Chapter 424: It's Clearly a Dark Horse!
The reason why Bai Rose was surprised after seeing the information of the next battle was because Yanjing No. 6 Middle School was a famous school with stronger strength than Yuying High School, although it was not as good as those high-school schools attached to famous universities and special institutions, but among ordinary public high schools, Yanjing No. 4 Middle School and Yanjing No. 6 Middle School were the strongest.
There are so many schools participating in the competition, and Taoyuan High School will face such a strong opponent in the first game, of course Bai Rose will be suspicious.
Liu Meng understood it at a glance - the order of the competition was arranged by the organizing committee according to the strength of the schools that signed up, in order to avoid strong confrontation, resulting in a strong and strong early withdrawal from the competition, the preliminary round naturally arranged a strong and weak battle, and those schools that had no strength and no reputation were eliminated first.
In the opinion of the organizing committee of the competition, a small school like Taoyuan High School, which is not well-known, only has the effect of filling the number of people and playing soy sauce, so it is natural to rule it out first.
Hearing Liu Meng's explanation, although Bai Rose felt indignant, she didn't say much.
Because it was the last game of the afternoon, there were still a lot of people paying attention. Other people naturally have another view on the battle arrangement of the organizing committee of the competition-
"This Taoyuan School is quite unlucky, it actually ran into Yanjing No. 6 Middle School, it seems that there is no suspense in this last one."
"Taoyuan High School in Dianhai District? It should be the school where the top two students in the final unified examination last year were in the total individual score, right? β
"Taoyuan High School is a private school that opened last year, and it's not surprising that there are two gifted students who fill the faΓ§ade and advertise. That is, Taoyuan High School became famous in the final examination last year, and the organizing committee let them participate. β
"Taoyuan High School's publicity path is still good - even if you come to play soy sauce, you can say in the admissions brochure in the future, 'I participated in the Yenching High School Women's English Debate Tournament and achieved excellent results'. Hehe. β
"Fortunately, there are not many school debate groups that play soy sauce like this, otherwise the competition will be held for several more days, and I don't know if the debate team of Taoyuan High School speaks English smoothly, if a sentence of Chinese comes out at a critical time, it will be funny."
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The area where the debate group of Yuying High School is located.
A girl in the debate group who was watching the play easily suddenly pointed to the debate preparation area and shouted in surprise: "Teacher Ning." Look, isn't that Yu Xiaoxin! β
watched the afternoon game, Ning Chao was dozing off at this time, and when he heard this, he opened his eyes and looked over there, and sure enough, he saw Yu Xiaoxin, and then looked on the big screen, and sure enough, he saw Yu Xiaoxin's name in the Taoyuan High School debate group that was going to play next.
"Hmph, I said which famous school she went to, it turned out that she went to a garbage school like Taoyuan High School, she was really willing to degenerate." Ning Chao secretly shook his head in his heart and snorted coldly.
As a teacher at Yuying High School, he is naturally very "familiar" with Taoyuan High School. It was Taoyuan High School that stole Yuying High School's new campus on Furong Street. It is also Taoyuan High School, which squeezed out the top ten in Dianhai District with the average total score of the first year of Yuying High School.
However, Ning Chao has the same idea as most of the leaders and teachers of Yuying School - Taoyuan High School achieved the kind of results at the end of the last semester by virtue of the small number of students, and a newly built school without years of accumulation is rubbish, and it cannot be compared with Yuying.
As a teacher, Ning Chao certainly wouldn't show these thoughts in front of his students. So just a "hmm" in response.
The girl continued: "Yu Xiaoxin's group is really miserable, I met Yanjing No. 6 Middle School in the preliminary round, and I guess I won't see her tomorrow." β
In the midst of all kinds of talk. At the beginning of the penultimate match, all eyes were on the two groups ahead.
Half an hour later, the penultimate debate ended and the last began.
"Our students are so relaxed. It's a good game. In the area where Yanjing No. 6 Middle School is located, the team leader said to another accompanying teacher.
Another teacher smiled when he heard this: "The English debate competition is not as good as the Chinese debate competition, if the difference in strength between the two sides is big." There is no suspense about the outcome of the game. There may even be a problem that one side cannot understand what the other party is saying, and within the allotted time, a good oral debater will be able to express much more than the other party. β
The team leader said: "Among the debaters in Taoyuan High School, the only thing to worry about is that she was the second place in the total score of the first-year high school students last year, and her English strength should be good." β
"So what, even if it is a debate, it is impossible to score points for other debaters. This is a group debate, not an individual debate. β
Many people who watched the competition noticed that the debaters of Yanjing No. 6 Middle School were very relaxed, because before the official start of the competition, these students could still laugh with each other, obviously very contemptuous of the debaters of Taoyuan High School.
There are also attentive people who noticed that although several beautiful girls in Taoyuan High School were more serious, they didn't look nervous.
Liu Meng's attention was focused on the debate on the big screen - whether he should repeat the college entrance examination if he was not admitted to the ideal school.
"For the candidates, this is a very controversial debate question." Liu Meng couldn't help muttering.
Just as Liu Meng was muttering, the game officially began, entering the first link, and the opening argument began.
In this session, the first argument (i.e., the main argument) of the pros and cons will explain their own points of view respectively, and the time limit for each is 3 minutes.
