大学英语的课堂辩论

Are interpersonal relationships more important than one’s practical ability to a successful career?

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we are the positive side.

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We are the negative side.

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正方立论

Interpersonal relationships means social interaction with the crowd, and cooperation is very important in today's society, we believe that human relationships are more important than practical ability. In a company, a top staff should know how to deal with interpersonal relationships, and has harmonious relations with his colleagues, if he has no good interpersonal relationships, I don’t think he will be able

to display his ability or achieve success. So our side insists that interpersonal relationships are more important than one’s practical ability for success.

反方立论

We believe that practical ability is particularly important in work. Human capability is very essential to one’s career. It is the most important thing for you to succeed. It can help you obtain the skills and ability to compete with others. So, our side insists that one’s practical ability is more important for success.

自由辩论

反方：Is Bill Gates successful?

正方：Sure, he is a successful man.

反方：Which do you think is more important for his success, his personal capability or the interpersonal relationships?

正方：At that time, we do not understand the situation.

反方：We don’t think you can admit that personal capability is more important , can you?

正方：“May be it is true, but according to a Harvard Business School survey: among the people with great achievements in their careers, 15 percent relied on the ability, 10 percent on the family background, and interpersonal relationships accounted for 75 percent. How can you explain this?

反方：Isn’t good relationship the performance of individual capability?

正方：I think it’s not. Capability can be trained compared with interpersonal relationships. That is to say: it is the difference between life and work, do you think so?

反方：So that is to say what you learn is to do a good job in interpersonal relationships in the school, rather than a personal capability？

正方：Of course not, we say that if you do not have a good relationship，you won’t get success. Your personal ability is important, but interpersonal relationships are more important.

反方：Perhaps you think that if you have good interpersonal relations, you will be promoted. But without the ability to work, nobody will support you.

正方：Ok, you have strong ability and do the job very well, but without good relations, who will support you?

反方：Why don’t you think the success of Bill Gates is supported?

正方：Actually he is supported by his friends. Thus, are the interpersonal relationships more important in daily life?

总结陈词

正方: We agree that the practical ability is important. But the interpersonal relationships are more important to a successful career. In today's society, we all know that teamwork plays an more and more important role in competition. Teamwork needs good interpersonal relationships .If one person cannot get on well with the colleagues. There will be no cooperation. No cooperation means no success. So our side insists that relationships are more important for success.

反方：We can see that now people pay too much attention on interpersonal relationships, but we still think one’s practical ability is more important than interpersonal relationships to a successful career. Your boss do not think much about your interpersonal relationships, he just thinks about how much profit you can create for him. Only with strong practical ability can one achieve a successful career. At last ，We insist on our viewpoint: one’s practical ability is more important than interpersonal relationships for success.