Summarise the points made in the lecture, being sure to explain how they case doubt on specific points made in the reading passage.
In the past century, the steady growth of the human population and the corresponding increase in agriculture and pesticide use have caused much harm to wildlife in the United States—birds in particular. Unfortunately for birds, these trends are likely to continue, with the result that the number of birds in the United States will necessarily decline.
First, as human populations and settlements continue to expand, birds’ natural habitats will continue to disappear. Forests, wetlands, and grasslands will give way to ever more homes, malls, and offices. As the traditional areas suitable for birds keep decreasing, so will the size of the bird populations that depend on those vanishing habitats.
Second, agricultural activities must increase to keep pace with the growing human population. The growth of agriculture will also result in the further destruction of bird habitats as more and more wilderness areas are converted to agricultural use. As a result, bird populations in rural areas will continue to decline.
Third, as human settlements expand and agriculture increases, the use of chemical pesticides will also increase. Pesticides are poisons designed to kill agricultural and home garden pests, such as insects, but inevitably, pesticides get into the water and into the food chain for birds where they can harm birds. Birds that eat the poisoned insects or drink contaminated water can die as a result, and even if pesticides do not kill birds outright, they can prevent them from reproducing successfully. So pesticides have significantly contributed to declines in bird population, and because there will continue to be a need to control agricultural pests in the future, this decline will continue.
Recently, there has been a ton of debate as to the population of birds in the United States has been decreased. More specifically, in regards to the passage, the writer puts forth the idea that the steady growth in the human population and increasing the lands which use for agricultural purposes has been increased. In the listening passage, the lecturer is quick to point out there are some serious flaws in the writer's claims.
In fact, the lecturer believes the population of birds has been increased, and addressed, in detail, the trouble with each point made in the reading text.
First and foremost, the author of the reading text states that human activities such as constructing homes destroy the bird's natural habitats, and the procedure will continue until they will disappear. Some professionals in the same field, however, stand in firm opposition to this claim. The lecturer in the listening believes that the population of the birds has been increased but some type of birds, not all of them. There have been some reports that they claim the number of pigeons and sea gold has been increased. So fro some group of birds is better.
Second, in the reading text, the author mentions that agricultural activities have been increased as the human population growing so the bird's population in rural areas shrink. On the other hand, the lecturer believes every year the lands which use for agricultural activities decrease and using crops which no need to destroy wildering increase.
Finally, the author wraps his/her arguments by positing that the chemical pesticides used to kill agricultural and garden pets also poison the birds. Not surprisingly, the lecturer takes issue with this claim by contending that those problems were for traditional pesticides, the new ones are much less toxic, and try to reduce the chemical pesticide.
To sum up, both the writer and the lecturer hold conflicting views about the declining bird population. It's clear that they will have trouble finding common ground on this issue.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 1, column 132, Rule ID: IN_REGARD_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'regarding' or 'with regard to'.
Suggestion: regarding; with regard to
... has been decreased. More specifically, in regards to the passage, the writer puts forth the ...
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Line 3, column 525, Rule ID: FOR_FRO[1]
Message: Did you mean 'for'?
Suggestion: for
...ons and sea gold has been increased. So fro some group of birds is better. Second,...
^^^
Line 4, column 138, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'birds'' or 'bird's'?
Suggestion: birds'; bird's
... as the human population growing so the birds population in rural areas shrink. On th...
^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, however, if, second, so, as to, in fact, such as, to sum up, on the other hand
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 10.4613686534 124% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 5.04856512141 79% => OK
Conjunction : 10.0 7.30242825607 137% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 12.0772626932 91% => OK
Pronoun: 19.0 22.412803532 85% => OK
Preposition: 40.0 30.3222958057 132% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 5.01324503311 160% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1700.0 1373.03311258 124% => OK
No of words: 334.0 270.72406181 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.08982035928 5.08290768461 100% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.27500489853 4.04702891845 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.63840244947 2.5805825403 102% => OK
Unique words: 172.0 145.348785872 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.51497005988 0.540411800872 95% => OK
syllable_count: 512.1 419.366225166 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.55342163355 97% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 1.0 3.25607064018 31% => OK
Article: 11.0 8.23620309051 134% => OK
Subordination: 0.0 1.25165562914 0% => More adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 3.0 1.51434878587 198% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 2.5761589404 272% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 15.0 13.0662251656 115% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 21.2450331126 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 48.9982312606 49.2860985944 99% => OK
Chars per sentence: 113.333333333 110.228320801 103% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.2666666667 21.698381199 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.0 7.06452816374 99% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.09492273731 147% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 4.19205298013 72% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 6.0 4.33554083885 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 8.0 4.45695364238 179% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.27373068433 23% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.205928150255 0.272083759551 76% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0667551332847 0.0996497079465 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0565530518513 0.0662205650399 85% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.111649462214 0.162205337803 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0570467541551 0.0443174109184 129% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.7 13.3589403974 103% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 53.8541721854 107% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 5.55761589404 158% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 11.0289183223 97% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.54 12.2367328918 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.99 8.42419426049 95% => OK
difficult_words: 69.0 63.6247240618 108% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 14.0 10.7273730684 131% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 10.498013245 103% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.2008830022 125% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Write the essay in 20 minutes.
Maximum four paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 81.6666666667 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 24.5 Out of 30
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