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E: Examiner

S: Student

E: Alright. Now I'm going to give you a topic. And I'd like you to talk about it for one to two minutes before you talk, you'll have one minute to think about what you're going to say and you can make some notes if you wish. You understand? 

S: OK. 

E: I'd like you to talk about the type of clothing you like to wear. So first of all, you have one minute to prepare. (After one-minute preparation) All right. Now remember, you've got one to two minutes for this so don't worry if I stop you, I'll tell you when the time is up. Can you start speaking now please? 

S: OK. Today I would like to share the type of clothes which I do like it. First of all, this clothing type is a, is a suit because this, this is symbol of professional. If I wear the ... if I wear the suit, I can make a state of serious and professional to others. And actually, when will I wear this type of clothes? I will wear the suits during business presentation or having interview with ... having interview during workplace because actually, before I study at the Education University of Hong Kong, I've studied at the college … in Hong Kong Community College, which is taking a course of Business Marketing. And at this course, I need to have some business presentation which I need to wear the suit to conduct the presentation because this is a formal dressing and I can have a dressing style with the whole team … with the same, same dressing style. And besides, during workplace … in my future workplace, I must wear this type of clothes to have an interview with the boss or manager, because they can just … looking at this clothing style, they will feel that you're serious and ... 

E: Thank you. Sorry to interrupt you.  

General Descriptions:

FLUENCY AND COHERENCE

General Description 

 

Repetition: 4 times 

 

Self-correction: 3 times 

 

Discourse markers (10 times) 

Actually: 2 times 

First of all: 1 time 

OK: 1 time 

 

Connectives (13 times) 

And: 6 times 

Because: 4 times 

Or: 2 times 

If: 1 time 

 

Total number of words: 202 words 

Speech rate: 202 words ÷ 117.90s = 1.71words/second 

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LEXICAL RESOURCE

General Description 

 

Less common words: no less common word is identified. 

 

Paraphrase: no paraphrase is coded. 

 

Idiomatic expressions: no idiomatic expression is identified. 

 

Collocations: 1 collocation is identified (taking a course). 

 

Appropriacy of the words used: 10 inappropriate uses of words are coded. 

Inappropriate word choice: 5 times  
(make a state of → project a sense of;  
formal dressing → formal clothing;  
dressing style → a clothing style;  
same dressing style → same clothing style) 

 

Inappropriate collocation: 4 times  
(interview during workplace → interviews in the workplace;  
studied … in Hong Kong Community College → studied … at Hong Kong Community College;  
a course of Business Marketing → a course in Business Marketing;  
have a … style with the whole team → have a … style in common with / that matched with / that was the same as the whole team) 

 

Inappropriate word form: 3 times  
(symbol of professional → symbol of professionalism;  
of serious and professional → of seriousness and professionalism)  

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GRAMMAR

General Description 

 

Error (19 times) 

Singular/ plural noun form: 6 times  
(during business presentation or having interview … having interview during → during business presentations or having interviews … having interviews;  
before I study → before my studies;  
some business presentation → some business presentations;  
this type of clothes → these type of clothes) 

 

Inappropriate tense: 5 times  
(I’ve studied at the college → I studies at the college;  
which … taking → where … take;  
need → I needed;  
which I need → which I needed;  
and I can → and I could) 

 

Inappropriate relative pronoun: 2 times  
(College, which → College, where;  
presentation which → presentations when / at which) 

 

Inappropriate article: 1 time (the suit → a suit) 

 

Inappropriate pronoun: 1 time (before I study → before my studies) 

 

Missing article: 1 time (this is ^symbol → this is a symbol) 

 

Missing subject: 1 time (which … ^taking a → where … I take) 

 

Redundant object: 1 time 

Redundant article: 1 time 

 

Complex verb group (1 time) 

Emphatic ‘do’ 

 

Subordinate clause (10 times) 

Adverbial clause: 6 times 

Relative clause: 3 times  

Noun clause: 1 time  

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PRONUNCIATION

General Description 

 

Consonant error: 17 times (this; with; the; must; clothes; clothing; style; suit; suits) 

 

Vowel error: not coded 

 

Syllable stress error: not coded 

 

Sentence stress error: not coded  

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