Hello. Hello hi hello hi Alex, how are you? I'm good today. Yeah, you're good to and what have you been up to today? Not sure. Did you go to school? Have you been playing homework? Which one did you do? Homework? All of it. You went to school. And what did you learn in school today, Alex? Did you learn math Chinese science, math Chinese science. 嗯，bye拜。And music. Oh, that sounds like an exciting day, Alex, I know like that. Have a high Victor, you okay ay? Yeah, Yeah. Where are you, Victor? You look like you're moving somewhere. Where are you going? Yeah, I am going home from school. You're making your way home from school. Well, your journey looks gorgeous as loads of big buildings and everything. It looks so cool, Victor. I love it. Well, welcome. Welcome. Hi, Jamie. How are you? Oh, you're on mute. There we are. Oh, hi, Jamie. You okay? Are you okay, Jamie? Hi ya. Have you had a good day today? Kind of window. Okay. What was good about your day homework? You're doing your homework today. Do you have lots of homework? Yes. Well, we'll be debating that today, Jamie, so you we can think about what you think about that. So thatbe a good start to our lesson. Hi, and Bruce. Welcome. Welcome. How are you? Are you good, Bruce? You okay? Yeah. Have you had a good day? Yes, Yeah, what have you done today? I go to school and learn English class, good English class, and I'll even in another English class. Well, thatbe exciting for you. And, well, welcome, welcome, welcome. Hi, Valerie. How are you? Okay. Thank you. Yes. What have you been up to today, Valerie? What have you been doing? Nothing really special. Just talking to my friend, talk at your friends. Yeah. Do you have like one best friend or do you have lots of lots of friends? Lots of friends, lots of friends? Oh, okay, well, welcome. And we have the lovely Alice. Hi, Alice. I'm good. Are you good? Alice? Wherwhere, are you Alice? You look like you're in like a like a fancy office. Are you in your kitchen? This is your kitchen. Wow, you guys all have bigger houses than me. My house is dining. It was very beautiful. Alice, and what have you done today? Alice, and I've been go to the school and I have swimming classes. Swimming. Can you swim really fast? Not sure. Not sure. Agree. Well, welcome. Well, welcome, all of you. I'm so excited to have you in class with me today. Hands up if you've ever debated before. It's okay if you haven't, but just wanna know, is anybody ever debated before? Alice has been debated before. Okay, Alice, I'll be asking you and Victor, you've also debated before, okay? So we have some people who have debated. Don't worry if you haven't, you are going to learn today and you will debate today, okay? And hopefully you'll be having lots of fun in this course. So Alice, I'm gonna to bring you down. Alice, what is a debate? You tell me what a debate is. A debate is like about different people have like different opinions about like one thing and they debate, well done. Yeah I express their opinions and like by who like who's like to the like like there's a teacher and there's like two student and like a two student or something like on the paper. Like what do you seem like? Like example for example, like the question is, do you like. Just like do do you like homework? Okay, like some like like when I was a student, they're like, yes and they write, why? And another people said, no, disagree, no. And and they like have the answer. And the teacher will say, like, who is the answer? Wers better. So they agree. Well done, Alice. That was exactly how to describe it. Yes. And Victor, what do you think is the most important part about debating? I think the most important part is someone don't agree with with other people that do not agree with his opinion. And. And they will have different opinieveryon. Yeah we must have our different opinions. Okay, so Valerie, Alex, Bruce and Jamie, because you've not debated before, it's exactly how Alice and Victor are saying, okay, we have a motion, a question. We might agree. And so Yeah, I agree with that. Or we might say, no, I do not agree with this. This is rubbish. And you will think of reasons you're going to be building to three reasons. You're going to find three reasons why you agree or disagree with this, okay? And then you will debate against each other in teams and separately, okay? And what will happen is we will decide who argued best. Big thing, no personal attacks. We do not say anything about the team member, just the subject. Okay? Just because you didn't win the debate does not mean your argument was bad. It just means that the argument put by the winning team was a better argument for the motion. So I don't want anyone to feel bad if they're like, Oh, I didn't win today. That's okay. It doesn't mean it was a bad argument. It just means the other argument was a better one for that debate. Okay? You sometimes debate on something you agree with. You might debate on a team you don't agree with. That's debating. Okay? So I think Alice and Victor said it much better. Let's have a look at a video thatintroduce us all into debating. Here we go. The kids at my cousin's school don't have to wear uniforms next term. I think that's cool. I think that's a shame. Uniforms give pupils a sense of pride in their school and their appearance. Uniforms are silly. You wouldn't catch me wearing a uniform, but you aren't wearing a uniform. Your football strias a uniform. Imagine what would happen if football players wore whatever they wanted. It would be total