Intro to speaking exam

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Welcome!

Please take your seat

Grab your reading book and laptop. Rest on rack

Read your book in silence.

Class rules

Use English as much as possible --> Mistakes, no problem

Don't laugh at each other when making a mistake

Homework = study and watch a video sometimes

Have respect for and help each other

Speak with a soft voice when working together & be silent when working alone

Today you will...

... read for 10 minutes + 

... be introduced to types of arguments

... form groups and start researching 

review reported speech

1. What are the 3 steps when you want to report a quote said by someone?

2. Report this quote: “I won’t stop knocking on doors,” said Mayor Reed, “until I’ve got the vote of everyone in this community.” 

Speaking exam

The assignment is on Magister - Studiewijzer - Speaking exam 

What do you remember?

1: When is this exam? 

2: How do you prepare for this?

3: Name at least two differences between parts one and two.

Choose FOR or AGAINST & give 1 argument:
Corderius is the best high school in Amersfoort.

Appeal to authority

"It's true because the president says so"

Anecdotal Evidence

"This one lady said this herb cured her so it must work"

Bandwagon

''Well everyone is eating them so they must be healthy"

Personal attack

"You can't believe John, he's dumb anyway"

Slippery Slope = no evidence

"If Trump got reelected eventually he'd start WW3"

Appeal to tradition

"We've always done it this way so it must be the right thing"

A few ''weak'' ways to introduce your arguments

Aristotle's 3 arguments

link - explanation poster

link 2 - explanation + examples

How to form strong arguments:

Use one or all of these methods:

Ethos: credibility and expertise.

Pathos: emotions and passion.

Logos: logical reasons and evidence. 

Humans shouldn't eat animal products. Read and color match.

1: Animals have feelings just like us, they feel pain and fear so we should let them live.

2: You need 15 liters of water for 1kg of beef which is bad for the environment.

3: My doctor supports vegan diets because of the antibiotics used in farming are harmful to us.

Health insurance should be free for Dutch citizens. Argue this statement using ethos (credibility/expertise)

School cafetarias should only serve healthy foods. Argue this statement using pathos (emotion/passion)

Smoking and vaping should be banned in NL. Argue this statement using logos (logic/evidence)

Form groups of four. If you can't do this and sit together within three minutes, I'll do it.

Time to work

1. Pick three statements: see the list on ELO or come up with new ones.
2. Divide and conquer: decide who will be FOR and AGAINST per statement, download the planning doc, and take notes in it.
   
3. Do research about the topics and take notes in the document.
4. Find at least three reliable sources (one per topic).
   

Ethos, logos and pathos

weak arguments

Do you ...

... which parts of the debate you're going to do?

... which topics you're going to debate?

... what you need to do to prepare?

TO DO: keep an eye on the news