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  2. World Schools Style debate - Wikipedia

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    World Schools Style debates include an additional speech from each team, called the reply speech. This is a short, four-minute speech given by either the first or second speaker from the team, and presented in the opposite speaking order to the rest of the debate (i.e. the Opposition delivers the first reply speech, followed by the Proposition).

  3. Philippine English - Wikipedia

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    Today Philippine English, as formally called based on the World Englishes framework of linguist Braj Kachru, is a recognized variety of English with its distinct lexical, phonological, and grammatical features (with considerable variations across socioeconomic groups and level of education being predictors of English proficiency in the ...

  4. Adjacency pairs - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, an adjacency pair is an example of conversational turn-taking.An adjacency pair is composed of two utterances by two speakers, one after the other. The speaking of the first utterance (the first-pair part, or the first turn) provokes a responding utterance (the second-pair part, or the second turn). [1]

  5. Australia–Asia debating - Wikipedia

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    Australia–Asia Debate, sometimes referred to as Australasian Debating or Australs Style, is a form of academic debate.In the past few years, this style of debating has increased in usage dramatically throughout Australia and New Zealand as well as the broader Asian region, but in the case of Asian countries including Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, the format is also used alongside ...

  6. Philippine English vocabulary - Wikipedia

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    Philippine English also borrows words from Philippine languages, especially native plant and animal names (e.g. ampalaya and balimbing), and cultural concepts with no exact English equivalents such as kilig and bayanihan. Some borrowings from Philippine languages have entered mainstream English, such as abaca and ylang-ylang.

  7. 9 Phrases To Replace Asking 'How Are You?' When Greeting ...

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    Instead of giving that automatic greeting, here's how to be more intentional.

  8. Mano (gesture) - Wikipedia

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    President Rodrigo Duterte extends his hand to skater Margielyn Didal who showed a gesture of respect to the President on September 12, 2018. Mano is an "honouring-gesture" used in Filipino culture performed as a sign of respect to elders and as a way of requesting a blessing from the elder. Similar to hand-kissing, the person giving the greeting bows towards the hand of the elder and presses ...

  9. World Schools Debating Championships - Wikipedia

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    Special awards have been introduced for the highest-ranked teams made-up of English-as-a-second-language (ESL) and English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) speakers. To show that debate is universal, hosts in non-English-speaking nations have often showcased demonstration (non-competition) debates in their own language during the championships.