B1 Business reading: Time Management

The reading is long and hard...

So let's do it as a listening with the hard vocab on the screen!




General questions:

1. Whats the 80/20 rule?

2. What should you concentrate on in time management?

3. What's the problem with a lot of to-do lists?

4. Why is keeping an activity log helpful for time management?

5. What are the three secrets of time management?



Language focus:


Paragraphs 1 - 2


routinely _______ techniques

overcome a _____ workload

due to increases in ________

_______ effort generates

manage ______ properly

make ____ more productive

______ this equation


Paragraph 3 - 4

central ___

a ___ in focus

in a whirl of ______

____ goals

to fritter _____ time

conflicting _______



Paragraphs 5 - 6 


in___sistent (adj)

a to-___ list

highest _____ first

____ caught

scramble __ get

critic___ (adj)

keep an activity ____

__dits

to e___uate

to ___ify your behavior

to note d___

to _____ate your time to




Paragraphs 8 - 9 

to carry a task ____

to ___solidate

to ______ a task down

manageable ___ponents

in _____ of importance

to concern yourself ____