Hallandi. So facts, I'm just drawing something here. Oh, very nice. Can you see when I'm driving? No, you're very far away from the camera. I can't see. All right, we'll give everyone, maybe William A minute to see if he's is coming. This Oh, nice. What is it? This is an evil robot. No, dear, this is awesome. Evil robot. Oh, dear, evil robots. This is a wizard on a magic shield. Wow. In the air, he's creating a mini black hole, swirling some airplanes in it. My goodness, it's very creative. This is this is the energy core. You know it. Yeah, that's what's powering at all. This is a ginormous strobot Yeah, a springy fist I like. It's going to quickly forget get a bit around. There won't be a second. I'm to. Right? I'm just going to send a message to say if anyone else is coming, but we'll just get started. So today's lesson is focusing on like a debating focus. So we're going to start by playing agree or disagree. So we've got some steps for this. It says, think carefully about each statement, decide if you agree or disagree, and be ready to share at least one reason why you agree or disagree with each statement. So first one we have, strawberries are the best fruit. Do you agree or disagree, Andy? Let me think. Disagree, agree, you disagree, you disagree, agree, you can only pay one. Okay, let me think. Okay, okay, one thing one more thing, you know, the strawberries have a lot of pesticides on them. Because everyone, every bug wants to eat them. So is that part of why you think it's not the best fruit? Yes, but it's also very sweet. Agree, we can wash the pesticide off. No big deal. Yeah, that's but do. You think they are the best fruit out of all the fruit. We're not just saying that we like them or we think they're good. We're saying they are the best number one. No, I don't think they're the best fruit, because my best fruit for me is a great fruit. Oh, there you go. So youhave to disagree, wouldn't you? Yeah, disagree because, you know, you think grapefruits are better. You think grapefruits are the breasts. So both strawberries and grapefruits can't be the best, can they? Interesting. I don't really like grapefruit that much. I think it's too sour sometimes. Well, my taste laare different. Yeah, I think my best fruit would be mango. Yeah, Yeah, okay. So I would disagree as well, strawberries being the best fruit. Disagree as long as we've got reason why. Okay, what about summer is the best season? I disagree. Why is that? I hate wearing sunscreen. Oh, yes, that's a good one. So when the sun is out in summertime, you have to well, lots of suncreree an don't you? And that's not very fun. Mm, nice. So I would say, I agree. I think a summer is the best season. I love the sun. I love when it's hot and warm. Summer usually means going on a holiday, and I love holiday. Everyone seems happier when it's Sunny outside. So I actually agree that summer is the best season, but that's what we said. It's just different opinienons, isn't it? Okay. So kind of kind of what we were doing there is a little bit of debating, you know a very informal kind of debate debate. How would you describe what debating is, Andy? I know like a lot about debating. I know the snake pit, which is determined if a lawyer is worthy or not. Woryalty, I mean, there can't be a lawyer who agrees with one side because he's in love with one on the other side. So he has to be separated from them doing his own decisions first. I'm good. He can't be acting on a secret force. Wow, it's very elaborate. Okay. Can you read what it says in this White box for me? A debate is a kind of formal argument between two or more points in sets. When you argue for and against the topic, you have to be the team right and the oppoopposition wrong. Okay, now I think I like it, cookies, because they are very sweet, although I want to get fat. Well, youhave to eat a lot of cookies to get fat with me. But yes, it says, if we can speak publicly and convey our ideas and thoughts coherently and passionately, we have a valuable tool that can aid us in our public, private and future lives. So what I was trying to say, Andy, is it's really important that from a Young age we practice debating and we practice sharing our ideas and our thoughts because, you know, do you think there's anybody really who goes through life and you know, it just agrees with everything that someone else says. Probably not, you know, so it's probably not going to be the case for you either. So you'll want to learn you know, in terms of socially with your friends and your family, but also at work, you may even in education, you know, to be able to share your ideas in a clear, you know, in respectful way. It's a really, really good tool to practice. We also have this word here, rebuttal. Have you heard this before? Do you know what this means? Sorry, this word rebuttal. I know a little about to it means one side opposing the other and reboot their ideas. Okay. Yeah. Good. You want to read it for me the booting is the name going to obewhere a participdisagrees with what been said by their opponents. Good. So it's about it's a disagreeing you know rather than agreeing. Yeah, you're right. I've actually got a little video which kind of talks through the different kind of features of debating and debating skills. We'll watch this quickly. A debate is a discussion of a theme or question between two or more interlocutors. In a formal debate, the theme or question is called emotion. The motion is