Queen Elizabeth School English Debating Club

November Debates:

1st Preliminary of Sing Tao
12 Nov 2016 (Sat)
Motion will be released on 5 Nov
Opponent: Pentecostal Lam Hon Kwong School

Term 1 Round 2 of HKSSDC
Round completion deadline: 4 November
Motion: This house believes that the Hong Kong government should significantly increase financial incentives for families to have more children.”
Affirmative: Chan Sui Ki (La Salle) College (II)

Friendly Match with King's College
Late November, date tbc
Motion: tbc

Hello ladies and gentlemen!
Team QES has participated in the 11th HKSDPSC Senior Debating Championship which is held at PLKCKYS today.

Our team has won the second and fourth round among the four preliminary rounds. Here are the informations of today's tournament

Round 1: Impromptu (Lost)
THW make the right to eat meat conditional on visiting a slaughterhouse
Prop: HKIS
Opp: QES
First speaker: Robert Tang
Second speaker: Ryan Yuen
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Robert Tang

Round 2: Prepared (Won)
THBT European countries should grant the right of abode to people fleeing by sea from war-affected countries to Europe.
Prop: QES
Opp: WYHK
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Christine Lee
Third speaker: Ryan Yuen
Reply speech: Becky Cheung

Round 3: Prepared (Lost)
THBT there should be no minimum age requirement in professional sports
Prop: STC
Opp: QES
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Christine Lee
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Becky Cheung

Round 4: Impromptu (Won)
Thw not permit religious education in public schools
Prop: QES
Opp: PLKCKYS
First speaker: Robert Tang
Second speaker: Ryan Yuen
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Ryan Yuen

All of our debaters have gained a lot through this debate tournament and we will definitely keep on improving in the future!

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.” ― Joseph Joubert

Debate--- a very good work to get your brain juices flowing! Debating is not simply about giving speeches, but instead, we deliver persuasive arguments by telling facts, with reasonable elaboration and justification. Through the process, not only will we gain more knowledge on different issues, but we also learn how to think logically and make sense of things. All these benefits are insight, and more importantly, from joining the debating team for years, we've gain friendship!
So if you're interested in giving a try on debating, don't hesitate! It doesn't matter who you are or how you are, you are all welcome to join us, all you have to do is to fill in the form!

For any further questions, feel free to contact 4C Wong Cho Sze, Michelle :D

QES English Debating Team enrollment

Always keep yourself moving! And so do our debaters. So as to upgrade ourselves and learn from one another, we will be having a friendly match with Queen's College tmr. The following are the details,

Motion: This house as a feminist, would oppose products marketed to help women protect themselves from date r**e
Prop:QES
Opp:QC
Format: World Style
Venue: Queen's College rm 214
Time: 14:00

Feel free to come and watch the debate if you're interested!

Good evening ladies and gentlemen!

Tomorrow night there will be the HKSDC (Junior) Final for various divisions.

Team QES has broken into Silver Division earlier. Tomorrow they will try their best at the final.

Motion: THW allow medical graduates from overseas universities to practice in Hong Kong
Venue: DGS
Time: 1800
Prop: QES
Opp: GSIS

Anyone who's interested in going to support, please meet us at covered playground at 1620 to go together (or later at 1730 at covered playground as well).

Add oil for our debaters!!
Break a leg!

Hello, ladies and gentlemen!!! :)

Have you enjoyed a fruitful holiday yesterday? Well our debaters have also had a fruitful experience participating in the Junior HKSDC, and we've got some good news!

Team QES got into the silver division. We won in both the quarter finals and semi finals, and enter the final which will be held two weeks later.

Round 1: Impromptu (Lost)
THW ban the consumption of shark fins
Prop: RC
Opp: QES
First speaker: Michelle Wong
Second speaker: Christine Lee
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Michelle Wong

Round 2: Prepared (Won)
THW build more international schools in Hong Kong
Prop: QES
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Christine Lee
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Becky Cheung
Opp: SIS

Round 3: Prepared (Won)
TH regrets the commercial nature of US college sports
Prop: QES
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Elaine Ho
Third speaker: Michelle Wong
Reply speech: Becky Cheung
Opp: DBS

Quarter finals (Won)
THW imposed insaction on China for its human rights violation
Prop: QES
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Christine Lee
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Becky Cheung
Opp: SPC

Semi finals (Won)
THW auction artworks from the national museum to balance government budget
Prop: QES
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Michelle Wong
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Becky Cheung
Opp: SPCC

Congratulations, team QES! It's been a tough day for all our debaters, let's give a big round of applause to them!

Don't forget to keep supporting our debaters in the final, hope they can grab the championship!

