Should University degrees be free? a C2 debate

 

Shared by Nuria Rodríguez:

One of the activities I am planning to do is conduct a debate in class with C2 level students. The topic could be "University degrees should be free". Considering a class of 15 students, 5 should be in favour, 5 should be against and the other 5 should be assigned roles like: - the timekeeper (somebody in charge of making everybody respect the time limit) - the vocabulary master (somebody who jots down interesting words mentioned in the debate for later revision) - the grammar-mistake scribe (somebody who notes down grammar mistakes for later correction) - the pronunciation-mistake scribe (somebody who copies down pronunciation mistakes) - the filler master (somebody who takes down common fillers used by the speakers in the debate) Each student taking part in the debate should have one minute to speak. The time limit for the whole debate would be 10 minutes.

After this time the students with the specific roles will report back to the class what they have found out about the speakers in the debate.