confusion. Even the players wouldn't know who to kick the ball to chaos, and the fans wouldn't know who to support. Oh, I see what you mean. You've scored your known goal. One point for me. But uniforms can be very expensive, and not everyone's parents can afford to buy a new one each term. And kids go out of their uniforms too. And if you rip it, you'll be in trouble. I see what you mean. I've never thought of that, Jamie. Alex, there's no sound in my video. Oh, there's no sound in it. Can you not hear either, Alex? You can't hear either. Oh, that's interesting. Victor, can you hear? I can hear. You can hear it. Well, that's not good for Alex and Jamie though. Bruce, can you hear it? Well, Yeah, you can hear it. Alice and Valerie, can you hear it? Oh, okay, a little you couldn't. Yes, quite quiet, isn't it? It's quite quiet on mind, but I have put it up as far as it can. Okay. What I would do then, Jamie, is try going out and coming back in. We'll wait for you if you pop out of the classroom, Jamie, and then pop yourself back in. If not, we don't need to worry too much. Okay, right. Okay, let's try it. Alex is just popping himself back in as well. Okay, let's try it. Now see, that's a point to me. One draw. Okay, okay, hold on. Even if you didn't have to wear the uniform, youstill have to dress smartly. That's right. You can't go to school looking. You're still really quiet. Why not? It isn't a crime, isn't it quiet? Okay. You have been accused of going to school looking. Screit happens. I'll go. You plead guilty, your brother. But it's so, wow. Alex yippy, that's another point to me. Dude, one, how come pupils have to wear uniforms but teachers don't? That's right. It's not fair. It should be the same rules for everybody. I don't agree. Imagine how silly the teachers would look if they wore uniforms because of the subjects they teach. Look, I' M A History teacher. I'm Napoleon. I'm a saints teacher. I'm a astronaut. I'm a geographer teacher. I'm an explorer. This is silly. Teachers don't have to wear uniforms. That's another point to me. Now it's tutu. I think tutu is a fair result because there are two sides to every argument, uniforms or no uniforms. The important thing is to look smart, not scruffy or sili. Agree. Hang on, I've changed my mind. What if I can keep this uniform? I'll wear it to school every day. Okay, okay. Teachers wearing uniforms would not be fun. What do you think, Bruce? Do you think a teacher should wear a uniform to school? No, no. And why? Why, Bruce? Why do it? They shouldn't wear one school because if teachers wear uniform, it's the teachtime. And the students were already here, and the teacher need to wear uniform as they can. I need a while. Yeah, Yeah, built. I'm with me, Bruce. I'm because the great answer, Jamie, what do you think you do you agree with Bruce? I no, I think teachers should use wear uniform. In my school, teacher use totally wear uniform. If in your school they actually wear a uniform. What an argument to bring up. I wasn't expecting that. Jamie, why do you think they should wear a uniform? Why do you disagree with Bruce? It isn't fair for a student. Oh, that's a good point. Why should you wear it but teachers don't? That's a really good point. I like that point. Okay, Alex, I think teacher is if I don't think teacher, you can wear uniform speaker because if they're teaching about a spthey, just this is where for space I need to just flow at around. Okay, Alex disagrees. We've got two disagreeing with you now. Jamie, what are you going to say to Alex? You're going to say something about teachers. I want to think, okay, you can have a little thing. I'm going to bring someone else down here. Alice had her hand up. Alice, I want you to weigh in. Do you agree with Bruce and Alex, or do you agree with Jamie in this idea of unferity? I don't think the teacher don't wear uniform like we were like in our school, and the kids wear tie, t shirt and a pants or like skirt. And the teachers also wear like t shirt. I'm a tilike. It's it's not like really similar, but like it's just a little bit different. Okay, but you're saying but yes, you're saying they do need to wear some kind of uniform in it. Okay, Victor, what do you think? You with Jamie and Alice? Maybe teachers should wear them or are wearing uniforms. Are you with Bruce and Alex? They look silly. I think teachers shouldn't wear uniform, because if teachers wear them, it will be really silly. And teacher, they they can to. They need to wear their own Oh, their own colors. Okay, well, Victor, you've gone into a tunnel. Your point was really good, but you've gone into a tunnel. We've kind of lost you a little bit. But okay, really silly. I like that idea. Valerie, please help me here. Are you on sort of victors Bruces Alex or or are you gonna fight for with Jamie and Alice? What do you think, uniform or no uniform for a teacher as as a uniform or Oh, sorry, Jamie, 1s. Let's hear Valerie. And then I'll come back to you, Jamie, I promise. Okay, go on, Valerie. Okay. I think they shouldn't wear uniforms because they will look like students are made. Some teachers might think like, because the teachers might be a bit too short, and they might think that they are students and accidentally blame them. Did I get confused? We might confuse them for students, maybe. Yes. Jamie, what were you going to say? I'll be back with you. Alex, a promise constantly establishes a sense of professionalist and eory. English teacher from student, very nice work. Visulives the school, this can