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Chairperson Text Guide
Chairperson Text Guide
Welcome to the ______________________ round of the English Debate Competition IKIP PGRI Madiun.
The motion for this debate is ______________________________________________________________.
I, _________________________ will be the chairperson and ___________________will be the timekeeper.
The Affirmative team is ______________________________________________________________ with
_______________________________________________________________ as the first speaker,
________________________________________________________________as the second speaker,
_______________________________________________________________as the third speaker.
The reply speech will be delivered by _________________________________________________________
During the debate, please silence your pager, mobile phone or any device that may produce disturbing sounds.
During the course of each speech, the audience is not allowed to get out of the room or to talk.
For substantive speeches, the timekeeper will knock once at the fourth minute and twice at the fifth minute. If after
five minutes and twenty seconds the speaker has not stopped speaking, the timekeeper will knock continuously and
any further continuance of the speech will be penalized.
For reply speeches, the timekeeper will knock once at the second minute and twice at the third minute. If after
three minutes and twenty seconds the reply speaker has not stopped speaking, the timekeeper will knock
continuously and any further continuance of the reply speech will be penalized.
The timekeeper will announce each speaker’s duration of speech after the speaker has finished the speech.
To open the debate, I would like to call the first speaker of the Affirmative team, _________________
The first speaker of the Affirmative team spent __________________minutes and ____________ seconds.
To begin the case of the Negative, I call upon the first speaker of the Negative team, ____________
The first speaker of the Negative team spent __________________ minutes and ______________ seconds.