556485 86% => Need to talk more.
Average word duration: 0.28654676259 0.308780311121 93% => OK
STD word duration: 0.14549697631 0.201157623399 72% => OK
Disfluencies: like hesitations, or 'ehn' or taking a long time to pronounce a word:
How many disfluencies: 4.0 8.09623430962 49% => OK
Total_disfluencies_duration: 2.88 6.56692468619 44% => OK
Total acoustic noise duration: 5.82 3.53066945607 165% => It may have issues on recording quality or have issues on silences or disfluencies.
Acoustic rates:
Total speech duration: 56.7 59.5455230126 95% => Talk more. Do not save time. People can talk 4-5 words in one second.
Compare to expected duration: 0.945 0.992425383543 95% => OK
Rate of silence: 0.440917107584 0.681803438845 65% => OK
Rate of speech: 2.45149911817 2.53813033465 97% => OK
Rate of speech by unique words: 1.44620811287 1.55221717717 93% => More unique words wanted.
Rate of word duration by unique words: 2.05874968617 1.99939622689 103% => OK
Average articulation rates: 0.259229589928 0.309613076454 84% => OK
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Rates: 68.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by speech e-grader: 20.5 Out of 30
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Note: the speech e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas.