English: Debates and speeches

Develop learners’ speaking and listening skills with debates and speeches using these lessons, activities and supporting tools

Tes Resources Team

Microphone in front of a crowd; debates and speeches resources for secondary English students

Speaking and listening lessons, activities and supporting tools for exploring debating and speeches

Improving speaking and listening skills, building self-esteem, learning to write persuasively and deliver arguments convincingly are essential life skills. So, why not get started? We’ve picked out a few of our favourite resources shared by teachers in the Tes community to help you do exactly that.

Exploring debates and speeches

Persuasive Writing Techniques - P in A FOREST
garbo2garbo

Persuasive Writing Techniques - P in A FOREST

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Poster/display/resource sheet. P - personal pronouns in A - alliteration/anecdote F - facts O - opinion R - rhetorical question/ repetition/reiteration E - emotive language, exaggeration/hyperbole S - statistics T - Three (rule of)/ Tone With 'Effect' and example
Functional Skills: Debate worksheet
DavidM89

Functional Skills: Debate worksheet

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This is a free resource to help people remember the key rules when having a debate or carrying out a speaking and listening assessment. The resource helps learners to plan a response linked to the theme in my lesson: Functional Skills Reading, Writing and Speaking and Listening.