Presentation form: formal debate or dialogue: understand the requirement

1. Specification focus. b) a formal debate or dialogue, such as an interview where the student is able to prepare extended responses to questions or prompts, which have been shared in advance, followed by questions from the audience.
2. What success looks like. A successful response makes purposeful choices, supports them with relevant evidence or crafted detail, and explains how those choices meet the task.

Presentation form: formal debate or dialogue: practical method

1. Set a clear purpose. Choose a manageable focus and decide what the audience should understand, feel or consider by the end.
2. Organise for listeners. Use a purposeful opening, signposted main points and a concise conclusion. Make relationships between ideas explicit.
3. Control spoken delivery. Use pace, pause, emphasis and Standard English appropriately. Notes should support eye contact rather than become a script.
4. Handle interaction. Listen fully, answer questions directly and elaborate with evidence or examples. Clarify a question when necessary.

Presentation form: formal debate or dialogue: apply and improve

1. Worked application. If a listener questions the evidence, acknowledge the concern, answer it with a relevant example and explain how it affects the original claim. This shows listening as well as prepared speaking.
2. Improve through diagnosis. Name the precise weakness, such as unsupported inference, thin analysis, weak organisation or inaccurate expression, then revise that feature and compare the result.