Participating in a debate was something I always wanted to do.Finally I did. This new experience resulted very helpful and interesting to me and all my classmates. We became real researchers, looking for information on the web and different sources.The first team that debated talked about "professionals teaching in the schools". In my opinion they did a great job. Both, in favor and against team, were well prepared and they used a lot of information about the topic. What I liked was the presentation of images with photographs or graphics and bibliographical sources. Even though I disagree with professional taking teachers place, the team who won was the one in favor of "professional teaching", because they had stronger and feasible arguments. In my opinion the other team was diffidence in terms of what they said at the end of the debate.
The second team, my team, also did a great job. But, as we know there was a confusion with the favor and against topics and both teams talked about voluntary voting. Luckily, some classmates and the professor acted as if they were against "automatic registration" so that way we could continue our debate. I think we did a great search, we had a lot of information and statistics, but what was against us was the fact we never expect having the same position. Personally, I was very nervous. Obviously the team who won was us, in favor of voluntary voting.
I would like to say that this exercise of debating in class is very good to improve our english. Moreover, we had to search in order to enrich and strenght our arguments and counterarguments showing different opinions and points of view.
