{"id":7959,"date":"2018-02-19T17:16:10","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2022-12-22T08:25:30","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T07:25:30","slug":"language-persuade-someone-change-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2018\/02\/language-persuade-someone-change-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Language to Persuade Someone to Change Their Mind"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><strong>B1 \u2013 Intermediate<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As defined by Britannica, persuasion<strong> <\/strong>is the process by which a person\u2019s\u00a0<span id=\"ref73173\"><\/span>attitudes or behavior are, without duress, influenced by communications from other people.\u00a0 It often involves manipulation. People get manipulated which can sometimes be offensive while some only try to persuade to stop others from making hasty decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/english-at-work\/63-language-to-persuade-someone-to-change-their-mind\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/english-at-work\/63-language-to-persuade-someone-to-change-their-mind<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Is it easy to persuade someone to change their mind? Why or why not?<\/li><li>Talk about your experiences persuading someone to accept your point of view. How did you do it?<\/li><li>Is agreeing on issues or topics the best way to solve a disagreement? 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People get manipulated which can sometimes be offensive while some only try to persuade to stop others from making hasty decisions. http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/learningenglish\/english\/features\/english-at-work\/63-language-to-persuade-someone-to-change-their-mind Discussion Questions: Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[294,295,429,14],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homework","tag-b1-intermediate","tag-preliminary-pet","tag-useful-expressions","tag-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v16.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Language to Persuade Someone to Change Their Mind | phone english blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/phoneenglish.es\/blog\/2018\/02\/language-persuade-someone-change-mind\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Language to Persuade Someone to Change Their Mind | phone english blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"B1 \u2013 Intermediate As defined by Britannica, persuasion is the process by which a person\u2019s\u00a0attitudes or behavior are, without duress, influenced by communications from other people.\u00a0 It often involves manipulation. 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