Here's how to
hold the debate:
Choose two teams, each
with two team members. One team will support the
proposition (the affirmative team). The other
team will oppose the proposition (the negative
team.)
First, one member of the
affirmative team will speak for 4 minutes without
interruption.
Next, one member of the
negative team will speak for the same amount of
time.
Then the other member of
the negative team will make a rebuttal statement
for 2 minutes in response to the affirmative
team's argument.
Then the other member of
the affirmative team will do the same against the
negative team's argument.
The process will then
repeat with the second team members from each
team making 4 minute statements, followed by
rebuttal statements from the first team members.
The audience will then
have 10 minutes to ask questions of both teams.
Each team will then have
1 minute to make a closing statement.
The audience will vote
to determine which team won the debate.
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