Unit 2 - Area of Study 3: Listening to and presenting persuasive texts
Outcome 3
Present a spoken or multimodal text to a specified audience, which conveys a reasoned and informed opinion on a topic of interest.
Examples of learning activities
Detailed example
Teams prepare for and conduct a debate
- Research and make notes on a current debatable topic.
- Create a detailed background fact sheet.
- Identify different viewpoints and stakeholders.
- Create teams of six with three affirmative and three negative speakers.
- Study the different speakers’ roles and select who will take each part.
- Each team formulates arguments and rebuttals to make in the debate.
- Set up the classroom appropriately.
- Conduct the debate.
- A panel of peers uses a matter, manner, method rubric to determine the winners.