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 ____

(For Teachers) ESL classes outside the box

Common concepts:

Language crawls

Instagram outings

Scavenger hunt

Using maps / google maps / gps / google earth

Worksheets which direct you somewhere

A field trip

A sports game / outside

A classroom / inside game

Attending an event

Outside-the-comfort-zone actions (pranks, challenges)

A tour

A drama, comedy, video project

An art project

How can these activities grab and hold our attention?

Keep us practising language skills?

Show us new things about the language we're learning?

Help us to communicate better with others?

Student responses

1. History Tour

Length: 70 min

Possible problems: weather

Reference materials / resources: headset, smartphone, notebook

General aims:  Cultural / historical awareness              
Specific sub aims: past tenses, history vocab

Language focus: Vocab / grammar: see sub aims

Skills: (listening, reading etc) listening, note taking, paired discussion

Teacher roles: guide, aswering student questions          
Student roles: Asking questions, taking notes

Formats: group, individual, pair etc: all three formats

Follow up / reflection: Kahoot? Writing? Feedback session? Teams answer a Kahoot quiz

Outcomes: Knowing a city better, greater confidence and sense of orientation

2. Blind BBQ

(groups work separately to guide a blind cook)

Length: 75 min 

Possible problems: burning, accidents

Reference materials / resources: ingredients, equipment for cooking, recipes, drinks etc, blindfolds

General aims: improve communication skills        
Specific sub aims: direct a sightless person to cook  

Language focus: Vocab / grammar: imperative, senses, relating actions, realising ideas in concrete form

Skills: (listening, reading etc): clear pronunciation, clear communication, sympathetic, constructive instruction, being supportive. listening attentively

Teacher roles:  support, vocab assistance      
Student roles: task mangagement, group work

Formats: group, individual, pair etc: groups

Follow up / reflection: Kahoot? Writing? Feedback session? Reflection about experience - writing

Outcomes: Better communication skills, sense of achievement

3. Cycling Trip

(In which students have to do a short presentation about a place on the cycle route)

Length: 3 hours

Possible problems: weather, safety issues, traffic

Reference materials / resources: maps, gear, bicycles, mobile phones

General aims: Get to know the geography, and social history of the city
Specific sub aims: Make friends

Language focus: Vocab / grammar: linking vocab with real places and experiences

Skills: (listening, reading etc) presenting a little story to the group

Teacher roles:   time keeper, coordinator                            
Student roles: researchers, presenters

Formats: group, individual, pair etc, pairs and groups

Follow up / reflection: Kahoot? Writing? Feedback session?, Feedback session in a cafe

Outcomes: Improved speaking and listening skills, greater knowledge of the city and each other.

4. Ultimate Frisbee

Length: 80 min

Possible problems: weather, field already being used

Reference materials / resources: rule sheet, frisbee, extra frisbee, field markers (cones), colours for teams 

General aims: learn / teach a new game, articulate specific skills and techniques among a team
Specific sub aims: discussing strategies and tactics in a game

Language focus: Vocab / grammar, giving advice, encouraging others, commands, criticism

Skills: (listening, reading etc), teamwork, action-related language

Teacher roles: coordinator, timekeeper , additional language input                                            

Student roles: players, roles in the team

Formats: group, individual, pair etc: groups

Follow up / reflection: Kahoot? Writing? Feedback session? Feedback session, reflection on performance of both teams

Outcomes: Bonding, confidence, sports and action language

5. Suggest a class yourself!

Length: 

Possible problems:

Reference materials / resources:

General aims:                                                                    

Specific sub aims:

Language focus: Vocab / grammar

Skills: (listening, reading etc)

Teacher roles:                                                                   

Student roles:

Formats: group, individual, pair etc

Follow up / reflection: Kahoot? Writing? Feedback session?

Outcomes: 

C2 Class Wheel

C2 Class

Adjective walk

Spicy chewy international luck short awesome little smiley good fat premium  juicy roasted Vietnamese Chinese soft fragile limitless handy scary epic daily calm bionic available first  classic clear long new lucky haunted delicious strong deep refreshing hot alive natural sexual red white black 


 A good __________ is ________,_______, and __________.


