April 25

Step 1: Once you are put into groups, begin to formulate your arguments. You will be arguing that either:

• businesses should be allowed to have their signs only in the language of their choice
• businesses should not be allowed to have their signs only in the language of their choice.

The video below is a comedy sketch showing a bad debate but you should be able to get some ideas and have a laugh or two.

Step 2: Once your main arguments are finalized, you will need to prepare your counter arguments (rebuttal).  This means, you need to have a response ready to back up your argument and disprove the other side’s argument.  See below for some tips:

April 24

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Collect evidence to support both arguments for and against the issue: “Should business signs be permitted to be in a non-official language of the country they are in?” (in this case, should business signs be allowed to only be Chinese where English and French are Canada’s official languages)