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

Perfect, perfect.

All perfect examples.

Also, there's the other technique about appealing to authority.

So with appealing to authority, there's, you can say, as a person of experience in this field, or as a, you know, like, for example, I don't have kids, but you do have kids.

So let's say we're talking about something related to children.

You can say, as a father, I know that...

whatever the argument is.

And that's something I can't match you on because I'm not a father.

That's an authority that you have.

Or as a person from this community, you know, like, you know, whatever it is, or like those three that we just did, banning homework, children shouldn't learn foreign languages, making university free.

We could actually say, as a teacher, I know that children need to learn a foreign language.

Or as a teacher, I understand that banning homework will be detrimental for students.

And see when you have that authority, even though it's not fully applicable, even though being a teacher doesn't make you an expert on whether universities should be free or not, but it's still something people might be reluctant to challenge on the spot in a debate unless they have some debate techniques and they've practiced them.

Because I've heard people say stuff like,

People are debating about should we take the coronavirus vaccine or should we not take it?

And someone says, my uncle is a pharmacist, so I know that these vaccines are good or bad.

So a way that I would respond to that is, does that make you a pharmacist as well?

So we mentioned... Just before we go forward, another couple that you could use there, as you could say, instead of saying, as a mother, you can say, everyone knows that, da-da-da-da-da, as well.

Or...

According to the top doctors in the world, vaccines are da-da-da-da-da-da.

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