GYP’s second Mock Debate was a special outreach event with our partner school- Shanghai No.1 Experimental School Affiliated with SISU. The event was on November 12, Sat (EST). Three students team of the GYP Debate club had a debate with a team from the Debate club in Shanghai school. Both teams had excellent preferments. The motion of this debate was ” “Are grades and marks more important than social skills? ” Caroline from Boston and Emily from Shanghai co-hosted this event.
Following is the feedback from a few students in this event:
Hello, I’m Emily Li from SFLS. I am the president of our school’s debate club and the co-host&organizer of the GYP debate club’s 2nd mock debate on Nov.13. It’s my great honor to work with people from SES Chinese debate club, as well as to compete with the American debaters for the first time. I want to thank the SES debate club debaters for their support and coordination since we just knew each other for a short time. Also, our opponents presented very impressive speeches, and several judges gave us some really useful advice. From my perspective, “Are grades more important than social skills?” reflects the differences between the Chinese and American education systems. GYP debate club aims to make debating a way to unite people from different cultures. Thus, I think this debate highly reflected this value. After the debate, I learned quite a lot and met many interesting people. Moreover, the job of organizing events practiced my leadership skills, sense of responsibility, and so on. It was such a successful debate that most people enjoyed themselves. I hope to help organize more activities between the GYP debate club and other debate clubs in Shanghai.
This is Timmy Wang, the president of the SES Chinese debate club. I like such kinds of activities! Today’s debate is a precious chance to exercise my speaking. Besides, the debaters all leave me with a deep impression. They’re all passionate about talking freely. They’re good at expressing themselves, and communicating with them is a nice experience because what they said about the importance of social skills in the debate was very thought-provoking! I think I have a lot to learn from them. Also, I’d like to say that having such an international debate broadens my horizons and enhances my comprehensive abilities, not only my grades. I hope there can be more debates and we progress together through cooperation and communication.
我是来自上外一实辩论社的社员施博芸Alana。辩论活动很精彩！在mock的过程中学到了很多。和在美国的同学一起辩论是我们的荣幸！很开心有这次机会和在美国的同学们一起交流一起辩论！希望还有下次机会一起辩论！
我是李嘉峻Ector，上实辩论社的成员之一。在本次模辩中我的英语口语得到了提升，收获了许多新的辩论技巧，同时也有了人生中第一次英语辩论的经历。
Here is the introduction of the students Clubs of our partner school in Shanghai:
