English Debate Manual

Author: [UK] Alexander
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Publish Date: 1999-05-01
Features: Renowned authors and works, vivid and incisive language, themes close to reality. Two sets of notes: one summarizes the paper's arguments, helping you organize the article's structure. The other provides opposing viewpoints, broadening your thinking. Lists both sides' arguments, setting the stage for you to showcase your English debating skills. The English Debate Handbook (For and Against) guides you in expressing your arguments in English, confronting and refuting your opponents' views, which greatly helps English learners improve their oral expression skills. It provides rich and diverse materials, making it convenient for teaching and learning advanced oral English. In active classrooms, teachers can use this book as a collection of interesting topics and related vocabulary, and even in less responsive classes, these materials can serve as routine oral practice. The entire book consists of thirty short articles with clear-cut viewpoints. The editor's meticulous design and selection make them highly debatable, allowing teachers to easily use them in the classroom to inspire students' free debates. Each article is accompanied by two sets of notes summarizing the arguments for both sides.