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    G distancing V expressions with time P [inking in short phrases ‘Bo three things wel, not ten things bay 5A One thing at a time 1 SPEAKING a When you are working or studying, do you tend to do one task at a time and concentrate onit, or do you multitask, ie. try to do. several thinigs at once? Give examples. b_ Look at some examples of multitasking, Rate them 1-3 (I = easy to doat the same time, 2 = possible to do at the same time, but inbe distracting, 3 = very difficult or even dangerous to do at the same time). talking oa fiend on the phone while you are cooking checking your email or chatting online while you are working or studying having conversation witha friend when you are out jogging together checking an alternative route on your satnav when you are driving talking on a hands-free phone while you aredriving listening to music while you are studying or working listening to music while you are exercising sendinga message while talking toa friend © Talktoa partner. 1 Compare your scores for band explain your ratings 2 Which of the pairs ofactivities above do you do? To what extent do you think doing one thing affects how well you do the other? 3, Doyouthink multitasking helps you to use your time better? 2 READING a You are going to read two extracts about time management: one from anewspaper article and one from a science website. Read the extracts once. With a partner, look atthe four headings and choose the best one for each extract. Get started, gt finished Increased efficiency, increased satisfaction You think you can doit, but can you really? ‘The sport of saving time b_ Read the extracts again. Mark the sentences T (true) or F (false). Correct the F ones, 1 Tris often dangerous to chat toa friend while walking in the street, 2 It is more difficult co make a decision when you are doing wo things ar the same time. 3 Iris difficult to maintain a conversation when you are driving if you also have to read a road sign. 4 Researchers have discovered that people trained in mindfulness are unable to multitask 5. Mindfulness training develops people's ability to concentrate 6 The quality of your work is not affected by haw much you enjoy it LEXIS IN CONTEXT Learning verbs with dependent prepositions ‘Some verbs are always followed by a particular preposition before an indirect or direct object, e.g. depend on, worry about, etc. ttisimportant to make a note ofthese prepositions when yu learn new verbs. € Look at some common verbs and verb phrases from the texts ‘Complete the gaps with the preposition that normally follows them. 1 deal sth 4 focus sth 2 concentrate sth 5 become aware sth 3 becapable sth 6 be faced sth Talk toa partner, 1 Have you ever made a mistake or had an accident because you were multitasking? Does the firsttext explain in any way why it might have happened? 2 What advice do you get from the two texts about how to multitask successfully? /UPITASKING is a natural everyday ‘occurrence. We can cook dinner while ‘watching TV and we can talk to a friend while ‘walking down the street without bumping into anybody or getting run over. However, research ‘suggests that there is an enormous difference between how the brain can deal with what are referred to as “highly practised tasks, such as cooking or walking, and how it responds when, for example, you think about adding another Ingredient or you decide to change the direction ‘you are walking in. In this case, our brains require us to concentrate on the activity at hand. ‘Problems also arise when we try to carry out ‘wo or more tasks that are in some way related ‘Most people feel hey are perfectly capable of Ariving and having a conversation atthe same time. This is fine until they need to process Tanguage while driving, for example, read a road sign. Then the language channel ofthe brain gets clogged and the brain can no longer cope. ‘A-simillar thing occurs if the conversation is about something visual, for example your friend describing what his new flat looks like. In this case, as you try to imagine what he is describing, the visual channel of the brain is overloaded and you can no longer concentrate on the road. sce _seowoxosy_ event FST sce msoiny (MINDFULNESS refers to moment-by-moment ‘awareness of thoughts, Feelings, bodly sensations, and the surrounding environment. It focuses the brain on the present moment, instead of on the past ‘or the future, and is gaining popularity as apractice inaiy ie, Arecent experiment conducted by psychologists in the USA looked atthe effects of mindfulness training ‘on the multitasking behaviour of workersin high-stress ‘environments. They found that when asked to do ‘multiple tasks in a short period of time, those who had been trained in mindfulness had a better memory for details and were able to maintain more focus on each task. They did not get distracted by worrying about the other tasks that still needed doing, This ‘may well be because mindfulness taining helps us to become more aware of where we are focusing our attention, soit makes sense that we are then better ‘equipped to deal with a demanding work environment. According to another study, mindfulness training can help improve people's attitudes towards work. Let’ say you are faced with alarge ple of invoices to process. IF your mind start to lok for mare interesting things to do,itis going to take you longer and you will probably ‘make mistakes. f you can look at this task with a calm, clear, and engaged mind, you willbe more efficient and you might even find some enjoyment in the process. 