Two workers in an office

Ø 1) Answer these personal questions:

a) Do you have a schedule at work? Do you follow it?

b) Are you punctual? Are you absent-minded? Are you forgetful?

c) Do you often have snacks at work?

James: Hi, Alice. How are you today?
Alice: Hi, James. I’m fine, and you?

James: Great, thank you. Remember, the meeting is at 3 o’clock.
Alice: Excuse me, which meeting?

James: Which meeting?! The meeting with the boss!
Alice: Are you sure there is a meeting today?

James: Alice, Alice, every month there is a meeting with the boss. This month the meeting is this afternoon.

Alice: Calm down. OK, there’s a meeting this afternoon. What time is it?

James: Alice, this is important. The meeting is at three o’clock sharp!
Alice: Thank you, James... By the way, what time is it now?

James: It’s a quarter past eleven.
Alice: It’s time for lunch!

James: Lunch, now? Lunch time is at twelve.
Alice: Well, I’m hungry now.

James: You’re funny, Alice. This is an office.
Alice: I’m hungry... It’s just a snack...

Ø 2) Answer the questions on the text:

a) How is Alice doing?

b) What important event is at 3 p.m.?

c) When is lunch time at Alice and James’ work?

The Rocks

Ø 1) Read the text and translate it into Russian.

A time management specialist was asked to give a presentation on her specialty. She decided to do a demonstration. First she asked her assistants to bring a big bucket and put it on the table in front of the audience. Then she asked for large grapefruit-sized rocks and filled the bucket with them. “Is the bucket full?” she asked. “Yes,” said the crowd, but she asked for more to put in anyway. This time her assistants brought in pebbles. She poured the pebbles into the bucket and it held a surprising number of them in the space between the big rocks. “Now is the bucket full?” she asked. “Yes! No! No!” said various persons in the audience. Some people were uncertain; some were getting suspicious.

The time management specialist asked for more. This time the assistants brought her sand. She poured sand into the bucket and filled the spaces between the pebbles. “Now, is the bucket full?” she asked. “No,” she answered. By now everyone was suspicious. So she asked for water and poured in quite a lot. Now no one could think of anything else that could fit in that bucket.

“What does this process demonstrate?” asked the time management specialist. One member of the audience spoke up, “No matter how busy you are, you can always fit in more.”

“I can see how you might think that that was my point, but it is not,” said the specialist. “I was trying to show you that if you don’t put the big rocks in first, you’ll never get them in at all.”

Ø 2) Answer the following questions:

a) What specialist was asked to give a presentation?

b) What method did she choose?

c) If she asked you the last question what would be your answer?

d) What example from life could you give to prove her point of view?

e) What did the specialist mean by big rocks?

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