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Year 8

Participating in effective debates

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In this unit, pupils learn about debate and practise having debates. They first learn what a debate is, before presenting arguments for a debate and then learning how you create rebuttals in debates. Pupils then finish the unit by having a debate.

This unit builds on the primary English units where pupils started to have simple structured debates. It also builds on the secondary English unit, 'the fundamentals of effective discussion', where pupils learnt about how to form opinions and listen carefully to others. In this unit, pupils learn how they can use their active listening skills to understand and counter other people's arguements. This unit builds towards the unit 'creating and performing slam poetry', where pupils will continue to build their confidence in articulating themselves in public speaking.

  1. What is a formal debate?
  2. Creating and presenting opening arguments for a debate
  3. Responding in debates: effective rebuttals
  4. Time to debate: planning, evaluating and participating
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