THRIVE

Heated Debates

Debates can promote proficiency in language development in ways that are challenging and exciting for learners. We hold debate sessions to engage our students in controversial and thought-provoking discussions. The aim of these sessions is to make active the knowledge of the language they already possess and to help them acquire further means for conveying the full force of their personal messages.

Peer Pressure

Peer Pressure


Some of the topics discussed during the debate :

• Some of the main causes of peer pressure
• Effects of positive and negative peer influence
• Role of social media in peer pressure and conformity
• Life skills and managing peer pressure
December 2023
The Price

The Price


The discussion was centered around one of Arthur Miller’s plays “The Price”. Participants had been asked to read the play in advance.
Some of the topics discussed:

1. Responsibility towards oneself and others
2. Betrayal
3. Whose narrative defines the family life?
4. Leaning on a preferred view of ourselves
5. Repercussion of past actions
6. Consumerism
7. Incompetence
August 2023
Empathy

Empathy


Some of the topics discussed:

1. Why should we empathize?
2. Is empathy something we can learn or is it innate in human beings?
3. Do we show more empathy to our in-groups?
4. The negative associations with empathy
5. Bystander effect and the diffusion of responsibilities
6. Empathy and literature
January 2024