All
of you have been invited to a TV debate to discuss some issues about education.
STATEMENTS
TO DEBATE:
1. The
best way to study for an exam is to do it with a fellow student.
2. There
is no point in studying the night before the exam.
3. Physical
education should be an optional subject.
4. Most
parents influence what university their child will attend or what degree they
will study.
5. Students
who cheat during exams must fail the subject until they take a final exam in
June.
6. It
is impossible to study with background music playing.
7. School
holidays are too long.
8. School uniforms are boring
DEBATE
PROCEDURE
There will be 2 groups:
- The people in one group have to work out and note
down all possible arguments IN
FAVOUR of each statement, including defences against points that might
be brought up by the opposition.
- The students in the second group have to work out
and note down all possible arguments AGAINST
each statement, including defences against points that might be brought up
by the opposition.
NOTE: Groups to do not need to be divided according to
actual opinions. They are divided arbitrarily, so many of you will find
yourselves having to argue in favour of something that you oppose, or
vice-versa. This is in fact a kind of
role-play.
1- Each
student is allowed 1 minute to give
his/her opinion and support his/her arguments.
2- The
procedure will be as follows:
student
for -> student against ->
student for -> student against
