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Learning English Vocabulary

English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'strategy'

Learning English Vocabulary

BBC

Language Learning, Education

4.5523 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2025

⏱️ 1 minutes

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Summary

Do you have a strategy for improving your English? You can have a strategy, but first you need to map out a strategy. There are many common verbs collocations with 'strategy' - learn how to use them with Beth in this podcast.

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0:00.0

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0:04.7

Do you have a strategy for improving your English?

0:08.7

You can have a strategy, but first you need to map out a strategy.

0:14.3

This means make a plan for what the strategy looks like.

0:18.4

I learn visually, so I'm going to map out this strategy using notes on

0:23.6

small pieces of coloured paper. If you set out a strategy, you suggest or propose it to others. This is

0:32.0

quite formal. I'll set out the strategy in the meeting and then we can make a plan to implement it.

0:39.4

If you revise a strategy, you go over it again and make changes. Let's revise this

0:45.8

strategy. There's no way we'll meet the deadline otherwise. A strategy can consist of many things.

0:53.6

These are the parts that make the strategy complete.

0:57.4

My strategy for learning a language consists of practicing speaking

1:02.1

and studying grammar and vocabulary with podcasts.

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