help. Teacher, well done. I love that idea of professionalism and distinction. Alex, Alex is gonna rebuttle you. Alex, what have you got to say? What I see, I think, is a teacher where you, it just go like ms, everything that can hear more I don't that see hearing anymore because they might they might look like clowns kind like clowns they might look like cds but they will look like maybe they will look like clouds and won't be able to she didn't want the that theybe too laughing theybe laughing too much with they well done. Okay. Amazing, amazing. I think we can say that not wearing uniforms has won that smi debate because we've got four against two over here. And well done. Nice opinions, nice vocabulary. Jme, Alice, some really nice ideas here about what's already your example. Okay, I'll come back to you now. Jamie, Valerie, good ideas, agreeing, giving that reasons. Same for you, Victor and Bruce and Alex, this idea of how something kind up silly. Yes, Jamie. Uniforms provide a sense of equality among staff. Oh, yes, it does. Well, we're got to bottle this because each of you now when I ask you, have you been in a debate still to where you in again, what I think this we're gonna be debating this later on in our course, Jamie. I promise to keep some of those ideas for yourself. And now when I say have any of you debated, you can all put your hands up because you've all just debated. You've all debated. Every single one of you has debated. So debate structure, okay, topic will be given a topic. We've got a topic today that you're going to be working on two teams. We've got six in the class. We've got even teams today. So we will be doing 33. You will have time to prepare your debate. We will also have a class discussion as well to help you. And then you will do a presentation. We will start with one and a half, two minutes. By the end of this course, I want you to be speaking for three minutes. Okay? But we will build that. That's not for you to achieve today. That will be a lot, okay? So over time, you'll be doing it. You will work together sometimes. You will work singularly on your own individually sometimes. And you will be on teams that you agree with, and maybe you'll be on a team that you don't quite agree, but you're going na have to debate anyway. So you're going to lots of different skills. So as we were saying earlier from Victor and Alice, we have a yes team and agree team to the topic, and we have a no team. Okay, so we call it the affirmative team. They go first. That team always goes first in a debate. It will go affirmative, negative, affirmative, negative, affirmative, negative questions, which you'll see how it works later. Repair, discuss with your teammates. You'll be putting to teams. You will have a chance to chat, to ask them what they think. Make sure you're not saying the same thing as your teammate. Make your arguments strong. Yeah. So you'll have a chance to talk to each other. Then you will speak. Each of you takes a turn to speak. Okay. So benefits are debating, critical thinking, public speaking, confidence listening, Yeah all of the good things. Yes, Jamie, where is my teammate? I'm going to tell you that Jamie in a little bit, I'm going to do a little bit of a lottery. I'm gonna put you into teams. Okay, are you okay Victor? You're just swapping you're in the lift. Victor's in the lift now roi, my darling, as soon as you get in, we'll see it right today. Topic we're gonna to get straight into it. We're gonna to be thinking about is homework a waste of time? Mm, hard it's not. Who said no it's not. Hands up. Hands up or okay, Alex, why is it not? Start us off on our discussion today. Why do you think homework isn't a waste of time? It it it helps you learn things. No it's not. It's not a waste of time can help you learn things. What kind of things, Alex, what kind of things can we learn? Can we learn math? Yeah, we can learn math, math language. Math language. Well, kind of Yeah. And sorry, I like that. Well done, Alex. Yes, not learning stuff. Well done, Alex. Okay, anyone else? Homework is a waste of time. Oh, Alice, straight up. What do you think? Alice, I think it's not a waste of time because like if you do homework and do homework like like the same as Alex will help you learn, and when you like go up, you can learn more things and like you'll will be more smarter. So you will be more intelligent, maybe if we do some homework. Okay, I like that, Alice. It's a good argument. Okay, I saw Bruce and Valerie. So Bruce, what do you think? Do you think homework's a waste of time? I think homework is not a waste of time, because if you do homework, you can repeat what you learn today and no more dick, if you're confident in what you've learned, maybe Yeah okay. Brilliant love for that, Bruce. What about you, Valerie? I think homework is not a waste of time because if when you do homework, you can practice back what you learned at school or some in a class in in a class. So or you could try new things. Hey, so then someone in the because also it could be distracting can't in class. So maybe homework going to give you a peaceful place to practice what youokay love that family tery Jamie and Victor don't you don't know you're not sure you don't know which side you're on another things that your the homework is learned you can you cannot do it anymore but if you don't know the things that teacher in class said you have to know better than don't. Okay, so if you don't understand what the teacher is asking then homework what homework is a waste