English in a Minute: Verbs to use with 'plan'
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This BBC podcast is supported by ads outside the UK. You're listening to bbclearningenglish.com Wait, I've got a plan! Let's learn verbs to use with plan. Before you can have a plan, you need to make one or develop one. You devise a plan or formulate a plan when you think about it a lot. I asked Maria to develop a plan for tomorrow's project –

She's spent all day devising one. We've carefully formulated a plan to get more 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 starting or continuing a difficult plan. We're going ahead with plan B. It's easier to implement. 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. They just mean stop. You can shelve a plan if you might come back to it later. We need to drop the plan. Results are bad. Do you want to scrap the plan or just shelve it? BBC Learning English Yoga is more than just exercise. It's the spiritual practice that millions swear by.

And in 2017, Miranda, a university tutor from London, joins a yoga school that promises profound transformation. It felt a really safe and welcoming space. After the yoga classes, I felt amazing. But soon, that calm, welcoming atmosphere leads to something far darker, a journey that leads to allegations of grooming, trafficking and exploitation across international borders. ♪

I don't have my passport, I don't have my phone, I don't have my bank cards, I have nothing. The passport being taken, the being in a house and not feeling like they can leave.

You just get sucked in so gradually.

And it's done so skillfully that you don't realize. And it's like this, the secret that's there. I wanted to believe that, you know, that...

Whatever they were doing, even if it seemed gross to me, was for some spiritual reason that I couldn't yet understand. Revealing the hidden secrets of a global yoga network. I feel that I have no other choice. The only thing I can do is to speak about this and to put my reputation and everything else on the line. I want truth and justice.

And for other people to not be hurt, for things to be different in the future. To bring it into the light and almost alchemise some of that evil stuff that went on and take back the power. World of Secrets, Season 6, The Bad Guru. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.