To see the assessment criteria of this task, click here . This assessment requires you to present your viewpoints on a topic chosen from a list of 10 suggested topics. For this task, you will be paired with another student from the class. The primary purpose of this task is to persuade an audience that your view is more acceptable than that of your opponents. Students will decide on a topic from the list of suggested topics with their instructors.
Students carry out any research necessary to find source materials relevant to their topic.
This initial presentation will last just one minute . This counter-argument should also last no more than one minute and is the beginning of open discussion. The discussion now opens up, and any speaker is free to take up points raised in the opening arguments, either to clarify the meaning or the implications of what the first speakers said, or to agree with their arguments, or to challenge them. Within the rules of politeness, anyone can interrupt, challenge or otherwise find ways to get their argument heard. This open discussion should last no more than 8 minutes .