International Tutors' Magazine December 2018 | страница 6

INTERNATIONAL TUTORS’ MAGAZINE
CHECKING IN
WITH THE ITs
GOOD ARGUMENTS AND IMPROMPTU SPEAKING
BY SAM NG
Taught by Noga Zaborowski on 15 October 2018
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2018
MOVIE CLUB FILM REVIEW
BY HSU WUT YEE WIN
The Shining is a perfect psychological thriller, not about ghosts but about madness.
Although it doesn’t include many violent scenes, the acting and background music are
excellent and create a slow creepiness throughout the film. In this movie, the main
character Jack lives for months alone with his family in a hotel. Influenced by the haunted
hotel and the extreme isolation, he goes insane and tries to kill his family. The question
about Jack is how did he change like that? Is the devil outside or inside of him? There
are other interesting characters, like Jack’s wife Wendy, who slowly discovers the reality
of his madness, and his son Danny, who can see what is actually happening in the hotel.
This movie involves a lot of uncertainty and mystery surrounding human behavior. What
is certain is that it expresses the idea about the potential of evil inside every human mind.
DEBATE CLUB HOT TOPIC
In the workshop, we talked about how to prepare ourselves for impromptu
speeches, when we do not have much time to prepare and need to present shortly
after we receive the topic. At first, I believed it would be quite difficult to give such
a speech. Fortunately, the International Tutor taught us several concepts and skills
useful for generating a good and persuasive argument. I particularly liked learning
about how to use an acronym to organize my ideas. An acronym is an abbreviation
of multiple words, consisting of the first letter of each word. For example, we can
use the acronym PREP (Point, Reason, Example, Point) to structure a topic and
make our speech very convincing. Most importantly, the tutor gave us a lot of room
for discussion and practice with these fresh ideas and skills! Overall, I enjoyed the
workshop very much as I learned different skills and I believe the experience will be
useful in my future study and career.
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BY GIGI DONG WENQIAO
We debated the motion, “Abortion should be legal and treated as a matter of public
policy in every country.” One side pointed out why abortion should be legal. Firstly,
they explored the definition of personhood to explain that abortion is not a violation of
human rights since, to some extent, the embryo or fetus is not considered a person until
birth. Secondly, by making abortion legal there would be a decrease in maternal health
problem rates caused by unsafe abortion procedures. Lastly, women should have the
right to make decisions concerning their own bodies. On the other hand, the opposing
team argued that no matter how safe abortion could be, it would still offer physical and
psychological harm to maternal health. Besides, the right to decide over your own body
shouldn’t allow you to hurt others and end someone else’s life, even a fetus'.
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