Generate means to produce or create something.

To order is to arrange things a particular way.

To assign means to allocate or designate.

Liaise means to communicate with someone else.

Preparing for a debate

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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

Writing notes to support delivering a speech in a debate

Judging and scoring 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

What is the acronym used to support a team in preparing for a debate? 

What is a team generating when preparing for a debate?

How many points should a team try to generate?

What should the team do after they have generated all their points?

to check each other's speeches have been written neatly

Why is it important that a team liaises with each other whilst writing their speeches?

In a debate, what would an opposing team member use to interrupt a speaker while they are making their speech?

What will a point of information often be phrased as?

to not take up too much of the speaker's allotted time

to make sure the audience do not lose interest 

to give the speaker just a short time to rest while they're not speaking

Why should a point of information only be 10-15 seconds long?

Which of these would an opposing team member **not** do when making a point of information?

How many points of information should be accepted during a speaker's speech?

Which of these are ways a speaker could decline a point of information?

Preparing for a debate

Lesson outcome