Debating+Competition

__Debating Challenge__ This document has the motions for debate and the articles relating to this year’s MUNGA theme .... Below this are suggestions for arguments for and arguments against the motions. These suggestions are to help prompt ideas and further debate and discussion for your debating speeches. This is not in anyway an exhaustive list of all possible arguments and you do not have to use any of them, if you so choose, in the debating challenge. Good Luck!
 * __ MUNGA 2015 __**

Motion 2: This house believes that the most important British value is tolerance.








Here are some alternative debates that you can use to practice debating:

**This house would (THB):**
 * THW ban exams.
 * THW ban uniforms.
 * THW abolish the monarchy.
 * THW let children vote.
 * THW force teachers to wear uniforms.
 * THW ban Facebook for under 16s.
 * THW give policemen guns.

__ ** Debating format and Judging Criteria/Scoring ** __ This year teams will be awarded points for the inter-school debate. Up to 100 points will be awarded for this debating stage. Further details can be found in your ‘Discover your Voice’ debating resource pack.
 * Timings of debate: **
 * Teams will either be for the motion (proposition) or against it (opposition). The debate goes as following:
 * Proposition – Speaker 1 (2 mins – POIs allowed)
 * Opposition – Speaker 1 (2 mins - POIs allowed)
 * Proposition – Speaker 2 (2 mins - POIs allowed )
 * Opposition – Speaker 2 (2 mins - POIs allowed)
 * Floor debate (10 mins) –
 * Reflection time (2 mins) – the two teams will have time to think about the questions asked/points made and prepare their summary.
 * Opposition summary – Speaker 3 (2 mins – no POIs)
 * Proposition summary – Speaker 3 (2 mins – no POIs)
 * Points of Information: **
 * POI’s - Teams from the opposite side may stand up from 45 seconds – 1 minute 15 seconds of a proposition/opposition speech to make a point of information (POI). This is a question or statement about the content/facts of the speech. The current speaker can refuse or accept the POI. If accepted, there are 15 seconds to ask a question/make a short point. The current speaker can then respond to the point or carry on with their speech.
 * Thinking time- this will give the team that follows a chance to consider what the previous team has just said and any responses they wish to make.
 * Floor Debate: **
 * During the floor debate, question or speeches may be made by everyone except the participants in the debate. Students can participate by asking questions/making points. Members of the proposition or opposition do not reply to them at this stage, but in the summary speech.
 * The judging criteria for the debates **
 * ** Categories ** || ** Criteria ** || ** Points (25 points per category ** ||
 * ** Reasoning & Evidence ** is about the content of the individual arguments each speaker makes and how well: || * Clarity and logic: Are the arguments made clearly and logically?
 * Examples and analogies: Are the arguments backed up with plenty of well chosen examples and analogies?
 * Facts, statistics, case studies, news stories, historical reference, and laws of science all benefit from being relevant, clear, well-known and topical.
 * Links to the motion: Are the arguments shown to be relevant to the motion? || ** /25 ** ||
 * ** Listening & Response ** focuses on how effectively the team engages with the other side in the debate, rather than their own pre-prepared arguments. || * Rebuttal: Have speakers been listening carefully to their opponents and shown, in their own speech, why they disagree?
 * Offering points of information: Have speakers made good points of information, showing they’ve been listening and picking out important points to challenge?
 * Accepting points of information: Have speakers taken a few of the points offered to them in their speech and responded to them immediately and capably?
 * Speakers should not be penalised if no points are offered to them, or if they offer enough points but none are accepted. || ** /25 ** ||
 * ** Organisation & Prioritisation ** refers to the way in which individual speeches and the teams’ case are put together. || * Team structure: Did the team’s speeches complement each other?
 * Did the first speakers lay out a clear case which was followed by themselves and their partner?
 * Were the most important arguments in a position which gave them appropriate emphasis?
 * Individual structure: Was each individual speech well structured and easy to follow?
 * Were individual arguments grouped into a logical and coherent whole?
 * Were the most important arguments emphasised?
 * Adaptability: Did the speaker show that they were able to reorganise their material if developments in the debate necessitated it?
 * Timing: Did the speaker speak for approximately their allotted time (no more than 20 seconds either way)? Did they divide their time sensibly between their different points? || ** /25 ** ||
 * ** Expression & Delivery ** is about how the speaker comes across rather than what they say, so this is essentially about style. || * Use of notes: Speakers should have some notes from which they speak fluently. Speakers should be marked down for reading speeches which they have written out in full beforehand or for reciting obviously memorised speeches that do not adapt to the debate.
 * Use of voice: Is the speaker audible and clear, while varying speed, volume and intonation to keep their speech interesting and to add conviction and authority?
 * Use of words: Is the speaker’s language varied, persuasive, appropriate and precise?
 * Use of body language: How effective are hand gestures, eye contact and facial expressions?
 * Rhetoric and humour: Is there an appropriate level of rhetoric and relevant humour? || ** /25 ** ||