How to be Persuasive in English Basic English Phrases
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today we’re talking about how to support
your ideas and persuade people great I
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all right let’s begin today’s topic then
so as I said today’s topic is sharing
your ideas so I want to begin this
lesson by looking at this diagram I made
here so this is not this is something I
created just for this lesson so it’s
just a way to help you organize your
thoughts so this pyramid the shape is
I’ve called it a pyramid here I’ve built
this so that we can understand the best
ways to try to support our opinions so
here at the top the top here this top
piece will be your idea so this is your
idea or your opinion so what is the
thing you want to share what do you want
to convince someone of so in this case
for today’s lesson I chose this idea
smartphones we don’t have to zoom out
smartphones are harmful to if this is
actually our health we’ll see in a
moment
smartphones are harmful to our health
okay thank you so our phones are harmful
to our health so this is our idea for
the lesson so how do we support this
idea if this is my opinion how do I
support that so idea is of course our
main topic then we can support it with
many different strategies so this middle
part here includes first is part your
past experiences so your past
experiences your personal experiences
what have you done or what have you seen
what have you heard your past
experiences so you can use this to
support your idea you can also use the
opinions of your family members your
friends your co-workers your colleagues
and so on so these two are kind of like
your personal relationships and your
personal experiences the things that you
have done so when you’re trying to
support an idea because these ideas
these like experiences are personal
these might be kind of weaker supports
so these are weaker supports so they’re
not such they’re not such strong ways to
support your idea like if you just talk
about your own experience it might be
difficult to persuade someone however
down here the base layer the bottom
layer the base layer here has some
stronger ways to support your idea so
for example your data your data so if
you have a business for example or if
you do research if you are collecting
data in some way you can use your data
to share your opinion or to support your
opinion so I’m going to talk about this
so this is like percentages numbers
increases decreases and so on another
good way to support your idea is with
studies and with research so studies and
research
we see these in like journals like we
read articles about studies we see this
in like magazines newspapers we see like
reporters gathering information or
researchers gathering information so
studies and research and this is by
others other people so studies and
research by others can be good to
support your idea in a strong way
because because it’s done by other
people if it’s personal research it
might feel a little different than
someone else’s research finally here
again if you are like a business or if
you have customers or if you have users
you can share customer feedback so for
example like if you write a book and
there are good reviews on amazon.com for
your book you can talk about that kind
of customer feedback so these supports
are stronger supports stronger ways to
support your idea so I’m going to talk
today about this part and this part so
some patterns you can use for these two
things so sharing your personal
experiences and sharing your like other
experiences like data and research and
so on so as we go through today’s lesson
and as we go through the patterns that
you can use please do send some example
sentences in the chat I will try to
check them and we’ll look at how to
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one quick break and then we’ll go to
this middle part this will be the first
part we focus on today okay so as I said
at the beginning of today’s lesson we
have free stuff as always I show I
showed some of these last week today
we’re talking about how to persuade
someone of something or rather how to
persuade someone to do something ah
that’s a good question actually
I answered this in the ask Alicia a
while ago the difference between
persuade and convince to persuade
someone is used when we want someone to
take action so like persuade someone to
do something convince is used when we
want to change someone’s idea about
something like convince someone of
something convince someone that
smartphones are harmful to our health
for example it’s a persuade action
convinced idea that’s the difference
okay bonus both can anyway I wanted to
remind you if you haven’t seen it yet
about the business English there is a
business English PDF so I’ve shown this
before but there are so many of you I
know that oh yeah we’re studying that
are studying for work for your career
opportunities so on the back this is the
business English PDF so there’s
vocabulary words here yes but on the
back there are expressions for a
business meeting
sorry it’s difficult to see this says ah
there we go phrases for a business
meeting so here these are expressions
that you can use to agree to disagree
and so on so here for example we are
here today - sorry it’s hard to see
we’re here today to do something so this
is uh these are some patterns that you
could use these are some patterns that
you could use as you’re trying to
present your idea so if you’re using
English at work or if you’re giving
presentations in English these could be