3 LISTENING a Youare going to listen to The Chocolate Meditation, a well-known exercise used to introduce people Cs tothe idea of mindfulness. Before you listen, with a partner, say what you think these verbs mean. unwrap inhale pop (sth) nto melt chew swallow b @2)) Close your eyes and listen. Imagine doingall the stages. € Listen again. What does the speaker say about ..? 1 thetype of chocolate to choose 2. what o do before you unwrap it 3 what to notice as you unwrap it 4 what to do before you eat it 5 what to notice and de 6 when to swallow i 4d Whatis the main message of the meditation? Do you agree that mindfulness could ‘change your whole day’? Can you think of any other everyday activities you could try this approach with? 4 GRAMMAR distancing a Read some sentences about the origins of mindfulness. Then focus on the highlighted phrases. What do they have in common? ‘What effect would it have on the meaning if they were left out? 1 Jon Kabat-Zinn, Professor of Medicine at the University of Massachusetts, is considered tbe the ‘father’ of mindfulness 2. He elaimiste help patients cope with stress, pain, and illness. 3 Ieappearsthat minclfulness is beneficial in lowering blood pressure and decreasing anxiety. b> p.148 Grammar Bank SA. Learn more about distancing, and practise it. 5 WRITING You are journalist. Your editor has asked you to write three breaking news stories for the website. However, you have to be careful what you say, as the facts haven't been confirmed yet. Write two or three sentences for each headline, using the prompts and appropriate distancing expressions. Politician’s wife _ Footballer linked seeks divorce to cheating scandal Wich politician? Afterhowmany Which feotballer? What did he do? years of marriage? What do people Says the reason? What are his club planning to do about it? Sugar: the new health benefits \What are the benefits? How much sugar do youneed to eat? vinen in wha fom shou you at Am EEG = _ x SPEAKING & LISTENING °k®) - © a Read an article abouta survey by the watch manufacturer Timex. Witha partner, a complete the information witha time from the list. ii Dy race cy ames) LWA ea cece icocLael ad ‘According to a US survey, there's a limit to how long people will wait for something before geting annoyed land trying to do something about it. The average wait in different situations before people lose patience is: Survey Results for a blind date to arrive for a bus / train for a car in front of you to start moving when the light tus green for a table in a restaurant for people to stop talking during a film at the cinema for the doctor for your partner to get ready to go out ina queue at a coffee shop A 2 minutes 7 minute 20 minutes 21 minutes 26 minut b> Communication The Timex survey p.106. Check your answers to a, Then with your partner, say + how long you would wait. + what you would do or say when you had got frustrated with waiting 4 i» — 3») Now listen to six people talking about waiting for things. What situations do they complain about? Listen again. Who...? 1 [J wishes other people would just be as quick and efficient as they are says that the person they’re waiting for always comes at the last possible minute uses. strategy to try to avoid having to wait doesn’t mind waiting ifother people follow the rules says how long they're prepared to wait before getting very annoyed 6 [_] gets frustrated by sitting watching something happen very slowly Do you identify with any of the speakers? In what other circumstances do you hate having to wait? VOCABULARY expressions with time Can you remember the missing words in these sentences from the listening? I ...but more often they'll say ‘Could be a.m. to 7 p.m, you actually sort of see one line loading atime. 3 ...Lalways turn up time, in fact usually at least five minutes carly 94) Listen to the extracts and check > p.165 Vocabulary Bank Expressions with time. Complete these sentences so that they're true for you, or reflect what you think. Then compare with a partner. sHllbe fromtime to time, 1 Bythetimel'm Everyone should Ir’sonly a matter of time before is taking up lor of my time ar che moment think Ie’s going to rake mea long time to Ie’sabout rime I find very time-consuming, 9 If Thad more time off, Pd i \ / os 8 PRONUNCIATION linking in short phrases & @s)) Listen to sentences 1-10, Why are the words linked? Read the information box and check. Weneed 0 make_up for lost Jime. He gave mea really hard time Were going torun_put of time, CCould_thave some time. pff next week? At simes., feel ke gving_vp completely Time's up. Please_stop writing Let'snot waste, time. on that. 1tspnly a matter_of time before they break up Did you have_s good Sime last night? 10 Its about time you leant_to cook! Understanding linking ‘when people speak quickly, many phrases are linked together so they sound ike one word. This is often because: 11 a consonant sound at the end of a word is linked to a vowel sound at the beginning of the next, eg. !met him_a long time ago. 2 a word ending with a consonant sound is followed by a word beginning with the same consonant sound, e.g. Ineed some snore time. This also applies to ‘to very similar sounds, ¢@. il! andi, 2g Havea good. timel, and 2! and 's, eg Please. sit down. 3 a word ending with a silent ror ve, eg. quarter, spares followed by award beginning with a vowel sound. in this case the words are linked and a / sound is, added, eg. a quarter_of an_hour b_ @9)) Listen o some three-word phrases which are often heard as one word. First you will ear the phrase on its own, and then you'll hear it in context. What are the phrases? Practise saying the sentences and phrases ina and b, trying to link the words. 