🔎 Horizon: Research for Debate
Research week before the crew’s first formal debate. Learners train the fact/opinion filter, learn to report evidence with “According to…” and calibrated reporting verbs (shows, suggests, claims), and build one-claim evidence cards with a reliability check: recent, relevant, reliable, not exaggerated. In the story, Sam falls for a beautifully written opinion, Marco discovers that statistics have birthdays, and Aylin’s properly cited quote becomes the class favourite.
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Lesson Plan
- Where does your news come from?
- Opinion vs statistic — spot the difference
- Confident voice or good number?
Key Vocabulary
Grammar Points
- Citing evidence with According to + source: According to a 2025 university survey, teenagers check their phones 96 times a day
- Reporting-verb strength: shows/proves = strong and direct; suggests/indicates = cautious; claims/argues = reported with polite distance
- Fact vs opinion language: facts are verifiable (dates, numbers); opinions carry judgement markers such as best, should, clearly, everyone knows
- Quoting exactly: a quote reproduces the speaker’s words word for word, inside quotation marks, with the source named
Prerequisites
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