some some good phrases to know some good
introductory phrases to know aside from
this I am going to teach a live stream
about presentation related English on
February 21st so you can join that too
but this could be a really good one
the business English PDF for supporting
ideas and persuading people okay to do
things or convincing people okay so with
that let’s continue to the first kind of
group of patterns the first set here
so if you’re just joining today we’re
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and persuade people please make sure to
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already okay let’s go on I want to talk
now about this part so this group here
how do we share our past experiences and
how do we share like the opinions of our
family members and our friends first I
want to show two patterns you can use to
talk about your personal experiences
personal experiences means things you
use specifically you did in your life
you have done in your life so two very
common patterns that we use first it’s
hard to see I have this one time if it’s
hard to see you can make the video
bigger thank you thank you
I hope that wasn’t thank you that wasn’t
direction to you okay first this one
time so I have one time in parentheses
here so oh sorry this should be mmm
it should be I put my parentheses in the
wrong spot this is given me here so one
time one time I past tense verb so
native speakers tend to use this
expression one time to refer to
something they have the experience of
doing one time just one time only one
time so they want to talk about like a
crazy story that happened to them or
something interesting it happened one
time so we use this one time or
sometimes we drop this and just say one
time I so for example this one time I
left my smartphone at home and I was
really anxious anxious anxious means
like kind of nervous excited like you
feel like you want to do something but
you can’t like get your energy out but
it’s like a bad feeling that’s anxious
anxious so this one time I left my
smartphone at home
so this shows the speaker one time left
his or her smartphone at home
left here I left L EFT is the past tense
form of the verb leave to leave
something at home like I left my phone
over there on the desk for example I
left my smartphone at home
past tense verb so this one time I left
my smartphone at home and I felt anxious
so this is a past tense pattern this one
time or just one time so if you have an
example sentence send it through and I
will try to check okay but sometimes
here sometimes we want to talk about
something that we do regularly so it’s
not just a past tense situation maybe
yes we did it
in the past but we do the same thing now
how do we express this we use present
tense we use present tense to talk about
regular activities so this is a great at
very common pattern sometimes I present
tense verb so this is a key point a key
difference here regular action present
tense verb so don’t change your verb no
need to conjugate the verb here for
example sometimes I forget to do things
because I spend too much time on my
phone so here my verb is forget present
tense not forgot
sometimes I forgot know sometimes I
forget sometimes I forget this present
tense shows it happens now sometimes I
do this now sometimes I forget now
sometimes I forget present tense ready
so some of you have sent a few nice okay
someone said one time I forgot to feed
my cat sorry that sucks that’s too bad
one time good okay one time I forgot uh
Shack Oh on YouTube you said one time I
missed one time I forgot my guitar pick
and had to play with my fingers so
instead of the verb missed there use
forgot forgot otherwise perfect nice
someone else said sometimes I join
Alicia’s livestream cool but sometimes I
join
use your present tense verb you’ve got
it in the progressive tense Maya
sometimes I join not joining sometimes I
join and no am here you don’t need a
verb right here sometimes I join is
correct
is correct okay others Facebook someone
on facebook said sometimes I forget to
study books sometimes I forget to study
the book okay good
sometimes I forget sometimes I forget
make sure your verbs are simple present
tense here simple present tense many of
you are using past tense use simple
present tense here sometimes I forget
sometimes they forget so this is a big
point maybe for some of you sometimes I
forget present tense sometimes I forget
to share this dream okay good good all
right let’s move along so second point
here I said the second point for this
part was going to be about sharing other
people’s opinions how do you share
family members colleagues co-workers
friends opinions again I want to talk
about two patterns that we use a lot
first my plus person so person here I
put person in brackets to mean you can
replace this with any person in your
life my aunt my uncle my friend my
coworker my boss my best friend can my
control desk person for the day is
nothing to do my jokes my person said
something my person said something so
here for example my friend said that
smart phones emit radiation so again if
you’re just joining this is our topic
for today our opinion my friend said
that smart phones emit radiation okay
top vocabulary here emit this word a MIT
Amit Amit means like to give off
something so to emit like you can emit
like a smell you can emit a sound
usually
here radiation radiation is like a
dangerous very very small substance
that’s like bad for our health so like a
nuclear power plant gives off radiation
or maybe cellphones give off radiation I
know but my friend said that smart
