DEBATING Pack - Teacher guide, activities, handouts, slideshow
Editable debating pack with a teacher guide, student handouts, and slideshow. Includes moots, activities, and judging criteria to build speaking and critical thinking skills.
Give your students the confidence and structure they need to debate effectively. This classroom-ready debating pack is designed for Grades 8-9 / Years 9–10. It can be used to introduce formal debate for the first time or to refine existing skills. The resource includes everything you need to teach, model, and scaffold argumentation with clarity.
This resource includes:
⭐ A teacher guide in A4 booklet format (editable).
⭐ Student handouts are included in the guide.
⭐ A class slideshow that covers the basics of debating and links directly to the activities.
We cover:
❤️ Introduction, quick quiz, and common pitfalls
❤️ History and types of debate
❤️ Conventions - definitions, team lines, arguments vs assertions, rebuttal basics
❤️ Speaker roles and responsibilities, plus a model mini-debate script
❤️ Persuasive techniques - ethos, pathos, logos; persuasive and rhetorical devices; fallacies; style and delivery
❤️ Rebuttal and counter-arguments
❤️ Structure of a debate - order of speeches, AREI, reply speeches, timing
❤️ Judging criteria - Matter, Manner, Method
❤️ Classroom activities, practice debates, and putting it all together
❤️ Moots for classroom debates and a sample arguments bank
❤️ Glossary of debating terms
Formats:
🖥️ Microsoft PowerPoint, resized to an A4 page (except that actual class slideshow, of course). This means your resource:
- Is completely editable.
- Will easily upload to your Google Drive if you prefer the Googley suite.
- Is printable 📃
🖥️ A PDF version of each document.
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Also helpful are these related products:
✅ Oral Presentation - 'Show Us How' (Yep, that old chestnut!)
✅ Recording Speeches - Tips for Students
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Sharing/Copying this Resource
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- Please do NOT take it with you to a new school.
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