Oral English 1: Lesson 7

Hi everyone, 

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:

1. Complete debate #1 worksheet
2. Practice your debate

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