Mane - TS#3

Abdulrahman had previously related to me that he wants our tutoring lessons to concentrate on legal terminology as well as speaking. He felt that speaking was one of his weakest skills. Since we heavily concentrated on legal terms in our first two tutoring sessions, I decided the third one should be concentrated on speaking. From our previous conversations I had noticed that Abdulrahman enjoys debating a lot and being challenged, so I decided to have a debate for our speaking lesson.  Our debate topic was how necessary is a jury to a criminal proceeding. In Saudi Arabia, they don’t have juries and court hearings are generally very private. For my schema building exercise, I related to Abdulrahman what the responsibilities of a jury are in America and how criminal records as well as criminal hearings are more often than not publicly available. Abdulrahman argued the side that said that juries are not necessary, while I argued that they are. Abdulrahman was successfully able to argue that juries usually don’t know much about law, therefore it doesn’t make sense to let them decide on legal issues. I argued on anti-corruption basis and that jury can be a tool against corruption. Overall, Abdulrahman seemed to have enjoyed the lesson.