9 SPEAKING With a partner, answer the questionsin Time and you. Give examples to illustrate your answers using language from the box. 3 wsuchas.. 5 alike. 2 Forinstance,.. 4 the. 6 Anexample of this is. tad See a eee situs ed os od ulin oar orn hs Ya ee jou ts eu rd On atypical weekday morning, are you usually short of time? Is there anything you could do to give yourself more time? Do you have any apps that you think really save you time? How often do you use them? What do you usually do to kill time while you're waiting atan airport or a station? In what other situations do you sometimes ave to kill time? When you go shopping, do you like to buy things as quickly «as possible or do you prefer to take your time’ Is there anything or anybody who is taking up alot of your time at the moment? How do you feel about it? i usnally on time when you meet friends? Does it you when other people aren’t on time: Do you usually get to the airport or station with time to spare orat the last minute? What do you think this says about you personality? What do you most enjoy doing when you have some me time? Beitutor A | a7 5A distancing seem/ appear 1 Tescems j appears that when people multitask, they in Fact do ‘one ching after another in quick succession, ‘The new Head of Department seems | appears to be quite friendly. Excuse me. There seems to be a mistake with the bill 2 Tewould seem | appear that Mr Young had been using the company’s assets to pay off his private debts, 1 Weoften use seem and appear to give information without stating ‘thar we definitely know itis true, inthis way distancing ourselves from the information. We canuse seems appears + that + clause, or subject + seem | appear + infinitive 2 Weuse lt would seem | appear + that + clause ro distance ourselves ‘ven further from the informacion, makingiit sound even less sure This is more formal than It seems | appears. ing and reporting 1 Ieis said thae using a washing machine saves people on average 47 minutes a day. Ithas been announced by a White House spokesman that the President has been taken to hospital 2 Thecompany director is expected to resign in thenext few days, ‘The missing couple are understood to have been li Panama forthe last five years, 3. Thereare thought to be over athousand speciesin danger of extinction the passive with verbs of ‘gin Another way of distancing ourselves from the facts, especially in Formal written English, isto use the passive form of verbs like say, think, te. to introduce them. We can use: 1 Its passive verb + that + clause + Verbs commonly used inthis pattern are: agree, announce, believe, expect, hope, say, suggest, and think. 2 subject + passive verb +10 + infinitive. + Verbs commonly used in his pattern are: believe, expect, report, say, think, and understand. 3 Therecanalso be used + passive verb + to + infinitive. Compare Itissaid that there are more than five million people living in poverty inthis country. There are said to be more than five millon people living in poverty inthiscountr. ‘other distancing expressions: apparently, according to, may / might 1 Apparently, jeffand Katie have separated 2 According to new research, the idea that we have to drink two lites of water a day isa myth. 3 Dinosaurs may have died out due ro extremely rapid climate change, There are rumours that the band, who broke up ten years ago, right be planning co reform and record new album. 1. Weuse apparent usually either athe beginning or theend ofa ‘phrase) 0 mean thar we have heard | read something, buthar it may ‘not be true. Thisis very common in informal conversation, 2 We use acconlng toto specify where information has come from. We useitto attribute opinions a somebody else. NOT Aeconding. 3 Using may / mightalso suggests that something isa possibilty, but not necessarily true. 2 Complete the sentences with ane word o distance the speaker from the information, Sometimes more than one answer may be possible Apparently, people who multitask often have concentration problems. Lie ‘that the less children sleep, the more ikely they are ro behave badly an appear that someone has been stealing personal item from the changing rooms 3 Mark tohave aged alot over the last year 4 Hemay not look it, the is ‘wealthiest people in the country. 5 _to some sources, the latest research is seriously flawed 6 Despite the face that there will bean autopsy, his death is tohave been from natural causes toheane ofthe 7 are thought to be several reasons why the species died out. 8 Themissing couple are believed financial difficulties. 9 Irisunderstood the near future. have had ‘the minister willbe resigningin 1b Rewrite thesecond sentence so that it means the same as the first People say that mindfulness helps people to deal with stressful work environments. {tis said that mindfulness helps people to deal with stressful 1_Apparently, people who work night shifts die younger. Iewould 2. tis possible thatthe prisoners escaped to Prance, ‘The prisoners may 3 Weexpect thatthe Prime Minister will make a statement thisafternoon, The Prime Minister is 4 ‘Thecompany hasannounced that the new drug will goon sale shortly u —___— '5 People believe that stress is responsible for many common skin complaints Stress 6 Theinstructions say you have to charge the phone for atleast 12hours. According. Itappears thatthe government are intending to lower the top rate of income tax. The government '8 People have suggested that bieth order basa strong influence ‘an children’s personal i oe 9. Ieseems that there are more eylists om the road than there used tobe. ‘There

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