Lesson POL-9

Welcome! Please consider how your attitude affects your and other students' experiences of the lesson. 

Be respectful, come prepared, and show interest to have the best possible educational experience. 

Lesson goals


Carry on preparing for your debate by selecting and using the figures of speech in your arguments as well as receive feedback.

Lesson activities


Basic-intermediate: prepare your debate

Advanced: peer feedback

Basic-intermediate activity

Your goal is to participate in ~2 min live debate


Please follow these steps. Today, focus on:

  1. To begin with, create groups of 2-4 students

  2. Secondly, select a topic

    • Should we abolish animal testing for medical research?

    • Should we legalize marijuana?

    • Should We Abolish the Monarchy in Sweden?

    • Should the Number of Flights be Limited by a Quota?

  3. Finally, you decide what your arguments will be!

Here you can enjoy great freedom!


Download the checklist template on Unikum or click the link below.

Advanced activity

Time for the activity: ~5-10 minutes

  • The purpose of giving peer feedback is improvement. As you help your classmates, you will also grow as well.


  1. Share your work with your classmates.

    • Please note that you are supposed to have a drafts.

  2. Read each others' and make comments.

    • Three (or more) positive points

    • At least one contructive point

  3. Share and explain your feedback with your classmates.

    • The feedback that you receive is your exit ticket!

Homework


Prepare for your debate

Exit ticket


In order to be prepared for my debate, I will ..