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We're starting our debates from now, and you will do two debates by the end of our course. Opinion and Refuting Expressions: After speed discussion, we reviewed expressions for opinion giving and refuting. For your debates, you will have to use these expressions. Opinion giving: If you ask me, ... In my opinion, ... As I see it, ... Refuting: That's not important. That's not relevant. That's easy to solve. That's not true. That's not always true. That's not necessarily true. Debate Research: For both debate topics, you can find information about the "for" and "against" positions in the Discussion Skills --> debate topics section. If you need more information to complete your worksheet, you can do your own research. This is a useful website with additional information for your debates: http://www.procon.org Debate Structure: For your debates, you will use two types of structures: opinions and attacks. Each debater will give two reasons for his/her position. However, each debater will have to attack the reason (=disagree) of his/her partner. Homework:
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