This section includes brief descriptions of activities that teachers can use for this module. The activities are suggestions only, and teachers should adapt and add other activities appropriate for their students and teaching styles. Sample assessments for debate are provided at the end of this module. Activities and projects should be relevant to students' lives, and whenever possible students should create their own scenarios for communication projects. Mini-lessons related to module content and language processes should be taught to individual students, small groups, or the whole class as demanded by need.
Propositions Discuss the characteristics of good debate propositions.
Students might arrive at these by looking through newspapers for issues that interest them. Discuss the propositions as a class, looking at each one in terms of characteristics of good propositions. Revise them until they are good, debatable propositions. Discard the ones that cannot be revised. Keep the revised propositions for future use and reference.