of time then isn't it? If you're not sure what the homework is or how to do it, then you're just gonna to stare at it and do nothing with that homework. Okay, I like this accounter argument Jamie. Okay, Victor, what were you gonna to say? I'll come back to you Alice. I think I think doing homework is a waste of time because if doing too much homework at home, you you won't have enough time to exercise and you will be you will be overweight and you and you don't have time to do other things like play with my friends and do other sports. Oh, a nice counter argument, Victor. Yes, we've got to think about this. What if I don't understand the homework? What if the homework has taken me away from exercising or playing games or having time with family or eating food? Because I'm doing homework. Yeah we've got to think about this other side. Well done, Victor. Okay, Alice, you had your hand up. What were you going to add? Like I seem like it's not it's not what your time, if you like don't understand what the homework is like when you're in class, like should be listening. If you don't listen, like you don't know the homework. Oh, it's your fault. You don't listen, you won't know. So maybe it's just showing us who's paying attention in class and who's not paying attention. Okay, like this Alice yesterday, Jame, I think we had to make a decision. Okay, what decision? Yes, we do. We do. And what do you think could be another pro or another con to this, Jamie? Why could it still be a waste of time or why could it be not a waste of time? Established? Yeah Yeah because is it something is homework? Is there another way around homework, Valerie? Could we do something else other than homework? Could we have an extra hour in school? Maybe. Could that be more beneficial being with a teacher? Or is it something whereby no homework in doing independent homework is better? I think I think both are good because if you do have to, teacher, if you don't have a, you have a question that you don't understand, the the teacher could you could ask her and then she might teach you so can understand better. And then if you do homework by by yourself, and I could learn, I could try to be more independent and and learn some things by myself. And okay, so we've got this idea, these two ideas. Okay, well done Valerie. Okay, so we're gonna to put you into little teams. Don't worry if you're on a team that you don't you thought the other side, I'm gonna be in both rooms so I'll be coming in and out of both rooms. You'll understand in a second, okay? And we're gonna be thinking is homework a waste of time? We're gonna to have a team that says yes it is. Yes, it absolutely is. Yeah it's time consuming. It takes away from games and playing. It takes away from sports. It takes away from being able to be with our friends and family. Yeah. Video games takes away from video games maybe means we can never switch off at home. Maybe. Yeah. Yes, Jamie, I'm ma disagreed with me to play video game. So today, today do we can debate why you need to but the other side, the negativity and the ones that are saying, no, it's not a waste of time, Yeah, it's a good thing to do. We want na say we can work independently, we can practice something, we can see who's listening in class, we can check our understanding, we can become more intelligent. So we're gonna to be debating this today. Yeah think about whether the tasks useful in your homework are all is all homework good or is some homework bit boring or not very useful? Were you given too much? Does homework feel like all you do is too much homework? Yeah. Or do you feel like I could do with more homework? I want more home. You get my life. It's Jamie. It's too too little, too little. Alex is saying it's too little. And could you cope with doing more homework? Or do you think, no, I want to be able to do other things, other activities, hobbies, swimming, plays, all long. So we want to think about these ideas today. I'm going to give you some statistics. So here are some these ta countries we've got China, Italy, usa, uk and Finland. China has the most homework. Yeah, most 14 hours. Yes, Alice, like in my school, it's international school. And this is like the uk school international. So you won't do as much homework. So you can all only do about six and a half, four and a half hours worth of poem at Victor. What were you going to say? I'm that I use my homework, I think it's as much as in the uk, as much as the uk. Okay, so you don't have as much traeither. What about you, Alex? You don't know? Not sure. Not sure. That's okay. Jamie, what are you going to say? I'm going to say my brother is 16 and he wrote the homework a like to 3:30 and he don't have any time to sleep. Look at that. Does it too late? Yeah, same much homework. So China has a lot of homework, but Finland has hardly any homework. But so look at this. Okay? All of you look at that graph, I'm now gonna to show you the results on who is more intelligent in terms of countries. And as you can see, uk, Finland, who had hardly any homework, are as good if not the same as Italy, usa and China. So think about that today. Does homework really make you more intelligent? Yeah. Or have we got more time to sleep? Better than no. Italy, totally better than it. A little bit, a little bit, a little bit but we're going see you're gonna be able to debate this for yourselves. We've brainstormed so think about do you like homework? Do you think doing homework takes too much time? How much homework do you think is good for