EAL debate

Last week, the 3 EAL students participated in a debate, against grade 11 students. Those EAL students were two from grade 10 and one from grade 9 (Sibel, Claudia and Jan). The first speaker from the affirmative team (the EAL students) was Sibel, after was Jan and the last one was Claudia. From the negative team (grade 11) was Anya, after was Hannes and the last one was Jonathan. I was just in the audience on this debate, and I really enjoy how good the EAL students did. Their arguments against grade 11 were really good, they used strong arguments supporting the Chinese method of study, showing evidences that Chinese students are in front of Americans students in Mathematics and Physics, very important subjects. Grade 11 was also really good, saying that here in China they put so much pressure on student. They arrive at 7am and leave at 8pm. In America they arrive at 10am and leave 15pm. I support the American method of study, I don’t think that I person who studies 24 hours per day is going to be better than other people, also because people need a break after studying. Here in China they don’t learn, they just memorize the things and do well on tests. A lot of people in China committed suicide just because the amount of pressure from school. Doing this debate, I could see how important is the evidence, if you have a very strong evidence, the people against you will not win your argument.

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  1. Thank you Victor! You make a very good point about use of evidence and how necessary it is to develop a compelling argument. I would have liked for you to incorporate specific examples of this evidence (with sources) into your discussion of the topic, so that the readers of your post could evaluate it for themselves and see how you came to your conclusions. You should also be attentive to paragraphing; a post like this should have a clearly differentiated introduction, discussion, and conclusion!

    Anyhow, I appreciate your effort, and I hope that next year you will have an opportunity to participate in more debates.

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