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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?
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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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