A good _________ is ________ and ________, but never ________.


I always eat _______ lobsters because they are so ________ and they sometimes make me feel _______. However, I can sometimes be _____ after eating too many. 



I need to buy a _______ pair of glasses because my ______ pair is ______. If I give you a ______ amount of money will you buy me some?

(NZ Culture) NZ Music

Aluminum Foil

Royals

Brown Girl


Snow Bound - the Chills


There is no Depression


French Letter


System Virtue


Etu


Dark Son

Brown Girl

I'm more than the ______ of my skin

I'm a girl that likes to sing

All I know is what's _____

Not just a brown girl in the ring

Go to school and ____ their ____

Told how to think and what to say

While my mother says to pray

I pray for better ____

God, please help them see

They ain't no different from me

Not above, not _____

Teach them equality

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm more than ____ they think of me

More than the colour ____ that they see

More than urban, R&B, more than a ____ that I speak

Close your eyes, don't say your word

Don't speak about what you seen or _____

Let's pretend that it's OK

Just the way the _____ likes to play

Look in my eyes, look in my eyes

I can't lie, I can't lie

All these years of my life

I'm _____ from the ______

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

And if you don't know by now

Time will show you what I'm talking 'bout

Said if you don't know by now

Time will show you what I'm talking 'bout

I'm talking 'bout

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

I'm not just a brown girl in the ring

I'm a girl that likes to sing

French Letter

Herbs

Can you see yourself, under a coconut tree
Wanting for nothing, or maybe a cooler breeze
Where all things romantic, in the south pacific
And the only peace is the spit on a feast, your feast yeah

Do you know what makes the ocean glow
Do you know what makes the ocean glow
When unwelcome guests, are making nuclear tests
Are making nuclear tests, are making nuclear tests
Are making nuclear tests

Oh yes, no nukes hah ahhhhhhh
Nuclear mis energy, nuclear, nuclear, free yo yo yo yo yo

Is there nothing at all who can appease your greed
Could you please leave the air we breath
Why is it something we’ve done
You all seem to forget
About nuclear fallout and the long term effects

Is there anything gained when you hide the plane
Anything gained when you hide the plane
Let me be more specific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific, get out of the pacific
Ki te la pacific

Nuclear free yeah

There is no depression in New Zealand

Blam Blam Blam

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    there are no sheep on our farms,

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    we can all keep perfectly calm,

Everybody's talking about World War Three;

    everybody's talking about World War Three,

But we're as safe as safe can be,

    there's no unrest in this country

We have no dole queues,

    we have no drug addicts,

        we have no racism,

            we have no sexism, sexism, no, no

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    there are no teeth in our heads

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    we sleep in a well made bed

Oh but everybody's talking about World War Three,

    yes everybody's talking about World War Three,

But we're as safe as safe can be,

    there's no unrest in this country

We have no SIS,

    we have no secrets,

        we have no rebellion;

            we have no valium, valium, no, no

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    there are no sheep on our farms,

There is no depression in New Zealand;

    oh we can all keep perfectly calm,

        perfectly calm,

            perfectly calm,

                perfectly calm,

                    perfectly calm...

Etu

Karanga, rangatahi, whakarongo, whakarongo

We're nga tamatoa, so we must light te ahi

Don't get led astray by Babylon, kia mau ki to Maori

There's a lot of people who think they're tough today

But chiefs like Te Rauparaha woulda blown dem away, Cher!

Hone Heke he expressed his disgust by

cutting down the flagpole, huh

Pakeha killed Maori inna Matawhero

So Te Kooti exacted it in a slaughter.

