CHAIRPERSON TEXT GUIDE

Welcome to the……………….round of the………………….

The motion for this debate is………………..
I’m………will be the chairperson and ( Mr/Ms)………… will be the timekeeper.

The opening government team is………………………………………………………..with

(Mr/Ms)………………………………………………………as the prime minister (speaker 1)
(Mr/Ms)………………………………………………………as the deputy prime minister (2)

The opening opposition team is………………………………….with

(Mr/Ms)……………………………………………as the leader of the opposition (1)
(Mr/Ms)……………………………………………as the deputy leader in the opposition (2)

The closing government team is………………………………………………………..with

(Mr/Ms)…………………………………………………as the member of the government (1)
(Mr/Ms)…………………………………………………as the government whip (2)

The closing opposition team is………………………………….with

(Mr/Ms)…………………………………………………as the member of the opposition (1)
(Mr/Ms)…………………………………………………as the opposition whip (2)

Our adjudicator is/our panel of adjudicator consists of:

(Mr/Ms)……………………………………from………….
(Mr/Ms)……………………………………from………….
(Mr/Ms)……………………………………from………….

During the debate please silence your mobile phone or any device that may produce
disturbing sounds.
During the course of each speech, the audience is not allowed to get out of the room
or to talk.
For substantive speeches, the timekeeper will knock once at the first minute and twice
at the third minute. If after four minutes the speaker has not stopped speaking, the
timekeeper will knock continually and any further continuance of the speech will be
penalized.
The timekeeper will announce each speaker’s duration of speech after the speaker has
finished the speech.

To open the debate, I would like to call the first speaker of the Opening Government team
(Mr/Ms)......
The first speaker of the Government team has spent.....minutes .... second

To begin the case of the opposition, I call the first speaker of the Opening Opposition team
(Mr/Ms).....
The first speaker of the Opposition team spent....

I call upon the second speaker of the Opening Government team (Mr/ms)…………
The second speaker of the Opening Government team spent……….
I call upon the second speaker of the Opening Opposition team (Mr/Ms)……….
The second speaker of the Opening Opposition team spent…..

I call upon the first speaker of the Closing Government team (Mr/Ms)………
The first speaker of the Closing Government team spent……….

I call upon the fist speaker of the Closing Opposition team (Mr/Ms)……..
The first speaker of the Closing Government team spent……….

I call upon the second speaker of the Closing Government team (Mr/ms)…………
The second speaker of the Closing Government team spent……….

I call upon the second speaker of the Closing Opposition team (Mr/Ms)……….
The second speaker of the Closing Opposition team spent…..

To the adjudicator(s) please give your verbal adjudication

The winner is……….as the (Government/Opposition) team.

The best speaker(s) of this debate (is/are)(Mr/Ms)……………………………(the 1st/2nd/3rd)
speaker of the (Government/Opposition team).

Congratulation to all debaters and thank you to the adjudicators. I hereby close this round.
(knock twice)