Teacher notes — Discussion & Debate
Class Pet Care Rota: Who Should Feed the Fish on Weekends?
- Pre-teach "rota," "responsibility," and "consistent" before pair work. Don't assume students know them from Korean class routines.
- Pair a confident speaker with a quieter one for the sentence-frame stage. It raises talk time across the whole room.
- Save the class vote for the very end. Voting early kills the discussion, since students stop listening once they've picked a side.
- If a group finishes early, have them write a third option (like "two students share each weekend") using the same sentence frames.
- For a stronger class: skip the vote and instead have each group write one classroom rule that would make the rota actually work, then compare rules across groups.