Bringing back the mammoth: a tag-team debate on de-extinction
A geneticist and an ecologist disagree about reviving extinct species; students use evidence cards to argue it out in a fast tag-team debate.
C2Adults55 minDebate
About this lesson
A C2 speaking lesson (debate). Warm-ups, role plays and discussion tasks — get the whole class talking.
- Level
- C2
- Skill
- Speaking
- Type
- Debate
- Students
- Adults
- Time
- About 55 minutes
- Topic
- Science
- Activities
- Key words, Speaking / writing task, Reading text, True / False, Gap-fill, Table to fill in
- Key words
- de-extinction, gene editing, permafrost, a surrogate mother, genetic diversity, moral hazard, hubris
- Access
- Premium
By the end, students can
- Argue for and against de-extinction using scientific and ethical evidence
- Challenge assumptions and logic with precise, sophisticated argument language