• https://forvo.com/ 

  • Useful for checking or reviewing the pronunciation of English words.

• http://www.rhymezone.com 

  • Useful for checking or reviewing the pronunciation of English words.

• http://www.thesaurus.com 

  • An English-language thesaurus, useful for injecting some verbal variety into your speaking.

• http://lingro.com  

  • A dictionary/translation site, which you can use to see the French equivalents of certain English words.

• http://www.wordreference.com   

  • A dictionary/translation site, which you can use to see the French equivalents of certain English words.

• https://context.reverso.net/translation/ 

  • A translation site which factors context into its translations to help account for homonyms, homophones, etc.

To introduce a speech

• “In this speech I’m going to do [X] things. First…”

• “In this debate, the biggest difference between Government and Opposition is that…”

• “On [Gov/Opp] we believe that the most important thing in this debate is…”

•  “We will win this debate by proving to you…”

• “Our burden in this debate is to demonstrate that…”

To emphasize an argument

• “Please note that…”

• “The most important claim on our side of the house is that…”

•  “What we uniquely prove in this debate is that…”

• “We think that [X communities] are the most important people in this debate”

• “The impact of [this argument/X thing happening] is that…”

To rebut an argument

• “[Gov/Opp] tell us that [X]. [X] responses to this. One…”

• “Unfortunately, this argument does not hold for X main reasons. First…”

• “As we’ve already explained…”

•  “What this argument fails to account for is that…”

• “If […] is true, then […] is also true”

• “At best, […] will happen. At worst, […] will happen”

• “When [Gov/Opp] tell you [X], what they neglect to mention is that…”

• “We think this argument misses the point of the debate”

• “It is unclear to us why [X] is true given that…”

• “The problem with this argument is that it is based on the premise that…”

To highlight an argument that your opponent has not responded to

• “Note that there is no response to our claim that […]”

•  “By failing to respond to this point, [Gov/Opp] concedes that…”

• “Note that [Gov/Opp] never explain to us why…”

• “[Gov/Opp] declines to respond to this point”

• “This argument is completely unresponsive to our analysis about…”

To make comparisons between arguments

• “They say that […]. We say that…”

• “This argument directly clashes with what X said when they argued that…”

• “On the comparative, we would rather live in a world where […] than in a world where […]”

• “Ultimately, we believe that […] is more important than anything else [Gov/Opp] can prove in this debate”

• “Even if […] is not the case, we think we win this debate because…”

To conclude a speech

• “Let me recap what I’ve proven in this speech...”

• “If you take one thing away from this speech, let it be that…”

• “Let’s take stock of where we are in this debate”

• “In a nutshell, our case amounts to…”