Please read the text below and answer the following questions here below. (Short answers)

1. Are the debate team for or against the motion? 

2. Find arguments based on facts in the texts. 

3. Find emotional arguments in the text. 

4 What are the teams main points of the debate? 

Good Luck!
//Åse

 

An Example of a Debate Writing

Dear group members, 

Please read the text "Preparing for the debate" aloud together in your group, make sure that everyone participates in the reading and that everyone understands the text.
Then sum up the main points in the text in writing below.
Submit one text per group. Please name all the participant group members on top of the text.

Good Luck!
Åse and Katarina

Prepare for your debate : Our main points

School Debate - My argumentative text

Dear all, 

You are about to watch young school debaters from Nepal debating for or against a motion in front of judges. Please watch the debaters, listen to their arguments and the students' way of conveying them, both body language and spoken language counts. After each presentation, the judges give the participants feedback on their performance, THIS is what I want to highlight. Pay attention to the feedback given. The feedback gives you many tips on what to think about in your future debates. 

Make a list of the tips that you found most useful and submit it below, (Please....... make an effort......list more than one.....or two.......)  ;)


School Debate - Nepal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbtQqtisci8


If there is time left you can always have a look at these useful tips. (even though they are primarily meant for certain topic they are definately relevant to any debate): 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdY5wAhDXtg

Good Luck!
Åse



Debate - School Debate and Feedback

Dear year 9, 

Please read the text below. It is important that you understand the text, please look up words that you don't already know.

Think about the following questions while you are reading:

Role - What role does the writer have?
Audience - Who is the writer's audience?
Topic - What is the writer's message? 

Good Luck!
Åse

Fixing what isn't broken - An argumentative text 

Please read the text and answer the following questions:


1. Are the debate team for or against the motion? 

2. Find arguments based on facts in the texts. 

3. Find emotional arguments in the text. 

4. What are the teams main points of the debate? 


Good Luck!
//Åse
 

Argumentative text : Mobile phones should be allowed in school

Please submit your argumentative text here.

School Debate - My Argumentative Text

<h2>&nbsp;</h2>
<h2>Syfte</h2>
<p>Debating teaches many essential skills and using debates in the classroom can help you grasp many essential critical thinking and presentation skills. The aim with a school debate is to learn abstract and analytical thinking, to distinguishing fact from opinion, practice public speaking, research and find facts which support your arguments, write a speech built on arguments and practice teamwork.</p>
<h2>Centralt inneh&aring;ll</h2>
<p><strong>Kommunikationens inneh&aring;ll: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Aktuella och f&ouml;r eleverna v&auml;lbekanta &auml;mnesomr&aring;den.</li>
<li>Etiska fr&aring;gor.</li>
<li>&Aring;sikter, erfarenheter, k&auml;nslor och framtidsplaner.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Lyssna och l&auml;sa &ndash; reception: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Talad engelska och texter fr&aring;n olika medier.</li>
<li>Muntliga framst&auml;llningar.</li>
<li>Muntlig och skriftlig information samt diskussioner och argumentation.</li>
<li>Strategier f&ouml;r att uppfatta detaljer och sammanhang i talat spr&aring;k och texter, till exempel att anpassa lyssnande och l&auml;sning efter framst&auml;llningens form, inneh&aring;ll och syfte.</li>
<li>Olika s&auml;tt att s&ouml;ka, v&auml;lja och v&auml;rdera texter och talat spr&aring;k p&aring; engelska fr&aring;n internet och andra medier.</li>
<li>Hur texter och talat spr&aring;k kan varieras f&ouml;r olika syften och sammanhang.</li>
<li>Hur sammanbindande ord och andra uttryck anv&auml;nds f&ouml;r att skapa struktur och spr&aring;kligt sammanh&auml;ngande helheter.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Tala, skriva och samtala &ndash; produktion och interaktion: </strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Olika s&auml;tt att bearbeta egna framst&auml;llningar f&ouml;r att variera, tydligg&ouml;ra, precisera och anpassa dem efter deras syften.</li>
<li>diskussioner samt argumentation.</li>
<li>Spr&aring;kliga strategier f&ouml;r att f&ouml;rst&aring; och g&ouml;ra sig f&ouml;rst&aring;dd n&auml;r spr&aring;ket inte r&auml;cker till, till exempel omformuleringar, fr&aring;gor och f&ouml;rklaringar.</li>
<li>Spr&aring;kliga f&ouml;reteelser f&ouml;r att f&ouml;rtydliga, variera och berika kommunikationen som ut&shy;tal, intonation och fasta spr&aring;kliga uttryck, grammatiska strukturer och satsbyggnad.</li>
</ul>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Det h&auml;r skall du l&auml;ra dig</h2>
<p>&nbsp;During this project you will:</p>
<ul>
<li>improve your skills when it comes to communication in writing and speaking.</li>
<li>practise different ways of expressing your thoughts and feelings both in writing and speaking.</li>
</ul>
<h2>S&aring; h&auml;r kommer vi att arbeta</h2>
<p>You will be watching examples of school debates, read different argumentative texts and debate script and practise debating in the classroom. You will, together with your team do researches about your motion to find facts that support your opinion and write your script for the debate and learn about and practise different rhetorical elements.&nbsp;</p>
<h2>Redovisning</h2>
<p>In the end of the project we will have a school debate where you and your team will compete with the other teams.</p>
<h2>Bed&ouml;mning</h2>
<p>Du ska visa att du, tillsammans med ditt team, kan h&aring;lla ett anf&ouml;rande p&aring; engelska utifr&aring;n strukturen f&ouml;r en debatt. I debatten ska din &aring;sikt vara tydlig och du ska underbygga dina argument med fakta och f&ouml;rs&ouml;ka &ouml;vertyga lyssnaren om att du har r&auml;tt.</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTk-_Lt6sQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDTk-_Lt6sQ</a></p>

English school debate, year 9

Matriser i planeringen

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