Judging means evaluating and deciding something.

Delivery is how a person presents something.

Style refers to the way that a person presents something.

Content is the substance, material and information that something is made of.

Judging and scoring a debate

English

Justifying an opinion

Making points and explanations in a debate

Giving proof and summarising an argument

Learning the roles in a debate and making a rebuttal

Making and responding to points of information

Preparing for a debate

Writing notes to support delivering a speech in a debate

In ‘Introduction to Debate’, the pupils learn to justify their opinions with reasoning. In the Year 5 unit ‘Persuasive letter writing’, the pupils will build on this by using their justification skills to make a persuasive argument. 

In ‘Speeches’, pupils learned how to articulate and justify answers, arguments and opinions, using a set structure to support them.  In this unit, they will build on that skill by learning how to prepare and participate in debates.

In this unit, pupils develop their understanding of debating conventions, including justifying, making points, giving proof, summarising, responding, judging and scoring a debate. Pupils learn how best to prepare for a debate and how to write notes to deliver a speech during a debate.

Introduction to debate

one person from the audience is elected to decide

What are the **two** ways a debate can be decided?

Which **two** of these are categories used to score a speaker?

What is the maximum score a speaker can achieve in each category?

If a speaker responds well to challenges posed to them by the other team, they would achieve a strong score in which category?

good amount of eye-contact with the audience

Which **two** of these are in the judging criteria for the category 'style'?

Complete this sentence. 'Rebuttal and points of information make a debate...'

Which **two** things should a speaker's notes be?

What should a speaker spend their last few minutes before a debate doing?

because the judges award extra points for using them

Why might abbreviations be found in a speaker's notes?

notes give the audience something to look at

notes help a speaker to only look away from the audience briefly

Why is it easier to make eye-contact with the audience when a speaker has notes?

Which **two** of these may be found in notes to make them easier to read?

Judging and scoring a debate

Lesson outcome