students and what are the advantages? Okay, right. I'm going to put you into teams. I'm going to put you randomly today. Okay, so here we go. First person on the agreeing team of it's a waste of time will be Alex. Welcome to the affirmative team. You're gonna to say yes. Alex is gonna be saying yes, it's a waste of time. Alex, don't worry, you're not on your own. You will have a team. Alex must say yes. Alex must say yes. Yes, he's going to be debating yes. Victor, you're going to be saying no. It's not a waste of time. Okay, and then we are going to H blah, blah, blah. Who's going to be joining? Alex Bruce? Yes, Jamie, I think this is split. I think this is this is not fair. It's the only way to make it fair. Jamie, what we want. But but Jamie Jamie, that's not debating. So when we're into teams for debating, you can end up on any side of a debating team. Okay? And today everybody has basically said no it's not a waste of time so the only fairway is to give this a random sometimes we'll get to choose but most of the time in debating we will debate either side of your teams. Okay so who's joining Victor? Jamie you are joining Victor saying no it's not a waste of time okay Alice and Valerie Alice you're joining yes it is a waste of time Oh bless you Alice that's you're gonna be fine but you're gonna be saying the the you are on newith Victor and you're one no I know Alice but this is what we're gonna be doing you're honestly itbe fine we're gonna everyone sort of thinks no it's not so then we've got Valerie joining on the noteam okay so Victor, Valerie. Jamie no it's not a waste of time Alex, Bruce and Alice you're going to be saying yes it is a waste of time okay don't worry I'm gonna to help you don't worry okay we're gonna put you into teams okay so I'm going to now I I'm gonna to put you into a breakout room here we go right starting my groups so let's have Alex, Alice and berruus in here Valerie, Jamie and Victor you are going to the other room bye bye they've disappeared yes Bruce where they go? They've gone to a different classroom the same classroom I can still see them, but them in a different classroom. Yes, Alex. Are you still whatever you say? Can can they hear us? Know what they cannot hear you now, Alex? I can see them, but we can't hear them. And this is what's gonna to be really good for us. Yes, Alice. Thank Angel was someone in group I don't think like I think we're not going to do that today, Alice. But don't worry therebe lots of chances to be on on the team you want to be I promise you, you're gonna to do amazing. Yeah, this is part of it. I promise you I know, I know, I know but we're gonna do we are saying yes, it is a waste of time. But Alice, even if you don't agree with this, okay, think about things that you can still debate by saying good things about homework. Yeah, your argument could be more about that some countries have too much, so you don't have to say no, it's a waste of time. You could say it's it's that sometimes some countries have too much homework. So you can debate that way palyeah, without having to completely go against what you believe. Yes, Bruce, and we can do that first so we'll have, we will need to check so we can do, Bruce will speak first then we can have Alex and then we'll have Alice. But this time, but now Bruce, Alice and Alex, I want need to talk to each other. You can Google, we can research. Okay, if you want to but what you you can do that. Alice, yes, okay. Yes, Bruce, I don't have dead. That's okay. Alice has got it. You're going to work as a team, Bruce. Alex is getting his money and Yeah, Alex can do it with you. You're gonna to work as a team. Yes, you guys are going to work together. Okay, a way to talk, a way to talk about why you think it could be seen as a waste of time, why it could be. There's some answers already on the board for you. So I want you to talk to each other. Okay, think about Bruce. What are you gonna to say? Alex, what are you gonna to say? Alex, what are you gonna to say? So have a conversation with each other. I'll be back I promise. So talk to each other. What could you talk about? Why do you so listen Alex, so you can talk about why you think homework is a waste of time. Okay? So you're gonna to talk to each other, think of reasons, think about what you're gonna to debate today. How is your team gonna to win? Yeah, we know what the other team is gonna to talk about, don't we? So think how were we going to convince me that your side is correct? Okay, so Alice, Bruce and Alex, I'll be back. Have a chat with each other. Okay, hello, what are we doing? I can see you still I can see you in the other room. Right. So valley. What are we doing? Okay, so Jamie, let's listen. Let's listen. Let's listen. Okay, Jamie, Victor, and I'm and already you ready really talk to your team. Jamie, you talk to team. So Jamie, Valerie, Victor, now we're working as a team and that's a big part of debating. All right, so I want you guys to have a conversation. What are each of you going to talk about? Because we don't want you to say the same reasons, okay? So for example, Valerie, I don't want you to say it's good, it helps us learn. Jamie says it's good, it helps us learn. Victor says it's good, it helps us learn because that will not win your debate. Okay, so each of you needs to talk about something different. Yes, the work Jamie, we're not debating yet. You're gonna to work together first. You're going work together first. Okay? So want you guys to have a chat talk to each other. Who's going to