99 Set 11 Skills
| Candidate | Dialogues | Skills used |
| A | Ok, let¡¦s get started. | Starting |
| A | Since we have been chosen to be the representatives of the debating contest, we need to prepare the topic ¡¨All guns should be banned¡¨. As we still don¡¦t know whether we will be asked to argue for or against the motion. Thereby, we need to prepare the arguments for the both sides now. | State the present
situation Introduce the topic |
| A | First, we can talk about the point of ¡¥for¡¦ side. | Point out the focus |
| B | Um¡K¡§All guns should be banned .¡¨ There are some bad guys in the world. They may use the gun for some bad purposes, for example robbery and murder. | Raising a point. Explaining |
| C | Yes, the bad guys may use the gun be the tool of robbery. | Agreeing |
| D | I see your point. Then, we will be endangered . | Agreeing |
| B | In order to ensure safety, thus it should completely ban the use of guns. | Explaining |
| C | Well, the immature children may abuse the gun too. | Raising a new point. |
| D | I second your idea. They may use the gun to hurt the people who they don¡¦t like. | Agreeing. Explaining |
| A | Umm¡K As I remember, a child in American killed her teacher by a gun last year. | Give an example to support the point. |
| C | Well, it shows that the abuse of gun really happened. | ¡@ |
| B | Fine. In fact, we need not to own a gun. | Explaining |
| A | Why? | Clarifying |
| C | we have the police to
protect us, I suspect that they can ensure our own safety. A gun is useless for us. |
Elaboration. |
| A | I see. I think most of us are not appropriate to use a gun. It¡¦s too dangerous for us, if we can¡¦t manipulate it well. | Agreeing Explaining |
| D | Well, can we go to another area? | Transition |
| B | Yes, we can focus on the ¡¥against¡¦ side now. If all guns are banned, the police cannot hold guns to protect the public against the bad people. Then our life will be at risk. | Point out the focus Raising a point |
| C | Yeah. The ones who keep the social order should have the right to hold guns. If all guns are banned, how can they protect the public? | Elaboration |
| A | Yes. Besides, if we hold a gun for the purpose of defending ourselves against some bad guys, it is appropriate for us to hold a gun. | Agreeing Raising another point |
| D | Sure. For example, in the USA, some people may live in some isolated rural area. There are wild animals that may attack them. So, holding a gun can act as a defense. | Explaining |
| A | Um¡Kbut the gun should be issued to the ones who are above 18 and have passed several tests related to the use of guns. So that guns will not be abused. | Explaining |
| B | Yeah. They also need to state the purpose of holding guns. | Elaboration |
| C | Right. We have to make sure that the guns are used appropriately. | Agreeing |
| D | Guns should not be easily bought everywhere too. Although not all the guns are banned, this does not mean that we can easily buy a gun. | Raising a point |
| B | Oh, I see your point. I think the ones who sell guns should also be trained about the use of guns. They also need to get a license before they are allowed to sell guns. | Agreeing Further elaboration |
| A | Um¡Kif all guns are banned, society may be in chaos if some mad guys use a knife or bombs as weapons to kill people. The police cannot control the situation well. But I do not mean that the police can use the guns to kill those mad guys. | Raising another point |
| C | Maybe at least holding guns for the police can act as a defense to treat the mad or bad people. | Elaboration |
| D | Fine. In fact, how can we present our argument? | Go to another area |
| A | I think we can present our argument by giving some routine examples to show that holding gun ourselves is really dangerous. | Raising a point |
| C | Um¡KI think the American case that candidate D have mentioned before is very useful. | Explaining |
| B | Only the American case is not enough. | Elaborating |
| D | You mean that we need to find out more examples to support our argument. | Further Elaborating |
| A | But how can we find more cases to support our argument. | Clarifying |
| B | We can find the cases through the net as there is abundant information for us to search. | Raising a point |
| C | Super! That is a good idea. | Agreeing |
| D | Candidate C, can you do this job? | Clarifying |
| C | Sure | Agreeing |
| A | Candidate C you should find both ¡¥for¡¦ and ¡¥against¡¦ sides, as we still don¡¦t know which side we need to argue. | Explaining |
| B | Well after gathering the information, we should organize them appropriately. | Explaining |
| C | Moreover, I think we should have some newspaper cutting on those shooting cases in the world in these years | Suggestion |
| B | Right. So that we can have enough information to support the ¡¥for¡¦ side. | Explaining |
| D | But we should also gather information for the ¡¥against¡¦ side. | Raising a question |
| A | That¡¦s right. Maybe we can go to some relative departments or organizations for the use of gun so that we can have some new ideas to defend the ¡¥for¡¦ side. | Agreeing ¡@ Suggestion |
| C | That¡¦s a good idea. I nearly forgot we have to balance the both sides. | Agreeing |
| A | Fine. Then we can list all the points on a piece of paper and check if there is any problem. | Suggestion |
| C | Um¡K.how about having a rehearsal? | Raise a point |
| B | Yeah. This may help us to be more familiar with the debate skills and the topic. | Agreeing Elaboration |
| A | So we can present our topic in a systematic way. | Agreeing Elaborating |