Hello, ladies and gentlemen! :)

Finally, here comes the Junior SDC!!! I'm sure that our dear debaters have been well prepared for it.

Round 1 Impromptu
Prop: RC
Opp: QES

Round 2 Prepared
Motion: THW build more international schools in Hong Kong
Prop: QES
Opp: SIS
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Christine Lee
Third speaker: Mary Lau
Reply speech: Becky Cheung

Round 3 Prepared
Motion: TH regrets the commercial nature of US college sports
Prop: QES
Opp: DBS
First speaker: Becky Cheung
Second speaker: Elaine Ho
Third speaker: Michelle Wong
Reply speech: Becky Cheung

Show your kindest support to our debaters! Add oil team QES! :D

Ladies and gentlemen!! Remember the match I told you yesterday? Well the result has been announced and now let me spread this happy news to all of you!!

We have won:
SSDC 1st round.
Motion: THBT large social media companies make unfair use of users' personal information

Aff: Y.W.C.A Hioe Tjo Yoeng College

Opp: QES
1st speaker: 3B Elaine Ho
2nd speaker: 3A Mary Lam
3rd speaker: 3B Michelle Wong

Team advisor: Miss Daswani

Chairperson: Becky Cheung
Timekeeper: Robert Tang

The debate was held at English Room yesterday at 0430. Based on our concrete arguments and strong rebuttals, the adjudicator, Mr Jimmy Pong has given us the victory of this match!

Thank you again for your support and we look forward to engaging in the next competition!

Add oil our lovely debaters:) !!!

Good night!

Evening ladies and gentlemen!!
Long time no see!
Now please allow me to introduce you a debate competition held tomorrow:)

SSDC 1st round:
Motion: THBT large social media companies make unfair use of users' personal information

Aff: Y.W.C.A Hioe Tjo Yoeng College

Opp: QES
1st speaker: 3B Elaine Ho
2nd speaker: 3A Mary Lam
3rd speaker: 3B Michelle Wong

The debate will be held at English Room tomorrow at 0430. Please feel free to come and watch!! Show your support to you friends:)

Add oil our lovely debaters:) !!!

Good night!

Ladies and gentlemen, it has been a while since our last update!

So our dear debaters have been joining the Flashpoint Debating Workshop these two weeks. It was a great experience that we all learnt and improved a lot.
Today(2/8) was the long-waited D-day, Flashpoint Debating Tournament. We sent two teams.

Team QES 1: Lau Kwai Chi Mary, Lee Hiu Kwan Christine, Cheung Hiu Lam Becky, Wong Cho Sze Michelle
Team QES 2: Kei Chan, Nathan Ngo, Angela Yiu

Round 1: THBT the minimum wage bring more harm than good.
Round 2: THBT pop music has a positive influence on young people.
Round 3: THBT the government should pay housewives for their work.

Team QES 1 won all three rounds. With a total score of 855, team QES 1 broke into the third place of the tournament. Team QES 2 won one round and above all gained precious experience.
Congratulations, QES debaters!
Special thanks to our tutors, Lisbeth Blomkvist Sapientia, Eliot Chen and Michelle Sum!

Hey ladies and gentlemen xd It's me again!

Just so you know, there'll be a friendly match with Queen's College tomorrow.

Impromptu.
Qes debaters: Owen Chu Ivan Lo Jennifer Chan Laurel Yuen
Venue: QC

As this will be the last friendly match this year, I suggest you all to come and enjoy this interesting match:)

Anyone who is interested in watching, please approach Miss Ng tomorrow at QES.

Please show our support to the lovely debaters and wish them all the best in fighting this battle:D

Nighty night :*

Good evening everyone:D
What are you doing now? I suggest you drop whatever you are doing and hear the news I am gonna spread to you!

There was the 5th Inter-GSS Grand Final today afternoon.
Motion: Parent staying at home to take care of one's family should be given government subsidies.
Affirmative: Kings' College
Negative: QES
Captain: Isaac Wong
1st speaker: Laurel Yuen
2nd speaker: Ryan Yuen
Reply speech speaker: Isaac Wong
Floor speakers: Becky Cheung
Michelle Wong
Valerie Ng
There were a floor-questions session and 3-min-for-each-side free debate session in today's debate.

Congratulaions Laurel! She got the best debater!!

I liked the debate very much!! Each team tried to use their arguments to trash the other's case. As for our team, we made strong rebuttals and we engaged extremely well in the free debate. Our debaters well expressed their points in a good manners which I appreciated most ;)
Although we lost this match at the end of the tournament, we learnt the team spirit and the way to better improve ourselves in debating skills. And we promise we'll do better next year!

Last but not least, thank you for everyone who organized, participated and supported us today. You mean a lot to us.

And that's who we are, QES Debaters!