phones emit radiation here another point
that lots of you have asked questions
about before this said I have it here in
past tense my friend said you may hear
this used in present tense for example
my friend says so what’s the difference
here when you use said when you use a
simple past tense here when you use said
it’s like that thing happened once in
the past so my friend said this thing
one time and it’s done if however you
use the present tense it’s referring to
something they often say my friend says
so it’s like a topic they talk about a
lot you’ll see this sort of thing in the
news a lot so politicians when we talk
about politicians in the news we see
this used a lot like Trump says blah
blah blah it’s because it’s something he
regularly says so when you see this
present tense used it’s referring to a
regularly stated thing when you see past
tense used it’s like maybe once just
once so this is the difference someone
said what is omit so again the word
admit II MIT means like to give off
something usually like a smell something
we can’t see but it’s like a smell or a
sound or some kind of small substance to
emit something to emit something good
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want to watch your teaching but it’s
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is control desk that’s funny
my parents say pay attention when you
arrived in America that’s a pretty
that’s a pretty good idea I would say oh
I have one more here I want to talk
about and then we’ll take one more break
I heard from I heard from this is the
second pattern I want to talk about here
a pronunciation point for many of you
this part heard past tense here
past tense here becomes heard heard not
heared I sometimes hear students say
that heared heard heard so imagine
there’s no a imagine there’s not an a
here it’s heard heard oh sorry
heard heard like a herd of animals heard
H er D is the word we use to talk about
a group of animals on a farm like herd
of cows a herd of sheep okay anyway I
heard from again person so the person in
your life you can use the same present
tense change we talked about here like I
hear from so and so if you’re like
regularly hearing the same sorts of
things so I heard from person blah blah
blah so for example I heard from my
friend that smartphones emit radiation
we can use the same pattern here
so I heard or this person said or says
so these are probably the most common
ways to report experiences or to report
opinions from other people in our lives
so if you have examples send them along
my friend said that I need to stop
watching Netflix why too much Netflix
too much binge watching binge watching
is a great word for Netflix to binge
watch means to watch a lot of things all
in a row like to binge watch all of
Battlestar Galactica is passed I collect
it on Netflix do you know
okay anyway my friends I need to stop
watching Netflix that was perfect good
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from my friends that I can be better if
I focus oh ok maybe that’s a good that’s
a good point for all of us perhaps I
think all right ah I heard from others
you’re the best teacher woohoo you
should tell that to the guy who sent the
boring joke earlier on Facebook who is
that lord
Jorge Zed great ok let’s take a quick
break and then we’ll finish with the
last set of patterns about this part
down here data studies research customer
feedback all that jazz alright I wanted
to share some more stuff if you missed
it earlier I talked about this one the
business English PDF you missed it for
those of you who are studying for work
purposes I think these are some great
expressions you can use in business
meetings and also as I said join our
livestream on February 21st to learn
about I’m guessing here to learn about
some other presentation related phrases
and then I wanted to share where did it
go the family we have another one that I
wanted to show that is your family and
relatives so I mentioned in this second
point that you can replace like a person
in this pattern like my person said my
friend said so if you need a refresher
on your family members we have one PDF
for family members people in your family
so check this out if you want a family
member one actually on the business one
this is great too on the business one
there’s also a list of job titles
these are very common job titles so this
could be useful this is a lot anyway
back here hello ok let’s finish up today
then with this base part I’ve got a few
patterns
I’ve got a few little patterns we’re
talking about this bass part down here
like the stronger ways to support your
opinions so I’m gonna finish there if
you’re just joining today we’re talking
about how to support your ideas or
persuade people of things if you missed
it the difference between persuade and
convince is that we persuade someone to
take action we convince someone of an
idea so if you have not please make sure
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Ernesto says when you have time could
you teach us the infinitive and gerund
form yes check out the know your verbs
series I talked a lot about the invented
infinitive form I would like to do
something about gerron’s it’s a very
tricky topic for sure that is on my mind
though Thanks okay let’s go to the last
point for today’s lesson so I said that
these three down here are kind of the
stronger ways to support your ideas
using data data that you have from your
business from whatever you do using
studies and research to talk about your
topic and using customer feedback so
whatever that means for you maybe not
