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UNIT 26

ORGANIZE YOUR TIME

LESSON 1

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 guys!
T: How's it going?
T: The subject of our lesson is organize time.
T: How do you think, why use time management skills?
T: It's important that you develop effective strategies for managing your time to balance
the conflicting demands of time for study, leisure, earning money and jobhunting. Time
management skills are valuable in jobhunting, but also in many other aspects of life: from
revising for examinations to working in a vacation job.
T: Sometimes it may seem that there isn't enough time to do everything that you need to.
This can lead to a build up of stress. When revising for examinations, or during your final year
when you have to combine the pressures of intensive study with finding time to apply for jobs
good management of your time can be particularly important. Once we have identified ways in
which we can improve the management of our time, we can begin to adjust our routines and
patterns of behaviour to reduce any time-related stress in our lives.
T: What skills are required for effective time management?
T: Some of these skills including setting clear goals, breaking your goals down into
discreet steps, and reviewing your progress towards your goals are covered in Action Planning.
T: Other skills involved include prioritising - focusing on urgent and important tasks
rather than those that are not important or don't move you towards your goals; organising your
work schedule; list making to remind you of what you need to do when; persevering when things
are not working out and avoiding procrastination.

II. MAIN PART

Task 1. Answer the questions.
TIME MANAGEMENT QUESTIONNAIRE
T: Here is an exercise which will help you to identify areas in which you might be able to
improve your time management and action planning and give you strategies to help you to do
this.Try to answer the 40 questions as honestly as you can. Choose: -rarely, sometimes,
frequently, always.
1. I keep my work space tidy so that I can work efficiently.
2. I take a positive attitude towards frustration and failure.
3. I use a highlighter pen or underlining to emphasise key facts in my lecture notes.
4. I do tasks in order of their importance.

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