IFSA English Debate Competition 2014

On Sunday, May 4th 2014 was an interesting day for all IFSA members, to participate in the big event of Faculty of Forestry, Gadjah Mada University to celebrate the Earth Day. IFSA LC UGM, proudly presented English Debate Competition, that was followed by 9 teams from 8 faculties in UGM. The debate, brought a theme “The Youth’s Action for Earth’s Future”, had been followed by Faculty of Veterinary, Faculty of Law, Faculty of Social Studies and Politcs, Faculty of Biology, Faculty of MIPA, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Farming Technology, and Faculty of Pharmacy. This event was held by the asssociation with Dirmawa UGM, English Debate Society LC UGM and also LEM FKT UGM.

Before doing the competition, the participants got the opportunity to study about debate in the Training Day that was held on Monday, April 28th 2014. The speakers in this opportunity were Alif from Fisipol UGM, and Ivo from Faculty of Dentist, who are the member of EDS. In this event, the participants will know kinds of debate, Australian style and Asian style. Alif and Ivo also performed the example of speech when they do a debate.

Mr. Sidiq from Dirmawa came to this events and said an opening speech. “The students of Gadjah Mada University have to increase their ability to speak English and tell their opinion in English because they have to realize that they will compete with students from other countries”, he said, “This (theme) is really important, when Earth’s problem is really being a hot topic in global level.”

The main day of this event is the Competition Day, when the participants that come from many faculties start express their thoughts by English. The Competition Day consisted of preliminary round, semifinal round, and grandfinal round. Mr. Mario, as the leader of the judges from English Debate Society Local Commitee UGM, said that the competition would be done using national standard. So, the judges’s grades with the national standard too.

Although, the committee and the participants felt tired, but the process had been paid off by the succesfull of this event. And the most important thing is that we can get what we expect from the participants, which is able to express their mind in English, amazing!