customers but maybe feedback from people
who like participate in your offense or
who have read your book
or read your work and so on so a few
patterns here first I want to talk about
these that we use for data for news for
research so for those of you who are
studying and using English in like
universities or you need to use it in an
academic setting this is really good for
your writing the expression is according
to source according to source so source
this word is kind of open but this can
mean a source can mean an author like
according to according to president
Trump blah blah blah something was said
today this can be a publication so
publication means a like
written thing where people share ideas
so that’s books and newspapers magazines
like online magazines according to the
New York Times according to Time
magazine this can be a source as well so
you can use like the name of a journal
here according to ABC Journal this is
true so your source can be a person an
author it can be a publication there are
lots of different things that you can
use here but this according to is a more
formal way to explain where your source
is or who your source is so according to
so-and-so again thinking about how to
support this this is our argument for
today’s smartphones are harmful to our
health so according to Time magazine
smartphones decrease our ability to
concentrate copy ok smartphones decrease
our ability to concentrate so if I were
writing a paper I would use this and I
would cite my source I’m not going to
talk about this today I want to do a
live stream about this in the future to
cite to cite a source to cite a source
means to include a written reference to
your source in your paper ok I’m running
out of time so I’m gonna finish quickly
second and third similarly if you want
to mention a journal article something
you read in a newspaper something you
read online what’s the difference
between citing and quoting I think just
wave the clock at me and tell me didn’t
have time ok I’ve read an article about
topic I read an article about topic so
here you can include your main idea that
you’re arguing for so I read an article
about smart phones I read an article
about smart phones being harmful to our
health I read an article about smart
phones emitting radiation whatever it is
you want to support put it here I read
an article about the topic so this is
for written information online or in a
magazine
third in publication in publication
this word publication publication so in
this newspaper in this magazine on this
blog probably not a blog in this journal
author author means the person who wrote
something this is a really good
pronunciation point to that th sound
author author th author in publication
author there are three words here wrote
suggested and stated so you’ll notice
all of these are past tense because
we’re talking about something this
author previously like wrote previously
said in their paper or in in this
publication so for example in Time
magazine Beyonce suggested that
smartphones are harmful to your health I
don’t know why Beyonce’s talking about
that but for example so if Beyonce read
an article in Time magazine this is how
I would describe the article if in Time
magazine Beyonce suggested smartphones
are harmful to your health so what’s the
difference between wrote suggested and
stated wrote is just very clearly words
on a screen like words on in text
suggested means they didn’t explicitly
say something explicitly means clearly
directly they didn’t directly say
something stated is more used in speech
but you can use it for like more formal
writing so if you’re reading like a PhD
thesis for example you might use stated
in in this paper Professor X stated that
Wolverine is a good mutant okay I have
to finish so these are really good as I
said for data for news and for research
try using these patterns if you do
academic writing in English these are
very important and don’t forget to cite
sources I’m trying to think of a way to
do a live stream for this because this
is something super important if you’re
doing studies in the you
okay yeah dinar on Facebook says
according to my point of view you are so
enthusiastic yes I think that’s accurate
um other things according to a French TV
show the telephone is harmful to
children’s health nice one lease on
Facebook that was perfect according to a
French TV show telephones telephones are
harmful okay we’ll finish today because
I’m late
we’ll finish today with this last point
customer feedback customer feedback I’ve
just got one very simple pattern that I
hope is helpful for business situations
or if like I said you wrote a book or
you made a product somewhere which is
this one we’ve received percentage
something feedback so here in this space
include like positive or negative
feedback so positive feedback means
people were happy with the thing that
you did
negative feedback means people were not
happy with the thing that you did we’ve
received as well this part we’ve this is
we have we have this means since we made
our products since we did our thing and
up to now we have received up to this
point like 20% negative feedback or we
have received 90% positive feedback from
users from customers from people who
read the book and so on so this is one
quick and easy pattern I hope you can
use in many different situations I’m
very late so I’m gonna stop 33 minutes
sorry
we’ll finish there for today I hope that
this was helpful for you just some
patterns you can use to express your
ideas hi so thanks very much for
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