On the afternoon of 27th April, at the reading room, Anqing Foreign Language School’s Primary Department convened 1st Elites’ Debate Competition, which is an essential part of this year’s reading month activities. Student representatives from Grade 5 & 6 comprise the proposition and opposition team. They carried out intense contest centered on the issue ‘In Terms of Broadening the Mind& Enriching the Soul, Whether Reading Thousands of Volumes of Books Prevails Traveling Ten Thousand Miles’.
To be exact, this debate competition consists of six sessions, which are self-introduction, making a standpoint, refutation, query, free debate, interaction on the spot as well as summing-up statement. More noticeably, contestants from both sides gave tit for tat and debated with fervor& assurance. The highlight was in the free debate course, during which candidates adequately manifested their personal charisma in an enthusiastic atmosphere, winning continuous applause.
In conclusion, this grand event not only intensified contestants’ debate capability, boosted their language organizing ability& strain capacity, but also stimulated students’ interest in reading so that they would enhance their reading comprehension.