Reference for hostess / chairperson

Greetings: Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the first final of the first 15SACE debate contest. I am ______, the chairperson of today’s competition. First, let’s have a warm round applause to our distinguished guests. Please allow me to introduce: Mr. Zhang Wen lei, Mr. Xiong Chuankai and our judges Adamo, Alan, Ishan, Maggie, Stella and Walter. Thank you for sparing time to support our debate contest.

Then please welcome the captains from the both sides to introduce their members. Please, a big round applause for contestants from both sides. Congratulations for winning the preliminary and coming to the finals. Today, they are going to debate on ______

Debate process: And before the debate begins, the whole debate process has to be made clear. Compared to the preliminary, free debate is added to increase the intensity and excitement. Thus, the debate process is divided into two sections------rebutment and free debate.

During the first section------rebutment, each debater has 3 minutes to speak and the timekeeper times the speakers and alerts them when they have only 60 and 30 seconds when time is up.

As for the speakers, each one has a particular role to fill.

The first speaker of the Affirmative begins the debate by defining the topic and making his/her own points while the first negative defines the topic by agreeing or disagreeing with the Affirmative definition. Then he/she rebuts the affirmative and makes his/her own points. Then the second Affirmative and Negative speakers rebut points from the previous speakers and make their own statements. As for the third Affirmative, he/she rebuts the opponents, makes his/her own points and summarizes his/her team’s case. Finally the third Negative rebuts the affirmative points, summarizes his/her team’s case but cannot introduce any new ideas.

The second section------free debate lasts for 8 minutes, with 4 minutes for each side.

The affirmative side will begin the free debate, and then any member of the Negative can rebut and state his/her opinions immediately after the affirmative finishes. The two sides take turns to speak and there are no restrictions on the sequence, frequency or time for each debater in one team.

There will be 30 seconds reminder and time keeper will ring the bell as a final warning. If one team uses up all its time while the other hasn’t, the team with time left can choose to either continue speaking or give up the remainder.

One side will be punished by lowering down their scores if they avoid answering important questions on purpose. Also, if one side keeps asking questions which the opposite side has already responded clearly, the score will be brought down.

As everyone is ready now, here starts the debate.

Now please welcome the first speaker from the affirmative side.

Examples: The ______ speaker of the ______ side, please

Next / Last speaker from the ______ side, please make your statement. ......

Thanks for all the debaters’ excellent performance.

Let’s move to the free debate session.

The members of the Affirmative side, please, state your opinions.

……

Time is up. Thank you.

Ending: What an intense competition! Both sides have shown their brilliant debating skills. I'm sure we're all deeply impressed by these intelligent debaters. Thanks for your excellent performance and let's give them another big round of applause. Well done!

Now it's time for the judges to evaluate today’s performances and give a final result. While waiting, I am going to ask you some questions. Just raise your hand and I’some of you.

Which team do you support?

Which one of the points do you like best? My personal favourite is ______.

Do you have any new ideas that aren’t mentioned through the debate? Would you like to share with us? It seems our debaters have done a lot of research and covered all the points. (When no one raises their hands.)

Well, here we go. The affirmative side achieves a total of ______, and the negative side achieves a total of ______. So, today’s winner is the ______ side, from Group ______. Congratulations! And also applause to the ______ side, from Group ______. Hope to see your more brilliant performance in the next round.

Ladies and gentlemen, the first final of the first 15SACE debate contest ends now and the second final between Group ______ and Group ______ will be on Wednesday, September 24th. See you next time.

第二篇：英文辩论赛

1.总结陈词：The world in which we live is constantly evolving. We are demanding more and more from our citizens than ever before and in order to live up to the demands of the world we need a  higher education upon which to base our skills and knowledge.
The first reason that you should consider a university degree is the fact that it will substantially{ s?b?stæn??li] increase your earning potential. If nothing else appeals to you, this is typically the one reason that most people return to school after years in the work place.
1.money  you should be aware that you need to choose your major wisely if money is your sole motivation. Not all careers pay equally when compare to the education required to enter them.
2.Insurance. This may seem like a strange term to use when discussing why you should get a university education but this is perhaps the best insurance you can find as far as employability goes. Having a university degree gives you a competitive edge over those who do not. In many cases you will find that education is beginning to trump：[tr?mp] experience as employers are seeking workers with more rounded skills rather than those with very specific skills.

