Service: Teaching English Club

            At today’s meeting, we gave the teams a change to try out debating for themselves. We asked them to case build for a motion regarding whether schools should or should not have uniforms. We divided the four house teams into two groups consisting of two house teams each. These two big groups were assigned either the role of affirmative or opposition.

            We helped them along in their progress to case build, mentioning possible arguments that they could make as they continued discussing within their groups. We also reminded them to take into account the arguments that the opposing team might make, and to think of ways in which they could counter those arguments.

            From the two teams consisting of two house teams each, we then picked a house team from each, to represent the affirmative and opposition side. The chosen teams then debated the motion, in a loose manor, as this was the first time for most of them to debate, and feedback was given to the teams. All in all, it was a chance for the teams to try out debating for themselves.