Ray Addam

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Luke's ENGLISH Podcast - Learn British English with Luke Thompson · Debating Skills in English 🗣️ (with Ray Addam) [996] · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, appeal to consequences.

So grammatically, if we're going to use it either as a first conditional or as a second conditional...

So you're going to take what they have said, and then you're going to think about what could be a negative consequence of what they have said.

And that's another way of discrediting their, that then makes them need to defend themselves.

And whenever you're on the defensive, it looks like you're retreating.

So it's good.

You want to be assuming that you don't want, because see with Socratic questioning,

It's good to buy you some time to think of a response, but you cannot win a debate just by Socratic questioning, Socratic questioning, Socratic questioning, because they are constantly going to be the one giving ideas.

But you actually want to attack sometimes with reduction to the absurd or with appealing to consequences.

So, yeah, you're going to say what the consequences of their belief are.

And we can either use the first conditional for it with present simple and future simple, or we can use the second conditional with past simple and would, could, or might.

It doesn't take too much explanation.

We can just go into some examples.

So, for example, let's say...

I said something like schools should ban homeworks.

There should be no more homework given by schools.

So I think we should ban homework from schools.

There should be no more homework.

It can be a question or it can be a statement.

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