1、Chapter 8 Constructng an Oppositional Case目录目录CONTENT01Warm-up Questions02Roles and Responsibilites of the First Opposition Team03Building the Opposition Case04Opposition Strategies 05ExercisesWarm-up QuestionsAWhat are the roles and responsibilities of the LO?BWhat are the roles and responsibilitie
2、s of the DLO?CWhat is the goal of the First Opposition team?DWhat strategies can the First Opposition team use to move the debate forward?Roles and Responsibilites of the First Opposition TeamRoles and Responsibilities LODLOAdvance the refutationPresent new argumentsChoose arguments and refuteDefend
3、 the argumentsAdd new argumentsEstablish the stanceBuilding the Oppositional CaseLOMake opening remarks;Establish the stance;Construct case and Rebuttal.DLORefute the DPM;Defend the Oppositions case;Present new arguments.Opposition StrategiesMotions of Policy01Motions of Value 02challenge necessity;
4、Aquestion effectiveness;Bidentify extra harm;Ccounter-value;Dpropose a counter-plan.Ecounter-value;Achallenge ways of evaluation.BExercises Identifying Opposition strategiesuRead the following article that argues against raising the retirement age.Then work in pairs.Discuss and identify the articles
5、 opposition strategies.Support your identification with evidence from the article.Building Your Oppositional Case(1)The following table presents the PMs major arguments on the motion“This House would support Affirmative Action for women in legislature,”which is a summary of the PM speech in Chapter
6、7.Go over the opposition strategies discussed in this chapter and work in groups of four.Build your oppositional case against the PM.Discuss your case with the class.Prime MinisterLeader of OppositionDefinition of Affirmative Action for women in legislature:a fixed minimum number of seats in parliam
7、ent in states with democratic electoral systems across the world.Necessity:Qualified women who deserve to be elected are unjustly excluded from the political system by structural and cultural barriers.Effectiveness:Providing women with the opportunity to serve in parliament,which is less likely to h
8、appen if we keep waiting for“natural”change to undo those structural and cultural barriers,will eventually disprove traditional assumption that women are unfit to Government.Building Your Oppositional Case(2)Read the following propositional arguments for the motions“This House would legalize assiste
9、d suicide”and“This House would ban cosmetic surgery.”Choose the opposition strategy or strategies most effective and relevant to the motion and build an opposition case of your own.(3)Choose one of the above motions and compose a speech of about 7 minutes for the Leader of Opposition.Challenging necessity_Questioning effectiveness_Identifying extra harm_Counter-value _Presenting a counter-plan_Motion 1:This House would legalize assisted suicide.Motion 2:This House would ban cosmetic surgery.Cosmetic surgery has many potential dangers._
