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.

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Exploring debates and speeches

Speech Writing
EnglishGCSEcouk

Speech Writing

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AQA English Language Paper 2 Question 5 lesson that uses a famous Winston Churchill speech and the contextual information around Dunkirk to help students first analyse his speech and then adapt and adopt his use of language techniques within their own speeches. A fully differentiated lesson to prepa...
Speech Writing
Kieran S

Speech Writing

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A lesson building, exploring, crafting, and evaluating speeches on the theme of 'injustice'.
KS3 Speech Writing: The Plastics Debate
shd132

KS3 Speech Writing: The Plastics Debate

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An extended lesson that follows on from this introduction to speech writing for KS3: https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/an-introduction-to-speech-writing-for-ks3-12049010 This lesson can stand alone but assumes some pre-teaching of AFOREST. * A starter tasks invites learners to examine a rang...

Encouraging debates and speeches

KS4 SEN - English - Speaking - Debates - For & Against - Templates
PHedworth

KS4 SEN - English - Speaking - Debates - For & Against - Templates

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Writing templates created to prompt thought and discussion around 'For & Against' sides to a debate. Areas to include research of the topic of debate and provide supporting evidence. Used with KS4 SEN English Group preparing for Speaking & Listening exams. Suggest to use as a support tool...
The Great Debate - Starter, tutor time and more!
harle

The Great Debate - Starter, tutor time and more!

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The Great Debate is a selection of 160 debate questions on 32 easy to print out cards, great for starters, tutor time or full scale debates. Students choose one of 5 debate questions from their card to discuss with their neighbor, group or as part of an individual activity. Additionally students c...
Debate (Tutor time or lesson)
Alisha Macleod

Debate (Tutor time or lesson)

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A structured/ guided debate template (for fun ) can be done in tutor time or across a lesson. **Options included in the slides:** "Students may choose one of the following to debate, or one of their one choosing: Western museums should repatriate cultural artifacts. Unhealthy lifestyles ...
Persuasive Speech
Smudge78

Persuasive Speech

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Document to structure speech ideas. Students come up with the main idea and then are able to develop with relevant sub-points.

Supporting debates and speeches

DEBATING SKILLS HANDOUTS
JOHN DSOUZA

DEBATING SKILLS HANDOUTS

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A compact review of debating skills for quick referencing. This resource includes: * Vocabulary Overview * Debate Format for a Classroom * How to Conduct a Debate * Assessment Rubrics Here are some possible uses for these in your classroom: * To challenge early finishers * For effective tutoring...
Literacy: A Writing Frame to Discuss / Debate
Roy Huggins

Literacy: A Writing Frame to Discuss / Debate

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This literacy resource has been designed to help students to either discuss or debate in either a speech or a piece of writing. The cards can either be printed off as a worksheet or cut out to be used as set of literacy cards in the classroom. Please note that they are designed to be used in a Briti...
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