Webinar: Teaching debating to ESL students – lesson walkthrough

Want to develop your ESL students’ advanced speaking, critical thinking, and even academic writing skills? Debating has SO much potential to support intermediate to advanced ESL learners.

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In this teacher training webinar, we worked through an example lesson, including top tips on how to:
✅ Encourage students to speak more confidently and share opinions.
✅ Teach advanced vocabulary and grammar through debating.
✅ Link debating to academic reading and writing skills.
✅ Use debating to prepare students for higher level ESL exams, such as IELTS.
✅ Manage one-on-one and group debating classes.
✅ Use Abridge Academy’s pre-made debating lessons to save time lesson planning, while still adapting to your students.

Links and Resources

To help you teach more effective online debating classes, check out these links:
🚀 Get started with the Abridge Academy curriculum for FREE, for pre-made teaching materials (including higher level niches such as debating)
▶️ Previous webinar: Why debating is the best niche for online ESL teachers