usually controversial and has no clear or correct answer. An example of emotion might be, everybody should get universal basic income. The two teams will then argue for or against the motion. The party for or in favor of the motion is called the proposition. The party against or opposed to the motion is called the opposition. Each team is usually given equal time to present their argument, which usually includes an introduction, reasons with examples or evidence, and a conclusion. At the end of the debate, a neutral third party, usually a judge or committee, will decide the winner. The winning team is the team that delivers the most cogent, convincing argument. Whether the judge personally agrees with the motion is not relevant to determining the winner. In fact, the teams are typically assigned their position at random, which means they may need to debate in favour of emotion with which they personally disagree. The word debate comes from the Latin verb battery, meaning to fight. The practice goes back thousands of years to ancient Greece and India, where debate was considered essential to a functioning democracy. The debate structure used today first took form in the early eighteenth century England. The fundamental skills necessary to debate also apply to many other aspects of life. The ability to think critically and analyse a problem, the ability to present your thoughts logically and elegantly, the ability to speak confidently in public, and the ability to listen carefully and interpret information quickly are crucial skills for any leader, academic, researcher or artist. Debating a position you might not personally agree with also helps you to develop empathy and broaden your world view. As you train for debate, you will learn how to analyze a problem, form a persuasive argument, respond to counter arguments and ask questions. Along the way, you'll also discover new information, meet new people and gain new perspectives. There you go. So that does us a little bit. So we're going to have a go at playing rebuttal tennis. So obviously, usually we would do this with groups of students, but there's only you. So we can do this together. So we're going to get given a statement and one of us would start and says that they agree with that statement. The other person disagrees and then disagrees back and disagree and disagree and disagree and keep going you know for as long as we can, essentially. So it says step one, they say, they say blah, blah. State the argument that you're about to disagree so that the judges can follow easily take notes during your opponent's speeches so you can be clear about what they argued. Like the other team said that smoking is harmful for non smokers. You know make sure that we are you know clearly you know talking about what they have said, I guess. Then wewant to say like but I disagree or that may be, but that may be, but I think blah blah, because you know lots of reasoning. You know we don't just want to be giving all these sweeping statements. We want our reasonings as well. Is because. And therefore as well. So the first topic is we should have video games as a subject in school. So I. Yes, I will agree with this. So I agree we should have video games as a subject in school. I think they could be really helpful for students to have some you know relaxing downtime outside of you know all of the pressures of school. I think they may, I mean, poison children. I mean, if you want too much of it, you can sudown. I mean, they made me go crazy with the remote control and want to watch video games all day and not do math or science or anything else. Yeah, that is a good point. I think though that by having the video games in the school, by having that downtime, I think they would probably be more likely to you know be wanting to do the maths and English and those important subjects because they're more relaxed, they've had time to relax. So then when they have to go back to those lessons, they will you know be more mentally prepared, be full of energy. Yeah but then energy is used on useless stuff. Like they might be imagining the parts of the story and not listening to the class. I mean, they might be thinking, will will King Kong save the superhero and the wanderoff? When the teacher says pi equals 3.14, this class listed, you don't need the other ten digits, just three, one, four. And then when makes up numbers pi, I fully forgot. Okay, Yeah, I guess that's a good point. I guess we could argue though that the video games don't have to be you know traditional video games that we might commonly think of. They could be educational video games as well. They could be video games that help students with their maths, you know with times tables or with you know helpful things like pi. And that way they're even getting in that learning outside of those subjects as well, just in a way that is more fun perhaps for them. I think video games should not be tbecause. If they want a video game, they, maybe you like it and want to look at more of it and more of it, more of it. I mean, students like video games, not conventional video games. We can't give in video games that they hate. Theyjust not listen to anything it says. Hmm okay. I guess what you could do from that if that was to be the case, you could just do a bit of a survey and ask the student what games they want to play. But also perhaps you know there could be you know each week or something you need to do so many educational video games to earn one free video game slot. So that way there's a healthy mixture of both and that way having the video games and this in the school would be you know would be done a in a way that is not too damaging for the students. So I think they should have the video games in the school if they could you know do those use those rules with it. This way because firstly, you know that video games are are disruption to the eyes. I mean, in the classroom at free times, they should be looking at the window, not looking at video games. And the other thing about it is that if they do, the sort of vethere could be billion of students. I mean, not really billions, but there will be lots of students that like all different things. How would you do it? I mean, there's not enough time in school to watch all the video games at once. Okay. I think you would win that one. I don't know what else I could say. I think I've had the harder argument there, don't you? Because I would you know, I don't agree with what I'm saying. So I'm having to come up with things that, you know, I don't agree with that it makes it much harder, doesn't it? Yeah. What did you would you agree with this or would you disagree with this if you had to give your own opinion? Because I mean, video games are like they bring imagination, life and kill us dead. Okay, next one, then you can agree with this one and I will disagree this time. So you start. Okay. I think English is the best because it gives students a tool in learning. Okay. I think, however, English isn't the best subject at school. I think it is a helpful subject, but I don't think it is the best one. I think there are other subjects that are just as useful for students, and I don't think it's fair to say that English is the best subject out of them. Mi think all of these subjects are useful in different ways. Okay, but if you learn English, you could go to a macuand, read all the books there. If you only learn Chinese, you'll be trapped in prison. It's like learning the tools of a prison. Rithat is if you go in prison, which is China, you get locked in here and then you can break out and go to America and anywhere else you have to get English, and then you can learn Spanish and then you can go on through there. I mean, English is the seed. Wow. Okay. I would argue though that you don't necessarily have to. You know is only the English the subject that's going to get you to go to America? I think perhaps you know, would help. But I bet there's probably lots of people who have gone to America, maybe through more maths or through more science. And you can still learn to speak English, you know, without having to go to English at school. You can have tuition outside of your school. And not everybody would want to go to America. So should English, you know, English be the best subject? Everybody doing English? What if somebody doesn't want to go to America, then perhaps it won't be as important to them. Yeah but if you do a survey, I mean, I mean some of the students with, I like English. I mean, English is learning you and there's lots of things to learn. Anything mean it's very interesting. Here's an ip do example. Tell me the notion of buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo, buffalo. Tell me the you think the description of it, it's very hard, right? The the actual meaning is buffalo past three minutes first city, second, bully, third, the water buffalo, the buffalo. So the sentence becomes clear, buffalo from town a bully town b and town b, bully town c, like fact. So like that is a very interesting to spell. Yeah, I agree. That is interesting for someone to learn, but does that mean English is the best? Because we can learn things like that? My main argument here is that I disagree. English should be seen as the best or the top subject at school. And I think that all of the subjects should be considered just as important as each other. You know, not everybody wants to learn English or needs to learn English. Some students might prefer maths or science to get into their careers, maybe even not those three course subjects. Other students you know would need art and dance and pe because they're more creative in those ways rather than in those core subjects. I think it's just too narrowing to make English the best subject when there are you know many important skills to be learned from the other subjects too. Okay, this is my last attempt to win. Okay, it's swithe field. So then you went to that. Okay? My thing is, if you are English, then you could learn that English has lots of things. I mean, if English is the seyou can go to anywhere you want. Some people want to be more travelers. I mean, a lot of people want to go to different countries to explore. I mean, a small proof people to say, I want to stay here, but at least lots of them wants to go away and flood away like in the immigrant county they were flooding to America. America has English, so the sellers would have to learn English, and English will become the best subject at their school. Okay? I would just continue arguing that I agree with what you're saying. English is really important and really useful and really helpful, but I do not think it should be considered the best. I think matths is just as helpful and youscience as well. Think about all of the scientific discoveries that we have made, you know, theories and you know, proven experiments and things like that, which we would not have