Yanjing No. 6 Middle School, as the main party, first stated its views, and as soon as it opened its mouth, the teachers and students of the schools watching the game talked slightly. Because the English of the first debate of Yanjing No. 6 Middle School is very clear and fluent, and the content regulations are also quite clear. It can be said that in the past dozen games, Yibian has a kind of English speaking ability, and it is definitely in the top ten.
You can even see that several judges nodded slightly, obviously quite satisfied with the performance of the debater, and it is estimated that the score given in this link is not low.
The opponent's brilliant performance did not make Gan Shuangshuang and others any discouraged or nervous, when it was the turn of the opponent to make the opening argument, Gan Shuangshuang calmly stood up and stated the opposing views that had been sorted out before.
Don't say that Gan Shuangshuang has been on a big stage like "Good Chinese Poetry", just the aura of luck that Liu Meng gave her made her invincible. What's more, Gan Shuangshuang's own strength is definitely strong. So when she opened her mouth to state the opposing point of view, the eyes of several judges lit up, and there was silence below.
If you use brilliance to describe the performance of Yanjing Sixth Middle School just now, then Gan Shuangshuang's performance at this time can only be described as amazing. The fluency and clarity of spoken English have touched many professional English teachers from prestigious schools. Even more important is her statement of the opposing viewpoint. In simple terms, layer by layer, side by side, there is almost a feeling that people listen to this statement, and there is no place to refute!
After Gan Shuangshuang finished speaking, if it wasn't for the timer reminder, the host and several judges forgot to score.
After coming back to his senses, the host reminded him to enter the next link - attack and defense.
In the offensive and defensive links, the second, third and fourth debates of the pros and cons will be debated one-on-one, starting from the second debate, and each debater is limited to 90 seconds. The whole session lasts 9 minutes.
When attacking and defending, the debaters in Yanjing No. 6 Middle School were obviously not as relaxed as they were at the beginning, and it can be said that Gan Shuangshuang's statement of opinion just now gave them a disadvantage.
Offstage, the team leader teacher of Yanjing No. 6 Middle School frowned and said: "This Gan Shuangshuang's strength is too strong, and his performance in the statement of opinion is not much better than the argument in the middle school attached to the outer Chinese." I'm afraid that our students will be suppressed by her in the free debate session later. β
Another teacher also frowned, but still said: "The strength of other students should not be very good, as long as we can score more points in the attack and defense and the final summary, there is still a great hope of winning." β
Most people have the same opinion as the two teachers at Yenching No. 6. Although he was amazed by Gan Shuangshuang's performance, he still didn't think that Taoyuan High School could beat Yanjing No. 4 Middle School. At the end of the day, a debate tournament is a team game.
However, when the offensive and defense began. Many people's perceptions changed immediately.
I saw that on the stage, Taoyuan High School's second debater Gao Jingyuan, third debater Yu Xiaoxin, and fourth debater Qin Zishan not only outperformed each other in youth and beauty, but also performed brilliantly in the debate.
Because each debater only has 90 seconds to defend the offense. Then the requirements for speech speed are very high at this time. The faster you speak, the more difficult it will sound to the other person, and the less likely it will be for the other person to find language loopholes. At the same time, it also saves time and leaves more opportunities for yourself.
But if you blindly seek speed and cause unclear expression, you will also be deducted points by the judges, or even very heavy points. According to your own ability, there is a degree in the middle, and only by grasping it well can you perform brilliantly.
Of course, it is necessary to have strong strength at all.
And in the offensive defense, almost as soon as the debater on the side of Yanjing No. 6 Middle School finished speaking, the girl from Taoyuan High School stood up to refute. After the rebuttal, he raised new questions about the other party's point of view. The speed and clarity of his speech were obviously better than the other party, and even when the opponent's three debates were fighting against Yu Xiaoxin, he was speechless for a while.
"How so?!"
In the audience, not only the two teachers of Yanjing No. 6 Middle School made such unbelievable shocks, but also Ning Chao of Yuying High School. His attention had been completely focused on Yu Xiaoxin on the stage, and he didn't even notice that the gaffe made the students next to him look sideways.
As a class teacher and English teacher, Ning Chao has taught Yu Xiaoxin for half a year, and he knows Yu Xiaoxin quite well. In his eyes, Yu Xiaoxin has a good foundation and is also beautiful and smart, but he always doesn't like to listen to lectures seriously, and even sometimes listens to his lectures with a disdainful look, which makes him secretly angry.
He has seen a lot of students like this, young and rebellious, if you are willing to be obedient, you can still be saved, like Yu Xiaoxin, who has been taught repeatedly and has not changed, and whose grades have slipped to the end, there is no salvation at all.
Who would have thought that the girl who was hopeless in his eyes would now have such a brilliant performance in the debate competition. Don't say that the three debates of Yuying High School are the first debates of Yuying High School, and they have also been thrown off several streets.
Just when Ning Chao was shocked, the offensive and defense session ended with the last player of Yanjing No. 6 Middle School in chaos under the pressure of the defeat of his teammates in front of him, and was frequently refuted by Qin Zishan, the fourth debater of Taoyuan High School, who was speechless and wasted time.
At this time, looking at several confident and calm Taoyuan High School beautiful girls on the stage, such a sentence appeared in everyone's hearts - where is this soy sauce, it is clearly a dark horse!
[The first update of the guarantee arrives.] (To be continued......)