CALLANG NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL
District 4, San Manuel, Isabela
Lesson plan in English 10 in Charles and Galilei
I. Objectives:
At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
a. define debate;
b. identify the structure of debate;
c. identify the rules of debate;
d. perform a debate with a topic “Drug War Killings.”
II. Subject Matter: Topic: Argumentative Essay
a. References: [Link]
b. Materials: Visual aid (laptop)
III. Method
Teacher’s Activity Student’s Activity
A. Preliminary Activities
i. Greeting
Good morning class! : Good morning ma’am.
ii. Prayer
May I request Jesus to lead us a prayer. : (The student will lead the player)
Our Father who art in heaven…
iii. Checking of Attendance
Is everybody present today? : Yes, ma’am.
Very good.
iv. Review
Who can tell me the last discussion we had? : Last meeting, we discussed about argumentative essay,
ma’am.
Very good.
B. Motivation
To start the lesson, let’s have an activity first.
Direction. Watch a short video clip and answer the
following question.
[Link]
Question:
1. What did you observe in the video presented?
: Based from the video presented, I observed that, there are
two person who argues about certain issue which is “Should
Great answer! schools require students to wear uniforms?
2. How did they deliver their arguments?
: Ma’am, they have an equal time to render their claims and
Nice answer! opinion as well as their evidences.
3. If so, what do you think is our lesson today?
Very good! : I think our lesson for today is all about debate, ma’am.
C. Presentation and Discussion
To begin with our lesson, please read first the learning
objectives.
: At the end of the lesson, the students should be able to:
a. define debate;
b. identify the structure of debate;
c. identify the rules of debate;
d. perform a debate with a topic “Drug War Killings.”
Thank you so much! Be guided by our learning
objectives because it will give you direction for a total
understanding on our lesson. Am I making myself clear? : Yes, ma’am.
What is debate? Kindly read the definition class.
: Debate is a method of interactive and representational
argument.
-Debate is a contest where two teams present their
arguments intent on persuading one another.
Thank you! Therefore, debate is a way to communicate
our stand or claim to a certain issue. Both speakers of
different perspective will render their points in a more
formal way and settings. Understood?
: Yes, ma’am.
Okay, I think you are now enlightened on what is
debate. Now, we are going to discuss the structure of
debate.
(The teacher will present a picture)
Question: What can you see in the picture?
Very good answer! : The picture shows the structure of a debate.
Yes, the picture shows how a debate should be
assemble. As you can see there, there are two groups of
who will deliver their arguments which is the affirmative
and negative group. The chairman/timekeeper is
responsible for keeping the time followed as the speaker
will render their points. Moreover, the adjudicator there
is the judge who will evaluate the claim of each group.
Therefore, the chairperson will decide which group has a
more valid, acceptable and credible information,
evidence and claims. Audience role is to ask speakers a
challenging questions and making points of their own.
Did you get it?
Is there any question so far?
After understanding the structure of debate, let’s move : Yes, ma’am.
on to its rules.
: None, ma’am.
Rules of Debate
A debate has two teams: an Affirmative and a
negative.
Each side consists of three speakers.
The first affirmative begins the debate, and is
then followed by the first negative speaker.
This pattern is maintained for the second and
third speakers of each team.
Each speaker speaks for a set of time, with a
warning bell, to give them a little time to sum up
and finish, then a final bell.
There will be a chair or moderator who presides
over the discussion.
These are the rules that need to follow when you are
going to perform debate. Please take note everything
important.
Any question?
D. Application
Activity: “Debate”
Instruction. Divide your class into two. One is
affirmative and the other group will be the negative
(draw lots). This will be perform on Friday. Use the : None, ma’am.
rubric below.
For the remaining time, use your time to plan for your
claims and the evidences that you are going to show.
Understood class?
: Yes, ma’am.
DEBATE GRADING RUBRIC
On the right side of the rubric, please write the number representing what you think was the performance
level of the debate team in question for each criterion below. Then calculate the average for each team.
Levels of Performance for AFFIRMATIVE Team
Criteria 4 3 2 1 Grade:
1. Organization & Completely Mostly clear and Clear in some parts Unclear and
Clarity: clear and orderly in all parts but not overall disorganized
orderly throughout
Main arguments and presentation
responses are outlined in
a clear and orderly way.
2. Use of Argument: Very strong and Many good Some decent Few or no real
persuasive arguments given, arguments, but some arguments given, or
Reasons are given to arguments given with only minor significant problems all arguments given
support the resolution throughout problems had significant
problems
3. Use of cross- Excellent cross- Good cross-exam Decent cross-exam Poor cross-exam or
examination and exam and and rebuttals, with and/or rebuttals, but rebuttals, failure to
rebuttal: defense against only minor slip-ups with some significant point out problems
Negative team’s problems in Negative team’s
Identification of objections position or failure
weakness in Negative to defend itself
team’s arguments and against attack.
ability to defend itself
against attack.
4. Presentation Style: All style Most style features Few style features Very few style
features were were used were used features were used,
Tone of voice, clarity of used convincingly convincingly none of them
expression, precision of convincingly convincingly
arguments all contribute
to keeping audience’s
attention and persuading
them of the team’s case.
TOTAL
SCORE:
_____
AVERAGE FOR AFFIRMATIVE TEAM: ______________________
Levels of Performance for NEGATIVE Team
Criteria 4 3 2 1 Grade:
1. Organization & Completely Mostly clear and Clear in some Unclear and
Clarity: clear and orderly in all parts but not disorganized throughout
orderly parts overall
Main arguments and presentation
responses are outlined in a
clear and orderly way.
2. Use of Argument: Very strong and Many good Some decent Few or no real
persuasive arguments arguments, but arguments given, or all
Reasons are given against arguments given given, with only some significant arguments given had
the resolution throughout minor problems problems significant problems
3. Use of cross- Excellent cross- Good cross- Decent cross- Poor cross-exam or
examination and exam and exam and exam and/or rebuttal, failure to point
rebuttal: defense against rebuttal, with rebuttal, but out problems in
Affirmative only minor slip- with some Affirmative team’s
Identification of weakness team’s ups significant position or failure to
in Affirmative team’s objections problems defend itself against
arguments and ability to attack.
defend itself against attack.
4. Presentation Style: All style Most style Few style Very few style features
features were features were features were were used, none of them
Tone of voice, clarity of used used used convincingly
expression, precision of convincingly convincingly convincingly
arguments all contribute to
keeping audience’s
attention and persuading
them of the team’s case.
TOTAL
SCORE:
_______
AVERAGE FOR NEGATIVE TEAM: _________________
Prepared by: Approved by:
MS. CECILLE HYACINTH N. YRA MS. ZENAIDA F. CONCEPCION
Pre-service Teacher Cooperating Teacher
