What did you like about the debate unit? Dislike? Learn?

Just like what I have written down in my first reflection of this debate unit, I really like debates. Since debate is a type of discussion and communication, we can exchange our ideas, opinions, perspectives, etc. with each other. During the debate, we can actually learn many new knowledge from others who against with. It’s also a chance to improve my oral English and public speaking skills. That’s why and what I like debate.

As we all know that every debate has its winner and loser, no one can deny that. And that’s the part, which I highly dislike. I really don’t want to be the one who lose the battle because I think that I have the ability to convince people and I believe myself. But I lost 2 debates during the entire competition. That sometimes makes me mad.

Also from losing debates, I learnt how to control myself when I was mad about this.

During the preparation, I received plenty of totally new information. For instance, I knew what are communism and democracy when I was debating and searching information about them. Information can expand our horizon. That’s actually very good for us.

Moreover, I learnt how to search appropriate statistics and data from appropriate websites. And those statistics can strongly backup one’s side. However, it can easily become rival’s tool if the statistics are incorrect.

In brief, I think debate is more interesting than speech unit!




What are you looking forward to in the acting unit?

As I just had my first class of acting unit, I really like acting unit because translated Gibberish is really funny!! Sometimes people play tricks on others with that and that’s sort of annoying people though.

I remember another game called ‘ Honey I love you’ and that’s also very interesting. I really hope that we can have more games like those during the acting unit. Also, I guess we may have little drama in this unit and I hope I can do well with that.

Mr. Manno told us that acting could help us improve our public speaking skills since we need to be devil advocacy sometimes in a debate, and good acting skills can help us with that.

I hope that after this unit, my public speaking skills can become better and I can control myself better during a speech or a debate.

As a result, I guess that acting unit will full of fun!




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