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Debate
[|Four Step Refutation]: We will practice this in class on Tuesday. [|Printable Version of the Four Step Refutation]: This has been formatted for easy printing. **Read this for class.**

__Activity:__
Form a group of 4 people 2 people think of arguments for your topic. 2 people think of arguments against the topic. Later, one person should make an argument for your position. The others use the 4 step refutation to refute it. 1. One person explain your position. 2. Another person refute the argument. 3. Other people observe and comment on the refutation. Did the refuter complete each step clearly?

Use topics from this site: [|Debate Ideas for Use with American English]: 10 debate topics with pro and con arguments

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More Debate Resources
Warm-up exercises [|Articulation Drills: Tongue Twisters] [|Delivery Warm-ups] More Tongue Twisters: [|Wikipedia: Tongue Twisters] [|English Tongue Twisters] [|Very Silly Tongue Twisters] [|Tongue Twisters at Think.com] Debate Activities [|SPAR Debates] [|Impromptu Speeches] [|Oral Style] [|Argument, Evidence, and Explanation] [|Point and Refutation] [|Subversive Re-writing] [|Concluding Arguments] [|Emphasis Drills] [|International Debate Education Association]

Debate Topics:
[|Benefit of Sports] [|Ban Pets] [|Foreign Languages, Compulsory in schools] [|Smoking, Ban in public places] [|Mobile Phones, use by children] [|Advertisements, Do more harm than good] [|Biodiversity and Endangered Species] [|Children, Choosing sex of] [|Beijing Olympics, Boycott of] [|Assisted Suicide/Voluntary Euthanasia] [|Anorexics, Force-feeding of] [|Animal Experimentation] [|American Way of Life, Rejection of] [|Alcohol] [|Cosmetic Surgery] [|Condoms in School] [|Divorce] [|Economic Development vs. The Environment] [|Exams] [|Capital Punishment]