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Summer Experience:
Oratory, rhetoric and debate

Academic Year 2022-2023

Details

Grades

For 3rd and 4th Secondary school / 1st year of Sixth form
máx. 20 students

Place

Abat Oliba Loreto School (Av.Pearson 22)

Payment

95€

Dates

From 10th to 14th July (from 9am to 1pm)

Description

You need to have your own ideas, and you need to know how to defend them.

This intensive course in Oratory, Rhetoric and Debate is designed for both those students who want to get started and those who want to go deeper. We will work on the form, the substance and we will close with an express debate.

The Programme

Summer Experience: Oratory, rhetoric and debate 1

The Form

Monday 10th and Tuesday 11th

We will work on the substance with Isidre Montserrat.

Isidre Montserrat is a teacher and an actor. He has participated in theatrical and audiovisual productions such as Ximoanzé i Solstici, Coliseum, Dotze homes sense pietat or El árbol sin sombra.

Kinesic communication: body language management

Control of arms and hands

• Leg control

•Control of facial expression and gaze

• Body `posture

• Movement on stage

Paralinguistic communication: voice management

• Intensity or volumne

• Velocity and vocalization

• Emotional Expression

• Breathing management

Summer Experience: Oratory, rhetoric and debate 2
Summer Experience: Oratory, rhetoric and debate 3

The substance

Wednesday 12th and Thursday 13th

We will work the substance with Gonzalo Carretero and Adolfo Lucas.

Gonzalo Carretero has participated in university tournaments and parliamentary simulations. In addition to being a judge in national leagues and providing theoretical training on debate.

Adolfo Lucas is a professor of Law and Political Science at the Abat Oliba CEU University and Founder of the Debate Society of the Abat Oliba CEU University.

Preparation

• Contextualization the debate question.

• Criteria for researching and analyzing information

• Construction of solid arguments

• Recopilation of evidence

• Persuade with speech

Performance

• Importance of active listening

• Basic and advanced refutation techniques

• Ask and answer questions effectively

• improvisation techniques

• Strategies for time management

• Conclusions

Summer Experience: Oratory, rhetoric and debate 4

Debate Express

Friday 14th

We will close the course with an express debate organized by Eduardo Gratacós.

Eduardo Gratacós is Founder of TDXperince, a company specialized in public speaking that advises companies and provides training to secondary school, Sixth form, university students and teachers..

Your future starts now

A solid education, strong values and extensive knowledge.
Enthusiasm, initiative and the ability to choose their own future.