Yes, the Maori battalion inna World War Two

Staunch on the battlefield they had many clues

Like Moana Ngarimu on hill 209, Victoria Cross so true so strong

Yes the Maori was a bad warrior

Strike fear in the hearts of the Babylon soldier

Yeah its true, yeah its true, that's why I'm talking to you

Kia kaha, kia kaha two one two two

E Tu

Stand Proud

Kia Kaha

Say It Loud

The man who tried to kill him was Von Tempsky

But he became a victim of his own folly

Cause Titokowaru was too smart you see,

Guerilla warfare, huh, Maori

The British raided a Pa they thought it'd be a victory

But Kawiti fooled the enemy

The British raided the Pa yeah but they got shot down

Cause Kawiti had a plan and it was sound, break down

Te Rangihaeata believes in holding land

Against the foe, yo, the British man

To him land's essential to the mana of the chief

And in the Hutt there were some hardcore feats

In 1846 in the Hutt Valley I said

Fighting broke out between the British and the Maori

And more than one settler on disputed land

Was killed when the Maori fought the British Plan

Cause white rule and injustice go hand in hand

So against that is where we stand

Don't forget those who've fought before

Our struggle continues more and more

Yeah it's a struggle, it's a struggle

The system's got us in a muddle

So strive to get outta this puddle.

Well I always put my mind to the rhyme

Don't wear no gold chains cause we ain't that kind

Don't neva rap and say I think I'm cool

Just preach the truth with us that's a rule

Yeah, rising inflation to me is a crime

And sport is politics so don't mess with my mind

They falsely own our land so they really don't

We've been ripped off man so shut up I won't

You gotta learn the history to know where ya truly are

Learn it somehow this ignorance has gone too far

Have self determination in what ya gonna do

Kia kaha, kia mau ki to Maori

Don't let no-one stand on you.

Dark Child

My little blonde haired blue eyed boy

One day you’ll grow up and be distressed

One day you’ll grow up and regret everything

I’ve set up out for you

My only dear long wasteful son

One day you’ll wonder what you’ve become

One day all this could be yours

If you only had the will to outlive you mother and I

Looking in from the outside

Couldn’t see it was true

Oh my dear dark child

I’ve been waiting for you

Looking in from the outside

Couldn’t see it was true

You’ve been given too much time

Oh my darling I’ve been waiting for you

Waiting for you

Waiting for you

Waiting for you

Although the news came as no surprise

I always hoped I’d never have to bury a child

(Intermediate) 8 Secrets of Success

Separate these into 13 phrases:

lead to success make someone tick be driven by passion for love vs for money fun workaholics put your nose down into sth push yourself shyness self-doubt serve persist failure


Now watch and answer: What are the 8 secrets?

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8.

Watch:

8 Secrets of Success

Discuss

Rank the 8 secrets from most important to least important.

Quiz:

When does your brain get active and have good ideas?

When you're doing sth practical (building or fixing sth)
When you're doing sth social (organising a party?)
When you're doing research?
When you're writing?
When you're cooking?
When you're relaxed and having a break?
When you're playing sports?
When you're helping others?
When you're telling a story?
When you're doing sth creative like music or art?
When you're people-watching?
When you're by yourself?
When your working with others?
When you're tired?
When you're in the shower?
When you're with a close friend?
When you're travelling or exploring somewhere new?


Speaking practice:

1. What are you passionate about?
2. When is the hardest you've ever worked?
3. What time of day are you most focused? What times of day do you struggle to focus?
4. Who pushes you to succeed? Are you good at pushing yourself?
5. Do you sometimes run out of ideas? What can you do to get inspired?
6. What do you most need to improve about yourself?
7. In what way does what you do serve others?
8. Are you a persistent person? Can you give an example of your own persistence?

(Advanced) American Workers Outsourcing

A new Department of Labor report finds personal outsourcing is revolutionizing how Americans don't do their own work.

Watch:

American Workers Outsourcing


Listen and fill in the gaps: then separate the phrases.

crucial ______ cut ____ unleash my ___ potential daily ________ devote more _____ to come to ____ on overseas _____ lower _____ employees embraced the _____ executive ______ expected to ____

Can you write a sentence using the phrase? Try and check it with me. Or outsource this task to another student. Or I'm happy to do it for you at a discounted rate.


Also:

Report: Due to rising domestic wages, many American parents are saving money by using unregulated overseas workers.

Watch:

Outsourcing Childcare


Watch:

Brain-dead Teen To Be Euthanized

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