ATAR Notes: Forum

VCE Stuff => VCE English Studies => VCE Subjects + Help => VCE English & EAL => Topic started by: bigboyhuss on April 09, 2015, 04:42:30 pm

Title: Oral Topic
Post by: bigboyhuss on April 09, 2015, 04:42:30 pm

Need a oral topic on an issue has to be current?
Any arguments with it would be highly appreciated!!!!


Thanks guys

Title: Re: Oral Topic
Post by: literally lauren on April 09, 2015, 05:59:34 pm

Hi there,

(I'm assuming this is for a Year 12 English oral?)

Check out some of these posts from a few months ago; issues still relevant :)
List of Topics

Also a really good post here from T-Rav: How to write a speech

Title: Re: Oral Topic
Post by: chansena on April 13, 2015, 12:28:37 pm

Quote from: bigboyhuss on April 09, 2015, 04:42:30 pm

Need a oral topic on an issue has to be current?
Any arguments with it would be highly appreciated!!!!


Thanks guys

ORAL topics:
   Dangerous dogs as pets
   Smacking children
   Gambling advertising during televised sports
   Patenting human genes
   Taxing high sugar and fatty foods
   Asylum seekers and detention centers
   Animal testing
   Animals in sports
   Banning live exports
   Drugs in sports
   Increasing CCTV: Surveillance Systems
   Home births
   Tasers used by police
   Pension and retirement
   Women on the front line in war zones
   Nuclear energy in Australia
   Surrogacy
   Voluntary Euthanasia
   Mandatory Organ donations
   Gay marriage
   Smoking in Australia
   Social networking causes more harms than we think.
   Are we becoming overwhelmingly dependent on technology?
   Closing crown casino
   Computers and technology to replace pen and paper
   Gambling in sports
   National identity and cultural laws
   Should children be allowed in gambling areas?
   Social networking and piracy laws
   Children growing up too fast
   Women and rape culture
   Gender inequality in Australia
   Australian troops fighting in Iraq
   Death Penalty
   Government tactics for tacking the Ice epidemic in particular
   Changes to Higher Education (de-regulation of fees for example)
   Gay Marriage
   Metadata laws and its implications for privacy of our citizens
   the Government crackdown on piracy and downloading movies (check the 'Dallas Buyer's Club' court decision)


Also try http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight Really good discussions and opinions/ views explored
The Age: Comment's Section http://www.theage.com.au/comment


Let me know if your still struggling  ;)