Debate preparation template

First speaker guide

Topic Do mobile apps improve people’s quality of life?

Speakers’ names Ricardo Montes López

Speaker’s position Affirmative

Greeting and Introduction
Good evening president, opposition and audience.

We are the apprentices Ricardo Montes López and Diego Silva

The topic for today's debate is that Do mobile apps improve people's quality of life?

Outline your team's case:

a) Your points: Mobile applications and people's health
I will be speaking about...

● Applications that help us improve our health, with physical conditioning exercises.

● It is vitally important that in an increasingly sedentary world, we use applications

to improve our health, with different activities that these tools provide us.

● Avoid diseases such as obesity and hypertension, with a healthy diet that we find
in different applications
b) Second speaker's points: it improves life in terms of time and agility in making things
easier, additionally we can perform several tasks at the same time such as working from
the web and performing and daily routine tasks.
Our second speaker will be talking about....

● Stimulates sedentary lifestyle

● Digital crime

● Fake news

Your First Point

State your argument:
My first point is the applications that help us improve our health, with physical
conditioning exercises. The apps promise not only an exercise plan, but also a food and
nutrition guide, as well as specialized workouts to manage stress levels and manage sleep
problems.
What's the information that supports your argument?
Information provided by the newspaper La Republica.

Give examples, facts, figures, etc.:

where they tell us that at the beginning of the year, the use of these applications
increases due to the end of the year exes.

Your Second Point

State your argument:
My second point is It is vitally important that in an increasingly sedentary world, we use
applications to improve our health, with different activities that these tools provide us.

What's the information that supports your argument?

There are applications to perform different exercises, such as walking, cycling, jogging, in
which the performance of the activity carried out is evaluated day by day.

Give examples, facts, figures, etc.:

Your Third Point

State your argument: Avoid
diseases such as obesity and hypertension, with a healthy diet
that we find in different applications

My third point is Avoid diseases such as obesity and hypertension, with a healthy diet

that we find in different applications.

the applications of the current market, allows us to see that they are increasingly used,

informs us about diets, according to body mass index, exercise and care to take into
 account.

What's the information that supports your argument?

information provided by the ministry of health

Give examples, facts, figures, etc.:

Closing statement
Chairperson, opposition and members of the audience, in conclusion Its determining
factor is to make good use of mobile applications provided by the web to take care of our
health, make good use of tools and have a prudent use of leisure.

Second speaker guide

Speaker’s position (Negative)

Expressing disagreement with first speaker’s arguments

I disagree on …. because ….

Why do you disagree with first speaker’s points?

Briefly State the Points You Will Make

Our second speaker will be talking about....

● Stimulates sedentary lifestyle

● Digital crime

● Fake news
Your First Point
State your argument:
My first point is... Stimulates a sedentary lifestyle.

What's is the information that supports your argument?

We realize that most applications are made in a desktop position for the user, giving way
to a sedentary lifestyle from which different diseases arise
Give examples, facts, figures, etc.:

It is usually that while eating, they use technologicaldevices, so the brain does
not concentrate on the digestive process and does not generate the feeling of
satiety, so the chances of suffering from overweight or other diseases related to
sedentary lifestyles are increased

Your Second Point

State your argument:
My second point is... Digital crime

What's the information that supports your argument?

Criminals exploit different suspicious applications where they take advantage of to steal
information, mostly attacking the assets of different people, reducing the quality of life

Give examples, facts, figures, etc.:

The most common crimes are fraud, phishing and extortion

Your Third Point

State your argument:
My third point is... false news has been used every day for different purposes, of which
they have reduced the credibility of some media and diminishing the quality of life

What's the information that supports your argument?

false news has been used every day for different purposes, of which they have reduced
the credibility of some media and diminishing the quality of life
Closing statement
Chairman, opposition and members of the audience, in conclusion...
In conclusion, we have realized that mobile applications have served us a lot for our
lives, for our physical and mental well-being, but it has also brought us inconveniences
from which we can be affected physically and mentally.