Debate & Public Speaking

Debate and Public Speaking is a fundamental skill as it teaches students how to confidently express themselves, rely on logic to speak with coherence and fluency, become informed about current topics in North America and the world, and significantly increase their vocabulary.

What happens to students who take this Debate and Public Speaking class is fascinating to see!

They finish the class with significant improvement in their overall linguistic ability, greater confidence, and a strong sense of awareness and measured pride in their own abilities and hard work.

Debate teaches students how to own their voice, be respectful but firm when they express their opinions, and confidently engage anyone. Students truly come into their own, learn to have faith in themselves and their own voice, and learn to collaborate with others and learn from others’ point of view. 

The students will learn to read, interpret, and analyze the most recent articles out of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair etc.

They will be taught how to:

• 1. Speak in public
• 2. Give a presentation
• 3. Ask questions in a pubic setting
• 4. Respectfully engage someone publicly with whose opinion you may disagree
• 5. Know how to broach any subject matter confidently
• 6. Learn how to debate Parliamentary Style.

So, why debate with Grammaticos?

Debating teaches students how to think quickly ‘on your feet’ and know how to engage anyone on anything. 

It teaches the students how to think critically and logically.

Some of the benefits of enhancing in regular verbal practice are:

• 1. Increased verbal fluency.
• 2. Stronger ability with written language.
• 3. Better cohesion and cogency.
• 4. Increased vocabulary.
• 5. Being able to improvise and think quickly on one’s feet.
• 6. General increase in overall fluency as well as confidence.