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Alliance Français Auckland is pleased to invite you to take part in the French Debate 2025!
The competition is open to all ages.
The Alliance Française Auckland is thrilled to invite you and your students to the inaugural Auckland French
Debating Competition 2025 (Joutes Oratoires Lycéennes)!
📅 Date: Tuesday, 3rd June 2025
🕓 Time: 4:00 – 6:30 PM
📍 Venue: Alliance Française Auckland, 131 Remuera Road, Remuera, 1050 This free event is open to students
in Years 11, 12, and 13.
Who to enrol? Please contact school@alliance-francaise.co.nz
Why should your students take part?
It is promising to be an inspiring event as well as good fun, please make sure your students don’t miss out! Free workshops for both teachers and students are also offered in April. When are the free workshops? For teachers: we offer free online (zoom) workshops about the competition and how to help students prepare on
How do I register my school? Simply email Melissa Decugis at: school@alliance-francaise.co.nz please
indicate the number of pairs you wish to enter for the competition (max 3 pairs per school) by 1st May2025. How
does it work?A
team is made up of a pair who will jointly debate the two motions provided in this email below against pairs from other Auckland area
secondary schools in a pool of usually 3 or 4 pairs in the knock-out stage of the competition. The winning pair of each pool will then
compete into the semi-final(s) and then in the final. Schools can combine their Y11,12 or 13 students in debating pairs as they wish and see
fit (ie: a pair can consist of pupils from the same year group or from different year groups). Each school can enter up to three teams (6
pupils in total).The two motions your students need to prepare for Tuesday 3rd June
competition are: Motion
1: Il est trop tard pour sauver la planète (It is too late to save the planet)Motion
2: L’intelligence artificielle est un danger pour l’humanité (AI is a danger to mankind)NB:
Pupils must prepare both sides (For and Against) for each motion.
Preparing the motions: Please note that competitors must always be prepared to debate FOR as well as
AGAINST each of the TWO motions (in
other words, in total, competitors have 4 sides to prepare: 2 sides for and 2 sides against. On the day, for each debate, competitors will
only know at the last-minute which side of the motion they have to debate (see detailed rules below). For the final, competitors will need
to prepare for an improvised motion with about 30 min preparation time. By that point though, teams will be “in the zone” and French will be
flowing naturally!
Important rules about fair competition: For the sake of fair competition, native speakers, or near native
speakers or more generally, students whose background of life experience provides a significant
linguistic advantage are
not permitted to enter the
competition. This category typically includes families where French is spoken at home or having lived for a significant period
of time in a French speaking country or been at a school where French is the language of instruction.
See rule 2.1 below. If in doubt, please do not hesitate to make contact to check and clarify in advance.
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