English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'resource'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 25 June 2025
⏱️ 1 minutes
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Summary
Resources are things like time, money or materials that people or organisations can use to function well. Georgie teaches you verbs that are likely to go with 'resource', such as pool, allocate and draw on.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:04.6 | Resources are things like time, money or materials that people or organisations can use to function well. |
| 0:12.6 | Sometimes you lack resources. You don't have enough. In that case, you can pool resources. You bring resources together so that everyone can use them. |
| 0:21.6 | Individually, each student lacked resources, but together they pooled resources to buy a |
| 0:27.6 | shared subscription for an online learning platform. To work effectively, organisations allocate |
| 0:34.6 | resources, decide where to use them and then move them. |
| 0:38.4 | The manager allocated more resources to the marketing team for the new campaign. |
| 0:43.4 | We humans draw on resources from the earth, like fossil fuels, use them when we need them. |
| 0:49.5 | Environmentalists say we should conserve our resources, protect and manage them carefully, |
| 0:54.0 | rather than use up our resources or squ conserve our resources, protect and manage them carefully, rather than use up our |
| 0:55.7 | resources, or squander our resources, waste them in a reckless manner. You should draw on the |
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