SOME IDEAS THAT CAN BE USED FOR DEBATE ABOUT THE

ADVANTAGE AND DISADVANTAGE OF CITY AND COUNTRY LIFE

Keywords City life Country life
Argument Counter argument Argument Counter argument
(Advantage) (Disadvantage) (Advantage) (Disadvantage)
1. Transport - Many types of - Traffic jam - Fewer vehicles on - Very few public
mordern vehicles: - Air pollution the road  No transport
car, bike,motorbike - Noise pollution traffic jam, less air + - No pavement for
- Public transport is - In foreign noise pollution pedestrians
well-developed: countries, it’s hard - Mainly use private - Transportation
train, bus, subway, to find a parking vehicles  more infrastructures are
tram place for car. convenience out of date. Most
- Transportation - In vietnam, - Don’t have to roads are pathway.
infrastructures such pavements are used worry about the Sometimes, no
as roads, bridges are to park motorbike parking bridges
mordern and  No path for - Mainly use bikes or - People ride
convenient walker. carts  greener carelessly 
- Accidents accidents
2. Technology - Well-developed - Become lazy and - People here are - The technology is
- Many mordern depend too much on more diligent, and limited to the
technology: inventions able to do many agriculture.
Internet, - Lack of creativity things - People here may
smartphone, and essential life - Have an amazing be behind the times
computer, TV, etc. skills creativity, and because we cannot
- Up-to-date with - Health problems essential life skills easily get access to
the development of due to radiation of - Better health, more the technology
the world some electronic enduring, more - People have to do
- Easily get access to devices relaxing, less the household
the newest - No time to rest or stressful harder without the
technologies to spend with family - Have time with help of inventions
family
3. Communication
4. Security

5. Environment - Very dynamic  A - Life in city is - Peaceful + Quite

good environment stressful places
for young people to - The environment is
develop polluted because of
- Have activities to exhaust fumes from
protect the factories + vehicles
environment - The population is
- The awareness to too high, which has
protect the a negative impact on
environment is the environment
higher
6. Food - A wide range of - Unhealthy - Grow plants, fruit - Produce food by
food: local and vegetables and fruits and vegetables, themselves  don’t
international because of raise animals  have chances to try
- Easily get access to pesticides produce food food from other
food: supermarket, - Usually expensive - Cheap food areas
market - Not easily to get - Can easily have - A few food stores
- If you don’t want fresh food: fish, clean and fresh, or restaurants 
to cook, can go to a meat, milk healthy food cook by yourselves
restaurant, fast food - Trash food: fast - Mostly special food - Not easy to get
stores,… food, … of the local area  access to food:
traditional and well- markets are held, for
cooked example, once a
- Market is usually week; no
very busy and is a supermarket
special feature.
7. Career + - Offer a good - The education and - The education is - The facilities for
Education education; from job are both very less stressful, can studying are old
kindergarten to competitive learn other essential - No university
university - Job + Studying are life skills as well education
 - The facilities for really stressful - Children are more - Low-income
education are much - Lack of essential creative, as they - The market is very
better life skills in aren’t forced to small, not offering
- The career market education follow books many jobs
is wider  have a - Have to study at - People works on - Most jobs are
lot of job night, weekends and farm  owner agricultural based 
opportunity, easier during summer, - Unemployment depend on harvest
to get a job have to work all rate is low  sometimes very
- Job has higher days  no freetime, - Have a flexible time busy, sometimes,
salary mental and physical - People are very free
- High intellectual health problems resourceful - Job is physically
standards - Unemployment harder
- Able to develop in rate is high - Low intellectual
the way we wish standards
8. Entertainment + - Offer a wide range - Usually very noisy - Very peaceful - Not many
Culture of entertaining: - Entertaining is - Traditional entertaining
cinema, bar, club, expensive entertaining: resources
karaoke, cafe, - Lead to social evils festivals,… - Mostly watch TV,
museums … such as drug, - Can have a rest at karaoke and talk
- Often have events/ prosituting night - Short range of
festivals at weekend - Working hard  entertaining
- Facilities for doing no need for facilities resources
exercises such as to do exercises
gym are modern and - Entertaining is very
popular cheap
- A wide range of
hobbies and
interests
- Vibrant, fast-
moving cultures 
people are more
energetic
10. Cost - - Expensive
 SOME ENGLISH STRUCTURE THAT CAN BE USED FOR DEBATE
STATING AN OPINION
• In our opinion...
•We (don’t) think that…
•The way we see it...
• If you want our honest opinion....
•As far as I'm concerned...
•Our position is the following…

SEQUENCING :
• Firstly…, secondly…, our third point is that…
• The first good reason to… is that… ; next ; what’s more ; moreover….
• To begin, we think that… ; in addition, you have to know that… ; last but not
least….
• The first point I would like to raise is this…
• Here’s the main point I want to raise…
• I’d like to deal with two points here. The first is…

“I’M LISTENING TO THE OTHER SIDE.”

• I see your point, but I think…
• Yes, I understand, but my opinion is that…
• That’s all very interesting, but the problem is that…
• I’m afraid I can’t quite agree with your point.
• I think I’ve got your point, now let me respond to it.
• We can see what you’re saying. Here’s my reply…

DISAGREEING :
• Excuse me, but that’s not quite correct.
• Sorry, I just have to disagree with your point.
• Let me just respond to that, please.
• I’d like to take issue with what you just said.
• We said that… but the other side has not replied to our point.
• I’d like to focus on two points that the other side has failed to address.
• There are two issues our opponents have failed to dispute, namely…
• We pointed out that…
• Our opponents have claimed that…
• To recap the main points…
• Let’s sum up where we stand in this debate.
• In summary, we want to point out that…