English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'theory'
Learning English Vocabulary
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🗓️ 18 June 2025
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Summary
What is a theory and which verbs are commonly used with it? In this podcast, you'll learn what 'formulate a theory' means and lots more. Learn collocations with Georgie.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to BBC LearningEnglish.com. |
| 0:05.0 | A theory is an idea or ideas that are used to explain something. |
| 0:09.9 | You can formulate a theory, then work on a theory and develop a theory, |
| 0:14.8 | which means you create the theory and then add more thoughts and ideas to it. |
| 0:20.4 | Scientists have formulated a theory to explain this strange new phenomenon. |
| 0:25.9 | Now they should find other experts to help develop their theory in order to improve it. |
| 0:31.5 | Once you have the ideas, you should test the theory to see if it's true. |
| 0:36.9 | New evidence might support the theory, |
| 0:39.4 | be in favour of the theory, or challenge the theory, be against the theory. Nigel opened his |
| 0:46.2 | singing academy to everyone to test his theory that anyone can sing after some training. Ruby sang |
| 0:53.3 | beautifully, which supported Nigel's theory, |
| 0:56.4 | but Dave's awful noises challenged Nigel's theory. Are you ready to test the theory that BBC |
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