A SERIES OF workshops and a debating competion have been organised to promote British Parliamentary (BP) debate among secondary students.
Organised by the Hong Kong Parliamentary Debating Society (HKPDS), the week-long training camp began on Monday at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK).
More than 70 students from 29 schools are taking part.
The camp was established last year by English-language debaters from the University of Hong Kong (HKU), the Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) and CUHK.
The competition final will be held at 3pm tomorrow at the PolyU's Chiang Chen Studio Theatre.
While the Hong Kong-style debate consists of two sides of three or four members, the BP debate consists of four teams of two speakers - the Opening Government (Opening Affirmative), Opening Opposition, Closing Government and Closing Opposition.
Each speaker has to deliver a speech of up to seven minutes. During each speech, opposing debaters can interrupt with 'points of information', a statement of fact or a question for the current speaker.
