English in a Minute: How to use 'schedule'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 29 May 2024
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Phil has scheduled a time to talk to you about the word 'schedule'. That time is now and he will do it in 60 seconds.
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| 0:00.0 | You know, |
| 0:01.0 | You know, |
| 0:02.0 | Thank you. Let's learn schedule. It's a verb and a noun and you can say it as schedule or schedule. |
| 1:01.0 | As a noun, it can be a plan or a list of when things happen. |
| 1:07.0 | According to the schedule, we start at 9 tomorrow, especially in American English, a schedule can tell you when planes, trains and buses are planned to arrive at and depart from different places. |
| 1:21.0 | The flight schedule says that we should be leaving at 10.15. As a verb, schedule means to plan for something to happen at a certain time. |
| 1:30.9 | It's often used in the passive to talk about when things will or should happen. |
| 1:36.6 | The meeting was scheduled for 9.30, but everyone was late. So, schedule or schedule is usually about time. It's when things are planned to happen. |
| 1:49.0 | Make sure that practicing English is on your schedule. |
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