- Communicative Objective: Develop the ability to enter, sustain, challenge, and conclude formal debate contributions while remaining precise, diplomatic, and responsive to opposing arguments.
- 5 Core Functional Sentences:
- I would like to challenge the premise that economic growth necessarily leads to improved quality of life.
- Even if we accept that assumption for the sake of argument, the conclusion does not inevitably follow.
- Far from undermining my position, the evidence you have cited actually reinforces one of its central claims.
- Were we to adopt that approach, we would also need to address the unintended consequences it might generate.
- I would therefore maintain that the burden of proof remains with those advocating such a fundamental change.
- Grammar Focus: Formal conditional inversion, concessive clauses, emphatic structures with far from, embedded clauses, and modal expressions of logical necessity.
- Vocabulary Focus: premise, undermine, reinforce, unintended, advocate
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