Oral English 1: Lesson 6

Hi everyone, 

We're almost half way through the semester. From now on, we'll be working on debate presentations.

Opinon Presentation Feedback:
We finished our last group of opinion presentations. Most of you did a good job at using conversational style in the discussion section. 

When you present your presentation, remember these points. You will have to do the same for your debates:
a. speak loud enough
b. use voice inflection
c. do not read your presentation. Practice your presentation before our lesson so that you don't need to use your notes very often 

Partners and Topics for Debate:
​At the end of our lesson, you chose your second debate topic. You also got the following information about your debates:
a. Debate Schedule
b. Debate Sample
c. Debate Worksheet

If you need to change the date of your debates, please ask another group to switch with you, and then send me a message/email about the change. 

If next week's lesson, we are going to learn how to prepare your debates. Make sure you download the articles for your topics from the website: Debate Topics

​If you would like to do more research on your topic, you can use this website: ProCon

​Homework:​

1. Presentation Vocabulary: write down example sentences from today's opinion presentation vocabulary
2. My Vocabulary: write down 5 new words that you learn this week (e.g. in other classes, from watching TV/movies, etc.)
3. Opinion: In the homework section of your notebook, write your opinion on one of the topics from today's opinion presentations. These were the topic: (1) Halloween costumes for dogs; (2) water on Mars; (3) bananas as medicine; (4) Japanese baseball; (5) English education; and (6) food safety.
4. Print out the information on your debate topic #1. If you want, you can also do your own research.
5. Read the "Debate Sample."

In next week's lesson, I am going to collect your vocabulary notebooks.