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d. Do you waste a lot of time? e. How important is time? f. Are you a productive worker / student? g. Do you think it s OK to waste time? h. Do you also waste 25 per cent of your working / studying day? i. Do you think waste can be creative? j. Do you think these kinds of surveys are accurate? STUDENT B s QUESTIONS (Do not show these to student A) a. Did you like reading this article? b. What did you think about what you read? c. What kind of worker are you? d. Do you waste time surfing the Internet? e. Do you use company / school time on personal business? f. Do you stare into space or daydream a lot? g. What do you do when there isn t enough work to do? h. What complaints do you have about your company? i. Who are the biggest time wasters, men or women? j. Did you like this discussion? AFTER DISCUSSION: Join another partner / group and tell them what you talked about. a. What question would you like to ask about this topic? b. What was the most interesting thing you heard? c. Was there a question you didn t like? d. Was there something you totally disagreed with? e. What did you like talking about? f. Do you want to know how anyone else answered the questions? g. Which was the most difficult question? Find More at http://khodamorad.blogfa.com 7 Average worker wastes 2 hours a day 12 July, 2005 SPEAKING GET STUDYING (ENGLISH): In pairs / groups, think of ways how you can make better use of your time to study English more. SITUATION HOW TO USE TIME TO STUDY ENGLISH MORE Breakfast " " " Going to work / " school " " Watching TV " " " Walking around " town " " Surfing the " Internet " " Bedtime " " " After you have finished, change partners and tell each other about your ideas. Give each other advice on how to make your ideas better. Return to your original partner and use the advice you got to make your ideas better. Find More at http://khodamorad.blogfa.com 8 Average worker wastes 2 hours a day 12 July, 2005 LISTENING Listen and fill in the spaces. Average worker wastes 2 hours a day BNE: Time is money and _________ to a new survey, workers waste a lot of working time. A questionnaire __________ by 10,000 employees reports an average of 2.09 hours ___ ___ is idled away in businesses. This is ______ __ much as company bosses thought. It means companies lose __ ________ $759 billion in the USA. However, bosses are ___ _______ by these figures. Many executives think this idle time is beneficial to a company. Salary.com s Bill Coleman called it ________ waste . The top time-wasting activity was using the Internet for ________ ___ 44.7% of workers confessed to this. Other big ____ _______ were chatting with co- workers (23.4%), personal business (6.8%) and staring into space (3.9%). The top time-wasting _______ was not having enough work to do (33.2%). Workers also complained about feeling __________ (23.4%) and being distracted by co- workers (14.7%). The survey also found that men and women wasted ______ ________ of time. Find More at http://khodamorad.blogfa.com 9 Average worker wastes 2 hours a day 12 July, 2005 HOMEWORK 1. VOCABULARY EXTENSION: Choose several of the words from the text. Use a dictionary or Google s search field (or another search engine) to build up more associations / collocations of each word. 2. INTERNET: Search the Internet and find more information on worker productivity. Share your findings with your class in the next lesson. 3. CREATIVE WASTE: Look again at the nine ways in which employees waste time (on p.3). Write some advice to company bosses about how the wasted time could be reduced and working time increased. Show and explain your advice to your classmates in your next lesson. Assess them and provide feedback. 4. ONE DAY: Record how you spend your day. Try to note down how much time you spend doing various activities throughout the course of one day. Report your findings to your classmates in your next lesson. Were there any big surprises (shocks)? Could you use your time better / more productively? Find More at http://khodamorad.blogfa.com 10 Average worker wastes 2 hours a day 12 July, 2005 ANSWERS TRUE / FALSE: a. T b. F c. T d. T e. F f. F g. T h. F SYNONYM MATCH: a. completed filled in b. idled away wasted c. amazing extraordinary d. angered upset e. beneficial favorable f. personal private g. confessed admitted h. staring into space daydreaming i. distracted sidetracked j. found discovered PHRASE MATCH: a. according to a new survey b. a questionnaire completed by 10,000 employees c. idled away d. twice as much as company bosses thought e. this idle time is beneficial to a company f. for personal use g. workers confessed to this h. not having enough work to do i. feeling underpaid j. equal amounts of time GAP FILL: Average worker wastes 2 hours a day BNE: Time is money and according to a new survey, workers waste a lot of working time. A questionnaire completed by 10,000 employees reports an average of 2.09 hours per day is idled away in businesses. This is twice as much as company bosses thought. It means companies lose an amazing $759 billion in the USA. However, bosses are not angered by these figures. Many executives think this idle time is beneficial to a company. Salary.com s Bill Coleman called it creative waste . The top time-wasting activity was using the Internet for personal use 44.7% of workers confessed to this. Other big time wasters were chatting with co-workers (23.4%), personal business (6.8%) and staring into space (3.9%). The top time- wasting excuse was not having enough work to do (33.2%). Workers also complained about feeling underpaid (23.4%) and being distracted by co-workers (14.7%). The survey also found that men and women wasted equal amounts of time. Find More at http://khodamorad.blogfa.com 11 [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ] |