Preparing for a debate
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can follow a guide to help prepare for a debate.
Key learning points
- An important part of preparing for a debate is generating points for your side of the argument.
- The points that your team generates should be ordered from strongest to weakest to ensure your best points are included.
- The points generated should be assigned to different members of your team.
- A debate team should liaise with each other while writing their speeches to avoid repetition.
Keywords
Generate - Generate means to produce or create something.
Order - To order is to arrange things a particular way.
Assign - To assign means to allocate or designate.
Liaise - Liaise means to communicate with someone else.
Common misconception
Children may think that all points are equally effective in a debate.
Whilst it is good to generate lots of points when preparing for a debate, they will vary in how effective they are.
Teacher tip
This lesson will prepare your children to work in teams to independently prepare for a debate. However, they will likely need adult support while they get used to doing this.
Licence
Lesson video
Loading...
Prior knowledge starter quiz
6 Questions
Q1.In a debate, what would an opposing team member use to interrupt a speaker while they are making their speech?
Q2.What will a point of information often be phrased as?
Q3.Why should a point of information only be 10-15 seconds long?
Q4.Which of these would an opposing team member not do when making a point of information?
Q5.How many points of information should be accepted during a speaker's speech?
Q6.Which of these are ways a speaker could decline a point of information?
Assessment exit quiz
6 Questions
Q1.What is the acronym used to support a team in preparing for a debate?
Q2.What does GOAL stand for?
Q3.What is a team generating when preparing for a debate?
Q4.How many points should a team try to generate?
Q5.What should the team do after they have generated all their points?
Q6.Why is it important that a team liaises with each other whilst writing their speeches?
To help you plan your 5 English lesson on: Preparing for a debate, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 5 English lesson on: Preparing for a debate, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom. Plus, you can set it as homework or revision for pupils and keep their learning on track by sharing an online pupil version of this lesson.
Explore more key stage 2 English lessons from the Introduction to debate unit, dive into the full primary English curriculum, or learn more about lesson planning.