Debating Skills in English π£οΈ (with Ray Addam) [996]
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What is the purpose of this episode on debating skills?
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Hello listeners, welcome back to Luke's English Podcast, a podcast for learners of English all around the world. Here is a brand new episode for you and let me just tell you what you can expect from this one and then we will get started straight away. So this episode has a lot to offer and I think it's brilliant. Am I allowed to say that about my own podcast episode? I don't know. I don't know if I'm allowed to say it, but I'm saying it anyway. This is a brilliant episode, and I think it has a lot to offer and a lot of stuff that you can learn from it. It's all about debating. Debating skills in English. What is debating? It basically means expressing your opinion, questioning other people's opinions, persuading other people that you are right or that the things you're saying are actually correct, discussing things...
The various methods of doing this. And we get into plenty of details with plenty of examples, as you will see. And so this is a very practical and useful episode, which I believe presents a great deal of value for you. And considering this is free to listen to, that's massive, isn't it? I mean, you're getting extra value. You're getting your money's worth on this one. So my guest in this episode is Ray Adam. Ray is an English teacher from Glasgow in Scotland. No need to say more about him. He was on the podcast many years ago. He's back again. And Ray is interesting because he actually has spent a lot of time developing English courses for various specific purposes, including a course that he's done about debating skills in English.
And so he brings a lot of experience of teaching these skills himself in his own work. And so he was kind enough to kind of bring a lot of that to this episode. If you want to check out more of Ray's stuff, you can find links in the description. So, Ray Adam on the podcast with me talking about debating skills. I should probably clarify the difference between debating, discussing and arguing, right? A discussion, an argument and a debate. I think those are... things that are worth defining at this point. So a discussion, an argument and a debate. OK, a discussion then is just, you know, when people explore ideas together, share perspectives, share opinions. Maybe there's some disagreement and some persuasion going on.
But it's essentially quite a serious conversation, exploring ideas, sharing perspectives, maybe disagreeing and agreeing a little bit. Ideally, you're trying to make a decision or reach a common understanding. A discussion is quite cooperative. You're working together. It's open. It's normally fairly casual. There aren't sort of clear rules. It's fairly loose. It's unstructured. Anyone can speak at any time. So that's a discussion. It's like the sort of thing you would have in a business meeting at work where you're trying to make a decision about something, whether you should do this or not do this. What do you think of that? What do you think of this? That's an interesting point. So this is a discussion, right?
Then an argument. An argument. Well, there's several meanings of an argument. One meaning of an argument, your argument, is the way that you have presented your ideas, the way you've structured some ideas, put them together in order to provide some sort of persuasive argument. statement series of statements so that's an argument he presented his argument that's a very good argument that's an interesting argument that's one meaning of it the other meaning of an argument is a bit like a discussion so it's a form of conversation but normally between two people But it's a lot more emotional. It's a strong disagreement between people and it's normally emotional.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of this episode on debating skills?
0:00β12:22
2
What are the differences between debating, discussing, and arguing?
12:22β35:24
3
How can one effectively express opinions in debates?
35:24β47:27
4
What techniques can enhance debating skills?
47:27β1:16:16
5
What motivations drive conspiracy theories?
1:16:16β1:17:19
6
How can you effectively win a debate?
1:17:19β1:18:13
7
What techniques help in dismantling opposing arguments?
1:18:13β1:20:38
8
How does one maintain credibility in a debate?
1:20:38β2:32:34
Speakers
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