How To Dominate Any Debate?

If you want to be the king or queen of a debate, it’s like being the best player at a game of tag, everyone wants to chase you, and no one can catch you.

What Debate Is Like

A debate is like playing chess, but with words. You take turns trying to convince people that your idea is better than someone else's. To win, you need to be good at two things: listening and thinking fast, just like when you’re playing a game with your friends.

How to Win

Practice makes perfect. Imagine you're learning how to ride a bike, the more you try, the better you get. You can practice by having fun debates with your family or friends about silly things, like whether chocolate is better than ice cream.

Also, use your words like superpowers! When someone says something that doesn’t make sense, you can point it out and say something that does, just like when you help a friend fix their mistakes in a drawing. The more you do this, the harder it will be for anyone to beat you in a debate.

So, with practice, listening, and thinking fast, you’ll soon become the debate champion of your class!

Take the quiz →

Examples

  1. A student uses simple examples to explain complex ideas in a school debate.
  2. A kid argues that pizza is better than burgers by using tasty comparisons.
  3. A friend wins an argument about who has the best video game character by listing clear reasons.

Ask a question

See also

Discussion

Recent activity