talk about what what reasons are you going to talk about? Remember you're saying no, it's not a waste of time. So we need to think about what the other team might say as well. Yeah how are you gonna to make your debate the best? Okay, so you've got to think Jamie, what are you going to talk about that's going to be different to what Valerie is going to talk about, which is different to what responsibility and time? Magment, well done. So we've got Jamie's going to talk about responsibility. Excellent. The students job is learning. You can play play video games before you you didn't do your homework yet. Amazing. All right. To Victor, what might you talk about? Jamie is going be talking about responsibility and students learning. What are you going to talk about in your team then, Victor? Talking about they can we can have a better review at school. Okay and how help us remember what we learn at school. So let's leave the board please, Jamie. Leave the board please. Jame. Yeah, let's not just mess around with the board. Okay? And what we learn it's got okay, brilliant Victor, that's gonna be great. Valerie, what are you gonna talk about? Jamie is talking about responsibility learning. Victor 's gonna talk about better grades. So Valerie, what are you gonna to talk about? I'm going to talk about. When I. Quit. I not sure. So let's talk together, Jamie. Jamie, I want you to to make sure that you're listening to your teammates as part of debating is listening to each other. So Valerie, not sure. So Victor and Jamie, what do you think Valerie could talk about? So you're talking about responsibility, Jamie. Victor, you're talking about better grades. Valerie, what are you gonna to be talking about? Let's think, let's help her. What could we, what could Valerie talk about? What's left to talk about? Oh, I think prepare the future challenge. Well done. So you think can you can touch many, many things and need to get get some homework and learn something new. Amazing. Okay. This is what I want. Well done, Jamie. Thank you for helping. That's what we want you all to do to to help each other. Is that okay with you? Bthe e. Yes, and what were you going to say, Victor? I think those opinions are all about static. Yeah well they are all they're all about the same thing. Yes, Victor, but you all got different points to make. Just gonna to make it strong. Remember the other team are gonna to say it's a waste of time that you should be playing video games. So you guys have to say no, we've got to think about our future. So Valerie's gonna to talk about the future challenges. Yeah learning something new have time we don't need to have time video game we're doing exactly exactly gis traashes okay, exactly. So guys now I'm going to give you some time, only gonna give you a few minutes, I'm gonna give you three minutes. I want you now to think about preparing your debate. You're gonna to be speaking for a minute and a half. Okay, so prepare your debate. I've put something on the board to help you in my opinion, I don't think homework is a waste of time because firstly, secondly, Yeah and we're going to be Yeah so you can start, write it, make notes for yourself because you're gonna need it. Yeah so you don't end, then you don't feel like you're stopping. You can then speak a yes, Victor. When you go first, you can go first. Absolutely say, well, I' M Victor first. Then let's have Valerie and then we can have Jamie at the end for our killer debate. Okay, three minutes. Stop writing up your debate. I'll be back. I need to check on the other team, okay? And the reason you're in in this room is so that the other team can't hear you, otherwise they might pinch your ideas. Okay? Okay. Hello, gang. How are we doing? What have we thought of so far? And Alice, what are you going to be talking about? I'm going talk about the consultation of free time. Amazing. Okay, so you're gonna be talking about taking away free time. Very proud of you, Alice. It's so difficult sometimes to debate on another team, okay? But that's an amazing answer. So taking away free time, Alex, what are you gonna to talk about in your debate? It's just taking away the things we really wanted. Okay. So Yeah Arion Alex. And taking away some things you really want to do. Anyway the things that worked that way that we really wanted. Okay, so make sure Alex, you think about examples. What kind of things is it taking away from? Yeah and Bruce, what are you going to talk about in your debate? Hometoo homework. Yes, well done. Too much homework. That's gonna to be a good debate as well, isn't it? So guys, I have this to help us. You're gonna put this on the board for us. So now you've got a couple of minutes all I'll come to you now, Alex, you've got a couple of minutes and I want you to think about your opinion, think about what you're going to say, what's the reason it's your first time doing this will only be a minute and a half. So just make sure that you're prepared to write your notes. Think about what you're going to say and what's the reasons behind it. Yes, Alex, like and I go to. Basketball classes exactly that Alex that's exactly what I want you to use for example, so Alex, you can say something like in my opinion I think homework is a waste of time because I can't do anything I want to do okay? Such as Yeah this is not good because so you can make an argument okay, so make sure you've got your notes okay? Don't worry if it goes wrong today that's why you're here. We're gonna to be learning so it's all right. So just do