School english debating club
extracurricular
Debating is not everyone's cup of tea, and not everyone considers debating "cool", but even 9th year are very quick at learning to employ procedures. Students usually want fun debates, e.g "This House believes that the only good dog is a cooked dog", rather than "...that the Kyoto Summit went too far."
As the fun element dominates in the middle school, debaters might like to do a role play, taking over a personality with whom to identify (e.g. when debating "...cooked dog", one speaker might be a cook, another an elderly lady with a pet lap-dog.); even better, they'll want to dress up for their parts. Only a minority of students will want to join in, but with enthusiasm and dedication.
As it's a blood sport, it's good to try inter-school debates and, failing that, inter-class, or inter-year. There's still only a tiny handful of schools in Germany doing it outside the classroom, mostly in North-Württemberg, and yet we've competed in the WSDC - in Cardiff 1995, Australia, Bermuda, Israel, London, Pittsburgh, Johannesburg, Singapore, and Lima in 2003 . We'll be there at Stuttgart in 2004, and Calgary in 2005.
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