 3.Employability. Believe it or not, those with degrees are much more employable than those that do not have them. There was a time when the trend was to employ those who had experience over those who had education. That trend is rapidly evaporating as companies want employees that can fill multiple roles more and more often.
4.Confidence. There is nothing quite like believing in yourself. Getting a four-year education is one way to build confidence not only on a personal level but also on a professional level. Whether or not you realize it, this is often the best reason for pursuing a university degree. This reason, as a matter of fact, will actually affect all of the other things I mentioned above. Therer is no doubt that education background plays an important role in our daily life.

1.反驳工作经验在求职中很重要

People‘s Working experience needs education to pave the way for it. Without a diploma, you have no chance to work, so there would be no work experience.More and more companies demand for at least a college diploma.In addition, if you do not have  higher education，there will also be something you do not understand。

2.大学学不到什么 不如早点工作。---学不到是自己的事。

Students can not only learn knowledge,but also good learning ability, communication skills, and ability to survive .No matter how their future work career change, they can rapidly adapt to their working environment. we learn these seemingly "useless" to learn to think/Observe / consider / analyze the problem. it is the biggest difference. For each student and the parents should first ask themselves  whether they only want a degree, the opportunity to become famous overnight, or to enter a four-year institutions of higher education learning and edified [?edifi?kei??n]. so it is your attitude towards education influence the education result but not college education itself. So no one can take college education for granted.

3. 大学生太普遍了 现在没什么竞争优势。

（1）you said..ordinary,but right here statistics show that Bachelor's degree covers only 3% of the popularity,so I don”t  think diploma is not important.

(2) According to statistics, in china the number of applicants   who attend college entrance exam is about 10.1 million this year, the number of planned enrollment is 5.67 million, which reachs a new record. For most young people, though the diploma can’t change their fate, but if you do not go to college, the opportunity to change the fate is even slimmer. We are in the age of the knowledge economy, we all know that though knowledge can’t change all our fate， but it would still have universal significance.

4.教育体制有问题，不公正

As for educational equity, justice,and something about education system. it is government that should pay attention to solve. the problem. and government attention in turn proves

that college education has more value .

5.工作可以优先回报社会，兼职的问题

Go to society early so that we can contribute to the society ,but if we finish college education we will have more capable to achieve the best .

"Work experience" is hard to match with the job in order to meet the needs of society, many of the students had to use study time or part-time to participate in social practice, in order to accumulate experience. They feel that even a short work experience, will also add your resume and exciting future stroke. Facts have proved that these part-time tutor or commodity promotion through the accumulation of "work experience", only style and no substance, little consistent with the profession, and it is far from the employer requires of a "practical experience.

6.举例子说比尔盖茨等伟人的成功，及大学生卖猪肉。

(1)比尔future is unpredictable, how do you know that Bill Gates won’t have a brighter future ,if he finished the study in Harvard? Do you know that it is during his junior year in Harvard that Gates left Harvard and devoted his energy to creat in Microsoft? It means that till then he had almost finished the course in college.and himself said that Harvard helped him a lot! He just didn’t have the time and energy to finish the education ,but it

doesn’t mean that education has less value than working experience!  However, minority of people can achieve this without higher education. Not every one can become gates,you know.

 （2）北大猪肉男Zhurou..but he succede! Sell better than those who do not have a college education.

Only when tools handled by right person ,they can achieve maximum results.  If you can't take good adventage of college education, it’s your own business ,but not the college education ‘ fault!

7. others

Simple example: cooking, every can do it more or less. But why some taste bad. Some delicious? Even if he felt learn nothing duiring the four years.when you work, you will feel that who have a college education are more potential than those who haven;t in some areas.  If you want to climb to the top, you have to learn. One’s position is limited by his education

8.学的知识以后用不到

"Why do I need this?" is a common question when students are studying seemingly unrelated-but-required subjects in college. Only later will they realize the importance of well-rounded higher education in the formation of a well-educated individual, and therefore, a well-prepared and valuable employee. Many examples could be cited along these lines. Much of what the college-educated employee has studied has not been directly related to their field of work, but has helped enlarge the individual's horizons, promoting a broader and more enlightened view of life, and most importantly, a greater ability to think critically and make wise decisions using the critical thinking skills obtained in college.