Debate vocabulary
This is the speech where the debater makes arguments.
What is the constructive?
This is the time student take a break between classes at school.
What is recess?
According to our class, there are this many parts of an argument.
What is 4?
This is the exact wording of our topic.
What is "Videos are better than books for learning"?
This is the place your family cook the food.
This is the part of the debate where questions are asked by one side and answered by the other.
What is cross-examination?
These are the things that you write with or write on when you do some school work
What is the stationery?
According to our class, these are the 4 parts of an argument.
What is claim, warrant, support, and impact?
This side has to defend that books are better.
What is CON?
This is something you cover yourself when you sleep.
What is quilt?
This is the speech where the debater explains why s/he wins the round.
What is the final focus?
It's something that you do in school lab to help you to discover or prove something in science classes.
What is experiment?
This part of the argument provides the reason for the claim. It sometimes starts with the word "because".
What is the warrant?
This side has to defend that videos are better than books for learning.
What is PRO?
This is a sliding container in your table that helps you hold your small things.
What is a drawer?
Speech times are two minutes. The cross-examination period last this long
What is 1 minute?
Something that the students write to show their thoughts in some research or projects.
What is the essay?
In our topic about videos and books, this is the impact for most of our arguments.
What is Learning?
This speech has to summarize how books are better than videos for learning and why this side win the debate.
What is the CON final focus?
These are things that are used to add flavor to your food.
What are ingredients?
Our debate lasts this long.
What is 16 minutes?
Systematic study into a topic through reading more books, or reading online, etc., in order to discover or know more about it.
In our debates, we can't use research or expert testimony. However, this is the type of support we are able to use.
What is an example?
This is the speech where the debater answers the arguments made by the CON constructive speech.
What is the PRO rebuttal?
What is stitch?