Teaching debating to ESL students - teacher training: live example lesson

Want to develop your ESL students' advanced speaking, critical thinking, and even academic writing skills? Debating has SO much potential to support intermediate to advanced ESL learners. Let's work through an example lesson, including top tips on how to: ✅ Encourage students to speak more confidently and share opinions. ✅ Teach advanced vocabulary and grammar through debating. ✅ Link debating to academic reading and writing skills. ✅ Use debating to prepare students for higher level ESL exams, such as IELTS. ✅ Manage one-on-one and group debating classes. ✅ Use Abridge Academy's pre-made debating lessons to save time lesson planning, while still adapting to your students. Links: Get started with Abridge Academy for free: https://abridgeacademy.com Timestamps 0:00 Intro 1:39 About me 3:00 Contents 4:47 Advantages of teaching debating 8:22 Example debating lesson: Should we have selective schools (grammar schools)? 10:47 Warm-up / setting the context 16:37 Reading and analysing different points of view 22:23 Summarising arguments for / against 25:55 Structuring arguments with signposting words 29:05 Writing counter-arguments 30:33 Levelling up - advanced argumentation skills 33:20 Extension questions and wider discussions 35:48 Feedback and evaluation 37:24 Using pre-made debating lesson slides from Abridge Academy 41:08 Teaching groups vs one-on-one debating classes 50:07 Teaching academic writing skills with debating 59:21 Teaching IELTS test preparation through debate 1:06:24 Q&A