if it weren't for science as a subject. Same with maths. We needed maths to go to the moon. You know we need artists, I think, or you know architects to build. And I think all of these other subjects are just as important as English. And that would be my final argument too. Yeah, and another thing is that in serious, I mean, lots and lots of people say English about the world. I mean, it's the most spoken global language. If you don't have English, what will you do in the world? I mean, I saw a Chinese book this morning, and when I was reading, I found like an English sentence, like, man was slabering it. So there really is English everywhere. Good point, Andy. Well done. Okay, I probably could could we could probably keep going, both of us, couldn't we, for a very long time. But we will move on. It's a really good practice to kind of force yourself to have to agree or disagree and keep going down that route because you know most things are nuanced, aren't they? As in what I may mean by that is we can agree and disagree with the the same point together, can't we? We can say, you know, actually you are right. Yes, and I do agree with that. But I also do think that but in this fellow of situation, you know don't really do that as much. You have to stick with what you're thinking, what we've what you've been told to think. Good practice. Okay, so then we're going to focus on this question. Should we have a single global language only? What does that mean, Andy? Everyone speak the same language. Yeah. So everybody would speak the same language. It wouldn't be you know like it is now where we speak. There's hundreds of languages around the world. Everybody would speak a different, not a different, the same language. So what we're going to do is you're going to write out for me a bit of a pros and cons list on having a single global language. We want to think about, you know, the benefits of speaking the same language, the drawbacks of speaking the same language, you know, benefits from not speaking the same language, drawbacks of speaking the same language. You need to think about all corners of this. And I'm going to get you to do both pros and cons to create a list because there's only you, and then we can and you can sort of give your ideas. I agree. I've just thought, actually, there's only you, isn't there? So I can just put this on the board. Don't need to do it on a text tboard. So I'm going to give you the pen, Andy, and you can write like a kind of a bullet point list for each side. And you need to think about both. You can't just give what your opinion is. Okay, is there any here? Yep, looks like this. So if you do that, you can erase. Yeah. You might find it easier to type than trying to write. Or is that just as Swiny face you're drawing? But I can type. I mean, there's a problem with deep. Oops, I asked the way about. Don't worry, I'll way back on, okay? And that's pokay. Okay. How do I write it on how do I write it? I have no idea how to type you, right? So you don't have a keyboard then I don't have a keyboard. Yeah, no. Right? We could kind of do with the keyboard, to be honest, in a lesson, quite hard to do a lesson without a keyboard. You have a keyboard? I do. Yeah, of course I do. You'll have to just tell me, and I'll have to write them for you. Okay. So a pro is that it's having the same global language, then we could read from some important schowork. I mean, we could just learn one language, then that would be it. So what am I writing? You just would say, o broo, if we have all global language, our schools could be better and the no less school olwork for children, no more pressure on tests, better grades like that. Okay? So education would be easier. Yes. And it would be easier to corroborate because if they're all the same language, we didn't have to use a translator, okay? Yes, and let me let's write a con now. Okay, cons, there are some things that one language can express that other languages can't. Yes, like that and different culture. Different cultures, but why would that be a con? Need to give me a bit more description. Okay, okay. So for an example of some phrasing, threading can't be thrown by the languages. Can there the expression out? If an English can just say the characyelling in pain, how do you say in Chinese tongue? What what the heck is that? I mean, you just think tongue is somebody hurt. You not think somebody is hurt. You do think that the guy, somebody else is hurt. It doesn't say ow after the following. You can just say the characis hurt. But if you say come, you could be hanging over a Cliff like he's on a Cliff hanger. But if we're all speaking the language, would there be the same language? Would there be those differences? No. So that's kind of what we've just said in this first one. I think Yeah like some phrases and expressions and things are you know specific to those languages. And when you change them to a different language, it doesn't quite make doesn't quite work the same. Yeah. What else could be a con? A problem would be that if we spoke the same global language, then there could be wars that nobody would understand. I mean, if we all spoke the same language, what what would call me? I mean, if we all spoke Chinese, what kind of pattern would there be in code? I mean, if we all spoke could learn ners, and there will be. I mean, we could tell one country from another sstates are all languages that are like, I mean, you'll think spis America