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UNIT 25

                                                           PRIORITIZING

                                                     LESSON 1. PRIORITIZING

                         Goals:
                         -   to develop the skills of using new lexical units;
                         -   to improve reading and listening skills;
                         -   to develop cognitive interests of students;
                         -   to educate the general culture of students.
                         Type of the lesson: combined.

                                                            PROCEDURE
                         І. INTRODUCTION

                         T: Good morning everyone!
                         T: The subject of our lesson is prioritizing.
                         T: What do you know about it? How do you organize? Do you write lists?
                         T:  Many  people  do.  Lists  are  very  helpful  ways  for  capturing  your  information,
                  capturing all the ideas and things that you need to do. After you write the list, what do you do
                  next? The next step in getting organized is prioritizing your list.
                         T: What is the purpose of prioritizing?


                         II. MAIN PART

                         Task 1. Read about prioritizing.
                                                              Prioritizing
                         Prioritizing is the process of determining what is most important. While at first glance
                  you  may  be  tempted  to  make  everything  a  “high”  or  “urgent”  priority,  be  cautious.  If
                  everything is urgent, then everything loses its urgency. If everything is important then nothing
                  is most important.
                         You can lose a lot of productive time shifting gears and scanning up and down your list.
                  Taking  the  time  to  prioritize  the  list  up  front  will  pay  off  by  increasing  your  overall
                  productivity.
                         I recommend using the A,B,C, 1,2,3 method of prioritizing.
                         In this method you go through the list twice; once to allocate an A, B, or C to each of
                  your items and a second time through your list to allocate a sequence (1,2,3…) within each of
                  the priorities.
                         You can use this criteria for setting your A, B, or C priority:
                         A-  Vital:  These  are  items  that  are  critically  important  to  get  done.  There  may  be
                  significant consequences for not completing these items on this day. These would be tasks that
                  would cause you to stay late to finish. Be cautious of using the “A” priority too often as  A
                  priority tasks will keep you in the firefighter mode frequently.
                         B-Important: While these tasks are certainly important and should definitely get done, if
                  they slip by a day or two there may not be a significant consequence. If you are able to get to
                  your B priority tasks each day, chances are you are operating in a productive state.
                         C-Optional:  These  are  the  activities  that  are  “nice  to  haves”  or  may  be  related  to
                  projects that have deadlines far off into the future.


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