3rd+Speaker

This page is for Third Speakers to upload their speeches and other miscellaneous stuff related to ONLY Third Speakers. (BTW, this also means that other speakers can give their comments too.)

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__Preposition__ Parents have to go to work Essential that a child is prepared for primary school earlier on Get used to the 'school' type of environment (eg. no spoon feeding, no being brought to the toilet, get used to having people around and not thinking one is the only important person) Learn basic morals

__Opposition__ Costly Bond between parents and children go down Children should play and thus, not go to kindergarten Too young to absorb what they are taught so they have no benefit Children can be taught at home Private teacher Unable to handle work/having so many people around

Hi Yadanar. Your rebuttals are not bad. But you have not used the PEEL structure (Point-Explanation-Elaboration/Evidence-Link). With the PEEL structure, your rebuttals would become longer, and if you are only able to use a few, you can still stay with it until it hits 3min. If you have more time, you can also use the "Not True", "Even If" and "Furthermore" for all your rebuttals. For example, your last rebuttal, 'unable to handle workload', you can also use "Not True" in this way:

//"This is not true, as in kindergarten, the children don't get any tough work or academic homework to bring home (Point). They only get homework like drawing and sometimes academic homework like tracing the letters to form their names, for it is within their capabilities as young children (Explanation). The teachers at the kindergarten are specially trained to be able to see whether their pupils have the ability to complete the assignments even before the drawing homework is given out. If they find that their students are unable to cope, they would either not give the homework, or make the homework simpler for the kids, this way, the children would know how to deal with such homework, and when tougher work is given, they can handle it by remembering the time when they did the simple homework (Elaboration). This works similarly to a vaccine. A vaccine contains a weaker form of the disease itself, and when the body gets rid of the simpler form, it would have a natural resistance against it, and when the stronger form arrives, they can use the previous method of defeating the simpler form against the stronger form (Example). Thus in kindergarten, the inability to handle homework would not exist. (Link) "//

I have used the PEEL structure, which is why my 'not true' rebuttal is so long. So you should try and use it too. As I was saying, with both 'Not True' and 'Even If', the time required to say out your rebuttal for only one point can be extended, for not all the rebuttals you think of may be used (as it depends on the opposition's substantives etc.) So you can use my example, and elaborate on your other substantives too. ~Jarret :)

Thanks. Anyways, Nabilah is coming online to discuss our debate speech at 6.30 and so you might want to hang on for a while. How did you get my URL? (You were wiki surfing?)

//Yes, yes I am.// ~quoted from Phineas from //Phineas and Ferb// ~Jarret (haha)

Anyways that wiki is private besides Shannon joining. - Yadanar

Err... Shannon Phuah or wat? And btw, you removed your 'even if' and replaced it with 'not true', right? Actually, you should put both in. You say the not true first, followed by the even if. And if you add in 'furthermore' too, that is called a full and complete rebuttal. ~Jarret

She's my buddy. :)

Oh I see. :) And elaborate your rebuttals using the PEEL structure and if possible, use both not true and even if, for your rebuttals. ~Jarret

...? LOLs ? I think... (Nigel)