Script For Negative Team
Script For Negative Team
Good morning/afternoon, the judges, the affirmative team members, and the audience.
Welcome to this debate.
My name is _______________, and I’m the 1st speaker of our NEGATIVE team, who
will be talking about _____________.
From our team, we have Ms/r _____________ as the 2nd speaker, who will elaborate
on the fact that _____________.
Now we as today's proposition/opposition strongly believe that this is true/not true, but
before we come to our actual argumentation, let us consider if we agree with how the
Affirmative defined ____________.
The first/... reason why we're prop/opposing this motion is: ____________ (*)
The second/... reason why we're prop/opposing this motion is: ____________ (*)
For all of the above arguments, I hope you can see how important it is to __________.
I rest my case.
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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NEGATIVE: 2nd SPEAKER
Good morning/afternoon, the judges, the affirmative team members, and the audience.
My name is _______________, and I’m the 2nd speaker of our NEGATIVE team, who
will elaborate on the fact that _____________.
I will continue our case in a minute, but before that there are some things about the
_____________ speech that need to be addressed.
The 1st speaker from the affirmative team said that _____________; but in fact
_____________. Another _____________
OK. Let me come to my first argument: [concise label of argument]. By this I mean,
____________
The second/... reason why we're prop/opposing this motion is: ____________ (*)
For all of the above arguments, I hope you can see how important it is to __________.
I rest my case.
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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NEGATIVE: 3rd SPEAKER
Good morning/afternoon, the judges, the affirmative team members, and the audience.
My name is _______________, and I’m the 3rd speaker of our NEGATIVE team, and I
will add _____________ and/or do the rebuttal.
Another misconception from the affirmative team speaker is that _____________. I’d
like you to know that _____________.
Next to this, I’d like to bring your attention to _____________, and as my first speaker
already told you, _____________
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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NEGATIVE: REPLY SPEECH
Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome for the last time from today's prop/opposition. It is
now my pleasure to summarize this debate, take a look at what both sides have said
and see what the outcome of this debate actually is.
(*) = a clear opinion/claim + give evidence/examples + explain/reason to make connections from your
evidence/examples back to the opinion/claim
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