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ENGLISH FOR ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES

PERFORMANCE TASK #1: CLASSROOM DEBATE


Goal: The students must be able to apply the different principles of formulating effective arguments through a classroom
debate.
Role: You are a student body representative who needs to express your stand about a certain issue through an oral debate.
Audience: The audience will be the subject teacher, classmates/student body and other people in the academe.
Situation: You are tasked to express your opinions, stand and insights about a certain topic through an oral debate.
Product/Performance: A well-reasoned set of arguments exemplified through an oral debate.
Standard: See the rubric below
Criteria 5 points 4 points 3 points 2 points 1 point Score
Verbal and Exhibits confidence, - Exhibits - Appears -Lacks confidence -Demonstrates
Non-verbal energy, and passion confidence and nervous, yet -Maintains little or no
skills in the course of the energy in the somewhat respectful tone preparation
debate course of the confident - Use of -Fails to maintain
X2 - Maintains debate - Maintains preparation respectful tone
respectful tone -Maintains respectful tone materials/notes
- Accesses respectful tone - Use of distracts from
preparation - Uses preparation preparation quality of
materials/notes with materials/notes materials/notes performance
ease effectively does not distract
Evidences - All information - Most information - Most information - Some - Information had
and Rebuttals presented in this presented in this presented in the information some major
debate was clear, debate was clear, debate was clear was accurate, but inaccuracies OR
X3 accurate and accurate and and accurate, but there were some was usually not
thorough. thorough. was not usually minor clear.
- Every major point - Every major point thorough. inaccuracies. - All points were
was well supported was adequately - Every major - Some points not supported
with several supported with point was were supported - Counter-
relevant facts, relevant facts, supported with well, others were arguments
statistics and/or statistics and/or facts, statistics not. were not accurate
examples examples. and/or examples, - Some counter and/or relevant
- All counter- - Most counter- but the relevance arguments were
arguments were arguments of some was weak and
accurate, relevant were accurate, questionable. irrelevant
and strong relevant, and strong - Most counter-
arguments were
accurate and
relevant, but
several were
weak.
Organization - All arguments - Most arguments -Organized and -Somewhat -Arguments are
were clearly tied to were clearly tied to generally organized unorganized,
X3 an idea (premise) an idea (premise) complete presentation of incomplete, or
and organized in a and organized in a presentation of arguments and completely lacking
tight, logical fashion tight, logical arguments and evidence in evidence
- Extremely fashion. evidence
thorough, well- - Well-organized
organized and complete
presentation of presentation of
arguments and arguments and
evidence evidence
Understanding The team clearly The team clearly The team seemed The team seemed The team did not
of Topic understood the understood the to to understand the show an adequate
topic in depth and topic in depth and understand the main points of the understanding of
X2 presented their presented their main points of the topic, but didn’t the topic
information information with topic and present with ease
forcefully and ease presented those
convincingly with ease

NAME/STRAND AND SECTION: RATING:


INSTRUCTOR’S NAME AND
DATE:
SIGNATURE:
ADJUDICATOR’S NOTES
Opposing Groups Group # ________ vs. Group # _________
Motion

SUMMARY OF ARGUMENTS
AFFIRMATIVE (PRO) NEGATIVE (CON)
1st Speaker 1st Speaker

2nd Speaker 2nd Speaker

3rd Speaker 3rd Speaker

4th Speaker 4th Speaker

5th Speaker 5th Speaker

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