what you can for now, okay? Especially if you're on a side that you're not 100% sure of, okay, but just try as best as you can all so I'm just going give you a few minutes and then I'm going to bring the other team back in, okay? And we're gonna to go for it. We're gonna have a go. I'm so excited. I'm going to check what they're doing. Oh, it's very silent in here. We done, we are. We finished. Are we ready? One minute. One minute. Okay, that's fine. Everyone else is also the other team are just getting ready so we can have one more minute. You're already Oh, excited. I was just saying, don't worry if your debate goes a little a little strange, let forget something or you worry about anything. Don't panic. Yeah, that's why you're here, to build your speaking time, to build your confidence. All right? So anything you do today is going to be amazing. All are you ready, Jamae? My dad is here to that's okay anybody can be here any parents could be in the background if they want to ert or be part of it absolutely they can I'm already good. You're ready as well. Okay, I'm gonna check on the other team and then I will bring you back into the room. Okay amazing right hold tight I'll be back in 2s. Okay how are we doing? Everyone's side. We've got about 20s. We're going to start to bring the other team in, okay? These guys are just having a few more sections to write their thing. Okay we've just gonna have few more seconds while they just get ready and then we've got Bruce let's check who's going first in the so got Bruce going first then Alice then Alex and on the other team we have Victor going first the then Valerie and then Jamie. So some rules because this might be your first time do not interrupt. Please listen to your other team member. Okay? We should not talk over someone. Raise your hand at the end if you have a question. If we've got time, okay, this will happen more as we do these. Make sure you make notes maybe of what someone has said. You might need to change your debate slightly and I will be deciding who will win today. Okay? So I am your chairperson. That's the person that decides that everything is fair and that everybody has had their time. You will have one minute or balloons of come, you will have one minute 30s. I will stop you after one minute 30s. Do not worry. That's not that you did anything bad. Just as how we do debating, everyone must stay within their time. Okay, amazing. So how to express it? Speak slowly, don't rush. Okay, so the first round will be Bruce and Victor. So Bruce will speak first and then Victor, you will speak. Okay? So you'll both have a minute and a half. If you finished before the minute and a half, don't worry, it's okay. Alright, okay, I'm coming down. Okay, Bruce, are you ready? Yes. Okay. Your time, Bruce, starts now. I believe that children shouldn't have homework, because if children have homework, they would be tired, and they won't want to have homework again, and they won't have sleep in the night, so they won't be very comfortable. I'm space. How might they feel if they don't have time to sleep, or that they have, they are too tired? How might your students feel? They will feel tired, tired. Would they be sad, upset? Would they be angry? I think low still for low. Yes. Well done, bruise. Fantastic. You'll build on this. Bruce. Yeah, you're building your arguments. Very well done. This nerve wrking going first as well. Okay, Victor, are you ready? Okay, the negative team may start. I don't agree with his opinion. I believe that having a homework is is really good for students. First, firstly, it can help them with their with their study. It can let them remember what they, but they learn as cool. And secondly, it can, it can also, it can also have, have more, more exercise from school that can, they can check if you, if you listen carefully when you, when you're studying. Lastly, it can, you can also have, have a prepare for your future work. If now you have more exercise in your future, you will have, you will have more study. You will have more study than other people. Yeah, welcome. Done Victor. Welton breeze Welton. Victor, very well done for our start. Bruce, fantastic option. You stuck within your thing you were going to talk about in your team, which was that tiredness. Okay, so we just need to build that answer with more examples. Victor. Nice. First, second and thirdly. Yes, some really good reasons to just make sure, Victor, that you're sticking to your point so that you don't take someone else's okay so just make sure that you stick to what you're going to do in your section of your team. That was fabulous. Very very well done. Yeah okay Oh I still don't know who's gonna to win everything's open okay next person's are going to be Alex for the affirmative team and Valerie for the negative team okay Alex your time are you on I going to check your not on mute let's bring you so your microphones on I want to make sure you're not on me that there we are raising okay Alex your time starts now in my afternoon I think homeis a waof time because it take away your free time like my my basketball class and soccer class and swimming classes. How's that going to make you feel Alex? Is it going to make you feel sad? Is it going to make you feel upset? Like how will you feel? It make you feel sad, wouldn't it? Yes. And why do you think it's important that we do these, Alex? Why do we need to make sure we're doing these sports? You grow high Yeah to feel to feel what? You go. You can keep you healthy and grow higher. Well