Debate UK 2010

The last Friday we did a debate in the classroom two persons represent one of the parties: Labour, conservative and liberal democrat. And the rest of the class were the public. We talk about the pledges of each party and the audience ask questions about it.

This activity help us to improve our English and learn more vocabulary. Also help us to understand how the elections are realized in the United Kingdom.

Debate UK 2010

In this week we learned more about the elections in United Kingdom. The types of parties, the ideology of each one, the different form that the election took place, the different norms and laws that are implemented, etc.

We saw the debate that was realized on April 15, where three candidates expressed their promises to the people of United Kingdom and the public realized different types of questions to the candidates.
There three candidates are:

Gordon Brown- Labour Party

David Cameron- Conservative Party

Nick Clegg- Liberal Democrat Party

Listening

Noise/ distraction
Pronunciation (contractions)
Volume
Vocabulary
Emphasis/ tone (stress)
Speed

Pronunciation

psychiatrist
seye keye an trist

Aluminium
Aluminium

cars
cars

look
watch
see

Reading

Main Idea = Topic subject

• Dates
• Places
• Names
• Sequence words

• italics
• punctuacion
• suffixes -->vocabulary

Internet
_______
tiring
need energy

Book
_______
take notes
light
faster reading

Reading skills

http://esl.about.com/od/englishreadingskills/a/readingskills.htm

Implied detail questions

How to identify the question

It is implied in the passage that...
It can be inferred from the passage that...
It is most likely that...
What probably happened...?

Where to find the answer

The answer to these questions are found in order in the passage

How to answer the question

1. Choose a key word in the question.
2. Scan the passage for the key word(or related idea).
3. Carefully read the sentence that contains the key word.
4. Look for an answer that could be true, according to that sentence.

Listening SKILLS (4-6)

Skills (4-6)

Skill 4 Draw Conclusions about Who, What, Where

Draw a conclusion based on clues given in the conversation.

1. WHO is probably talking?
2. WHAT will s/he probably do next?
3. WHERE does the conversation probably take place?

Skill 5 Listen for WHO and WHAT in passives

1. If the conversation contains a passive statement, the answer to the question is often an active statement.
2. If the conversation contains an active statement, the answer to the question is often a passive statement.

Check who or what is doing the action in these questions.

Skill 6 Listen for WHO and WHAT with multiple nouns

When there are multiples nouns in a sentence, its common for the answers to confuse which noun does what.

Listening Practice:
One incorrect Skill 5: Listen for WHO and WHAT in passives