Language Skills III (Debating), Homework for Next Session (May 12th or Week 5)

In the next two weeks, please:
1. Find a political debate on English on YouTube or a news website (can be any Anglophone context you'd like). Follow the line of argumentation and take notes on the effective and high-quality language that was used (hopefully there is some :) ). Bring these notes with you to our class on May 12th.

2. Review chapters 2, 4 and 7 in the red book and add those from chapter 3 to your repertoire.

3. Make a list of 5 basic adjectives that show up frequency in debating contexts (e.g. important, big, offensive). Using a thesaurus come up with a list of more sophisticated and/or precise alternatives (try to come up with at last 5 alternatives for each word). Bring these lists with you to class.
(Many thanks to I.Z. in my Do 16-18 for making the following correction one of the synonyms for "hateful" or "offensive": corrosive (with two r's :) .)