done, Alex. Excellent job. Yeah, some good ideas again, just make sure we're formulating it. We'll talk more about writing these down. Okay, well done, Alex. Your first debate. I am so proud of you. Okay, Valerie, are you ready to counter argue, Alex? Okay, Valerie, your time starts now. I agree with him, but I think that homework is not a waste of time because like homework might be hard, but sometimes you can like learn more things about the topic that you are you are the homework is about. And the homework could like be a kind of exercise, like the teacher might tell you like to do like 20 push up that could be like a homework and you could prepare for your future. You might even stop having to being addicted to playing video games or or playing playing iPad or watching iPhones. And you might even get to good college or universities, dream schools, or maybe even schools not in Hong Kong, which is way better. Okay, well done, Valerie. Nice examples. Valerie Yeah, it was great to put an example in then more than one example to your point. And also again, you stuck to your point. Yes, Alex didn't push about it. You've got a question, Alex? No, I don't know that question. I accidentally Oh, you accidentally pushed it. That's okay. Well done, Alex. I'm so proud of you all. That's amazing. Okay, Alice. Now, Alice for the affirmative team and Jamie for the negative team. Teacher, who is winning? Who is winning? Or I can't tell you that until the nj me, because anyone could change my mind. Any speech could change my mind. I swap itonly be revealed at the end, I promise you. Okay, right, Alice, are you ready? Alice, she's debate. Let's give a moment. Alice is doing what everyone will have to do in this class at some point. Alice is fighting for a team that she doesn't necessarily agree with. That's a hard position to be in. Okay? So Alice, you need to be applauded for that. Yes. Okay, everyone will have that in this in this class. I promise you, you're just the first, but let's take that moment. Okay, Alice, are you ready? Okay, your time starts now. I. Think like we need to have less homework because I have three reason. The first reason is no time for family. Like when you have so many homework, you cannot like really like talk to families and they don't know how do you do the school. And and some and in some countries, the convert gets banned and like it did, and the student doesn't have time to spend with their family members because they have to like writing homework. And second, there is no time for outside activity. Most for most children, they have two hours for outside activity. But if I have so many homework, I think you don't have like lots of time for outside activities. And the third thing is we damage our mental health because like we have while school chaperformance, they risk student wellbeing. And when you doesn't like feel good, well, like very tired, you don't like listen, you can believe the teacher and you won't like really learn something in the school. And when you do the homework, you didn't know it because you were really tired for doing lots of homework. Well done, Alice. I really liked your first, second and third. Alice, great option about the mental health. That was a really clever argument from you and your team. Well done. Nicely delivered. Okay, Jamie, last argument for the negative team. Are you ready? Okay, your time starts now. The students responsibility sibito learn. We can play video game when we haven't do our homework. No reason is just good for you. Parents can't can't disagree. When you do your homework, we need to enjoy the process. When we do homework, cross positively. We can do it shortly. Don't need to do homework, just only it just takes our free time. You can play video game after doing homework. Video game isn't everything. It helps us develop develop conditional self discipline, organizational skills for future. We we can take anything out of homework. Mm, well done, Jamie. Okay, to two very different debates. I'm absolutely brilliant. Jamie, again, nice use of your vocabulary. You've got a nice range of vocabulary, okay? Using things like responsibility, determined, lack of. Really, really well done. Well done both of you. Excellent job. Okay, well done. All of you are so proud. Everybody's in a debate everybody managed to achieve today. Okay, you will develop your own things. Again, I just want to reiterate working as a team as a big thing. And it was really great to see you all starting to work as a team or lesson one. I can't believe what you've achieved on lesson one. That's incredible. So the winners of today's debate is the negative team. Weldon, Valerie, Victor and Jamie. Okay, Bruce, Alice and Alex. You worked so hard though, and it's not like I said before, it does not matter. What you put forward was amazing and you all achieved Valerie, Victor and Jamie. You had the edge. And that was because you were able to give me more reasons and more examples in today's debate. So well well done. Next week's debate, I'll put it into the chat for you as well. Teacher is the best job. Have a little think. Both sides think for agree and disagree. You never know what team you're gonna to end up on. Okay. Thank you so much, Bruce. Thank you, Alex. Thank you, Alex. Thank you, Valerie. Thank you, Victor. Thank you, jb. Thank you to anyone in the background, any parents that have joined us today as well? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Have a wonderful day. I'll see you next time. Bye all. Bye, bye, bye.