TOPIC: Metropolis is about to die from gridlock:
viable ways out?
| Participants:
- the Mayor of a city
- the Head of the Department for Transport (Traffic Department)
-the Head of the Department for Architecture and Town planning
-The Chief of the City Police Department
- Representatives of the Non-Professional Drives’ Union
| The Chairperson
- runs the discussion
- reports to the class on the discussion (or sums up the opinions and ideas expressed)
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!!! Strategy Point – exchanging views
- You are expected to exchange your own views on the topic, i.e. to express and justify your own views, not simply repeat information prepared.
- Remember to use the rule of turn-taking:
- no two speakers should be speaking at once or for any sustained period of time
- long silences are to be avoided
- listen when other speakers are speaking
- recognizing the appropriate moment to get a turn
- signaling the fact that you want to speak
- holding the floor while you have your turn
- recognizing when other speakers are signaling their wish to speak
- yielding the turn
- signaling the fact that you are listening
- Think critically while being exposed to other viewpoints.
- You will need Useful Language to gain the floor and switch the topic, to express all shades of opinion: agreement, disagreement; to give explanations, to make suggestions, to ask and answer questions, sometimes "awkward" ones, to report ideas. You will have to interrupt and to be interrupted.
Expressing critical evaluation -
I think you are right about...
You are quite right when you say... / I'm not sure I accept your point about...
I'm not sure I'm convinced by your argument that...
I don't agree with you about... / I can't accept your idea that...
I’m afraid you don't produce any evidence for your claim that..
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