English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'plan'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 1 January 2025
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Summary
First you 'devise' a plan, then you 'go ahead' with it. If you find problems, then you have to choose whether to 'press on' with it, 'scrap' it, or 'shelve' it. These are some verbs that are commonly used with the noun 'plan'. You can learn these and more with Phil in this podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC learning English.com. |
| 0:04.9 | Wait, I've got a plan. Let's learn verbs to use with plan. |
| 0:10.3 | Before you can have a plan, you need to make one or develop one. |
| 0:15.9 | You devise a plan or formulate a plan when you think about it a lot. |
| 0:20.6 | I asked Maria to develop a plan for |
| 0:22.9 | tomorrow's project. She's spent all day devising one. We've carefully formulated a plan to get more |
| 0:30.4 | clients. Next, it's time to implement your plan. That means start doing it. We can also say we go ahead with a plan. We press ahead with a plan if we're |
| 0:42.1 | starting or continuing a difficult plan. We're going ahead with plan B. It's easier to implement. |
| 0:48.8 | You need to press ahead with the recovery plan. If it doesn't work, you can drop a plan. You can also scrap a plan. |
| 0:57.0 | They just mean stop. You can shelve a plan if you might come back to it later. We need to drop the |
| 1:04.0 | plan. Results are bad. Do you want to scrap the plan or just shelve it? |
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