AFFIRMATIVE: 1ST SPEAKER
Good morning/afternoon, the judges, the negative team members, and the audience.
Welcome to this debate.
My name is _______________, and I’m the 1st speaker of our Affirmative team, who
will be talking about _____________.
From our team, we have Ms/r _____________ as the 2nd speaker, who will elaborate
on the fact that _____________.
Ms/r ____________ as the 3rd speaker, who will do the rebuttal.
The motion for debate today is: ____________
Now we as today's proposition/opposition strongly believe that this is true/not true, but
before we come to our actual argumentation, let us first define some important terms
in this debate. We believe that what is meant by ____________ is ____________ /
that ____________ are ____________
[When we say ____________ should ____________ we mean that ____________ .]
Here are [TWO] arguments for our proposion/opposition.
The first/... reason why we're prop/opposing this motion is: ____________ (*)
The second/... reason why we're prop/opposing this motion is: ____________ (*)
For all of the above arguments, I hope you can see how important it is to
____________. I rest my case.
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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AFFIRMATIVE: 2nd SPEAKER
Good morning/afternoon, the judges, the negative team members, and the audience.
My name is _______________, and I’m the 2nd speaker of our Affirmative team, who
will elaborate on the fact that _____________.
I will continue our case in a minute, but before that there are some things about the
_____________ speech that need to be addressed.
The 1st speaker from the negative team said that _____________; but in fact
_____________. Another _____________
OK. Let me come to my first argument: [concise label of argument]. By this I mean,
____________
There are many examples for this/for ____________, for instance.
So in this simple example we can clearly see the effect of ____________
The second/... reason why we're prop/opposing this motion is: ____________ (*)
For all of the above arguments, I hope you can see how important it is to
____________. I rest my case.
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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AFFIRMATIVE: 3rd SPEAKER
Good morning/afternoon, the judges, the negative team members, and the audience.
My name is _______________, and I’m the 3rd speaker of our Affirmative team, and I
will add _____________ and/or do the rebuttal.
The first/second prop/opposition speaker has told us _____________; on the contrary
_____________. Also there is no justification that _____________ .
Another misconception from the negative team speaker is that _____________. I’d
like you to know that _____________.
Next to this, I’d like to bring your attention to _____________, and as my first speaker
already told you, _____________
For all of the above arguments, I would like to rest my case.
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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AFFIRMATIVE: REPLY SPEECH
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome for the last time from today's prop/opposition. It is
now my pleasure to summarize this debate, take a look at what both sides have said
and see what the outcome of this debate actually is.
A first/second/... major clash was: _____________;
Today's prop/opposition told us _____________;
We had to find _____________;
We also talked about _____________.
And for all these reasons, I beg you to prop/oppose.
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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