Before you start
Read the article about procrastination and answer the questions.
Read the article again and match the missing sentences (1–3) to the correct places in the text.
Complete the sentences with the words and phrases from the article.
Work in pairs. Tell your partner when you procrastinate and why. Make suggestions that could help.
Procrastination?
Discuss the questions in pairs.
Listen to the results of a school survey and look at the graphs A and B
Listen again. Are the sentences true (T) or false (F)?
Write a title for each graph.
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
Choose the correct words to complete the sentences
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions.
Listen to three people talking about problems with technology. Do they have any of the problems that you talked about? Discuss your answers in pairs.
Listen again. Complete the descriptions of the three speakers’ problems
Match the solutions the speakers use to solve the problems (a–c) with the three problems (1–3) from Exercise 2.
Work in pairs. Brainstorm ideas for things the speakers could do so they don’t have these problems again
Work in pairs. Discuss the questions
Read an email that Ahmed wrote to himself as an 11-year-old
Work in pairs. Tell your partner about the differences between your life now and your life as an 11-year-old.
Write an email to your 11-year-old self.
Work in pairs. Read your partner’s email
partner’s email
Choose the correct answer from a, b, c, or d.
Match the people with the sentences
Choose the correct answer
Work in pairs. Read the quotations and discuss the questions
Imagine that you are a newspaper reporter. Choose two of the quotations above