Great Debates for ESL/EFL: 39 Important Debating Topics for English Learners

Get students talking with these 39 important debating topics that consist of an icebreaker, the debate question, 3 common positions, vocabulary, and 10 discussion questions. It's the ultimate book for intermediate-advanced speaking or conversation classes with teenagers or adults.

The best part? It's a no-prep solution! Seriously. It's designed so that you can just grab it and go so stop wasting too much time doing lesson planning.

There are 39 important debate topics so you can make it through an entire semester in style. Talk about things like social media, immigration, plastic surgery, vaccines, smoking, abortion, illegal drugs, and more.

Check out the book if you want to...

• Have some interesting discussions and debates about a variety of topics
• Save time when planning lessons
• Help students improve their English conversational skills in a big way
• Talk about interesting things with students
• Introduce debate to English learners in an informal kind of way
• Have something you can print off and take to class at the last minute
• See happy, smiling students in your classes

Author and CELTA/DELTA certified teacher Jackie Bolen is sharing her great ideas with ESL teachers around the world. She has 20 years of experience teaching conversational English. These are the lesson plans that she uses in her own classes if she wants to get her students talking and sharing their ideas.