because Spain speaks English. So you'll is misunderstanding for America. So therebe confusion and maybe chaos. So confusion with coding. Okay. Okay, what else proor cons? Bros, okay, so if everyone wrote the same language, then it could be much easier to say anything. Sorry. Oh dear, snowing, isn't it? It's horrible when that happens. Okay, good. No, I don't think it's broken the bone. Now another thing is that if we all spoke the same global language, then we could we could be better and not bad, shy plus where the religion is all the same. Interesting. So you you think so. So if we had a single global language, you think that the religion would all be the same as well because that's two different things, isn't it? No, I just say is that if we all spoke to, say, global language, you wouldn't be to background. I mean, you have a background in Muslim, but you also speak English, so you would be that shy that you can only speak little English. So what's the pro here? What am I writing? You're writing if everyone speaks the same global language, then people wouldn't be that sort of embarrassed about their culture anymore. So decreased interesting embarrassment on culture. Maybe let's say like judgment as well. I think it would be easier for you to understand each other, wouldn't it? Okay. Right any more clons? That's the argument I can come up with. No more better stuff. Okay. Think about like culture, you know? So language, you know, well, it's not just a language. It has years and years of history and tradition and stories and you know, humor that comes along with it. That would then be completely erased because they would be part of that language, wouldn't they? So. Culture and history and stories which would be raised with the language. What about you know how would we choose which language it was that everybody was to speak? How would we come to that decision? Yeah there will be conflict when the sa was stolen by a employee. So like that Yeah conflict would there would definitely be conflict wouldn't there around whatever that chosen language would be. Then the chosen language would you know give power to that country or continent, whichever is you know chosen. I don't know. Continent doesn't quite make sense to countries. So there would be a power imbalance, wouldn't there? Yes. Think about, you know would it actually even be feasible, Andy, do you think for 7 billion people? Well, I guess not 7 billion because people would already speak it, but for billions of people all over the world to basically learn a language fluently overnight, do you think that would even be possible? It could be possible in the century. I mean, everything is possible unless there's impossible being possible. I mean, there's an elevator in I don't know, support in the world that goes down while you climb up is impossible to get up. Okay. So you think it would be possible. So then that would be a pro. Easy to just teach to billions of people. Easy for billions of people to learn the same language overnight. Uk? Not okay. The waving is not okay. I think I think it would be a, wouldn't it? It would be extremely difficult. Not only would, you know, everybody just have to learn to speak this new language, you know, that would probably cost a lot of money as well. To teach everybody this new language, we would need language teachers to teach everybody, we need resources and books. And you know, think about how difficult it is for adults now to learn, just to learn one other language from their own. Never mind this is, you know, they have to do this very quickly. They have to teach their family. What about if you are disabled, if you have learning difficulties, if you are deaf or blind? You know, think about all those people as well. It's going to be even more difficult for them. I think this should become a con. Okay. Any more pros we could think of? I mean, if we all have the same global language, and then we could mess up some things in math. I mean, if you say math is good, I mean, mean math is good, but how would you say it in Chinese? I mean, the real thing about if you say the same global language and you could understand everything everyone told you around you, like if your uncle is from Japan, then how would you understand him? Zila dinyou would know absolutely nothing. But if you took the same language, then you would be impressed and proud. So how can I work that into just a single bullet point? I have zero p zero. I said, I have not the slit lightest idea p zilt zero. So so all I mean is like, could you summarize that in just just a short sentence? Well, I know the throw. I mean, you would understand everyone around you. Okay. I guess that's kind of what we've already said though. It's easier to collaborate, but okay. Let me think for another while you could come up with some arms too. I mean, now pond is marketing pros. I mean, pond to pros is like two to one. Yeah, conjust definitely gonna win. See. How does that numbering it for the two? I mean, seriously, for the two, zero, two, two. I mean, I can do it one of three because conhas two more sentences than pros. Yeah. Not to think of other prookay. Let me have a think. Okay, so if you if you if prose is that if we speak the same global language, our sennthesis will be that long I mean if take this example, I have not can be shoralized in Chinese. I mean it would be shorter if we all speak the than some would be very long while some would be very short Yeah so more efficient you know quicker and shorter of sentences and speaking Yeah. Okay, what about I thought of traveling would be easier and more convenient. People might feel safer and more comfortable going to different countries. Yeah because you you know you would go to a country knowing that everybody there can speak the same language as you. So you know that if anything were to go wrong, you know you could get help and it wouldn't be as you know scary I guess in that way. We've now got the same for each. Okay, let's think of another con. Okay, I have got returned with a statement that I will determine. It's kind of okay. I thought of a statement is that if we all speak the same global language, we could be like confused with all of the different names. I mean, take this example of, let's say, a pill bug. It could be called lots of different things. I mean, there are classes in English called analoya and all that thing. We could call it animal lia demony, or pill bum, or blue U clam, or lots of different names. So if we say all these names, we could get mixed up and rinsed out, and all the Chinese names added too, would be very arousing. Yes, and I the statement it could be raleipoly or pill bug or sbug or potato bug or wood laps or Anamalia ida. It could be lots of different Yeah, lots of different things. Yeah. Well, I think we've thought of a lot here. Haven't we got a lot of different ideas? Let me just see if I can think. There's an eye right here. It's me. I mean, it looks like an eye. I mean, my eyes are the eyelids and my face is the eyeball. Get it. Nice. It does look a little bit like this, says poos, doesn't it? Yeah, look at foofooos and cards. I guess you could just say, like there could be it could either create more unity around the world, like people might be kinder to each other and understand each other better, or the con could be could create more conflict around the world because people can speak the same language so they can argue with each other easier. You know what I mean? Like it could go either way. Would be hard to know whether it would create unity or conflict. I'm not really quite sure which one. What about like historical text? Ts would need to all be translated into the same language that people, so that people could understand it you know, later. And after a few generations when everybody only speaks that one language, they wouldn't understand the other languages, would they? So historical and cultural texts would need to all be transwhich, would take long time and be costly, very expensive. Asked, do you think of any of this? What anymore? Were are we out? Yeah, no, no more. I'm deflated balloon. Wow. We've got a lot of ideas there. We should have a global language as cons still outranks pros or. Boozing palms. Yes, okay. I'm growing a wheat in a potion. I mean, it's throrring a potion. Wow, a witch. I'm now trying to dia computer. So these are the ideas that they've given. They've only given three so reasons for. They've said having a single global language can help people to understand each other better. Having a single global language can connect everyone around the world. Having a single global language can help us travel to different places without the language barriers. We said all of those, didn't we? We said even more than that, negatives. They said not having a single global language can maintain different culture and values. We shouldn't have one global language because every language has its own charm, beauty and emotion. It is impossible to force everyone to speak the same language. Yet we've kind of set those points as well, didn't we? Okay. All right, I did have a video I was going to show you, but it won't open, it won't load. So that's not very helpful. But we've got five minutes. Why do I you, I show you my pictures? Now you can use your pen. If you don't need the keyboard, just need a pen. You just you're just reorganizing it right? I'm used. It looks like a park. With multiple different pack. You can use your pen to highlight for me, or circle each statement to tell me whether you agree or disagree with each of these statements. I'll do red for disagree and Green for Green. Bye. I'll do mine as well, and I'll do blue for agree. Orange would disagree. Thank. You I the. Eath, there we go. I'll do this. Everyone one should be in a sports club. Hello, that is definitely is important than math. I. Just think on this one. It's. The. More important than I stop and. Looks like we marked up everyone except homework is unnecessary. Wow. So you only disagree with school catcafeterias should only serve healthy food and home work unnecessary. So you agree with all the no, I said that homework is necessary. I said, I agree, homework is unnecessary. Oh, so why have you doing it ingrethen, because that was disagree. Agree, because homework is like no, but you no, no, no, no, no, no. I said, why do you think no, Andy, I'm not asking why you agree or disagree. I said, why did you do it in Green? Because Green is disagree and red is agree. E, I think you've done it the wrong way around. Okay, sorry doesn't matter. Doesn't matter right? Time is up. Don't worry about it. Well done Andy is good to be world sharing your ideas today. This is our last lesson. I thought last week was our last lesson. I got confused so maybe I'll see you again but thank you for working hard on this hour on your own. Yeah, thank you very much. Enjoy the rest of your weekend. Bye bye bye.